Part of the problem or part of the solution

Reading the newspaper really early in the morning can spoil good mood quite immediately. News consists mainly of bad news, and due to modern communication this bad news comes from all over the world.

Let's start with terror, the evergreen for newsmakers since 2001, regurgitating 3000 deaths over and over, while ignoring 25000 people that starve daily. As there are hardly any terrorists on this planet (there are some, but they are even rarer than regular murderer, maybe as much as other serial killer, but that's just a guess), each suspicion is reported with vigor.

However, as terrorism is utterly useful to transform democracies into Orwellian nightmares, and to disguise the uselessness of most politicians, terrorists and secret services work in hand in hand. Maybe even to a degree that most terrorism simply wouldn't exist without the active help of those "intelligence services", whose mere existence is an insult for democracies. Even before 911, ASIO tried to hire people who are now terror suspects.

Luckily, the Stalinist Anti-Terror-Laws in Australia muzzle anyone ever suspected to be a terrorist, so it's hard to judge whether guys like Jack Thomas and David Hicks met more ASIO or more Al-Qaeda members (if there are huge differences). Working for the muscle part of government means you officially belong to a lower class, not only by breaking laws (as ASIO employee), but by being a guinea pig which is exposed long term to hazardous materials. The war on terror, fought in Afghanistan, has only increased the opium harvest, and created the next generation of people who know hardly anything but war, and is now officially "rethought".

Maybe the thinking should start before the killing, but that would be asked a lot from people enjoying their incompetence in spending other peoples money (politicians, in case you were wondering) to make their friends in the killing industry rich.

The failure of local governments like the Australian doesn't imply in any way that a global government would produce less harm. The UN, the closest thing to the nightmare of global governance, was caught again using children as their prostitutes, this time in Haiti. If indigeneous people in Australia are suspected to abuse their children, their land is taken away. When will the biggest and meanest child abuse organisation, the UN, be dissolved?

It's just bad apples, I hear you say, "they" (corporations, governments, UN, organised religions, fill in your favorite crime syndicate) do more good than bad. Well, do they? Privatising education, health care, pensions and other parts of public, common infrastructure is good for a chosen few, but not the general public. Since the demise of communism as threat to the Western World most civilised achievements of society have been reverted, and racketeering will soon extend from GST to Intellectual Property laws that penalize you for a humming a tune, license fees for the flowers that grow wild in your garden, and Global Warming tax for breathing.

I shouldn't read the news in the morning, it certainly upsets me. And I didn't even get to the opinion page yet.