tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717049262192491343.post594117125797329973..comments2023-06-24T13:59:34.426+01:00Comments on Serenity Science: And the Camps are Far AwayPaul Schlosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199868818372352870noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717049262192491343.post-50171413651402388432010-05-04T23:51:50.474+01:002010-05-04T23:51:50.474+01:00You've made it quite clear that you intend to ...You've made it quite clear that you intend to vote Liberal Democrat. I rest my case, Mr Schloss.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717049262192491343.post-24756824326835303072010-04-26T11:47:10.963+01:002010-04-26T11:47:10.963+01:00Who is the poet, I wonder. A touch perhaps of the...Who is the poet, I wonder. A touch perhaps of the poète maudit?<br /><br />Pluvius, venting spleen on all enclaves,<br />Upsets his chamber-pot of lethal gloom<br />On leaden neighbours mouldering in their graves<br />And fog bound rhymers pacing in their rooms.<br /><br /> Spleen (Charles Baudelaire)<br /><br />Max Weber once defined the state as having a monopoly on violence. Only it has the right to legitimate force. Thus all states are police ones…. <br /><br />Of course, then the nuances begin: Britain around the time of the first policemen compared with the Russia of the mid 1980’s, with half the audience at a Pop Mechanics gig believed to be police informers? China in the Cultural Revolution, where the kids became coppers….<br /><br />Cloud-sovereign himself, the Poet seems<br />To rule the storm and taunt the crossbows’ strings, <br />But exiled on the earth in scornful times, <br />Can never walk for such outlandish wings.<br /><br /> The Albatross (Charles Baudelaire)Paul Schlosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13199868818372352870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717049262192491343.post-17311239134623926392010-04-22T23:02:42.157+01:002010-04-22T23:02:42.157+01:00Good grief Mr. Schloss. It's not as if we'...Good grief Mr. Schloss. It's not as if we're living in a surveillance state where taking pictures of public buildings can attract the attentions of the security forces. I mean, you'd expect to be thrown out of a Politburo conference for shouting "rubbish" under anti-terrorist laws, but surely you're not saying that would ever happen over here? The British people would never accept detention in police custody for 28 days without charge now, would they? Those are the actions of a police state, and I put it to you sir, that you are the typical example of a paranoid poet. It seems that they had quite enough of your type in the old Soviet Union.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com