The law does not allow me to express my opinion on this or any other matter.

Consider this:

You are asked a panel of ten questions and you have promised to answer honestly.

Questions 1 – 8 are  no problem.

But, your honest answer to question 9 is proscribed by law.

Therefore you do not answer.

And thus you reveal your honest opinion on question 9.

Your only safe option is to refuse to answer any of the questions.

So much for Free Speech.

Of course, our “leaders” want this, it stops anyone disagreeing with or criticising them.

With regard to the current conflict in Israel, news footage the other day showed a small girl wailing for her Daddy. It was the desperate, heart rending cry of a child whose entire world has been destroyed and lies in ruins around her. Only Daddy can make sense of it all and help and protect her. But, Daddy is not there and never will be. Either still under the rubble, in a morgue, or rotting in the street. Who cares? Certainly not those in the Gilded Cage, insulated from reality, the movers and shakers, the captains and the kings who are supposed to take care of us, but who routinely fuck up, if not positively engineer things to their own advantage, political or financial.

Since the beginning of humanity, these clowns, their greed, their vanity, their insecurities, their personal inadequacies have led to breakdowns where the only solution is for the rest of us to put aside our lives and go off to do disgusting things and die in our thousands until a new set of clowns emerges to do it all again.

God, we’re dumb.

Who started this lot? As in all wars, both sides. Oh, sure, there is always an “aggressor”, but the other side should have been ready, should have made enough friends to stand by them at the time of need.

When the wolves are howling, you need a place by the camp fire, among friends, so the wolf looks elsewhere for lunch. But you need to earn your place by the fire, need to make friends and allies who will welcome you into the safety of the firelight. The peace in history has been built on webs of treaty, understandings, agreements, between states, families, neighbours and friends.

There are, and have been throughout history, “leaders” so incompetent, insecure or downright crooked that the only solution to their problems is to start a war, either by direct aggression or provocation, in the hope that their own mess will be buried under the rubble with a fanfare of patriotic flag waving.

I’ve no idea how we stop this. Maybe the planet will just shrug us off as a failed evolutionary experiment. Let the cockroaches have a run in the fast lane. They couldn’t do worse. Or maybe the bedbugs.