Thursday 30 October 2008

Who Killed Andreas Baader?

Thursday 22:20 p.m.
If you come to this bloggy for the buddhism, this might not be the post for you! The kiddo just phoned me up ... I told her at the start of the month I could take her to a movie. We saw an advert for Hunger, about Bobby Sands, and I said I'd like to see that because it has a one take of a 23 minute scene, and you don't get that in movies. That's more like theatre. So I said I would go.

Setting the scene. I've had three pints of home brew, but there is no soapbar. If it wasn't for the beer, maybe I wouldn't have been set off.

First of all, I'd like to say that I don't kill flies. I don't kill the wee mothie things that have started flying about this room. Politically, I'm a libertarian socialist, which I reckon these days means that I don't mind folk getting filthy rich if they can't help it, so long as most of the money goes back into the kitty when they snuff it ... this is because I met a millionaire once and he couldn't do anything else to validate his existence. Also, I think if I want to do drugs that's my business unless I become a disgrace and dependant on other folk, or the state. I would like bus journeys to be almost free and I think human beings are wonderful and you should just let them get on with it.

Having drunk some home brew, the kiddo's phone call made me remember the time I wanted to wear a tee shirt saying: WHO KILLED ANDREAS BAADER?

I don't care if he was an idiot or an arsehole. My deid brother told me about the trial concerning the cages in Inverness where Jimmy Boyle, etc., were kept in solitary for ages and ages and ages. I think Jimmy Boyle told me he'd done 18 months at a stretch in solitary once. Actually, he told me the only funger about doing solitary was when the prison officers appeared. I think one of them lost an eye in an attack. Anyway, they had a trial in Glasgow about this before the Special Unit was set up in Barlinnie.

In these cells, which were continually searched, I think almost on a daily basis, they found all kinds of thing for breakouts, etc., etc. My brother told me all the evidence was fabricated by the ... what are they called ... authorities.

Germaine, Jack. Germaine? Germane? Anyway,. that's not what it said in the papers. Nobody got that story.

Ulrike Meinhoff hanged herself in private and managed to have semen stains on her clothes, if I remember right.

According to Wikipedia, other of these revolutionaries decided to shooty shooty themselves after the failure of an aeroplane hijacking. To get them out. They, if I remember right, committed suicide by taking guns out of the walls of their cells. These guns had been hidden in the walls of their cells by sympathisers. This was a brand new set of cells which had been built specially by the authorities, but somehow the Baader Meinhof gang managed to infiltrate the brickies ... It is beyond belief! I do not do conspiracy theories. Buddhas don't commit suicide. Neither do revolutionaries, no matter how funged up they are.

The Special Unit was a wonderful idea. They had folk in jail and they didn't have the death sentence. So some of these folk were uncontrollable. Poking folk's eyes out, etc.

My deid brother ... Oh, how I miss the contrary basturn!.. told me about a conference/seminar he attended where they were asked about the problems with such special units and how they had to watch out for brickies hiding guns in the walls!

There's a guy dying at the moment in Greenock Prison who is supposed to have been responsible for the Lockerbie plane bombing. He's got as much chance of being involved in that as me and you, Jack.

Just remember they're all going to hell, Hotboy. They're all going to hell, Jack!

Today ... what a day! ... I've been asking the Medicine Buddha (who is moi!) to help me with not wanting to get books published ... since it is not equaniminous, and not to ever think of the word ... fl*theid. But it's a shame about the unfortunate, stupid basturns, so it is, Jack!

11 comments:

rob said...

Thanks for the vote of confidence, I've always known I am indeed wonderful, but it's nice to have it confirmed.

I've never met a sterling millionaire, what was he/she like?

One hopes the 23 minute scene isn't of a dirty protest. Mind you, it'd be cheap to film. I could help out.

Hotboy said...

Albert? The millionaire was a most interesting guy. Barely literate, ex-criminal, wheelchair bound when I met him. Yes, starving yourself is a form of suicide, I suppose, but it was politically useful. I think the long scene is before the protest and with a priest. I'll find out tomorrow! Hotboy

Anonymous said...

How can they be going to hell when we are already there?

Keep in mind history is written by the winners and news by the advertisers.

Happy Halloween!

Hotboy said...

Marie: It can always get much much worse. Hotboy

Hotboy said...

Marie: Do you really think this is some kind of hell? Since my position is that no position is believable, if I believed this life was hell, I would try to change that. It might seem like hell, or it might appear to be a hell, but nothing exists in the manner of its appearance. View and emotion. Can you change the view? Can you develope a different emotion? Do you do sitting down meditations? Is it possible to be happy in hell? Hotboy

Hotboy said...

Albert? What vote of confidence? Have you been putting beer in the beer? Hotboy

ion said...

You sound like some kinda conspiracy nut to me... Can you seriously imply that the apparatus of state need not serve the commonweal?

Hotboy said...

Ion: Sure, the apparatus of the state has to serve the common weal. It has definitely been a help to me. All the giros, etc. Also ... I haven't looked it up, but I assume the state will give me succour when I stop doing the jobbie. This is a compassionate, socialist world. If it isn't, I'll definitely kill myself before I agree to read any manuals, or believe in anything, or be a real man, or anything crap like that. Hotboy

Hotboy said...

Ion: Trials are fixed sometimes. When I was a kid, we were told British justice was the best in the world. The IRA trials (Birmingham 6, Guildford 4, etc.) put paid to all that crap for most people. Hotboy p.s. Be interesting to know how.

Anonymous said...

Actually I was being ironic. Life is just life. As to the reality of it, I know it is constantly changing.

Yes I can change my feelings and emotions. I am actually the only one who can. I decide if things carry emotional weight.

I do some sitting meditations, but am better at walking ones. Keeping the body distracted while I work on the mind.

It is possible to be happy in any and all situations. Being happy is a choice I make for myself. It depends on nothing but my willingness to decide to be so and my acceptance of the responsibility of my thoughts.

Hotboy said...

Marie-Rex: I know nothing about walking meditations. I've tried them at the train station on Fridays. Also, some say Tai Chi is a moving meditation. I can't get anywhere near the fantastical blissiness when I'm doing these things. But what do I know? Hotboy