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.
Southampton University’s win-win conflict with UK Zionists
23rd March 2015
By Gilad Atzmon
Israeli soldier points gun at child PHOTO
I am thrilled by the Zionist despair surrounding the Southampton University conference on Israel’s legitimacy. The conference, due to take place next month, plans to examine the legality of Israel in the eyes of international law.
British Jews are in state of panic, and for good reason. They are facing a lose-lose situation. If the conference goes ahead, it may produce some dry academic papers regarding Israeli criminality. If, on the other hand, the conference is cancelled, it will constitute clear evidence of the vindictive nature of the Jewish leadership and its crude interference with academic freedom and the British values of tolerance and diversity.
So, here is some good news. Their relentless struggle to cancel the conference clearly suggests that Jewish community leaders are not all opposed to cultural and academic boycotts as they have been proclaiming for a while. They are actually very enthusiastic about academic herem (boycott in Hebrew) but just don’t like to be the ones who are boycotted.
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http://www.redressonline.com/2015/03/southampton-universitys-win-win-conflict-with-uk-zionists/
Was Germanwings plane sabotaged on the ground by messing up its control center or air conditioning system, or by late arrivals in the cabin while in the air with hand-held lasers in the toilets.
Still no mention of the PNV delegation on board.
Member that sabotaged Sukhoi 100 which quickly descended because of the sabotaging of its air conditioning system, and crashed into the volcano in Indonesia?
And, of course, MH370 just disintegrated into a fireball which has yet to be found.
Fred : “Nothing to do with you gambling that America would bomb Syrian state forces then.”
(1) Why are you changing the subject?
(2) Our bet was 1 year from September
(3) I’ve probably already won the bet, but if not, it’s coming …..
And that’s all from me, I’m off out for the day
. . . . and remember, no deception while I’m gone, there’s a good boy.
Two of the 150 on board the crashed airbus 320 were infants. Sad.
Sky and BBC presenters and ‘experts’ have little or no information on the crash or the reasons for it, but are managing to talk non stop.
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.
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What a load of incoherent drivel,the above comment is.
Surely Joey Essex has been in Scotland long enough to know the SNP are not only in government but are the largest party in Scotland.
As for my comments,they’re aimed at Westminster mainly,to show it inadequacy,when dealing with Scotland,and the UK as a whole.
I must have touched a nerve Joey,as your comments are beginning to descend into dross filled rants.
“And that’s all from me, I’m off out for the day
. . . . and remember, no deception while I’m gone, there’s a good boy.”
Sectarian statements like this, especially from the Ex FM, don’t help Scotland in any way, shape nor form.
https://twitter.com/scotsw12/status/580260860813291520/photo/1
“I must have touched a nerve Joey,as your comments are beginning to descend into dross filled rants.”
Call me old fashioned if you will but I don’t want my country’s destiny decided by people who think the Glasgow bin wagon disaster was staged.
Did ETA, Spanish Muslims or NATO spooks to it?
Is this an ETA resumption of the Spanish Civil War, the Iberian Muslims continuing the 3/11 attacks, or NATO pushing Berlin to get on board to a stronger response to Ukraine’s problems?
Looks like someone’s sabotage.
Now back to business.
Analyst Proffessor John Curtice,has suggested that current polls, could leave,London Labour in Scotland,with just two seats.
Those seats would be,Glasgow North East and East Dunbartonshire.
Hopefully those constituencies will fall to the SNP as well.
Mary (welcome back), Dreoilin. Yes a terrible tragedy for all concerned, the babies and the schoolchildren.
Call me old fashioned if you will but I don’t want my country’s destiny decided by people who think the Glasgow bin wagon disaster was staged.
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That rich coming from you,a man who thinks, Alex Salmond is Der Fuhrer and the SNP are his Nazi party.
Thankfully you’re in the minority,when it comes to the GE vote,as the SNP look towards a monumental landslide victory.
“That rich coming from you,a man who thinks, Alex Salmond is Der Fuhrer and the SNP are his Nazi party.”
So why do the nats call their website wingsoverscotland then?
Here’s a clue.
http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/10022/10777816_1.jpg?v=8CDFA643B80AC30
Those fat greedy,unelected troughing b#stards,in the House of Lords,have,bemoaned the fact, that Scotland is getting underwhelming watered down powers.
The peers,who buy their way into the House through party donation,and receive £300 a day just for showing up,have complained the impotent and stunted, Smith Commission should have met their approval first.
The SNP HAVE NO LORDS,they refuse to stoop to such levels.
This why independence is a must for Scotland,when an unelected house can question or sway policies that affect Scotland.
Among the suspects, Muslim terrorists look like a poor third place.
So sad Mary and thanks Dreoilin for the post.
Commendable Winkletoe good thinking.
Fred; “Don’t hear you talking about your “Blog Credibility Tokens” these days, whatever happened to them?”
Seems to me that you have invested rather a lot in your ““I just post the facts” pov over MH17; suppose your wrong, is it possible to have less than zero credibility ?
Parties need a united front to stop Salmond.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/11489008/Parties-need-a-united-front-to-stop-Salmond.html
Vote !SNP.
So why do the nats call their website wingsoverscotland then?
Here’s a clue.
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Your link leads to a message that infers,its a malicious website,it’s nothing to do with Wings.
As for Wings Over Scotland,its creator is a Lib/Dem voter,and Wings is neither affiliated or connected in anyway to the SNP.
http://wingsoverscotland.com/about/
Comments are independence orientated.
@Mary, I’m going to wish you a welcomed return, and risk the wrath of Clark accusing me of encouraging you ! 🙂
Nicola Sturgeon to become UK’s highest paid politician.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/564681/Nicola-Sturgeon-highest-paid-politician-UK-earn-more-David-Cameron
Continuing on the House of Lords theme,a study from Oxford University, found the relationship between donations and nominations, (for peerages) has found to be significant.
It was found that a group of 92 peers,had donated,a whopping £33.83 million pounds,to their political parties.
Cash for honours is alive and well at Westminster.
“Your link leads to a message that infers,its a malicious website,it’s nothing to do with Wings.”
That’s just this blog putting an “s” on the end of “http” when there shouldn’t be one.
Knock it off and the link will work fine.
Aides last night insisted Ms Sturgeon would stick to a voluntary 2009 Scottish ministerial pay freeze and put the extra cash into a fund propping up public spending.
David Cameron is paid £142,500, Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones £129,047, and Northern Irish First Minister Peter Robinson £120,000. London mayor Boris Johnson gets £143,911.
It will strike taxpayers as absolutely perverse that Nicola Sturgeon gets more than the Prime Minister
Taxpayer Scotland spokesman
A spokesman for the First Minister said last night her salary would effectively remain frozen at £135,605.
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Did you even read the link you provided,or are you so full of hate,for the SNP,that your judgement has become impaired?
The FM’s salary will be frozen at the 2009 salary,and the difference,ploughed back into public expenditure.
Looks more like NATO caused the Germanwings crash, especially since the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced yesterday that there is no military solution to Ukraine’s problems.
Wonder if we will see a change of mind when the relevant officials meet tomorrow further about the matter?
“Did you even read the link you provided,or are you so full of hate,for the SNP,that your judgement has become impaired?”
Yes I read it and I posted the link.
Nicola Sturgeon will have a higher salary than David Cameron like I said.
What she does with it after that doesn’t alter that.
And, of course, all the Russophobes will then be saying: Putin did it too!
Pensioners mock and laughed at David Cameron,when he announced,that he won’t stand as PM for a third time.
The PM,was derided at the Age UK conference,and laughs could be heard loudly when the PM,said he’d, be investing £2billion pounds in the NHS.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/24/pensioners-mock-david-cameron-at-age-uk-conference-nhs
The folk may well be old but they’re not stupid,they know, a fairytale when they hear it.
Jesus, now the White House has announced that the crash isn’t connected to anyone’s terrorism!
Best evidence yet that it is!
Trowbridge, to begin with I thought your comments about it not being a genuine accident were a bit premature. I’m not so sure now. Apparently the pilots made no May Day calls and probably thought they were on course. As well as the known schoolchildren deaths and the babies deaths we have no identity of passengers. Was there for instance anybody famous on board, like Bernt Carlsson in the Lockerbie sabotage? Anyway let’s keep an open mind until we know more.
What is presented here is not as measured as Putin’s words but it is no doubt sincere and governments and their subjects would be wise to take heed. Russia will defend its homeland. Unlike us who would be on the offensive. Our war would be a war of aggression. Their war would be a just war. Putting our faith in Cameron and the Yanks would be the biggest mistake we could make.
http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/22/4790