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.
Regarding HS2,the Westminster governments Department of Transport released extracts of a study by KPMG,stating the UK economy would gain by £15 billion pounds,a year from HS2 With the greatest benefit falling to Greater London,and the West Midlands.
However KMPG’s full report was released after a FOI,and the report made it clear,that Northern England and Scotland would lose out to the tune of 100’s of millions of pounds every year.
HS2,won’t reach Scotland,Scotland won’t benefit at all from it yet Scots are in line to pay their share for another London vanity project.
Of course this nothing new,after 40 years of North sea oil/gas revenue,being used for Westminster/London projects.
The McCrone Report, release, awoke many to the dirty underhanded tactics of Westminster.
Totally unconvinced by the official explanation of the germanwings crash, and more troubled by Captain Patrick Sondenheimer’s behavior than that of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.
According to accounts, the Captain seems to turn control of the plane over to Lubitz before it has even gained cruising altitude, as if he is not going to be in the cockpit when it reaches Dusseldorf, makes a big deal of Lubitz then being in command while the cockpit door is locked by someone, takes no notice when the plane goes into a steep descent while Lubitz seems unaware of what is happening, knows that Lubitz can see him by video phone while he tries to get him to open the door but he cannot see that Andreas is by then unconscious, thanks to him having been given some kind of mickey, etc.
Looks like the Captain is trying to be another Air Bus 320 hero, but unfortunately, an unsuccessful one.
Why is no one looking into his background, especially if he was suicidal?
Lubitz reminds me much of FBI resident Stephen Ivens, its resident in Burbank who became increasingly depressed at what was going on at its Bob Hope International Airport, especially after his friend Peter Adler was killed in that sabotaged Suckhoi test flight in Indonesia. Ivens knew that the pilot/salesman had been killed to dry up its sales possibilities at Burband, and hoped to tell President Obama when he went out of his way to visit there on his way to a George Clooney fundraiser in May 2012.
The counter terrorists, especially the FBI, then set Ivens up as a potential assassin of the President, and when he got wind of what was afoot,he escaped into the mountains east of LA, only belatedly found near his church and home after he had been killed with a bullet to his head, and his body conveniently moved to end the mystery.
For more of this, see my articles about it on The Local in Sweden, and the Rarity Thread about Whistleblowers on this site.
Think that Lubitz thought that he was being set up by the Captain and others working for germanwings, but was surprised at it being dumped on him on the way back to Dusseldorf.
Fred, I just read your link Victims of GIRFEC data theft and SHANARRI tick box tyranny. This is about parents opting children out of state education.
My opinion is that children should attend school because there they meet other children from a wide variety of families. Being restricted to home and parents’ choices of other associates can be a narrow, claustrophobic environment where the parents have too high a proportion of the influence upon a child’s education and development.
Parents can believe some pretty cranky things and considering my mother’s overwhelming influence over my early and teenage beliefs and values, I’m very glad that I attended school which the major balancing factor in my life.
Winkletoe; “Yaffles”. Good to see that word. Do you use it to mean green woodpeckers?
I saw five buzzards this afternoon.
@ Mary
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@ Anon
Mary, thank you for all the information you posted at 3.40pm. Anon, thank you for reminding me why it is important to resist Israeli injustice. If it wasn’t for you both, I wouldn’t have written the following letter which I shall tonight send to Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s.
Fred, regarding armed police; I saw armed officers in Leeds city centre on weekend evenings in the 1980s. About three years ago I went to a nearby cafe and while waiting for my breakfast on the front patio was joined by a dozen officers all wearing holstered pistols except for one in a special suit with a tazer. I put up a comment about it on this blog, I think. The incident quite disturbed me.
Node
27/03/2015 5:24 pm
Bravo, Node. Nicely written.
Just one tiny thing: I would advise you to take the apostrophe out of “it’s” before sending. “It’s” only ever means “it is” or “it has”. It’s very confusing I know.
Warm regards,
John
Node, thank you. I already avoid Israeli produce but your table will help me further.
Well knock me over with a feather, Fred,is to quiz Milband and Cameron,Farage and Clegg,will also come under limp wristed Fred’s gaze.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/joey-essex-quiz-political-party-5409486
John Spencer-Davies
“People can turn really nasty when they understand that you are not scared of them, and not prepared to just accept it, too.
J ”
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The above neatly encapsulates the story of Habbabkuk on this blog.
Thank you, John.
Thanks, John S-D, I should have spotted that apostrophe myself. Lucky you spotted it before I sent the emails – don’t want anything to distract from the main message.
I like to turn a negative into a positive. Anon has come onto the blog to wind people up and provoke a shouting match. Some people are falling for it. I’d rather use his words to achieve the very opposite of what he wants. Brian Fujisan would probably recognise it as verbal martial arts – turning your opponent’s attack to your advantage 🙂
Node
You are very welcome. I like your thinking.
Kind regards,
John
TROUBLE ALERT
Mr Goss writes, in the wee hours:
“Paul Craig Roberts on Lithuania becoming the next failed state with similar lack of compassion shown to Lithuanian Russian speakers as was shown to Ukrainian Russian speakers.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/25/lithuanians-police-state-attack-world-washingtons-attack-paul-craig-roberts/
It finishes:
“The only possible conclusion is that unless Washington collapses from its economic house of cards or is abandoned by its NATO puppet states, Washington will destroy life on earth.
Washington is the greatest evil that the world has ever faced. There is no good in Washington. Only evil.””
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The Useful Idiots and US-haters appear to have started up again!
Should rasPutin start probing the West over Lithuania, get ready for a deluge of posts from Mr Goss, damning the evil fascist regime in Vilnius and praising Mother Russia for coming to the aid of the victims of said fascism.
Remember : you read it on here first!
Macky
“Thirty years ago, in the early eighties – the early Reagan years – I wrote an article called ‘The Rationality of Collective Suicide’”
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That’s very interesting. I should love to read that article. Could you please tell us where it was published?
Don’t worry if it was a small publisher or in a small circulation or local and/or obscure publication, a copy can be obtained without too much difficulty.
Thanks in advance.
“Well knock me over with a feather, Fred,is to quiz Milband and Cameron,Farage and Clegg,will also come under limp wristed Fred’s gaze.”
Fuck off and die nasty retard fucking cunt. Go fucking fuck yourself six fingered inbred half wit sister shagging nazi scum.
“My opinion is that children should attend school because there they meet other children from a wide variety of families.”
I think it should be the parent’s choice. The state has no right to dictate in a free country.
Anon
My pleasure, Sir!
I should have mentioned the following when praising your post/report on your stay in Israel. It is something that makes your post especially valuable
Israel has often been called an “apartheid state” on this blog. Now it is clear from your post that it is nothing of the sort. It would have been impossible for someone visiting any major South African city in the days of apartheid to have observed what you observed and reported to us.
One must conclude that the Jew-haters and Jew-baiters on here either know very little about how apartheid affected everyday life for black Africans or do know but wilfully misrepresent everyday life for Israeli Arabs.
Thank you again, Anon.
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In Israel : NO pass laws or special ID docs for Israeli Arabs. NO Group Areas Act. NO curfew. NO bar on sexual relations or marriage between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews. NO ban on political representation and voting.
Let me know if I’ve missed out anything important, won’t you.
Habbabkuk; “Could you please tell us where it was published?”
How fitting that regarding an article about stupidity, you make yet another stupid comment; you really are the Dunce of this Blog ! 😀
Habbabkuk; “NO bar on sexual relations or marriage between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews”
“With very few exceptions, Israeli civil law does not permit marriages between Jews and non-Jews within the state of Israel. The Israeli government will recognize marriages performed between Israeli Jewish citizens and non-Jews that are performed outside of Israel. Israeli law does permit marriages in Israel between converts.”
http://israel.usembassy.gov/consular/acs/marriage.html
The Dunce strikes again !
I am glad that Anon’s excellent posts have inspired Ganglion to pen a letter to various supermarkets.
Ganglion will, in turn, no doubt be pleased to hear that his proposed action has, in turn, inspired me.
I shall therefore, on my return to these fair shores, waste no time in also writing to the supermarkets he has mentioned to point out that I and millions of others do not BDS and that we consider the actions of Ganglion and his ilk – based on what they write on blogs, etc – to be inspired less by compassion for the Palestinians and more by anti-Jew sentiment.
The letter will end by assuring them that if any was foolish enough to give way to this sort of pressure, I should take my custom away from them and give it to businesses which oontinue to do stock Israel produce.
Habbabkuk; “NO pass laws or special ID docs for Israeli Arabs”
“Arab leaders have also long complained that indications of “Arab” nationality on ID cards make it easy for police and government officials to target Arab citizens for harsher treatment.”
http://electronicintifada.net/content/lawsuit-challenges-israels-discriminatory-citizenship-definition/8767
Another Dunce special !
” Ask them if they think Scotland would have made the same bank regulation mistakes as the city of London led Westminster government? ”
” In April 2007, the SNP leader was quoted as saying: “We are pledging a light-touch regulation suitable to a Scottish financial sector with its outstanding reputation for probity as opposed to one like that in the UK, which absorbs huge amounts of management time in gold-plated’ regulation”. ”
No, they’d have made their own regulation mistakes which would’ve made things much, much worse.
Macky
But surely your article WAS published somewhere, if only in some obscure Trotskyite journal or whatever?
Or were you in the habit of writing articles for your own, personal edification with no thought of sharing them with a slightly wider public?
So don’t be shy: as I said, I should like to read your article and to do that I should be grateful if you would tell us where and when it was published.
Node
I don’t know how best to break this to you but the poor menial burdened with the task of having to read your letter will most likely bin it on sight as the work of yet another anti-Israel obsessive of the sort he receives perhaps five to ten times a day in a similar vein.
But if he has a bit of wit about him he might like to reply by asking how much produce you are currently boycotting from countries with human rights records far worse than that of Israel.
“But surely your article WAS published somewhere”
Habbabkuk, Macky was quoting somebody. Go to her link.
“The co-pilot on the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday was hiding an illness from his employers, prosecutors said on Friday, as legal experts warned that the airline’s parent company, Lufthansa, could face compensation claims of hundreds of millions of dollars.
“Düsseldorf prosecutors said in a statement they had found a torn-up doctors’ note signing 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz off work on the day of the crash, when the co-pilot locked the plane’s captain out of the cockpit and seemingly flew the Airbus deliberately into a mountainside, killing all 150 people on board ..
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/germanwings-co-pilot-andreas-lubitzs-background-under-scrutiny
Fuck off and die nasty retard fucking cunt. Go fucking fuck yourself six fingered inbred half wit sister shagging nazi scum.
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Now, now Joey,temper,temper,youd better not,show up to your ITV2 debate,with that kind of condescending attitude.
Habbabkuk; “NO Group Areas Act.”
The Dunce doesn’t even know of Jewish only settlements !;
https://www.afsc.org/resource/israel%E2%80%99s-settlement-policy-occupied-palestinian-territory
“Arab leaders have also long complained that indications of “Arab” nationality on ID cards make it easy for police and government officials to target Arab citizens for harsher treatment.”
If you call extended questioning “harsher treatment”, then yes. It’s quite understable really. I received about 10 minutes questioning at the airport whilst the man in front of me (surname Habib) received about 15 minutes. I’m sure he’ll live.
Dreoilin
You are right and I was wrong about the article and Macky.
What is especially annoying about it is that I allowed myself to think for a brief moment that Macky would actually be capable of penning anything more substantial than a little ejaculatory-type squib on the internet.
Perhaps there is some truth in the saying that stupidity can be contagious…. 🙂