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 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.
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Fred,you should seriously consider taking the Rorschach test,it could,shine some light,on your anger issues.
http://theinkblot.com
PS.
Get back to me and let me know the result.
Fred, 9:25 pm:
Good. You’ll be able to cut out the lying and swearing then, won’t you.
So you’d have had me believe. You tried. You’re trying again. But actually my problems stem from the inferior morality of some around me. In the right company I do very well, but good company can be hard to find in this age of selfishness and corruption.
“Fred,you should seriously consider taking the Rorschach test,it could,shine some light,on your anger issues.”
Fuck off and die retard.
Clerk, Fred, please …. just leave it, there’ll be no winners in this one, you’ll hurt each other and the blog. Just leave it. Please.
“Good. You’ll be able to cut out the lying and swearing then, won’t you.”
Are you calling me a liar cunt?
Call me names I call you names.
Get that retard?
“Clerk, Fred, please …. just leave it, there’ll be no winners in this one, you’ll hurt each other and the blog. Just leave it. Please.”
There aren’t meant to be winners.
Over the years I’ve found that people who’s beliefs are based on faith and emotions rather that logic invariably turn to name calling, they always try to reconcile the difference between what they want to believe and what is real by a fault in me.
I long ago gave up trying to argue with them it’s pointless. If they want a rational discussion that’s fine, if they want to make it personal they get flamed. End of story.
Anon and Habbabkuk, the Vladimir and Estragon of Craig Murray’s blog.
Over the years I’ve found that people who’s beliefs are based on faith and emotions rather that logic invariably turn to name calling, they always try to reconcile the difference between what they want to believe and what is real by a fault in me.
I long ago gave up trying to argue with them it’s pointless. If they want a rational discussion that’s fine, if they want to make it personal they get flamed. End of story.
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So Fred,after years of blogging on many sites,what have you learned?
Well if this blog is anything go by,not very much,it would appear,you still haven’t learned to deal with sarcasm.
Macky at 7:55 pm. I’d save your money if I were you (is there a charge?) Even if there isn’t a charge it would be too expensive. The second speaker, “Quentin Peel, is a senior fellow at the Chatham House Europe Programme” and he’s going to spout nothing but the government piss-flow. Chatham House was one of the funders of the illegal coup according to Yatsenyuk. So unless somebody was going to tear him apart for that diabolical lesson in modern democracy I, for one, would not want to be there. Anyway, london as usual.
“Well if this blog is anything go by,not very much,it would appear,you still haven’t learned to deal with sarcasm.”
Yes I have. If the retards get sarcastic I tell them to fuck off and die.
It’s easy, I can keep it up as long as you like.
Fred, but it was you arguing that parents should have complete, unquestioned dictatorial control over “their” children, and you “didn’t care” what had happened to me as a child. You discounted some of the evidence (mine and others’) to support your emotional, faith-based belief. You made it personal by not caring about me being abused when a child. So you ended up deceiving and swearing. All (apparently) because you so hate the SNP. But you and I both know it runs deeper than that.
Keep going Node and Macky.
The Israel stooges here are most probably working from a manual created in 2003 called The Israel Project.
http://www.theisraelproject.org/what-is-tip/
A few years back its founders commissioned a ‘playbook’ from a Dr Luntz.
Patrick Cockburn
27 July 2014
The secret report that helps Israel hide facts
The slickness of Israel’s spokesmen is rooted in directions set down by the pollster Frank Luntz http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/israelgaza-conflict-the-secret-report-that-helps-israelis-to-hide-facts-9630765.html
@mary
“Anon and Habbabkuk, the Vladimir and Estragon of Craig Murray’s blog.”
So that would make you Pozzo and with typical extravagance you have a whole host of Lucky’s at the end of your rope.
One could have mentioned all sorts of differences between the racist policies of Nazi Germany and those of apartheid South Africa. In fact, I suspect apologists for apartheid South Africa did precisely that.
“Fred, but it was you arguing that parents should have complete, unquestioned dictatorial control over “their” children, and you “didn’t care” what had happened to me as a child. You discounted some of the evidence (mine and others’) to support your emotional, faith-based belief. You made it personal by not caring about me being abused when a child. So you ended up deceiving and swearing. All (apparently) because you so hate the SNP. But you and I both know it runs deeper than that.”
A perfect example of how you twist reality to suit yourself.
By wanting to discuss the government, legislation and politics rather than your personal upbringing you say I was making it personal.
Get real.
Clark
Dropped you an e-mail – check inbox and spam.
Kind regards,
John
I wouldn’t presume to know the details of Clark’s infamous visit to Fred’s croft, but judging by their exchanges here it is looking increasingly likely that there might have been some sort of homosexual advancement made by one or the other party over which this bitter falling out has taken place and about which both parties are feeling embarrassed. These things can and do happen among hippy types, especially under the influence of drugs, and so if the two deviants could find some way of settling the matter amicably then I am sure the blog’s other participants would be able to breathe a collective sigh of relief.
I’ll try again.
I see since Macky shot Habbabkuk clear out of the sky at 9.25 pm he’s called on a previously absent Resident Dissident to try and change the subject (10.12 pm). However some of us here want to hear Habbakuk’s response to pure reason, rather than somebody throwing him a feeble lifeline in attempted wit at Mary’s expense.
Anon now resorts to homophobic slurs. I thought one of hasbara’s main points these days was how tolerant Israel is of homosexuals.
“I wouldn’t presume to know the details of Clark’s infamous visit to Fred’s croft, but judging by their exchanges here it is looking increasingly likely that there might have been some sort of homosexual advancement made by one or the other party over which this bitter falling out has taken place and about which both parties are feeling embarrassed. These things can and do happen among hippy types, especially under the influence of drugs, and so if the two deviants could find some way of settling the matter amicably then I am sure the blog’s other participants would be able to breathe a collective sigh of relief.”
Fuck off and die retard.
The coverup continues: Channel 4 News: MI5, the Home Office, and child abuse cover-up allegations:
That’s March 2015, folks.
On the question of Israel’s apartheid I think we might be waiting for Habbabkuk as long as we’ve been waiting for Godot.
How Thatcher’s Government Covered Up a VIP Pedophile Ring:
Now that most of the major figures are dead, the truth is emerging about the systematic sexual abuse of children by members of the British government.:
It’s well worth reading the rest of the article.
Anon, hilarious! No, no, nothing like that. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Fred; we worked together on various projects. Drugs were very nearly absent apart from alcohol, but I hardly ever drink. After some weeks an unfortunate incident caused me to leave, and then a coincidence led to me discovering a darker side to Fred.
No, the issues were pretty much as covered on this page.
Oh cheer up Fred, it’s not the end of the world 🙂
“I think we might be waiting for Habbabkuk as long as we’ve been waiting for Godot.”
Which will of course be even longer than it will probably take Mr Goss to answer the question as to what he considers to be the extent of the Russian homeland that he believes Mr Putin is bale to claim by force.
Mary; “The Israel stooges here are most probably working from a manual created in 2003 called The Israel Project.”
Even Satan himself couldn’t write a manual good enough to whitewash the crimes of the abomination that calls itself the State of Israel.
“Mr Putin is bale to claim by force.” Doesn’t seem to be in English. Can somebody please translate?
@John Goss, you’re right, I won’t be bothering; the other stooge will be spouting this claptrap & propaganda nonsense;
“The separatists have proved to be ill-disciplined gangs of thugs, brutal in their methods, with limited public support in eastern Ukraine. They are increasingly dependent on Russia as a source of volunteers and arms. The latter almost certainly included the missile that brought down flight MH17 and sharply intensified Western anger at what is seen as the Russian hand behind the insurrection.”
http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/book/Former-UK-ambassador-to-Russia-on-the-impasse-in-Ukraine-16901
What is it with former ambassadors and Russia !? 😀
Lysias
Re Cyril Smith rather focusing on the dead Leon Brittain the focus should be shifted to the still alive David Waddington who was Minsister of State at the Home Office at the time and was known to be close to Smith throughout his time in Parliament. He was also rather supportive of Smith’s disgraceful efforts in favour of the asbestos industry.
” After some weeks an unfortunate incident caused me to leave, and then a coincidence led to me discovering a darker side to Fred.”
So which part of fuck off and die don’t you understand then retard.
I keep pointing out that if you say personal things about me I will flame you and you just can’t help saying personal things about me.
Now just go fuck yourself retard.
Got it?
Fuck off and die.
Do you understand yet?
Just how fucking stupid are you, it’s simple enough.
Fuck off.