Obfuscated Thoughtlessness Inversed

Dear Bono:

A Grammy, a knighthood, an album of the year award or a free tour of developing countries, you should take. But don't tell me you have done anything for the world or the poorest people in it. You are in the same category as Bill Gates, Bob Geldoff and the one giving you your latest rich man's kudo (the Honourary Knighthood) the Queen of England.

You are and continue to be irrelevant, annoying and the last person who is actually or actively helping make change for the better.

You're a musician whose music has lost its soul. You sold-out on a scale that no one had ever thought possible.

So, I'll say it again. Fuck you Bono. At least Madonna adopted a kid into her family. What have you done? Kissed Laura Bush on the cheek? Whacked off to the sounds of your own apologism for the anal entry hole the size of Antarctica the world is taking it through from the likes of you?

When Bangladesh floods due to global warming, are the things you asked Tony Blair to do, going to make a bit of difference to the death and destruction that ensues?

Bono, wake up, stop supporting the warmongering of Paul Martin, the Pope, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and George Bush. Even these guys are cooler than you. They at least have the guts to happily wallow in the shit they created.

Everytime you meet with them you give them cred. Cred they don't deserve. You publicly recognize they suck, but privately you meet with them over and over again. Apparently you can't stop yourself.

To take a disgusting award, that is so archaic it doesn't even bestow the title Sir on you simply because of you were born Irish, from a Queen who personally could finance the end of poverty for millions, just from the money her clan stole from your homeland, is a sick joke approximating the spread of AIDS you claim you oppose.

You had better redeem yourself by using the perfect opportunity this award creates, for you to act like a real rock star and spit in the Queen's face.

Maybe the Pope wouldn't meet with you again. Maybe a future Liberal leader in Canada wouldn't have a heart-to-heart with you or let you headline his convention.

But newsflash. The developed world has barely scratched the surface of the fundamental problems of poverty on Earth since you awoke one day 6 years ago and realized there was a problem. The folks you apologize for and meet with regularly, spend more on a futile war in Iraq and Afghanistan in a day than they do on projects that build sustainable alternatives in a decade.

You could reject the system that keeps people down the world over. Or you can keep on being the poster boy for apologists and their wholly owned subsidiary governments inc.

Redeem yourself, really go down in history, spit in the face of the Queen as she knights you. Grab her sword as she taps your shoulder and walk out of there. Change your name to Sir Bono legally. Or better yet call yourself King Bono of England, Ireland the colonies and make a statement calling for her royal highness to royally abdicate the fuck off your throne.

Or continue to earn my wrath. I'll say it one more time. Fuck you Bono and the album you rode in on.

Labels: opinion

"Douglas has been known personally by and has associated with leftists, peace movement workers and (Communist Party of Canada) members for years. He has allowed his name to stand publicly on many occasions in relation to support of issues sponsored by leftist groups. On the basis of information contained in this file, it is difficult to determine the full depth of sympathy and involvement or influence, if any, these groups or their philosophies have over him. It is felt, however, there is much we do not know about Douglas and the file should be maintained in order to correlate any additional information that surfaces which might assist in piecing this jigsaw puzzle together." - A late 1970s RCMP memo suggesting Douglas's file be kept active.

Today's story from the Canadian Press that Tommy Douglas was spied on by the RCMP from 1939 until his death in 1986 will come as no surprise to RCMP watchers out there. The fact that much of the file is still a state secret, has not been released combined with the revelation that a Justice reviewed the file in the late 1970's and allowed the spying to continue are all of serious concern.

This does beg the same question I started to ask in a personal way with my Dear Commissioner Zaccardelli letter. I wonder, if I will ever receive a reply to my freedom of information request now that the Commissioner has resigned :-) ..

I'll let you the reader(s), know if I do. If I don't, it might be left to you to file the request for twenty years after I die (when the fun secret files might get released).

Labels: annotation, copwatch, leftist content creation, opinion, rcmp

The on-going attempts by Harper and his allies in the Bush administration to starve the Palestinian people through depriving the Palestinian Authority of basic funding must be stopped. The humanitarian repercussions for these actions are depriving millions of the basics that they need to survive and seem to me to be more likely to encourage violence than influence Hamas.

The NDP's press release from Friday estimates the Palestinian Authority's own 160,000 employees were directly supporting nearly 1 million of the 3.7 million people living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank before the Authority stopped paying their wages due to financial ruin.

Peace in the middle east (or anywhere for that matter) will never be achieved without a concerted effort to bring people the basics of health care, education, food and shelter. Canada's shameful funding freeze to the authority of March 29, 2006 should be ended and financial aid restored immediately.

Labels: democracy, human rights abuse