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.
Clark; ““But you’re justifying the death of innocents based on unpaid gas bills” &
“When you are advocating that innocent third parties should freeze to death because Russia didn’t get paid?””
Only in your pathetic smearing; I gave the missing background context to your bare “What about Russia depriving Ukraine of gas in winter?”; no ” justifying” or “advocating” that people should freeze to death, but that doesn’t stop a fanatical dissembler on a mission like yourself.
I’ve taken the trouble to look up the Wiki on this, and it seems that in addition to be been a long drawn-out strained commercial relationship between a supplier & a barely & very reluctant paying customer, both sides have been accused of acting from policitical motives, in that Russia trys to exert pressure on Ukraine to subvert EU/NATO expansion, and “Others suggested that Ukraine’s actions were being orchestrated by the United States”; note that the dispute has been taken to court, and resulted in Ukraine losing.
As to your projection of calling me a hypocrite, funny how you don’t mention the fact the Kiev has stopped electricity, gas, pension & social benefits payments, and imposde a total economic blockade, targeting all of the its own population in Eastern Ukraine.
Daniel at 1.17 Thank you. History can be interpreted many ways depending on the historian. But my understanding coincides with yours.
Must get to bed now. ‘Night all.
Macky, I find fault with various parties and you know I can link to my comments. You accuse me of dissembling. Be specific. What exactly are you accusing me of?
macky, do you defend Russian gas disconnections that have killed Ukrainians?
Clark; “What exactly are you accusing me of?”
That your pov iro Russia generally, and especially over the Ukraine, is not being argued from an genuine objective position, and despite what you say, it is not genuienly even-handed, but rather you are loyally following Craig’s well known antipathy to Russia, and therefore you are irrationally & unfairly always trying to blame, demonise & portray Russia in accordance with Craig’s description of it as “the greatest evil in the World”.
Clark; “do you defend Russian gas disconnections that have killed Ukrainians?”
No of course not, but where’s the responsibility of Ukraine for persistently playing reckless politics over payments, regardless of the consequences to its own citizens? I was going to say that no Country/Company would continue to indefinitely supply a non-paying client, but I,ve just remembered that the Greek Government of the Republic of Cyprus has been supplying the Turkish occupied north with free electricity for over 40 years solid now; contrast that, supplying your enemy with free energy, to the actions that Kiev has taken in the East, cutting of energy, money & food supplies, indiscriminately targeting millions of its very own citizens !
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We want to be completely legal and honest..
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Tony
Macky, I have NEVER see you find ANY fault with Russian policy.
I have however consistently seen you portray criticism of Russian government policy as racism against or hatred of Russian people; exactly the same dishonest tactic that Israel uses with accusations of anti-Semitism. Readers may have noticed how careful I have become always to write “the Russian government” or “the Kremlin” rather than the common convention “Russia”.
Readers may wish to check the history of Russian gas disconnections to Ukraine and other countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_Russia#Energy_in_foreign_policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_disputes
Of note:
* Russia sells gas at greatly reduced prices to countries of the former Soviet Union, but has often cancelled those subsidies at very short notice. European regulators have called for these discounts to be abolished,
* The majority of disconnections have been enforced in the depths of winter,
* The Russian government has a controlling majority ownership of the monopoly gas company Gazprom, the chairman of which is the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia.
These techniques are well suited to control and manipulation of the client states.
“In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
― Carl Sagan
Peacewisher it gets better..or worse regards your mention of my post earlier –
If we were randomly inserted into the Cosmos, the chance that we would find ourselves on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion (10^33, a one followed by 33 zeroes). In everyday life such odds are called compelling.
And he did indeed say the same for earth Epoch’s – place us ANYWHERE, at random, in earth’s history..but we are here..reading my words.. FujisanB YEH…
And from Arthur C Clark –
Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British author, inventor and futurist…
P.s There has been Good Stuff here… Despite the failings … ..Peace n New Horizons Pluto Rules….and Cha Cha Cha Charon, See atz what happens when yir freezin,,,AND on the wrong Squonk… Sorry Blog
Peacewisher wrote “Peace to you. On this historic day where a total eclipse, spring equinox and full moon all combine I’m not going to be dragged down… (maybe tomorrow, lol)”
A new moon, you mean. Yes indeed! What an astonishing coincidence! Wait a minute… don’t _all_ eclipses coincide with a new moon, pretty much by definition? I mean, how could the moon be “edge on” with the Sun from our perspective a even a little bit (thus giving a partial moon), while being directly in front of it, which is what an eclipse demands?
But it also happened during the daytime too! 😉
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i see Normad is a Trap…. Expexpect us
Which means i am a troll in need of sleep
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“Resident Dissident, who does not believe famines happen anywhere but in the Ukraine in the early thirties, might like to read this. It is most revealing about a commonwealth country and what the then prime minister, Winston Churchill, thought about it. ”
This of course has nothing whatsoever to do with the Holodomor regrettable though it was. It was also in the 1940s not the early thirties (on the sauce again?). The Holodomor was man made as a result of Stalin confiscating grain and deporting and killing kulaks – and most of this policy fell on Ukrainians against whom Stalin had a personal animus, which he demonstrated on many occaisions. Geddit?
As for Putin seeing the UK as his main enemy – you really do need to stop believing everything you are told on Putin controlled TV. This is probably more to do with the Litvinenko enquiry where the true nature of Putin is shortly to be confirmed to the whole world. Of course he probably shares the hatred of his hero (and yours) Stalin to the UK but as of yet he hasn’t started putting racist posters and laser shows of Cameron on the streets of Moscow as he has done with Obama.
And of course the questions about what is Novorossiya and the Russian homeland land to which you refer and for which you have encouraged Putin to break the ceasfire and go to war remains unanswered.
@Clark
“Macky, I have NEVER see you find ANY fault with Russian policy.”
And you never will – the mentality is one of seeing the US /NATO as the greatest evil in the world and until that is excised a blind eye will be turned to any abuses by those dedicated to attacking the greatest evil. The mentality is one of the ends justifying the means – just as Koestler made clear in Darkness at Midnight.
BTW I took no offence at your comment yesterday and thanks the football was excellent.
@Macky
“portray Russia in accordance with Craig’s description of it as “the greatest evil in the World”.”
I have searched this site using Craig’s search box and Google advanced search and he ahs never described Russia as the “the greatest evil in the World”. In fact the only previous occurrence of those words was from yourself when you said Craig used them in relation to Putin not Russia.
As I have just said you use the ends to justify the means. Your lies will always find you out in the end.
I wonder if Macky and Mr Goss have got their invites
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-hosting-europes-neo-nazis-nationalists-and-anti-semites-putin-supporters-all/
So Resident Dissident: an apologist for Churchill’s enforced famine on India simply calling it regrettable.
“This is probably more to do with the Litvinenko enquiry where the true nature of Putin is shortly to be confirmed to the whole world.”
Absolute bollocks. It’s another of your “Putin killed Nemtsov” claims without a bit of evidence apart from what the spooks want you to believe.
The dickhead Resident Dissident thinks it is more important to digress into the, admittedly evil, poisoning of Litvinenko than the fact that the UK will be the number one target if the peace initiative brokered by Putin, Hollande and Merkel does not hold.
The nuclear warheads are probably now facing this way because Cameron (the dictator) took action without asking parliament. Resident Dissident does not think that important. Well some of us do. I for one. Nothing in our MSM again.
Do you think the US would care if London was nuked? Of course not. We’re expendable. The Yanks would probably enjoy the spectacle.
Grow up Resident Dissident (whoever you are). Putin is not Saddam, or Gaddafi. You are messing with the wrong person with your support of the fascist government in Kiev and your perpetual slagging off of Putin. Big brave Resident Dissident. What a w….r!
Look… Nice of Glen to get in ze way… Gets you aff C.M’s…
is macky Corect… that there are no fiends
John…Next war with zen….Please.. if you where ever a martial artist.. Yin n Yang Sorry that it’s you first on pionting this oot…
I certainly hope someone else in my country is concerned that Putin sees us as nuclear enemy number one.
“Игорь Панарин пишет: В.ПУТИН: Упреждающий Удар 16 марта 2015 года
После длительного духовного уединения со старцами В.Путин предпринимает несколько решительных шагов, демонстрирующих готовность России с ведению глобальной войны с пробританским блоком НАТО. Первый из них начался в 8.00 16 марта, с так называемой “внезапной проверки” Северного Флота и постепенно охватившей Все вооруженные силы России….Россия готова к войне с НАТО в условиях применения обычных вооружений и в готовности к применению ядерного оружия в любой момент. Эти глобальные учения – масштабное развертывание вооруженных сил на ТВД перед началом военных действий. Нечто подобное происходило в 2014 году, после Воссоединения Крыма с Россией. Президент России в ходе интервью в замечательном кинофильме “КРЫМ. ПУТЬ на РОДИНУ” в ночь с 15 на 16 марта демонстративно отрезал себе путь к любому отступлению и подкрепил свою решимость выводом через несколько часов российских АПЛ с ядерным оружием к берегам Великобритании – главного врага России. А 10 стратегических ракетоносцев с новейшими крылатыми ракетами переместились в Сакральный Крым, в готовности нанести удары по штаб-квартире НАТО и лондонским закулисным центрам управления.”
Morning Brian.
Do you ever go to bed? 🙂
Mr Goss
As well as losing your grasp on reality I note that you still haven’t answered the homelands question.
The writer of Mr Goss’s little piece in Russian is of course a fellow Stalinist and lover of right wing European nationalists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Panarin
I suspect he also falls for all that Protocols of Zion rubbish as well.
Resident Dissident 8:19 am
That’s an event being hosted by the Rodina Party.
It’s like saying a supremacist conference in the US backed by David Duke means that Obama’s administration supports Neo-Nazis.
In fact in 2002 Senior Republican Steve Scalise spoke at such a meeting.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/29/senior-republican-steve-scalise-spoke-at-white-supremicist-meeting-in-2002
But of course my government and the EU don’t support Putin.
My government and the EU back the ultra-nationalist regime in Kiev that is deploying Neo-Nazi battalions.
Recently our EU leaders attended the Holocaust Memorial Day event in Poland. Just a 1000km away EU backed Neo-Nazis battalions are deployed in Eastern Ukraine.
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John yes… Am done.. we had a huge Tip highlands …and wee soul in mind.