Labour’s law banning unauthorised protests near Parliament has claimed its first scalps.
Ten anti-war activists have appeared in court accused of defying a ban on unauthorised protests near Parliament.
At the moment the exclusion zone is the area within a half mile boundary around Parliament. Given a free reign though one can assume the boundary will be coming to a town near you as soon as Labour can make it happen.
Most of me thinks this is a prank. Some of me hopes it isn’t.
What do you think?
The psychopaths that make up the Blair government certainly know how to tear a country apart. Here’s the recipe:
1. Take something good, something that works but which links the present to a past you despise and hate.
2. Either let it fall into disuse or disrepute or, better still, be instrumental in its decline.
3. When the deed is done and said institution/tradition/habit is thoroughly discredited become its saviour.
4. Recreate it but in the image of your own depraved fantasies.
5. Throughout, use keywords (reform, improve, modernise) that, to the untrained eye, have positive and inspiring connotations.
6. Repeat as often as necessary until the past has been obliterated.
Targets include: the family, country (ie white, Anglo-Saxon) culture, the countryside itself, education, pride in our nation and so on…
In keeping with the above recipe for ’success’ Estelle Morris - another of Labour’s failed quota-women - suggests we abolish the A-level exam.
As I mentioned the other day, the A-level - once the gold standard of British education (only the top 5% took this exam - hence the disdain with which our Marxist government treats this elitist test) - is already so easy that almost everybody who takes the exam passes it anyway. So it’s already more or less abolished as a meaningful exam. In fact, the government’s record on education is now so awful they’ve nearly abolished the entire idea of learning as a means to improving the lot of yourself and your family.
“The 14-19 exam system is now ripe for modernisation, ripe for renewal. I think Ruth has the opportunity to be remembered as the Secretary of State for Education who actually had the courage to grasp that and move ahead.”
Such words… Who could resist?
Unfortunately, few actually do resist and that’s why these people have been getting away with the dismantling of the Great Britain - and England particularly - for the last 8 years. But ‘renewal’ and ‘modernisation’ are words that hide a multitude of evils, not least of all the removal of all means of independence and self-improvement and the simultaneous relegation of the UK’s lower classes into gibbering serfs of the ruling elite.
This freefall in educational standards hurts the most vulnerable, those least able to resist the demolition of the idea of the pursuit of knowledge. The aspiring middle classes can always find a way around the appalling lack of standards our children are subjected to - although they too are pulled down by the general degradation of our educational philosophy.
But the working classes have a much tougher time. Robbed of decent schools, uninspired at times by poor parenting and locked into a totalitarian educational system by a government machine which bans them from spending their own tax money on their own children’s education - ‘wise’ government spends it for them - they face a bleak future.
Labour’s project to create an inept, dependent and needy voting class for themselves continues unabated.
Europe may ban pay-as-you-go phones
From The Times:
Anonymous pay-as-you-go mobile telephones are to be banned in Malaysia as security ministers around Europe consider enforcing the same clampdown.
Known by security services worldwide as the “terrorists’ friend”, the phones have been used by militants to contact each other without being eavesdropped and to trigger bomb attacks, as in the strike in Madrid last year,
This isn’t a new idea. India too is very cagey about their use and, in Mumbai at least, I have to show my passport (which they take a copy of) before I can have a pay-as-you-go chip.
I hear the howls of thousands of outraged UK teenagers even as I write…
No link found between the two sets of bombers
Home Secratary, Charles Clarke says there is no judicially proven link between the bombers of 7th July and those of 21st July.
“It’s obvious that there was a group that worked on the 7th of July and another group that worked on the 21st July.
“The extent to which they had support, training, induction and even tasking from outside the groups that actually committed the attacks themselves is something which is being investigated very, very fully and comprehensively.
“I think it would be very, very surprising if they weren’t linked in some way, (but) there is not a direct linkage yet formally established to be able to make that assertion.”
He commented also on the shooting of the Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, an incident which is raising more and more questions:
He also refused to be drawn on media reports that there is no CCTV footage of the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, on July 27 at Stockwell underground station. He said the whole incident was “worrying” and he would await the results of an inquiry into the death.
Worrying is the word. The British people will fully support security services that made an innocent mistake. But the longer the questions linger the more people are inclined to fill the gaps with their own theories. None of those theories will enhance the security services’ reputation.
American Muslims, aware that the London bombings were carried out by Britain’s own citizens, are nervous. The solution, according to Salam Al-Marayati writing in The Washington Post, is to avoid the ghettoisation of that community, as has happened with Muslims in Europe.
The writer suggests that ghetto living is more a European phenomena than an American one but nevertheless warns American Muslims away from falling into the same state - and also points out that ghettosation isn’t just a geographical description:
But that doesn’t mean some American Muslims don’t find themselves on the fringes of society. While social forces in Europe may alienate Muslims, it is political forces in the United States that repel many. Although the vast majority of American Muslims do not live in economically depressed physical ghettos, many live in a psychological ghetto caused by the lack of acceptance they feel from their neighbors and colleagues, especially in the post-Sept. 11 era. This psychological ghetto may prove the largest challenge in the war on terrorism.
The writer’s antidote to to Muslim alienation, while not a complete perscription, is based on a shared idea of nationhood - something Americans are very good at but which we British - thanks to the persistent and politically correct undermining of our glorious history - are probably the world’s worst at.
American Muslims can stem the tide of isolation by articulating a message of Islam that is American-based, not Arab- or South Asian-based.
Muslim leaders in the United States, as in Britain, have established a partnership with law enforcement. That partnership needs national attention to illustrate that the walls of pluralism are impenetrable to the ideologies of hate. It is the turn of American Muslims, like other religious minorities in the United States before them, to overcome stigmatization by clearly demonstrating to all that America is home and that no foe, domestic or foreign, will change that.
The Times reports on the Hone Secratary’s plans to expel more foreigners he regards to be hate-mongers. He also suggested another attack on London could take place soon:
Charles Clarke plans to move against scores of militants accused of stirring up hatred as soon as new immigration rules come into force at the weekend.
The Home Secretary said that further expulsions were imminent and that it would be “absolutely foolish” to
assume that there will not be a third terrorist attack in London.
These militants are mostly lesser-known clerics from Pakistan and North Africa. The names aren’t being released so as not to forewarn them. Clerics aren’t the only likely deportees; the Home Secratary’s eyes are on owners of radical Islamic bookshops, writers, a number of teachers and website operators who are regarded as undesirable.
The government is trying to secure agreements with Algeria and Lebanon regarding their acceptance of the arrested men.
What, I wonder, will we be doing about British-born Muslim undesirables against whom we have similar evidence?
The juggling act between liberty - which this government generally regards as a frustration to their attempts to govern - and protecting the public from some of the most dangerous people in the world is likely to be a tricky one.
We need to be vigilant because I don’t think Labour is a particularly big fan of individual freedom.
