We Are All Conservatives Now

British values have changed immensely over the past twenty years or so.  The country’s residents have little time for liberalism, as do New Labour and all the other mainstream political parties.  The media likewise often attack any view, which is not conservative and right wing.  One would have to think long and hard to give an example of a single country which does not have a left-leaning mainstream political party.  Even the United States differ in this respect.  Many see Barack Obama as recycling George Bush’s policies, but there are vast differences in policy.  The Republican party have gone ultra-right wing, largely to show Obama they can be more belligerent than him. For the moment, at least, the Democrats have a more favourable policy with immigration; they have a much more reasonable view of welfare recipients and so-called health care reforms.  It would be quite impossible to be more unreasonable than the Republicans, who for many are a group of extreme fanatics, who put business and profit before anything else.

However, in Britain you could not divide the two mainstream political parties, or indeed three of them.  There is a little known story concerning the Liberal democrats, six years before the 2010 election, a new book was edited by David Laws and Paul Marshall, and it is called the Orange Book.  In this book then prominent Liberal Democrats put emphasis on the markets, and how best to be elected, to move more to the right, which is exactly what the Liberal democrats did.  Labour, on the hand, does not even hide how far to the right they have gone.

It is simple if you look at the policies of the two parties, they are almost identical.  Take any area of policy.  Under what is named ‘justice’, Labour and the Conservatives only differ slightly.  Actually, laughably, labour are more to the right in this area than the Tories themselves.  It was the Blair government which introduced the IPPs, an acronym which is not very well known at all.  It stands for Imprisonment for Public Protection, in other words, an individual can be imprisoned for as long as the parole board and probation officers’ like, and if they have no desire to release him or indeed her, they will not be released.  Even if they are released, and there is no guarantee that there will be, they still will be technically serving a life sentence, or at least, have the potential to do so.  For they are placed on licence or a probationary period for a minimum of ten years, and it also has to be added, many of the offences are relatively minor.  The Conservatives have successfully overturned this policy.

Under Labour Britain had the biggest prison population in Europe, children were even being sent to jails, under Jack Straw’s legislation, it was made far easier to be convicted for rape, of which many innocent men were going to prison on trumped up rape charges, languishing on the Sex Offender’s Register for the rest of their lives.

Labour also started the privatisation of the NHS, the Conservatives continued to privatise it; one in three schools, in the hands of the same Government, became faith schools, again, the Conservatives are just as keen on faith schools, in essence, denying children the liberty to think for themselves; the failed work programs Thatcher introduced, were re-introduced by Blair and Brown, and the same system has been introduced by David Cameron; many civil liberties were removed, a kind of autocracy was taking place, terrifying the public with fear tactics from time to time, “the rules have changed”, said Blair after the attacks on the underground tube trains in 2005,  criminal record checks were demanded anywhere and everywhere, mercilessly, Labour created the ultimate Big Brother society, the Tories are having to evolve where Labour left off.  It is no secret Blair and Brown evolved Thatcher’s free market fundamentalism.  There is no freedom under the free market, only terror.  A one party state with three factions, one may add.

During his tenure in office, Tony Blair was acting as the virtual Foreign Secretary, as well as Prime Minister. During this time, his allies included Silvio Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin, George.W.Bush, Ariel Sharon, John Howard, Muammar Gaddafi, the royal family in Saudi Arabia, amongst many others.  Berlusconi was first elected Prime Minister of Italy in 1994, he was there on and off until 2012.  He was unquestionably on the right, and once called all Germans Nazis; his links with Fascism have been difficult for him to shake off.  Many of his cabinet Ministers were even former Fascists.  His immigration policy was particularly scandalous.  Many asylum seekers coming to Italy were sent to detention centres-virtual concentration camps-in Libya.  This was one of Blair’s most cherished allies, Mr. Blair, so the public would have it, was a man of the left. His wife even called him a socialist.

Vladimir Putin is a far more disgraceful character from the arena of world politics.  Putin is responsible for some of the worst bloodshed seen in Europe in the 21st century.  The second Chechen war saw thousands massacred, all with the acquiescence of Tony Blair.  Innocent men were tortured in the most barbaric fashion, women systematically ravaged, and children were not spared the slaughter.  Putin, a man, who turned Russia into a Stalinist state once again, Stalin, has many similarities with Blair.

George.W.Bush was ultra-right wing, even more so than his predecessor, Bill Clinton.  Bush ran his government like a CEO executive, and the people around him were neo-liberal fanatics, who saw everything in terms of profits and offered a taste of Freedmanesque economics.  Blair was proud to turn Iraq into a bloodbath, for Blair is one of those free market fundamentalists who believes in profit over people.  He was certainly at home with his number one ally, Mr. Bush.

Bill Clinton, on the other hand, was a different kettle of fish.  Along with Thatcher, he was Blair’s major influence.  Clinton’s onslaught of the welfare state, particularly single mothers, pleased Blair emphatically. The secret bombing in Iraq, the indiscriminate, and by UN definition, illegal bombing of Yugoslavia, Bill Clinton’s love for arming the biggest mass murderer since Hitler, General Suharto, bombing a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, which according to Human Rights Watch, the only organisation that could be bothered to investigate it, said Clinton’s actions cost thousands of lives.

Blair’s love affair with the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, is grotesque in every way.  Because of Blair’s support for Israeli-backed terror, more Palestinians were subject to the kind of terror that is both sickening and gruesome.  Not on one occasion did Blair condemn Israel for their continual terror.  Ariel Sharon, a man who was responsible for massacres in the 1980s when he was the Defence Minister, and before that, in the 1950s, when he was a general, he ordered the killing of civilians and the destruction of refugee camps.  Mr. Blair, a man of the left indeed.

Left and right no longer exist in Britain.  Instead, we have terms intended to fool the population. We hear terms like “hard-left”, “centre-left”, “mildly right wing”, “extremist”, “conservative”, “liberals”, and so on.  It is not difficult to decode those frivolous phrases.  “Hard-left” "socialist", and all the other terms just refer to right wingers, we need those terms to fool the general population into believing the country is not a one state ideology.

When you look at the media, it is even more intriguing.  The guardian, which paints itself as a paper of the left, has shifted vastly towards the right.  The paper is liberal at the very least.  Simon Jenkins, a columnist for the paper, was once an editor for the Murdoch press and referred to himself as an “enthusiastic Thatcherite”; Timothy Garton-Ash, another contributor to the newspaper, was once a journalist for the right wing periodicals, the Spectator, he was referred to a former journalist at the guardian as the “in house lunatic” at the guardian. Polly Toynbee, Zoe Williams and Madeleine Bunting are supine liberals. Jonathan Freedland, the crypto-racist and supporter of Israeli ethnic cleansing, is the worst of the lot. 

The country is shifting into dark times, a fascist mentality already present; one should not be surprised at what happens next.

17th October 2012

State Terrorism

I class state terrorism in three categories, the first of these are elite terror states. These are the worst kind. The second sort of terror states are the ones that take part in it, fund it, support to a lesser degree, but their main purpose is to use terror effectively. The third kind, are the least violent of the criminal states, they nonetheless still take part in state terror, for every state does to some degree, and these countries, whom many believe to be innocent are still guilty of supporting other barbarities abroad.

Let us first look at the most serious charge of elite terror states. Who have been these elite terror states in the 20th century? Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, Britain, France, Israel, and others. All of these countries, at the present time, have, what people generally call “democracies”. By democracy I mean a process where a certain number of people in a country vote for a “candidate”, and then the voter sits idly by for four or five years while the “candidate” they voted for and rest of parliament put the power in the hands of executives, allowing the electorate no say whatsoever, and in the meantime, have their basic rights slowly whittled away, this is what people call democracy, and everybody is foolish enough to believe it.

State terror in Russia, certainly since the Russian coup in 1917, is well known, it is also well known fascism was prevalent in Nazi Germany, Japan during the same period, Italy, Spain, China and others. In Israel, Britain and the U.S it is well hidden. But today, in the 21st century, we still have these elite terror states. The United States launched terror campaigns against Iraq, Afghanistan, and give huge amounts in military aid to another  elite terror state, Israel, and they terrorise their own people, like all governments do to some degree and nobody talks about it. Their prisons are more like dungeons. Prisoners are subjected to all kinds of abuse such including beatings, rape, stabbings, murder and so on. The people who are given outrageous sentences for minor “offences” are often innocent of any wrong doing. These poor people are given indeterminate prison terms, and may never be released, they lock up and execute people who are mentally ill, all this is geared at making stupendous profit out of people’s misery. So the prisoner becomes a commodity, a commodity in which they are exploited to the maximum degree. The country holds “detainees” without even charging them for years on end, many are innocent, they use torture, and the CIA function as a tool of American foreign policy, as well as domestic policy, who are an international terrorist organisation.

In Britain the story is similar. The state supported the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, still refusing to let people of Diego Garcia return home. Britain removed these people as to allow a military base take their place. They persistently arm repressive regimes, as well as funding terrorism. At home people in Britain are also subjected to this terror. The prisons are bad enough but the prison laws are designed to imprison innocent people,  and they know it. When alleged victims retract their statements at the Crown Prosecution Service, they proceed ahead anyway, and when people are released they are subject to Kafkaesque conditions. Many of these restrictions are placed upon them for the rest of their lives. Protest groups, environmentalists, anti-fascists and so on are put on registers and national databases, the police work undercover with these movements, inducing them to commit crimes so they can lock them up, these terrible things amongst hundreds of other go on and on.

A favourite hobby of the state of Israel is to abuse, harass, torture, rape, murder and bomb the West Bank, Gaza and neighbouring countries. In the 21st century they still occupy these poor Palestinians, this is known amongst many, but what is lesser known is the apartheid system prevalent there. Palestinians, by law, spend longer in prisons for committing the same crimes as Israelis, they are routinely tortured, even children, and are given Orwellian trials, their homes, if they have one, seldom have regular electricity, hot running water and a lot more besides. These are “two-legged beasts”, to quote Menachem Begin, a former Israeli Prime Minister.

A kind of state terror has developed over Europe, these are amongst the more “civilised” and advanced nations, so we are told. This state terror is aimed primarily at its own people. This state terror comes in the form of “austerity cuts” or “austerity drive”. The terror is not tangible; it can not be seen. For it is not the sort of state terror where physical violence is used; it is far worse than that. The terror is a financial one. So when people’s wages are being cut, they are forcing their living standards down, forcing them out of properties in which they live. This has happened before in advanced countries, but what has not happened is large numbers of people belonging to these places having had their lives destroyed forever. They are now living in countries that are in perpetual bondage to financial institutions. But it is a mistake to think everybody in these societies are forced with this terror; they are not. It is the people who can barely afford to feed their own family, so now they are being driven into third world status, whilst the most wealthiest and privileged make even more profit. This is the free market in all its glory.  The protests, the demonstrations and campaigns are met with utter barbarity.  These people no longer exist as far as the state is concerned; they have become unpeople.

What this amounts to is economic warfare, and for the people that have the temerity to fight back may spend years in prison. People seeking asylum and refuge undergo even greater barbarism than before, they are put in detention camps, they are separated from their children and family, and when they are guaranteed citizenship they are placed in the most hideous slums where they are subject to racial attacks, violence, neighbours often smash their windows, play their stereos all night long, it is a sort of terror that has been imposed on them by these governments.

Another target of the so-called “austerity drive” are the disabled, the sick, the infirm, the unemployed, single parents and young people. They have their benefits slashed, the disabled are forced to hunt for work, as are the mentally ill. And what if they refuse? Their benefits are removed and they inevitably, in time, become homeless, rendering them an unperson. Yet such barbaric behaviour is accepted by the majority. It is true everything the government does is conducted through terror. That is why it must be conceded every state is a terror state, and its biggest enemy are the people it claims to represent.

The biggest wars they fight is also against their own people; it is called class war. The state has a deep-seated passion to drive wages down, increase inflation and stop the poor and needy from voting. The formula is simple: if they can get such people stop voting they then can implement what oppressive or repressive laws they see fit because it will have no effect at all on the ruling party. They force all these poor, miserable and wretched people into the most appalling areas.  There is no such thing as a rich country; there is such a thing as an elite extremely rich club running the country turning most of it into a third world nightmare.  No individual deserves to be born in shackle, invisible shackles, yet each of us are.

We are born into bondage to the state. Men, women and children can only gain freedom when the state no longer exists. The terror of not knowing whether the police are going to knock your door down and arrest you for doing absolutely nothing, being imprisoned for many years, the state has control over each and every one of us, freedom is just a dream, maybe it will emerge one day, but that day, if it does arrive, is a long way of. How long will people endure this prolonged terror? That is an interesting question which is impossible to answer because in sooth nobody really knows.

We are all terrorists, we all pay our taxes and these taxes fund state terror, and for those who support state terror are willing terrorists. If individuals refuse to fund this terror, that is, they refuse to pay taxes, the state sends them to prison. That is the only way to avoid funding such terror. Even for people who do not work, the same principle applies. They are receiving money from terror and robbery through taxes. But the state is everywhere; we can not escape it. Everything we do is restricted by these unnatural laws. “The law is an ass”, said Charles Dickens”, it is an ass and so much besides. These members of Parliament are the foulest criminals in society, who like to impose these repressive laws, while at the same time applauding our democratic values.

Yet people believe such trash. Is existence just a nightmare? Something worse perhaps. This savagery at times does seem to be too monstrous to be true. It is true and so we must begin by disobeying the state. We should do this by doing a number of things; (1) Refuse to pay taxes; (2) Pull your children out of state-funded schools; (3) Reject all manmade laws, and only adhere to natural and universal law; (4) Reject all forms of all (unjustified) authority; (5) Do not vote, and if need be, pay people money not to vote; (6) Boycott government properties such as hospitals, libraries and colleges; (7)Organise meetings in your local community, and create your own laws based on solidarity and mutual agreement and disregard the laws of the state; (8) Do not work for the public sector (9) Do not use the emergency services, set up your own in the local community; (10) Draw up your own mandate, principles to live by. Not in my lifetime will people take this very seriously, but there will be a time when they will, and when they do, you can say I was there, and count yourselves as one of the lucky ones.

7th January, 2013