Politics
We need an independant judiciary, therefore judge should be appointed automatically from those lawyers who qualify and the court stewards who assign cases should be appointed by the state. The appeal court should take the role of the old Icelandic Fifth Court taking perjury, new evidence and corruption as its remit. A seperate supreme court should be set up where issues will be judged by an elected jury of appeal court judges, elected by judges. A seperate government official should be elected, a Tribune, to appoint court stewards and to have veto power over elections to the supreme court jury, who should also have veto over legislation (unless, perhaps, in the event of a three quarters majority in the Commons.
MPs should be elected with transferable votes in the counties and cities should be made into multi-member constituencies. Cities should have elected mayors. District councils should be chosen by lot, county councils by the district councils.
The educational system should not allow female teachers. Classes should be segregated along sex lines. Education, especially at primary level, should concentrate on mathematics (especially geometry) and foreign languages, along with grammar. The exam system should be based on that which is long in force in the music education system. School meals should be provided free by the state and should be nutritious and made up of, for example, seabuckthorn pies. The milk-snatching actions of Maggie should be undone.
Impeachment of any government employee should require only a one-third Commons vote. Recall elections for all elected positions should require only ten per-cent of the electorate to petition. The Upper House, the Lords, should be made up of the Bishops and Law Lord and representatives of mass organisations, mostly trade unions, as the traitor Ramsay MacDonald suggested and as the Russians carried out with their Soviets between the February 1917 revolution and the October counter-revolution. The Lord President should control the agenda for the Houses unless over-ruled by commitee.
Select Commitees should be appointed by MPs, each having one vote and writing one name on a piece of paper, in the manner of the original US electoral college but with one name rather than two.
A directly elected executive branch should be established without any of the powers currently reserved to the "Crown" (Blair), such as the right to sign traties, declare war and impose unfair oppressions of the natives of the Chagos Islands. The execuative branch should be made up of three elected officials, a President, Lord President/Speaker and a Tribune who should administer legal aid, the Health and Safety executive, Food Standards Agency and oter branches of government solely dealing with the protection of the powerless from the powerful and the government.
The NHS should test the drugs it uses, as most of them do more harm than good, not just take the word of the drug companies that they work. It would cost a bit but save a lot. Many of them could and should be replaced by non-drug treatments. High-power ultra-sound encourages the growth of bone, allowing surgery-free mending of severe fractures and accelerated recovery. Stem cells are released into the blood during hyperbaric oxygen treatment, which also encourages recovery. The ancient Greeks used silver/bronze alloys in the manufacture of surgical instruments, and so should we. In recent years its been shown that when hospitl beds are made of such alloys so-called superbugs can't survive for anywhere near as long as on steel. Industrial democracy incrases life-expectancy, as does living in a nice, tree-filled environment, having enough money, and generally living a happy life. The government should take responsibility for this. The government should also bring cleaning back in house, as state employees uniformly do a better job than those in the private sector. Catering for hospitals should also be brought back in-house as the current regime of nutrition-free ready meals cooked in a factory in Wales then repeatedly re-heated in a Glasgow ward cause recovery to be slower, blocking hospital beds. Cutting costs increases costs in the long run. And the short-run, generally. More physiotherapists and intermediate-term care beds should be provided. Currently the government is trying to turn hospitals into assembly-line style factories turning out old people with new hips and appendectomies and so on. However an OAP with a new hip who isn't given physiotherapy will be less mobile after the operation and more likely to be re-admitted to hospital. Things are more likely to go wrong with the hip and the hip won't last as long before it needs replacing.
There should be a need for the police, or any other branch of government to acquir a warrant before arresting someone, unless caught in the act, or for search and seizure, for phone-taps, to employ CCTV in an area, to collect DNA or the accumulate any database of any information for any person.
People should not be held without charge, nor should they be held awaiting a trial for an inordinately long period of time. The concept of double jeopardy should be re-introduced to stop police injustices. The presumption must be for innocence, not guilt. Hearsay should not be allowed in court and both character witnesses and cell-confessions should be considered hearsay. Evidence of previous convictions in irrelevant and shouldn't be allowed. The law must be no respector of persons, therefore people shouldn't be treated differently because of the crime they have been accused of (presumption of guilt in rape cases, holding without charge in terrorist cases and so on), nor should laws be made of enforced which apply only to one group of the population such as the indecent exposure law or the stautory rape law which are applied only, and disproprtionately, to men. Laws should not be kept secret. How can you obey laws you don't know exist? The public interest immunity should be abolished, all people must have the right to face their accusers and any witnesses.
Freedoms must be absolute for speech and assembly. No "Free Speech Zones". No "hate speech". I don't believe in libel laws but if we must have them they should be lax. Only if what was said was known to be untrue and was intended to cause harm (and succeeded in doing so) should something be considered libel.
Fertiliser should be made from rock dust, wood ash and manure. Human sewerage should be properly composted, not just sprayed on fields as a vile slurry which infects watercourses as is currently the case.
Power should be generated through renewable means. Reactivating old mill lades could generate 40% of the electricity used in Britain which, together with solar power and a hefty reduction in usage brought about by energy efficient appliances and so on, should be more than enough. Power stations, to the extent that they should exist at all, should be wood-fired. Properly managed woodland provides far more wood than clear-felling. Third world logging practices are DESIGNED to destory woodland and cause shortages and high-prices, not to maximise production.
Prisons should not be cushy, nor should they be brutal. Prison guards should be forced to stop smuggling drugs into prisons. There is a certain African root which can stop drug addiction and it should be used. Prisons should be Spartan, no TVs and so, just a harsh regimen o nutiritous food and much physical and mental exercise.
All things should be recycled. The railways should be re-nationalised. Or de-privatised, perhaps I should say.
I believe in industrial democracy, such as that practice by Civil War Barcelona, by post-1945 Japan before the Americans outlawed it, by the Soviets bfore Lenin's counter-revolution swept it away, and so on. Ernie Bevin turned it down in '48, now we need it. I don't believe in the democratisation (or collectivisation) of small businesses, only or large businesses. Small cornershops are very important and the biggest threat to them is the limited liability publicly traded corporation, the greatest crime the government has perpetrated against the citizenry and the biggest enemy of democracy in the world. Also not PRIVATE business, which I support, but CORPORATE.
Plants like music. Farmers should play it to them to increase production. Underutilised crops should be used more often, like spelt. We should stop exporting and importing milk, seeing as we export as much as we import. Bugger the EU and all their ways. Trees should be planted for watershed protection, to stop both flooding and drought. Field productivity goes up if the field is surrounded by hedges. Farmers should plant them happily, not which about the EU only giving them massive subsidies if they plant them.
The army should scrap its tanks, the RAF its helicopter gunships, the Navy its escorts. All are irrelevant to modern warfare but monstrously expensive. Spend the money on the mine-proof patrol vehicles and infra-red scope the army is screaming for.
We need progressive taxation, that means stopping the tax dodging ways ofo the rich. The rich should pay a larger part of their income, not a smaller. Put income tax up ,especially on the rich, lower VAT and abolish council tax. Also get rid of National Insurance. Churchill introduced that in 1911 as unemployment and health insurance but we have the NHS and I believe in flat state pensions and income-, rather than contribution-, based job seeker's allowance. America should introduce National Insurance, as Britain did. he 1911 government was a step on the road to the 1945 government.
We need seperate libraries for books and computers (internet access).
We should go back to imperial money, it makes people better at maths. It's about changing minds. Everything's a battle for the minds of the people. For the same reason the Football Association should be compelled to reintroduce Goal Average in place of Goal Difference or the terrible Goals Scored (as used to be used in the non-Premier league divisions).
GPs should be sent off to work in deprived areas. If dentists are too selfish to work for the extortionately high NHS rate they should be replaced by NHS-owned dentists brought in from Eastern Europe and the fiction of their being independant contractors, as are GPs, should be ended.
We need to abolish the current seperation of retail parks and town centre for shopping, suburbs for housing and industrial estates for factories, offices and jobs generally. Housing needs to have shops nearby and jobs nearby. Save on transport. Decentralises power from the Tesco-type behemoths. Brings back cornershops. The businesses, once no-longer segregated from their customers and employees can be expected to pay higher wages and to take care of the area around them. The government of New York City found that simply cleaning up graffiti nd making things look tidy severely lowered the crime rate.
Allow people to build houses for themselves to live in. Make sure they live in them and don't just sell them. Don't, however, allow corporations to develop the green belt.
Get rid of corporate personhood, which curtails the power of the law to regulate society. Get rid of limited liability which puts every supplier or employee of a corporation in a prcarious position and allows anyone to get away with massive theft by being an investor. Make people take responsibility for their actions.
Solve the impending bankruptcy of the Post Office, the ROyal Mail, by allowing them to operate like a normal business. Allow them to provide banking services free of the purposefully harmful interventions of HM Government.
Don't allow Scottish MPs to vote in Westminster matters that don't concern Scotland. I've had enough of Scottish Transport Ministers (Scotland has its own government that deals with transport, so we're down here are stuck with a transport minister who has no power over transport in his own constituency and therefore can't be held accountable). It's about time the West Lothian question was put to bed once and for all.
The crisis of capitalist is not over-production but the wrong type of production and under-consumption, due to low wges amongst the poor.
The NHS should provide care homes, as it does in Scotland, throughout the country. Cheaper and better for the patient. PFI schemes, of course, should be banned and everyone connected with them shot for treason.
It's natural law that an Englishman's home is his castle. It isn't right that a policemen, even with a warrant, can come in without knocking. Compulsory purchase orders are an abomination. The police shouldn't be allowed to erect barriers to keep people off their own street, corraling people into "Free Speech Zones" and so on. There's no free speech if its only available in a specialist zone. Get those lazy police on foot patrol. I understand that they'r lazy and they don't like wandering the streets on cold nights but that is their job.
A coutnry can only be independant if it controls its currency. We need to go back onto the gold standard. we need to tell the IMF to fuck off, with all their ways.
We don't need a military to protect us. We don't need the "Security Services" who spend most of their time concocting reasons to strip us of our rights and conspiring to blow up bits of our cities (under the false flag of terror).
NHS doctors shouldn't be allowed to moonlight in the private sector. As it is they get fulltime NHS pay for working 60% of full time hours, effectively subsidising the private-sector employment of doctors trained at the expense of the taxpayer and officially on the books of the NHS, who pay their living costs.
We need to get out of the European Union. It's just another way for the corporations to rule us.
The BBC should be funded by a 25% on all media organisations and should put out a daily newspaper, along the lines of the corporate-murdered Daily Herald.
Custody should automatically go to fathers in the event of divorce, as this is what is best for the children. No-fault divorce should be abolished. Its bad for children.
Long ago debtor's prisons were supposed to have been abolished but people still get sent to jail for not being able to pay their Child Support Agency debts (made all the worse by the monumental incompetence of the agency). It's fitting that the government is now replacing the CSA with neo-fascist bailiffs with greater powers than the police to assault people, destory property and steal. The government's very hard on benefit fraudsters, it says, but they don't go after the organised gangs who steal millions from the state, only the small-timer who get's £50 a week and wants to avoid being sent on a NEw Deal course as subsidised slave labour for a ditch digging company, getting still just £50 a week from the government while the compnay "employing" him gets far more and gets a free worker who can't complain without being made homeless and destitute. I speak from personal experience. It's no different to slavery, conscription or press-ganging.
Advertisers need to be prosecuted for fraud or under the Trades Descriptions act for their inveterate lying. They warp the minds of the young.
He said, she said cases should never be allowed to reach court. DNA evidence shouldn't be so slavishly assumed to be reliable. See Joyce Gilchrist or Fred Zain. People executed on fake evidence. Alimony is also slave-labour and shouldn't be allowed. People are punished for not making their "potential income" and their charges are accorded on that basis. Control orders shouldn't be allowed either, nor should ASBOs as they criminalise non-criminal behaviour based on who you are. Legal aid must be readily available for those in need. The previous record of criminals is irrelevant. Shouldn't be admitted in court. There should be no secret laws. There should be a right to face accusers. The public interest immunity needs to be revoked.
People should take cold-showers. They're good for the mind.
Corruption thrives in the dark. The public should have access to all government files, except for those on nogoing criminals cases. Too many rooten boroughs exist, in the Private Eye sense of the term. Election by lot should sove all that. The Standards Board for England needs to be replaced by police investiagtion and criminal sentences.
Socialism is the only way to establish and maintain a stable and prosperous society, simple Keynesian and redistributive policies. Everytime other way of doing things have been tried they have failed. The USA, now the leading proponent of neoliberal policies when it comes to forcing them on others only established their own industries without being overwhelmed by the superior development of Britain through a rigourous regime of protectionism. Only with the end of World War II, with their competitors lying in ruins, did the US back the Bretton Woods consensus, making acceptance a condition of loans or Marshall Plan aid. Liberalisation of the theoretical kind benefits more developed countries. As it's acutally practiced it is even worse, as it's one sided. Those countries which have practiced socialist methods have the strongest economy. Cuba has a weak economy, but a far stronger economy than any other central or south American nation, despite a lack of saleable natural resources. Of course, Socialism seems a dead force now because it didn't have the might to combat the bankers and Salvador Allende's brand of liberation-based democratic socialism is always particularly vulnerable to military coups and so on. Even in Western Europe the loonatics have taken over the asylum at her majesties Treasury and the Exchequer. Still, one day we may reclaim the Labour party (the best thing that could happen to the Labour party would be to lose power) and once against establish a Labour government that REDUCES poverty, REDUCES the gap between rich and poor and generally abandons their current brand of anti-social Thatcherite drivel. We can dream at least. We need democracy and socialism to stop our currently unstable society from falling apart. We don't need the middle classes walling themselves up in compounds and the liability-free rich becoming ever more powerful. We need Blair in prison for flogging peerages. We need to thwart the powerful and give power back to the people, where it belongs, both in industry and in the State.
Political parties no longer want members, members
are a thing of the past. These days a member is
nothing more than an unwanted interferer in
policy matters. Not that parties have much in the
way of policies these days. "I love international
bankers" is the only policy statement they make,
and the only policy statement they can make.
The October Revolution, and the rise of the
inaccurately named Soviet Union, was a banker's
conspiracy. You might find this hard to believe,
but the Csar was too national by half to be
allowed to rule his country in peace. Even worse
was the Kerensky government that took power in
February 1917 and was offering an extreme
democratic vision. Worker's control of factories,
for example. This was totally insupportable in
the capitalist world. Not only could it not be
allowed in the capitalist sphere, it could not be
allowed to happen anywhere, to pose a bad example
to the wage slaves of the west. So the western
bankers put in place a despotic system of state
capitalism, as Orwell called communism. The west
was only too happy to sell the latest industrial
equipment to the soviet government for the first
years of their reign. The October revolution was
a counter-revolution.
I am not an anarchist. The world is already in a
state of anarchy. If you want to see what anarchy
looks like look around you. Look at Somalia and
Afghanistan, with no effective government. That's
anarchy. The strong praying on the weak. The rich
praying on the poor. No greater authority to
protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Know this: it wasn't high oil prices alone, nor
was it left-wing policies at all that caused the
high inflation in the seventies. It was an excess
of capital. No longer was capital mostly being
invested in business, being used to buy new
manufacturing machinery and so on, in stead it was
being used mostly for speculation. It was a
massive growth in the amount of capital being used
for speculation, and a consequent growth in the
power of currency speculators that caused
inflation. The inflation as controlled by the
speculators, as it still is in countries with
inadequate currency controls, to destroy those
governments the currency speculators don't like.
What's most important about civilisation?
It is those things which seperate us from the barbarians, things like hedgerows and civil servants. Just look at America. Is it a coincidence that the country most hostile to bereaucracy and the country with the most wide open spaces is the worst of the developed nations by all social measures, far from the highest median income and with the most drugs and gun crime. Hedgerows also serve to avoid land disputes by clearly marking boundaries and prevent soil erosion while protecting the watershed, but these things aren't important. The most important effect of hedgerows is the effect they have on the human mind.
There's no point in a government unwilling or unable to better the lives of the people and control business interests.
Religion
Swearing oaths on the Bible is specificall banned in the Bible, don't do it, whether in court or elsewhere.
As the Book of Acts makes clear the early Christians were "communists", to modern eyes, living together and taking their meals, but not their wives, in common, as the astonished Roman slave society put it.
Jesus was a pinko, in other words.
He was also the culmination of the Hebrew royal line, being descended from David who was ultimately descended from Adam and thereby God. He was the final high priest, and still is, for he remains an immortal priest for ever in the order of Melchizedek. There had been a succession of high priests from Melchizedek but there is no need for a successor for God. God is root and branch of the tree of the high priesthood.
I am, of course, a "fundamentalist" Christian and I have a specific hostility towards Islam, the "religion of peace" founded by a war mongering child molestor (no wonder they got on so well with the CIA back in the 80s) that waged a 1000 year jihad against the realms of civilisation from its inception until the second siege of Vienna.
I belive it is a sin to have churches as we have today, purpose built from stone several centuries ago. The early Christians weren't a bunch of reincarnation believing Gnostics as some would have us believe, but they weren't like the modern orthodoxy either. They didn't have church buildings, they came together to worship in the houses of the faithful. The old Testament says not to use an altar worked by tools, but one piled up of natural dirt and rock, and the same applies with churches, human tools can't make them.
And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Acts 2:44-45
And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Acts 4:32-37
That's what I believe.
I could never take an oath in court, and I advise other not to do so either. The Bible specifically says not to swear.
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
-- Matthew 5:33-7
Nor would I be able to be a member of a jury in court, for it is the juries who judge guilt and innocence as God has forbidden us to do. It is juries who condemn which God has forbidden us to do.
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