A Challenge

Here is a challenge: can anybody provide one single example where ordinary working and law-abiding people have directly benefited from government? And by 'government' I mean any policy from any administration within living memory, and the benefit needs to be one that is of lasting value.

They Need Us..

They need us:

• To earn money that they can extract from us in large proportions through direct and indirect taxation - to support their opulent lifestyles;

• To be in awe of their pompous institutions and courts;

• To treat us as if we were people who are as criminally degenerate as themselves through CRB checks;

• To systematically remove our Common Law rights and hold us for indefinite periods of time under the guise of 'terrorism';

• To criminalise us with more draconian and stupid laws - so that they can screw more money out of us through fines;

• To dictate how we live our lives, precisely what we eat and drink - and in what quantities;

• To tell us how evil the motor car is - and to cajole us into using inadequate public transport;

• To make us fear them and become guilt-ridden neurotics;

• To lecture us about the evils of smoking - and those who indulge in this satanic habit;

• To tap our phones, constantly watch us through CCTV cameras and monitor our internet usage;

• To frighten us with apocalyptic stories of climate change, global terrorism, Islamic jihad and monetary collapse;

• To make us spy on each other and thereby remove any sense of community and social cohesion;

• To give our children nightmares by showing Robert Peston on the news before the 9:00pm watershed;

• To indoctrinate us through the BBC into the Fabian ideology that they want to inflict upon us;

• To influence our opinion as to which communitarian collective of criminal incompetents should be mishandling our economy and destroying our lives in Westminster;

• To subsidise through taxation myriads of petty bureaucrats, quangoes, tyrannical councils, the 'diversity' industry, Common purpose losers.

They need us. But we don't need them. Ever.

Another Front in the Battle

The battle for the shape of the Church has manifested itself recently in the ranks of the Roman Catholic church - in view of the impending visit to the UK by Pope Benedict: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7987774/Catholic-group-accuses-Church-of-intolerance-ahead-of-Pope-visit.htm

For the record, I'm no fan of the Catholic church - in fact, I'm one of its card-carrying detractors. There are various reasons for this: primarily, I have serious doctrinal issues with its claims and beliefs in all areas where they've replaced Scriptural teaching by papal decree. Since the RC church is constitutionally unable to reverse its historically-established doctrines (e.g. papal authority, the priesthood, celibacy of the clergy, the authority and exclusivity of the church and its teachings, the doctrines of the Virgin Mary, transubstantiation among many others), it's stuck with them. It is literally a prisoner of its own history, tied up by the bonds of its own decrees. Furthermore I find it difficult to summon any respect for an institution which for years has systematically concealed the gross sexual misconduct of its ministers - some of them high-ranking - towards the vulnerable and weak. Without doubt this is wickedness and betrayal of the highest order.

Despite all this, I recognise that there are many fine Christians in its ranks, and must admit a certain amount of sympathy for them through these times; their church has had a lot of (albeit deserved) bad press. But it's also noticeable that such an organisation - notoriously inflexible - now shares with the protestant churches the steady corrosive attack of the secular age and its values. It has become fair game for the homosexual lobby, who have been whittling away at the Church of England for years. It's a sad feature of many of the protestant denominations that they have generally failed to fend off their secular assailants by a vigorous and determined grasp of scripture. There is a morbid fear of appearing to appear to be irrelevant or bigoted to the proponents of the zeitgeist. Many of the aforesaid proponents of political correctness and so-called 'diversity' have been among the ranks of the church, so the attack has been from within.

As I perceive it, the secular battle against the Roman Catholic church is a lost cause. The Pope and his cardinals won't budge on the matters of homosexuality and similarly contentious issues. They won't move on abortion either. This at least earns from me a glimmer of respect - but I suspect that their reasons for fending off these issues differ from my own. I oppose them for one reason: Scripture, which is the revealed word of God - proscribes them, either by plain textual statement or by doctrinal weight where textual statements are not present. On the other hand, the Roman Catholic church opposes them for no other reason than the fact that it always has - since its traditions are as immutable as the laws of the Medes and Persians.

An Open Letter To Sandwell Council

To Whom It May Concern

I understand from the press and legions of political bloggers that I read that once again you have excelled yourselves in your zeal for keeping a tidy district. I am sure that you are proud of your efforts to achieve this. I use the term 'once again,' because I understand that on various occasions you taken decisive action against people who have by their behaviour - knowingly or otherwise - transgressed your precise (or might I say 'exacting'?) standards, and who have been victimised accordingly.
Your action against a widow - whose 'offense' was to pinch out a cigarette she was smoking at a bus stop, thus dropping the lighted end on your immaculate street - has proved that you are a council that leads the way in mercilessness and malice. It is abundantly clear for all to see that you hold these qualities to the highest degree.
Permit me to courteously remind you of a few facts:

First of all, as a council, you are the servants of the area. You are not their lords/masters/despots/satraps/kings. This may not be how you would like it to be, but that is how it is. Please consider this - as painful as it may be to you.

Secondly, your local populace earns money which, through their hard work or investment, goes to pay for your wages. In other words, you are beholden to those whose living subsidises your way of life - and, doubtless the sumptuous premises in which you work and from where you issue your diktats and generate the various trendy 'diversity' projects upon which you lavish taxpayer's hard-earned cash.

Thirdly, this is still nominally a free country. It is not a Soviet Socialist republic or a fascist dictatorship - yet. I realise that as a Labour council, there are people in your ranks who have qualified as Common Purpose 'graduates,' and who have enthusiastically imbibed the anti-democratic values and practices that it is intended to subvert. That this country has not yet fully circumvented the vaguely democratic values that has under-girded it may not be to your liking, but again - that's how it is. Deal with it. This is still a free country. There are still regular, law-abiding people who pay your substantial wages who abhor the petty vindictiveness which you have displayed to the lady in question along with others who have also fallen foul of your nastiness. There are doubtless those in your very district who fought in the Second World War to oppose the very principles which you have so enthusiastically applied - authoritarian fascism. You have betrayed them - and all the others of the same generation who endured bereavement and a myriad of hardships and made sacrifices to fight oppression and tyranny for the sake of you and I. I hope you are pleased with yourselves.

Finally, let me remind you that until this country becomes a repressed third-world, third-rate vassal state of an emerging totalitarian socialist Utopia, there will continue to be people like this present writer who will vehemently oppose you and your despotic ways and will take every opportunity to publicly register their undying contempt for the supercilious attitude and inhuman ways in which you operate. And until we are silenced by some secret police force, we will continue to do so.

A Gauntlet To Government

• Until leading politicians speak the truth at all times, I won't believe anything they say (unless they pledge to raise our taxes, which is a promise they never fail to keep).
• Until the aforesaid politicians answer simple questions honestly and without evasion, I won't give them an ounce of credence. They are professional liars, and the truth is not in them.
• Until political parties withdraw the 3-line whip that keeps their MPs in the party line, I won't support any of them. They are merely thinly-disguised flavours of the same establishment.
  
• Until the primary purpose of Government changes from being the handmaiden of vast commercial and financial interests to maintaining the interests of the citizens of the so-called United Kingdom, I won't even tentatively regard it as our representative.
• Until the Government through its agencies commits itself to the protection of all elements in society who are weak, vulnerable and defenceless, I shall oppose it.
• Until the priority of Government is the restoration of our ancient civil rights as codified in the Magna Carta and other historical legal instruments, I can't begin to lend it any moral support.
• Until the great number of laws enacted by the repressive Labour regime are repealed, I will regard any subsequent administration as equally repressive and vindictive - if only because it has failed to right a momentous series of wrongs.
• Until Government ceases to favour small and vociferous minorities at the expense of the majority, I will regard it with the same measure of the contempt that it displays to the opinions of the majority of the public.
  
• Until Government commits itself to encouraging enterprise, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility, I won't support it. It is morally bankrupt.
• Until the BBC's charter is dissolved because of its unswerving bias in favour of communitarian Marxism, I will oppose its continuation and will not take it seriously as a responsible broadcasting medium.
• Until Government treats individuals like responsible adults who are able to make sensible and informed choices concerning their own lives, I will vigorously oppose it - whatever its partisan flag.
• Until Government stops banning things for the sake of it - and to further its control over the details of the peoples' lives, I will not support it.
• Until the Government fears and respects the people of this country, I will continue to regard it with contempt.
• Until Government allows complete and unqualified freedom of speech, association and religion, I cannot support it.
  
• Until Government allows a referendum for the public concerning our future in Europe, I will regard it as de facto - and not de jure. Europe has no business here.
  

Until these conditions are met - I will remain a (responsible and Common Law-respecting) anarchist.

Turkeys in Politics

It was only a matter of time before it was going to surface. If ever anyone needed proof that David Camera was a pro-European droid, then that proof has been spelt out in the last 24 hours. Don't expect any European referendum in your lifetime. Turkey has had the benefit of a visit from our glorious leader, who has ingratiated himself with their elites by telling them that he is enthusiastically supporting their application to join the European Soviet Union. We have the prospect of hordes of Anatolian goat herders pacing our streets, looking shifty.

For those who fervently believed that Cameroid and Clegg were the panacea of all our Labour-inherited evils, it's time to face the facts. Listen. The Tory-Dem coalition is every bit as much a part of our inherited social and political problems as Labour was. When the old Labour regime packed their bags and left the town, all we had was a change of window-dressing. Some new dummies were put in the window, and they wear different clothes. The old drab red has been removed; the color theme du jour is a mixture of blue and yellow. But the business in the shop continues exactly as before. Our politicians don't represent our interests - and they never did. They are the marionettes of the Righteous and the Mighty.

Government

At the bottom of Old Holborn's blog site are the following words - I hope he doesn't mind if I quote them here:

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.