The gloves are really coming off now

…we must reheat our undrunk teas and coffees.

David Davis

Truly, if these people believe in this stuff, then it has become the secular amoralist void-filling-vulgate in place of “religion”, and they are thus purposefully-evil.

I wonder if “WRAP” is a fake-charity? Maybe it ought to be on the list.

We all have bits of the Berlin Wall…

..this is The Englishman’s … just haven’t got a photo of mine, that’s all (and his is bigger!):-

We've got a bit in a drawer too...

Bulletin Supplement

Sean Gabb

I’ve just returned from a quick shamble to the Post Office with another bag of books. In Sainsbury, I skimmed all the newspapers. I found this in “The Daily Mail”:

http://tinyurl.com/yld9msm

It’s an article by Melanie Phillips and it titled “We were fools to think the fall of the Berlin Wall had killed off the far Left. They’re back – and attacking us from within”. The key paragraphs are:

“Soviet Communism was a belief system whose goal was to overturn the structures of society through the control of economic and political life. This mutated into a post-communist ideology of the Left, whose no-less ambitious aim was to overturn western society through a subversive transformation of its culture….

“But as communism slowly crumbled, those on the far-Left who remained hostile towards western civilisation found another way to realise their goal of bringing it down.

“This was what might be called ‘cultural Marxism’. It was based on the understanding that what holds a society together are the pillars of its culture: the structures and institutions of education, family, law, media and religion. Transform the principles that these embody and you can thus destroy the society they have shaped.

“This key insight was developed in particular by an Italian Marxist philosopher called Antonio Gramsci. His thinking was taken up by Sixties radicals – who are, of course, the generation that holds power in the West today.

“Gramsci understood that the working class would never rise up to seize the levers of ‘production, distribution and exchange’ as communism had prophesied. Economics was not the path to revolution.

“He believed instead that society could be overthrown if the values underpinning it could be turned into their antithesis: if its core principles were replaced by those of groups who were considered to be outsiders or who actively transgressed the moral codes of that society.

“So he advocated a ‘long march through the institutions’ to capture the citadels of the culture and turn them into a collective fifth column, undermining from within and turning all the core values of society upside-down and inside-out.”

It’s a good article and is worth reading in full. I mention it, however, because Mrs Phillips might have been quoting from my book “Cutlural Revolution, Culture War” (http://tinyurl.com/34e2o3). Indeed, I know that someone bought 50 copies of this two years ago and set them out to various opinion formers among whom was Mrs Phillips.

I don’t normally boast about influence. However, I had a long conversation yesterday with a friend who was rather depressed about the Libertarian Alliance’s lack of impact in British politics. This is my answer. I will not claim that I am the only person putting this argument – the phrase “cultural Marxism” shows at least as much influence on Mrs Phillips by Paul Gottfried as by me. And there is no reason to suppose that many other people have not been able to work this out for themselves without writing books about it. However, I do think it reasonable to claim that I have *helped*, since I began writing about “The Enemy Class” back in 2001, to provide the conservative and libertarian movement in this country with a narrative that explains what has happened in England over the past few generations.

I shall be happier when journalists like Mrs Phillips start repeating my solution to the problem – a stern counter-revolution in which the whole of the activist State is shut down. But this will do for the moment.

Therefore, if you have been subscribing to the Libertarian Alliance for the past ffew years, here is some evidence that your contributions have not been in vain.

 

Director’s Bulletin, 9th November 2009

 

Director’s Bulletin
9th November 2009

I would have written this Bulletin several weeks ago. However, I can supply many excuses for not having lifted a finger. The most convincing – and perhaps the truest – is that I have been installing Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. Mr Gates wrote to me at the beginning of October, offering me a copy of his latest operating software at the hard to refuse price of £30. So I paid him and downloaded the software. Installing it went like a dream. I didn’t have to download a single driver. It then took several weeks to get the whole system working as I wanted. But I have now been able to fit 8Gb of RAM and give myself what may be more computing power than NASA had in 1969. Many of my friends are hostile to the idea of intellectual property rights. So, for that matter, am I. No doubt, though, Mr Gates does make exceedingly good software. On this occasion, he well deserved his £30. So here goes with the Bulletin.

The LA Conference

Our London conference went off very well. As usual, we were solidly booked, and we had to turn away a few last minute arrivals. The speeches were uniformly good. Guido Fawkes gave an interesting and entertaining speech at the dinner. This year, moreover, we seem to have got the video recording right. I bought a Canon HG10 high definition video camera late last year. This gave me something like television quality video footage. As with all cheapish video cameras, however, the sound quality was rather drossy. So, a few weeks back, I bought a Rode external microphone. This perked the sound up no end. I didn’t get round to hiring the builders’ lights that I kept promising myself. Even so, I think the quality of the video footage is remarkably good. Many thanks to Mario Huet for manning the camera.

You can see the video footage for yourselves by going here: http://vimeo.com/channels/65328

Other Video Files

Now that I can process high definition video at better than real time speeds, I’ve decided to start taking full advantage of the Vimeo account I bought earlier this year, and to upload much better versions of stuff I first made available via Google Video. So please keep an eye on my Vimeo account – http://www.vimeo.com/seangabb. I plan to upload 5Gb a week of video. This will include the celebrated Botsford Archive.

The Chris R. Tame Memorial Prize

You may recall that this year’s title was “Can a Libertarian also be a Conservative?” I had a number of interesting submissions. After much thought, I decided to award the prize to Antoine Clarke. I thought his submission was the best. What most impressed me was that he went beyond the reading matter that I suggested, and he used a quotation from Lord Acton in a most relevant way. We shall publish his essay just as soon as our Editorial Director has found the time to set to work.

Personal Message

At the Conference, I met two people who turned out to be neighbours of mine here in Deal. One of them must walk past my front door every time he goes to the chip shop. Well, with the Baby Bear now jabbering away and insisting on endless viewings of Eddie Cantor in Keep Young and Beautiful and Melina Mercouri in τα παιδιά του Πειραιά (both courtesy of YouTube), Mrs Gabb and I aren’t up to much entertaining. But we can certainly offer coffee. So do please get in touch.

Libertarian Outreach

In the past month, I have written articles for Gay Times and for VDare. The first was about drug legalisation. Sadly, Gay Times doesn’t put it stuff on-line. So, if you want to read my case, you’ll have to put on dark glasses and brave the giggles of Miss Patel in her school uniform as you shamble round your local newsagent – unless, of course, you already subscribe. The second you can read here: http://www.vdare.com/gabb/index.htm

I’m rather pleased with this and with my other articles for VDare. What I’m trying to do is to make a case against the British National Party that doesn’t rely on smears. I don’t believe the BNP is nowadays a national socialist party. Much of what it says – and almost certainly believes – is attractive to millions of people in this country. I admire Nick Griffin for his courage for standing his ground in our post-modern police state. I doubt if I’d be half so brave were Libertarianism to become as unpopular with the authorities as white nationalism is. This being said, he and the entire leadership of the BNP are tainted by what they used to believe. It would be a shame if they were to become the only alternative to the political cartel that now governs England. And I am able to say this to an audience that has not so far been exposed to honest criticism of the BNP.

Other than this, I’ve done quite a lot of radio. And I do promise, now my computer is so wonderfully powerful, to start recording and uploading all this again.

Libertarian Alliance Meetings

Our friends over at the other Libertarian Alliance continue with their monthly meetings. I can hardly ever get up to London to attend these. But they always look very interesting, and I receive endless reports of how interesting they have been.

The next meetings are:

On Monday, 9 November David McDonagh will talk on “Why Classical Liberalism faded after 1860.”
On Monday 14 December, Kristian Niemietz will talk on “20 Years After: The Fall and Rise of Socialism in East Germany”
On Monday 11 January 2010 Antoine Clarke will talk on “The Wisdom of Crowds”.

Contact David McDonagh for details: mcdonagh_d@yahoo.co.uk

Libertarian Holidays

With my two women, I went on holiday in September to Crete. This was my own fifth time there, and Mrs Gabb’s second. This was the first time we had a child with us, and that would always have made it a more difficult time. However, the Baby Bear behaved herself remarkably well. Our problem was the Greeks. They joined the Euro on the basis of massive false accounting, and an optimistic rate of exchange, and then allowed an inflation of costs to continue that has now made their price level into a joke. A result of this was that Crete was almost empty of tourists. Most of the coastal resorts were almost empty. The historical and archaeological sites were abandoned. Unfortunately, rather than cut prices in an attempt to attract the remaining business, the response of the taverna proprietors has been to rip off every foreigner who steps through the door. We spent a fortnight paying about three times more for indifferent kebabs than the Turks round the corner charge here in Deal.

Also, I find myself increasingly dismissive of the modern Greeks. When I was first out there in 1987, I found that they could mostly understand me if I spoke slowly in their strange pronunciation. Nowadays, they seem so pleased with the ugly patois they call Greek that they cannot even follow quotations from the New Testament. Indeed, on our second Sunday, I insisted on attending a church service. The church was empty except for some German tourists. The priest responded to my carefully phrased greeting with the sort of stare you get from a caged animal. He and his deacon raced through the service as if they were trying for a record, then ran out of the church. Mrs Gabb and I stayed awhile to look at some decidedly sub-Byzantine icons and much evidence of mind-rotting superstition. Then we went shopping.

No, my dear readers, if you want a holiday in the Mediterranean, my advice is to avoid Greece. The people nowadays are too degenerate and the prices too high. A better place by far is Bodrum in Turkey. The Turks in general are a fine people – proud and clean and brave. Bodrum in particular is a superb holiday resort. Within a five hour radius of the places, you have Ephesus, Miletus, Hierapolis, Laodicea and Aphrodisias, and many other places of note. There are golf courses, shops, watersports, bars, restaurants, and at least two branches of the Migros supermarket. The moderately Islamic government there has decided to squeeze the taxpayers with high duties on drink. But cigarettes are still a pound a packet, and the Turkish police usually leave foreign tourists alone who break the Euro-style public smoking ban.

And the jewel of Bodrum, in my view, is the Hotel Karia Princess. Owned and run by libertarians, this is a five star establishment, boasting a swimming pool, gymnasium, Turkish bath and some of the best cuisine in the Eastern Mediterranean: http://www.kariaprincess.com

The summer season in Bodrum can be rather oppressive, wherever you choose to stay. But, outside the summer season, I can think of no better place to stay than the Hotel Karia Princess. Try it out. If you haven’t been there already – and I have stayed there four times now – you will be astonished and delighted. My friend Mr Blake even tells me that, once his Blood of Alexandria has made him filthy rich, he will become a permanent guest there.

Any Other Business?

I think the Libertarian Alliance is holding a Christmas reception in December. Stand by for announcements on this. I shall be speaking to some undergraduates at Warwick University on the 19^th November. My subject will be something like “Libertarianism: Left or Right?” I plan, between now and Christmas, to convert twenty audio tapes of interviews that Chris Tame conducted with Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon and upload these to the Web. I will give much moral support to Mr Blake while he works on The Sword of Damascus, which is a long novel about weapons of mass destruction during the early wars between Byzantium and the Caliphate. Like everything else he writes, this will all be in the best possible taste.

Oh – and is there anyone out there who has a socket 775 quad core processor he no longer wants? Donate this to me, and Mr Blake will send you an autographed copy of his Terror of Constantinople. You may recall that this received a most flattering review in The Daily Telegraph:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Terror-Constantinople-Richard-Blake/dp/0340951141

Best wishes to all,

Sean

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And after 20 years, a good new solid wall

David Davis

It’s here, embedded in the Lisbon treaty constitution.

Could the EU be the first “country” to be designed absolutely by a committee Soviet?

Spend 30 years rubbishing Nuclear Power, then suddenly turn round

…and say to all the Orcs, GreeNazis, neopastoralists, ageing hippies and “Choice-Editors”  whom you have deliberately created, that “it is safe”.

David Davis

Then see if you are believed.

Most of us libertarians have always said it is, because it, well, er, is. Try comparing the death-toll of coal miners with that of nuclear workers and even sufferers from the after-effects of Chernobyl: Nuclear Energy still beats fossil fuels in spades for safety. But just wait for the massed protests, the sit-ins, the lying-down-in-front-of-bulldozers, that is going to happen now.

We may yet die, freezing in the dark.

 

Medicines rationing…coming soon to a Soviet near you, and worse to follw

Michael Winning

Look here people, I know antibiotics don’t do anything for colds and flu, but the idea of a State Helath Care system is not to cure people, but to make them wait in line and be grateful for the crumbs grudgingly offered. It’s another of those “rights” which the State can then limit at will. Tobacco, Alcohol, Food, Motoring, and then Medical care. Then sex for “authorised” reproduction.If people are having their babies taken away for allegedly being “not intelligent enough to look after them”, the next step is to license childbirth….

Watch the bastards do it all. Here’s the tolling-bell for motoring.

Permalink hey Ive just found this gizmo, wonder if it works?

Will opposition to the EU fragment in the face of new Labour….

...and what ought to be done about it?

UPDATE: there is a good debate going on over at Samizdata, here.

David Davis

There is a school of thought (to which I do not subscribe) that the Tories are cleverly allowing themselves to be the hard-done-by party, courtesy of Labour who has reneged on a referendum promise about Lisbon. The “Labour has boxed us into a corner on this one, so we’ll have to make the best of a bad job” might wash with Old One-Nation-Tories, and perhaps with neo-Labour-voters coming across. But what about the increasingly large constituency of liberals (both Tory and from elsewhere) who think UKIP is more in the right?

There is a danger of fatally splitting the Tory vote in constituencies where it matters, either for the Tories to hold on to them or to throw Labour out on its ear to simply get a bare majority. We must agree that, if Labour failed properly to rig the election-results in its favour (it  _will_  try: you and I both know it) then a Tory majority, however slight, might give sovereign individuals precious time: either to get out to Montana or Alberta with their assets intact, or to continue to oppose GramscoFabiaNazi creep and EuFederalism, for a bit longer – so that there might – just might – be created what Chris Tame used to call “enough people to make a difference”.

More than one of us on here has already stated that we propose to verbally assault the Tories (if they manage to form a government) just as vehemently over their Europhile and other GFN-type policies, and for their flagrant betrayal of liberal ideas. But the election that matters is _this_ one. There may not be another chance after it.

Their election is (a) more probable than that of UKIP,

and (b) the ratchet of GramscoCollectivism will proceed slightly more slowly under tham than under ZanuLieBorg.

Imagine if you will the re-election of a Gordon Brown administration, next June. How do you all think the bastards are going to feel, and therefore to proceed with all their most nefarious plans? And at what sort of pace?

We knew it all along

David Davis

The Welfariat/Salariat vote will ensure another GramscoFabiaNazi victory.

WE spin it as them buying votes. and they spin it as “a widening gulf between the Tories and ordinary people”…which it is, but not in the way they mean…

Ron Paul in health care in the uSA

Michael Winning

Saturday caption competition

World War 1 and 1918, 91 years on

David Davis together with Michael Winning, over some beers

We try to mark these events on here because we want to: sometimes we remember, sometime we forget. Unlike all those parsons who are said to have recycled their sermons for an easy life, one tries to write something original each time. The almost universal remembrance of lives lost, 100-odd years ago nearly, and in our wars since, seems to need something fresh to be said each year. The wounds never seem to heal, and it’s nothing to do with today’s almost cunstomary imerative of ritualised collective emoting, forced on us all by Popular Culture and the Enemy Class.

Earlier this year, the two surviving oldest Tommies, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, both passed on. About 2004 I believe, the last German Tommy also died (was he a “Fritz” or a “Berti” or a “Hans”? Who can tell?) as did the French chap, a poilu perhaps, or just “Jaques”. All were significantly over 100. Nobody knows when the last Russian or “Austro-Hungarian”, Italian or Turk – or any of the others – shared their fate: I suspect in some cases records were scant. To this day nobody even knows for sure how many Turks died.

History is useful: we _can_ know what was in the minds of those alive in 1914, and in the decades before. They told us all the time, and for 200+ years we today have never had it so good where primary historical source material is needed. Comparing the two times, why did they cheerfully go into the terror, the noise, the filth, the lice, the mud which seemed ever to hinder and engulf and drown, into places of terrible danger and risk of anihilation, for week after week and for month after month: and why did their civilian populations at home, put up with the counterpart conditions, of fear, sorrow and privation?

Today the notion of engaging sincerely in a totally-absorbing struggle, for what one thinks is the right way as opposed to the wrong way, seems alien. What is there now to struggle for? We seem to have enough to eat (no thanks to anybody on this continent, though), there is enough of different sorts of Wireless Tele Vision to watch, created for anaesthetic purposes by members of the Enemy Class, all of whom are “producers of edgy/good Television”. We can strut about on Facebook and “My Space” and other such places, showing everyone how great we are. What was the point of World War 2, if we here, although entirely Jewless, Gipsyless, Bourgeoisless, Kulakless, cripple-less, bedwetter-less, and Slavless, could still have sat about in front of our monochrome State TV (waiting list 26 months, price 30,000 GospoEuroFrancs, all TVs to be prodiu by the Glorious People’s State Television Tube Factory in Skelmersdale) to watch “Great heroes of yesterday and for ever: part XIV: Zhukov, the General Who Saved The World”, and “part XXVIII, Joachim von Ribbentropp, Giant Father of the People’s Global Foreign Peace and Love”? We’d all be told via the street-looudspeakers that State-approved mobile telephones with a range of at least 20 kilometers, would be available from 2046, to all those who had voted correctly for at least eight elections in a row, and had who had also lodged “significantly more than” 100,000,000 GospoEuroFrancs with the Gau-Voivoda-Prefecture’s People’s-High-Representative’s “Controller of Expenses and Justifiably Good Disbursements for The People’s Good”.

The penalty for being found to have watched US or Australian television channels would have been some time spent in a “People’s State Health Farm”, the death penalty having been abolished on Human Rights grounds. This “holiday” might have been in North Eastern Siberia, or even behind barbed wire, an anti-vehicle-ditch and trip-wires in somewhere like Kraliký. (Look up how near home that is.)

There can be not a lot of substantive difference between the sort of life we’d have led here, if either the Kaiser, Stalin, Hitler, or Jean Monnet and his other fascisto-Gramscian mountebanks had won, in 1918 or 1945 or the 1980s: who remembers “Euro-Communism now? But how different would it have been from any of the other kinds?

Perhaps the thousands and thousands and thousands of poor wretched chaps, from Preston, from Accrington, from Norris green, from Halsall, and Formby and Scarisbrick and Battersea and Pluckley and Slaidburn and Banks, and from Tunbridge Wells and Bromley and Bridge of Gair and Trefriw and St Enodoc and Trim and Wheddon Cross and Dunblane, and Port-Laoise and Ballintoba, and Bengal and Sydney and Jew-Burg and Pretoria and Mackenzie and Kingston and even Buenos Aires and Denver and so many others, who disappeared without trace in the second decade of the 20th Century, were more prescient than we can know. Yes, they were opposed by similar poor wretched souls who were there either because they thought otherwise or because they were forced so to be. Hayek says markets operate by virtue of myriads of small individual decisions, all affecting a macroscopic result, far more accurately than a single Gosplanner or “State Planning Department” can ever hope to do. Perhaps the idea of individual liberty was more strongly articulated then, or perhaps it just was more under threat then,  than we think it really is today.

We try to go on remembering these poor chaps, their descendants of two, three, four or more generations still turning up, in ceremonies in which we do not customarily parade weapons or missiles or tanks and guns, let alone in phalanxes of tracked monsters, such as in Red Square, because innately liberalism is good and right and compassionate, and the opposite is not that at all. Liberalism celebrates the individual over the herd or the State-directed-collective, whether that latter be penal (as is mostly the case in history) or directed-by-threats, for PR reasons.

Although we could not begin to wish for a scenario in which we’d have to behave as they did (we hate war, remember??? We are libertarians!), we look to their example as individual humans who endured more than the ultimate, in return for trying to do what they thought was right and therefore their simple duty.

There is no reason why an intellectual could ever justify that people ought to give up their lives for an idea. Since we cnanot know whether God allows the Afterlife or not (nobody has returned to tell us) then life has to be better than death. But it depends what the competing ideas are, and if it’s worth trying to live under them. Mostly it might have been…just… but what do we think about the future now that New Labour will be in power for the next few centuries?

My quote of the day: from Charles Moore in the DT, on Afghanistan

David Davis

I have called this one _MY_ quote, because I know that a majority of libertarians, especially in Britain, think we ought not to be militarily involved in Afghanistan – or anywhere else for that matter. Therefore I will not annoy and insult these people by calling it the “Libertarian Alliance Quote of the Day” (although it ought to be.) I take responsibility for it instead of the august think-tank for which I have the privilege to be allowed to blog.

These libertarians, and others, know that I have never failed to support war in Iraq, or Afghanistan, and that I say [regularly] that the West _must_ take war, if need be everywhere that is required, to all those who cheerfully, frankly and materially oppose individual liberty anywhere. The people the West is trying to resist are not “insurgents”. They are not even “terrorists”, which is why the notion of “The War On Terror” is so glib, shallow and meaningless – these people are willing soldiers for a cause, they really believe what they are saying and they mean to destroy us: they are the willing agents of purposeful and committed deconstructors of everything they think we stand for and love.

Here’s Charles Moore:-

If we truly want to win the war in Afghanistan, we need to challenge its opponents much more fiercely. Politicians such as Nick Clegg, who congratulate themselves on asking the necessary, awkward questions, need to be interrogated about what they actually want. Do they want the first defeat of the most powerful military alliance in history at the hands of a small band of fanatics armed with little more than rifles and IEDs?

Do they have any conception of what such a defeat would mean for the world order, for the stability of countries in the region, or for civil peace in every European city? Do they not understand that this fight will be seen all over the world not as a battle for control of some jagged mountains, but between values, and that, if our values do not win, they will lose?

Please read old Charlie Moore on the whole thing: he puts some sharp perspectives on war, its roles – good or bad they may be – in intercivilisational conflict, and where we ought to go from here. I already said a couple of days ago that the alternatives are only (and ever) victory or defeat, and what it will mean. He’s probably read Sir John Keegan. I doubt most of our present politicians have even heard of the bugger.

PRAVDA…rips face-mask off Lisbon, plus a USSR soldier-robot

I never thought I’d see this here.

Michael Winning

Either it’s a wind-upp and I’m being had or the USSR continus its strategic policy of being open and clear about its objectives and its helpers.

And I spotted this film while I was in Pravda:-

http://en.rian.ru/video/20091028/156623945.html

Sorry I cant work out how to directly embed the video like a U-tube whatsit, I’m not a geek. Sohere’s something else you might not have known, or else as I suspect, it’s been PhotoShopped cleverly:-

http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/usaf-3118

This is thought to be funny in the USSR:-

http://cavemancircus.com/2009/10/26/a-rat-stuck-in-a-sidewalk-makes-for-funny-photoshopping/

And this is just a sawn-off-old-Bear, but with jet-engines stuck on:-

http://www.moscowtopnews.com/?area=postView&id=903

How to get depressed…become a liberal (our sort, not theirs…)

David Davis

I was going to write about this earlier because it cuts to the heart of what’s different in the ways people think and fell in either calitalist-liberal civilisations, on in gramscoFabiaNazi ones. But I got depressingly side-tracked by chores and tasks…as you do. The trouble with being retired and unemployed is that you have to work and think so hard and you get really knackered, and then you worry that life isn’t what it’s cracked up to be as you are chasing your tail the whole time, and well…..

Perry over at Samizdata has done a better quick-analysis of the problem better and faster than I could, and this I think sums up the problem, but do read his whole treatment. Here’s the crux or nub:-

“…collectivism is a form of mass delusion, an ‘opiate for the masses’ method of replacing profane objective truth with sacred, subjective ‘acceptable’ truth… i.e. ‘truth’ is what the collective wants it to be. Indeed I would say much of the allure of collectivism is relief from the weight of individual responsibility, the sense of moral externalisation that comes from outsourcing choice to a ‘higher power’….”

Of course, that’s all very well I guess if “the masses” decide freely to buy into the collectivist delusion.  They certainly did in Germany in the 1930s: of that I have no doubt, whatever people might argue to the contrary. The case of today’s UK I think is more complex, in that while the collectivist delusion has gripped, is gripping and will through the MSM continue to grip a majority of people here, we yet seem to be unhappy and depressed. Perhaps the collectivist magic has not really “taken” and people are unconsciously depressed because they know their freedom has been taken away? I don’t know. Does any one else?

Why does Mexico need “special forces”?

David Davis

I chanced upon this photo courtesy of Fred Bloggs who has been researching physics questions weapons. As a sort of putative libertarian Foreign Secretary, if that is not tautological, I sometimes wonder why nations with not as much to contribute to the liberalism-Jihad as some others, need scary-looking troops of chaps with facepaint, carrying inappropriate weaponry. Don’t get me wrong about Mexico: I know it is an “important energy exporter”, and I had in 1994 a 16-bit-ISA Cirrus-Logic graphics card, made in Mexico, with One Megabyte of 16nS V-RAM, which did perform extremely well in a 386-DX40 ISA machine, for some years, and which was sold on to some of my wife’s relations along with the machine.

“Special Forces” are for liberal Classical polities to be able to introduce liberalism, in regions where the prevailing pre-capitalist War-Lord has failed to come forward to be shown how things are. These prancing-up-and-downies are just, well, an expression of GramscoFabiaNazism:-

This needs to be known

Michael Winning

I just seen this again in the Maily Dail, like I do sometimes. Current events dont seem to disabuse me of the same notion, like the bastards are still at the honeypot, thinking it’ll last them till they finally get us. I wish more people were more angry than they are. The Boss gets his trousers taken off by commenters for saying that these people will get killed and eaten but what else can you do in the ehnd?

TEN YEARS ON: Britain without the EU…order your free book!

David Davis

Get it here. The first 5,000 copies are free. (Thanks to the Taxpayers’ Alliance for the resource.)

Yeh, that’ll stop the little buggers

David Davis

Telling them all about how lovely sex is, from the age of about 8, has not stopped them doing it as soon as the boys can get it up and the girls can slip it in, so that strategy has failed…so let’s just tell them even earlier, shall we!

I may be very obtuse, but I can’t see the logic in telling very very young children all about things to do with things which the same tellers ensure that they can’t consent to, for years and years. The difference between the ages of five and sixteen, seen from the viewpoint of an infant, is a stretch of geological time. I know, I remember.

These are things best left ot the families of the children, to sort out…ah, I forgot! The State now owns children, not families!

Thursday caption competition

Michale Winning

This is “Jools” Holland or something likethat, the wife of a chap called Jamie Oliver. She’s having !”a night out”, after having a baby. I think jamie Oliver is a cook in a chippy but here we don’t do stuff like that on the TV, we just eat.