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 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 …”
Yes and I notices that most of the companies were all just sub divisions of the same company. Had the same name in them.
But misleading people is perfectly acceptable if you are a Nationalist, it isn’t wrong, not dishonest, it’s for the cause.
YouKnowMyName addressing Clark; “and sometimes your activity on Craig’s excellent blog does appear to conform to aspects of a GCHQ driven – destroy/control the message channel – campaign”
I guess he means airhead comments like these new ones;
“please consider that all major international powers may be using similar on-line techniques.”
“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.”
Credible but looking through a Western lens Komodo. Evolving from low entropy and chaos to a balanced connected universe took a colossal bunch of energy yet only a puny anomaly to yield our existence today. After the Iraq ruination, the libya trouncing and the Syria drubbing, all to ensure a helter-skelter ISIS world, most sagacious heads realise we are heading backwards and forwards into the ‘big bang’ and astasia. I learn today MAD is now an obsolete adage. A ‘Russia’s empire’ is perhaps then wishful thinking.
It will take another puny amount of thought to appease Russia, crush ISIS and prepare a better journey for posterity.
Qui cura – who cares for the unborn we live in the now.
Dreoilin 6.23 am : “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 …”
Which is why I used the past tense : “….. who uses the wealth he obtained from holding 78 directorships ….” My point is that he is not the ordinary man that he and Fred represented him to be. Fred has ignored this inconvenient truth since it was pointed out.
Resident Dissident ; “could they let us know when a Russian government spokesman has actually made this claim?”
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/lavrov-no-russian-intervention-in-ukraine/506231.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/21/us-ukraine-crisis-lavrov-idUSKBN0KU12Y20150121
Look like some of us here are like little mini-Ron Paul’s ! 😀
http://antiwar.com/blog/2015/03/23/why-ron-paul-is-right-about-ukraine/
John Goss; “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.”
Exactly so John;
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41326.htm
Resident Dissident ; “That referendum was not held under Anschluss conditions like the most recent one.”
LOL !
“Under considerable pressure from both Austrian and German Nazis, Austria’s Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg decided to hold a referendum to provide a popular vote on the issue, expecting Austria to vote in favour of maintaining its autonomy, but before this could take place there was a well-planned coup d’état by the Austrian Nazi Party, which seized control of Austria’s state institutions in Vienna on 11 March 1938. The leaders of the coup then cancelled the referendum.” Wiki
So nothing like what happened in the Crimea, in fact the complete opposite;
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/crimeans-keep-saying-no-to-ukraine/
Macky has called my comments “airheaded” but has not addressed them.
Got anything more than insults, Macky?
Macky quotes YouKnowMyName to imply that I work for GCHQ.
I am a private and independent individual as can be confirmed by many commenters at this blog. I’m contactable by clicking on my name and will meet people in the real world if they wish.
Stuff your smears Macky. YOU refuse to meet people I know to be real. You call me an airhead. I call you a lying hypocrite.
I am now going off-line until this evening earliest.
Ukrainian gangsters at war.
http://rt.com/news/243313-ukrnafta-kolomoysky-poroshenko-barricade/
“Fred has ignored this inconvenient truth since it was pointed out.”
So Nationalists can ignore inconvenient truths like the majority voted against independence or that with oil at $55 a barrel we’d have been right up shit creek if they hadn’t but nobody else is allowed to ignore inconvenient truths.
Talk about sheer hypocrisy.
If you want facts read this.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/peter-jones-dump-fiscal-autonomy-it-s-insanity-1-3726676
But for those who can’t or won’t listen to logic I’ll keep on with the links from social media.
Thanks Macky. Stephen Cohen, who nobody can accuse of being anything but an establishment figure, is quite right when he says the president he voted for twice, Barack Obama, has no presidential skills when he insults Putin like a schoolchild. I have observed that Putin is a real diplomat and talks, however facetiously, about “our American friends”. The most important part of his speech was at the end when he stated:
“I am not allowed to say this in America. . . This is not a democratic regime in Kiev.”
Thanks Dave. What a pleasure to see the oligarchs squaring up to one another. They still get ordinary people to do the dirty work paid in dirty hrynia.
Fred 10.05am :
“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.
So your defence is that it’s OK to smear the SNP because (you claim) others use smear tactics too. That’s pathetic reasoning and I’m not going to bother challenging it.
In RoS’s defence, I will say that if I’d accused him of posting dodgy claims he would have tried to justify them rather than ranting. You posted a link smearing the SNP and I invited you to “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.” So why don’t you? Will none of the claims stand up to examination?
I don’t have a problem with you scrutinising the SNP for wrongdoing, in fact I welcome it. I do have a problem with you trying to mislead me.
!”I don’t have a problem with you scrutinising the SNP for wrongdoing, in fact I welcome it. I do have a problem with you trying to mislead me.”
Yes, yes we know all about it.
Was there anything else or can I go back to what I was doing now?
Macky, I sincerely doubt, in fact I do not believe, that Clark is a spook or troll. On many issues his comments are valid. He writes under his own name. Anybody can go and meet him at Doune the Rabbit Hole or even on his farm, and some choose to do.
On Ukraine, and his anti-Russian stance, I think he has a totally skewed view, but not because he has anything to do with government or establishment, just because he sincerely holds these strange opinions. The same might not be said of all the people he has aligned with on this issue, people he would avoid on other issues. You just have to accept that he has a warped view on this topic. Why? I have no idea. Perhaps he married a Russian and it did not work out, leading to a pathological hatred of the whole Russian peoples. Perhaps he has never met a Russian and treats them, and the leader the vast majority love, like people used to tread West Indians in the fifties and sixties. Perhaps neither of these. Who knows?
Mark Golding:
“The Conservative candidate for Dudley North, ex army captain Mr Amin will be sacked for a perfectly acceptable contemporay au courant false-flag operation involving the EDL (terrooorist) and a mosque (place of worship).”
Yes the interview with Mr Amin was revolting. He stated that the false flag plan was legitimate and normal.
The fact is that the inner cities are New Labour Muslim. My own MP, Sliam Byrne knows what buttons to push, Palestinian statehood and local jobs. Apart from that he is a war criminal with previous.
So the false flag plan was a false flag within a false flag, Russian doll situation. Tory head office want to remind the English voters that a vote for New Labour is a vote for Asian blag-ism. Vote Tory for traditional British politicians.
False blag operation.
fred 24 Mar, 2015 – 11:40 am : “Was there anything else or can I go back to what I was doing now?”
Just stop trying to mislead me will be sufficient, thank you.
Clark; “Macky has called my comments “airheaded” but has not addressed them.”
I do so begrude wasting my time addressing comments that are so idiotic, so I’ll be concise;
Clark; “please consider that all major international powers may be using similar on-line techniques.”
This in response to a point that the Western alternative media are being targeted & attacked by Western spy agencies; so no expression of concern, or how it reflects on the debate over the Ukraine, instead only the moral relativism diverting statement that others do it also.
Of course there’s no need to attack the MSM, they’ve long since had that tamed;
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/leading-german-journalist-admits-cia-bribed-leaders-western-press.html
Clark; “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.”
Surrounding Russia with destabilizing NATO bases, is attacking Russia; it gives the Neo-Cons crazies the idea they can win a nuclear war, as they believe this will give the US first strike ability by providing retaliatory capacity to a level that would make any Russia strike impossible.
As if NATO was not just an instrument of US foreign policy, a fact that lies behind the realizaistaion amongst the more honest EU politicians, that the EU needs it’s own military force, completely independent from the US.
I can’t even be bothered addressing all the other nonsense contain in Clark few lines.
Clark ; “Stuff your smears Macky.”
Which is a smear itself of course, as well as betraying a lack of comprehension skills; I gave examples as to why SOME MAY think that about you, not that I specifically do.
John Goss; “Macky, I sincerely doubt, in fact I do not believe, that Clark is a spook or troll.”
I have already stated why I think Clark has adopted the position he has over Ukraine; it’s because of blind loyalty to Craig, nothing else; if Craig turned around tomorrow & said the opposite, so would Clark, if Craig said that a potential Republic of Scotland would be the greatest evil possible, then Clark will start posting anti-Scottish comments & start demonizing everything Scottish.
It’s that simple & obvious I’m sorry to say.
“Just stop trying to mislead me will be sufficient, thank you.”
Don’t hear you talking about your “Blog Credibility Tokens” these days, whatever happened to them?
Bute Yes campaign chair resigns from SNP.
http://www.buteman.co.uk/news/local-headlines/blow-for-snp-as-bute-campaign-chair-resigns-1-3725552
Well the the 6th China-U.S. Relations Conference will be held May 11-13, 2015 at Hotel ZaZa in Houston, Texas. The goal of the conference is to continue President George H.W. Bush’s vision and legacy of establishing better understanding, closer ties, and important collaborations between China and the United States in the 21st Century.
Here on the ‘sidelines’ the US will unfold a proposal to partner in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), space and satellite agreements and some military cooperation. It is hoped that China will ‘cork’ relations with Russia and thus screw-down the vice on Russian finance and further weaken her economy. The Americans on advice from Britain will tell Chinese diplomats if this agreement cannot be reached then a ‘hot’ war may well be imminent to the detriment of world financial stability.
Quite clever but plausible with insight.
http://china-us.tamu.edu/call-proposals/scientific-program/
” A clear case of schizophrenia Kempe. ”
Thank you for that diagnosis Dr Golding.
Actually the rest of your post backs up what I said, you’ve made your mind up that there’s going to be a cover-up over MH17 without waiting for a scrap of evidence. The difference between this investigation and Hillsborough is that the AAIB are not investigating themselves and it’s not their job to apportion blame. Their job is to establish the facts and to produce a narrative of what occurred. No doubt the transcripts will be released in due course but at present releasing them for the benefit of armchair experts and conspiracy theorists serves no purpose.
“Voting Labour may be only way to dent Nat triumphalism”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11262179/Voting-Labour-may-be-only-way-to-dent-Nat-triumphalism.html
Tactical voting, you know it makes sense.
Vote !SNP.
Mark Golding: It is hoped that China will ‘cork’ relations with Russia and thus screw-down the vice on Russian finance and further weaken her economy.
And doubtless hoped to fragment the BRICS, already being attempted on several through quiet whispering pressure on India and SA and overt interference in Brazil.
..fronts..
Racist Israeli PM visits Zionist British PM. Bantustan option preferred for Occupied Palestine.
Report: Cameron leans on Netanyahu to pursue two-state solution
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Report-UKs-Cameron-leans-on-Netanyahu-to-pursue-two-state-solution-394894
03/24/2015
Cameron told the British parliament that London would pressure both Israel and the Palestinian Authority to resume negotiations.
British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing St.
http://www.jpost.com/HttpHandlers/ShowImage.ashx?id=278188&h=530&w=758
British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to adhere to a policy that advances a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, The Guardian reported late Monday.
The British premier congratulated Netanyahu on his election victory while emphasizing that a peace agreement yielding a Palestinian state remained the best way to “achieve a lasting peace and to secure Israel’s long-term security and prosperity.”
According to The Guardian, Cameron “congratulated [Netanyahu] on winning the recent Israeli elections and looked forward to working with the new government when it was formed.”
Cameron told the British parliament that London would pressure both Israel and the Palestinian Authority to resume negotiations.
“I think that’s in the long term interest not just to the Palestinians, but also to the Israelis, and Britain’s policy on that will not change,” Cameron told MPs.
When Labor MP and former foreign secretary Jack Straw challenged Cameron regarding Israeli settlement activity, the premier replied: “If there isn’t a two-state solution you end up moving towards a one-state solution which I think will be disastrous for the Jewish people in Israel.”
“So I really do believe in the two-state solution and we’re very much opposed to the settlement building that there has been and been very clear about that and will continue to be clear about that. It makes a two-state solution more difficult and that in turn will make Israel less stable rather than more stable.”
Cameron’s deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, was more forceful in denouncing Netanyahu’s campaign declarations that seemed to rule out an Israeli pullback from the territories.
“I actually share President Obama’s views much more than David Cameron’s,” Clegg told a British radio station. “It is extremely worrying – it cannot be more alarming – to have seen Benjamin Netanyahu do something which no leading Israeli politician has ever done – to rule out the prospect of a two-state solution.”
Clegg said that if the new Netanyahu-led government continued to expand settlements in the West Bank, “the world, including the British parliament, would have no option, inevitably, but to recognize a Palestinian state.”
Fred : “Don’t hear you talking about your “Blog Credibility Tokens” these days, whatever happened to them?”
I decided there was no point in gambling for those tokens with people who’d lost their credibility.
Here are some poor folk who will not be discussing Ukraine over dinner tonight, or any other night:
Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash live: 150 passengers and crew feared dead after flight 4U9525 tragedy near French Alps
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/airbus-a320-plane-crash-live-germanwings-flight-gwi9525-goes-down-near-alps-in-france-10129863.html
“I decided there was no point in gambling for those tokens with people who’d lost their credibility.”
Nothing to do with you gambling that America would bomb Syrian state forces then.