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.
Node
Do you really think you can provoke Anon with the above drivel? I’ll bet you’re just bull-shitting and haven’t written a single letter to anyone.
Pathetic! š
“Youāre correct, of course, Iām a nobody.”
Glad we’ve cleared that up, Node. Just carry on. Boycott your tins. Nobody cares.
Republicofscotland
Have you realised that no serious poster is bothering to respond to you?
But do carry on if it’s part of your therapy! š
Republicofscotland, 8:20 pm; I remember the incident well. Fred called me racist for revealing that he isn’t ethnically Scottish, and to make a point I quoted back his own “fuck off and die” at him, though I omitted his usual “retard” from the end and I retracted it immediately.
I have some sympathy for Fred, who mostly only gets abusive in response to others’ abuse. But on that occasion I’d been neither abusive nor racist, and Fred was presumably angry because he’d been pretending to be Scottish for propaganda purposes and I’d exposed him.
Anon
“Glad weāve cleared that up, Node. Just carry on. Boycott your tins. Nobody cares.”
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A minor correction if I may be so bold, Anon : I think Node will probably focus on fruit and veg, which are perishable.
After all, tins have a long shelf-life and may well withstand Node’s boycott, perhaps even surviving longer than he does! š
Anon “Nobody cares”
Ha ha. Then why have you written 5 emails about it?
“The evidence is not merely anecdotal. Strong evidence exists that children are most often abused by those closest to them.”
You mean when they are abused by the state it doesn’t go to court.
You want children brainwashed then forced to inform on their parents and I don’t care what sort of upbringing you had that is the mark of a totalitarian state, that is what they did in Nazi Germany.
emails = posts ^
Habbabkuk, oh, sorry; our comments crossed.
Republicofscotland, please pretend I’m not talking to you!
“You forget youself Fred,you have no shame.”
Fucking hell how fucking stupid are you retard?
Just which part of fuck off and die don’t you understand cunt?
Have you realised that no serious poster is bothering to respond to you
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Habb-itual Liar.
I wasn’t aware,this blog accommodated serious bloggers,as for responses,Fred appears content to,call me every foul name under the sun.
“Fred was presumably angry because heād been pretending to be Scottish for propaganda purposes and Iād exposed him.”
And you can fuck off and die as well retard.
You and your retard Nazi pall RoS can just fuck off and die together.
Fred, 8:38 pm:
Er, fuck off and die, shit for brains.
You’re just sticking up for someone we both know, and that person’s “right” (or more accurately, power) to fill a single child’s mind with utter bullshit.
Go throw up. You need to.
“Fred should try singing the song āIām Pretty ā from West Side Story.”
Bunch of fucking retard cunts.
Republicofscotland, 8:20 pm; I remember the incident well. Fred called me racist for revealing that he isnāt ethnically Scottish, and to make a point I quoted back his own āfuck off and dieā at him, though I omitted his usual āretardā from the end and I retracted it immediately.
I have some sympathy for Fred, who mostly only gets abusive in response to othersā abuse. But on that occasion Iād been neither abusive nor racist, and Fred was presumably angry because heād been pretending to be Scottish for propaganda purposes and Iād exposed him.
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Clark.
Yes that sound about right,of course Fred knows I’m Scottish,yet when you mentioned his non-Scottish birth he hit the roof,strange that.
Anyway Clark, its heartening to see you,comment without the need for self-degradation,not that you need it,but funding for people with long term mental health problems,is sadly on the wane.
Fred, it’s uncanny. I gained some suspicions towards the end of our time together, but I only really learned the extent to which you would let your selfishness overrule your morality and humanity on these comment threads.
Of Craig’s various types of unionists, you currently fit the category “evil”. Sorry. I truly am sorry. Idiot human that I am, I still like you.
Yes, Clark, green woodpeckers. Always a couple around here, attacking the grass in their unwoodpeckerly way. The name yaffle seems so appropriate for their evocative laugh, and even seems to suit their liquid, buoyant flight.
Good to see and hear of healthy buzzard populations. When I see one occasionally, it’s usually being “shown the door” by a pair of crows.
Something stinks about this latest aircrash, though to be honest, I haven’t taken a great deal of notice of it..Despite being somewhat older than Con Coughlin..I have been working incredibly hard this week…in my back Garden..with the help of my 27 year old son..rebuilding our Garden Fence…You might think that easy..but I have also got to rebuild the garden wall..The idea..is that both fence and the wall will last longer than me..
So I had a quick look…
I thought FFS..sure I can believe that…except well…they didn’t know who were all the passengers on the plane…now come on…but well O.K…
Then I looked at the videos and the HD photographs of the wreckage..
I could see helicopters..I could even see “Rescuers” walking on the Ground between the Rubbish Strewn Everywhere..On Both Sides of Two Mountain Peaks…I couldn’t see any Dead Bodies..Nor Aircraft Seats..but a bit of Aircraft Wreckage..One Piece of Metal and One Wheel with a Tyre on it…
I thought well O.K…these Things happen..
But why the fck is the Rubbish Strewn the Other Side of The Mountain as Well?
I am not claiming that No One Died…
But If That Aircraft was Flown Into The Ground On One Side of a Mountain..The Debris would Not Be The Other Side Of The Mountain as Well.
So If This Story is Real..and Everyone Died..Then The Aircraft Was Blown Up in The Sky By a Bomb.
Well I’m only having a quick look at The Evidence…
Has anyone else analysed it??
I’m very tired and maybe completely wrong.
But I can still do it.
Have You Seen The Crisis Actors on American TV?
Their Best Friend Has Just Died..and they cant stop laughing and smiling at each other..wtf…If My Best Friend Had just died..I wouldn’t be in an American TV Studio..Laughing and Joking…
And you think I am making this up…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMIHjxENV2g
(that should be one mountain peak..two sides of one mountain..I used to fly Gliders..the highest I got..all by my own skill and the power of the sun was 5.500 ft…so I thought wow..lets fly this thing..I wasn’t really supposed to go beyond gliding range of Sutton Bank..but I did..it was such a beautiful day)
Nearly 4 hours later..I landed..they said where the fck have you been…The other side of Thirsk..but I thought I was allowed..cos I did a Retrieve The Previous Week..
They told Me..It’s Your Job..Tonight You are Working Behind The Bar..at Sutton Bank, Yorkshire Gliding Club…England.
Tony
Of Craigās various types of unionists, you currently fit the category āevilā. Sorry. I truly am sorry. Idiot human that I am, I still like you.
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Steady,on Clark, calling Fred evil,is a bit over the top,misguided,arrogant,angry and a useful idiot, to boot, for the establishment,but evil,I think not.
“Fred, itās uncanny. I gained some suspicions towards the end of our time together, but I only really learned the extent to which you would let your selfishness overrule your morality and humanity on these comment threads.”
I thought I told you to fuck off and die.
“Steady,on Clark, calling Fred evil,is a bit over the top,misguided,arrogant,angry and a useful idiot, to boot, for the establishment,but evil,I think not.”
What a pair of fucking Nazi retard cunts, fuck off and die.
No group areas within Israel proper (as opposed to the Occupied Territories)?
High above Nazareth, an Israeli mayor wants to keep his city Jewish ānow and foreverā.
Careful,Tony Opmoc,straying from the official,narrative,regarding the recent plane crash,will lead only, to howls of derision from the party faithful.
Republicofscotland, 8:51 pm; thanks for your concern. I could do with psychotherapy, but this is much misunderstood as “treatment for a mental health condition”. My former therapist put it very differently, saying that in therapy I was benefiting from help with an emotional problem.
I’m quite a vulnerable person, and people like me attract abusers like weaker animals attract carnivorous predators. Fred, sadly for him, has turned out to be another abuser. The previous abuser I was close to wrecked my social life by telling half-truths and faking victimhood. That’s what abusers do; they cut their victims off from their support network. That’s why children should go to school, because some parents, such as my late mother, are abusers.
I’ll be OK, thanks. I’m tougher than I look. I’d have to be or I wouldn’t have got this far.
Even if the copilot did what it is suggested he did, we don’t know why he did it, and we don’t know that no government was involved in inducing him to do what he did. He might, for example, have been offered money for his family. He might have been blackmailed, with threats to his family, if he didn’t commit suicide in the murderous way that he did. Both carrot and stick might have been involved.
“Iām quite a vulnerable person, and people like me attract abusers like weaker animals attract carnivorous predators. Fred, sadly for him, has turned out to be another abuser. ”
Look which part of fuck off and die didn’t you understand.
I only flame people when they make it personal, if you don’t like being flamed don’t go making it personal if you do you get flamed as who you are.
Understand yet stupid?
Republicofscotland, 8:51 pm; thanks for your concern. I could do with psychotherapy, but this is much misunderstood as ātreatment for a mental health conditionā. My former therapist put it very differently, saying that in therapy I was benefiting from help with an emotional problem.
Iām quite a vulnerable person, and people like me attract abusers like weaker animals attract carnivorous predators. Fred, sadly for him, has turned out to be another abuser. The previous abuser I was close to wrecked my social life by telling half-truths and faking victimhood. Thatās what abusers do; they cut their victims off from their support network. Thatās why children should go to school, because some parents, such as my late mother, are abusers.
Iāll be OK, thanks. Iām tougher than I look. Iād have to be or I wouldnāt have got this far..
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It’s good to see you’re coping well Clark,and reading your comments,over recent weeks,it would appear you have no problems defending your corner.
Of course light hearted banter,can often become more,of a heated debate,and with that in mind its better,not to take comments too seriously,but I’m sure you already know that.
Unfortunately,one or two,in here,haven’t cottoned on yet.
Fred, I understand better than you could possibly give me credit for. I hope matters improve for you.
“Fred, I understand better than you could possibly give me credit for. I hope matters improve for you.”
I’m doing fine.
You were the one with problems.
@Habbabkuk, no good finding differences between South African apartheid, and the Israeli version, as Aparthied is Aparthied, ie the system that makes explicit distinction between categories of citizens, so in Israel, it privileges Jewish citizens and discriminates against non-Jewish, and particularly its Arab citizens.
This is what people mean when they call Israel an Aparthied State; really simple, but perhaps not simple enough for you !