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THE STATE.

THE STATE AND WHAT IT IS GOOD AT!

The State apparatus and its servant the media are continually telling as to be aware of terrorists and the evils of terrorism. However what they are referring to is a rat bag of fundamentalists who can wreak havoc and considerable damage to a city and its civilian population, Mere amateurs compared to the State.
Compare the damage to the infra structure and carnage inflicted on the civilian population of Afghanistan and Iraq. These are only two of the most recent cases of State terrorism, the list is endless, Russia in Chehnya, China in Tibet, America in Chile, Nicaragua, Granada, and Venezuela, Britain’s list obviously goes back to the “days of Empire” and continues today in Iraq.
The latest figures of 100,000 civilian deaths in Iraq since the start of the State terrorist attack on that country totally destroy the myth that we are doing it for the good of the Iraqi people. Add to that the total destruction of the country’s infra structure, the increase in malnutrition and disease and the increase in infant mortality and you can see what State terrorism is capable of doing.
It will not stop at Iraq, it will only be stopped when the people rise up and call a halt the this barbaric system. The people of Iraq are ordinary people, from shop assistants to doctors from office workers to builders why do we allow them to be treated in this fashion. We must put an end to State power doing the bidding of the corporate world, this corrupt marriage is destroying the planet before our eyes. There never was a more pressing issue than the destruction of the State/corporate power machine.
As people we can create a federation of communities and co-operate to build a better world based on free association, voluntary co-operation and mutual aid. A world we would want our children to grow up in.

ann_arky@btinternet.com
Web Master, Ann Arky.

KIDS IN PRISON.

It seems that our political masters are determined to turn the clock back a few hundred years or so. For years our society used to throw kids in prison for all manner of things. However with campaigning and public
outcry and the fact that it didn’t work the practice was abandoned. Recent Home Office figures show that the
number of asylum seeker children we are locking up has increased six fold in the last six months. Of course it is not just asylum seeker children that we are locking up. The Scottish Executive is hell bound on building more “secure units”, junior jails by another name. In England, due to a rapid increase in youngster’s suicides in these establishments they are launching an urgent review of these hell holes. Most of the kids locked up in these personality cramping holes are from the poorer section of our society. Once again it is the policy of ignore the poverty and punish the poor for having the audacity to be poor. We have a society where poverty is endemic and it is a crime to be poor.

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