J is for James O'Connell - Lovely Chap!

Usual pack-drill . . . in his own words;

Increasingly we see the hard Left in general (really? Evidence? Figures? wishing to control what people can listen to or read. (really? Evidence? Figures?) Censorship used to be associated with the Right (the exception to this being communist regimes) but no longer. Really? Evidence? Figures? He warms-up with a group of nice sweeping generalisations.

The clue there is in the word 'regimes', they too are 'the Right', nothing lefty about Stalin, nothing lefty about Pol Pot, nothing lefty about the Sung-Ill-Un dynasty, nothing lefty about Mao or the Gang of Four . . . so what he meant was censorship used to be associated with the right, with all fascists and/or totalitarians which would be correct because it still is! Listen to Trump, listen to the Brwreakshiteers!

It was a right-wing nationalist who killed a journalist in Ulster the other day (as James likes sweeping generalities - all nationalists are right wing, even when they claim leftist credentials!), last year was one of the worst (if not the worst?) for journalist's deaths, world-wide.

Erdogan (Turkey - rightist, nationalist) has been closing papers and broadcasters with impunity, even those half-loyal to him, if they aren't loyal enough! He has jailed more journalists in the last three years than any other 'democracy' in the last 60-years! Similar activity is ongoing in Egypt and the leaders of both regimes are counted among Trumps friends!

Trump calls 'fake news' every time they "...the enemies of the people..." point-out another of his lies, and is on record as wanting 'to do something about the press' - is he a lefty?!!!! It's the Brwreakshiteers and ERG or their media friends who declare the courts 'disloyal' and the judges 'traitors', not lefties! Netanyahu, Bolsanaru, Orban; these are the guys condemning the Press, right-wingers all of them.

Journalists have been killed in the Ukraine (where all the 'players' are from the right, or Coco's clowning service), Slovenia, Serbia, Malta (a young woman, with kids - blown-up, and they shot her dog), South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, Russia (the list is frighteningly long) all countries with right-wing administrations who just don't like 'free speech' or the freedom of the press to investigate, or repot the truth.

While in Hungary, Orban's mates have bought-up all the National Dailies, so Hungary now has the phenomena of dozens of 'good news' story papers, where every page sings the praises of the regime, the local authorities', the ministries and the sports teams, every story is about how great Hungary is or what a fantastic job the government is doing, except for a small section in each paper demonising migrants, which - as Hungary is only taking Hungarian-speaking migrants for Ukraine - leaves Hungary somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan and roughly where they were in 1944!

So Mr. O'Connell's line is not only a blatant lie, it's actually the complete opposite of what is really going on, it is, literally, false news! But; as we're doing sweeping generalisations today - the Right is always mired in 'do as I say, not as I do' hypocrisy!

Even cartoonists are targeted as we saw here with Mark Knight recently. Really; targeted? Was he banned by the government? Was he jailed? Was he shot by 'unidentified gunmen'? Was he blown-up in his car? Was he 'disappeared'? Or did people who object to his right-wing filth suggest he shut-the-fuck-up, exercising their right to free-speech? Ohh . . . I think it's probably that last one, those pesky fucking lefties wanting a point of view!

And . . . was he targeted like the mosques in Christchurch? The US Synagogue, Baptist Southern Churches, Sri Lankan Christians? Was he targeted like Joe Cox? Was he targeted like the kids at Utoya in Norway? The girl in Charlottsville? I thought not - nobody on the Left targets people quite like Right Winger's are currently targeting people.

British politician Michael [Nigel!] Farage visited Australia recently and people wishing to hear him were accosted in the street and there was an attempt to shut him down (good, he's talked shit for 20 years and ruined my country! Did they jail him without trial? Did they shoot him dead? Or did they just express their views - vociferously?). He was billed by the Australian police for his security. So he should be, controversial disrupters with divisive viewpoints creating a policing-need in a third country should be billed or have their visa-application declined, whether from the Left or the Right.

Football stadia (pretty 'Right') are also billed for policing, so are 'Lefty' rock-concerts or the Notting Hill carnival here. The point Mr. O'Connell is trying to make . . . is totally spurious! And he can't even get the idiot's name right!

Leftists at universities in America have tried to shut down speeches by Ben Shapiro and others (see my comment re. Mark Knight!). The same thing is starting to happen here (really? Evidence?). Yet the reverse doesn’t happen (Of course it does); conservatives don’t try to shut down Leftist speakers. Of course they do, alongside the press thing (dealt-with at length above)

The fact is 'No Platforming' is being carried out by all colours of students against all viewpoints, the 'Lefties' are no-platforming eat-meat'ers and white-right'ers, the 'Righties' are no-platforming vegans and multiculturalists, the lefties no-platform the Farage's (rhymes with c**t) of this world, the Righties no-platform gay-rights activists. Pro-and-anti Israel/Palestine; doom-mongers/climate-change deniers; are all being no-platformed by one side or the other.

This is not even particularly political in the wider scheme of things - it is the 'snowflake' generation, choosing not to offend anyone and/or choosing [demanding!] the right not to be offended (whatever the colours of their flag) by anyone, anytime, it's a bit 'woke'!

I don't - personally - agree with it, and would agree with Mr. O'Connell that - as a phenomena - it is reducing the overall level of debate (were he to have made the point, which he didn't), but only in Universities, and it's probably the future . . . "Political Correctness" gone mmmm . . . to the next level?

The individual you refer to (t'was I, dear reader!) has an interesting site (three-cheers for me!) but I've had enough of his vitriol and political propaganda which castigates both you for petty reasons and Donald Trump for political ones (I think that's two sentences, of wholly different meaning/subject, crashed together?). He is entitled to his views (three-more-cheers for me!) but his Left wing (is it?) and petty personal obsessions often dominate his site so I no longer have a link to it on my blog, Quantrill’s Toy Soldiers. Haha! The inevitable plug!

Yeah! You wouldn't find any rancid political rants on Stadsshite would you? Like . . . err . . . the above O'Connell shite - Doh!

A couple of facts (I find facts are so much more illuminating than sweeping generalisations!), 1) I've never linked to his site, which is A) strangely duplicated with another identical URL and B) filled with the kind of juvenile stuff from that wing of war gaming which I regard as 'playing peow-peow's on the floor-floor wid der brum-brums' and 2) I've never had traffic back from him (if he ever had a link), so nothing lost there!

Another fact or two, I have mostly responded to Stadinger since his original attacks and falsehoods of Christmas 2016, and while I do like to bait him occasionally, when I tried to leave him alone (a year ago) he mistook the action for some sort of victory, and had about seven pops at me in five weeks! Vitriol is the required medicine, nothing's fair in love or war and I'm certainly not wanting to love any of these thicko's.

Yes - a lot of it is petty, but the pettiness comes first from Stadinger (the two Jecsans for instance), I make sure of that, and you fight fire with fire, even it's a piss-ant's petty fire!

'Propaganda' is the art of convincing people to support falsehoods or fairy-tales . . . like, ohh, I don't know . . . telling your readership 'no-platforming' is an exclusive Left wing thing! I don't propagandise, I opine, and you are free to take it or leave it, if it upsets you, it's probably because you recognise something of yourself, in whatever idiocy I happen to be slagging-off that day!

The world is dying . . . in my lifetime; there's no room for complacency, and I don't do that much; I wish I had the balls to do more! If you've got children, or grandchildren, you should be gluing yourself to trains, not voting Brwreakshit and complaining about a delay to your - probably - unnecessary journey.

What the right (and I think we can assume Mr O'Connell is from or on the right) seem incapable of understanding is that all of human history is the slow progress of the left, fighting the Rightist establishment because things like equality, the treating of people 'nicely' and ensuring the most people at any given moment are 'happy' or 'happier' is - actually - correct and proper; the decent thing to do!

Every protection and freedom, every right enjoyed by everyone - even those who see themselves as being on the Right - was fought for, marched for, bargained for or lobbied for, by . . . errr. . . activists on the Left, 'Leftie' Unionists in the labour movement, and even, yes, communist revolutionaries! No one on the Right ever gave statutory rest breaks (or the vote!) to a whole population - for the hell of it!

Your food standards, consumer protections, vehicular safety, protective clothing and equipment at work, children's rights, right to vote are all owed to the pressures of the Left.

The Right cheat emissions, buy (and cover-up the consequences of-) poison blood stocks, pass un-airworthy jet-liners, write small print get-out clauses, escape tax, raid pensions, smuggle arms, sell snake oil and negative-equity mortgages, put up rent, clad buildings in flammable polymers, claim land, deal with dictators, adulterate food, build a third yacht while paying staff the minimum wage . . . the list is endless.

Drug cartels are Right Wing capitalists, the Mafia is right wing, and people traffickers are slavers; Right Wingers! From our own hobby - we saw Fascist Spain's toy companies dealing with communist Cuba, while British (NATO member)'s sculptors worked with those Spanish toy companies - hypocrisy . . . for cash! No ethics, no moral backbone!

Why do the small 'c' conservatives in every society call themselves the 'silent majority'? Because they know their thoughts and opinions are beyond the pale, beyond redemption, not for broadcast! All religions are conservative, by their very nature.

Picture Credit - Another Angry Voice

The sink-or-swim, I'm-alright-Jack mentality of the right, of conservatism, of Thatcherite-Reganomic 'free marketeering', of the neo-liberal, neo-economic, neo-con's is fine for those creaming it at the top, but it's shit for everyone else . . . including the parochial, reactionary, tabloid-reading, 'squeezed-middle' Trumpundbrexit types, like, err . . . Mr O'Connell (sweeping generalisation, but James likes them!) who keep voting for it.

The difference is that the Left seeks to improve the lot of everyone, the Right blame fate, god/s, immigrants, the unemployed, people of another colour or the elderly or disabled, or the chaps and chapesses in the country next door!

If none of that helps, they vote for MORE extreme versions of the snake-oil salesmen who've put them in the position they aren't happy with. People who are promising them things which can't be delivered - on the side of a bus!

Some idiot woman from the Luton car plant in Bedford was asked the other day on the radio what she thought about Brexit and the shenanigans it's led-to and she said (not a direct quote), she didn't know or care about Europe and just wanted to 'be out' and get back to how it was, 'when it was better'!

Well, was she thinking about the endless boom-and-busts and mortgage bail-outs of the Thatcher-Major-Blair years? Further back maybe . .  . to when her co-workers spent half their time at home, unpaid, because the Union had called them out after a paint-shop chap crossed a demarcation line by picking-up a spanner? Further-back . . . 1950's austerity, the Blitz and doodlebugs . . . the Victorian Workhouse . . . feudal serfdom . . . the Roman genocide of Druidism? How far back did the idiotic woman want to take us?

When has it ever been better? How do they think getting out of the third biggest trading block in the world is going to improve our lot, as China, Russia and Trump destroy 70-years of procedural process, international arbitration and the world's trade systems while further weakening the UN?

The trick of the current draft of Right Wing populists, is to take the less educated percentile of traditional 'labour movement' voters and convince them all their problems are the result NOT of forty years of same-old, same-old Thacherite-Raganomic policy, but rather that it's all the fault of minorities!

But populists aren't consummate politicians, they are snake-oil salesmen, half of all UK companies reported a drop in productivity in the last quarter, despite the constant trumpeting of 'more people in work than ever before', that drop in productivity likely due their being paid peanuts, having no job security and seeing Brexit was a disaster which never needed to happen (whatever side they sit on).

The gloss is coming off Modi's premiership, Netanyahu is losing his popularity (and may yet go to jail), Turkey's economy is in trouble, as it turns toward Russia (its old enemy), Hungary's racist migration policy has resulted in a worker shortage, Bulgaria and Spain have rural de-population problems, Poland's lost its fit youth to elsewhere, not just for the jobs, but because they don't like where home 'is at' right now. All countries with Right wing, populist governments . . . meanwhile Italy is walking away from Europe to sit with China! And Ukraine (hung out to dry by the West) has followed Italy's lead by electing a TV clown! Or is that America's lead? Now our new clown as sent the pound into freefall!

What of the newest 'shining star' of the Right; Bolsanaru of Brazil? He talked the neo-Nazi talk, but after a hundred-plus days in office [at time of writing] has achieved next to nothing, he's literally frozen like a rabbit in the headlights, he can't walk the walk, like Boris Johnson, another over-acting, under-achieving, piss-poor-performing self-publicist!

As a result, he announced the other week he intends to pardon all illegal loggers, make logging in the rest of the Amazon-basin legal, and drill for oil in wildlife reserves! And that is why the world is dying, the pink monkeys can't save themselves from themselves! For all the slow advances of the Left over 8,000-odd years, it doesn't help if the Right have grimly held on to the reins, and are determined to steer us into the sun.

I will finish by reproducing this letter, published in the i newspaper on the 29th April 2019, from Catherine Long of Leeds, which addresses one of Mr. O'Connell's main points;

Dear Editor

          Last week I heard Sir Roger Scruton on the Today programme talking about the silencing of Conservative voices.

          It echoes some of the points he had already raised in a series of monologues he gave on Radio 4's A Point of View.

          Later, I read a summary of his argument on the BBC website, and it was also reported in the national press, including i (27th April). If being silenced gets one as large a platform as that given to Sir Roger, please can I be silenced too?

Thus it is that the Right-wing's claim of censorship from the Left, against themselves, even as their voices rise hysterically, all over the world, is not because the Left is actually trying to shut them up, but purely; propaganda on the Right's part.

Even as he pontificates on 'Left wing censorship', it's clear Mr O'Connell would like to shut them up, would like to shut me up, is hoping to shut me up, and that is why I continue to opine, or even proselytise!

Chewing-the-cud on shitestuff is the best place for him and his ilk; Vichy, AFD, Trumpundbrexit, let's see all of them in one place, then we know where they are and what they're about! Nasty little boys!

Because they're a 'silent majority' they'll be here at Small Scale World again tomorrow, silently, as they are now and were yesterday - that's a fact, a biggly-wiggly facktly-wact - I say so and if the Senate disagree; I'll veto them!!