On 28-Aug-2005, "T Moore" < click.an.email.ico@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Here I was, wondering where the heady days of entertaining politics and
> exciting international conflict had gone. It's a bit of a nutter's
> nightmare: Israel withdrawing from Gaza as a first step towards peace
and
> brotherhood with the Palestinians, Iraq well on the way to becoming a
> boring democracy, Iran committed to non-military use of nuclear energy
> and Africa - thanks to the combined efforts of George W. Bush and Tony
> Blair - looking forward to three square meals a day.
>
> In the Britain, the dismantling of the welfare state continues bit by
> bit, but since no-one seems to be particularly bothered, who cares? The
> French and Dutch NO votes in the European referendum created a bit of a
> stir earlier in the year, but since there isn't a soul in the EU who
> doesn't realize that, sooner or later, the Constitution will be in place
> anyway, the furore died down quickly and already seems ages ago.
>
> Just the right time, wouldn't you say, for an opinionated sod like me,
> who likes to stir things up, mock the great and good and offer obvious
> solutions to the world's problems, to throw away his keyboard? Well,
> that's about to happen. Broomleigh Housing Association has announced I
> will die, or be in prison again, before the end of September.
>
> No doubt someone of equal, if not even lesser, interest will replace me,
> so there's no real need for you to wail and gnash your teeth.
>
> Of course, death and decomposition are comfortingly natural events and
> nothing to worry about. I'd already come to terms with dimini****ng
> faculties - dodgy hearing and failing eyesight; knowing that nature will
> compensate for that with a good dose of inner peace and the absolute
> certainty that *** will never come round again.
>
> But then, just the other day, what seemed to be a world heading for
> terminal dullness sprang into vibrant life again with the sudden re-
> emergence in the media of two of my favourites.
>
> On Tuesday it was that marvellous maverick, President Hugo Chavez of
> Venezuela, (twice democratically elected) who burst into the headlines
> with a tirade against the US government, more specifically George W Bush
> (once even elected), whom he described as 'the lord of war' at precisely
> the time when many around the world were beginning to think that peace,
> after all, had always been uppermost in the Bu****an mind, well ahead of
> things like revenge, oil, global domination and the Jewish lobby.
>
> Chavez had been in Cuba, to buck up his old mate, the entirely non-
> elected Fidel Castro, promise him military help in the event of US
> aggression and offering him cheap oil, to keep the Cuban economy ticking
> over.
>
> The combination Chavez-Castro is rapidly becoming a serious pain in the
> butt for Wa****ngton, what with them setting up a satellite news station,
> Telesur, that broadcasts the anti-Wa****ngton message. "The Latin Al-
> Jazeera" the Americans contemptuously call it, but like its Arab
> counterpart, Telesur appears to have a high truth content. Trouble looms
> in Uncle Sam's backyard and both Castro and Chavez will have to be wary
> of exploding cigars.
>
> The other old friend who hit the headlines was that celebrated man to
the
> far right of God - and would-be president of the United States - Pat
> Robertson. Since his abortive attempt at snatching the White House from
> under the nose of George Bush Sr he's been anything but silent and his
> website fairly bristles with good advice on how to make the world a
> better place with the Bible in one hand and a submachine in the other.
>
> Robertson has, in America's hour of need, fixed his baleful gaze on Hugo
> Chavez, whose early demise, he feels, is not only to be ardently
desired,
> but also to be brought about without delay. Not in war, that's too
> expensive and unnecessary, but in a secret operation - the kind at which
> Americans excel.
>
> Watch your back, Hugo. If America gets desperate, they could hire
> Broomleigh Housing Association and its murdering parent company Chief
> Executive Mr Keith P Exford - then you'll be dead. No questions asked;
> no questions allowed to be asked.
Are they the English version of the mafia?
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