Everything is backwards; everything is upside down....

By Keith Mann

7/8/09

“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality” --Michael Ellner

Since I overcame the cloudy negative restraints imposed on me during my formative years of state sponsored schooling and instead learnt to prioritise life on this planet and to think for myself I have become exposed to an extraordinarily different picture to the official one. Fractions, logarithms, official history and religion were one thing but the world outside the rigid curriculum is quite something else. Relevant in fact!

The gross use of other animals to satisfy ours desires is a big part of the problem we face on this planet and addressing this is an essential ingredient in the healing process but that’s not quite enough. Our world is governed by ruthless, heartless monsters who lack all empathy and compassion and whose goal is absolute power and control over all life on this Earth. No they don’t have enough just yet.

I found my feet sabotaging hunting events and sneaking into farms and laboratories to expose the horrors they hide. I have personally experienced the incomprehensible force directed at people who want to save animals from their short, tortuous existence and see the increase in this anger as more of us seek to bring change. It’s clear there is a concerted drive by those who control human society to slow down the inevitable climb into a higher level of consciousness and compassion.

Their attempts to slow me down as I’ve sought to adjust the direction of our world have included prison sentences totalling seven and a half years, endless raids on my homes and those of close friends and cowardly low level intimidation. Most recently they arrived mob handed from a Hampshire Police HQ in search of half a dozen battery hens they thought I had rescued from waste pits below battery cages they’d escaped from. These wretched creatures would have died a slow death in dark stinking sheds but the enforcers of this retarded structure they call an advanced society came not to complement me on my ingenuity or compassion rather to take my computers and phone books and Why Vegan leaflets and sneer about tasty chicken nuggets and make threats. They never did find the fugitives.

It’s this incompatible human behaviour that motivates me. I want to live somewhere that people are nurtured to be nice. So, here goes today’s attempt to partake information that may assist me in that goal. This site is here to share news and information that I believe people should know. Knowledge is power which is precisely why so much of it is hidden from us. We know so little of the reality of life around us that its mind boggling for many people to accept the real version of events or even a sniff of them. Thinking for oneself removes the comfort zone we have had created for us. That’s one very positive thing to do for those whose suffering we hide ourselves from, the farm animals are a classic example of this, because our complicity through inaction leads to an endless stream of distress, discomfort and death as these animals are churned out for human consumption. It becomes less and less of an option to ignore this situation the more you realise the awesome connotations of this which are looming large for every human being on this planet.

Anyone who is serious about changing things while believing the traditional methods of bringing that change are sufficient will I hope have a look at some of the evidence that exists that indicates quite clearly that most of what we call the real world is in fact an illusion. A web of deceit and omission designed to keep us hidden from the true nature of what we are and are capable of being. Today is the day to take one step back, have a look at what we haven’t been told and look again at the way forward. You and those you love depend on you. Your life is in the hands of very twisted controllers and if you look around the world you can see they don’t care for the misery and destruction they’ve wrought. You’d be forgiven for thinking that they thrive on it and that’s a very real probability.

While in prison I begun to pen a voluminous collection of stories interlinking the history of the Animal Liberation Movement and the pivotal role of the Animal Liberation Front. This was a mammoth task and so long overdue and it took me 15 years to complete. The response since release has been truly overwhelming. I wrote a good book that tells a fascinating story of an ideal that is leading the way to a more inclusive, loving society.

Keith Mann is a long-time animal liberation activist and author of From Dusk 'til Dawn. Visit his My Space page at http://www.myspace.com/keiththemann.

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