Make It So

Lowest common denominator

Why don't you just kill yourself?

Exterminate

Hate multiplying hate

Darkness can not light the way

Murder sanctioned by the state

I'd rather not if that's okay

Change don't make no kinda change

It's in how we perform within each day

Hitler, Stalin, Jesus Fucking Christ

Are we in, such a better place?

Obama, Bin Laden

What have you done?

You've killed brother Cain

You dumb fucks.

And if your sister or wife were raped

Your kith and kin both torn and slayed

If you're justly wrapped in hate and rage

Then CELEBRATE over open graves

But if you watch the YouTube clip

And intellectualise this

Then your name should be on

the dangerous dog list

Lowest common denominator

Why don't you just kill yourself?

Exterminate

Author Notes

Gone are the days you can send four black-ops helicopters into a foreign state and effect a covert execution. This one was tweeted in real time by one of the neighbours. Whatever else we know, or think we know, or choose to know – of this we can be certain – the Americans had to bring a body out.

I don’t care for the possible conspiracy theories over this, I just mean to set the scene. An ostentatious show of power. An American president low on his ratings. A war nobody has the stomach or funding for anymore. The Americans had to go and bring a body out. The timing was beautiful. It should have been, the time they’ve had to orchestrate this drama.

Let us say it was Bin Laden. I read somewhere, an unarmed Bin Laden shielded by a presumably also unarmed wife. They say they shot him, and her, because he didn’t surrender. Fair enough. There’s 6 billion or so of us on the planet, if someone is to be shot he’s not a bad target for it.

So I don’t care about the conspiracy theorists and I don’t care that much about the act. It was at least reasonably honest. What really sticks in my craw though are the celebrants and the apologists.

Sure, if you lost your entire family in 9/11 or any of the other numbered atrocities, or if you’re sporting a dismemberment then celebrate. But if you’re reading about this stuff, watching it on YouTube, thinking and intellectualising it, then shame on you. The power of a society should be to allow the mass to give us strength. Rage, seek revenge, murder and retribution by all means if for some personal tragedy you must. But to be so blood thirsty by proxy is disgusting cowardice.

The apologists claim killing this one man will make a tangible difference. Maybes, although in the longest run I doubt it. And who knows if such a difference will be for the better. Or what is better anyway. We already know, that it is in fact a futile gesture. The trouble with claiming any validity for this, is that it perpetuates the myth of the individual. It gives all concerned an excuse to keep the struggle afire. As long as we believe that we are fighting bad, evil and unjust men we have to fight until every last one lies at the bottom of the sea. And while we’re busy doing that, we can hardly be distracted with attempts to resolve the core issues. This probably doesn’t matter, the core issues are probably irresolvable.

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Make It So

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