Come into my Parlour, said the spider to the fly

June 2019 – I’ve had a wonderful week this week. At least, it seems so to me. I went down to London . . . by train . . . distance of about 54 miles . . . which cost me £47.80 for an anytime, any train, day return ticket . . . and I had to stand all the way to London!

THOUGHT – If some bright spark decides one day to discontinue discounted ticket prices (advance booking, season tickets, off peak, etc) will the real price for everyone be £47.80? What will commuters do then? Shall we pay it, just as we’ve paid increased prices over the years for our homes and cars? Or shall we say, in effect, ‘stick it in your ear’? Companies/employers will continue to assist staff with ticket loans as they do now or lose their staff but everyone else will be at the mercy, or lack of it, of the railway owners. What a miserable thought.

I went to London to support a man from Scotland who is spearheading the drive to re-introduce Common Law Courts in UK. (www.commonlawcourt.com). The ‘legal profession’ doesn’t like the idea because there is no money it for them and it challenges their contrived status. Yet the man (let’s call him John Smith) has a Power of Attorney from the person he went to represent. The ‘professionals’ – the name given to people who do what they do for money wouldn’t recognise his power of attorney nor his paperwork and would only respond to similar professionals. 

So John sacked the original professionals, as any of us would do with bolshie hired help. The opposite side (of professionals) had to accept the lawful Common Law Court documents presented by John and, in doing so they also accepted that he had standing. John’s papers are currently with a judge and we await an update.

The case itself is interesting, too. The person John Smith represents in his capacity as Power of Attorney is being pursued by the professionals for allegedly selling unlicensed medication and claiming beneficial results. His client faces an EU extradition warrant to send her to France. (For further info please look up GcMAF and David Noakes). Such accusations AUTOMATICALLY include a charge of money laundering! Seriously! I’m not making it up. In France she could be imprisoned for two years before anyone got around to hearing her case, such is the French/EU way of doing things.

MEANWHILE – In the foyer of the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, I met an ex-lawyer who quit the ‘profession’ after she worked in it for two or so years. She discovered corruption in her profession that we outside people know little about, she said. Her interest, she said, was in the Common Law aspects of John Smith’s case. Her true interest involved her stateless partner/husband who cannot leave the country because the Home Office will not recognise him and provide him with a passport. For some reason it is better in the eyes of someone in ‘authority’ to keep him here without documents rather than let him leave. I see that as nothing less than keeping him in an open prison but there has to be more to it than that.

MEANWHILE – In the same foyer of the same Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, I met another lady (of senior years) who I identified by her accent. She had travelled 93 miles by coach, without her ailing husband, to observe and be involved with John’s Common Law challenge but her true interest was her own dispute with lawyers and the NHS over the death of her baby daughter some years ago.

I can only guess at how many other MEANWHILEs might have been represented in the foyer of the Royal Courts of Justice that day. Who knows what happens behind the front doors of homes up and down our country? Just as importantly, WHO CARES? Not many, it seems. Except the spiders in wait for the flies.

NEXT DAY I spoke to a lady who has been battling corruption in the legal ‘profession’ – those who do what they do for money – for 17 years as various of them have tried to declare her and her husband bankrupt. It’s all to do with non-existent mortgages but nobody wants to know – not lawyers, not police, not bankers. In desperation she has accepted an offer by others to make a documentary about her case which will be screened for the public next month. That I must see! And I phoned a friend to ask if she, too, planned to attend the show?

Yes, she plans to attend, and I went on to tell her about my day at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand. “Did you meet XYZ while you were there?” she asked. “Yes”, I said in astonishment. “How do you know that?”

“She (the lady in dispute with the NHS et al) has just phoned me to tell me about her day at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand and spoke about this nice gentleman she had met there!” Wow! You could have knocked me over with a feather.

So, in summary, in the course of 48 hours I’ve been in contact with or been ever so slightly involved with:

1.  A man who was jailed for six months for allegedly selling unlicensed medical treatments and for allegedly laundering money;

2.  His partner who is resisting an EU extradition warrant for alleged similar activities;

3.  A man who travelled from Scotland to London to represent her case, and was ignored by the ‘pros’ because he isn’t a ‘pro’.

4.  An ex-lawyer who has a stateless partner who seems likely to know too much for it to be allowed outside the country;

5.  A lady (couple) in unresolved dispute with lawyers and the NHS over the death of her child many years ago;

6.  A lady and her husband battling to regain their good name and overturn claims that otherwise will make them bankrupt when they are not bankrupt.

7.  And a railway company that charged £47.80 to transport me 54 miles there and 54 back, packed in like cattle, plus £11 if I wanted to park in their car park.

8.  The Courts of Justice are actually the Courts of Business.

And here is the rub (as Shakespeare might have said). None of this will improve NO MATTER WHO BECOMES THE NEXT LEADER OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY, THE LABOUR PARTY, THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTY, THE ENGLISH DEMOCRAT PARTY, UK Independence Party, THE GREEN PARTY or any other party.

As Henry David Thoreau rightly observed: “The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation . . . .“

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. — Aldous Huxley

Be Responsible

3^rd June 2019 - “The Tilbrook case now before the Courts (which asserts we have already left the EU because May was not permitted to use secondary legislation to delay past March 29th) is either correct in which case we have already left or wrong in which case the Government need only not renew the extension on 31st October and we leave.” (Rodney Atkinson, English academic, political and economic commentator, journalist, author and businessman.)

We haven’t heard very much about ‘the Tilbrook case’ in any main stream media, have we? I wonder why not? Robin Tilbrook, the Chairman of the English Democrats and a Solicitor, has started a legal case to block the UK Government from extending the Article 50 Notice or revoking it without having to get an Act of Parliament. Like many more of us, I await a decision from the High Court of Justice with keen anticipation.

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As I write, 11  12  13 Conservative party MPs have announced their intention to contest for the leadership of the Party, and thus become Prime Minister, at least until the next General Election.

Plus James Cleverley and maybe a few more who are still keeping their powder dry.  Of course, if you and I are not members of the Conservative and Unionist Party (membership approximately +/- 160,000), we have no say in the matter. The current population of the United Kingdom is 66,921,047 as of Monday, May 27, 2019, based on the latest United Nations estimates. Such is the blessing of Democracy as interpreted by ‘the PARTY’. It seems to me that that kind of supposed democracy is in need of a good kicking, preferably by 66 million of us.

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When I woke up this morning I had the words of the entertainer, Billy Crystal, on my mind when he was compere at one of the major film festivals a few years ago. He invited contenders: “Ladies and Gentlemen – start your egos.”  So often do comedians hit the nail on the head. 

And again, from the late Nora Ephron (American film director and writer): “As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.”  For ‘men’ read ‘men and women’.  For ‘president’ read ‘prime minister’.

Despite the rise and fall of Theresa May, David Cameron, Tony Blair, John Major, Margaret Thatcher and any amount of previous prime ministers, these ambitious know-alls still try to make us believe that they know the answers to whatever problem the nation faces – and we believe them, it seems. You couldn’t make it up. Except that is precisely what we do.

Many years ago in the days of Col. Gaddafi, during a business visit to Tripoli, Libya, some locals from within my Libyan working environment invited me out for the day to see the sights and to talk. We drove towards the Gulf of Sirte to show me a training resort which was reserved for members of the national football team, and others of similar privilege.

They were pleased to be able to show off to me, a foreigner, while at the same time eager to ask questions about my world which was so clearly different to theirs.  I discovered that they wanted for themselves very much the same as most of us want for ourselves. Each wanted a family home; a good education for their children; a good salary; an opportunity to travel; a little money left at the end of the month. That kind of thing. All of them spoke fractured English which indicated to me that they, at least, had had a better-than-most education, although Libya’s proximity to English-speaking Malta might have some bearing on that. We shared ‘natural’ ambitions but we lived un-natural lives, differently.

Politics played no part in our conversations that day. I refer to this tale only to illustrate how the ordinary man all over the world wants ordinary common things for himself and his family. The psychopaths strive for the power over us by offering ‘let me fix that for you.’

So here is my thought for this week: I believe we live un-natural lives but, deep down, we yearn for things ‘natural’. We seek natural foods, natural environments, natural laws, natural relationships. Things ‘natural’ in our lives diminish when we start our egos and those around us start their egos, too. Then we compete for position, for wealth, for status, for advantage, and wonder why the world and his father seem to have utterly screwed up. There is no peace in that kind of competition and those who do not want peace are not our friends, no matter how they speak to us.  As it says in the good book: "There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings".

To me ‘natural’ includes such things as the nuclear family – father, mother, children. Father is the hunter/gatherer/provider of food, shelter, secure environment, etc. Mother is the home-maker, raiser of children, the steady hand of love and trust in the family; Children are taught and are expected to honour their father and their mother – another quote from the book. It is NOT natural to live at odds with this concept, but that is only my belief and my belief counts for nothing outside my own home and family. That said, if the ‘state’ has its way, my belief won’t count for much even within my home and family. Think about that, if you will.

Many, even most, people disagree with my description and press on towards what I term ‘sophisticated’ outlooks and lifestyles – in the sense of them being un-natural. Father is not the head of the household; mother is not the home-maker because she has a career she wants to maintain, or believes she must; the children do NOT honour their parents by obeying them – and that is just for starters. Voyeur-vision and internet widen the divide between natural and sophisticated . . . and we call it ‘progress’. Those folks also have the right to express their attitude to life and it isn’t any of my business if they do so. Nor is it any business of government! But it might explain why we have so many problems.

Our ‘lawmakers’ (writers of statutes) move further and further away from the fairness of natural law and by doing so ‘add to the troubles each day brings’. You can’t mess around with these things and not expect problems as a result, even when the supposed objective is to minimize those problems. Lawyers and barristers create fortunes for themselves by withholding natural law decisions for their clients and charging for their intimate knowledge of all that is un-natural in law. Their clients allow it because they have not been allowed to know anything different.

And what of the children? Sent to a state school (usually) to be educated by state teachers according to whichever state curriculum is in vogue. Or, as linguist Prof Noam Chomsky of MIT puts it: “Educated by whom, for what?”  . . . and much of the world condemns the supposedly biased influence of non-state education. I weep for the coming generations!

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While I’m in the mood for a challenge, let me ask you to think about how we can bring about the changes. I’d say we need to Become RESPONSIBLE; nothing much will change in your favour if you leave it to politicians/government/bureaucrats. You are a voting statistic or a target for a bribe of some kind. Little more than that. BUT MUCH MORE THAN THAT TO YOUR FAMILY.

Last question(s).  Do you think there is too much harmful plastic on the planet? Well, easy-peasy solution. Don’t buy things wrapped in plastic. It would be a start.  You think you can’t do it alone? Another easy-peasy solution: Seek out those of like mind and act together whenever you can. You think you don’t know anyone of like mind? Then take off your headset and speak to someone - anyone! Speak to the person in the bus queue or the person behind you queuing to pay in the supermarket. Or the school teacher who has custody of your child for most of the day. And smile when you do so.

LET’S DO IT!

LET’S BECOME RESPONSIBLE

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