How stupid are Westminster and Capitol Hill looking today? After years of denouncing Russia and Vladimir Putin we now find that we will have to swallow our pride and our outrageous propaganda and cosy up to the Russians in the hope they will deal with ISIS on our behalf because we have neither the wit nor the means to do so ourselves. This crisis starkly witnesses to the complete bankruptcy of British and American foreign policy and our vile relationship with Saudi Arabia. We are now faced with the most common choice politics confronts us with, the choice between bad and worse. Do we continue futilely attempting to depose of Assad in Syria or do we confront the monster of our own making in ISIS?
The Russians have no doubts and we have belatedly come to the conclusion that they are right. History will show us that the decision to depose Saddam and attack Iraq was one of the worst decisions ever made by supposedly rational governments. It will also show that this decision was made by an imbecile and a madman and that the entire British and American establishments were fully supportive of Braindead George and Mad Tony. The Americans and the British love war and love to kill people, its as simple as that and we were unfortunate enough to have two leaders at the same time who were prepared to indulge our fantasies and lull us into believing we had the moral high ground through bare faced lies that we were happy to believe despite the fact that we knew we were being lied to. Make no mistake, the rise of ISIS and the dreadful refugee crisis we are witnessing lie fully at our own doors and are the result of British and American foreign policy and our complete refusal to hold the Saudis to account for their support of these barbarians. Do you never wonder why none of the richest countries in the world have taken even one refugee, despite that fact that most of them are Muslim and that the two holiest Muslim sites on earth are both in Saudi Arabia?
I have been writing to you for some time about our wrong policies towards both Russia and Iran. British foreign policy is not only wrong it is stupid and is now being empirically demonstrated as such. Our approach towards Iran is not simply that Iranians are mostly Shia, it is fundamentally because they are not Arabs, and that whilst we pose as anti-dictator, we cosy up to the most dictatorial regimes imaginable and only oppose those dictatorships that resist our attempts at Anglo-American domination. I trust you have noticed how the Ukraine and Crimea have quietly slipped off the front pages and out of the news. We need the Russians. Our government has been telling us for years now how Assad is a vile murdering psychopath, but he is about to become our vile murdering psychopath. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Monday, 28 September 2015
Sunday, 27 September 2015
Westminster leads by example in degrading workers
With the exception of the SNP who have not yet had time to be corrupted by Westminster, if a Westminster politician's mouth is moving she/he is lying. For example, one of the Tories lies in justification of scrapping the Human Rights Act was that the EU ruled that prisoners in British jails must be allowed to vote. That is not true. What the Court ruled was that the Tory proposed blanket ban on all prisoners voting was too severe and harsh. You see, you don't cease to be a citizen (or in the British case a subject) because you are sent to jail. Should you lose your right to vote because you are sent to jail for failing to pay a fine, or stealing a bottle of water from a supermarket? What the Court argued was that distinctions should be made between crimes and their sentences in deciding who should and should not be allowed to vote. That is the sensible thing to do, but of course common sense and humanity have no meaning in the Westminster universe.
In addition, the Tories told us that the EU Court had prevented Britain from expelling people who were a threat to British society and forced us to harbour terrorists, which again is not true. What the Court did was prevent Britain from sending people to countries where it is certain they would be tortured. You don't uphold the law by sending people to be tortured, you uphold the law by preventing it. The British however, are in favour of torture, just like the Americans, only in Britain's case we prefer it if others do it for us because torture is really not cricket is it, it's something Johnny Foreigner does isn't it?
All this discussion highlights the fact that Britain no longer adheres to the fundamental concept of a civilised society, one which is governed by the Rule of Law. The only law a Tory is prepared to recognise is one which she/he agrees with. In 1885 Albert Dicey defined the rule of law by three fundamental concepts
a) No one may be punished for any offence, nor suffer any form of penalty for a breach of the law unless it is proven in open court. That means that there can be no arbitrary power exercised by any official persons or bodies over individual citizens.
b) All persons are equal before the law, regardless of economic, social and political status. There are no class distinctions and no one is above the law
c) The rule of law includes the benefits and freedoms conferred on individuals by judicial decisions when determining individual and collective rights from the ordinary law of the land.
As is apparent Britain is in continual breach of every one of these three fundamental principles. The Rule of Law constitutes the basis of all political and constitutional morality and, as the ethical judgment of political behaviour depends on how that behaviour meets the moral criteria embedded within this concept, we can safely conclude that British government and the Westminster political system are both unethical and unlawful in a great many of their actions, particularly in the mysterious concept they call 'the war on terror' and of course in the Tory lexicon that includes trades unions. Dicey's description of the Rule of Law was the standard of British life until it was updated in 2006 by Lord Thomas Bingham who was a scathing critic of all who would oppose the European Convention on Human Rights, asking which of the convention rights they would discard and writing "would you rather live in a country in which these rights were not protected by law?" Under Bingham's judgement he declared that Britain's invasion of Iraq in 2003 was unlawful arguing that "the rule of law requires compliance by the state with its obligations in international law as in national law."
I repeat without apology, the real target of the Tories are the trades unions and working people who dare to claim any rights at work or employment protection. I recently discovered that a clause in the employment contracts of people who are employed by the Westminster Parliament, for example, someone working for an MP, declares that these contracts are non-contractual. Seriously, Westminster gives a contract of employment to people in which there is a clause declaring the contract non-contractual meaning that any breach of that contract by their employer, for instance by an MP who employs someone in their office, is non-enforceable. In other words, the Mother of Parliaments has declared that its members can do anything they like to their employees and there is nothing they can do about it. And you all thought that I was off my head by insisting that Westminster is hell bent on reducing workers to a slave like status. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
In addition, the Tories told us that the EU Court had prevented Britain from expelling people who were a threat to British society and forced us to harbour terrorists, which again is not true. What the Court did was prevent Britain from sending people to countries where it is certain they would be tortured. You don't uphold the law by sending people to be tortured, you uphold the law by preventing it. The British however, are in favour of torture, just like the Americans, only in Britain's case we prefer it if others do it for us because torture is really not cricket is it, it's something Johnny Foreigner does isn't it?
All this discussion highlights the fact that Britain no longer adheres to the fundamental concept of a civilised society, one which is governed by the Rule of Law. The only law a Tory is prepared to recognise is one which she/he agrees with. In 1885 Albert Dicey defined the rule of law by three fundamental concepts
a) No one may be punished for any offence, nor suffer any form of penalty for a breach of the law unless it is proven in open court. That means that there can be no arbitrary power exercised by any official persons or bodies over individual citizens.
b) All persons are equal before the law, regardless of economic, social and political status. There are no class distinctions and no one is above the law
c) The rule of law includes the benefits and freedoms conferred on individuals by judicial decisions when determining individual and collective rights from the ordinary law of the land.
As is apparent Britain is in continual breach of every one of these three fundamental principles. The Rule of Law constitutes the basis of all political and constitutional morality and, as the ethical judgment of political behaviour depends on how that behaviour meets the moral criteria embedded within this concept, we can safely conclude that British government and the Westminster political system are both unethical and unlawful in a great many of their actions, particularly in the mysterious concept they call 'the war on terror' and of course in the Tory lexicon that includes trades unions. Dicey's description of the Rule of Law was the standard of British life until it was updated in 2006 by Lord Thomas Bingham who was a scathing critic of all who would oppose the European Convention on Human Rights, asking which of the convention rights they would discard and writing "would you rather live in a country in which these rights were not protected by law?" Under Bingham's judgement he declared that Britain's invasion of Iraq in 2003 was unlawful arguing that "the rule of law requires compliance by the state with its obligations in international law as in national law."
I repeat without apology, the real target of the Tories are the trades unions and working people who dare to claim any rights at work or employment protection. I recently discovered that a clause in the employment contracts of people who are employed by the Westminster Parliament, for example, someone working for an MP, declares that these contracts are non-contractual. Seriously, Westminster gives a contract of employment to people in which there is a clause declaring the contract non-contractual meaning that any breach of that contract by their employer, for instance by an MP who employs someone in their office, is non-enforceable. In other words, the Mother of Parliaments has declared that its members can do anything they like to their employees and there is nothing they can do about it. And you all thought that I was off my head by insisting that Westminster is hell bent on reducing workers to a slave like status. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Scotland will protect your human rights
As some of you will know I have a particular interest in human rights having written a book about it. This week the First Minister of Scotland told us that she would do whatever she could to halt the Tories assault on our rights saying that it was inconceivable that the Scottish Parliament would give its consent to amend or abolish the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. This is wonderful news as it is essential that people in positions of authority and influence expose the British elite's plans for what they truly are, as this plan by the Tories would mark the end of Britain as a civilised society. You know that in my opinion the beginnings of the end of civilisation was the sale of council housing. Since that beginning Britain has been slowly descending into barbarism as expressed through vicious class and ethnic warfare. I will remind you again, all the Tories arguments about human rights are a smokescreen to hide their main goal in this programme of systematically abandoning rights and that is the removal of every and all employment rights. That is their holy grail. Again I warn you, they will not cease until they have imposed a form of slavery on all British workers. But they also have other goals, goals which will require them to impose a totalitarian form of control over British civil and political life. To achieve these they have to destroy organised resistance to their goals, and in the case of a British Bill of Rights, their chief target is the judiciary.
We are all familiar with the fact that the Tories, and most of the Labour Party, in other words, the elite gang of Westminster criminals, are in both political and economic terms, neoliberals. That means that they espouse an aggressive individualism and despise anything that smacks of collectivism which they endlessly propagandise as socialism. As they are liberals in the classical sense of the word, they only accept one form of right. There are two forms of right, negative and positive, and the neoliberal will only accept the negative as they argue that positive rights are not rights but privileges. Britain is a very exclusionary society in that the British elite spend as much of their energy excluding people from any meaningful participation in society as they do on anything else. If you are not, what Thatcher called 'one of us', then you will not be successful in any meaningful way in this country unless you are very lucky. I trust you will be now aware of how David Cameron and his friends at university held parties in pubs and clubs where they would stand on the tables and shout f..k the plebs! That has been revealed in all of our national papers and media this week, with the notable exception of, you guessed, the BBC, what a surprise. So you know this is not a piece of Doktor Kommirat propaganda. However, I trust by now you will accept that I do not do propaganda. Despite its faults and the inherent establishment bias of some of its presenters Channel Four News is probably the best news programme in Europe, but, surprise surprise, the government has revealed plans to privatise it. So much for the independence of Independent Television News. They are also waging war against the medical profession who are threatening strike action over the quite bizarre terms of their proposed contracts. Westminster will not cease until they control everybody and everything on their exclusive terms, and, although I fully support their struggle, I must confess little sympathy for anyone in ITV or the medical profession who were amongst the loudest cheerleaders for the destruction of the miners, steelworkers and the general trades union movement. As they say, what goes around comes around.
My point is that the Tories and their allies in Labour do not believe that ordinary people have rights. All you are entitled to is what they are prepared to give you, and if they deem it necessary, they will remove it at a whim. The Tories are following a well travelled and quite successful trail of establishing an authoritarian society, to be followed by a totalitarian one. The methods they are using and the targets they aim at will be familiar to all who study politics and history. I do not want this post to be too long, so I will follow it up with a post on negative and positive rights and why we will, if we are not vigilant and supportive of people like Nicola Sturgeon, Shami Chakrabarti and Jeremy Corbyn, lose all our employment rights, all forms of social housing, all forms of national health care, free education etc. Make no mistake, we face a dystopian future unless we challenge the dominant narrative. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat.
We are all familiar with the fact that the Tories, and most of the Labour Party, in other words, the elite gang of Westminster criminals, are in both political and economic terms, neoliberals. That means that they espouse an aggressive individualism and despise anything that smacks of collectivism which they endlessly propagandise as socialism. As they are liberals in the classical sense of the word, they only accept one form of right. There are two forms of right, negative and positive, and the neoliberal will only accept the negative as they argue that positive rights are not rights but privileges. Britain is a very exclusionary society in that the British elite spend as much of their energy excluding people from any meaningful participation in society as they do on anything else. If you are not, what Thatcher called 'one of us', then you will not be successful in any meaningful way in this country unless you are very lucky. I trust you will be now aware of how David Cameron and his friends at university held parties in pubs and clubs where they would stand on the tables and shout f..k the plebs! That has been revealed in all of our national papers and media this week, with the notable exception of, you guessed, the BBC, what a surprise. So you know this is not a piece of Doktor Kommirat propaganda. However, I trust by now you will accept that I do not do propaganda. Despite its faults and the inherent establishment bias of some of its presenters Channel Four News is probably the best news programme in Europe, but, surprise surprise, the government has revealed plans to privatise it. So much for the independence of Independent Television News. They are also waging war against the medical profession who are threatening strike action over the quite bizarre terms of their proposed contracts. Westminster will not cease until they control everybody and everything on their exclusive terms, and, although I fully support their struggle, I must confess little sympathy for anyone in ITV or the medical profession who were amongst the loudest cheerleaders for the destruction of the miners, steelworkers and the general trades union movement. As they say, what goes around comes around.
My point is that the Tories and their allies in Labour do not believe that ordinary people have rights. All you are entitled to is what they are prepared to give you, and if they deem it necessary, they will remove it at a whim. The Tories are following a well travelled and quite successful trail of establishing an authoritarian society, to be followed by a totalitarian one. The methods they are using and the targets they aim at will be familiar to all who study politics and history. I do not want this post to be too long, so I will follow it up with a post on negative and positive rights and why we will, if we are not vigilant and supportive of people like Nicola Sturgeon, Shami Chakrabarti and Jeremy Corbyn, lose all our employment rights, all forms of social housing, all forms of national health care, free education etc. Make no mistake, we face a dystopian future unless we challenge the dominant narrative. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat.
Thursday, 17 September 2015
God Save the Queen?
The quite hysterical reaction to the news that Jeremy Corbyn did not sing along happily to the national anthem tells you much that you need to know about the state of modern Britain. I cannot conceive of a situation where I would sing this awful composition either. I have nothing against the Queen personally, but I have a lot of problems with the institution of monarchy, and, if I believed in a god, I can assure you that if I was asking this entity to save anything and grant it long life it would be me and my family, not our gracious queen.
I have spent years responding to people who repeatedly tell me that the queen is a wonderful person by asking them how long they have known her? When they ask me what I mean by that I tell them that if they call the queen a wonderful person they must be personally acquainted with her, otherwise how do they know she is wonderful? If they don't know her personally then they are merely regurgitating what the powers that be tell them through an endless diet of propaganda and that they should ask themselves why they are constantly being told that. Now, the queen may well be a wonderful person, but there is no way of knowing that unless you have personally experienced it.
However, even given that she is a wonderful person, it is not her I object to but the system that she represents, maintains and is the figurehead for, a system of plunderers and parasites, a system that is too abominably filthy to be cleansed, and I am sure that my sentiments are very similar to those of Jeremy Corbyn and that he does not sing the national anthem for similar reasons. In addition, I have a problem with a song that contains the sentiments in its sixth verse
Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring
May he sedition hush
And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush
God save the Queen
The recent remarks by the Tories that the Scots are becoming a threat to national security are quite likely to lead to calls that the Scots are indeed seditious and in need of a modern General Wade to crush them. Until the monarch officially orders the removal of such sentiments and that the national anthem be purged of them, I will not sing this abominable composition either, despite the fact that it is traditional to sing only the first verse. To the good patriotic citizens who express righteous indignation at people like Jeremy Corbyn and me, I can only tell you that you fall into the category of useful idiots.
I have written before that, in a country that openly despises people on social security and spews bile daily on what they call welfare scroungers and skivers, the biggest recipients of social security by a very long way are the royal family. If you want to have a go at a dysfunctional family dependent of welfare, look no further than the royals, their entire existence is totally dependent on public welfare, or, in the case of the Crown Estates, legalised theft. I will return to this theme later. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
I have spent years responding to people who repeatedly tell me that the queen is a wonderful person by asking them how long they have known her? When they ask me what I mean by that I tell them that if they call the queen a wonderful person they must be personally acquainted with her, otherwise how do they know she is wonderful? If they don't know her personally then they are merely regurgitating what the powers that be tell them through an endless diet of propaganda and that they should ask themselves why they are constantly being told that. Now, the queen may well be a wonderful person, but there is no way of knowing that unless you have personally experienced it.
However, even given that she is a wonderful person, it is not her I object to but the system that she represents, maintains and is the figurehead for, a system of plunderers and parasites, a system that is too abominably filthy to be cleansed, and I am sure that my sentiments are very similar to those of Jeremy Corbyn and that he does not sing the national anthem for similar reasons. In addition, I have a problem with a song that contains the sentiments in its sixth verse
Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring
May he sedition hush
And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush
God save the Queen
The recent remarks by the Tories that the Scots are becoming a threat to national security are quite likely to lead to calls that the Scots are indeed seditious and in need of a modern General Wade to crush them. Until the monarch officially orders the removal of such sentiments and that the national anthem be purged of them, I will not sing this abominable composition either, despite the fact that it is traditional to sing only the first verse. To the good patriotic citizens who express righteous indignation at people like Jeremy Corbyn and me, I can only tell you that you fall into the category of useful idiots.
I have written before that, in a country that openly despises people on social security and spews bile daily on what they call welfare scroungers and skivers, the biggest recipients of social security by a very long way are the royal family. If you want to have a go at a dysfunctional family dependent of welfare, look no further than the royals, their entire existence is totally dependent on public welfare, or, in the case of the Crown Estates, legalised theft. I will return to this theme later. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Britain is intellectually sterile
One of the things that is so depressing about modern Britain is the absence of any real intellectual debate. For example, the charge that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn lacks any economic credibility is only valid if you accept that the dominant neoliberal free market narrative is credible. As I have written before, the claim that there is no alternative is simply stupid and makes no sense. If there is no alternative to something then that something must be true and without flaw. In other words, it must be an absolute, and there is no such thing as an absolute. Indeed the only absolute is that everything is relative (August Comte said that).
I repeat, the claim that there is no alternative is the foundation of totalitarianism. If there is no alternative to the free market economic model then that model must be true, correct in its application and the complete explanation of human economic behaviour. Empirical reality demonstrates that the free market model is useless, anti-social, exclusionary and divisive. It is only of use if you wish to embark on a criminal enterprise to loot as much of the national treasury as possible whilst impoverishing the rest of society and creating obscene levels of inequality.
I was reminded today, by an article in the National newspaper, of Winston Churchill's response to a question on the trades unions. I trust the National will not object if I reproduce this piece to save me searching for it through an interminable mountain of notes. Speaking to the Tory Conference in 1947, Churchill told them
The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike
I trust the modern fascist, masquerading as a Conservative, reads this and feels genuine shame (although I know that this is absurd as I write it because a sociopath does not have the capacity for shame). Churchill was a full-blooded aristocratic Tory who was no friend whatsoever of trade unions and working people, but even he recognised the essential (his words) need for the union movement. I say that these people who make up the Tories today are masquerading as Conservatives, because they in fact seek to conserve nothing and are hell bent on destroying the society we call Britain. That is their quest, the quest begun by Thatcher. In order to destroy our society she had first to deny its existence, hence the famous 'no such thing as society' dogma. Even under Churchill, Britain was a collectivist semi-civilised society but the modern barbarian Tory will not tolerate any form of collectivism unless it is the collectivism of their class interests. In its present form, the United Kingdom cannot survive because despite plenty of alternatives available, Britain is too intellectually bankrupt to even consider a mature debate. A feral and rabid free market press and media will soon destroy any real options. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
I repeat, the claim that there is no alternative is the foundation of totalitarianism. If there is no alternative to the free market economic model then that model must be true, correct in its application and the complete explanation of human economic behaviour. Empirical reality demonstrates that the free market model is useless, anti-social, exclusionary and divisive. It is only of use if you wish to embark on a criminal enterprise to loot as much of the national treasury as possible whilst impoverishing the rest of society and creating obscene levels of inequality.
I was reminded today, by an article in the National newspaper, of Winston Churchill's response to a question on the trades unions. I trust the National will not object if I reproduce this piece to save me searching for it through an interminable mountain of notes. Speaking to the Tory Conference in 1947, Churchill told them
The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike
I trust the modern fascist, masquerading as a Conservative, reads this and feels genuine shame (although I know that this is absurd as I write it because a sociopath does not have the capacity for shame). Churchill was a full-blooded aristocratic Tory who was no friend whatsoever of trade unions and working people, but even he recognised the essential (his words) need for the union movement. I say that these people who make up the Tories today are masquerading as Conservatives, because they in fact seek to conserve nothing and are hell bent on destroying the society we call Britain. That is their quest, the quest begun by Thatcher. In order to destroy our society she had first to deny its existence, hence the famous 'no such thing as society' dogma. Even under Churchill, Britain was a collectivist semi-civilised society but the modern barbarian Tory will not tolerate any form of collectivism unless it is the collectivism of their class interests. In its present form, the United Kingdom cannot survive because despite plenty of alternatives available, Britain is too intellectually bankrupt to even consider a mature debate. A feral and rabid free market press and media will soon destroy any real options. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Monday, 14 September 2015
Think talk of fascism is scaremongering? Think Again
The British people should really waken up to the growing threat of fascism. Although he didn't use the word, David Davis a Conservative MP and a leading contender for the Tory leadership in 2005 likened parts of the Trade Union Bill as fascist, asking the question
What is this? This isn’t Franco’s Britain, this is Queen Elizabeth II’s Britain.”
This is a reference to the fascist government of General Franco in Spain who hammered the trade unions and all opposition to his dictatorship. I will keep saying it, the Tory government will not cease until the British people have lost all of their human rights and workers are reduced to a state of slavery. I don't know how much evidence the people of this country need but they seem incapable of seeing what is happening daily in front of their eyes and here we have a Tory MP actually warning about the threats to our human rights that I have been writing about for years. I never ever expected to find an ally in the Tory Party and if the British people want further evidence they only need to read the response of the British press to the victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election. It is genuinely alarming as they have descended into the gutter with outrageous propaganda and downright lies. The Tories now shamelessly circulate a persistent narrative of lies and disinformation on every aspect of political life and they are supported by a press that exhibits a complete disregard for truth and decency. The Tories and their puppets in the press and media now resemble some of the worst aspects of Nazi propaganda as led by Goebbels and Der Sturmer. I genuinely consider the situation in the UK as approaching the serious as some of the propaganda surrounding Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP, the refugee crisis, trades unions and people on benefits is getting hysterical and has no foundation in any kind of reality.
David Davis finds much in the Trade Union Bill that he can support. I don't, it is a genuine abomination, but despite his realisation of the dangers of this legislation he is still a Tory with a visceral hatred of working people. However, credit where it is due as he realises that the identification of pickets to the police and the requirement for them to wear armbands is straight out of Hitler's playbook. That is not hyperbole by the way, that was a requirements for Jews in Hitler's Germany. All tyrannies neutralise unions as they are a fundamental part of a democratic and free society, indeed one of the building blocks of the new post-war Germany was the establishment of a powerful trade union movement into the fabric of German political and social life. But unions are a constraint on governments being able to do what they want unhindered by opposition and today's Tories are determined to get their own way on everything. There are genuine fascists in British government today and you have to waken up and recognise that. If Duncan-Smith does not alert you to this fact then you are genuinely blind. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
What is this? This isn’t Franco’s Britain, this is Queen Elizabeth II’s Britain.”
This is a reference to the fascist government of General Franco in Spain who hammered the trade unions and all opposition to his dictatorship. I will keep saying it, the Tory government will not cease until the British people have lost all of their human rights and workers are reduced to a state of slavery. I don't know how much evidence the people of this country need but they seem incapable of seeing what is happening daily in front of their eyes and here we have a Tory MP actually warning about the threats to our human rights that I have been writing about for years. I never ever expected to find an ally in the Tory Party and if the British people want further evidence they only need to read the response of the British press to the victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election. It is genuinely alarming as they have descended into the gutter with outrageous propaganda and downright lies. The Tories now shamelessly circulate a persistent narrative of lies and disinformation on every aspect of political life and they are supported by a press that exhibits a complete disregard for truth and decency. The Tories and their puppets in the press and media now resemble some of the worst aspects of Nazi propaganda as led by Goebbels and Der Sturmer. I genuinely consider the situation in the UK as approaching the serious as some of the propaganda surrounding Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP, the refugee crisis, trades unions and people on benefits is getting hysterical and has no foundation in any kind of reality.
David Davis finds much in the Trade Union Bill that he can support. I don't, it is a genuine abomination, but despite his realisation of the dangers of this legislation he is still a Tory with a visceral hatred of working people. However, credit where it is due as he realises that the identification of pickets to the police and the requirement for them to wear armbands is straight out of Hitler's playbook. That is not hyperbole by the way, that was a requirements for Jews in Hitler's Germany. All tyrannies neutralise unions as they are a fundamental part of a democratic and free society, indeed one of the building blocks of the new post-war Germany was the establishment of a powerful trade union movement into the fabric of German political and social life. But unions are a constraint on governments being able to do what they want unhindered by opposition and today's Tories are determined to get their own way on everything. There are genuine fascists in British government today and you have to waken up and recognise that. If Duncan-Smith does not alert you to this fact then you are genuinely blind. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Sunday, 13 September 2015
Remember Pastor Niemoller!
I wrote five days ago about the threat we are now facing from our own government and their willingness to kill their own people without due process of law. The following is from an article in today's Independent by Patrick Cockburn
But the drone attack should cause real alarm because it is an extraordinary extension of the powers of government to be able to execute its own citizens with no explanation, except that the killing was for the public good and against an unnamed but horrendous threat, the nature of which is known only to the government itself. Keep in mind that the ability to execute its own citizens has been a mark of tyrannical government from Rome in the days of the Caesars to Moscow during the Great Purge in the 1930s. Where evidence for an existential threat is lacking, it can be exaggerated or manufactured, as notoriously happened in 2003 over Iraqi WMD.
Remember where you heard it first! You would all be wise to keep an eye on what your government's, both in Britain and the US, are quietly doing to the law and civil liberties. Remember, Hitler had the fanatical support of the majority of the German people for his atrocities, and also remember the words of Pastor Niemoller who, writing about his attitude towards the Nazis said
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me
He had good reason to reflect on his indifference to the fate of other people as he found himself spending seven years in a concentration camp. Does anyone doubt that today's Tories would hesitate to incarcerate their enemies in camps if they could get away with it? Indeed, that is coming, and as with the targeted assassination of their own citizens, it will begin on the excuse of national security. If you think I am losing the plot and getting paranoid, what do you call Guantanamo if it is not a concentration camp, and don't forget, the Westminster establishment is fascinated by all things American. The Tories are already telling us that the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader threatens our national security and they persistently told us that about the SNP during the referendum. The beginning of totalitarianism includes the demonization of other people and the British are embracing such demonization with a gusto, trades unionists, socialists, the disabled, the disadvantaged, the scroungers and skivers, Muslims, the SNP etc. If you want to get into the mentality of Westminster, ponder for a second on the Parliamentary Labour Party's response to Jeremy Corbyn. These people actually had a meeting where they took a decision to respect the result of the ballot. Isn't that nice of them? We should all be eternally grateful to these paragons of the democratic process that they actually considered whether or not they would be bound by the decision of the members of their party. If that is not a totalitarian mindset then what on earth is it? I mean who on earth do these people think they are? Well I know and I have been warning you for a long time now.
In the same spirit, I wonder if any of you have ever noticed one of our government ministers a certain Justine Greening, and had a good look at her? I have been watching her for some time and I have come to the conclusion that she is most definitely not wired properly. I do not wish to be unkind but the said lady is definitely scary. She has the same look I identified in Mad Tony all those years ago. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
But the drone attack should cause real alarm because it is an extraordinary extension of the powers of government to be able to execute its own citizens with no explanation, except that the killing was for the public good and against an unnamed but horrendous threat, the nature of which is known only to the government itself. Keep in mind that the ability to execute its own citizens has been a mark of tyrannical government from Rome in the days of the Caesars to Moscow during the Great Purge in the 1930s. Where evidence for an existential threat is lacking, it can be exaggerated or manufactured, as notoriously happened in 2003 over Iraqi WMD.
Remember where you heard it first! You would all be wise to keep an eye on what your government's, both in Britain and the US, are quietly doing to the law and civil liberties. Remember, Hitler had the fanatical support of the majority of the German people for his atrocities, and also remember the words of Pastor Niemoller who, writing about his attitude towards the Nazis said
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me
He had good reason to reflect on his indifference to the fate of other people as he found himself spending seven years in a concentration camp. Does anyone doubt that today's Tories would hesitate to incarcerate their enemies in camps if they could get away with it? Indeed, that is coming, and as with the targeted assassination of their own citizens, it will begin on the excuse of national security. If you think I am losing the plot and getting paranoid, what do you call Guantanamo if it is not a concentration camp, and don't forget, the Westminster establishment is fascinated by all things American. The Tories are already telling us that the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader threatens our national security and they persistently told us that about the SNP during the referendum. The beginning of totalitarianism includes the demonization of other people and the British are embracing such demonization with a gusto, trades unionists, socialists, the disabled, the disadvantaged, the scroungers and skivers, Muslims, the SNP etc. If you want to get into the mentality of Westminster, ponder for a second on the Parliamentary Labour Party's response to Jeremy Corbyn. These people actually had a meeting where they took a decision to respect the result of the ballot. Isn't that nice of them? We should all be eternally grateful to these paragons of the democratic process that they actually considered whether or not they would be bound by the decision of the members of their party. If that is not a totalitarian mindset then what on earth is it? I mean who on earth do these people think they are? Well I know and I have been warning you for a long time now.
In the same spirit, I wonder if any of you have ever noticed one of our government ministers a certain Justine Greening, and had a good look at her? I have been watching her for some time and I have come to the conclusion that she is most definitely not wired properly. I do not wish to be unkind but the said lady is definitely scary. She has the same look I identified in Mad Tony all those years ago. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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