It
has been a busy week
FIRST, I MET A MAN . . . . .
20 Feb 2018 –
I didn’t physically meet the man I have in mind at this moment. I met him
through his written work, what you might describe as a meeting of the minds. To
my way of thinking that is one of the beautiful things about books and
libraries and limitless access to the internet – there can be a meeting of the
minds without intrusive images, accents and other distractions which could
distort the words and the message. Long Live Books!
The man was
German-American poet and writer, Charles Bukowski, who died in March 1994. I’ve
selected the following from one of his many poems:
GO ALL THE WAY
Poet:
Charles Bukowski
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don’t even start.
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don’t even start.
If
you’re going to try, go all the way.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives,
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives,
relatives,
jobs and maybe your mind.
Go all the way.
It could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail, it could mean derision,
mockery, isolation.
Isolation is the gift. All the
others are a test of your
endurance, of how much you really want to do it.
And you’ll do it despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than anything else
you can imagine.
endurance, of how much you really want to do it.
And you’ll do it despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than anything else
you can imagine.
If you’re going to try, go all
the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with fire.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with fire.
Do it, do it, do it. DO IT.
All the way
All the way.
All the way.
You will ride life straight to
perfect laughter.
It’s the only good fight there
is.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
AND THEN I
MET ANOTHER MAN . . .
(This time I did truly meet him, in the flesh,
alive and kicking. His name is Andrew Cole, and he’s spittin’ feathers! –
That’s a euphemism for ‘he is living with his passion’. He is a ‘go all the
way’ man.)
Like many of
us, in the course of his day-to-day journeys, Andrew has heard so many people
express their disquiet about ‘the way things are’. I’ve heard them and so have
you. There is just too much wrongness being reported day after day, night and
day, on TV and in the papers. So much so that we can’t readily identify fact
from fiction anymore. But we’re beginning to wake up. The idea that ‘truth is
the first casualty of war’ comes to mind and ‘war’ (another euphemism for
‘vested interests’) seems to be everywhere.
Andrew has
chosen a direct, four-cornered approach.
(1) He cares about what we think of as OUR DEMOCRACY (which is NOT THE SAME as having universal
suffrage). Think about that. We can vote tyrants into positions of leadership without
realising the error of our ways until it is too late;
(2) he believes we –that’s you and me – should/ought/must
uphold our Natural and Common Laws,
which isn’t something that Parliament, political parties, politicians, and the
legal profession ever want to acknowledge. . . except on their own preferential
terms;
(3) he wants us to defend our assets and
territories, and our right to them; and
(4) he defends (and invites us to join him
in defending) our customs and culture – those essential rights which Her
Majesty The Queen swore to uphold in her Coronation Oath and which her
councillors (QCs) told her she couldn’t do if Parliament had other ideas.
So, whatcha
gonna do ‘bout it, Andrew?
Andrew plans
to put a knot in it and take to the road, Jack. Four knots, in fact – one for
each of his passions. The it will be
his four-knotted-handkerchief and
those four-knotted handkerchiefs of others from the 77 or so constituencies
he plans to pass through who will identify with his passion on the way - or not. During
April he plans to walk from Edinburgh to Westminster, alone or with others,
encouraged or booed, come rain or come shine and meet in the palaces of
Westminster any honest Lord, Lady or Common Member who will receive his
petition.
Andrew’s
major question is: What will YOU do about it, dear Reader?
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
AND THEN I
MET
YET ANOTHER
MAN NAMED ANDREW
His name is
Judge Andrew P Napolitano, author of a book (which is where I met him) entitled
IT IS DANGEROUS TO BE RIGHT WHEN THE
GOVERNMENT IS WRONG. The case for
Personal Freedom.
Andrew meet
Andrew.
The flyleaf
of Judge APN’s book asks: “DOES THE GOVERNMENT EXIST TO SERVE US OR TO MASTER
US?
“If the
government exists to serve us, and if freedom is part of our humanity, how can
the government take freedom from us? Is human freedom in America a myth (name
your country of choice – MD) or is it reality?
“The United
States of America was born out of a bloody revolt against tyranny yet almost
from its inception the government here has suppressed liberty.”
(Meanwhile,
in England and the UK we never ever let go of our hold on tyranny – MD).
As I said,
it has been a busy week. How was it for you?
More
importantly, what, if anything, will YOU do differently in the week and weeks
ahead?
Will you GO FOR IT ALONGSIDE
Andrew Cole?
Your call.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
For more detailed information by Jeremie about Andrew Cole's mission go to:
http://4knottedhanky.wordpress.com/
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