AS IGNORANT AS THE EXTREMISTS THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO UNDERMINE.
I seemed to wake up in a bad mood this morning. This is becoming a far more common occurrence as the weeks wind on. I got up in a mood, had a coffee, was pissed off the whole time I was jogging and got back to find Pastor Terry Jones on the news. This, really pissed me off.
The idea of burning the Koran as some sort of symbolic defiance to the Muslim world is ridiculous, and why the likes of the CIA or another government facility doesn’t remove someone as troublesome as the Pastor surprises me.
I am not suggesting the censorship of free speech, I am simply explaining my exasperation at the unrelenting effort made by the human race to fuck about.
I have three family members in the armed forces and possibly soon to be a fourth. I am a pacifist, and personally couldn’t imagine a much worse fate than military life.
I also found this today, an article on a Jeremy Deller and Esam Pasha project from earlier this year on the Art Newspaper website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Taking+the+war+in+Iraq+to+the+American+people/17387
I admit that though I am a pacifist, I am fascinated by histories great conflicts. I found the aforementioned project, as Clint Eastwood’s films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima depict; It is what it is, and there are real people having to live their lives amidst violence orchestrated from an airconditioned office.
