We know who they are and who protects them. We will not be silenced!
Account disabled by Meta.
Got an email from Meta telling me my Facebook account has been permanently disabled. Screen cap below.
Okay, Meta, and who gives a fuck anyway? But here’s what happened because it’s in the public interest to know.
I created a Facebook account so that I could access the Palestinian Action Group Sydney Facebook page and know when the next demo might be. I did not include any personal information, photos, or anything else—just a page with my name at the top. There was space for a picture on the front page, so I uploaded an AI-generated picture of a samurai on the attack. So, just my name, no info, and a picture of a samurai. Below is the picture I uploaded.
I then went and found the Palestinian Action Sydney Facebook page, and within seconds received a message telling me my activity/page did not meet ‘community standards’ and my account was disabled.
So what could have caused Meta to freak out? I have thoughts on this, but I will let people arrive at their own conclusions. I will, nevertheless, point to a few things that might have caused this disabling.
First, I have a long history of involvement in environmental, social justice, and anti-war activism. I’ve uploaded pictures of demos including the many I was involved in, and in particular those in support of the Palestinians. These tech companies record everything they can get their grubby hands on. Everyone must be aware of this.
Second, the picture. A warrior on the attack in a devastated environment. That’s what it denotes, and it could be Gaza, but what it says is that true warriors do not surrender, even when all appears lost. Reminds me of a line in a film about Winston Churchill: “Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.”
Thirdly. I went straight to the Palestinian Action Sydney page. Add it up: the Meta algorithms detected a threat to what they are programmed to protect. That being child murderers.
Actually, Meta, I take your disabling as a compliment. It means I am unlike you in that I can’t be bought, can’t be corrupted, and know right from wrong, good from evil. I will stand by the side of a child who is killed, arrested in the dead of night, tortured, sexually abused, denied justice, left to live with missing limbs, a child who for the rest of its life will struggle with the long-term mental health effects of severe childhood trauma. What’s your game? Money regardless of the cost to children, babies, their communities?
A few more added to ‘thoughts.’
I knew there were more hiding on my HD. Added the latest found to ‘thoughts.’ LOL, rereading a few, I found I had to go back and forth a few times to understand myself. Maybe it’s the drugs.
Currently going line by line over a book I wrote last year. So sick of it; there’s always a comma that could, maybe, be in the wrong place. Looking forward to getting started on the next book.
Five year plan.
Time to do the communist central committee thing and come up with a five-year plan. Getting old, you realise life is running out, and careful thought is needed when planning what you would like to do with whatever years you have left.
My starting point is assessing where I am, what I would like to achieve, and what means do I have to achieve goals in the time available. My situation is not good, but I tell myself it could be a lot worse. I have greater freedom than many, no armed drones chasing the grand kids, and don’t expect to die of starvation. The question becomes: what can I leave behind when my time comes? What do I have that could be useful to others? In my case, and this would be the case for many older people, what I have is life experience. I’ve had an interesting life, and have confronted and overcome situations others could be facing and be unsure whether it is even possible to survive. The rate of male suicide is a national disgrace made worse by the fact there is little evidence the government is at all interested in doing anything about it. This is important to me as I’ve lost count of the number of times I came dangerously close.
My starting point is assessing where I am, what I would like to achieve, and what means do I have to achieve goals in the time available. My situation is not good, but I tell myself it could be a lot worse. I have greater freedom than many, no armed drones chasing the grand kids, and don’t expect to die of starvation. The question becomes: what can I leave behind when my time comes? What do I have that could be useful to others? In my case, and this would be the case for many older people, what I have is life experience. I’ve had an interesting life, and have confronted and overcome situations others could be facing and be unsure whether it is even possible to survive. The rate of male suicide is a national disgrace made worse by the fact there is little evidence the government is at all interested in doing anything about it. This is important to me as I’ve lost count of the number of times I came dangerously close.
I don’t have wealth, but running a program for at-risk and homeless youth, my service had a sixty-three per cent positive outcome rate. Official federal government figures. Why? I think it’s obvious because as a teenager I had been homeless, and very much ‘at risk.’ I would have died fifty-four years ago were it not for a man out looking for a boy. There’s one piece of work just there, what I know about waking up shivering in a doorway when you expected that to happen in a warm bedroom.
Today I was drawing up a list of books I could write. A family member said I should write one on philosophy, and I laughed and replied I’m not smart enough. Maybe the truth is I couldn’t be bothered, as it would be a lot of work. But does it need to be? I would not be writing as others would, using big words and name-dropping other thinkers, effectively building an academic text to impress other academics. I came up with five books. Target would be one a year, so five years.
Also. I added another little essay I found hiding on my Hard Drive. It’s called ‘The Street Boy and the Mirror of Negation” and is a version of “Thomas and the Mirror of Negation.” I can’t remember which came first, but it’s different enough to be posted as well.
Added a ‘Thoughts’ page.
Cleaning up my hard drive I found a few texts I’d written and thought I may as well post them. For sure I’ll find more. Link on the main page top menu.
Jesus and the rent boy.
Mark 14: 51- 52
51. A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, 52. he fled naked, leaving his garment behind.
The young man in Mark’s arrest scene feels, to me, like more than a passing extra: he is anonymous, half-clothed, seized, I assume he was raped, and left exposed, which makes him read like someone already living under shame and dispossession. I believe he was a rent boy, which would make this detail land with even greater force, because it becomes a moment of recognition — a life of being used, stripped of humanity, and then suddenly confronted by the possibility that he is not an object at all, but a sacred person. In that light, his flight into the night is not just panic, but more the collapse of a false identity, and Christ’s own refusal to flee becomes the deeper counterpoint: selflessness, suffering, and resurrection opening a space where the forgotten can be seen and restored.
I link this story to Miyamoto Musashi’s statement that we must sometimes descend into confusion to discover the way to enlightenment. The shock of realisation sent the young man fleeing into the night. The outcome might have been enlightenment, I think it had to be, and the young man became the anonymous patron saint of all those reduced to being a piece of meat for hire.
A need for unity.
Antonio Guterres, at a previous COP talkfest, said that in tackling climate change, humanity must unite, and if not, we perish. David Attenborough said the battlefield in the push for meaningful action is in communications.
Both are correct: without unity, we will not be able to address the climate problem, and with communications near-exclusively controlled by capital and government, we are going into battle with our feet tied together.
Looking around the world today, most of what we see points to increasing division, creating ever more distractions from the primary threat confronting life on planet Earth. News is dominated by stories and debates that will not matter one iota in today’s children’s adult lives. Opposing genocide is a must because unity cannot exist in a world where international humanitarian law has ceased to exist. If genocide is committed unopposed, then beyond the immediate injustice and suffering inflicted on the innocent, it will become an acceptable solution to the highly possible waves of climate refugees escaping regions that, without action on climate, will become functionally uninhabitable.
Earlier today, I listened to someone debunking the Noah’s Ark story, and Oscar Wilde saying that there are no bad books, but only bad readers, came to mind. It is a teaching story, and a very simple one that warns us that a civilisation can drown in its own evil. The Ark is a belief system that holds all life sacred. Climate change, nuclear weapons stacked to the rafters, and the unforgiving waters are rising.
An archive of atrocities committed by the Israeli military.
Visit and share this as widely as you can. Link below. Thousands of videos documenting Israeli crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The video below is an example of how thankfully the world is increasingly reacting to genocide. Worth watching.
Peacefully protesting against this genocide can result in arrest and grievous bodily harm.
Here’s another example of brave IDF ‘soldiers’ in action.
Never will we forget the Palestinians.
What we are witnessing in the Middle East and elsewhere in this lunatic asylum, combined with the criminal obstruction to action on climate change, makes me want to check out, and just go sailing whilst it is still possible. And I will do that, long-distance sailing, but unlike our glorious leaders I simply can’t look away from these horrors. It must be a precondition for political leadership that human decency be left outside the doors of parliament.
The world we live in… Western government enabled genocide.
Just one example out of possible thousands. With few exceptions western governments have gone out of their way to enabIe Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people. A genocide that will never be forgotten.