A few days ago the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, made an
impassioned – by his standards at least – speech in which he soundly condemned
the Israeli government’s policy with regard to Gaza and the Palestinians. The following day
500 people (more than half of which were over 60, apparently) were arrested
while protesting on behalf of the group known as Palestine Action.
To some extent it’s obvious that those 500 were effectively
a token generated by a neat contrivance. They weren’t arrested for protesting
as such because the British public would be unhappy with such an assault on the
right to protest peacefully. They were arrested for carrying placards. I wrote
on this blog a few weeks ago that Palestine Action had been proscribed
following an illegal entry and a bit of vandalism – a dubious decision in its
own right, but convenient you must admit. This made it illegal for anyone to
demonstrate support of the organisation, and carrying a placard is just that.
Is anyone smelling a rat yet? And given the facts outlined
in the previous two paragraphs, are we not at least seeing a monstrous
demonstration of duplicity?
Meanwhile, I’m seeing large numbers of complaints coming out
of America
about the fact that homelessness is now effectively a crime. The exact details
of this are sketchy I admit, but it certainly seems that Trump is determined to
sweep the homeless under the carpet rather than seriously and humanely
addressing the issue of homelessness.
And of course, Trump being the irrational and excessively
hyperbolic creature that he is, aligns the homelessness problem with the ‘out
of control’ increase in the crime rate in DC. Well, homelessness might well
have an effect on the crime rate to some extent, so deal with homelessness for
heaven’s sake. (In fact, the claim of an increase in crime is highly disputed.)
Instead, Trump calls in the National Guard to take control of the situation,
thus militarising the situation in order to make
Washington
‘beautiful’ again.
And so a number of questions occur to me:
1. What is Trump really up to?
2. Is this worrying lurch to the political right actually a
smokescreen on the way to handing power to some group or organisation currently
staying under the radar? (Research the Bilderberg Group for evidence that such
might not be merely the stuff of conspiracy theory.)
3. How far along the yard arm will I – along with the rest
of us – be forced to crawl before the grim reaper brings me merciful release?
4. Will I soon be open to arrest and confinement for making posts like this?
5. Will my descendents – and the rest – be offered an
alternative way out through an asteroid strike, the outbreak of nuclear war, or
economic meltdown? Times are changing and it doesn’t look positive.
6. In the short term, will I live long enough to see what
happens when the next US Presidential Election is due? That could be
fascinating.
7. Are the aliens taking note of all this? (That's a sort of joke, but possibly not.)
8. Will Trump still think he's God when this is over?
9. If God is really the Universe, does it matter?