I have just watched an interview on British television with the son of Muhammad Ali who was detained, along with his mother, at an American airport by customs officials who repeatedly questioned him about his name and his religion. This man is a member of what must be without doubt the most famous family in the world. His father was without doubt the most famous person on earth and probably the most loved person on earth. I doubt even the Chinese or the Koreans would have difficulty accepting his son and his wife without question, and yet, here we have an American citizen being subjected to interrogation in his own country because he is black and has an Islamic name. There can be no doubt that the people interrogating him had any doubt as to who he was, and yet he still had to suffer this indignity. Welcome to Donald Trump's America.
The British press are meanwhile reporting on a gentleman who has had both legs amputated but had his benefits stopped by the Department of Work and Pensions on the grounds that he was fit for work because he still had arms and therefore had nothing to stop his using his arms to climb stairs. I have not made that up. These same people also ruled another gentleman fit for work who is completely paralysed down his left side. Both these gentlemen won an appeal, but only after having their cases taken up by legal experts and the press. Welcome to Tory Britain. Theirs are only two of a number of such cases I could cite that we read in our press almost every day. It must be difficult for people from outside of Britain to grasp the utter depravity of our Tory government.
On the same news bulletin, I watched a lengthy report from the United Nations on the brutality and complete inhumanity of the Syrian conflict. Both Russia, Syria and the rebels came under utter condemnation for crimes against humanity. As I have written before, I have a great admiration for the Russian people and fail to understand how the people who suffered so appallingly in Leningrad and Stalingrad, not to mention the rest of the USSR during World War Two, can allow their government to be party to bombing hospitals and dropping chemical bombs on the Syrian people. Surely Russia should be a moderating and civilising voice in that region?
The point of this post is the general barbarism that is growing rapidly throughout the world. I am reminded of the conquests of Tamerlain when he built mounds of the severed heads of his enemies when his troops conquered a city or region. We have not come any farther since then when we read of the atrocities that are occurring in so many diverse places, and of the behaviour of ordinary people in nations that are supposed to be civilised and peaceful. When we read of the behaviour of the US customs officials and the UK benefits officials, can we really argue that the Gestapo or the Cheka could not happen here as well? The Tories, for example, demonstrate a visceral hatred of their own people and go out of their way to demonise and impoverish them. When we read the Daily Mail or the Express, or listen to Breitbart news, we are consuming a never ending diet of hatred and lies. We cannot be complacent and allow such things to fester and develop. Despite my conviction that the people who live in Scotland of all racial and ethnic origins are far more compassionate and civilised people than the rest of the UK, I still never forget that it was persons of Scots origins who founded the Ku Klux Klan and how we are still blighted by racism and religious bigotry. Scotland still harbours elements of that mentality. As Edmund Burke told us (even though he was a Tory) all it requires for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. You can rest assured that when The Donald contaminates the soil of Scotland the Kommirat will be there telling him he is not welcome. The Tories already know that. You have been warned
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Doktor Kommirat
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