Oncoming oppression...

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Well, not oncoming but already here and likely to get worse. This quote is so true. Quotes.pub had the image but the reminder of this great quote was from Allison Pearson's [DT] "withering verdict" of BoZo's BoJo's speech to the Conservative [virtual] Party Conference. Hat-tip Lockdown Skeptics. 

Also from there some more sinister (but we all knew) news: "Many governments are using the pandemic as cover to silence dissent, stifle the free press and disrupt elections, according to a new report by Freedom House, a US-based think tank". Linking to Philip Heijmans' article on the Bloomberg website: Governments Using Pandemic to Stifle Dissent. 

The Freedom House article is well worth reading, on their website HERE or the report is HERE-PDF. 

The Media end Expression section strikes me as problematic: "91 of 192 countries (47 percent) experienced restrictions on the news media as part of the response to the coronavirus outbreak", believable;

"Journalists covering the crisis have been arrested and targeted with violence, harassment, and intimidation. Governments have exerted control over content, revoked outlets’ registrations, suspended printing of newspapers, denied press credentials, and limited independent questioning at press conferences. New legislation against spreading “fake news” about the virus has been passed, while websites have been blocked and online articles or social media posts removed. The increased public need for impartial information during a pandemic makes such varied methods of suppression particularly egregious."

However, many major countries e.g. UK and USA are in the 'free' category (as against partly free or not free); they may be 'free' on paper (hoho) but they are part of the problem: they have stoked the fear, they refuse to ask the most obvious questions, THEY are part of the problem and have encouraged the dozy inadequate politicians to continue on their disasterous path.

Update: absolute case in point: just heard on the radio news, headline: this year "COVID has killed [xyz*] times more than flu and pneumonia combined".  Complete bollocks and for various reasons.

* can't remember if they said twice, three or four times more because I was shouting at the radio "NO IT HASN'T"...

Outstanding opportunities outweigh obedientiary overburdening III...

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Brexit: 33 days to go [countdown].



The case, as per several weeks ago and despite a plethora of annoying complicated votes, is still "an object lesson in elite betrayal": "Leaving without a deal to trade under WTO rules is a real possibility because of both the fast approaching leave date and the inability of the House of Commons to come up with any plan which can command a majority. Moreover, significant numbers of leave MPs have embraced the idea as being the best route out of the EU for of the UK." [England calling]



I also agree entirely with Emily Barley (Chairman of Conservatives for Liberty and writing on Brexit Central this weekend)

"It’s time for those of us who campaigned and voted to leave the EU to speak up, loud and clear, for the kind of future we want for our country. Not just on trade, borders and immigration, but in terms of the great British traditions we ought to restore. When the UK finally exits the EU, we should renew our commitment to civil liberties."

De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae

Partly on the same theme: 'Escaping Illiberal Values', [LINK] "It’s no secret the EU views concepts such as decentralization with disapproval. For 'progressive' institutions like the EU, classical liberal concepts of limited government and smaller political units
checking bigger units are toxic roadblocks that keep it from realizing its universalist vision. The British Isles, on the other hand, have historically been the cradle for classically liberal practices such as federalism, free speech, and property rights." (Jose Niño, published on the Mises Wire, Mises Institute)








This was one of my main reasons for voting Leave too: not just the trade opportunities or freedom/regaining sovereignty etc., but to escape the clutches of the quagmire pull of what Napoleon believed his greatest achievement ("My real glory is not the forty battles I won, for Waterloo's defeat will destroy the memory of as many victories... What nothing will destroy, what will live forever, is my Civil Code."



There are some similarities between English Common Law and the Napoleonic Code but many differences; you can see the logic in the original idea to codify rules and 'equalise' the Law but 'mission creep' should have been foreseen and with today's politicians such complete control can only lead to one outcome: sort of a bastardised cross between another Reich and another Soviet Union, and/or the one they say they've been trying to avoid for decades: war. 

Outstanding opportunities outweigh obedientiary overburdening III...

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Brexit: 33 days to go [countdown].

The case, as per several weeks ago and despite a plethora of annoying complicated votes, is still "an object lesson in elite betrayal": "Leaving without a deal to trade under WTO rules is a real possibility because of both the fast approaching leave date and the inability of the House of Commons to come up with any plan which can command a majority. Moreover, significant numbers of leave MPs have embraced the idea as being the best route out of the EU for of the UK." [England calling]

I also agree entirely with Emily Barley (Chairman of Conservatives for Liberty and writing on Brexit Central this weekend)

"It’s time for those of us who campaigned and voted to leave the EU to speak up, loud and clear, for the kind of future we want for our country. Not just on trade, borders and immigration, but in terms of the great British traditions we ought to restore. When the UK finally exits the EU, we should renew our commitment to civil liberties."

De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae

Partly on the same theme: 'Escaping Illiberal Values', [LINK] "It’s no secret the EU views concepts such as decentralization with disapproval. For 'progressive' institutions like the EU, classical liberal concepts of limited government and smaller political units checking bigger units are toxic roadblocks that keep it from realizing its universalist vision. The British Isles, on the other hand, have historically been the cradle for classically liberal practices such as federalism, free speech, and property rights." (Jose Niño, published on the Mises Wire, Mises Institute)

This was one of my main reasons for voting Leave too: not just the trade opportunities or freedom/regaining sovereignty etc., but to escape the clutches of the quagmire pull of what Napoleon believed his greatest achievement ("My real glory is not the forty battles I won, for Waterloo's defeat will destroy the memory of as many victories... What nothing will destroy, what will live forever, is my Civil Code."

There are some similarities between English Common Law and the Napoleonic Code but many differences; you can see the logic in the original idea to codify rules and 'equalise' the Law but 'mission creep' should have been foreseen and with today's politicians such complete control can only lead to one outcome: sort of a bastardised cross between another Reich and another Soviet Union, and/or the one they say they've been trying to avoid for decades: war. 

Outrage outlaws...

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[Edited: 'dead' image/video removed]

Well said Rowan! And well said Cranmer (hat-tipped) who writes "Criminal law rightly protects individuals against unjust discrimination, incitement and violence. But it is unacceptable that it has moved into areas of annoyance, disturbance and inconvenience. The law should punish violence or the threat of violence; it should not be used to protect us from having our feelings hurt, especially since people may manifestly choose of their own volition to be offended."



Ahhhh (sighs), who can forget Constable Savage; another was the vicar on gay Christians, "God hates poofs"...those and other favourites HERE. The Conservative party Conference: "Like we understand young criminals, another very emotive issue. This party feels that we've been just a little too soft on these... bastards. ...If [electric shock treatment] doesn't work? Then of course we will be more than prepared to revert to old liberal wishy-washy socialist Nigger-loving Red left-wing homosexual commie ways of the recent past. But please, let's have a chance!"

Outrage outlaws...

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[Edited: 'dead' image/video removed] Well said Rowan! And well said Cranmer (hat-tipped) who writes "Criminal law rightly protects individuals against unjust discrimination, incitement and violence. But it is unacceptable that it has moved into areas of annoyance, disturbance and inconvenience. The law should punish violence or the threat of violence; it should not be used to protect us from having our feelings hurt, especially since people may manifestly choose of their own volition to be offended."

Ahhhh (sighs), who can forget Constable Savage; another was the vicar on gay Christians, "God hates poofs"...those and other favourites HERE. The Conservative party Conference: "Like we understand young criminals, another very emotive issue. This party feels that we've been just a little too soft on these... bastards. ...If [electric shock treatment] doesn't work? Then of course we will be more than prepared to revert to old liberal wishy-washy socialist Nigger-loving Red left-wing homosexual commie ways of the recent past. But please, let's have a chance!"

Outrage outlaws...

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Well said Rowan! And well said Cranmer (hat-tipped) who writes "Criminal law rightly protects individuals against unjust discrimination, incitement and violence. But it is unacceptable that it has moved into areas of annoyance, disturbance and inconvenience. The law should punish violence or the threat of violence; it should not be used to protect us from having our feelings hurt, especially since people may manifestly choose of their own volition to be offended."

Ahhhh (sighs), who can forget Constable Savage; another was the vicar on gay Christians, "God hates poofs"...those and other favourites HERE. The Conservative party Conference: "Like we understand young criminals, another very emotive issue. This party feels that we've been just a little too soft on these... bastards. ...If [electric shock treatment] doesn't work? Then of course we will be more than prepared to revert to old liberal wishy-washy socialist Nigger-loving Red left-wing homosexual commie ways of the recent past. But please, let's have a chance!"