Weapons of Mass Madness

Before television and the internet we lived with some degree of innocent oblivion, but no longer can we escape from that on-stage-reality, humanity, the world, is, as always at the mercy of criminals and fools.

Seen at their best or worse in the morning or late night news, our nations’s leaders are no statesmen or philosopher-kings, that’s for sure…

Deceitful, self-serving, long-lived Australia’s John Howard justifies inflation and a squeezing interest-rate-rise, on a temporary shortage of bananas.

Mumbling Bush on Air-Force One, cannot rely on a self-respecting-sentence; the expertise of crafty speech writers must be his lunch or breakfast… No comment for frigid Dr. Rice, or a Bush-supporting Blair .

Squashy-spoken Kofi Annan, coyly says one thing and then agrees to do the other, he is so evident a puppet, the manipulating puppeteers are palpable through his weak veneer.

Those are only a few of the fools.

World-power-hungry megalomaniacs are the criminals; they maneuver, control and exploit world events, cashing in on massive profits through manufacturing, supplying and distributing warfare apparatus. We, taxpayers pay for wars they make…

To expect, in-conflict nations, to stop bellicose hostilities while simultaneously supplying weapons, is like asking smokers to stop smoking while providing them with cigarette packets, notwithstanding the warning label that “cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health”.

The real terrorists are the superpowers, those comfortably hiding in gilded towers, colossal fortresses of corporations and financial institution, while state-of –the-art- bombs and missiles rain on innocents and fragile environments. Is this what we pay taxes for?

We taxpayers, world citizens, urgently need to recognize our leaders’ greed and lack of wisdom, must demand, dismantle, and ban all iniquitous military-industrial composites. For the producer, the manufacturers, the architects of weapons, are the evil, not the weapons, nor the many who are bullied into using them.

We can and must find peaceful ways to boost our economies, to keep share markets afloat without the debouchery of war. But to stop wars, we first must cease to manufacture weapons, as to stop cigarette smoking is to stop the production of tobacco.

We must bury hatchets, cleanse ourselves of spilled oil and blood, cleanse the sea shores of tomorrow; without nefarious weapons we WILL find diplomatic ways, disputes can be squabbles, NOT wars.