Thursday, July 7th, 2005
Dear Anthony Blair
You can blow up as many buses as you like/ allow as many buses as you like to be blown up/ fuck upon people to the extent that they become inclined to attack your so-called citisens and blow up their busses – but we won’t be having your ID card, and we won’t not notice when you claim to be dropping “debt” (yes, Africa really owes us all so much) and are in fact, doing no such thing.
Love to all my peoples.
“Hitler had secured the chancellorship after the elections of November 1932, but his Nazi Party had not won an overall majority. It didn’t matter, the power denied him by elections he gained subsequently by an act of terrorism. The burning of the Reichstag (parliament) building in Berlin, on the night of Feb. 27, 1933 was a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and is widely believed to have been contrived by the newly formed Nazi government itself to turn public opinion against its opponents and to help it assume emergency powers.
The fire was blamed on communist terrorists and that very night, a state of emergency was declared. The Nazis rounded up 4,000 political activists and intellectuals, many but not all were Communists. The next morning, Hitler presented President von Hindenburg with an emergency order, ready for his signature, that voided important basic civil rights, expanded substantially the list of crimes that carried the death penalty, and vastly boosted the central government’s powers to pressure the individual states, all in the name of fighting terrorism.
The police were now empowered to imprison suspects and extend remand indefinitely at their discretion. They could keep relatives utterly uninformed about the reason for the arrest and the fate of the imprisoned person. They could prevent lawyers or other people from visiting detainees and reviewing their files. No court was entitled to intervene. The emergency order, “for the protection of the people and the State,” was augmented that very day by an order “against treason and treachery.” The two orders became the basis of jurisprudence and the foundation stones of the Nazi dictatorship.
Within a month of the Reichstag fire, Germany’s first concentration camp Dachau was opened (22 Mar 1933). It was initially an internment camp to hold “terrorist suspects” which under the new laws could be held indefinitely without charge. With time as more and more people were sent there it became a death camp along with Auschwitz and the others.
One person who was eventually sent to Dachau in 1938 was Martin Niemoeller, a Pastor of the German Evangelical (Lutheran) Church. He wrote :
“In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Catholic. Then they came for me… and by that time, there was no one to speak up for anyone.”
Somebody is fucking with me.
Once again there is no hot water in my so-called house. I went out last night, but at least I didn’t smoke a bunch of cigarettes, so I am not too unfresh.
So, I have been making songs, and feeling poorly, and watching films, and that has been pretty good. I am going to have to start writing about cheerier things though, all this AIDS and Bankery might be getting to me a bit.
I forgot to tell you the other night I met a guy who offered me his socks, out of kindness. On a train. He was drunk, and his fiance was resigned, in that was they are.
I read an interview with a band called The Killers the other day.
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