Verifiable Destruction

As baby Jesus awakes to day one on earth apparently the Dickileaks episode has been put to sleep with some good old court ordered mediation and digital destruction. However, how confident can one be that this is the last we shall have to see of naked footballers or, for that matter, irate seventeen year old electronic media tycoons? Learning from the pages of history this is probably only the beginning. I must confess that in those heady days of 1991 as US military supremacy demonstrably was unquestionable I also thought that the end of the first Gulf War spelt a new world order. However, at the time I was too young to understand the concept of verifiable destruction. Oh, how the intervening years have explained it all.

Though history may be a guide (perhaps) it is no rule book. Now the wise men of the AFL are unlikely to feel joy in their hearts on this bright Christmas morn, for they know the challenge that lies ahead. The grim realty of years of sanctions, inspections, new security council resolutions, all in an effort to contain the threat of digital representations of the phallus in the hands of young irresponsible females! Worse still is the persistent threat that such rogue harlots may in fact be sharing such material with other disreputable teeners with the aim of further attacks on the AFL and its interests. An axis of hysterical teener harpies lurking in the shadows capable of launching devastating attacks utilising the AFL’s own penises against them could be forming as you read.

It has to be considered a touch more than ironic that this history repeats itself in such a farcical manner. Not only do we see the scorned partner remerge as the potent though peripheral threat to organizational interest in both the Gulf War and the Dickileaks emergency but more comical still the weapons of concern were in both cases supplied in more friendly times. However, on a note of interesting divergence it is significant that history has marched to the extent that in this digital era any hack can act like a tin pot dictator if they can get there hands on some pilfered data and can find an organisation willing to dance the jig with them. Perhaps more than anything else the deluded notion of trying to delete the digital (who knows and who can possibly know where data goes or does not go) shows that the powers that be are slipping...

the Colonial