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Dear war makers and war takers,<\/span><\/p>\n twitchy button pushers and mushroom cloud worshippers,<\/span> unplug your internet and take a breather.<\/span> Now go and have a fucking cup of tea and do a crossword.<\/span><\/p>\n Do something lovely and ordinary with your time.<\/span><\/p>\n Bake a fucking cake or something.<\/span> With Kindest Regards,<\/span> Dear war makers and war takers, twitchy button pushers and mushroom cloud worshippers,bomb botherers and gun polishers,chemical weapon wielders and coup-cooers,battle cry criers and army gatherers,bullet loaders…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":11831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[1709,1710],"class_list":["post-11833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-letter","tag-warmongers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
bomb botherers and gun polishers,<\/span>
chemical weapon wielders and coup-cooers,<\/span>
battle cry criers and army gatherers,<\/span>
bullet loaders and knife sharpeners,<\/span>
death collators, chief whips and spins and<\/span>
dear kings and dear lords and dear right honourables.<\/span>
To all the dear Mr Presidents and dear Mr Prime Ministers –<\/span>
Thank you for taking some time to read this letter.<\/span>
I am writing to make a small request –<\/span>
Go to the park, feed the ducks, read a book.<\/span>
Take a break and put down your war-stirring spoons.<\/span>
Quit being so trigger-happy.<\/span>
Give your eye-for-an-eye campaign a rest.<\/span>
Just take some time out –<\/span>
do your laundry, water your plants, visit your mother,<\/span>
pull a sickie, have a duvet day, watch a whole season of <\/span>
but just stop.<\/span>
,<\/span><\/p>\n
Stop winding each other up. I don’t care who started this trouble.<\/span>
You’re all as bad as each other. I want to send you to your rooms<\/span>
to do your homework –<\/span>
you all need to read the history books<\/span>
and refresh your geography.<\/span>
So here’s the thing:<\/span>
If you could just stop making bombs. And you, if you could stop<\/span>
pretending you haven’t sold any bombs. And then if you could stop<\/span>
pretending you haven’t bought any bombs. And then you, if you could<\/span>
stop threatening to bomb people that would be brilliant. Yeah. If you<\/span>
could all stop threatening us with all your bombs that you haven’t built or<\/span>
simplify things: if you could stop making bombs and you stop selling<\/span>
bombs and if you could stop bombing people and if you could all stop<\/span>
threatening us all with bombs all the fucking time that would be brilliant.<\/span>
One more time, let me put it another way: if you could stop making<\/span>
bombs and you stop selling bombs to the other side when you are<\/span>
meant to be on the other side, and if you could stop accusing the<\/span>
other one of having the bombs, whilst procuring the production<\/span>
of more bombs, which you know the latter has because you have<\/span>
the receipts because it was you who fucking ordered them in to <\/span>
be great.<\/span><\/p>\n
Since you have all this surplus energy and money<\/span>
for bombs and war planes,<\/span>
go and build a school or a hospital or save the rainforests<\/span>
or something useful.<\/span>
Put all that war chest money into grants towards that cure for cancer.<\/span>
Save a soldier, save some money, send him home.<\/span>
There is not one person I know wants to see another<\/span>
human being killed.<\/span>
I certainly don’t want anyone shot or blown up, how ludicrous.<\/span>
And you always end up bombing schools and hospitals and<\/span>
killing children and women, because your aim is crap.<\/span>
At least we are all to believe that it’s because your aim is crap.<\/span>
Seriously, I think I can safely say<\/span>
It was vibrating with all the chest beating.<\/span>
Stop with the King Kong method.<\/span>
What is it with all the killy-killy-bomb talk?<\/span>
Are you all drunk or something?<\/span>
Has your summer of *HW\/XFN\\ gone a bit sour?<\/span>
Stay up all night to get killy…<\/span>
Stay up all night to get bomby…<\/span>
Obama, Cameron, Putin, Bashar, Letta,<\/span>
whips and spins and government war stirrers,<\/span>
every one of you in every war bunker,<\/span>
yes, you and you, all of you,<\/span>
all of you, go to your rooms.<\/span>
I think you need to go take a nap.<\/span>
Start a war? Seriously? You are going to start a war?<\/span>
Start a war? START A WAR? Bomb people?<\/span>
Yep. That’s your solution, is it?<\/span>
You bag of hopeless dicks.<\/span><\/p>\n
pretty much everyone.<\/span>
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