How long can you torture people? How long can you destroy their lives? At what point do you think that people are going to snap? I cannot condone this, but it was inevitable. Going round my head are the words of Ward Churchill's essay, ""Some people push back" "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens",
"You've got to learn, " the line went, "that when you push people around, some people push back."
This incident's full of ironies. I was awakened the morning after by a phone call.
"Hello"
"So it's not you that was lifted"
"What?"
"Look out your window"
I do so to discover that cars have been burnt up and down the street. I was so full of medication that I slept clean through it. People in Stranmillis and the Ormeau Road heard the explosions. So I can get a nights sleep after all. Just pump yourself full of drugs. They make it all go away. Of course you might sleep through your alarm or the cops sledgehammering their way into your house. They had done just that to someone down the street. The front door was reinforced and resisted their efforts, so they went clean through the front window. It's what they call community policing and a measure of the loathing they have for us. It is increasingly reciprocated. Confront them at three in the morning 48 hours after the "events" and they make it clear that they will come down on us like a ton of bricks. The streets are full of mayhem. They watch it and even film it and make a point of doing nothing.
The papers insist that the wardens have reduced anti-social behaviour by 40%. People have stopped reporting it. They know it's a futile and frustrating exercise. What matters is that the Universities can spin Despair as a Great Victory. It's what they call "Community Relations".
The above pictures show that this is not a happy pleasant place where we all just "get along".
It's not Shangrila. It's a Warzone.
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no comments publish yet surprise surprise isn't it ironic that somebody who champions the rights of the free and innocent is refusing to publish any comments.
What car do you have then? Oh, do the DSS not provide grants for doleheads to purhase cars now?
I neither have nor want nor know how to drive a car. I use public transport or walk. the car is destroying our planet, generating a third of all greenhouse emissions. Some of our neighbours, like the Dutch, the Danes, the Belgians, have highly developed public transport systems that eliminate most people's need to use a car. I could start a long lecture on town planning and transport, but I suggest you do your own research. It's what student's are supposed to do.
Oh, I take it you do not eat meat, such as, beef. The production of which is responsible for untold environmental damage. Or do tax payers moneies stretch to buy that for you...?
I eat locally produced beef in very small amounts. I also drink milk, which also comes from cows. Do you?
Perhaps a permanant move abroad would suit us all.
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