Tuesday, October 30, 2018

In Opposition to the State Arms Manufacturing Conference


So, the Western Australian state government wants to join the arms race with gusto. See here.  This grotesque participation in the manufacturing and distribution of death is normalised and familiarised with little opposition. Some people are peacefully protesting at the venue today, but the mainstream media seem to have no problem with this deathcult war-profiteering event. In fact, the local newspaper writes it up under 'manufacturing'!


Graphology Spectre 24: against the arms industry


The deadline for making firebreaks is upon us —
demarcations to prevent death finding its way in.

The deadline for making firebreaks is upon us —
and as we finish the job arms manufacturers play with fire.

The deadline for making firebreaks is upon us —
and Defence West gambols with notions of Westernising death.

The deadline for making firebreaks is upon us —
firebreaks that won’t stop the attack they call ‘defence’.

The deadline for making firebreaks is upon us —
so the State and its profiteer-cronies can send fire outwards.

The deadline for making firebreaks is upon us —
while in the casino-resort the gamblers in death deploy semantics.

The deadline for making firebreaks is upon us
while the ‘arms conference’ fine-tunes and sanitises death.


            John Kinsella