The Long Road

07/07/2003 Archived Entry: "Arthur"

Arthur is a free British media/popculture magazine with a circulation of about 40 000. The current issue (#5 "Arthur Against The Empire") is about British/US relations, the War On Terror/Iraq, and the like. Each issue has a commentary by Alan Moore, writer of the source material for "From Hell" and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". His commentary details the events leading to the war on Iraq and the aftermath of it, he connects many dots, while most of us probably didn't even know the dots existed.

At one point Alan Moore refers to the War on Terror as "War Without End" which is, more or less, what the Bush Regime had said the war on terror would be. It hadn't clicked before, but it did just as I read that phrase: "Nineteen Eighty Four". In Orwell's book the world is at a perpetual state of conflict to keep the populace on edge, the governments constant, and allowing the ruling body to do whatever it wants since it's all jutified by the war. And I'll be damned if the U.S. Department of Homeland Security doesn't look a hell of a lot like the baby steps of Big Brother.

Download issue five of Arthur here and read Alan Moore's commentary on pages 14-20 (its not THAT long, there are lots of ads and political comics). If you're unwilling to read it, at least read the following two quotes.

"Any previously unthinkable political action can be instantly validated by the magic words 9-11, in much the same way as Ariel Sharon's government in Israel can make horrific moral and humanitarian issues simply vanish by mentioning the Holocaust."

"the world's last Superpower/first Ultrapower has fallen into the hands of a shrieking, masturbating lower primate and is now constantly a hair's-breadth away from going absolutely foaming fucking mad and killing everybody."

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ultra power? that's interesting... it's like how cities are becoming mega-cities. a really corny way of describing a big city.

and are the americans really so great and powerful as to become the last superpower? like will all other countries fall under their control? i hope not.

i still think europe will be able to flex some muscle against them. they're getting better. and more united. european union and all.

and canada is kicking the american's as in this economic recovery thing. we're way ahead on that front right now.

and the last thing: when this greenhouse planet overheating thing kicks in full gear, no one's going to want to live in america then. they'll all move to canada!

*cries over the deforestation that would cause*

Posted by shawnathan @ 07/08/2003 01:23 PM EST

If you look at the plans the US government was making to bring their country into the year 2000, the attack on 9-11 was like a little party in a box for them. It gave them a reason to put into action the things they had been planning on doing for a while but feared the general population wouldn't allow. They were now free to begin their slow annexation and Americanization of the rest of the world, but by bit. No, there is no end in sight. It is a war without end. Well, there will be an end. Their ultimate end is when the whole world is America and there's a McDonald's located every few blocks, worldwide.

Posted by Romer @ 07/10/2003 08:16 AM EST

I read somewhere that the U.S. spends more on their military than all the other countries in the world put together.

So i pretty much doubt that they could be taken on militarily - even with the whole world against them. They ARE the last superpower.

Posted by Rayne @ 07/10/2003 05:06 PM EST