

INTELLECTUAL PYGMIES
In fact, I would say the word that best describes The Governments opinion of the populace, is ‘contempt’. I’ve long thought that the Government views elections as, at best, an absolute hinderance. After all, they’re in the business of running the country like a business, and the public aren’t the customers : after all, we only make a purchase once every four years.
The amount of faith I have in the political process these days, I think I’d rather vote for a bunch of Intellectual Pygmies than the Government.
But why do I use the phrase ‘Intellectual Pygmies’? Well. A little known fact – and a shocking one – is that recently David Blunkett, that most odious of Government ministers (and one who strikes me as someone who puts through legislation first and asks questions well, never) – entered into a debate about the Big Brotheresque Compulsory ID Cards.

Don’t worry. The Government have entered into a comprehensive consulting process : insomuch as they have asked all the members of their “We Like ID Cards” club the testing and searching question –
- naturally then, the Governments comprehensive consulting process involved asking absolutely no one of the general public what they thought. And even if one of the answers came back that Blunkett didn’t like, he’d challenge it in court. If he found he was unable to challenge it in court, El Corrupto Blunkett would then go and change the law until he got the answer he liked.
Sounds oddly like some Third World Dictatorship, does it not, where the Government change the law to do whatever they want to. Now, if they could, I’m sure they’d ban elections.
After all, we’re lucky that Blunket entered into Debate. What I found most offensive is a response he used in his retort to those who are opposed to having to carry ID Cards everywhere they go to prove they are who they really say they are. (Did I ever use the phrase “Yellow Star” and “Hitler’s Germany”?)

“I don’t want to enter into debate with Intellectual Pygmies”. He said.
Lets rip this statement apart like tigers mauling Christians. “Pygmies”. That’s really, really stupidly racist. Demeaning. When I think of the phrase “Pygmies”, I think of idiotic, string vest coasted Britons yelling about how these “Pygmies” are coming and taking all the jobs we don’t want to do. I think of how these idiotic racists, with their little piggy eyes, are typecasting their opponents as members of a Dwarf African Tribe.
Just remember that. Opposition to the Government is not something you are allowed to do in a democracy anymore. The Governments opponents, the champions of fairness, equality, of democracy and of truth, those who actually want to enter into debate, democracry, and all the things that Our Government talk about all the time as Good Things, we’re Pygmies. We’re dirty little darkies, dwarves, stunted, tiny backwards Monkeys. And it won’t be long before the ID Cards become Yellow Stars, Pink Stars, become our new Final Solution. The Government may very well be preparing a Political Final Solution : The New World order needs Laubensraum. And who cares if a few Intellectual Pygmies get gassed on the way?

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