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When it comes to dying "we men live in a city without walls."
Hence why we living should pay proper respect
in the face of death. Photo by Jhaye-Q Trinbago |
WHERE HAVE I BEEN?
Folded up in three,
elbows pressed to my belly, knuckles clenched to my chin: in foetal position
basically ... our default instinctive safe-pose.
I understand fear,
oh New Zealand mass-murderer. So I know there is a force behind you. I don’t
mean the voices out of nothing kind. I mean the voices out of other people’s
mouths. Because surely you were told to be what you became. Surely you were
made.
We will always
have murderers once people say it is all right. I’m talking about Senator for
Queensland, Fraser Anning, and his issued statement after the butchery. Want to
know what he said? You’ll have to look it up. I’m not sullying my blog with
full sentences from him.
But if I could be
in a room with him for fifteen minutes, I wouldn’t hit him with an egg. I’d
talk to him like this:
Politician,
heel thyself
Senator-man, it
was ironic to hear the likes of you call Prophet Mohammed (though you were
careful not to actually say his name) a “despot.” Later, you referred to
something as a “cliché.”
I cannot think of
anything more despotic or clichéd than an affluent white male racist.
You said fear of violence
is what drove the mass-murderer to his violent deed; and ask thinking, decent
human beings to just accept that as a fact.
Are you on drugs?
Learn to control yourself.
Though, your
frankness helps us understand this situation immensely. Your statements sent the
clear message: “I am okay with this.” That your nation’s government allowed you
to send that message is it saying, “We are okay with this.”
So people do not
have to wonder what made the murderer. It’s quite apparent.
I bet those I.S.
cutthroats (I refuse to call them ISIS) think of themselves as “nationalistic,”
too.
How opportunely hypocritical
are people like you – you and the killers you have a hand in making.
Take your
convenient Bible-thumping. I could quote the Bible right back at you: “An eye
for an eye makes the whole world blind”; “Thou shalt not kill”; “Love one
another.”
Anning
come poop
I don’t think you
even thought about your words, man. Nothing better to do at 4:26 AM? Some might
call it a brain-fart. But it’s more like you went to the toilet all over the
inside of your head, then smeared it on the world.
Perhaps you should
have spent as much time planning your statement as your countryman spent planning
his vile act; as fundamentalist bombers spend on theirs.
Here’s how your
stance translates: His murders are “retaliation” for what the bombers do. But the
bombers claim their murders are “retaliation” for what somebody else did. If
you support “retaliation,” it means you support the bombers’ also.
However, if you
say the NZ mass-murderer’s actions were wrong, then you get to say all such acts are wrong.
You and your
cronies will insist you surely said it was wrong. In so many words, did ya? Plus,
you worse than took it back when you rationalised why a man killed 50 unarmed
human beings following much preparation. You never even met the man, but you
think you know what he is.
You essentially
said, “All murder is wrong. Still, he killed, but there were those who killed before him.” You could have made
your dig at suicide bombers without condoning your countryman’s actions in the
next breath. Like this: “All murder is wrong, whether it’s mostly white males who go on solo mass shooting
hunt-and-kills, or extremist suicide bombers.”
There’s so much to
say, but I will close with this:
White Australian
“settlers” tried to “landscape Blackness out of existence” by attempting
genocide on the Aborigini people. What retaliation does their progeny deserve?
What retaliation,
as a clear supporter of we-would-do-it-all-again-the-same-slaughtering-way-given-the-chance,
do you deserve?
I.S. has no right
to decide who should live or die. Neither does you countryman. And you do not
have the right to more than imply your countryman is justified when he does the
same heinous thing you flat out condemn I.S. for doing.
What are you for?
Come good
