Fighting for Justice in Chatham and Strood
Ban the Mind Reader was a piece of graffiti that appeared on the walls and railway arches of the Medway towns in the 1960s. It appeared overnight and in many locations. Hand painted and in big white letters. The message was paranoid and mysterious. It stunk of conspiracy.
In full it reads:
"BAN THE MIND READER... THE MURDERING COMPUTER... IT HAS CAUSED A NUMBER OF FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS... IT MAKES THE CRIMINALS... IT CAUSES SICKNESS, BENDS AND VOMITING ... "
When first it appeared most people were bemused. They said it was the work of a paranoid loony. I thought it was the work of a genius. And I was not alone. Others too wondered about the mysterious graffiti. Billy Childish and Lupen Crook have both made reference to it. Sexton Ming named his band after it. And Tracie Jenkins, the Strood poet, composed and recited her famous poem, 'Banneth Thy Self O Mind Reader', on Broom Hill near the Dead Orchard, because she was so inspired by it.
But can such an important message be left to the mercies of Medway's poets, painters and troubadours, who extract only the mystique and poetry, but ignore the central tenant.
What care they that the Mind Reader is a menace and that it has to be stopped!
No! I will not allow the Nancy-boy poets to do their worse!
The warning will be heeded. The Mind Reader will be banned! Fires and explosions will be curbed! Sickness and Vomiting will stop! The criminals will be made no more!
This website is dedicated to those who support such a ban. To those who want to know more about the murdering computer and the conspiracies that blight the lives of the hard working men and women of this world over.
Oh yes... We know all about the other conspiracies. Don't think we were fooled by the red-herrings of aliens, crop circles and the war on terror. We are not blinded to the real conspiracies that they detract from. For example:
We know that the economy is run exclusivity for the rich. That if a thing is good for the economy then it is good for the rich: if a thing is bad for the economy, it is bad for the rich.
We know that the ban on smoking, and the attacks on drinking, are not done for any so called health reasons, but to crush free-thinking and to put and end to Trans-Dimensional- Universal-Mind-transfer.
We know that doctors want to - are going to - rule the world.
We know all about the aspiration dispersal field and the experiments carried out in Skelmersdale in the 1970s.
We know about the hum.
We know about all your filthy conspiracies...
This website will explore all existing theories. We will fabricate new ones. We will shamelessly bend the facts to fit the answers we like. We will not listen to reason.
But we are more than just a conspiracy theory website. We have distinct policies and are staunch supporters of the Black Star Revolution.
We defend Chatham and Strood, though Strood more than Chatham, and call a pox on all the twee towns of the home counties and Cheshire.
We support the affairs of Little Egypt.
Grit makes the pearl.
Strood, Chatham and Hastings ... they are all towns of the Black Star revolution.
Work, not capitalistic financial Ponzi schemes.
Ban the Mind Reader.
The Murdering Computer.
It has caused a number of fires and explosions.
It makes the criminals.
It causes sickness, bends and vomiting.
To find out more about the Mind Reader graffiti, just follow the link.
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