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Ding Dong: Democracys dead (musically at least)

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You may excuse my adventure into the realms of hyperbole here. However, we have venturedinto extremely dangerous territory as a nation and this is all over the death of a conservativeextremist and all round nasty excuse for a person and the musical choices made by the majority.

There are many sad aspects that have surrounded the death of Margaret Thatcher. Her death hasbrought home many realities and truths and illuminated even more of our failures as a nation. Theinitial nauseating tributes led by the right wing press subsided quickly as they turned theirmisguided indignations on new enemies. They managed to seem genuinely surprised that thedeath of the most divisive Prime Minister ever inflicted on our country caused a celebratoryreaction from those with half a brain. Its like they wanted us all to act like politicians and remainpragmatic and offer reactions based on the only possible positive things that could be said. I was

even amused by some of these. Really, what truths can be said about that woman that would notbe considered insulting by the Daily Fail and there cohorts in conservative rhetoric? She had legs?

The people spoke. Thatcher always maintained she was not only an advocate for free speech butshe was its biggest supporter. She was, unbelievably, elected democratically into power by apeople she systematically exploited and ruined at every opportunity. Our first female PrimeMinister should have been as historically important to feminism as Barack Obama is to equalityand the civil rights movement. Did she embrace this responsibility? No. Instead she outwardlydespised feminism and populated her cabinet exclusively with males to maintain her solitary,strong female fantasy. Imagine President Obama sacking all the black people from hisadministration and denouncing the work of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
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And what did the people say? The country that woman formerly governed chose to display theiropinion by taking to the Internet and partaking in the most modern of anti-establishment protests.Downloads for the song Ding Dong The Witch is Dead from The Wizard of Oz skyrocketed in thewake of her death and, however funny and telling this is, may have almost taken the spotlightaway from things that we should be concentrating on.

This was until the song became so popular that it made its way into the charts. The BBC have beenleft with the decision as to whether to play the song at all as its supposedly in bad taste. Theyhave been bullied by our Tory Government into only playing a five second clip married with anexplanation for its presence. The big issue is, the people decide the charts and the positioning ofsongs DEMOCRATICALLY. It is not up to the indignant to say that the people are wrong basedon their reasons for buying the song or display offence at popular opinion. In a weird twist of fate,this kind of control over the arts is a true reflection of the exact kind of neo-conservativepropaganda that Thatcher used to further her own Tory fantasies.

The BBC has failed here and really, even the most ardent Tory would have to agree that the people

are being censored. Remember, that this is a corporation funded by the people. Censorship isdangerous ground for any Government of a supposedly free country to tread and considering theevil imposed by that woman, evil that were still recovering from, she got off lightly. Personally, Ithink a more fitting musical tribute would have been Queens of the Stone Ages Burn the Witch. Atleast that one implies conviction in an action as opposed to celebration.

Much has been said of the celebratory nature of the far lefts reaction to her death. Strangely theseare the same people who think its ok to celebrate the death of Guy Fawkes. Was he not also anadvocate for freedom from tyranny? An equal amount has been said of the tragedy of her death.

The real tragedy is not that she died, people die every day and a lot of them werent milk-stealingvillains, the real tragedy is that she was ever alive in the fucking first place.

Phil Watson

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Gav Williams says:

April 13, 2013 at 12:00 am (Edit)I wonder what a vote on if it should be played would turn out like

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