ECHO 4/3/06

Early morning 6am – tired, but the joys of silence and solitude for a few hours before the house wakes are priceless –

The house stinks of marijuana from A’s lengthy smoking session last night – lights on and LEDs blink everywhere, a trail of energy waste in red and green -

So Blair believes history and God will judge and vindicate his action over Iraq – an action based on a lie, a fabricated piece of information that somebody’s secret service (US, UK, or Italy – the three way cabal of neo-con countries) doctored and tailored to meet the demands of the Bush fascist project, and Blair was the Goebbels, the propagandist prepared to hold hands with the devil and stand up first with a dossier full of falsehoods – would God really support that Mr. B? If so, you make your faith baseless, marred, and dirty (as dirty as the invisible uranium you claim was the proof for invasion). And in so doing give further fuel to radicals who see Christianity as decadent and lacking in moral strength – you prove them right. Why? Because you repeat all that Christianity has done to the Islamic faith in the name of God since the Crusades. You cannot stand up before God and history and claim yourself to be an emissary of His word while innocent people are dying in your name. We have entered into a Second Dark Age – where the rulers misguide their citizens with false words and myths, hypocrisy and subjugation; where torture is excused as a necessary result of war; where seats of archaic learning and civilization are raised to the ground through siege and bombardment; where humanity is treated no better than the lowest animal, chattels to be abused, wills bent to the powerful irrespective of their rights; where the law and its apostles are in league with organized crime; where mercenaries become heroes and secret forces are given sanction to work beyond the reach of justice. (NB Essential reading: Chain of Command by Seymour Hersh).

The 1950s UFO sightings epidemic – intriguing, mass psychosis almost – a sign of the times they say, the fear of communist invasion and fast technological progress creating (possibly) archetypes from the unconscious, giving form to hidden aspects of the psyche – yet despite that there are some mysteries remaining: the two RAF pilots flying their Meteor jet at 14,000 feet and followed by three fast moving discs also tracked on RADAR from the ground and which the MOD chose to suppress any de-brief or information on – the strange red lights and beams at a US airbase in the UK, seen through trees by a number of US guards and for which there remains an audio recording of the event –

Watching Oliver Stone’s movie Salvador – a serious film; almost unbelievable at first as the two main characters aim at a comedic double act – but it turns into an indictment of right-wing US foreign policy and military aid abroad in the 80s – another example of dirty motives, fear and paranoia driving US hegemony always into league with abusers of human rights – if history is to judge (as Mr. B claims it will) then surely it must eventually judge the US as a dangerous meddler, a bully preaching empty freedom at the end of a weapon; abusing words such as democracy which they have made meaningless, rewriting the dictionary as they go, rewriting what it means to be human. It would be interesting to have a crystal ball at this moment.