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5.11.1605 - Fifth of November 1605 - Guy or Guido Fawkes attempted to blow
up the King and the House of Lords in London.  Call me a glorifier of
terrorism if you will, but this on this four hundredth celebration it would
seem an opportune time to desist from letting off fireworks elsewhere in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain. I would suggest we have a glorious firework
display in Parliament Square.  However if we direct all our fireworks, in
their multicolour firepower, at the Houses of Parliament once again, in a
show of dissent for the creep against civil liberties enacted in all our
Anti-terrorism legislation, we would be defined as terrorists under those
pernicious laws.  Indeed it is now illegal to gather and demonstrate in
Parliament Square at all - a centuries old freedom lost to Tony Blair's
draconian anti-terrorism legislation.



Four hundred years ago we were in the grip of another war on terrorism -
this time against Roman Catholics.  Four centuries later - plus ca change?
This time it is a 'war on terrorism' directed at the Muslim community.  It
seems, that in order to unite a country behind political leaders, with their
snouts firmly in the trough of personal profit, we are always being led into
identifying a common enemy, then going to war with that enemy.  Herr Hitler
knew that in order to unite a country behind an unworthy leader it was only
necessary to falsely identify a common enemy.  The real enemy is within.
Having looked up my own Member of Parliament in Who's Who (2005), I see that
he lists himself as an oil trader 1980 -.  This would appear to indicate
that he still trades in oil.



What is this 'war on terrorism' really about?  I firmly believe that our
bombing

campaigns in Iraq and elsewhere, which received little or no publicity; our
sale of

arms and weapons of mass destruction to Saddam at the time of our war by
stealth on

Ayatollah Khomeini; our support for the jackboots of Israel in Palestine;
and our

subsequent second war in Iraq have fuelled terrorism.  There were after all
no

terrorists in Iraq prior to George W's invasion of that country, together
with the axis

of allies.  The relationship between the British Ministry of Defence and our
arms

manufacturers is so close that the line is blurred to invisibility at times.



Boys and their toys appear to have become the elite.  When those toys are
weapons designed to take human life and those boys are an elite, with close
military ties, intent on ensuring a good supply of oil to the West, then it
would appear that we should question the raison d'etre of any war,
particularly wars in oil rich states.  Perhaps history will quite rightly
rename these wars 'the oil wars' and bring them under the same scrutiny as
the Opium Wars with China in the mid 1800's.  In those wars we forcibly sold
opium to China: in these oil wars we are forcibly making Iraq, and now
possibly Iran and Syria too, sell oil to America and the West.



I would not condemn capitalism per se.  However I would condemn something
that poses as capitalism, yet ensures that subsidies are in place to remove
free trade, and ensures the fuel for that trade is directed to countries
which say they believe in free trade and then do their utmost to smother it.
No wonder President Chavez of Venezuela condemns capitalism.  What he is in
fact condemning is not the pure philosophy of capitalism, but the
bastardised version of capitalism that we continue to pursue and continue to
misname as 'free trade'.  So rather than burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes on 5th
November, perhaps, on this 400th anniversary, we should burn an effigy of
those who lead us dishonestly into unnecessary wars with hypocritical
ranting about democracy, and free trade.  Democracy does not exist any
longer, since our press is a poodle of the establishment and our political
processes are designed to ensure that our elected representatives serve not
the people who elect them, but the establishment who manipulate their
strings.  My MP, it seems, is a party to a trade which undermines our very
integrity as we pursue those wars - the oil trade.  Our version of
capitalism is responsible for worldwide poverty and smothering the voice of
countless millions.  Giving a voice to the voiceless, natural justice, a
proper confession of the wrongs we have perpetrated, a proper scrutiny of
our security services and their double dealings - those are the weapons to
remove terrorism.  Yet our arms manufacturers and those who serve them in
their war mongering strategies are blind to this a priori argument.    When
will we realise we are responsible for creating a sense of hopelessness in
many people?  When will we realise that many so called terrorist atrocities
are actually encouraged by our own security forces intent on uniting us
behind an enemy they have manufactured?



Helen Pender.



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