It has been a busy week

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.
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.

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.

Do it, do it, do it. DO IT.

All the way
All the way.

You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.

It’s the only good fight there is.

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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?

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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.

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For more detailed information by Jeremie about Andrew Cole's mission go to:

http://4knottedhanky.wordpress.com/

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