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.
Resident Dissident
27/03/2015 11:00 pm
The trouble is, if you aren’t the police then you start running into libel laws pretty quickly when you shift focus to living people.
Kind regards,
John
What is it with former ambassadors and Russia !?
Perhaps having been there and having some knowledge of how KGB operatives behave they are just better informed and are capable of independent thought rather than relying on the gospel according to Noam Chomsky and Saker, who both hate the US so much they decided to go and life there.
Never mind abour former UK ambassadors to Russia Macky. What about the current ambassador to Ukraine who was instrumental in planningt the civil-war. This is from 2013 in which parliamentarian Oleg Tsarev explains what is known about the “TechCamp” project to foment civil-war in Ukraine through the good offices of US ambassador, Geoffrey Pyatt. What is most impressive though is how quickly the speaker calls Resident Dissident’s fascists to order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFpKwEm43n0
John Spencer Davis
These matters were reported many years ago by Rochdale’s Alternative Paper. I would have thought that the current enquiries would be perfectly with their rights to interview the NO 2 at the Home Office at the time.
Resident Dissident
27/03/2015 11:07 pm
Oh, certainly, if by “current enquiries” you mean police enquiries. And any reporter is perfectly entitled to ask if someone knew about Smith’s history or even was involved in Smith’s history. (If that is what is in your mind. I’m not sure.)
Reporting such allegations is a different matter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2683533/I-ll-sue-links-untrue-paedophile-claims-says-Tory-grandee-Peter-Bottomley.html
Kind regards,
John
I was wondering what Craig’s reaction is to the news that Amanda Knox is now completely exonerated.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/?s=amanda+knox
The family of Meredith Kercher tell Sky News they are “surprised” by the ruling, which ends an eight-year legal saga.http://news.sky.com/story/1454247/knox-and-sollecito-acquitted-of-kercher-murder
“calls Resident Dissident’s fascists to order”
Oh dear the needle appears to be stuck on your KGB gramophone player that you got when your last trip to Detsky Mir went a little astray.
However your standard KGB tactic went dealing with dissenters ( the ever delightful Macky of course referred to one prominent dissenter Piontkovsky as a loon – which is of course another old technique, which is comong back into fashion, among your friends) really isn’t that funny when it lead to real people being thrown into prison. In this case a left wing anarchist from the Crimea, who perhaps deserves just a solidarity from those here who profess to be left wing anarchists.
https://libcom.org/news/aleksandr-kolchenko-i-am-not-terrorist-i-am-citizen-ukraine-20112014
Anon
27/03/2015 10:18 pm
Your remarks illustrate pretty clearly who the deviant is.
J
The NY Times earns its keep with statist propaganda: take the international disgrace of US government mental torture by solitary confinement, and turn it into Gideon’s trumpet – a heartwarming, uplifting, and entirely homegrown story.
Not a word about the legal imperatives and concerted international disgrace impelling the US to reform:
¶20 of the Committee Against Torture, CAT /C/USA/CO/3-5
¶20 of the Human Rights Committee, CCPR/C/USAA/CO/4
It’s propaganda rule Number One: The US government must be seen to have absolute autonomy. No commitments or agreements motivate its decisions. No independent international authorities exist. If the US stops torturing helpless human beings, and complies with the law, the outside world has nothing to do with it.
“Oh, certainly, if by “current enquiries” you mean police enquiries. And any reporter is perfectly entitled to ask if someone knew about Smith’s history or even was involved in Smith’s history.”
Yes of course that is the way it should be done – those who remember my comments on the Assange case will know that I am not keen on trial or acquittal by the internet when serious crimes are concerned.
Resident Dissident; “they are just better informed and are capable of independent thought”
Sure that must be it ! 😀
So much better informed than simple bloggers, that all their analysis & predictions only turn out accurate if you turn them on their head !
One simple blogger got 10 out of 10 of his predictions right,
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.fr/2015/02/the-maidan-one-year-later.html
Compare with Craig’s record;
He was quick off the mark to condemn a non-existent Russian “invasion” of the Ukraine; no Russian bullets had been fired, yet he was actually comparing this non-invasion with the Crime Against Humanity of Iraq ! He refused to condemn a violent overthrow of a democratic government; although he made fun of the BBC for refusing to call the Egyptian Coup a “Coup”, he could not bring himself to call the violent take-over in the Ukraine a “Coup”; He refused to accept that Western shenanigans played any role in stirring up the opposition to take to the streets, (despite the leaks phone calls & admitted funding); He was so very very reluctant to accept that there were fascists involved in the new set-tup in Kiev, to the extent of sharply rebuking Mary when she linked to articles detailing this, and when he could no longer pretend that there were no fascists involved, he could not even bring himself to have the grace to apologize to Mary; he is so very very reluctance to accept the strong possibility that third party snipers were responsible for the carnage at the demos, despite reports circulating indicating exactly that. He was quick to call the already agreed & pre-existing stationing of Russian troops in the Crimea an “Invasion”; he admitted that any referendum in the Crimea would be a “yes”, yet wanted any referendum to be delayed, possibly giving Kiev time to make such a referendum impossible to be taken; despite admitting the inevitable “yes” of any referendum, he was scathing about the fact that the Crimea population democratically did vote for “yes”. He actually tried to blame the Odessa Massacre on “club wielding Russians”, and predicted that the victims would turn out to mostly young Russian men, whereas the victims were all locals Ukrainians, with women & children among the dead. Etc, etc..
I think that most UK politicians are fools or professional liars; fools because they come straight from University to the Westminster bubble, no real experience with dealing or understanding normal people, or how the real World works, liars because they speak only the official propaganda line that their careers depend on.
Troughers
MPs with homes in London claim £1.3m to sleep elsewhere
Nearly 50 MPs claimed expenses for renting a flat or staying in hotels in London despite owning property in the capital.
March 27 2015
The practice cost the taxpayer more than £1.3 million over the past three years, according to Channel 4 News. Many of the MPs adopted the tactic after changes to Westminster rules after the expenses scandal in 2009.
When mortgage expenses were banned, many switched to letting out their homes instead, in some cases charging as much as £3,000 a month. Then they made use of an allowance for £20,000 a year in London rent…. paywall
/..
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4395514.ece
Andrew Lansley owns a flat in Pimlico with his wife but received more than £7,000 to stay in hotels.
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MPs set for second-home windfalls
David Willetts could make more than £1.8 million in profit if he sells his second home in Havant whilst Labour’s John Denham could earn £1.4m on his in Southampton….
Sir Menzies Campbell….paywall
March 26 2015
Thirty MPs stand to make hundreds of thousands of pounds of profit each if they sell their taxpayer-funded second homes after May, it emerged yesterday.
The politicians, who are stepping down at the general election, could make an estimated £9 million between them. The homes were partly funded with an allowance that has been scrapped since the scandal over MPs’ expenses.
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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4393207.ece
Who is the ‘nameless’ person at 10.45pm?
Mary
I can’t see any comment at 10:45 pm?
John
The needle’s stuck, but stuck within the groove. You have consistently supported the fascist forces in Shyrokino who daily bombard the resident forces trying to make out that those in control of the village are bombarding the AZOV forces. Just answer me this. How can that be when under the ceasefire they should have retreated from the area?
So while you keep supporting the fascists I’m going to keep calling you a fascist supporter.
[cm-org.uk – again no sign of any missing comments from RobG, but we don’t get to see everything the spam filter rejects]
Mods seem to have stopped this thread as well (and no doubt some of my comments).
I’d just like to add that now back on other forums (principally CIF), after months of computer problems, I’ve never seen it so angry out there.
No idea if the Stepford Wives will allow this one to pass, either.
[cm-org.uk – originally posted 23:15]
Clark, really, you’re an intelligent man and, if you use your intelligence you would stop alluding any further to your visit to Fred or, for that matter, any personal information you gained on Fred from your personal meeting. I would’ve thought that there is a presumption of confidence that you don’t cross lines. Further. it is getting embarrassing for some of us.
I should also remind you of your comment on here to the effect that Fred is a nice guy and, furthermore, I believe you have had the benefit of his hospitality. Respect that and respect him.
Fred, especially when you compare with people like RepublicofCheapOil or RepublicofFunnyMoney, is not a bigot. He is absolutely right–spot on–on his perspectives of Nationalism and Faith. It is obvious he has thought things through for himself. That is what is called ‘self-knowledge’. I honestly believe he is not a liar or a propagandist.
You Clark like, most of us, I am sure are a good person and your heart is essentially in the right place, even if you don’t listen to it enough. Mind-over-matter is a great thing but mind-over-heart, I’m not sure. One get’s the impression that you believe you can sort out your inner world through discussion on this blog. Not in a hundred lifetimes! That is just one more form of escape, while you fool yourself that you are contributing to a better world, a better Society. No, you need to find other paths to your Inner World, while keeping a tab on the Outer. You have sensitivity, you may even feel sometimes that it is too much sensitivity. However, you are going to have to sort out your confusion to channel that sensitivity and you’re not going to do that through analysis-paralysis on here.
Stay well, and forgive me if I’m being personal. I’m coming at this as an observer and trying to be as objective as possible, with the minimal information one can glean in a chat-room such as this.
[cm-org.uk – originally posted 18:32]
Mary thunders
Getting sillier and sillier now.
“The commenter @ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/03/impunity/comment-page-8/#comment-516297
cannot or will not acknowledge that the produce grown on stolen or occupied land is often mislabelled as ‘Produce of Israel’, a lie and probably an offence under the Trades Description Act to boot.
Check The Label – Boycott Israeli Produce
CAMPAIGNS / Posted by Friends of Al-Aqsa / Monday, 05th January, 2015
Boycott Israel……
followed by God knows how many lines of stuff we all know already…ho hum!…”
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Yes, Marykins, I also know all about the BDS campaign and have no objection to it; after all, the UK’s a free country.
But my post just said that I shall resolutely continue to ignore it on the same grounds.
What’s silly about that? 🙂
[cm-org.uk – originally posted 19:20]
Macky
“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 !”
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You should have read my post more carefully, Macky.
Do you know whether all Israel citizens – Jews and Arabs – have ID cards? And do you know what what information they contain – about both Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel?
BTW, how does your link back up your claim of discrimination? It essentially says that there is an Israel state whose citizens (“Israeli citizens”) have a (very large – about 130 in all) nu;ber of nationalities.
Why iis that scurrilous and gratuitous attack at 10:18 still extant? What exactly are the values of Craigs mods?
I don’t quite Get This US Liberal R2P Thing..”Responsibility To Protect” What a Bunch Of Complete Left Wing Twats..Not One Of These Arseholes Has Ever Told The Truth About 9/11..Not Noam Chomsky…and Not Any Of These People’s Books I Have Read..Like Naomi Kline’s Disaster Capitalism ..or The Other Naomi..I have Read Her Books Too…Letter To America was it..well of course..mostly true..
But None Of Them Will Actually Be There When The Bombs are Falling Down..The Only Female American I do Have Massive Respect For is Susan Lindauer..Cos Her Book Extreme Prejudice is An Even More Exciting Read Than Craig Murray’s Murder in Samarkand…and She Replied to me..when I asked her what she knew about what has happening in Syria..about 3 or 4 years ago..before it all kicked off. I just emailed her…via some website..and she replied..
And Yet We are most of us still in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Europe and The USA..
Being Drowned with Stuff like this..The Propaganda..Well Of Course (and like The Clash sung..and some of it is True)
The R2P Liberals..The Left of the USA..are Even Worse Than The Right..”We Just Wanna Fkin Kill”
How Many Wars Have We Launched From LANCASHIRE Recently?
So I wrote this..
Why The FUU@CK Should I Give a Shiite what is Happening In The Yemen..I Vaguely Rememeber when I was about 7 Years Old..We Had British Soldiers in Aden…That is About The Only Fkin War I could Remember..and Isn’t Aden in The Yemen…??
Look If The Americans and The Israelis and The Shia Muslims and The Sunni Muslims..want To Kill Each Other…
Leave Them To It
They are Fkin Loonies
Lets look at what we can do here in our own country rather than kill people in other countries that have nothing whatsoever to do with us…
Leave Them To It
If they want to Kill Each Other..Don’t Get In The Way..Let Them Do It
Stupid CUNTS
Can we just get on with our lives now..Here and Now…where we live.
Oh and I wrote This Too..You Won’t Like It..
Christopher Spivey, The number of people like you who do the things you do is frighteningly low..particularly people who do it under their own name..and I don’t know 108Morris108’s real name..but I have been following him for years..I think he is Jewish..from Leeds…but I am not prejudiced with regards to people in Leeds..in fact I definitely Shagged a Gorgeous Blonde Girl (Elaine)..in Her Own Flat in Leeds..though to be honest I preferred her mate(Annette)..I didn’t ask if either of them were Jewish..as the two of them took me to this Gay Club..and I had the Posh Car..Rover 3.5 Litre SDI (not Ex Police – that was when I was skint())
Anyhow..after Spivey did his Woolwich thing..and I was reading what he was writing ..and all the photographs ..almost LIVE..that is when Spivey is best (I think)..The Deeper Analysis..and even more proof of the Evidence..is Incredibly Important..and of course sometimes we get it wrong..sometimes completely wrong..cos we maybe get led down a path by someone who seems a friend..in completely the wrong direction..and it goes to a black hole of nowhere..
But Spivey is Just So Fast and Can see The Light…in the detailed anlysis///\\\\ i don’t do photoshop..and I don’t do the details of tattoos..but I understand where his Eye for Fine Detail comes from..if you are going to do that…you can’t get it wrong…
Morris ..about 3 weeks ago in Thailand where he moved to about 6 months ago..just fell into a coma..in his wooden shack – his home on The River in Cambodia…He has some special friends like the Syrian girl and this Joaquim bloke from Serbia ..or some country close (this guy is really clever)..
His Youtube Videos After Woolwich…I mean Spivey Documented it Largely From the Internet..Fair Enough. Morris went There ..Took Photographs, Videos and Tried To Interview,,,people..
Everything Spivey Had Written, Morris went to Photograph..immediately afterwards..almost live…
I mean You Two Guys ..You are The Best Independent Journalists We’ve Got in The UK…well so far as I know…
Anyhow..I think Morris is O.K. in Cambodia..After 10 days..He came out of his Coma..but weren’t the local people in Cambodia so wonderful..Morris has got no money and so far as I can tell no relations..and lives his life on youtube donations (he gets money by people who donate through Paypal..and probably a little bit from youtube ads)
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Videographer Morris108 Seriously Ill in Cambodia UPDATE
http://greencrowasthecrowflies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/videographer-morris108-seriously-ill-in.html
I wish I had you two Guy’s Courage
For 2014, I Give My UK Journalist Of The Year Joint Equal
Chris Spivey & 108Morris108
World Journalist of The Year 2014..
Is The SAKER
A Russian Gets Number 1..and There Wasn’t a Close Second
How Weird Is That????
Tony
No worries, mods. This thread is rapidly turning into a soap opera, in any case, which means that concepts like ‘reality’ get quickly chucked out the window.
But can I just try my previous link again, which was an attempt to reply to Lysias…
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/westminister-paedophile-scandal-current-mps-named-again-again-calls-sex-abuse-helpline-1455805
… in order to give some evidence that this is not just ‘historical’ child sex abuse we are talking about here. There are also now a number of ongoing murder inquiries.
Just about all of these a-holes that the British public will be voting for in a few months time are aware of all this stuff, and continue to block any proper inquiries.
This is the biggest scandal in British history.
I wasn’t aware of this long running 9/11 case working its way through the Danish Court system.
In 2009, a Danish chemist called Niels Harrit co-authored a paper which concluded there was nano-thermite in 9/11 dust. In 2012 a journalist called him a crackpot and Dr. Harrit sued for libel. In 2013, Harrit lost the case and appealed to the Danish High Court. The appeal was heard earlier this month and verdict will be announced on April 9, 2015.
The evidence presented to the court by Dr Harrit makes interesting reading. I eagerly await the judgement, but I don’t underestimate the pressure which will be brought to bear on the three judges.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/911-truth-wtc-7-and-controlled-demolition-evidence-of-nano-thermite-presented-to-danish-court/5438542
Sometimes my wife and I go and see what’s left of a band we saw when we were really young..I am talking late 60’s Early 70’s and we naturally think..they are going to look at least a bit old..and sometimes we think FFS..he ain’t that much older than us…..and then other times we think FFS ..he still looks 19..well 23..maybe 35..The Bloke’s Nearly 70 Years Old..what’s He On?
So long as These Musicians Keep Playing Wtf Does It Matter How Old or Young They Look….
If They Still Can..and it isn’t about going through the Motions…it is about connecting with The Audience
Sometimes it might be 100,000 people in The Audience
and sometimes it might be 10 in front of an Audience of 100
Live Music Transcends All That …when….
and sometimes..its just one young teenager..doing her own songs at the age of 15..and she is making this old man cry his heart out tears down my face..cos she is expressing her heart and soul..live at a music venue..maybe just a pub at a jam night..she has bought herself..her guitar..and her heart and soul.
And we are all just looking at her going
WOW
Tony
I think Mary and The Bloke From Media Lens ..who’s Book I am Reading amongst several others..for my Bed Time Reading, Might Appreciate…the Headline on The The Telegraph’s Front Page…From Well The Daily Telegraphs Arch War Neocon? Irish? English? I ‘m almost certain I met him..about 6 months ago…I had my Camera with Me…I took a photo of him..only because he was behaving like a cunt..I was videoing the band…
It was Con Coughlin – or his Spittin Image..
He just wrote this
“Con Coughlin
Precisely whose wars are we fighting in the Middle East?”
Haven’t you already noticed the Change..
Well since Peter Oborne Resigned
Read His Political Class
You see Mary ..and what’s the guy called who’s book I am reading..you know the the one…You Guys Have Been Kicking a Bit..and The World is Changing…
But How The Fuck Do We Take The BBC?
And You Hopefully Know What I Mean..and Yes I am going To Pay My License Fee £145.50..even though I don’t watch it.
My Wife Does,,and I don’t expect anything for Free
Tony
As I said, it’s like a soap opera, and one can ponder on what that means with relation to people who post comments on blogs like this.
It’s a con, a circus, designed for the continual cover-up of criminals and perverts.
Britain in the 21st century
*shudders*
Villager wrote, generously – “Clark, really, you’re an intelligent man and, if you use your intelligence you would stop alluding any further to your visit to Fred or, for that matter, any personal information you gained on Fred from your personal meeting. I would’ve thought that there is a presumption of confidence that you don’t cross lines. Further. it is getting embarrassing for some of us.”
Well writ, Villager.
It’s noteworthy that Fred does not receive the same protection from abuse that some commentators receive from valid criticisms.
I learnt the hard way that Clark is really a sly, embittered, self-absorbed person with a tendency to infer secret motives of corresponding commentators in well-worded but poorly reasoned arguments that serve no other apparent purpose than to make him feel good about himself. He has no interest in granting any benefit of the doubt and will waste your time in pointless exchanges including quibbling over the details of historical commentary that he dredges up out of context to support his latest snipes.
Let anyone who has any interest in meeting with Clark in person, be forewarned that whatever transpires between the two of them should not be considered to be confidential. Clark, having no grace, class or sense of common decency, will use whatever he has discovered in circumstances that naturally import privacy and confidentiality, against you, if it suits his mischievous ways.
Regarding the Germanwings “plane crash” – I have it on good authority that it was a false-flag event orchestrated by NATO and that they hired dozens of actors to play the various parts (no pun intended) of human remains and aircraft material fragments. I’d be interested to read some commentary on how this false-flag incident was achieved technically without thermite and holograms.
Makeup artist applies finishing touches to fragment costume worn by unknown actor –
http://www.charlestondailymail.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CH/20140720/ARTICLE/140729946/EP/1/1/EP-140729946.jpg
That’s bollocks Jemand, and if it is an attempt at sarcasm it is in very bad taste in the face of grieving passengers.
By the way I checked out the Charleston Daily Mail from which your image comes which says nothing about the crash that any other newspaper is saying, east and west. So bad taste I’m afraid.
Should be “is not saying”.