Diary: March 2003

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Wednesday 19th March

   Thoroughly sickened by recent developments in the "war".

   The UK government's vote for war will not only reinforce the more dangerous beliefs of the US administration, eg. that it can act as it pleases with regard to those countries that do not meet its criteria (of submission to US will);  recent months have shown that  truly few indeed dare oppose the United States' massive economic, political and military power.   Tony Blair's determination to wage war on another country in a historically unprecedented act of arbitrary aggression is not simply betraying our previous commitment to international law and diplomatic process.

   By entering into a war that a majority of people in this country believe is premature and unnecesssary, the government destroys the remains of the illusion of democracy, that members of parliament actually represent the views of their constituents, or that anyone in power is capable of putting truth and justice before political expediency.   If this is the way of life that the US-led vigilantes are supposed to be protecting, I want no part of it, and I resent the implication that this terrible act is for the benefit of, or on behalf of, the British people. 

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