All major conflicts are orchestrated crimes against humanity
18 August 2009 | NSNS | Max
BLOODY HANDS – Protesters inscribe the initials of Rudolf Hess and daub the hands of the Winston Churchill in bloody red on the statue of the notorious war criminal in Paris, opposite the Grand Palais exhibition hall next to France’s largest police station and the entrance to the Champs Elysée métro. (The building in the back- ground is the Petit Palais, housing the city’s art collection.)
Sir Winston set the stage for the slaughter of millions in World War II, when he refused to hear Hess’ proposals for ending that unnecessary conflict, following his flight to Britain on May 10, 1941. Instead, the peace emissary was thrown into prison, where he was to remain until his death nearly a half century later. Churchill’s bloody work was completed when Hess was brutally murdered by agents of Britain’s top-secret MI6, acting in collusion with his American captors, at Spandau Fortress prison in Berlin on August 17, 1987.
Correspondences about revolutionary strategy and emotions
[Written after the NATO summit in Strasbourg, France, April 2009]
10 August 2009 | Indymedia UK | anon
CONTENTS:
1. LETTER
2. INTERLUDE
3. RESPONSES [Selected Extracts]
4. APPENDIX “otan en emportent les black blocs”
(A black block communique, Strasbourg, April 2009)
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1. LETTER
For ten years I have run with the black bloc, seizing every chance, every moment we were strong enough, to run riot and fill the air with the sound of breaking glass and baton rounds, and the heady smells of adrenaline, gasoline, testosterone and teargas. For ten years I have stood up for the “diversity of tactics” and pushed for radicalization: from social movement to social struggle to social war. So this text is difficult for me to write…
The Last Tommy – Harry Patch fought in the battle of Passchendaele in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British troops died.
Gordon Brown and Prince Charles, amongst others, have used inflated words and nationalist sentiments in an attempt to associate themselves with Harry and his reputation for courage and honesty, but in reality they have nothing in common.
Harry Patch made his position quite clear, long before his death, when he said amongst other things: “War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.”
"Free people can refuse demands for their money, time, and children. Slaves cannot. There is no freedom without the freedom to say "no". If someone demands that you do something and you can say "no" and refuse to do it, then you are a free human being. If you can be forced to do something or surrender something that you do not wish to, then you are a slave. No other test need be applied"
