Agent Banzai Pipeline Picks Up Some Sub Space Chatter: The Plebeians Are Getting Restless - An Ode To England - Everyone Sold Out Their Soul

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This Is England - A 2010 Update

Here we are, twenty-five years after Strummer penned his ode to our green and pleasant land. Twenty-five years since the clash went on foot around Britain yelling out a bunch of ragged songs of redemption. England was bad enough back then but now look at it. What a joke. This country is really, solidly, irredeemably, truly and absolutely fucked. It's amazing that anything works at all when you think about it. But who wants to think about anything anymore?

Well, I do and this seems like a good time to update things, so I put this page together. The more I look at it the more this island nation has come to resemble a giant, gulag Alcatraz. Or a vast laboratory in which its inhabitants have been the unwitting victims of a long, cruel and sadistic scientific social engineering experiment.

Funny. I went to see the Sex Pistols recently and they played that patriotic song: 'There will always be an England' at the end. People in the audience seemed happy and warmed by it. I felt utterly betrayed and disgusted. Was that some kind of sick joke? I mean, how can you go from singing 'There's no future in England's dreaming' to that? Duh! Has EVERYONE SOLD OUT THEIR SOUL? OR WHAT? I'm confused because the last time I looked, England was no more than a province of a vast new unelected bureaucratic European super state.



But some of us are still alive and awake though and can see what's going on. That England has become a steaming Fascist/ Communist shit hole that's getting deeper and fatter and wider by the minute. And that soon, that shit's gonna hit the fan. And if I'm wrong, then this page and me will look real stupid in years to come; but that's okay, 'cause then I'll be wrong and then I'll be happy to have been wrong. Either way I win. In a way.

But there's nothing new though is there? I mean it's the same old same old just getting faster and bigger and smaller and taller and shinier and duller and more Chinese and more connected. They really got you by the balls as George Carlin said. They own everything: The school system. The news media. Music. Books. Films. TV programs. The lot. Government is bought and paid for. The law system. Academia. Health care. Everything. Cameras are going up in people's homes. Children are being abducted from their families. People are getting sick for no apparent reason. People are getting dumber. People are getting more sheepish and obedient. The police and military are totally mind bombed and see you no longer as someone to serve and protect, but as the ENEMY. There's a war going on on something or other they keep telling me about but I can't see a thing for all the smoke.

I think they're preparing for another English civil war. A war on ME. A war on YOU.

Fuck THEM!!

Anyway, let's look at a few of the changes:

Cops are such cunts. I mean, what kind of arsehole would ever want to become a cop anyway? A cop is someone who can't make it in the REAL world. He's a failure. He's a person who can't make anything of value for other people. Because they don't believe in themselves they have to believe in an idea. That idea goes something like this: WE are the GOOD guys and YOU are the BAD guys. Real deep. Know what I mean?

But anyway, that first chap, like the one far left? I might swallow my pride and ask him the time or perhaps some directions, 'cause after all, they're human beings too, right? And we're paying their bloody wages too, right? And also, you never know, they might actually do something useful one day, like actually catch a real criminal? But these days quite honestly, I have to steel myself first if I see one. And if I see those next two militarised goons I'll keep a good distance...watch in horror and keep reminding myself that they're only made of flesh and blood like me. That in a combat situation of that calibre, I certainly wouldn't enter into it like that for fuck's sake, ridiculously advertising myself to all so boldly. That they're just fat yellow fairground ducks in a silly costume. And even the thickest skull won't stop a carefully aimed 9mm round.

Right looks like something out of Orwell's '1984' or 'Fahrenheit 451' doesn't it? No. That was a 2008 police raid on my old stomping ground of Finsbury Park where I lived when I was in the Clash. Blackstock Road. What did they uncover? A plot to overthrow the government? Someone building a bomb out of depleted Uranium? No, just a few stolen laptops and mobiles. A £10 draw. Not much to be sure but it sure is a great way to show the public who's BOSS don't you think? Notice the blue and yellow coloured helmets. Those are the colours of the E.U. communist flag. Coincidence?

NO, of course it fucking isn't.