Robot Death By Laura A. Munteanu

A lot of the kids in this area wake up from sleeping because of nightmares from them and some now have mental problems. They turned our area into hell and continuous horror, day and night, we even dream of them in our sleep.” Mohammed Tuaiman (2002-2015), Yemeni Camel herder, killed alongside two others by the CIA who believed he and his companions were Al-Qaida terrorists. The drone which carried the missile that killed Mohammed cost $4.03 million dollars. The American Army and CIA declined to comment on whether their execution was justified by any evidence of wrong doing, usage of the word intelligence seems extremely inappropriate in this context.

 Following the leak of sensitive documents in 2008, of HSBC’s swiss tax avoidance arm, only one tax avoider has been prosecuted. Despite an estimated £20 billion pounds worth of lost taxation revenue waiting to be siezed. The coalition government instead, made the executive chairman of HSBC bank Minister of Trade, despite receiving details of 6000 individuals who had deliberately defrauded the British government from tax revenue it was entitled to collect, to pay for public service or reducing the nation’s deficit. Instead of request that the Governments friends bear some responsibility for the reduction of the nation’s deficit, the government made the chief architect of their tax avoidance strategy Minister for Trade whilst at the same time sanctioning over 2.25 million legitimate benefit claimants, who have had their benefits sanctioned since 2010. 

Austerity is a political process of social control and social engineering, facilitating an endless party for the top 1 %, and drudgery for the rest of us.Whilst the celebrity status afforded to eighty years old Charles Manson is distasteful, his planned nuptials to a woman, fifty years younger than him has recently been called off, owing to his learning of his bride’s intention of presenting his embalmed corpse in a glass coffin as a sideshow attraction to the feckless, decadent and morbid gawkers on the american freak show circuit. William Burroughs once wrote that one of the key indicators of the fatal death of a culture would be the televising of celebrity autopsies. Perhaps this notion of embalming a serial killer for show is a step into this very brink.

The embattled Lord Green, in defending his former employer’s tax evasion cited that “Compartmentalisation ... is a besetting sin of human beings.” What moral compartmentalisation can entitle the United States to assume the moral dignity to use its expensive robots to deliver illegal American justice around the world, when its people would be prepared to pay to see the embalmed corpse of a lunatic serial murderer. Meanwhile, David Cameron, Lord Green and Peter Stringfellow (the pornographer) auctioned a shopping trip to the anxious super rich with the Home Secretary, for some new shoes. The family of Mohammed Tuaiman meanwhile, have said, "Don’t blame us because we sympathise with al-Qaida, because they were the only people who showed their faces to us, the government ignored us, the US ignored us and didn’t compensate us. And we will go to court to prove this is wrong."