Showing posts with label Treason. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Treason. Show all posts

Friday, 15 January 2021

PEACE IN OUR TIME - APPEASING TRUMP'S MOB - by Mel Cooper

 

Trump Mob Storms Capitol Hill - Jan 2021

Independent Appeasers

By Mel Cooper

 

This morning when I opened up my news feed there was a headline that caught my eye immediately. It was: Impeaching Trump Again is Unnecessary and Risks Further Dividing the US. This was the editorial in the UK Independent newspaper. My first reaction? Annoyance. Further reactions? Absolute fury and concern.

 

So, I thought, here we are back in 1938 again and the thinking press of the UK is advocating Appeasement; as PM Stanley Baldwin offered to Hitler – celebrating “Peace In Our Time”. What this editorial headline says to me immediately, before even having to read the crawling editorial itself, is that people are more worried about the Storm Troopers and what they might say and do than they are about the truth. Also, that the primacy of Justice is downgraded to make room for crawling cowardice and self-serving short-term thinking.

 

Donald Trump is a criminal. It is not as if his criminality and betrayal of his country are hidden away or in any way ambiguous. Like a Mafia don, he tried to make the Secretary of State of Georgia an offer he could not refuse - if he only found an extra 12,000 or so votes somehow in the State of Georgia for Donald. He should be impeached for that alone. And be fair to the Secretary of State. He politely and diplomatically decided not to publish the recording of the phone call unless and until the Donald attacked him; which, true to form, the President of the United States did, thus compounding his crime of trying to vote-fix by lying further when confronted with his own dangerous mendacity.

 

Meantime, the Donald, Humpty Trumpty, was tweeting to his followers to come to Washington on 6 January, come by the millions, march on the Capitol and Stop the Steal! (Interesting how Donald goes for 3 word slogans? Pity! Catchy! Distilled lies!) He was actually asking his followers to interfere with the due process of the election, which had already been declared in dozens and dozens of court cases to be totally legal and correct.

 

“Stop the Steal.”

Then we get Trump, his son Trump Jnr, Giuliani, etc, addressing the crowd (not millions but 50,000 or so.  Who counted?) and telling them not to be cowards. Today is the day that we start fighting. Today we take back control. Today we kick ass. Today you have to be a hero, or you will be a zero. Today we take back the election that was stolen from us. (Wonder where they got that slogan. Brexit perhaps: Take Back Control)

 

If after all that we are supposed to look the other way, then we are in serious trouble. No, it will NOT further divide a divided nation. The Storm Troopers aren’t going to listen anyway. We should stop even trying to convert them. And people with half a brain and some eyesight and hearing are fully aware of what has been going on with the Donald all of his life - more ramped-up since he started running for president. Piers Morgan is saddened by how much the Donald has changed since he first was an admiring friend. I have news for Piers Morgan. Donald Trump has not changed. He was always like this. It was always an act and he always created the scripts that he needed and then worked from them. And our very own Boris Johnson revered him as a hero and a role model, so think about that too.  (Not to mention the ass-licking, brown-nosing, creepy snake known as Nigel Farage, the would-be German citizen.)

 

But to suggest that we should not impeach this criminal, this proto-Fascist because it will upset his followers and they might then do bad things, is more or less in the same moral and intellectual camp as giving Hitler the Sudetenland, or insisting that even if Dreyfus is innocent, he should stay on Devil’s Island because it is more patriotic to uphold the good name of the army of France.

 

Once every two or three generations a test comes along. And The Independent has just sat the exam and has given very much the wrong answer. Indeed, it has got a D minus. It has not failed completely. At least it recognizes in its answer that wrongs have been done and the President of the United States is criminal. The whole world has now seen his criminality in action in no uncertain terms. And they are right to think that Trump’s Storm Troopers are dangerous.

 

All those years he has not so much been lying as feeding his followers propaganda. Yes, folks, he has been following the Goebbels Play Book, the Mussolini Martini mixer, that poisons the mind, appeals to paranoia, provokes racism, and finds Another upon whom to blame all your woes in this world that will then be fixed by your new Gawd, Hilter, Mussolini or Franco or … Donald Trump. Our hero, our Gawd. It’s also called Brainwashing; and the followers’ brains are totally cleansed of any aspect of inhibition against violence, tolerance of any other viewpoint, tolerance of anyone who is not White and created in their image.

 

As I have said before, MAGA really means MAWA: Make America White Again. And they carry guns!

 

But they are a minority. However large the minority, it is still a minority. And among them are many people who would waver, who would be able to wake up from the hypnotism that has been perpetrated upon them; and who will not wake up unless they see people try to do WHAT IS RIGHT! It will be tough; it may take time for the message to sink in. But if Nancy Pelosi and the other Democrats and sane Republicans (the ten who voted for impeachment) don’t invoke the law and do what they can to bring Donald Trump and enablers and his cohorts of cultists to justice, if they are not seen to try to apply justice, then that will be the ultimate betrayal and also the ultimate stupidity. Because as with any form of appeasement, that will just make the enemy stronger. They will see that they can get away with it and they will then start trying to get away with even more.

 

It may indeed provoke riots and violence if you impeach Trump. But that is the reaction of a cult at bay, being defanged. Not to impeach Trump, not to sue him in all the courts of the land for his various nefarious deeds over the year, is what will empower the Storm Troopers. Anything to do with Trump is always going to be a Lose-Lose situation. The brave thing is to choose the terms of the loss and be ready to confront it. Not to impeach Trump is a reneging of duty. As our friend Noel Hodson said, that is like saying you must not prosecute Jack the Ripper because people will think you are infringing his human rights and his fellow serial killers might get angry and riot.

 

So, I have only one thing to say to the Independent: you should be ashamed of yourselves.

 

 

Wednesday, 13 January 2021

POLITICANS AND PERFORMERS: The World is Now a Stage

 



 

POLITICANS AND PERFORMERS: The World is Now a Stage

By Mel Cooper

 

Shakespeare said that “All the World’s a stage” and that all the men and women of this world are merely players on that stage. They play their parts and they have exits and entrances, just as in the theatre.

 

Well, the realm of politics seems to me to bear out this metaphor spectacularly these days. Indeed, I would say that sometimes watching the politicians on the news is the most interesting show in town.

 

Certainly, given the proliferation and increasing influence of all the new media, a lot of political discourse and events have become, essentially, reality TV shows (or Reality YouTube?). We follow them with the same verve and voyeurism as people follow the Big Brother House or Love Island. Perhaps it would make our lives easier if we simply accepted this and saw the news every day as another form of theatrical entertainment? So here, at Performance Now, we are going to give that a try.

 

Of course, in America, this is doubly so because of President Donald Trump, who treats everything he does as if he is competing for ratings. He even runs elections that way; and the media give him the platform he wants for that purpose. He used that platform not so long ago to whip up chaos and rioting; and finally to show incontrovertibly what he is about. It is not so much that he is the Liar-in-Chief; more that he is a Propagandist Extraordinary in the mould of the Fascists of the 1920s and 1930s, and therefore has, I think now, been working these past 5 years and more to brainwash his followers into becoming his Storm Troopers. He has succeeded, and the USA is now at a very dangerous moment in its history. He has succeeded through, I believe, extremely calculated and consistent performance.

 

This seem to me also to be true in the UK where the Prime Minister has been auditioning for his certification as a Genuine Professional Clown for decades. That is a good cover for what he may actually be up to, folks.  And these self-serving, power grabbing performances to get support for toxic hidden agendas are happening in many other places as well, especially in the territories of the more right wing neo-populist regimes.

 

I have been struck by this idea all over again because of two performances that I caught just recently, before the events at the Capitol in Washington. The first was on Sky News.  They invited Peter Hitchens to comment on the newspaper headlines. His basic stance and argument was that the whole Covid epidemic is simply exaggerated. Hitchens insisted vociferously that Covid is not much worse than any seasonal flu; that the reportage of so many deaths is fake news, that people die from things all the time and especially in midwinter, so there is no need to get excited about it. The whole Covid thing is exaggerated. The motive for them to exaggerate is that they want to scare us so that they can control us.  So don’t believe this lie and you will be free, free. It is all about liberty!

 

Now, in some ways he was merely reading from one of the standard scripts of the people who like to deny. I have heard it all before. So why was I so exercised this time? Firstly, because in playing his part as a Covid Leaver, the Peter Hitchens Act was especially well-prepared and his performance was very confident and therefore he might have convinced some people who would rather believe a comforting fantasy than the evidence that is actually available.

 

Secondly, because he was saying all this when the very news programme he was on had just read out the latest figures of infections and deaths and shown charts that demonstrated that the Covid plague has now been more out of control for the past weeks in several countries including the UK than it has ever been before; and that that this is at least partly because there is a new strain to the virus that is far more transmissible. Hitchens was also not prepared to concede that perhaps the schools – and indeed the whole country – might need to be locked down as a crude but effective way of trying to suppress the spread of the virus until enough people can be vaccinated. I am not sure he even thinks we need vaccines! He is probably even one of those cranks who thinks the vaccines poison us. As someone who was given the first polio vaccine and knew people with polio as a child who have suffered immeasurably all their lives because they got polio before the vaccine was available, I promise you I’m a full believer in vaccines . Yes, there may be side effects; but that is rare; and the vaccines are always rigorously tested and monitored by law in our society. What is the bigger risk: Covid or the vaccine?

 

What struck me more than all this Hitchens illogical thinking, however, is that the presenter and the other guest who did not agree with Hitchens were at no point willing to treat what Hitchens was saying as anything but another opinion. No one reacted to the flaws in his position, the shallowness of his stance; no one said he was lying (which he effectively was doing), nor did they challenge him for his irresponsible and dangerous statements that play directly into the prejudices, fears and dangerous actions of a proportion of our citizens.

 

And that is the nub of why people are not learning or facing the truth. This is one of the ways that the Brexit debate was lost too. It seems that the priority for almost all broadcasters these days is to be so balanced and neutral that whatever is said is a matter of opinion, nothing more, that must be respected like any other matter of opinion. It also seems that they are more interested in entertaining you and pressing your emotional buzzers than they are in presenting you with cogent, intelligent and logical truths or debates. Hence all the many appearances of people the likes of Nigel Farage on TV over the years, all the articles he wrote, all the interviews he gave, being given huge amounts of space; effectively giving his lying agenda a platform that he could not hope to buy with all the money available to him. The same with Boris Johnson and when he promoting Brexit. The propaganda he was spouting was treated as an alternative truth.

 

But Covid is not a matter of opinion. It is a complex and possibly fatal disease and you cannot simply argue it away by stating that government or medical practitioners are exaggerating. Ask hospitals in the UK or in California at the moment. On the other hand, Hitchens, like Farage, is in his way provocative entertainment and so he is both given the platform and treated politely without any real challenge. He is, in effect, performing.

 

Later in the same news cycle, came the tape of President Donald Trump phoning the Secretary of State in Georgia, Brad Raffensperger. On this call Trump was clearly playing Marlon Brando in The Godfather. Actually, Brando was somewhat less sinister and more direct. All the requests by Trump for Raffensperger to find a few thousand more votes; and all Trump’s appeal for loyalty to himself, through the fact that the Secretary of State was a Fellow Republican, sounded as if he was building up to making Raffensperger an offer he could not refuse.

 

Fortunately, Brad Raffensperger had enough integrity (amounting to the heroic under the circumstances) simply to stick to the facts. There is no evidence of fraud in the voting; there is no evidence of rigged machines. So what did Trump do next? Having spent quite some time summoning his cohorts to Washington to try to disrupt the process of counting the electoral votes, he went to the crowd. He brought his son, he brought Rudy Giuliani, he brought others; and they all wound up at the gathering of Trump Storm Troopers and set them loose. I love the bit where he was playing the part to the hilt and promising to go with them, march with them, to the Capitol. Of course he didn’t! He was having a party to watch what he clearly hoped would escalate so that he could declare a State of Emergency, bring in the troops, declare Martial Law and refuse to step down as President. At least that is how the subtext of that play looked to me!

 

Maybe you could give Trump the benefit of the doubt and decide Trump was not “lying”? Maybe he is so delusional that he is stating what he really believes? If so, then maybe he is simply mentally ill. He is so damaged and narcissistic that he cannot accept that he lost the election and so the only possible explanation he can understand is that somehow the election was rigged against him. The election must have been stolen because losing was not an option – and he truly believes this even after being told over and over that this is simply not the case.

 

That is another possible subtext to read into the Trump movie script.

 

However, I believe another possibility. He is actually acting his part quite consciously and cynically. He is playing out his own TV reality show. And he is craftily setting things up so that he can move on after 20 January 2021 to a career with an audience of about 74 million loyal fans. Of course, the two possibilities are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

 

All this fits, with increasing certainty, into the proposition that all the world truly is now a stage for politicians and others; that YouTube and Facebook and Twitter are nothing but “reality” entertainment and performance platforms; that most of the women and men are playing their parts as scripted by themselves or their supporters who have their covert agendas; and that many of these politicians truly are actors and not much more.

 

Fortunately, though they have their entrances, sooner or later all these people will have their exits.   Mel Cooper, Oxford, Jan 13th 2021


Thursday, 3 October 2019

THE MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS SHUT DOWN BY THE FATHER OF LIES


PROPAGANDA EVIL-GENIUS JOSEF GOEBBELS
PERSUADED HALF OF EUROPE TO SLAUGHTER JEWS & MINORITIES
 'Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it'
We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.  GOEBBELS (WW2 CAUSED 60 MILLION DEATHS).

9 Oct 2019: Letter to UK colleagues who fear the collapse of the Euro.

Should we short the Euro? 

Reviewing the statistics and economic graphs – there are no obvious signs that the EU or the EURO are about to crash. Brexit and the China-USA arguments pose a threat to the rate of growth of the global economy – via changes in tariffs. Yesterday’s UK.Gov publication of likely post-Brexit IMPORT tariffs poses threats to world trade; but are not the central factor. Some UK industries will be wiped out by dumping of inferior goods. 

Far more important to the UK, and to the EU because we are the 2nd largest EU economy after Germany being 16% of EU GDP, are the UK’s EXPORT tariffs. No-Deal will force us, the UK, onto WTO tariffs ranging from 5% to 48%. These are added to our export prices. Pre-Brexit, most of our exports to the EU are tariff free, and via the EU-deals with other blocs, tariffs are low (not WTO imposed).

ALL major forecasters predict loss of trade/sales equivalent  to the increase in tariffs. This is why tariff wars are so damaging. On the UK’s 77,000 products and services, No-Deal Brexit will cancel all current agreements. They will take 10 to 20 years to renegotiate – meantime it’s WTO rules. As a solo, relatively small power, the UK is likely to be the loser in such arguments. UK industries are afraid of all the usual threats – dumping, supply-interruptions, poisons, etc. that we have settled over the past 60 years. Bloomberg say:

Brexit negotiations are hanging by a thread. A no-deal outcome would be a major blow to the U.K.’s trading relationship with Europe, according to Bloomberg Economics. A less severe Brexit is possible, with the U.K. staying in the single market. At a minimum, there will be a period of uncertainty as talks come to a head. In total, about 0.9 percent of global GDP is exposed to Brexit trade risk. No surprise: the U.K. is the most vulnerable major economy, with 10 percent of GDP at risk. Ireland isn’t far behind, at 9.7 percent. For the euro area as a whole, 2.7 percent of GDP is exposed.

So, the UK’s risk is immense (10% of our GDP = 5M to 7.8M jobs or equivalent wages). The EU’s risk is 2.7%. The world, incl. the USA will suffer 0.9% GDP decline. My guess is that the world will rapidly and happily fill-in our lost exports with their own trade. So, we will not recover the 10% of GDP. The EU will replace our 62M population with new members and will recover their 2.7% loss of GDP – not least by grabbing our City-of-London business.

Other than this suicidal tariff war – Europe is as sound and solid as the other major blocs. Don’t short the Euro.

“We survived the Blitz – and Dunkirk - and The Falklands”  - “Into the Valley of Death rode the 600. …Ours is but to do AND die” (not as misquoted by lazy, fornicating Boris – “…to do OR die.”  If we DO Brexit, we will DIE.  


Noel

ALL the latest Opinion  Polls show Remainers are in the majority. Why aren't they reported in the UK media?  Possibly because all media barons and VIPs are making fortunes out of Brexit. e.g. How much has Rees-Mogg made by betting against Sterling? The People, the many not the few, are already losing £900 a year each - and their jobs, from 5 million to 7.8 million jobs, are at risk. 



Latest 2nd EURef polls
SURVATION SEP 25   Leave 45%          Remain 51%       Don't know 4% 
YOUGOV SEP 20         Leave 37%          Remain 46%      Wouldn't vote/dk 17 
KANTAR SEP 9            Leave 34%          Remain 37%       Wouldn't vote/dk 28% 
DELTAPOLL SEP 4       Leave 40%          Remain 46%       Dk 14%  
PANELBASE SEP 6      Leave 45%          Remain 52%       Dk 3%

3:46 PM · Oct 1, 2019·Twitter Web App


"The Mother of Parliaments shut down by The Father of Lies." 

Aidan O'Neill QC - 18th Sept 2019


Mel Cooper, Oxford, 3 Oct 2019 -  writes:

The problem is that the Leave Campaign was run by Dominic Cummings based on his understanding of the Fascist Propaganda Handbook. He loves it because he is, at heart, a Disrupter, and his rule book says quite clearly that all you need do is find a strong, emotive slogan, preferably one that is as simplistic a lie as possible, and that appeals to the basest fears and bigotry of a simple plurality.  The fearful and angry do not wish to think; they prefer to be blinkered and they want a target or focus for their anger and misery. So unify them and get them to give you the votes you need. They will outvote the splintered liberal parties and groups every single time!

The overarching slogan that Dominic “Josef Goebbels” Cummings came up with was: Take Back Control. 

His promise? We will take back control of our sovereignty, our money, our borders and our laws. Keep repeating this as a mantra. This implies and even assumes that we have not got control over those things and no one, not one witty, intelligent person on the Remain side challenged this nonsense directly. The liberal papers and the BBC never said to Nigel Forage, who will have his 33rd appearance on BBC Question Time on 4th Oct (why? who invites and pays him?), “but what you are saying is a lie and based on false premises”. Even now, no one points out that we are about to do what the EU wants least, which is to withdraw from the EU without even having a withdrawal deal. If we did not have our Sovereignty, then how would we be allowed to do that? Scotland and Ireland have not got their sovereignty, it would seem, because they do not want to leave the EU - and by large majorities. But they have no veto in our system that is supposedly the most democratic in the world and more democratic than the EU.

So, demonstrably, the UK as an entity did not give away or lose control of our Sovereignty, folks, we pooled it. Just the way the UK is supposedly made up of four pooled sovereignties — for the moment.

If you do not accept, approve of or understand about pooled Sovereignties, then I think you might as well wait until Scotland or Ireland or Wales wish to break away and be independent to figure it out. Meantime, the money we are going to get back control of that we send to the EU annually is, guess what, about 1.3% of our annual budget. Boy, have we lost control of our money! Imagine, the EU membership fee means that we only control around 98.7% of our annual budget! Or do we control the remaining 1.3% as well since we choose voluntarily to send our fee for membership to the EU?

Not only that, no one bothered either to challenge the Money Control False Premise nor did they ever point out that we are the third biggest contributor to the EU budget because we are the third largest economy in Europe after Germany and France. Instead of being angry about this, we should be aching to be the biggest contributor because that would mean we are the richest economy in the EU! But that would require us to be doing a bit of analysis, a little bit of thinking, and that is out of the question. Need I go on? 

Of course, it did not help that Jeremy Corbyn is a Eurosceptic and was a lazy, intolerant, irritable and largely absent figurehead for running the Remain Campaign for the Labour Party. He single-handedly, prematurely enabled Article 50. He has also become the darling of the Momentum cult. 

And, by the way, the most important historic precedent for forming a Party of National Unity to run the government in a time of crisis is not that the leader of the Opposition has to be the leader of such a government; especially when that leader has the leadership skills of an intellectually narrow-minded, blinkered and tribal slug. In the days everyone likes to hark back to, i.e. the days of World War II, a certain Labour leader named Clement Attlee supported the leadership of a government of unity by Winston Churchill and was a committed supporter and Deputy Leader of that Prime Minister. 

So maybe we should look for a solid, experienced leader like Ken Clarke or some other figurehead that everyone can get behind and actually trust. 

Whatever you think of Jeremy Corbyn, it is very clear that a lot of people distrust him. So we need to factor that into the plans. We need someone demonstrably honourable, whom everyone trusts and who is more interested in the good of the nation that the good of his or her party or his or her power. That is what unity would mean. Even the supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, even the acolytes who sincerely believe that he has an almost divine integrity, must recognise that theirs is not a universal reaction to the man; and that it would be a good idea to back off insisting he has to lead the government of unity. If they do not, then a government of unified opposition MPs will simply not happen and we will crash out of the EU on Hallowe’en, 2019. That is what I predict at the moment, because Momentum and Corbyn simply do not seem capable of putting the good of the nation and national unity ahead of what a lot of people fear is just a cynical power grab.

They tell me it is the Will of the People to leave the EU because that is what the people narrowly voted for in 2016. Of course, another way of looking at this is to suggest that 37% of the people who were eligible to vote, voted to leave and that means that 63% did not — the 63% being made up of those who actively and consciously voted Remain and those who did not choose to vote because it was raining. The 63% were totally convinced Remain had to win so there was no urgency (were they targeted on Facebook by some tricky Cummings algorithms do you think?), they were feeling lazy or they were just plain irresponsible. But you ask me to respect this vote? Yet this vote is the result of what was clearly a propaganda campaign misinforming the people so that enough gullible, angry folk who hated David Cameron because of his loony, economically illiterate and damaging austerity obsession, would not support him in anything, even if it meant not thinking about what further damage they might be doing to themselves in this instance. 

So there we are. The Will of the People is to make Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson and their cohorts even richer and hand over to them the power to evade or change EU laws that benefit working people, and also to sell off the NHS to the USA with crocodile tears in their eyes because what else will we be able to do.

We voted for the easiest trade deals ever. We voted to be gods. We voted to rule the seas again. We voted never, ever, never, ever to be slaves. We voted to Take Back Control — well, for the Eurosceptic Conservatives to have control anyway. And we never talked about the moral issue of betraying the central dream of Europe that helped create the EU by little steps over the past decades: to create a forum for talk and diplomacy that would obviate the necessity for extreme competition and even war. We also voted to create a large trading block that would help each of the countries in the union punch above its individual weight in an increasingly global world. We never talked about the betrayal that leaving the EU would mean for the Good Friday Agreement based so heavily on the alignments between the UK and Eire because both were in the EU. We voted for bombs in Birmingham again, I fear. It was the EU that was part of the reason we could calm the Irish problem. It was the EU that gave us 45 years of peace and prosperity such as we had not really known before. We have voted to dismantle that prosperity, most probably; and possibly that peace too.

As for the myth that we have lost control of our borders, at the moment the EU entrants have fallen dramatically and so we have to take far more people from places like India, Pakistan and the Philippines to do the work. We still need those people, so the overall immigration to the UK has not fallen by all that much. But the people coming are not EU therefore they have to get through the nets created by Theresa May’s Hostile Environment. Even before the EU immigration fell, it amounted to no more than 20% of entrants into the country. That means that even before the Referendum we were not being overwhelmed by European people with a free pass to come. 80% of the people who came were non-EU and had to have visas and permission. We had overall control. And whatever happened to the millions of Turks poised to come here and destroy our culture and rape people? Who said that was about to happen? And by leaving the EU, we also, of course, sacrifice our reciprocal rights to travel, study, work and live in Europe with ease. But hell, isn’t that all worth giving up – for our “freedom to starve” in glorious independence and sovereignty?

As for our laws, I note that Priti Patel wants to reintroduce the death penalty. And I bet that many Leavers will applaud that, so let us go ahead and do it. We voted for that too. We also voted for the pound to be 23% less valuable today than it was before the Referendum and for the knock on effects of that to close down businesses but up tourism from countries with stronger currencies. Well, that’s good business, I suppose.

We also have to leave the EU so that we can redo one at a time the 170 or so trade deals (on 77,000 products) that we now have through our membership of the EU club, one at a time, individually, from the position of being a market of about 60 million instead of 550 million. Guess who will have the upper hand as we redo each of these negotiations with some of the strong economies of this world? Chlorinated Coronation Chicken! Yum yum! I can hardly wait! And American medical insurance is waiting in the wings to charge us double or treble the price for health-services.

So Good Luck, Brexiteers! We also have to leave the EU because David Cameron didn’t bother to take any time to explain the positives of the EU. He tripped off the Referendum prematurely (he could have done it 3 or 4 years later after some proper debates), with no real preparation, and with no thought of countering 40 years of anti-EU propaganda from the Right Wing Press of the UK. He ran a totally negative campaign about the damage leaving would do; he appealed to thought and intellect; and there was no leadership debate to inspire confidence in our membership of the EU. 

My own fear is that the Conservative government of Boris Johnson really wants to gain authoritarian control so that they never have to worry about EU laws making them bring their offshore money back so that it can be fairly taxed. They also want to exploit situations that EU laws now prevent, laws we often introduced, asked for and even wrote. And hey, did you know that we have a veto in the EU system? How’s that for being able to exercise some sovereignty?

Sadly, I am beginning to think that the only thing we can do now is stop complaining that it was all a truly appalling con job - because the media will not listen to the 63%, any more than the anti-Dreyfuards would respond to logic or evidence - or any more than the McCarthyites in the USA in the 1950s could be convinced that the Reds were not hiding under all our beds. But I do have to keep on protesting because my conscience tells me to; and like Lillian Hellman before me, I find that I cannot cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.

The real witch hunt and the real betrayals are all on the Leave side. As in the actual play by Ibsen, these are the ones who are "the enemies of the people". But I guess we have to go through with it just so that the poor, benighted believers in the Cult of Brexit are finally disabused and have their eyes opened. Of course, they will blame it all on the EU for a while because it could not possibly be Boris Johnson’s fault, despite the £350 million per week bus that everyone knows was one of the more obvious propaganda lies. No, let us go ahead. Do not listen to your experts. Do not listen to all the nations of the world wondering what has happened to the British. And do not listen to your young people who, by and large, might want a more open society and future!

Or perhaps we should have another vote just to check again? In case there has been a change of mind and heart? 

Or maybe not …   Mel Cooper, Oxford, UK 3 Oct 2019



Tuesday, 24 September 2019

SUPREME COURT RULES JOHNSON & GANG ACTED ILLEGALLY


DOMINIC (EVIL GENIUS) CUMMINGS
BORIS (ARROGANT WOULD-BE DICTATOR) JOHNSON
 ACTED ILLEGALLY - SUPREME COURT RULING

"The Mother of Parliaments - closed by The Father of Lies"

LOCK THEM UP!

PUBLIC ORDER ACT 1986
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INCITEMENT to VIOLENCE is replaced by: The offences of encouraging or assisting crime under the Serious Crime Act 2007 are inchoate offences.[3] In each case, the actus reus requirement is that the defendant carry out an act capable of "encouraging or assisting" the commission of another offence



  • disobeying or ignoring a court order
  • refusing to answer the court’s questions if you’re called as a witness
My guess is that Dominic Cumming's "Cunning Plan" is to terrify the UK with the prospect of a crippling No-Deal, then at the last minute, comply with The Supreme Court and substitute a Boris-Leave-Deal. "Phew - what a relief. At last! We MUST do this deal!" A Very-Bad-deal will replace No-deal. Boris will be acclaimed as the Brexit winner. Cumming's will be lauded (again) as an evil-genius. Speculators including UK media bosses will make offshore tax-free billions as Sterling collapses another 20%. Between 5 and 7 million jobs or equivalent wages will be lost. It will take 10 years to renegotiate the UK's trade-deals on 70,000 items and services. The UK will break-up "The Disunited Kingdom". All profitable UK businesses will emigrate. Most talent will emigrate. The UK will be bankrupted and become irrelevant, globally. Thank you Boris, Nigel & gang. 

Contempt of court  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court

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Contempt of court, often referred to simply as "contempt", is the offense of being disobedient to or disrespectful toward a court of law and its officers in the form of behavior that opposes or defies the authority, justice and dignity of the court.[1][2] A similar attitude towards a legislative body is termed contempt of Parliament or contempt of Congress.
There are broadly two categories of contempt: being disrespectful to legal authorities in the courtroom, or willfully failing to obey a court order.[3] Contempt proceedings are especially used to enforce equitable remedies, such as injunctions.[4] In some jurisdictions, the refusal to respond to subpoena, to testify, to fulfill the obligations of a juror, or to provide certain information can constitute contempt of the court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement
England and Wales[edit]
Incitement was an offence under the common law of England and Wales. It was an inchoate offence.[3] It consisted of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime.
It was abolished in England and Wales on 1 October 2008[4] when Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 came into force, replacing it with three new statutory offences of encouraging or assisting crime.[5] The common law is now only relevant to offences committed before that date.[6]

SHORTING STERLING:  The real motive of VIP Brexiters. Billions of Reward or Risk for the super-rich who finance Boris Johnson and his gang. LOCK THEM UP !
“It could be Cummings advising the PM to be extremely aggressive… It could be people who have invested billions in shorting the pound in expectation of a no-deal Brexit.”
Rachel Johnson, BBC World at One

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/09/26/cabinet-ethics-probe-into-johnsons-hedge-fund-backers/


The Prorogation Plan

Disclosures in a Channel Four documentary Tories at War on Sunday revealed that one of the hedge fund owners who contributed to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign, Crispin Odey, appeared to be aware of a plan to ‘suspend’ Parliament in late July, the day before Johnson won the leadership contest. This was a month before the government’s plan to prorogue Parliament was leaked by the Observer. 
In 2016, Odey and his partner made £350m overnight by speculating on sterling and moving in gold when the shock EU referendum result caused the pound to tumble. He had donated over £800,000 to Leave campaigns during the Brexit referendum.
In early August this year, The Times revealed that Odey Asset Management had placed £299 million in short positions on some of Britain’s biggest firms around the date for a possible ‘no deal’ Brexit.


SUPREME COURT RULES JOHNSON & GANG ACTED ILLEGALLY

LOCK 'EM UP !

 DAILY TELEGRAPH: 11 am 24 Sept 2019:
 Supreme Court finds Boris Johnson's prorogation of Parliament was 'unlawful, void and of no effect' - Brexit latest news.

THE GUARDIAN newspaper
Here’s another call for Boris Johnson’s resignation, from Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. This is from its leader at Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts.

The supreme court has delivered a damming and unanimous verdict. Boris Johnson has broken the law for undermining the basic principles of democracy. The prime minister has shown himself to be no better than a tin-pot dictator, shutting down democracy to avoid scrutiny.
There is no question, the prime minister must resign immediately and a crash-out Brexit stopped once and for all.
In his short time in office Boris Johnson has proven himself to be a deeply dangerous and anti-democratic leader, with no respect for the rule of law. It would be a complete affront to civilised society if the prime minister did not resign after this historic ruling.
ROGUES GALLERY - JOHNSON'S CABINET WHO IMPOSED
THE CLOSURE OF PARLIAMENT.



Summary of judgment - Key extracts

It follows that the advocate general’s appeal in the case of Cherry is dismissed and Mrs Miller’s appeal is allowed. The same declarations and orders should be made in each case.