Spider-webs have inspired prison designers for centuries.
Dear reader, another one from Frank.
In this edition Frank draws a a parallel between spiders, their intricate webs and the ensnaring effect of a system designed to process, and monetise, (for the army of white bureaucrats) indigenous children from birth. From this we learn two things. That the researchers in the US who trialled the experiments with drugs on real spiders had way too much time on their hands, and that caffeine seemed to produce the most deranged spider webs. However, (and this is the most salient point), it proves that organisms under the influence of drugs, (humans included) make GREAT ART!
We wonder should caffeine be banned? It would do wonders for the prison system. And for Melburnians in particular, it would accelerate the process of criminalisation of the citizenry. A boon for the private prisons, the construction industry, manufacturers of surveillance equipment and makers of smart uniforms. To suggest, (with a tinge of irony) that there might be humanity in in-humanity.
Frank writes:
Hola amigos,
One of the most powerful political weapons is the diversion. There have been many examples of this in Australian Politics which I won’t bore you with.
Our judges, drawn from the academies of visual arts voted Caffeine induced spider webbing as the winner.
Non ‘spidery’ prison designs are popular in both Australia and Uighurstan. The jury is out as to whether they will be as effective as “spidery prisons”.
Vic police trial ‘Spider-man’ type web emitter to capture a member of the public before paralysing the victim and using the inert body as a food source for the criminal justice system.
Last month the Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner called out U.S. Senator Ted Cruz who had made some ill-informed statements about the NT’s Covid-19 responses. Ultra conservative Senators don’t like to be told they got it wrong and emanating from Texas and spreading like a virus there has been a concerted cyber campaign demonizing the NT’s treatment of Aboriginal people in relation to Covid-19. Untrue allegations of forced vaccinations and military occupation and even deaths (so far, the NT has ‘dodged the bullet’ and hasn’t had a single Covid related death) have elicited much anger and empathy worldwide about this ‘dreadful inhumane’ treatment of Australia’s first peoples. There is even much being made of people “suffering” 40-degree heat in overcrowded houses. The overcrowding predates the pandemic and 40 degrees is normal this time of year.
The ADF (Australian Defence Forces) at the locked-in communities don’t carry weapons and are involved in transferring infected people to quarantine facilities and supplying food and other necessities to people isolated at home. They wear khaki camouflage gear which is much friendlier than the police in their Ninja black uniforms which also predate the pandemic.
I took a trip to Alice Springs yesterday. To return to Yuendumu I was required to be vaccinated (which I am) and to have a negative rapid antigen test within 72 hours of returning. At the walk-in testing site in Alice Springs, the painless test took all of 10 minutes. There was no need for the book I carried in, just in case (Ralph Fold’s ‘Crossed Purposes’). There were no roadblocks. I was told that because Alice Springs had no known cases of Covid-19 it had been decided to trust community residents to do the right thing.
Members of the ADF trial purpose-built spider web emitters on Afghani’s before distribution to NT and Victoria Police.
In relation to Child welfare and protection, the NT Government is developing an information sharing database dubbed “Care System”.
The fact that the NT Government allocated $64 million to develop the Care System, I think is somewhat ironic.
From My Yuendumu Story (page 30). “A complex web of laws and regulations and protocols is now used to ensnare Indigenous children, a web once caught in, it is very difficult to break free from”
This is how the authorities tout the system:
“ It will do this by ensuring agencies like Police, Territory Families, Housing and Communities, Health, Education and Attorney General have access to the same information through a single case file.
This “holistic view of the child” is expected to “increase opportunities for early intervention”, while improving interaction with non-government, private service providers.”
Nothing about the child and his/her extended family.
In other words, it will be even harder to break free from the web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9CTCs8_66U
The Right hand image, a spider’s web woven under the influence of marijuana. The spider wove the left hand web after the expenditure of $64 million.
Judges agree that LSD is ‘cosmic’ whilst caffeine demonstrates the ‘degenerate tendencies’ found in modern art.
There are many reasons to be concerned about the treatment of Australia’s First Peoples and their descendants, such as how the NT government deals with child protection and how the Federal Government is intent on further disempowering NT communities by the euphemistically named “Economic Empowerment” amendments to the NT Land Rights Act.
Anyway, time for a nice song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExIIeQtaWPA
Adios,
We, (the editor) wonder why alcohol was not trialled on spiders?
Frank