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That article by Thom Yorke is symptomatic of what is wrong with Great Britain. Tom Yorke (the singer of Radiohead) wants to live in a country where the BBC and the government can be implicitly trusted to do the right thing; where when someone gets caught violating international law for invading a country they get up and apologise...and then resign. Well I’m sorry to report Tom, that country hasn’t existed since before you were born, in fact it never existed at all.

His article is a lollypop item. Its something that the people in control can use to show that the media is open, that anyone can say anything, that democracy and freedom of speech are alive and well in the UK and "shouldn’t you be glad that you live in a democracy like this". Well that’s bullshit. The BBC has just taken a kosh over the head, for reporting something. Writing articles like Thom Yorke's only serve the purposes of warmongers. More on that another time.

The most irksome problem with this article is that it is literally simian in character. Monkeys can use tools. They have a culture, yet when it rains, they sit still and get wet instead of moving to the shelter of trees just a few feet away.

This "simian thinking" is what Thom Yorke has demonstrated with his article, which will be read by millions of people. Asking questions about this absurd and irrelevant report will change nothing and it is change, on a profound level, that is needed now more than ever, not childish question asking, "boo hooo why did the BBC bosses have to resign mommy? It’s not FAIR!!!".

Ben Cohen of Ben & Gerry’s ice cream is an example of a real human being taking the sort of action that is required to fix problems. He has intelligently thought about the problem that he wants to address, laid out a plan, and is now gathering people to make it happen.

Thom Yorke on the other hand is an example of a monkey. "Why is it raining on my head, and why is my fur now all wet?" is the question he has just asked. What he has failed to do, is ask the most fundamental and simple of questions, "what are we going to do about this". The answer being in the case of rain, "Lets take shelter before we get soaked boys!"

From the article:
"It has left everybody I know shaking their heads in disbelief and anger. Such a performance should make us all deeply nervous about the future of Britain."

You and everyone you know are a part of the problem if that is all you feel about the illegal invasion of Iraq. What you feel about this report is meaningless, both to great Britain and to the people of Iraq. If you dont ask the first question, "what are we going to do?" then you cannot take the first step to solving the problem.

Allow me to instruct you.

You and all the people you know need to stop wasting your time being angry, and start planning to do something that will fix this problem of your out of control government once and for all. If you are not thinking like this, if you are not planning some action, if you are not taking action once the solution has been presented to you, you are literally contributing to the problem.

Now, there are some people (many of them artists) that thrive on misery and negativity. Solving problems is against their nature, since they use that negative muse to inform and fuel their art. Perhaps you DON’T want to solve these problems so that you can continue to come up with titles for your CDs? Yes, that was a low blow.

Let’s assume that this is not the case and that you are indeed, honest. You need to think hard about the whole process of war, from its beginning to its execution. You and your "rock group" are in that process, on a profound level. If you remove yourselves from that process, the war machine collapses completely. I have spoken about this before; until you and everyone you know are willing to remove yourself from sham democracy, war and all the despicable lies surrounding it will continue forever, and you will have no one but yourselves to blame for it.

You say that this country is "godforsaken" that’s just a blasphemous lie. Its been forsaken by people like you, who cannot put a string of logical thought together that is long enough to tie down and solve a simple problem.

You were given an article in The Guardian to write about this mess. You completely wasted an opportunity to put a powerful meme into the consciousness of millions of people; an idea of how the war machine can be put to death. What do we get instead? A useless cry-baby screed that ends with a link to your own website. This country has been forsaken by the thinkers and the doers and the intelligent action takers. If this country had 10 people like Ben Cohen there would at the very least be a large voice taking pure common sense and logic. Instead we have to suffer whining singers, sellers of makeup calling for yet more absolutely useless public inquiries and a sheep like public that is more than happy to fuel the war machine ad infinitum, whilst being absolutely disenchanted with government, and democracy itself.

The public is ripe for fundamental and permanent change, so that they get the benefit of their own work and world. They understand that the invasion of Iraq was illegal wrong and immoral. All they need are the instructions telling them what to do so that it won’t ever happen again. Your article could have been the spark that set it into motion. You failed miserably.

These three things are true:

You wasted this opportunity.
You play in the country that is under a boycott for warmongering.
You and your "rock Group" are a part of the problem.

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