"Why do they keep me suffering?"

A friend of the family, Léon Distexhe, is suffering terribly and is going to die very soon. A few days ago he asked my mother the following question:

"Why do they keep me suffering?"

I'm not going to answer you directly, Léon, but I'm going to answer on my blog (I'm quite sure no one in the family reads it so...).

They're keeping you suffering because of the fucking Judeo-Christian ethics.

They're keeping you suffering because of the "sanctity of life".

They're keeping you suffering because you're not the right kind of person. If you're a kid, they won't vaccinate you and can't wait for you to die of smallpox. If you're a destitute teenager, they can't wait to make you die in a war. If you're a murderer, they can't wait to fry you. They don't give a shit about those lives. They're expandable.

But you, Léon, your life is "sacred". Fucking shit! What the hell is sacred about life? People die like flies every day. If there was a "god", he sure wouldn't be lifting his little finger to stop it.

It's just a damn natural process. Childbirth is bloody and painful. Death is bloody and painful. Stop appropriating it, you stupid Christian fucks. The life of a mass of cells is "sacred". The life of a suffering, dying man is "sacred". Even the life of a dead woman is "sacred". What a travesty of compassion! What a fucking clown circus!

And they'll never give you actual drugs that would help relieve your suffering, because of the state and its dependence on drug illegality to maintain its power.

You're fucked, Léon, and it's not your fault. I'm sorry for you and everyone else that suffers in silence. All those that let this happen should be made accountable for their crimes. They should be made to pay. The only equality in our ruling class society is that they'll suffer and bleed, just like everyone else. It's fucking sad that we are only equal in pain. How fucking appropriate.