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.
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!!
