Collateral Damage: Illustrations and essays about the state of the world in the new millennium.

By Redi 25

Collateral Damage
Illustrations and essays about
the state of the world in the new millennium.The new millennium started with so much promise, but over ten years have passed and what has changed?
With this in mind I have set out to write this book because I’d read and listened to what the government and free media had to say. I’d had discussions with various people and all I seemed to have was more questions about the state of world affairs.
This book does not have the answers if anything it merely raises more questions. That in essence is the purpose of the book, to get you the reader to ask questions. If it makes you upset, angry or you agree, then I have achieved my aim, which is to get more people to question, to ask questions of our government and all its policies. This in turn will hopefully make you more aware so that, when it comes to voting you make the right decision for yourself and your country.
But more importantly the aim is for you is to question what you, see, hear and read in the media. For only then will you be able to form an opinion and not blindly accept or blindly ignore.
Redi 25

• Language: English
• Publisher: Redi 25
• Release date: Aug 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476222929

Redi 25

Redi was born in the fertile lands of NZ and was violently uprooted and placed in the barren wastelands of OZ. He started drawing on everything as a child, from walls to oranges in the fruit bowl, eventually moving on to walls and train doors, as he got older. (Hey graffiti is a legitimate form of artistic expression). The more Redi saw the more he didn't like, so he became; "bitter & twisted, angry & jaded, hating everything & anti-something" He took to becoming an evil genius, locking himself away with just his desk and ink pens, with his trusty alien toy and warped imagination, eventually creating the comic books and characters you will come to know and love. And as Redi would say; "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke."

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Collateral Damage

Redi 25

Copyright Redi 25, 2012

Published by Bitter & Twisted Comics

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe I believe what I believe is right.

George W. Bush

The new millennium started with so much promise, but over ten years have passed and what has changed?

With this in mind I have set out to write this book because I’d read and listened to what the government and free media had to say. I’d had discussions with various people and all I seemed to have was more questions about the state of world affairs.

This book does not have the answers, if anything it merely raises more questions. That in essence is the purpose of the book, to get you the reader to ask questions. If it makes you upset, angry or you agree, then I have achieved my aim, which is to get more people to question, to ask questions of our government and all its policies. This in turn will hopefully make you more aware so that, when it comes to voting you make the right decision for yourself and your country.

But more importantly the aim for you is to question what you see, hear and read in the media. For only then will you be able to form an opinion and not blindly accept or blindly ignore.

I’m driven with a mission from God… then God would tell me George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq George W Bush June 2003 at a meeting with Palestinian Ministers. This comment had me flabbergasted. It is a well-documented fact that the most dangerous people on earth are those who believe that God is on their side, yet what makes this even more remarkable was that George W Bush was the leader of one of the most powerful nations on earth.

With this single sentence uttered by the President of the United States of America I no longer saw any difference between him and a fanatical ‘Terrorist’. After all the ‘Terrorists’ use religion to justify their cause. How can you possibly be wrong if you have God on your side?

Killing in the name of (insert who you worship here) is almost always used exclusively by people who feel that somehow what they are doing is right and those who think differently are not true believers. It is a way to ensure that you are telling everyone that God is behind you and with his help you will win.

I feel that I am missing something, it seems to be a paradox. On the one hand you have a God who preaches love and understanding of all creatures and then you have the President of the United States of America saying that God has told him to go and kill people.

My understanding of the basis of almost all religions is one of peace, love and understanding, so where did it all go so wrong? If this is the way that Christians are behaving it makes you not want to be one. By using God to justify a decision to invade a country, you become the very thing that you are fighting against, right?

How can a Christian no matter what adversity he faces turn to war as the answer. Jesus didn’t fight back when he was crucified, he placed his faith in God. For according to Christianity, it is Jesus who sits on the right hand side of God and comes to judge the living and the dead. Is it not up to a Christian to judge who or what is right or wrong?

So when did