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.
Vladimir Putin to the Federal Security Service.
“As I have said on numerous occasions, and will repeat again: we are ready for dialogue with the opposition, we will continue our partnership with the civic society in the broadest sense of the word. We always listen to constructive criticism of the authorities’ actions or the lack of such actions at any level.
Such dialogue and partnership are always useful, they are vital for any country, including ours. However, it is pointless entering into a discussion with those who are operating on orders from the outside in the interests of some other country rather than their own.
Therefore, we will continue paying attention to non-governmental organisations that have foreign funding sources; we will compare their stated goals with their actual activities and terminate any violations.”
http://eng.news.kremlin.ru/news/23772
Trowbridge, why did you write
“Pilot Lee who was making his first landing at SFO” and
“He is aka known by it as Ho Lee Fuk.”
There was no “pilot Lee” – but there were three Captains whose name began with Lee. You also said, “It’s what the NTSB called them officially shortly after it happened.”
I’ve just looked at the final update at the Daily Dot and is says the following
“UPDATE 3: The NTSB has clarified to SFGate that the fake names “originated at the media outlet” and that the intern was “trying to be helpful” by confirming them. The NTSB reiterated that it does not “release or confirm the names of crew members or people involved in transportation accidents to the media.”
I remain stunned at the utter stupidity of the woman in this video clip. It appears that Fox affiliate employees will read out literally anything that’s put in front of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76T9_fThH0
and it also appears that you were prepared to repeat those names on this blog to prove … something or other.
And we needn’t confine ourselves to fiction. Andrey Vyshinsky was a real, historical grisly prosecutor.
John Spencer-Davis at 8:00 pm.
Thank you kindly.
Thanks for being u, John, when I needed a u.
The closest thing that I can recall in the past which was so paranoid was when JFK ass assassinated.
Almost immediately, the wheels of officialdom captured LHO, and shortly thereafter there was all kinds of talk that he killed the President. Even J. Edgard Hoover claimed that he was guilty of the crime.
Everything changed the next day when The Washington Post printed a half-page blowup of the Altgens photo on the front page of its second section, showing Oswald apparently standing at the entrance of the TSCD at the time, getting Hoover to immediately change his mind about the ease of convicting Oswald of the crime.
Ruby then had to shoot him for the crisis to pass.
What if dead Lubitz has something like the Altgens photo to prove his innocence?
New Site set-up iro the situation with Russia; not had a chance to check it all out, but from a quick look, seems good;
https://step-back.org/
“I remember when I fell unconscious in a Lidingo park some rears ago, thanks to Agency efforts to kill me with something like ricin. Revived before any ambulance arrived after about ten minutes or so.”
THAT’s paranoid, Trowbridge. And if you were that important, I can’t imagine you spending your time posting on Craig’s blog. Shouldn’t you be checking your four fake passports, or cleaning your gun or something?
“What if dead Lubitz has something like the Altgens photo to prove his innocence?”
You mean a photo showing he was somewhere else when the plane crashed?
Dreolin, you have obviously not read Lysias’s link either, and I wrote about pilot Lee what I did because it was true.
Trowbridge H. Ford
26/03/2015 – 9:27 pm
Curiously, the place I came across the word “prosector”, which I never knew before, was in Jim Garrison’s “On The Trail Of The Assassins”, a critical examination of the Kennedy assassination.
I wonder if you also were aware of that and if that was why you brought Kennedy up.
I’m not going near the Kennedy assassination, though! Read enough about that and you get lost in the fog.
I do find this Lubitz story very peculiar indeed. I imagine that the most important part of a pilot’s training is to think of the passengers and keep them safe under all circumstances. It’s really weird, and without better knowledge I do find it implausible that a pilot would deliberately crash his passengers. Let’s wait and see.
Kind regards,
John
I’m not talking about Vyshinsky, I’m talking about you thinking someone was feeding you ricin.
You’re a joke, Trowbridge.
Just your paranoia from you, Dreolin, as I have no guns, and only one USA passport.
And are you claiming that I didn’t pass out, and have to be taken to Danderyd Hospital by ambulance?.
I even have the results of the catscam it gave me which was unable to establish what was wrong with me.
And posting on the internet has proven the best means of stopping such attacks, like when Sapo, the Swedish counter intelligence service, stopped a John Brennan hit squad from hunting me down in Sweden in February 2009.
Anybody watching Ch4? Worthy of Fox News. Very long ad breaks. Two snake oil salesmen selling their wares/lies.
Must say that I never registered the word before, John, though I have read Garrison’s book several times. Even have it in the small library I have in this apartment.
It is an important document of the American assassinations of the 1960s, showing that former CIA director of assassination William King Harvey aka William Wood was hot of the trail of what Garrison was up to.
Can’t say that I blame you for staying away from such killings as investigations of them, starting with the James altgens photo, have just become an unending battleground for the so-called conspiracy theorists.
It’s unbelievable people could be letting the nightmare of a totalitarian Scotland become reality. The government want to make every child a ward of the state, take away a parent’s rights to their child’s upbringing. To compile a database of the private life of every family, a database the parents have no right to see but which will be shared with other organisations.
This is one parent’s story.
http://nosnp.com/2015/03/26/snp-state-guardians-a-parents-story/
Trowbridge
There has been an enormous amount of work put into discrediting Garrison, and an enormous amount of work put into defending him. He’s a liar because of this, and he isn’t because of that, and around and around we go.
You see? You just get lost in the wilderness of mirrors.
The word occurs during the cross-examination of Lieutenant Colonel Dr Pierre Finck by Assistant District Attorney Alvin Oser, probably around page 248.
Kind regards,
John
Reading about the Kennedy Assassination reminds me of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (trans. Edward Fitzgerald):
XXVII
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door where in I went.
Kind regards,
John
The use of the word, prosector, occurred on p. 291 in the paperback edition I have, and was explained by a short, rare footnote at the bottom.
If I had to use the word somewhat incorrectly somewhere, I cannot think of a better place to use it than now with the French prosecutor.
Fred, what do you consider wrong in principle about authorities checking on children’s welfare? Parents have been losing rights over “their” children for, well, decades at least. Children were parents’ property in the past. It’s only fairly recently that parents lost the right to hit their children.
Yep, that’s the one I have, T.
John
Fred
26/03/2015 10:11 pm
I can well imagine that it would be very frightening for a child to have this happen to them.
But the story does not seem to make a lot of sense to me as it is presented. Specifically, there is no mention of this happening to any other child in this class. Why is that? My immediate question to my child if this happened to him/her would be: “Was this just you, or did other children get called out before and/or after you?” And if the answer was yes, I would undoubtedly refer to that in the narrative and probably get together with other parents too.
I also wonder how, if the parent does not have a copy of the notes, she can reproduce the questions so precisely, because there is no way a child of that age could remember all that, barring eidetic memory. Perhaps she’s got hold of a blank list, of course.
There has to be more than this to the story. I wonder if some kind of problem, falsely or not, had been reported to the authorities.
Kind regards,
John
“Fred, what do you consider wrong in principle about authorities checking on children’s welfare? Parents have been losing rights over “their” children for, well, decades at least. Children were parents’ property in the past. It’s only fairly recently that parents lost the right to hit their children.”
Have you read about the Hollie Greig affair? It’s the authorities who were doing the abusing and the state that covered it up.
People on this blog do seem to have some dual standards. Would you be saying that if was the Westminster government doing it?
“But the story does not seem to make a lot of sense to me as it is presented. Specifically, there is no mention of this happening to any other child in this class. Why is that? ”
It’s going to be happening to every child in Scotland. The Nazis have declared every child in Scotland is at risk so they are going to take over from parents and abolish the rights of parentage. They want to compile a database of every detail of every child’s personal life.
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2012/11/7143/9
From Fred’s link:
I find this nearly universal these days; taking a purchase back to a shop, doctors’ receptionists, complaining that I can no longer pay my council tax by writing a cheque, telephone call centres – just about everything, really. It seems that the standard procedure when public or customers are dissatisfied is to make irrelevant excuses, belittle the complainant or invalidate the complaint, stick up for colleagues or the organisation – anything but actually take responsibility.
Everyone is so scared of losing their job that they don’t dare be anything but jobsworths. All the humanity is being leached out of our everyday interactions.
Fred, I was asking what was wrong in principle. I agree that in the current social climate (see my comment 11:28) it could be misused.
People can turn really nasty when they understand that you are not scared of them, and not prepared to just accept it, too.
J
Clark, how are you feeling?
Kind regards,
John
“Fred, I was asking what was wrong in principle. I agree that in the current social climate (see my comment 11:28) it could be misused.”
In principle it’s the sort of thing a totalitarian government does and if it could be abused it will be abused.
They are declaring every parent in Scotland an abuser not to be trusted with their own children. How about if the Westminster government had done this and made Jimmy Savile a state guardian?
On these comment threads I’ve had months of abusive comments from Macky. The majority here condemn me for saying so and asking incisive questions. This morning I wrote:
Fred, I think you’re pointing out the SNP because you’re opposed to them when in fact the problem is much wider and more generalised. It’s in each of out hearts.
Fred, they gave Savile the run of Broadmore hospital and the BBC gave him children’s programmes to host. Westminster and the London-based establishment just had a head start.
You haven’t shown that “they are declaring every parent in Scotland an abuser”.
John Spencer-Davis, I got my antibiotics thanks. I’m pretty much same as average for me; not exactly down, but nothing to be pleased about. Must get to bed soon though. Thanks for asking; how’s yourself?
“Fred, I think you’re pointing out the SNP because you’re opposed to them when in fact the problem is much wider and more generalised. It’s in each of out hearts.”
Yeh sure, the government at Westminster are not to be trusted but a Nationalist government in Scotland can arm the police, compile a national database and take a parents rights over their children.
At least I’m consistent in my opposition to authoritarianism, some don’t seem to care so long as it’s their political doctrine doing the dictating.
Parents care about their children, politicians don’t.