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.
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RobG 22/03/2015 9:18 pm
“You lot are total vermin, and believe me, you are going to get what’s coming to you.”
And the observations – at least twice – that commenters, or moderators, on here (it isn’t entirely clear which) will be put up against a wall and shot.
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Please will you consider a request to place this commenter in pre-moderation until this kind of thing abates.
I see that the commenter’s most recent comments have gone. Thank you.
Kind regards,
John
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Apologies, the comments haven’t gone, I don’t think, I was looking on the wrong page. My request still stands.
Kind regards,
John
NATO does not know what it is doing. These manouvres approaching Russia are very dangerous, especially since Russia most likely has superior weaponry, the likes of which has never been seen before. Without firing a single shot an SU 24 made the USS Donald Cook turn swiftly round and head back when it was approaching Russia in the Black Sea and disregarding international agreements. The Donald Cook’s AEGIS system was jammed and all the screens went blank. It simulated attacks which put the willies up the Yanks. Allegedly all the crew signed letters of resignation when the Donald Cook docked in Romania (though Habby’s favourite Ukrainian Fake site says not).
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/11/13/aegis-fail-in-black-sea-ruskies-burn-down-uss-donald-duck/
President Putin mentioned this event in the Crimea documentary I referred to yesterday. This also talks about one of Russia’s latest weapons, the Bastion, which Putin says is virtually undetectable by radar, and Russia is the only country with it. By that I suspect that Russia has means of detecting it. Putin wants peace. NATO appears to want war. The jokes about Russia putting its borders close to US bases will no longer be funny. It is in contravention of an agreement made at the time of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. When it happens, God forbid, the dissenters on here will still be blaming Russia for all the ills in the world.
“No sign of that comment RobG;”
It’s OK, I’ve got it.
Tony Blair is in the clear over any charges of war of aggression this from Wikipedia… “Note that the Act does not include the crime of aggression. Although the Rome Statute lists the crime of aggression as a crime under the jurisdiction of the Court, Article 5 of the Rome Statute stipulates that the ICC will not exercise its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression until agreement has been reached on a definition of that crime and the conditions under which jurisdiction will be exercised” As for breaking International law the UK,US,Russia,China and France are above International law for all time, that is the arrangement the victors of WW2 concocted amongst themselves to guarantee themselves impunity. So if for instance four of the veto wielding powers wanted to censure another veto wielding power, the the culprit simply vetoes the resolution and that resolution goes down the memory hole. Cute ain’t it. I do not think, as a character in Shakespeare said, that come the revolution we should kill all the lawyers, certainly not, Blair being a lawyer I would make an exception, with the promise from the revolutionary committee, that I could carry his head on my pike.
Poor old Macky and Mr Goss having to work overtime defending the indefensible – but perhaps for a bit of light relief perhaps they could help with a bit of research which has also bamboozled the formidable fact checkers at the New York Times. We all know since they and their fellow Putinistas have told us many many times that there are no Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine – and indeed this denial has been reported frequently in the western media as well – but could they let us know when a Russian government spokesman has actually made this claim?
I should add I’ve already searched the RT website.
Family Fortunes: The Scottish Nepotist Party
http://linkis.com/blogspot.co.uk/nmue8
Mr Goss
What do you make of the Russian state TV channel NTV broadcast of a two-part film recently called Friends of the Junta. The programmes denounced a string of Russian politicians, pop stars and social activists for supporting the Ukrainian government? They were portrayed as traitors. Similarly at the recent state organised Antimaidan demonstration – one of the banners near the front of the demonstration proclaimed “Annihilate the 5th column”. There were also offensive posters aimed at the late Boris Nemtsov. Do you think such threatening behaviour by a state to wards its citizens is acceptable?
“It is in contravention of an agreement made at the time of the disintegration of the Soviet Union.”
What about the Budapest Accords that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine?
Do you believe that Ukraine has the right to exist as a sovereign state?
” Putin wants peace ”
Which is why of course he’s spent billions of roubles developing all these fabulous weapons you believe they have.
Do you even know what Bastion is?
Harry Law, on the other hand, the ICC is only one forum. There are 192 others plus who knows what tribunals TBD. There is plenty of precedent for trying crimes in customary international law that were not prosecutable when committed. Ever since the Nuremberg Tribunal, the UN member nations have been codifying the principles as a code of which aggression is the highest crime. Everyone knows Blair committed this crime – the UN Secretary General himself pointed it out, and the KLWCT has a book that anyone can throw at him. Blair has gotten away with it. So far. But there is no statute of limitations on Blair’s crime and Blair has a long life ahead of him. Times change.
John Spencer-Davis
23 Mar, 2015 – 9:44 pm:
It’s called ‘reality’ pal, and if you don’t understand how angry people like me are you are obviously on another planet.
I might stop posting here, or they might ban people, or whatever; but don’t forget that the storm is coming. We are going to take this country back from the vermin.
You can sit in your bathchair and dribble if you want.
It makes no difference. You were the completely failed generation.
Angry..? You don’t know what angry is!
fred : 23 Mar, 2015 – 11:03 pm
“Family Fortunes: The Scottish Nepotist Party
http://linkis.com/blogspot.co.uk/nmue8“
Yesterday you linked to an anti-SNP newspaper letter, supposedly written by an “ordinary man” that, upon examination, was the work of a prominent NO campaigner who uses the wealth he obtained from holding 78 directorships to fund unionist propaganda. Through a Facebook page, a dedicated website, by printing leaflets, and a campaign of letter writing, he smears the SNP while concealing his background. By spreading his lies, you lose credibility on this blog.
Your link today is another type of smear, designed to mislead the gullible. It’s basically a list of family connections amongst SNP politicians accompanied by frequent use of the word “dishonest.” Where is the dishonesty, Fred? Please select what you consider to be the most damning accusation amongst the several dozen examples in your link, and post it in plain text here on the blog.
I thought I’d drop this on you before I drop off to sleep. It is Ukraine’s attempt to discredit real journalists. I see Harding uses a lot of labels for journalists that the dissenters use against me on this blog. Now there’s a surprise. Wonder why that is?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-psychological-warfare-in-ukraine-targeting-online-independent-media-coverage/5437883
Interesting, John, the ones that are specifically named
“RT.com, Sputnik.ru, Washingtonsblog.com, GlobalResearch.ca, OpEdNews.com, Anti-War.com, ZeroHedge.com. InfoWars.com, DemocracyNow.com, CounterPunch.com, RonPaulInstitute.org, PaulCraigRoberts.org, GreanvillePost.com…”
many of them often quoted here. (And denigrated here by others.)
“was the work of a prominent NO campaigner who uses the wealth he obtained from holding 78 directorships to fund unionist propaganda.”
´`·.¸¸.¸¸.··.¸¸Node,
I looked through that list you posted. I may be wrong, but it seemed to me like he resigned from all or almost all of those directorships in February 2000 or 2002. Just saying …
Dreoilin at 6.18 am.
I noticed the outlets cited. Perhaps News Junkie Post is not considered big enough. But CounterPunch and Global Research quite often pick up our articles.
Who violated the Minsk Agreement?
http://en.hunternews.ru/?p=585
We need to be very careful that the United Kingdom does not get dragged into a major or even nuclear war because a fat lump of chocolate lard and the weasel-faced Yatsenyuk are in charge of the coup-installed government in Kiev.
I make no apologies for repeated reference to what is happening in Ukraine because I see it a the biggest and most dangerous single issue facing us in the UK. Because I love my country I do not want to see it, and my fellow-citizens, in never-ending conflict because the bankers have cocked up.
Dreoilin, as well as the Ukraine information attack on non MSM outlets, the only ones worth reading, there is a US attack on free speech from Russia on social networks.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-declares-information-war-on-russia/5438269
Thanks John. Just about to read now.
David Cameron rules out third term as prime minister
PM triggers turmoil in Tory party with interview in which he names Theresa May, George Osborne and Boris Johnson as possible future leaders
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/23/david-cameron-i-would-not-serve-third-term-as-pm
Dreoilin, please consider that all major international powers may be using similar on-line techniques.
“Dreoilin, please consider that all major international powers may be using similar on-line techniques.”
I don’t doubt it, Clark.
I think Russia can do without EU money better than the EU can do without Russian gas.
Dreoilin, remember that the Internet is international. References to psy-ops propaganda nearly always refer to a government influencing its home population, but the techniques can just as easily be deployed against audiences foreign to the attacking government.
Some commenters here repeatedly warn us of pro-US propaganda and pro-US psy-ops. Please ask yourself what pro-Kremlin propaganda and psy-ops would look like HERE. What things they might want us to believe, and why.
These commenters repeatedly tell us that the Russian government is a peacemaker, but they also repeatedly tell us that the Russian government has formidable, previously unseen weapons and might nuke us at any moment. Indeed, these commenters tell us that the Kremlin almost nuked us in mid-March. These oft-repeated arguments seem somewhat contradictory to me.
These commenters repeatedly tell us that Russia is being attacked by NATO. But I see no evidence for this. I’ve seen Neocon interference in Ukraine, but the Neocons are not NATO and Ukraine is not Russia. They tell us that the Russian government “acted defensively” in taking parts of Ukraine.
Moonbats – please read carefully:
http://leftfootforward.org/2014/04/the-wests-responsibility-for-the-ukrainian-crisis/
The West acquiesced in the crushing of Georgia in 2008; the following year US secretary of state Hillary Clinton memorably presented her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, with a ‘reset button’ as a gesture of reconciliation. With Angela Merkel’s Germany leading the way, Western states and companies continued to pursue close economic and military relations with Russia, involving lucrative defence contracts that have helped build up the Russian armed forces. Last year, US President Barack Obama effectively capitulated to Moscow over Syria.
All this has encouraged Putin to believe he can continue rebuilding Russia’s empire without fear of serious Western reaction.
The current crisis in Ukraine follows the tradition of crises engendered by Western efforts at appeasing or befriending tyrannical states, which are consequently emboldened to go too far – from Hitler’s Germany through to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Milosevic’s Serbia.
Indeed, Putin’s strategy in Ukraine could have been copied from Milosevic’s in Croatia in 1990-91: orchestrate a separatist rebellion among the minority population in a neighbouring state, then intervene to ‘protect’ it from the neighbour’s ‘fascist’ government, with territorial expansion the barely concealed goal.
A credible synthesis. Of course, you’ll disagree. At considerable length.
“Fuck the EU”
The Neocons represent the US hydrocarbon corporates who start illegal wars in the Middle East where the oil comes from.
Where will the EU get its energy if the EU is in conflict with Russia? Who stands to make more money?
Ukraine is the Russia-to-EU gas transit point.
Try the Dept of Transport…
..pander to the voyeurism of some dimwit..
A clear case of schizophrenia Kempe. Sadly secrecy, lies and red-tape have thwarted many an investigation, frustrating and further depressing bereaved families of lost loved ones, which, in the case of MH17 includes innocent children.
You reminded me of the report on Hillsborough football disaster that exposed the “biggest cover-up in British legal history” – although countless other so called ‘investigations’ come to mind.
Thank-fully most contributors here are not dullards and expose the morons who attempt to retain the status quo, with good intention; how can we take that leap in consciousness needed for human survival otherwise?
“Your link today is another type of smear, designed to mislead the gullible.”
And what the fuck do you think it is RoS does here in copious amounts every afternoon?
Strange I see loads of smears on this blog both of people and parties and it never seemed to bother you before.
The SNP isn’t a political party now is it? It’s a cult, it has used social media to brainwash the young and the gullible of Scotland.
Don’t let Scotland sleepwalk into becoming a one party Fascist state.