After such an extended break from blogging, you will be deeply disappointed that I restart with something as mundane and trivial as Jeremy Clarkson. I have defended the man in the past, because I much enjoy Top Gear and consider that much of what he has been criticised for in the past had been an amusing winding-up of the po-faced of the kind I employ myself. But nasty, indeed vicious bullying of a subordinate should always be a sacking offence.
That did not ought to be the question, though. He hit someone and they had to go to hospital. Where are the police? They are incredibly fond of sweeping up scores of teenagers for thought crime, but here we have an actual violent assault that spills blood, and it seems completely out of the question the perpetrator is brought to account. Why is that? I had a personal experience a couple of years ago when I was very mildly hurt – less than young Oisin – in an assault, and the police insisted on arresting the perpetrator despite my repeated requests to them not to do so. They told me rather firmly that the idea that it is the victim who has a say in pressing charges, is a myth. Why was Clarkson not arrested?
I cannot in my mind dissociate this from the non-arrest of Jimmy Savile for his crimes, despite their being well-known and reported at the time. That seems to link in to the wider paedophilia scandal, and the question of why no action was taken even in the most blatant of cases when there was compelling evidence, such as that of the extremely nasty Greville Janner MP.
But then I think still more widely as to why, for example, Jack Straw has not been charged with the crime of misfeasance in public office after boasting of using his position to obtain “under the radar” changes in regulations to benefit commercial clients, in exchange for cash. I wonder why a large number of people did not go to jail for the HSBC tax avoidance schemes or the LIBOR rigging scandal, which involved long term dishonest manipulation by hundreds of very highly paid bankers.
At the top of the tree is of course the question of why Blair has not been charged for the crime of waging illegal war. The Chilcot Inquiry heard evidence that every single one of the FCO’s elite team of Legal Advisers believed that the invasion of Iraq was an illegal war of aggression. Yet now the media disparage as nutters those who say Blair should be charged.
Then I think of all the poor and desperate people who get jailed for stealing comparatively miniscule amounts in benefit fraud, or the boy who was jailed for stealing a bottle of water in the London riots.
The conclusion is that we do not have a system of justice in this country at all. We have a system where the wealthy and governing classes and those associated with them enjoy almost absolute impunity, broken in only the rarest of cases. At the same time those at the bottom of the pile are kicked hard to keep them there. There is no more chance of justice against those in power in the UK than there is of the killers of Nemtsov being brought to book in Russia.
But what has really scared me is this thought. This situation has been like this my entire life: and I have reached the age of 56 before I realised it. A very great many people have still not realised it at all.
What does not scare me is this. I realise that if the system of justice is completely corrupted, then there is no obligation on me to follow the laws of the state. In fact it would be wrong of me to do so. I must seek my ethical compass elsewhere than in the corrupt power structure which weighs so hard upon the people.
“I am, by the way, fwiw, supporting anti-war voices in Russia.”
No point having them in Russia. They’re the ones on the defensive.
You need them in the Anglo and European world.
Interesting diversion, though.
Soros funded, I suppose.
Technicolour
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/03/impunity/comment-page-3/#comment-514776
and
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/03/impunity/comment-page-3/#comment-514796
Herbie, just because one is doesn’t mean the other isn’t. This is not a binary, yes-no situation.
Yes, you’ve stated the official public position of the Russian state. This does not prove that the Russian state isn’t being expansionist. Or have yo never heard of governments using half-truths to their advantage before?
Yeah. What exactly is the organised anti’war trope in the U.?
I suspect support for sanctions, as s it were.
“What do *you* think, Herbie?”
I agree with the Russian, Chinese, other Asian, South American and African positions.
What do *you* think, Tech?
Herbie, I agree that the Neocons went on the offensive.
But Russia could be on the offensive, too.
I think all this is being drummed up by financial and geo-political power interests on both continents, who would find any other interpretation most amusing.
“Just stop to think about the improbability for a minute, Clark. ”
The distance of the moon from the earth is not fixed. A million years ago it was quite a bit closer and looked bigger. A million years from now it will be quite a lot further away and look smaller. At some point in time it had to look about the same size.
Nice segue to safe harbor tech. ‘Parry, lunge and then retreat’
What? You mean you don’t think this is being drummed up by financial and geo-political power interests on both continents? Well, well, tell me, what do you think this is ‘about’? The American people’s random desire to bomb the shit out of Russia, rather than lead productive and peaceful lives? Or vice versa? Do say.
Technicolour, if those links are not satisfactory, here is an appeal from a man in Novorossiya who has good reason for his people to seek protection from Russia against the fascists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-tnfJD-Gc0
You are clever in your duplicity but you do not persuade Techno.
John Goss, do you think that there is any possibility that the Russian state is on the offensive, ass well as the new Kiev government?
Ben, Tech’s not duplicitous. Tech is as far from a neocon as you can get. I’ve worked with Tech.
Clark
Russia is expanding economically, finding new markets and so on. There’s a whole new emergent world out there making its own independent decisions, creating its own networks, independent of Western control.
It’s that which Western elites are concerned about. They’ve been used to taking a cut.
Remember, The Congo?
So, they’re threatening Russia thru NATO and financially thru the banking system, because with Russia subdued NATO has full spectrum dominance.
And, full spectrum dominance ain’t good for the peeps.
Ben, I took this at Dale Farm when Basildon council were evicting the travellers:
http://www.killick1.plus.com/pictures/dale-farm.jpg
We were both there; me and Tech. We were legal observers, documenting the stories of the travellers. And the story in the mass-media never told the half of it. The council was bent as fuck. Some of the travellers lost out, for sure, but the huge bill was the High Court’s punishment of Basildon council for knowingly bringing a frivolous case.
Herbie, you’re back to that binary argument. So do you think that there is any possibility that the Russian state is on the offensive, as well as the Western elites?
Technicolour : “Ow ow ow – no, can’t understand it, curses. Thanks for trying…”
It’s really quite simple. At different points in its orbit around the Earth, the angle of the moon’s disc relative to the Earth varies. When the moon is on the far side of the Earth from the sun, the combined gravity attracts the entire rim equally and so the disc presents itself to the Earth flat on, thus a full moon. When the moon is directly between the Earth and the sun, the conflicting gravities pull it in both directions at once, causing the disc to turn edge on and disappear from our skies. When the moon is to either side of the Earth, gravity acts laterally to pull on one edge only, causing the disc to curl into the familiar shape we call a crescent moon.
Clark
I see.
Your argument is that they’re both on the offensive?
Very good.
How does that work?
Ben, the mass-media announced an eleven million pound bill for “returning the site to Green Belt status”. The real story was rather more complicated.
Some travellers owned the land; a green-field site. Basildon council wanted to dispose of waste rubble and the travellers wanted hardcore to make hard standing for their mobile homes. It costs money to get rid of rubble but the travellers agreed to take it for under the going rate if the council would let them lay it down to make hard standing. But actually the council’s permission wasn’t legal to give; the land was in the Green Belt which was illegal to develop. Basildon planning department turned a blind eye to save the council money.
Well over the course of years more and more rubble arrived and the travellers extended the hard standing, moved more mobile homes in and made walls between each other’s plots. But when Basildon council changed their minds and started wanting to evict the travellers they went to the courts and tried to blame the travellers for concreting a Green Belt site. The case eventually reached the High Court, which was obliged by national law to rule that the land had to be returned to Green Belt status. But the land belonged to the travellers and they had every right to live there.
The High Court’s judgement? Basildon council were ordered to remove the rubble, originally their rubble, to whatever depth they found it down to six metres, dispose of it properly like they should have done in the first place and replace it with topsoil. BUT they were further ordered that they were not permitted to disturb any of the walls that the travellers had put up. Me and Tech saw this being done; deep, narrow excavated pits with incredibly thin divisions between, a piece of wall perched atop of each one, being dug out with mechanical diggers mostly but finished off by hand with spades where necessary. It was this operation that cost Basildon council eleven million quid.
Herbie, I’m really asking about the possibility.
But it would “work” much as we’re seeing – some of Ukraine ends up in the Western sphere, some in the Russian. A load of extremists on each side do the fighting along with some more regular forces, and a load of civilians end up dead and maimed with their homes, towns and livelihoods in ruins.
I’m really sick of reading that “Russia’s the victim!”
Russia is a nuclear armed state FFS.
By any sane evaluation of the facts, Ukraine is the “victim” state.
The real victims are the people, as ever, as always.
Re the Moons Distance. it has been getting further away, by about 3.5 cm per year
Humans are Quite the fortunate one’s to be able to marvel and study the Solar eclipse…since in times of dinosaurs the moon would have been just a bit too large, and in the far future say 500 million years, the moon will be too far away to cause the Eclipse’s we see Nowabouts.
Niel, Nevermind,… Thanks for Kind words Re the Baby, he’s been doing well.. Cheers.
I don’t know if I am allowed to post round here any more..
Maybe I offended someone..
Whatever..
What else can I do..if I lose My Girl The Love of My Life..this is always a risk..it seems we have been together forever..almost all our lives..but we have got to be realistic about these things..lets face it..it is incredibly unlikely that we both die at the same time (though possible) if she drops dead before me..what am I going to do..and if I drop dead before she does what is she going to do without me?
Its important to think about these..things…I just want her to have a beautiful life to the end of time cos she is just such a beautiful person.. a real heart of gold..
We have both been retired for 10 years now..but I reckon we can both do another 30-40 – maybe 50 years..till we are like 100 or even older..And We Can Still Do It..
well what else can you do except make love to a beautiful girl
Tony & Wife
xx
Personally, I find you guys who post here a bit of a cult..and I occasionaly post here..over the last nearly 10 years or so..and your moderators and even your hero Craig and me kind of lose the plot..but sureley we are all n the same side aren’t we..We don’t like the bombs and the fascist control..and where do you think you globalists and you really left wing people and you rebels who go to the protests in central London and get Kettled and everyting are trying to get to or what place or change in humanity..do you want to achieve?
And you Deprecate Me..and Ban Me..and I EvenBan Myself From Your Website..and Tell Your Moderator How To Do It…
What are You Trying To Achieve???
Do you think I am evil..or just a pathetic drunk out of my head..not joining your cult..not posting the party line..cos I ain’t in your fucking party..and Scouse Billy Years ago..says well..I know you are total cunt..and I would ban you too..but you are ruffling their skins..bu just posting your free thoughts..just as they come..
I have Read The Books..Both Sides..Mostly The Left
But Why The Fuck Won’t You Come Clean About 9/11 and Go Forward From There..
If You Can’t Get Over That..and Move Forward..So As Far as I am Concerned
You are Wanking In Your Own Shit
Is That Offensive enough?
Or Are You A Complete MORON..and can’t take the truth how evil these Fuckers are who are in Control..
If you are that far gone..just read The Saker VS Gilad Atzmon
I am sure you can Gogle that before and maybe whilst you are having your 19th Nervous Breakdown..been there have you..well that is because the world is fucked..and you fall down the well..you are at the bottom of the pit..and then this beautiful blonde girl reaches her hand down..anchors her foot to a rope and pulls you up out of the well
What The Fuck Were You Doing Down There???
And She Pulls You Up into The Sunshine and Her Blonde Hair and Beautiful Face..and says..come on Tony ..it ain’t that bad..come and make Babies With Me..
So I said O.K.
Tony
“Resident Dissident is very happy to support this, ”
Will the war monger please note that I do not support US Military exercises in Ukraine just as I do not support Russian troop build ups near the Ukrainian border. I support the ceasefire unlike Mr Goss who has twice called for it to be broken.
“The reality is that the Ukrainians are not looking at perfect choice versus imperfect choice, but rather several imperfect choices. Surrendering territory to unrepresentative but well-armed thugs who are equipped and financed by Russia in preference to resisting the fascist ideology of re-drawing state borders by force in accordance with some imagined cultural divide, that would be madness.”
Well aaid Evgueni – on this latter point it is well worth noting that the warmonger Mr Goss has ignored my question about what is the Russian homeland. Unlike Mr Goss I do not throw the title “fascist” around lightly but fascist is as fascists do I’m afraid.
Of course Mr Goss doesn’t go as far as Solzhenitsyn as accepting that the Holodomor was a man made famine by his Soviet friends but still sticks with his ahistorical line that it was just a climatic phenomenom.
There is no doubt that Stalin had a personal animus against Ukrainians btw as witnessed by the treatment of Ukrainians in other parts of the Soviet Union.
Every time Resident Dissident gets beaten in an argument he comes back with an ad hominem. This has never worked in the past and it will not work now. People will read the comments and see that it is peace I’m after whereas he pushed me to look at who was in cotrol of the village of Shirokino at the time of the ceasefire and then I would know who the aggressors were. I looked. I found using AZOV’s own Nazi video footage to discover that the Novo-russian separatists were in control and were daily being attacked by the side that RD continues to support. He is here with and agenda. He does not want peace.
Of course no one trolls for Putin?
http://kioski.yle.fi/omat/at-the-origins-of-russian-propaganda