Jayfor Justice to Rev. O'Lution

Today, our revolution must be a different one. Like you say, our bubble is too warm and comfortable for the kind of revolution that sleeps in our history books. Victory today will be a change in people’s perceptions of what is right and what is moral and what is fair, especially in regards to the distribution of wealth. A coup d’état and new political system is not the answer here. It must become accepted in our nation’s consciousness that rules for the rich must apply to the poor. And that rules for the powerful must also apply to the powerless. This is about accountability. Wages, expenses, power. These must all be justified, and it is only in the bleak aftermath of a crisis that justification can stand trial. Rewarding failure is not justified. The buying and selling of power is not justified. The exploitation of loopholes by our politicians is not justified. The gaping gap between the pin-stripes and the paroles is not justified.

Greed has been the motivating factor (and, in fact, policy) in our economy for over thirty years now. Progress for progress’ sake. More is more and bigger is bigger. We have been building a great pyramid with the point at the bottom. And now it has collapsed. This great pyramid, of course, needs to be rebuilt, but this time we have the gift of hindsight. We know that we need the most bricks at the bottom and new regulations and policies must be introduced to ensure that this happens. Greed will not go away, but the way it is monitored and regulated can still evolve.

So today shouldn’t be about hate and violence, but hope and change. That’s not an easy ticket to buy, but I have a good feeling. Prof Chris Knight seems to be the ideal figurehead to lead a protest like this and push the notion that change is not only a whim of the violent or only a right of the oppressed. It can happen here with pens and handshakes and not swords and hand-grenades

Rev. O'Lution to Jayfor Justice

There certainly will be a revolutionary air on the streets, but I hope the people are not too hungry, for people that are too hungry act irrationally and without the composed thought that can bring about real change. They will take out all their grievances on the governments and forget that they are manipulated just as much by the media – why is it that the media often slip silently through the net of deceit? For these lying bastard journalists, only looking to sell the next issue, seem to have far too much power and with just a click of a button they can dictate how our world is perceived and how the masses judge and react – Angry and hungry, the demonstrators today could be easily tempted to consume anything; they will forget about what there appetite was actually yearning and they could very easily disgrace themselves and what they are trying to represent ‘the people’ 

Unfortunately, Jayfor, I don’t trust the people of the UK one bit. I believe they are over-indulged, ungrateful and lack the real sense of purpose to be able to cultivate change – after all, it is the people that choose the government (though there is limited of choice) and ‘we’ do live in a liberal world where we have no dictator who controls us and where we can generally live with wild abandon to do as we please; ‘we’ are free in most walks of life – more so than a lot of other countries out there, where a person’s right to freedom only comes with death…

If we want change then we must install power back to people – not only through protesting, but through political change… if we’re unhappy with those in power then we should make more of a collective effort to elect more worthy MPs, or oust out the arrogant parties –  

But, toppling the government in some form of wild revolution – at present - cannot happen here because the shackles on the people of the UK are not omnipresent – yes, we have an over-arching government that has the power to make policies we don’t always agree with, but these same powers allow us to live in general freedom - until something happens to destroy the civilisation of our daily lives and routines, we’d be better off fighting for freedom for the Burmese, or joining arms to spurn the evils of terrorism…

I hope that something comes out of today - that the governments take off their stupid caps for a moment and make a concerted effort to mop up the mess that has stained the economy - they must punish those that have taken greed to the extremes, blatantly ignoring the consequences of their actions…

Anyway, I guess I sound a little hypocritical because I don’t exactly see myself on the streets with my placard – but, if I were unemployed I’d be out there like a shot… and this is what’s so worrying for those in power right now. Because they do have over 3million people unemployed and bored, and if Che and Castro started a revolution with 20 men, hopefully 3million might just be enough to wean out the corrupt MPs and knock down those greedy, money-hungry banker wan*kers… and then, down with terrorism?!