All hail democracy!

This week some interesting news from the freshly blossoming 'democracy' Afghanistan emerged. Afghanistan quietly passes 'marital rape' law, reports ABC, and the media echoed this information nearly as quiet. Australia is a massive island, and naturally mass media caters more for local interests than providing a global outlook. At the moment 'democratic' elections are held in Afghanistan, which made this bit of medieval legalisation of gender inequality disappear from the hearts and minds of the Australian public.

The meaning of the word 'democracy' has been perverted by the US's imperial wars in this century. US troops terrorized the civilian populations of Iraq and Afghanistan, ostensibly to bring 'freedom' and 'democracy' to the people living there. Bereft of any reason, like lemmings, a number of countries, among them Australia, supported the US terror campaign. About 8 years after the US has started its war against the world, more than a million civilians have been 'freed' of their lifes, several millions have been 'freed' of their homes.

Iraq transformed from a secular totalitarian regime into a US satellite divided along religious lines, Taliban and sharia law have again a stronghold in Afghanistan. The right to vote, so it seems, does not necessary mean an influence to the way people are governed. The German population elected the Nazi party, certainly not with the intention to replace democracy by a totalitarian system.

In hindsight, many people wonder how this systematic destruction of human life could happen. Somebody asked me lately whether you can be born as a Nazi. Although Germany's major event in recent history (the peaceful revolution in East Germany just 20 years ago) indicates the non-existence of 'Nazi genes' or any other prevalence of Germans for genocide, the memory of Germany's 'evil' phase in history and of the 'heroic fighters' against them dominate the stories about this nation.

The winners of the second world war wanted to prevent history from repeating, or at least said so. They failed badly, violence is still used to prevent peace on this planet. Humans learn a lot by imitation, and glorifying violence to achieve selfish goals sets a truly bad example. History shows the impossibility to prevent civilian casualties in warfare, and even in the 'just' war against Nazi Germany the glorious winners used systematic terror against the population to win the war. Using fire to transform city centers into furnaces that cremated civilians alive in their bomb shelters does not harm the enemy's military, it's an act of terror, nothing else.

This simple lesson from history, warfare always kills innocent people, should have at least cautioned nations from engaging in war. I can't see any justification to kill innocent life, and deny any support to those killers. I don't care too much about the bible, but the commandment "Thou shall not kill" makes a lot of sense to me. Not being a Christian, there must be an amendment to the commandment that allows exemptions for overlords which i haven't seen.

The loss of innocent life was taken as an excuse to kill more innocent life, and in hindsight, all that happened was another imperial war propagandised as a 'just war'. The lies that have led to the invasion of Iraq are now known, hardly anyone cares anymore remembering the start of the invasion of Afghanistan.

Without any evidence about the famous infamous 911 attacks, US officials declared Osama Bin Laden (Immanuel Goldstein) as 'mastermind' behind the attacks. Besides a dodgy video confession there's still no evidence for his involvement in the 911 attacks, and the 911 commission reports names Khalid Sheik Mohamed s mastermind. However, this report came out after the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, yet the war propagandists used 911 rhetoric in both cases.

Without any evidence linking Osama Bin Laden to 911, the Taliban denied handing over OBL, and the US terrorised the Afghan population for the distrust of their leaders in American supremacy and story telling. The massacre in Dasht-E-Leili, another Min Lai, and using prisons in Bagram, Abu Graib and Guantanamo Bay to torture democracy into civilians came next.

After WW2, the use of secret service against its own population, war propaganda, experiments with human and unjustified invasions were identified as hallmarks of fascism. Government out of control, uniting with big business in order to create a living hell for the majority of its population. Of course, it can not happen 'now', we are only allowed to believe historians belonging to the winning side, it just looks a little bit like corporatism to unqualified spectators like me.

It's not a myth that especially American 'intelligence' services have 'special rights'. There's plenty of evidence for systematic torture, and none that this fascist strategy has ended. It's obvious that Bush and Blair lied to their people to win their support for this terror tour, yet their war crimes remain unpunished. Privacy ceased to exist in the western world, and thought crimes have been established.

Once the American empire has ceased, historians will probably will call the beginning of this millenium 'violent rise of US corporatism'. Now, it is kind of politically incorrect to come to this conclusion, as long as the US repeatedly claim to be the best democracy on this planet they cannot lie again...

Hindsight does not help to learn from history. We have to be honest enough to identify lack of control of national leadership as the major source of injustice on this planet. No matter how we call political systems of government (democratic, monarchistic, totalitarian, fundamentalistic), governments are the biggest threat of innocent life on this planet in the 21. century. Without control, governments are nothing but a gang of criminals. If Bush can get away with murdering more than a million civilians, there political system might be called heaven on earth, but it fails to serve justice. The responsibility to run torture camps looks meager in comparison, so why on earth should Obama do anything to stop it?

Obedience in the military prevents (and often contradicts) reasonable thinking. Australia, as the US lap dog, won't bite the hand that steals their tax payers money for outdated military equipment, and drags Australian soldiers into their business wars. Even now, as the Afghan government reinstates the right of marital rape, Australians soldiers protect 'freedom and democracy'.

As long as the American idea of 'democracy' includes torture, invasion of foreign countries, arbitrary legal systems, no responsibility in office and massive surveillance of its own population, to name of few expressions of American freedom, I dont want democracy. Support for US politics means currently supporting torture, killing and enslaving other countries. Any leader aligning with the US might just promote this idea of 'democracy' in their country. But then, marital rape happens relatively unnoticed and unpunished in this country as well, if it's the law, it can't be wrong, right?

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"It may be human nature to lie, but it's written all over our face." "The truth is written all over our faces." "Tha average person lies three times per ten minutes in conversation." "We all look the same when we lie." "Everything you see in this show is grounded in actual science." "When you're dishonest, your body shows it."

I think I missed some of the most outrageous lies sprouted in the trailer for the drama series "Lie to me" by the fair and balanced FOX network. With impunity FOX claims that everyone is the same, and I wonder why FOX wants to promote such subversive, 'communist' thoughts.

Psychology knows the phenomenon of a 'pathological liar', and it's part of the education within intelligence services to learn to inhibit typical bodily reactions towards 'telling lies'. Science has shown already that some people can escape from even the most advanced forms of 'lie detection'. However, the implicit lie sold as byproduct has even more hazardous consequences.

Nothing less than Dawkin's dogma of the existence of an objectively observable truth shines through the series of deceptive trailers, "grounded in actual science". The cage of Aristotelian logic allows FOX to give us a double whammy: Disinformation about deceptive behaviour and reinforcement of limiting beliefs.

Being aware of a lie needs empathy. If I don't know or notice that I potentially hurt/abuse/use another person by telling my unshared and/or unsubstantiated perspective of events, why should I care? An empathic human being would certainly hesitate before taking a decision that kills innocent life. Bush and Blair propagated a lie (according to facts), with predictable fatal consequences.

Deception exists a lot in nature. Chameleons change their colour, orchids mimic the appearance of horny insects, fish lure their prey with fake bait, etc. Stealth, observance, strength, speed and deception keep predators alive.

Let's do the crazy thing of comparing the successful strategies of predatory animals with the structures of government.

Stealth. Wild cats hide in the vegetation, often have camouflage pattern on their fur, and approach their prey against the wind. The prey feels safe until an immediate attack. Governments have intelligence agencies, which infiltrate social movements, collect and collate all sorts of individual data, all unaccountable to the general public. Let's call the least subtle form of stealth 'national security'.

Observance. Crocodiles just poke their eyes out of the water, using stealth to observe their prey. If their prey is caught in a habit, using the same entry twice, they strike. Collective hunters act even smarter. Most herds or schools seem impossible to penetrate, but once the mass is divided, the split individuals can easily be conquered. Representatives of the government never get tired in propagating the 'evil' groups in society, the terrorists, the dole bludgers, the incesteous native people, the bloody foreigners, internet pirates, etc. Observation helps to devise strategies for divide and conquer, employed in the hunt. Satellite surveillance, CCTV, phone records, bank statements, etc create a transparent 'citizen'.

Strength. Force brings down the prey. Guns and tazers silence resistance. The monopoly to deploy force lies in the hands of the state. Say no more.

Speed. The cheetah surprises its prey by its speed. The governmental predators simply use the time between elections to redistribute taxpayers money as 'bailout', 'economic initiative' to their friends. Or to pass legislation restricting individual freedom. Patriot I, the enslavement of the US population, passed congress less than 24 hours from when it was presented, similar to other stupid 'anti-terror' legislations world wide. Rushed in, useless, and extended since then.

Deception. "There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.", "The boat is full.", "We need to help the banks." Giving a governmental spin on discoveries of how fucked up governments act helps creating a commonly believed lie. However, spin means that we have to deal with multiple sources repeating the same message, not a single individual 'showing with his body that he lies'. Although the banking industry creates the current crisis, they can use it to concentrate more wealth in their hands.

But of course, this just adds up to a conspiracy theory. We live in a 'transparent democracy', with every move of a leader better known than any character in a daily soap. No police man, no politician evva turned out to be corrupt in this perfect country, still continuing its slow genocide.

Not every lie can be detected, but just few people want to deceive us, and can do so undetected (by observable reactions of them). Denial of the existence of the charming uncaring psychopathic liars grants them more power. Which makes me wonder why Rupert Murdock promotes so much lies about the nature of lying.

Hooray - Queen's birthday!

When I had my arvo stroll around the hood, I noticed that plenty of places didn't open on this public holiday. The secular Australian 24/7 society takes a break, at least for Easter (the pagan fertility festival), Christmas (the Sun god worshipping time) and for the Queen's birthday.

Coming from a society that abolished any special treatment for the ancestors of ruthless murderers, suppressors and thieves, also euphemistically called aristocracy, about 90 years ago, this public holiday seems more than bizarre to me.

Although Australia claims to be a democracy, there's no public holiday for the birthday of democracy (Please don't mistake the Invasion Day celebration for something like this). Democracy has just reached a fetal state on this planet, threatened by various attempt to abort this promising child, mainly by massively intoxicating its 'mother', society, so a public holiday to celebrate democracy would be indeed premature.

The principle of aristocracy cannot be found in nature, even though biologists use terms like 'queen bee' and the like, to rationalise and glorify the parasitic existence of aristocrats.

The 'queen' of a beehive, however, does not own everything, nor can it withdraw itself from its life giving role or arbitrarily make rules. The queen bee is nothing else but a breeding machine, fulfilling a specific role in this insect society. The queen bee's offspring is nothing special, and any of the queen's 'children' is capable of founding a new hive. Discriminating aristocrats and commoners makes absolutely no sense, the structure of a beehive requires specialisation, somebody's gotta do the job of a breeding machine.

The queen's offspring has to become workers and soldiers, there are no commoners that can be exploited to do the nasty jobs. I don't know if giving birth is as laborous for bees as it is for humans, but in my point of view there's nothing glorious about permanently giving birth (or any other specialised role in a bee society).

Bee hives have some democratic mechanism, making decision based on majorities to decide how to assign resources most efficiently for the entire hive. The bee dance works like a referendum, and the bees as species survived easily doing this on a daily basis, instead of trusting one of them that managed to have a lucky shot once.

The language we use, however, influences our thoughts and behaviour. From a evolutionary point of view, nothing distinguishes a member of the royal family from those 25,000 human being that starve daily. We all belong to the species of human beings, with differing local environments that determine the likelyness of individual life expectancy.

The macro environment of our species supports even more human beings than currently inhabit this planet, yet the viral ideas of ownership, hierarchy and nations systematically penalise thousands of us for crawling out of the 'wrong' womb.

Aristocracy acts more like tapeworm - feeding of the host (society) and making it sick in the process. No reasonable human being would celebrate the day when a tapeworm nested in its guts, yet anyone affected would cherish the day when the cure arrives.

The term democracy has degenerated to a mere unspeak term, bereft of its ideas of freedom, equity and fairness. To call Western societies at the start of the 21. century 'democracy' is as suitable as claiming Hitler engaged in population control (which is something Bilderberg founder Prince Berhard, a former Reiter-SS member, might have said...).

I don't mind having public holidays. And I would certainly celebrate the day when the Buckingham palace is no longer inherited by some parasites, and the unjustly accumulated resources get redistributed to the human species. There will be no need to kill aristocrats, just disown them and put them on the dole.

Officially, European monarchs have no longer political influence. Yet, the Dutch and the Spanish queen, a Dutch and a Belgian prince attended this years prime parasite meeting, the Bilderberg conference. But as the official political circus has only minimal influence on the distribution of resources in comparison to corporations, they still rule by proxy.

So for me, celebrating the Queen's birthday in Australia, just indicates that 'democracy' still awaits its birth on this planet.