Waking up at war

Today 100 years have passed since the emperor of Austria declared war to Serbia starting the unimaginable mass murdering that is called the first World War. "Either man will abolish war or war will abolish man." The quote by Bertha von Suttner was quotet at the official opening of the 94th Salzburger Festspiele. The tidy speeches were rhetorically stirring but the level of analysis failed to touch the current complicity of the local elite in fueling armed conflicts all over the world. Austria is an arms exporting country. If you want to abolish war, stop selling bombs!

So when the historian Christopher Clark talks about how the outbrake of the first World War surprised everyone - when the Reuters news agency received the telegram "Sarajevo Ferdinand Assassiné" they interpreted it as a Grand Prix horse race result, the winning three horses named 1.Sarajevo 2.Ferdinand 3.Assassiné - the speech serves as chilly entertainment only reminding us that peace is never for granted.

Who really listens to what the historian has to say?

War is the absolute crime. I think it is possible to get rid of it one day. But isn't it necessary to abolish violence and crime at the roots? If we don´t solve smaller crime how will we solve the biggest crime of all?

Here is the scene of the burglary ↓. I am waiting for a call from the police.