Arun D. Ellis

If he can't reach you he can't hit youIf he can't hit you he can't hurt you

A revolutionary war of freedom, he said_ Hiawatha responded crisply, __nd I agree_ does Superman ever fly to Thailand and free the kids slaving in the sweat shops owned by the rich corporations? No, he doesn__. Does Batman ever break into prison and free the wrongfully convicted and over sentenced black man whose rights were trampled on when he was incarcerated? No, he doesn__. Does Spider man ever break into a house in suburbia and beat up the abusive and violent husband? No, he doesn__._ __o the Fantastic Four ever fly out to third world countries and defend the rights of the poor civilians against greedy American corporations? No, they don__,_ said the Pirate, not to be outdone. __hey__e all just tools used by the state to maintain the status quo,_ said Hiawatha.

Terry took the silence as acquiescence, __he other way to make money is to exploit people, oh, no sorry, that__ the __nly_ way to make money, exploit other people, that__ how the billionaires have acquired all their money by exploiting others_ So how did they achieve it? You__e going to love this_ they changed all the rules to accommodate what they wanted to do. How I hear you ask_ easy, they own the politicians, they own the banks, they own industry and they own everything. They made it easier for themselves to invest in so called emerging markets. What once would__e been considered treasonous was now considered virtuous. Instead of building up the nation state and its resources, all of its resources, including its people, they concentrated on building up their profits. That__ all they did. They invested in parts of the world where children could be worked for 12 hours a day 7 days a week, where grown men and women could be treated like slaves and all for a pittance and they did this because we here in the west had made it illegal to work children, because we__ abolished slavery, because we had fought for workers_ rights, for a minimum wage, for a 40 hr week, for pensions, for the right to retire, for a free NHS, for free education, all of these things were getting in the way of them making a quick and easy profit and worse _had been making us feel we were worth something.

The Delores tank rolled on inexorably, __ou get a mortgage to buy a house, a larger mortgage than the previous owner because the price of the house has been artificially increased by the market, which is controlled by the banks. Then you live in the house for a few years paying a lot more in mortgage payments than you would if you were renting a similar property. But hey, you __wn_ it and can __o things to it__ things that cost even more money, by the way_ so you maintain its upkeep, improve it with say a new kitchen or bathroom; the more salubrious the neighbourhood the more expensive the kitchen would need to be _ a Küche & Cucina, say; impressing your cleaner is very important after all and at the end you sell it to someone else for more than you paid for it so they__l need an even bigger mortgage. And all the while everyone is paying all this money to the banks and the banks give the money to their shareholders, the biggest of whom are the incredibly rich. This, when you boil it all down, means that you__e taking a large sum out of your wages and passing it across to some rich person to live large, whilst you and others like you struggle to make their monthly payments. Basically you__e been screwed, Doc, but somehow they__e convinced you that you own a bit of England, when the truth is you don__ really own anything, you__e just renting it at a higher cost and they can take it back from you any time they want. It__ all just a card trick, Doc. All just __moke and mirrors_ and that__ what__ getting to me.

Let__ de-bunk some of this, shall we? Myth 1_ Kings and Queens are divine beings _ rubbish. Kings and queens of old were murdering bastards who ruled with a rod of iron. Myth 2 _ the rich prosper out of godliness _ more rubbish. They gained their wealth by royal patronage and taxing and stealing from the masses. Myth 3 - the poor are poor because they__e depraved _ yet more rubbish. They__e poor because of their naivety and childlike belief in, oh yes, Kings and Queens, the Church and the order of things. Finally, Myth 4 - women are evil and deliberately seductive _ the biggest nonsense of all. Women are sexually attractive to men because they are the opposite sex to men; it__ not hard to see, is it? It__ the same for every species on the planet, you can see it in any mating ritual on the Discovery channel but this truth has been reversed and buried under the eternal lie fostered upon us by the church. That__ what the bible has achieved and that__ why our society is divided and divided again. That__ why we are never working as one, because religion was designed to divide and rule the masses,_ she broke off and looked deliberately round the room, __ut the big question is, for what purpose and by whom?

It__ not the word that__ important, it__ the right to say any word you want to and to form any sentence you want to, that__ the point and once they start to legally restrict what we can say and what we can__ say then we are on a slippery slope to authoritarianism._ __e__e talking about racists,_ said Karen. __o one should be allowed to be racist,_ said Mark. __ut that__ not down to the Government or the courts,_ said Rob desperately, __hat should be down to us, we should make it difficult for people to be racist, we should frown upon such language and activity, it should be by peer pressure that we stop people from being abusive and unpleasant, not down to the Government._ __hy not?_ demanded Karen, __hey make the laws so it__ down to them to make the punishments._ __t__ not about punishment,_ pressed Rob, __t__ about morality and social conscience, it__ about standing up for what__ right versus moral laziness, it__ about courage versus cowardice.

_ what I__ saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let__ face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other species on this planet is enslaved to the economy. Every other species is born free and lives free. We humans are born into economic slavery and life crippling debt.

We all know that 97% of the money in the world doesn't exist and that's thanks to Fractional Reserve Banking, or should I say fictional reserve banking." He grinned at his own joke, his smile partly hidden by his hair, "Money is no longer attached to the Gold Standard, therefore, it isn't based on anything. So when it says, 'I promise to pay the bearer on demand ten pounds,' I have to ask, ten pounds of what?" Silence. "The world is owned by the rich shareholder, the rich superstar, the rich industrialist, the rich aristocracy." He was now marching around the stage, "It doesn't matter who or what they are, if they're rich then they own a part of the world, but they only own it because they've got lots of money. Which means they own part of the 97% of the world__ fictional money, the pretend money that only exists on a computer." He stopped abruptly and stared out at the audience, "Which means that if they cashed in their fictional nonexistent money they'd get something like this ten pound note offering to pay the bearer the sum of ten pounds of nothing." He held the note aloft, "Which means the rich have managed to buy the entire world with paper nothing that has a value of nothing and we've let them do it.