Diseases II

Time for a whinge.And this time its about an additional disease that is plaguing the country and for all I know the world. Its the disease of Apologism.

This disease is spread by sanctimonious journalists and do gooders suffering in a lot of cases from the previously mentioned Hypocrisitis. The symptoms of the disease take the form of hysterical rantings about the descendants or successors of people or organisations to apologise for the actions of people or organisations which have gone before us. Personally I find this disease nauseating and am sick of the clamour in the press and broadcast media for apologies for previous actions. Here are some examples

Twat poet Benjamin Zepheniah demanding apologies from the Queen and/or the Government for slavery. Slavery was a heinous method of control and suppression, but what the fuck has it got to do with us in modern society? It was abolished hundreds of years ago as sanity and reason won the argument against those who sanctioned it. But todays monarch and todays PM weren't born then. Neither was I, so why should I feel fucking guilty about it. I wasn't there, I didn't do it..honest. What power is divested in them or me to apologise on behalf of dead people? Slavery was regrettable, but we didn't personally sanction it or take part in it. So no apology please - if those who are guilty want to apologise then let them visit us from their spiritual existence and do it.

German politiicans demanding The Queen apologise for the bombing of Dresden during WWII. Hmmmm....so they start a war, kill millions across Europe, instigate the genocide of 6 million Jews and then 50 odd years later want us to apologise for giving them the same tratment they dished out to London, Portsmouth, Coventry............See where I'm going here?

Jews demanding apologies from the government for NOT bombing Auschwitz during the war. Hmmm...even if it could be categorically proven that the British Government did know of the atrocities, one can only wonder what these very people would be saying now. Probably berating us for the bombing and killing of innocent Jewish people already living a hellish existence in a concentration camp. Again, why should we apologise fo something our forebears did NOT do? The decisions taken at the time were weighed up and taken honestly. If they wrong then so be it...but they were not anti-semtic or malicious. IT WASN'T OUR fAULT.

The Guildford Four/Birmingham Six. Appalling miscarriages of justice which have undoubtedly wrecked lives. But what is it to do with Tony Blair? The government didn't sentence them, the judges did. The government didn't find them guilty, the juries did. The government didn't arrest them, the police did. What the governement did do was re-open the cases when the new evidence was uncovered. I have no doubt someone should apologise, maybe the Lord Chief Justice of the time if alive, or the investigating officers and jurors if still around. But NOT the government, and not Tony Blair, who was barely out of school when this happened. I would have thought the respective families should be thanking the government for allowing justice to take its course as compelling evidence became available.

Ken Livingstone should apologise to the jewish London Evening Standard hack who decided to have a pop at him. Why? Ken Livingstone is a popular Mayor, elected by substantial majority and likely to do so again. He has campaigned tirelessly against racism, sexism and inequality etc for years. He has suffered the bile and poisonous diatribes from this rag and its national daily sister paper - The Daily Facist for 30 years. Yet like the hypocrites they are they howl with indignation the minute they get some of their own back. And they accuse him of being anti-semitic! I would question any journalist who is jewish and works for either rag when you consider the papers histories and links with facism. By the way, if I insult someone who is jewish, perhaps calling them a useless cunt based on their total fuckwittery at work ....does that automatically mean I'm anti-semitic? Are jewish people so saintly that they never do any wrong and can never be criticised? Or is that what the press want to stir up? The use of the phrase "anti-semitic" is too easily banded about ...as is the racist tag applied to anyone who questions or criticises someone of colour. Some Jews are thick, some Christians are ignorant, some black people are prejudiced. The conditions are human, not colour or creed based. It's the nature of the Homo Sapien beast I'm afraid.

Boris Johnson apologising to whiny scousers because he had the temerity to state what a lot of people thought about the unswerving ability of Liverpool to oversentimentalise when a son or daughjer of the city dies. This was brought to the fore by the events surrounding Ken Bigley, an unfortunate man beheaded by terrorist thugs in Iraq. But lets get one thing straight - he was there for the money, not for the good of the Iraqi people, and he spurned the security arrangements offered to all foreign workers "helping" rebuild the country. Boris may be a bumbling fuckwit but he got this criticism of Liverpool spot on.

I could go on, but I feel my point is made. We have become a world where we can only accept our own victimhood culture, a world where we demand the sympathy and apology of those who contribute to our circumstances as if it makes any difference to the events gone previously.

We have to find a scapegoat. For all I know one of my distant ancestors may have committed some horrendous acts on less fortunate people and in todays society of apologism and it's associated victimhood culture perhaps I am expected to bear some responsibility to those families to whom this may have happened. Yeah...right. Should I apologise for that now they're dead? Someone would be waiting a long fucking time for me to do that......

Later, UnashamedUnapologeticJack