Are you scared?

Did you know that the terrorist threat level in the UK mainland is still substantial? That means an attack is a strong possibility. And MI5’s response level is set at heightened. This is described on their website as, “additional and sustainable protective security measures reflecting the broad nature of the threat combined with specific business and geographical vulnerabilities and judgments on acceptable risk.”

Further items on their website describe some of the plots they have foiled in recent years. These include a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange; a rucksack bomb plot against the English Defence League, and an attack on Royal Wootton Bassett.

What the fuck…?

I grew up in the seventies and eighties, and it was a magical time. Maybe it was because I was young and naïve, but the world seemed a lovely place. I was aware of the terrorist threat from the IRA, but it never seemed as intense as this.

How did it get this bad? Why do people hate us so intensely that they’re willing to sacrifice their own lives to hurt us?

I guess we must have done something wrong; hurt them in some way. When I say we, I mean the British government. After all, it’s they who put British soldiers in Ireland. It’s they who ordered the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s they who are chomping at the bit to have a go in Syria.

But it’s not they who have to worry about being blown up on the bus to work. They don’t have to worry about being hit by a car and then beheaded in the street.

They have security around them; they get around in bulletproof cars. The only time you’ll find them on public transport is for a photo opportunity to try to convince us all that they are just ordinary folk. They don’t show us the army of assistants, PR people and armed security guards that go everywhere with them.

The thing that makes it all so sickening for me is that the countries these bastards have invaded never did anything to us. Iraq and Afghanistan never attacked us or killed any of our people until we went over there and started shooting and bombing the places to shit. I think if someone invaded us I’d want to do the same.

Even worse; the whole thing is not for some noble purpose. It’s about oil profits and geo-political positioning; it’s about American hegemony in the region.

The people responsible for this whole mess are devious, and they are ruthless. People like Tony Blair and Bill Clinton; George W Bush and Gordon Brown – they should all be brought before the International Court of Justice and answer charges of war crimes. But, of course, that’s not going to happen, is it. The winner really does take it all and answers for nothing.

In the event of all-out war, these people will be protected by armed police, security guards and soldiers. They will be cosseted in luxurious bunkers miles underground; safe from the bombs and the nuclear fallout; away from the carnage and the destruction.

The elite are writing cheques that the rest of us have to cash. They are waging wars that no one wants but them. I’m positive that if the people who declared war actually had to fight in it we would have world peace overnight.

It’s time to put these elite warmongers out of business. We need to show some peaceful civil disobedience and send a message that we’re not going to take it anymore. If not, then it’s our children and our grand-children who are going to suffer.