Update: In Defence of Sir Olly C

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

We are all Old Holborn: You can’t censor nor silence an idea!

In the course of putting together this blog post it came to my attention over the weekend of the Twitter storm that has blown up around the disappearance of Old Holborn. It would seem that group of Stasi-like wannabe twitters have banded to together to ‘hunt down’ (their words,) any supporters of OH. Indeed as I write they are targeting one now Chaos is Order @ Sir_ Olly_C. Sir Olly whom over the weekend has endured threats to his person, & has had his old home address plastered over the internet, with what looks like an active campaign to out his present home address is currently under way. It would therefore seem that Sir Olly is being directly targeted in a campaign of hate & harassment. This is not a legitimate, proportional or right response. This band of twitter lynch mob trolling bullies expose themselves for what they truly are a spiteful, vindictive group of haters whom are quite willing to break the law when it suits them, yet go crying to the law when they get upset with over sensitive hurt feelings, the hypocrisy & irony is all too clear.

Their wallowing whining self-pity & self-righteous manufactured offence taking is just another excuse to silence those views they don’t to like or want to see. They have brought shame to themselves, their city & their cause. They are beneath contempt. If they wish to act like a group of Stasi-esque/Nazi-esque informers of the state, then they shall be treated as such, & as such stand revealed & reviled as enemies of freedom & liberty. Their one duty is to shut the fuck up & go crawl back in to the cess pit from which they have emerged, if they can’t do this then be sure that they will stand as examples of the worst kind of human excreta.

Today I stand in support of Old Holborn, Today I stand in support of Sir Olly. I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to death your right say it! So to all those trolling bullies, that group of illiberal eternally grief-stricken, who revel & wallow unashamedly in their adopted cess pit of victimhood. You are exposed you are known, you actions & behaviour define who you are & you are the enemy within, you are a part of the problem.

Update:

As of this afternoon Old Holborn has reappeared back on the ether.

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The Disturbing And Chilling Censorship of Old Holborn

Posted on April 22, 2013 by
Old Holborn A Brush With The Law

Old Holborn A Brush With The Law

In Defence of Old Holborn:

Over the last few days the controversial blogger & prolific user of social media Old Holborn (OH) has been silently & chillingly been removed from the internet ether, his entire internet presence has literally been wiped! Now having read OH for some time indeed any who know of his blogging & twitting will no doubt have an inkling as to the tone & content of his musings. At their best OH can & does all too often for the authorities & other vested interest groups, hit the nail on the head with regard to the disparaging & parlous state of individual liberties in this country & how they are under constant threat & draconian limitations. At their worst his musings can be argued to have been deliberately bating toward certain groups, countries & classes, crass, nasty, rude, distasteful, his posts & his musings therein were in words provocative & confrontational. & I think that was the point, those on the left of the spectrum considered him ‘troll’, a ‘media whore’, may be-may be not. OH deliberately set out to challenge & to be controversial, not only toward authority but to individuals too, groups & so-called communities. He would grate purposefully, challenging you to think for yourself whether that was intended is of course debatable.

But his irreverence & disrespect of the status quo was all too real, a two fingers up at the constraints imposed by the social-economic & political structures & strictures which enslave the individual to the whims of the tribalists, communitarians & other collectivist twaddle shysters, forms & functions designed to subdue & consume the individual in to a mass of conformist stifling socialist mediocrity. Yet when all is said & done he did put his money where his mouth was, he had brushes with the law, he organised an annual march against Parliament, indeed he stood for election to that pit of venality. How many of us bloggers can say we put our heads above the parapet & stood firm on our principles in such an obvious & public way. So he kept his identity secret that was his right, doesn’t detract from his core message, well at least it ought not if you have your critical thinking cap on. But even here his privacy was to be denied to him as his identity was exposed on the internet for all see friends & enemies a like, very chilling very disturbing. From what I am aware OH had also received death threats before he was disappeared from the ether & of course no mention of plod investigating those alleged death threats.

At this time of writing it is unclear if this nuclear action were taken by himself (I for one have such a nuclear plan if needed it’s called a delete button,) or that these actions were taken by the host servers at the behest of an authority of unknown source. His so-called ‘crime’ then … ‘criminal communication through social media’… yup-thats right-correct- you read that right…’criminal communication through social media’….There’s more, ‘relating to inappropriate and offensive’ Twitter posts, WTF! This is draconian censorship, fucking illiberal bollocks! Let’s make not beat about the bushes here, put simply this means that today in the UK your opinion can & will be  viewed as a crime. Thus, the criminalization & coercive censorship of thought & its expression, ‘George Orwell 1984′ please stand up!

His faux crime then was to have made comments on Twitter under his alias, comments which were allegedly to have been made about Hillsborough, Jamie Bulger, Liverpool, Liverpudlians (scousers in general,) made on the social media site Twitter. The comments which allegedly were said to be ‘offensive’ to an individual from the Liverpool area, this person an obviously overly sensitive type. (Some would say this applies to all scousers, I personally do not ascribe to this obvious bating generality, although this person has not helped the image of scousers in general & neither has the twitter storm which has blown up over this against OH supporters over the weekend, that too must be recognised.) Yet this person & others like them have taken umbrage, & have like good little unthinking tribal-collectivists have all chosen to have hurt feelings & then got very angry at some words strung together to form a sentence. That said individual thus perceived their feelings to have been maliciously hurt by such scurrilous offensive words, so dutifully like a good little informer reported OH to the plod. OH had not nor has been so arrested or charged at the time of this writing (so much for the faux crime.)

But what he said was still reported to the Police by a twit** user simply because they didn’t like what he said, as they perceived it to be ’offensive’ simply because they did not like the content. & plod dutifully unthinking as per & duty bound duly set out to investigate. Yet what ever was said has been said & I am not here to pass judgement on what was said as I can’t, because that opportunity has been denied to me, which begs the question why have his comments been so totally removed & by whom & for what purpose? & Who stands to gain? What I am doing therefore is not supporting the content of what has been alleged, & of which I have not seen myself, indeed if such content as alleged I would have to say I too would find it personally disagreeable & indeed distasteful, but that’s my choice. Yet this is no cause for criminalising a view-point no matter how distasteful nor does it legitimise violence or threats there to. Ultimately I do stand by the maxim, I may not like what you say but I will defend to death your right to say it. Thus, what I am doing is supporting OH’s right to think, feel, write, & express what he likes, his views, his opinions as long as he is not physically harming another, & I extend such support to his supporters.

The action has left most bloggers who support free speech & individual liberty in general feeling rather angry, shaken, disturbed & chilled to the core. This is what is chilling & it is this which I find disturbing the fact that at work out in the ether there are those whom are prepared for what ever their reason, or how justified they may feel in doing so, are ready to report another person to the police simply for stringing letters together, to make up a word, which they then choose to find offensive. The police themselves are then ready to act as a heavy-handed play ground monitor & haul an individual in to the cells for questioning for making words, which somebody else has decided have hurt their delicate feelings. You really couldn’t make this shit up! A law which allows this is a bad law, it is a law so poorly conceived that every right thinking citizen has a duty to ignore such a law (oh wait I do.) Indeed I would go as far to say that some laws were meant to be broken & those laws which stifle a persons natural given right to write & express what they please are such laws which ought to be broken. For such laws are not laws for the general good they have on purpose & one purpose only to limit the rights of the individual, allowing the state to vouchsafe what may or may not be said or written.

I for one can honestly say that yes such things do concern me, but when such actions are taken they also make me very angry & determined. Indeed & as a consequence I vow that I will not be silenced by such trolling Twitter lynch mobs & other low life illiberals who can not differentiate between a persons right to say & write something, to the content of that which they write. So now let me be clear for the hard of reading, you do have a right to say what you please, but you do not have the right use the coercive powers of the state to silence views you do not like. If you so choose to resort to the state to silence a view you do not like first you lose the debate on first principles, and second that makes you a fascist, simples, you have effectively allowed yourself to become the unpaid informer of the state. All dictatorships require its network of quiet conforming compliant & unthinking informers, & it would seem that those who purposefully seek to be offended on social media are to be that network of state informants. By wilfully participating (for you do have other non state coercive choices available), this makes you anti liberal, again simples. Whether you think you are justified is neither here nor there, what you are doing is silencing a view which you have personally found to be repugnant, & you will rightly & justly be judged for that action accordingly.

Therefore it would seem that there are forces abroad & at work out in the ether, there is indeed something rotten at work, as social media is clearly & disturbingly being closed to those whose opinions & views run contrary to the accepted pc-leftist dogma of the day. Bloggers who fall foul of the approved narrative of the day are hunted by packs of demented Stasi like informers, denounced, reported to the police, criminalised & socially pariahed for having a view or for making a comment others thought inappropriate, as it offended them. To go against the vouchsafed dogma is to risk your internet blog/s & social media accounts, you even risk the safety of your family, home, your self, & even your job. That is how it begins, that is how we lose what precious little freedoms we have left, it would therefore seem that our time is now some what very short, what little of restricted speech remains that we can use is further being limited through unofficial means through the meme of ‘being offended’, backed by the coercive powers of the state.

The road we are thus embarked upon has only one destination, what ever liberties are left to us are now considered privileges by the state to be taken away upon a dubious-spurious whim, we are shifting gears. You are now shifting from low-level authoritarianism in to high gear totalitarianism, when you reach a stage where you can be denounced, hunted, reported, socially pariahed based solely upon hearsay, anecdote & hurt feelings, you have passed the point of a system of rational objective law. Once you reach that point a citizen is no more duty bound to obey such laws than a soldier is to obey an illegal order, & yes we are I fear at that point. People can meekly cower & commence self censorship of the key board & or pen or they can stand up for their natural given liberties, part of which requires them to say what the hell they like even to the point of being perceived offensive, because you can not have free speech without being offensive, it really as simple as that.

*I do know what it is supposed to mean I just think its academic definitional bollocks, a way of silencing contrary views/opinions, afterall easier to label words a faux crime rather than debate terms for that takes a critical & free thinking mind.

**Twit Any person who uses Twitter is correctly termed a Twit. I use Twitter therefore I am a Twit ;)

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Margaret Thatcher is Dead!

Posted on April 8, 2013 by
Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013

Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013

All I can say is so what! After all it is just another establishment figure in the passing, whose legacy & influence in politics which ought to have long since sailed, unfortunately remains. She didn’t prevent the expansion of the state in her tenure despite her rhetoric indeed it expanded greatly, made no move on the then EC (now another leviathan opposed freedom & democracy) despite her rhetoric & Bruges speech. In fact she did very little that she set out to do politically & or ideologically in her public statements but then she was a politican.But the reality is we should not have expected anything other, she was after all an establishmentarian through & through, & from that perspective she achieved a lot at promoting & pushing forward the establishment agenda.

Her government thus enabled & promoted the creation of today’s modern leviathan state, a state which is strongly opposed to patriotism, democracy, free markets, capitalism, sovereign independence, a national identity, & the rights & liberties of the individual. So I care not for her passing, but neither do I take satisfaction or celebrate her passing. Indeed what I do is hold her with the same contempt as do for that ‘Traitor Heath’. Of course the usual plaudits & hypocrisy will be present from commentators lauding her as a decisive yet divisive political figure (don’t they always.) & as for her myopic & deluded supporting Thatcherites well there can none better they will sing her praises, extolling again the effluvia of the mythos of her non political/ideological achievements.

No doubt they will be many, many & many more on the left celebrating with gusto & wild abandon at her passing. As I recall from my Uni days there was ‘sweepstake’ being run by the lefty establishment lecturers on Maggie, with said pot of money to go toward a party to ‘celebrate’ her passing. & that has always stuck with me, as in the end such attitudes really sum up these true believers & fellow travelling dupes. Exposing these people’s own ideological morally debased mentality & moronic & infantile outlook, & really does show them up for the kind of people they really are. Enough!

Maggie gone but not forgotten & for all the wrong reasons.

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Political Hyperbole, Media Spin, the Philpotts, and Benefits

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

With the furore raging over the case of Mick & Mairead Philpott, in light of all the recent hate mongering which that unique case has unleashed against welfare claimants in general, it is language which is untenable in the long-term as it gets us no where & only muddy’s the waters, acting to distract (deliberate?) And whilst people such as the Philpotts are indeed evil they are in reality an extreme & are not representative. Those whom cheat through fraud the welfare system per se are indeed criminal in their actions, yet they are not representative & are merely a symptom of a politically/ideologically corrupt, illiberal & undemocratic welfare system. And when all things are said & done are they not ultimately responsible for their own actions & behaviour? I ask this for whether it’s the vile extruded hate from the daily fail or myopic extruded apologia from the standard-bearer of the left the Grauniad, one would be forgiven in thinking that such people are indeed blameless in their actions & behaviour, either its the system’s fault or its the fault of society. It is thus a language which is unproductive & really only highlights the bigotry & contempt held against the socially economically deprived by those in positions (socio-economic) to know better. An examination of such hate is something which I raised last year in a post titled ‘A Socially Acceptable Prejudice’ not much has changed, & to be honest it is still a hate which finds acceptance amongst the populist tendency of certain sections of the British public, & it is something we can clearly see again today.

Clearly the benefit haters & politicians of all sides have jumped aboard the dual bandwagons underway, whether the bandwagon trundling along led by the Guardian defending the welfare system, although they are currently encircled by the bandwagoneers invective of universal righteous indignation led by the Daily Mail Fail Scream hating both the system, its supporters but especially those in it & only wish to see its end, no matter the cost & the attendant social & economic consequences of pulling the welfare rug. Thus, both sides have taking up their allotted positions within the current context of a faux moral panic about the welfare system & claimants therein. What we can be sure of is that both sides in this political panto have political capital to gain, they don’t give a toss about the people involved, this is merely politics & rhetorical grandstanding. The ‘vile’ Tories see an opportunity to kick Labour & the Lib Dims where it hurts most, whilst stomping down vigorously on the much maligned poor of the country. Yet! These people are poor & remain poor why? Due the policies of governments past & present, something the politically inept all too conveniently forget ignore. Of course we don’t call today’s poor the poor, no we call them benefit claimants, but poor they are, they are poor in financial terms & that is how we measure poverty.

For Labour’s part & the Lib Dims they are positioning themselves as champions of the welfare system which they perceive as a good in & of it self, how a system which keeps people in a state of servile dependency can be viewed as a benevolent good is beyond me, but that is their chosen & media allotted positions & they play it. This also allows them to play up to the fact the Tories are inherently rich & hate people on benefits, that they are still the ‘nasty’ party, no shit! Tell us something we don’t know already! This is simply playing to the lowest common & populist denominator in politics, playing up to the peoples inherent envy of those with money, or if you prefer the peoples class based jealousies. You recently saw it play out against the bankers & Murdoch’s, now its the turn of the Tories, yet again I might add.

But what is lost in all of this is a real debate about the state of the welfare system in this country, we can ask ourselves a simple question, is the welfare system we have currently a welfare system to be proud of? The answer if you are honest is a simple no. For the fact is the welfare system is not simply broken & in need of reform, it is categorically unfit for purpose, for it has over decades been expanded by the dictates of Liberal, Labour & Conservative government policies & social engineering gerrymandering beyond its original purpose, that of providing a short-term safety net for those out of work, & has for a significant proportion of those on welfare become an easy out. But I will make one clarification here, again the Philpotts are not in any way representative of the vast majority of people on welfare who are law abiding & seek to better themselves, to claim otherwise is trying to slander & prejudice those on welfare, done simply out pure ignorance & bigotry. On the other hand it ought to go without saying that there are those on benefits who do criminally abuse the system, it doesn’t help to pretend that these people do not exist, but again they are not representative of the vast majority of people on benefits. Benefits it has to be said are not illegal to claim as long as you are entitled to claim them & do not do so on a fraudulent basis. As for how long you are entitled to claim said benefits again is dependent upon how long your circumstances dictate your need claim, & what provisions are put in place to allow you to claim said benefit. In other words claiming benefits is not time dependent, you can claim as long as your entitled for as long as necessary meaning until such time as your circumstances change (if you want them to change.)

The reality though as noted above that the system of welfare in this country is not fit, where is the moral or ethical high ground in pretending otherwise. What is the purpose of a system of welfare which cultivates a culture of servile dependency? What purpose is served by those who proclaim a system which is clearly unfit to the rest of us, as being benevolent & a good, what is the purpose of a debate when the only views permitted are those which endorse the perpetuation of a system which is clearly morally & ethically moribund, illiberal, unjust & unfair to the rest of us, & serves no purpose other than keeping people in servile dependency to the state. But is that not the real reason for a system of state welfare, if you not for captive dependency of the citizens of said state. To be dependent upon the state simply means you are no longer free, that you accept that the state has full control over your life & how you ought to be living your life. It is the whole reason why we have such a state centric approach in this country, after all this is a country built on statism & collectivisation in all guises. The rationale to keep the people dependent upon the state, to make the state the very essence of their being. It’s why we have such a disproportionate chunk of the GDP going in to the public sector at a time when the private sector (corporatist as it is) is contracting, why we are seeing unemployment rising & it’s why the economy is stagnating & inflation steadily rising.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the welfare state in this country. There is something fundamentally wrong with a system of welfare which does not encourage or provide the individual with support in order to better themselves & to get off benefits to become self-reliant. A system which rather than promoting self-reliance only promotes dependency. There is something fundamentally wrong with a system of welfare which manifestly allows continued abuse of said system through fraud. There is something fundamentally wrong with a system of welfare which perpetuates & exacerbates socio-economic-political & cultural problems. And there is something terribly wrong with a welfare system which only encourages & actively promotes social divisions. If the politicians were serious in their rhetoric they would be advocating policies which would actually help people not only to come off benefits, but would give them the opportunity to become self-reliant & productive. The fact none of the political parties or their fellow travellers in the media are advocating such policies ought to tell all you need to know about the true intent of the political class which is to misdirect & obfuscate. The so-called debate we are seeing being played is simply mere political theatre, sensationalized by our inept media in to opposing sides because that makes it easier for them. The problem is not the welfare claimant, the problem is a system which perpetuates welfare dependency, the problem is a political class which uses welfare to further their own political ends & vested power interests. The problem rests with those sheeple whom continually vote in to office the status quo politicians & their mainstream political parties (not that outsider parties would do any better) whose own social engineering social policies perpetuate this ongoing perennial state of affairs, which those same simple indeed sheeple continually berate & bemoan.

It is therefore clear to any honest observer & commentator is that not only is the welfare system unfit for purpose, but those charged with its over sight are themselves unfit to run it, nor can they be trusted with it. Politicians, the public sector ultimately do not care about the people, they only care about their own interests & those interests require them to be in power, from where they are able to protect their own vested self interests. The welfare system is simply a means to that end, it is a tool through which state power is exercised, perpetuated & thus the power & control over the people by the political class. The mass of the unemployed, the benefit claimants in practice means a captive clientele of servile state dependents, providing the façade through which big govt/big state intervention is justified, & indeed ultimately legitimized. It is a system contrived of by those who seek to marginalize the people, to ensure the people are not free to exercise their liberty, to ensure that the people are not free to act in the pursuit of their own interests, but tying them to the dual interests of the state & political class.

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The Eastleigh By Election: An Observation

Posted on March 1, 2013 by
Say No To The Politics Of The Status Quo

Say No To The Politics Of The Status Quo

So the political class had themselves a little by-election down there in Eastleigh. Now with the mainstream media falling over themselves with their post-election analyses…blah blah…& once more totally missing the point viz results versus outcomes & what they actually mean focusing upon the trivia & misdirection telling us what they want us to focus on. As for the results, the Lib Dem’s hold on to the seat although their share of the vote is reduced, giving them 32% of the available totalling a paltry 13,342 from an eligible to vote constituency of 78, 313. Meaning in terms of outcomes is that the Libdims now have a mandate of 17% of the electorate, this then is their dear leader’s foundation where he claims that such numbers to be a ‘stunning victory’… really! Or just mere political rhetorical hyperbole? Yet even here all is not as it seems compared to the last turnout the Libdim vote is itself down on the last incumbent. The reality of such poor numbers is that they hardly a mandate make. Labour’s collapse in the vote receiving a mere 4,088, UKIP coming second with over 11,000+ of the vote giving them 28%, or 14.8 % share of the electorate. Conservatives coming third with 10,000+ (source for Eastleigh By-Election Results by Richard North EU Referendum.) For example, we can not alone by this election result predict a General Election outcome which is still two years out, nor does this election result change the political dynamics within parliament let alone the wider political map despite what the pundits & politicians would like us to believe & tell us to think. Indeed by elections of this sort by their very nature are poor canaries for such faux predictive faux analytical hyperbole, what we can say is that politics in the UK will go on as before as nothing of import has changed. So get over yourselves UKIP you came second again, in twenty years in the game & this is the best you can do, seriously?

We therefore may want to pause & ponder critically, what do the numbers actually mean in terms of the turnout, well if you’re looking for an actual meaning an observation as it were, the numbers alone do not really tell us much that we do not already know, in that with every passing election there continues to be a democratic void which widens, where there continues to be unequal democratic representation, due to poor voter turnout in that turnouts continues to be low & are getting lower with every election. What is significant about these numbers is that the continuing low turnouts in elections whether local, a by-election & or General Election are simply not getting better despite how the numbers & political rhetoric try to dress the results up. Indeed I think it is fair to say a democratic crisis is but round the corner, if we are not already in one. Thus, the politicians claim to a democratic legitimacy are spurious claims indeed, their mandates only reflective of a minority % of those whom voted whether taken locally, regionally or nationally. Where a significant % proportion of a given population whom are eligible to vote not only continue to fail to turnout to vote at any given election (& that number, those who continue to withhold their vote) can be expected to continue to rise: people it would be fair to say have  seemingly totally disengaged themselves from the current political system & processes & for good legitimate reasons. These are thus indications of a broken politics across the spectrum, local, regional & national we are seeing the people turn away from the entrenched politics of the establishment, rejecting the status quo, sticking their two fingers up at the political class, suggesting strongly that the necessary political consent of the people has been lost. Highlighting as it does the continuing failure of the political class not only to reach out to the people & connect with them, but failing to engage in any meaningful or substantive way with the people necessary to get their messages over to the people. The political class are simply failing to convince people into the voting booth, to use their vote, the ballot boxes are thus half empty, as more & more people now see through the charade of this faux democracy & refuse to partake in the great lie. What Eastleigh & other recent elections therefore teach us is that the political system in the UK is inherently unfit for purpose. What we have is a political system which is inherently undemocratic (not representative) & because of the seeming wide acceptance of postal voting fraud, the acceptance so-called ‘safe seats’ (the modern ‘rotten borough’) inherently corrupted. Because the political system here in the UK as I have often stated is a political system by the political class for the political class.

Eastleigh simply stated then is a failure of the mainstream political parties to reach out to the people, the voter. They have failed to sell their messages, this result is then further supporting evidence of the continuing disintegration of the legitimacy of the political class, it is their failure, their defeat & theirs alone. The lessons to be learned are therefore simple, the experiment that was representative democracy has failed & continues to fail shown by the continuing low voter turnouts, these results & others like them are equally also the defeats of social democracy. The people have clearly rejected and continue to reject the status quo, the people are clearly rejecting the charade of this faux democratic representation & its illiberal social democratic model. With every election we witness a defeat of the political class & their politics, it really is time for a new politics in this country a politics for all the people & not just a few.

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Police and Crime Commisioner Elections

Posted on November 17, 2012 by

No To Faux Democracy & Faux Elections

England and Wales went to the polls this past week to elect in to office Police & Crime commissioners for their ‘local’ areas (local when used by any member of the political class is a relative term.) The political class representatives pretending to be the government, have declared these elections a triumph of ‘democracy‘ (again the meaning of democracy when used by any member of the political class is a relative turn of phrase.) This is in spite of the record low turn out for any election in this country, clearly the political class as expected have missed what has gone on before their very eyes. Indeed the turn out was so low, that even the msm couldn’t ignore the poor turn out and dubious results and have all come out and made comment, and drawn their own filtered myopic false conclusions, derived as they are from within their enclosed Westminster bubble. Even the Election Commission has coined a phrase which aptly highlights shambolic nature of this shamcratic election, that it was a “comedy of errors”, indeed. And in light of the low turn out they have been concerned enough to launch an investigation, yet the mentard who pass guvmint ministers & alike bleat wax lyrical & with up beat rhetoric talking up their shamcratic  electoral process & obviously failed policy (obvious to all but them & the newly supposedly ‘elected’ PCCs.)

Why supposedly elected? Simples these so-called PCCs have no democratic legitimacy, as such they have no democratic mandate, meaning they have no recognisable authority. What they do have is a dubious & questionable lawful authority, yet they do not have the full democratic consent of the people. Thus whom do they serve? Well the short answer is they are serving those whom elected them in to office, meaning they serve only a minority interest, nothing more nothing less. Or put simply they are not representative of the majority of the people whom they claim to be representing let alone supposedly serving, hardly democratic, hardly representative.This whole shambolic political exercise was simply a costly, politically stage-managed failure (omnishambles.) Where a supposedly show case policy was allowed to be undermined by the inadequacy which is the coalition’s own specialised forte (a government even more inept than Gordon Brown’s or Tony Blair’s uberments.)

Whilst pundits and the chatterati wax lyrically about democracy & legitimacy terms which they do not in reality comprehend, for if they did they would have been more concerned about low turn outs at elections long before now. They are only concerned now because the establishment status quo foundations are beginning to look unstable & openly dubious questionable in terms of democratic legitimacy, as they rely upon the public for the vote, as the vote provides the necessary façade for their faux democratic legitimacy, where they can pretend to be representing the people. Without this faux legitimacy they would be exposed for the dictators they actually are. And yes this applies to the PCC (independents or otherwise), an elected autocrat. We can see vested interests are at work here working to maintain the establishment status quo, so displacement activity is all we are seeing in the msm, designed to give the impression of concern for ‘democracy’, whilst plans are implemented to shore up their preferred model. Through out this omnishambles, from inception through to delivery and unto present, the political class have once again showed their utter contempt for the people, but there are no surprises here.

So what’s it all mean, the low turn out that is. Well clearly and for any with open eyes we once again are seeing the people sending our elected autocrats a message. The low turn outs are simple enough to gauge, because voters simply elected to stay home out of disinterest through not feeling informed enough to go out to vote (a clear failure of government policy & implementation, it’s though they went out of their way to undermine their own policy, but the reality is this an example of the ineptness at the heart of the shambolition.) The reality is that people have simply & deliberately withheld their vote by staying home at home, also strong indications that people had wilfully spoilt their ballot papers. This is a message which is clear in its intent for nay with open eyes to see, it is message which says the people are rejecting the establishment status quo. It is the people telling those illegitimate inept over privileged numpties within the uberment & centocracy, they are  no longer prepared to take part in a charade which passes for democracy, let alone continue to take part within the faux democratic process. Indeed the low turn outs indicate strongly a whole sale clear rejection of the political class agenda (that of the formal politicising the police.)

What we have seen therefore is the people sticking two fingers up at the not only at the idea of a PCC but also up at the political class/establishment per se (viz the low turn outs in the by elections show as much.) This then is not failure of democracy nor is it damaging, this is a whole sale epic fail for so-called representative democracy and it is the people whom are rejecting representative democracy the stable forced/imposed upon us by the political class & establishmentarians a like. These results could not be any clearer, the people are not rejecting democracy, the people are rejecting the faux democracy (the shamocracy), they are rejecting the charade which purports to be a democratic process (shamcratic), they are rejecting the status quo! This was a victory for democracy not a failing, this was a victory for the people & I applaud it.

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Poppy Fascism Rears It’s Ugly head Again

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

WARNING: (This post will contain images and an opinion which some of you may find offensive, & for which I make no apologies. Personally I do not care if you are offended after all that is your choice to be offended. So you have been warned: Read on at your own discretion, discomfort and distress. I take no responsibility for how you may or may not feel about this post .)

An image which can get you arrested.

….Or the rise of cultural intolerance of the non conformists or if you prefer Cultural Poppy Totalitarianism if you will. Poppy Wearers Against Free Expression, Poppy Wearers Intolerant of Freedom & Free Expression. I could go on but I think I made my point there….

Every year we seem to be stumbling across examples of a growing trend within society of an endemic intolerance toward those who do not conform to a majoritarian held view of what is acceptable & what isn’t. A view which takes it expressed form in seeking to finding a virtue in being offended.

Every year in the United Kingdom a solemn ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph, this ceremony commemorates the end of  war and our solemn observance of those who gave their lives for our country. It is not a celebration, neither is this an occasion which glorifies war let alone militarism, so just to repeat for clarity sakes it is a ceremony which commemorates an end of war and a ceremony which pays homage to those whom died (military & civilain alike). As I said it is an occasion where we as citizens subjects come together as a nation to remember and reflect on the why’s of that sacrifice made by so many. We remember not only members of the armed forces but the civilians whom also lost their lives, as well as those honourable pacifists whom died as stretcher bearers saving many of life of their fighting brothers, through their own heroic actions under intense murderous enemy fire. We pay homage to all their memory as we honour all their sacrifices, for they died so we may indeed have a tomorrow. We are reminded of that courage and sacrifice as the veterans and families march past the Cenotaph; we are humbled as we reflect upon what this all means in real terms, and as individuals we will all have our own take on what this ceremony means to us.

For the reality of war is an all too present reality today, as we can no longer stay ignorant to the true costs of war fighting in the age of the internet and mass media. This reality starkly brought in to our living rooms by TV and entered the national conscious & discourse, as we observed the once solemn display of a grass-roots ceremony of repatriation for fallen servicemen from Afghanistan, through the high street of an English market town-now named Royal Wootton Basset. Or to those hundreds maimed having lost limbs returned home and now living among us, this then the all too visible reality to and none can plead ignorance. And the unseen casualties of war, those whom live with the mental trauma and scars. For those injured live with both the mental and physical scars of war fighting, again we see this and are reminded of on the march past in those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen, whom have lost limbs, been blinded, burned, or that unseen yet all too real PTSD. We can of course as fellow human beings empathise to a degree but we could never know what they went through let alone as to what they are going through today, indeed I would aver nor would we wish to. For they and their families in that awful legacy of war their reality is an all too clear lived reality, as it is an everyday lived experience which we as outsiders have no measure against. Yet they do themselves proud and in a phrase ‘soldier on’ & come back fighting, as they get on with life as best they are able. So we honour, we remember, we respect them for what they have done and what they have given and what they continue to give, and this is right, but it is also a personal choice. It is something I choose to do.

Remembrance is what I do on that day, I remember them & shall never forget, how could I for one thing I am ex forces so it’s kind of ingrained in me, yet prior to joining it was something I did as a matter of course (cultural I guess, yet it wasn’t forced upon me, you just did it because from an early it was others around me did, and being from a military family it was ever more so present & the done thing, yet it was and remains for me the right thing to do.) Thus it may be argued that remembrance is indeed a private matter or a private family affair if you will, although others do take a more public approach, some like myself will wear a poppy or lapel badge. Whilst others will go that one step further and will attend a ceremony at the local memorial/church and will attend the parades, but it is all personal you either choose to or choose not to.

Yet despite my choosing to wear a poppy I have never viewed the wearing of a poppy to be in & of itself an essential let alone integral nor necessary part of the process of remembrance, as an act of remembrance is it self a highly subjective matter. The poppy after all is merely a symbol and nothing more, although for the Royal British Legion it has become a notable, laudable & recognisable way of ensuring a steady cash flow of donations at a given time of year.

Yet not everyone agrees to & nor should everyone agree to let alone be made to agree with the wearing of a poppy, you see dear reader there are dissenters to this majoritarian aspect of our culture of poppyism (a take on populism.) As there are those whom for what ever their reason choose not wear a poppy and choose not to pay homage (bastards hang em flog em), and some…sorry…but yes some even burn poppies (shock horror they must be evil, are they Muslims….Oh won’t somebody please think of the children!) That is after all their right to do so, and why shouldn’t they be allowed to disagree? Dissent & yes burn a poppy or two, whether their motives are right or wrong, and whether their actions are informed or other wise is actually beside the point, as I see such protests and how they are perceived within society and dealt with by the authorities as a barometer to the state of liberty in our country (and give recent and past example it is not in a very good state.) Indeed what is telling in these incidents is the reaction of the poppy zealots and what they tell us about attitudes and tolerance within society in general, and to be honest we are not in a very healthy place. (I must an idiot labouring under the delusion that free expression is respected & up held in this country.) Just for the record I personally do not agree with the actions of those who choose to burn poppies, nor do I agree with much of the reasons given by those whom choose not to wear a poppy for political/ideological reasons, when looked such reasoning is not only misinformed about totally misguided. But what I am saying that I believe that you have a right to say what wish and you have right to display and express your opinion as you wish and see fit. Thus I invoke Voltaire’s dictum“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too”. The fact I have felt it necessary to add a clarification here ought to tell you the parlous state we find ourselves in.

Yet the culture of Poppy fascism won’t allow you:

This act of burning a poppy or indeed displaying of such imagery can get you arrested.

This year we have seen the arrest of a young man whom has dared to show on a social media site an image of a burning poppy (pictured left), arrested and charged through the illiberal and authoritarian Malicious Communications Act by an over zealous, unthinking police force only too happy criminalise and subjugate persons as they see fit. Yes the act was insensitive and yes some would have found the act offensive (their choice by the way), indeed he has shown himself to be obnoxious, but does he really deserve to be arrested, criminalised for such an act of youthful unthinking, stupidity. Then we have the case of man whom decided it would be jolly good idea to disrupt by skateboarding in to Bristol’s Remembrance Day parade, not a well thought through idea granted, dressed as a pink devil as well (I mean what the fuck was he thinking.) Indeed not the wisest of choices and yes a very inappropriate act given the occasion I would add, but did he really deserve to be approached by an aggressive & intimidating mob of men looking to do violent harm upon his person? Not only did this incident require the police to intervene to ensure the safety of the man in question, an act to be lauded at least they were thinking, but he was then also arrested under Section 5 of the Public Order Act. Yet another illiberal piece of catch-all legislation the authorities have in their burgeoning police state tool box, does such stupidity really require him to be criminalised? Police now really unthinking & if really wasn’t bad enough, you really couldn’t make this stuff up, disturbingly sectioned said man under the Mental Health Act WTF is going on here! Or what about the over the top reaction of intolerant comments from the tolerant, made on Twitter strangely abusing the automated response for Top Gear messaging, simply because a tweet was put out during the  two-minute silence (naughty.) Did the company running that service deserve the hating vitriol and abuse which they received for an obvious over sight of programming. Whom then felt intimidated enough into offering an apology, for what though only they can answer that. I do hope they fuck Top Gear off now.

Is then what Remembrance has become, a day which is becoming over shadowed by the actions and behaviour of a seeming significant majority of Poppy Fascists, who find virtue in finding offence. Such people have no place in let alone right in dictating how we ought to be behaving, feeling, expressing on this day of personal reflection and remembrance, or indeed in choosing not to. It would therefore seem that we have allowed this very solemn national act of remembrance to become hijacked by those whom are intolerant of individual freedom and free expression, their actions and behaviour show as much. Are not these actions and behaviour a complete betrayal and dishonouring of the memory of those they say they are honouring, are such actions and behaviour a complete contradiction, an outright hypocrisy.

Indeed it is fair to say that such intolerant actions of behaviour we witness against those whom are deemed by the poppy fascists to be not complying with the majority, not only are disrespectful but dishonour the sacrifices made by the armed forces. And is that what Remembrance day is to become a day renowned only for the intolerance of the poppy fascists? I am very certain that this is not what our soldiers, sailors and airmen gave up so much for, they didn’t die so that we may today allow their memory to be belittled and their sacrifices betrayed by the baying mob of the intolerant, the enemies of freedom and liberty.

NOTE:

Picture used at the head of the post is not the same image posted online by the teen arrested.

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