REDEFINING CIVIL DISORDER
"Tonight with Trevor McDonald"
highlighted the new Anti-Terrorism bill early last month in his
dumbed up/down version of NEWS AT TEN! As you might guess, the
implications of the bill were glossed over in favour of showing
yet more video clips of hooligans wrecking McDonalds. But Trevor
didn't take it personally - even he thought this tame and introduced
some snatches of the Poll Tax riots to spice things up a bit.
Strangely absent - clips of violent
scenes from the miners strike. Possibly this might have set people
thinking.
In a free democracy, the state
should only be permitted to use force to protect its citizens.
These new 'European powers' are
likely to include people trying to defend themselves from actions
of the state - and not just those trying to threaten citizens
to gain leverage against elected government. After all we don't view violent
clashes between pro-democracy protesters and Serbian police as
acts of terrorism do we?
Well this bill changes that - at least it does for those of us
now subject to the law and justice of European Harmonisation.
This bill is not a Government
response to increased use of terror in Britain, but a requirement
of a Federal Europe that must plan for a future that may not
be as bright for it's citizens as we have been led to believe
- The EU clearly expects a rise in civil disorder.
This June member states met to
talk about creating a Euro Police Force to deal with civil disorder
in the EU, or "civilian
crisis management"
as they prefer to call it. It could be something like the USA's
National Guard. The European Council stated "...political
and military structures of the ESDP
at the EU council will be set in place 'as soon as possible'
after the Nice Summit."
I guess the bottom line is that
it wouldn't do for any EU activities to be illegal in this country,
would it?
So, do we have a choice about
implementing these laws? No! That's loss of sovereignty for you
- that's why we have a Government contriving all sorts of reasons
why we must have all these draconian laws. They can't turn around
and just say ‘we have no choice' can they? They cant take
away laws of the land that have been judged by many to be the
fairest in the world - but they can erode them by widening the
scope of laws intended only for use in exceptional situations
- that is make them more open ended - and do so in the name of
European Human Rights. They do love irony, don't they?
MAKE
IT SO
So the spin has
stopped.
Funny, I thought. Why are we still being told that we need the
stability of the Euro to survive?
They seem to
think that saying this "makes it so". It does not,
but the spin continues to focus attention on currency rather
than political intent... Oh what the hell, let's play along with
it for a moment...
If you pop along
to MoneyWorld you can get a list of best or worst performing
currencies against any currency you choose over a chosen period
of time. It's very interesting - honest.
Against the Euro
over a period of 16 months, of the 44 currencies listed, only
9 fell against the Euro. The top performing currency was the
South Korean Won - it rose over 24% against the Euro. But strength
isn't everything - what about stability? The highs and lows of
the Korean Won fluctuated by about 42% over that period - not
very stable eh! - I hear the Europhiles cry.
Against the Dollar,
the Korean Won rose only 5% over the same period. Interestingly,
it only fluctuated by about 12%.
Are any alarm
bells ringing yet? Stable against the Dollar, unstable against
the Euro... Mmm.
That Ken 'globalist'
Livingstone announced on Radio 4's Question Time (17th June)
that Britain had only two choices - either join the Euro or join
the Dollar. With the strength and stability of the South Korean
Won in mind, I would suggest that, at the very least, there is
a third: Become
part of South Korea!
If strength and stability of currency is the reason we are
going to enter into unions with other nations then we should
at least be rational about it and adopt a successful currency.
I'm sure we would soon get used to calling South Korea "the
mainland" - the Hawaiians don't seem to have any trouble
calling the USA 'the mainland' - an appropriate comparison as
Europhiles seem to think that Britain out of the Euro would result
in a similar status to that of a small island in the Pacific
- they wish!
On the other
hand, we all know anything can be proven with statistics. Look
long enough at currencies, relationships and perspectives - and
such a thing as a stable currency begins to look like a myth.
But then Europhiles do have a fondness for myths.
OBSESSION
I just gotta
ask - what is this obsession with inflation? It seems we are
all spending too much - excessive growth is overheating the economy.
Just where is
this growth coming from?
The bus fares
went up by upto 40% this January. That's not to say demand for
public transport rose, it might even have gone down. But there
isn't much scope for a fall. Fares rise 40% - what do you do
- work just four days a week instead of five and save a couple
of quid? Mmm.
The same can
be said for diesel and petrol, the price of which is pushed up
every year - not by consumer demand but by taxation.
Then there's
that old favourite, mortgage interest rate payments. I can't
quite get my head around this one, people who have already committed
themselves to a mortgage actually want to pay more! Such is their
insatiable demand for higher and higher mortgage repayments,
that they have become the principle culprits in pushing up interest
rates.
If I were a cynic
I might think that these manufactured inflation figures were
designed to justify an interest rate required for some other
purpose.
Even the growth
in retail prices of everyday items like food are subject to manipulation.
This fad for loyalty points for example. We all know we're not
getting anything any cheaper, we are simply getting a refund
credited to our cards for paying too much in the first place.
But the inflation
calculations for food and other retail goods which give loyalty
card discounts don't include loyalty points! This distorts the
calculations, indicating that prices are higher or lower than
they really are.
So if demand
led inflation is not the principle reason for higher interest
rates then what is? Well, I was hoping you would know.
Perhaps the OECD knows. They seem quite
interested in the UK having higher interest rates. The OECD is
another one of those global trade organisations, so I'm sure
they have our best interests at heart. They recently announced
that the UK is more in step with the European economy than some
countries that have joined the Euro.
How about that.
With almost every major industry taken away from us and those
that survive struggling with excessive interest rates and a high
pound - we have the satisfaction of knowing that our economy
is getting into step with Europe - what a stroke of luck - they
couldn't have planned it better could they?
Ahh... the
smell of it!
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