to remember is to end all war

So the curtain fell, over that
tortured country of unmarked
graves and unburied fragments of
men: Murder and massacre: The
innocent slaughtered for the
guilty: The poor man for the
sake of the rich: The man of no
authority made the victim of the
man who had gathered importance
and wished to keep it.

—David Starret, 9th Royal Irish
Rifles, Irish Peace Park, Messines

painted, repainted, unpainted

the down escalator november

last four feet

six foot paintings

number 1 and number 2

the rule of lawlessness

happy halloween. scary times indeed. omar khadr killed an american soldier on a battlefield where neither of them should have been. that's what he says -- under torture and otherwise. if that's true, then that's war -- it's a crime. and bush and blair and obama (not to mention cheerleaders -- and very likely much worse -- harper, mckay, ignatieff and co.), the crime bosses: when do they face arrest and trial? the hypocrisy is breathtaking, a new normal for the natoland torture state consensus. same as it's been all the empire long. but can any system withstand such delusional disconnection from reality, such complete moral rot? i think not. the future is medieval -- if we're lucky, that is.

october

first
second
and third