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Some Things That I Believe

Where on Earth to begin?

It’s been a goddamn crazy couple of days, that much we can be certain of.

With regards to the much publicised student protests that went down in London yesterday, let me make my feelings on the matter clear:

I believe that the sum of our collective knowledge should be available to every man and woman born unto this planet.

I believe that education is a right, not a privilege.

I believe that we have the resources to provide that education to every man and woman on this planet.

I believe that forcing a human into debt in return for what is theirs by right is wrong, in fact worse than just plain old wrong, but demonstrably evil.

I believe that people have the right to protest this evil without the fear of being beaten, aimed, dragged along the road and trampled by hired thugs who describe their actions as “sport” on television documentaries. Who joins the riot police to stand around in a helmet hoping for peace? I have met these people, I know who they are. The overwhelming majority of them are merely thugs, plain and simple, mind-numbed bullies who get off on the tiny sliver of power they are afforded over their fellow man by their cringing, paper-skinned paymasters. Sausage fingered dullards who enjoy nothing more than charging into an unarmed crowd of children and beating them with sticks.

I believe that smashing the windows of the treasury, daubing the precious statues in parliament square, scribbling on the bust of the dead imperialist and racist Winston Chuchill and smashing up Topshop is a perfectly appropriate response to tyranny.

I believe that the BBC, whose shameful, biased, sneering rolling news coverage I watched, wincingly for too many hours yesterday, are as bad as the swine they protect. They wailed and gnashed their teeth over vandalised telephone boxes, made cheery small talk about the future of the Liberal Democrats, and the “game of politics”, and said nothing of substance of the affect this enforced debt will surely have on the next two generations.

I believe that Charles and Camilla should have been dragged out of that car and hung from the nearest telegraph pole like a pair of mouldy old trainers. After which they should have had their allowances removed, and all that stolen property they squat in, all those trophies they have our people dust and buff for them, those trinkets and baubles they horde like Middle Earthian dragons taken from them, sold, and the money put towards our health and education systems.

I believe that once that was done, we should have take all the money we are spending on foul abominations like TRIDENT and THE IRAQ WAR and so on and fucking so on, and put THAT into our education, and health systems.

Next, we should have taken back the money our cretinous representatives in parliament handed over to the criminals that gambled our money down the plug hole in the first place, the “wanking fucking bankers” so well described by this heroic Irishman. We should have taken their mansions, we take their baubles, we take their trinkets. Those are STOLEN PROPERTY.

That is what I believe. That is my solution.

Nicholas Clegg, who resembles a fat python more and more each day, would call me a dreamer. I call him a sweaty-palmed house slave, a frontman and apologist for a criminal conglomerate that would have us all as serfs, with him faring little better. THEY DON’T WANT YOU IN THEIR GANG, Fat Little Nicholas.  They laugh while they fuck your wife and your children in their skulls as you sleep your sweating, desperate four hours of sleep each night. When they are done with you they will throw you on the fire. They will suck on your bones.

We are being pissed on, and we are calling it rain. We are being raped, and calling it tough love.

Living In The Future does not involve bowing to inbred  scum, neither does it involve taking a fetid, scabby, leprous cock in the collective ass and calling it unavoidable turbulence. We are each of us born rich beyond our wildest imaginations. We have all we need within our grasp. Do not let a gang of creeping, grasping suckfish tell you anything otherwise. Fuck these scum, and all who harbour them.

— Friday, December 10th, 2010

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  • Queenie

    I would love to see this on the front page of a tabloid. Santa, please arrange.

  • Fingertipsaint@gmail.com

    Tuition fees were introduced thirteen years ago by a Labour Govt. Where were you then? Seems to me that people don’t mind betrayal, lies and injustice just as long as it’s Labour that’s doing it.

  • Fingertipsaint

    Tuition fees were introduced thirteen years ago by a Labour Govt. Where were you then? Seems to me that people don’t mind betrayal, lies and injustice just as long as it’s Labour that’s doing it.

    • Anonymous

      I spoke about this on twitter yesterday. I was incandescent with rage when Labour introduced tuition fees, and spoke out against them in everything I did thereafter.

      • Anonymous

        You’ll notice I illustrated the article with a picture of Tony Blair, drawn in 2001, wielding an axe.

  • Fingertipsaint

    Tuition fees were introduced thirteen years ago by a Labour Govt. Where were you then? Seems to me that people don’t mind betrayal, lies and injustice just as long as it’s Labour that’s doing it.

    • Anonymous

      I spoke about this on twitter yesterday. I was incandescent with rage when Labour introduced tuition fees, and spoke out against them in everything I did thereafter.

      You’ll notice I illustrated the article with a picture of Tony Blair, drawn in 2001, wielding an axe.

    • Queenie

      Quite a few of us went on some huge marches against Blair’s criminal government too. One million people protested against the Iraq war, for instance. It’s just that mainstream use of social media hadn’t yet taken off in the early 2000s, so the corporate media could present the establishment side without contradiction. Stuff is different now. They can’t bury it at the bottom of page 39 and they can’t ignore the flood of real time citizen reportage. Therefore all public protest has a higher profile among those who weren’t there than it used to.

  • Itsasecret

    awesome.

  • KB

    “Education is a right, not a privilege” – absolutely! But instead of throwing more money into higher education, couldn’t we at least throw the money into secondary education which is where our future stars are being failed at the moment.

    There is a reason that very few black kids make it to Oxbridge, and why so few state-educated children make it that far. The education just isn’t good enough. Putting higher education aside for a minute: wouldn’t it be great if we could guarantee that every single child in school would be able to read and write by 11? To get five good GCSEs? to find something they’re really good at?

    Sod university. It’s not mandatory, it’s not a right and you can still have a phenomenally successful career without going (although a very good career after in some circs, hence why these new fee rises won’t be paid back until your salary hits £21,000. I started paying back when I earned £15,000).

    School though – let’s start there.

    • Anonymous

      Me and Tego were just discussing this on Facebook. I completely agree. That’s why I said “I believe that the sum of our collective knowledge should be available to every man and woman born unto this planet.”

      My insinuation being that a TRUE education is deserved by all, from the very start. I left school at 16, after a foul school experience, seeing no further options for myself within the system. What we have right now are rotten little robot factories in the most part, and it breaks my heart.

      • p$

        What would you say you missed out on by not doing A-Levels or going to University?

      • http://twitter.com/AlexanderVelky Alexander Velky

        Socrates teaches us that the tendency to identify faults in others can often teach us about faults in ourselves. Our school system was (and is) by no means perfect, but you had a foul experience with it at least partly because you were a difficult little git. You could have got a lot more from it without becoming a robot.

        The ignostic in me would also argue there is very little point arguing for a “TRUE education” without specifying what that would be and what would make it true. An education against which you would not have rebelled? If you could fathom such a thing you would be invaluable indeed to the school system and I’d advise you go into teaching (which I honestly think might be a good use for your talents at some point).

        Of course I also agree that everyone (in this country and others) should have access to a free and comprehensive education, but I’m not as certain as you are that this should include a free university education for all – such a system is surely unsustainable.

        Our whole approach to and understanding of education would have to change as a society – we would need to value it as I’m told the Germans do, and currently, we don’t.

    • http://twitter.com/jimboeth James Anthony

      Good point. I believe Education is a right, not a privilege, but I don’t think this right extends to university. Tertiary education should be a choice open to all – not just those rich enough not to be appalled by the amount of debt a university education will now accrue. The best primary and secondary education possible is the right of every man and woman born unto this planet, and the duty of provision lies with those we “allow” to be called our masters.

  • Noone

    It would have been a much more acceptable argument had you not lowered yourself to the sort of language, typical of the uneducated louts you seem so rushed to better, had been thrown in as an ‘acceptable’ way to get votes.

    The education system needs to get rid of time-wasters and allow people who want an education to have one.

    You clearly have a modicom of intelect, please use it or you’re just another annoying pleb, ranting for the hell of it.

    • Anonymous

      “Pleb”? There’s a beautiful word.

    • Sparky

      I’ll grant you that this would have been a bit more convincing if Akira had left out the fury akin to that of a woman. Thing is, I’m not at all sure that Akira was trying to change our views so much as simply express his. He says as much in the title. Clearly, dude is pissed and he has every right to express that on his own blog. Anyway, I come here for music not politics, and when I get politics instead, I’ve heard Bankers, I know what to expect.

      I will grant you that the education does need to be able to weed out “time-wasters” but I fail to see how raising tuition even comes near being the best way of doing this. Sure, for the middle class some people will now be unable to dick around in uni. Thing is, in my four years, most of the people who were dicking about weren’t middle class, they were decidedly well off and would be fine with paying more for their “education.” Who this really effects is the lower class, some of whom will now be unable to get the education they deserve while others will come out buried in debt. Raising tuition is going to limit who goes to university by socioeconomics, not a drive to learn.

      • Sparky

        *woman scorned, I swear I tyed scorned, hmm.

    • http://twitter.com/jimboeth James Anthony

      Brilliant. The amount and severity of injustices listed here and you get most offended by the language? Pardon my turn of phrase your highness, but fuck you and your high horse.

      • Noone

        There’s a level of injustice in life. I’m from a working class family, didn’t even get offered uni, not that my family could have afforded it, but if you’re offering your views ala Akira the Don, many would have switched off once his immature nature voiced, ‘They laugh while they fuck your wife and your children in their skulls as you sleep your sweating, desperate four hours of sleep each night.’ as I did.

        He started well, seemed well versed in getting to the point – but really!

        I don’t have a horse, low or high, but I do like ‘intelligent’ conversation.

        I also believe if someone enters uni, they expect a good enough job to cover the fees when they leave, otherwise – what’s the point? (Yes, getting a job in this foresaken country is laughable, but we do our best right?).

        Fee’s are inevetible – unfortunate, but then that’s the wonderful country we live in.

        Akira’s blog is his (your) opinion and his space for venting his anger. I picked up this blog on Twitter, so someone agree’s with most of what he says – as do I – to a point.

        Argue like a man and you’ll be listened to, like a man.

      • Noone

        There’s a level of injustice in life. I’m from a working class family, didn’t even get offered uni, not that my family could have afforded it, but if you’re offering your views ala Akira the Don, many would have switched off once his immature nature voiced, ‘They laugh while they fuck your wife and your children in their skulls as you sleep your sweating, desperate four hours of sleep each night.’ as I did.

        He started well, seemed well versed in getting to the point – but really!

        I don’t have a horse, low or high, but I do like ‘intelligent’ conversation.

        I also believe if someone enters uni, they expect a good enough job to cover the fees when they leave, otherwise – what’s the point? (Yes, getting a job in this foresaken country is laughable, but we do our best right?).

        Fee’s are inevetible – unfortunate, but then that’s the wonderful country we live in.

        Akira’s blog is his (your) opinion and his space for venting his anger. I picked up this blog on Twitter, so someone agree’s with most of what he says – as do I – to a point.

        Argue like a man and you’ll be listened to, like a man.

        • http://twitter.com/KTKirilov KT

          Everyone uses “foul language” no matter what level of intelligence or maturity you have. It’s not about the words themselves, it’s about the message and the context they’ve been put in. If the words help him get his point across then it shouldn’t be a problem.

          I agree about the time-wasters and well-off kids who douche around, though. Not the same country but it happens a lot at my University. They sign up for classes and fill them up so fast that anyone who wants to legitimately take the course can’t get in, only for them to drop out around halfway after weeks of skipping class and not doing their work. Those people are always the ones who get the good scholarships too. :c

          Should just take out tuition and only make you pay if you fail the course. Universities rake in enough cash as it is even without tuition. I know mine does, at least.

        • http://twitter.com/nickshearon Nicholas Shearon

          I have been through university and I say that foul language is just another mode of expression. In this case it is a justifiable reaction to an unjustifiable situation.
          It adds weight and power to an argument, because nothing has power like an offensive word. You sit there, being so happily judgemental, so closed minded to the way people actually are and the way they speak. The king of your tiny hill, the televisions own Stephen Fry would be the first to attest to the usage of swearing as a use of power. It wasn’t used as a space for a point or a conclusion it was used to augment the statement.
          Hardly immature, hardly misinformed and spoken by a human being not some industry puppet or filthy paid stooge on the television. Real life doesn’t have a watershed.
          So tuck your foreskin into your boots, bend over and prepare to be shafted. If you get offended by language, your living brain is going to have the hot, steaming seamen of the world injected into it like an industrial jet washer at the wealth of other things you should be outraged at. The conservative government will take dog shit stuffed corpse of the Lib-dem promises and parade it down Whitehall and tie it to the biggest fag pole they can find so every peadophile backbencher who enjoyed the prefects weekly visit in Oxford just a little too much and rape it until it starts to leak its bruised colon from its eye sockets.

  • Cyrilseacrudge

    I’m with you except the part where you propose capital punishment. I say keep them alive as long as possible, let them pay off their debt to society cleaning public restrooms.

  • Chris Eats Tacos

    Beautifully expressed.

    On a side note, people need to learn how to accept peoples expressions and opinions on your website and not be a doucher.

    Just saying.

  • http://twitter.com/ZenPyramid ZenPyramid

    …the dharma that must be paid for is not the true dharma…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RVHKBEZF3OELJ23VZDUGWRG7O4 michael p

    go head, waste tons of money no one has on trying to educate the working class… you’ll have a 90% drop out rate cuz “its too hard”… They are poor because they didnt try to begin with mr Akira. Thats why I love you. You are gonna be 20 stories tall soon and you did it YOURSELF. Trust me, information (hence education) is already free. You dont want to spend 3/4 of your money in taxes to ‘edubucate’ these idiots. The bankers arent better, but atleast it kinda works.

    • http://twitter.com/ZenPyramid ZenPyramid

      …scarily close to the ‘…well they all live in ghetto’s don’t they, so they must be stupid with no self worth (other wise why live in a ghetto? P’ah, it’s so obvious!), so really what is the point in trying to educate them..?’ attitude that’s been keeping black people poor and uneducated in the west for generations.

      I utterly agree, you can’t help someone who won’t help themselves. But you won’t know who those people are before you try, and i gotta say, your ninety percent drop out rate is desperately pessimistic. Additionally, many people need to be led to the launch pad before they’ll raise themselves Akira style to the lap of the Gods.

      Information is free and increasingly so, but the mechanisms by which information is assimilated, processed, and acted upon are best learnt from somewhere and not just vaguely guessed at, like reading, for example…

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RVHKBEZF3OELJ23VZDUGWRG7O4 michael p

        I’m not trying to be mean or opressive by my comment. I didnt single out ghettos or anything. Its mostly Lazy WHITE people. All lazy people are poor… and can you imagine the “edubucation is a right” liberals trying to take basic ALGEBRA!!!

        EDUCATION IS A PRIVILIDGE YOU WORK HARD TOWARDS (but they shouldnt have raised touition on u like that)

  • Iconoclast22

    Totally agree the fees shouldn’t be going up, putting aside the individuals right to education that I totally recognise. Where will this country be in 20 years if only the rich can afford higher education?

    I disagree with the violence, it’s difficult not to get violent when you are so passionate, but there were idiots there just there for a scrap. If you want to fight join a boxing club don’t hide in a crowd of a riot. Pussies.

    As to Akira’s views on the Establishment, especially the Monarchy, the Royal Family is all that is stopping this country being run by the Rupert Murdoch’s or worse; would you want a Bush clan with real power in the UK?

    • David Cameroon

      Rupert Murdoch doesn’t run this country???

      Ha that’s a good one!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RVHKBEZF3OELJ23VZDUGWRG7O4 michael p

    Plus Zen – I dont know if its like this where you live, but here in America there are already PLENTY OF PROGRAMS for poor people to succeed. I cant help that it still fails mostly – im just a guy and not an EDUBUATOR =)