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June 01, 2004
D-Day sixty years on
This year sees the sixtieth anniversary of those now legendary landings on the Normandy beaches in June 1944. Those taking part at the time saw it as a job to be done; probably very few of them actually wanted to storm ashore into the face of German defences, but it had to be done. There was no other way to drive the Nazi philosophy out of Europe and out of power. But I do wonder whether those who waded ashore on that day and set in motion the "Beginning of the End" for the totalitarian forces then occupying Europe would have envisaged the "Brave New World" of the 21st Century with its terrorsim, its insidious PC "New Speak", and the centralisation and creeping "communisation" so ably manipulated by the faceless wonders of Whitehall and similar Bloated Bureaucracies, hiding behind the "ideologically blinded" cretins who occupy parliaments across the European Union?
A comment on this blog a few days back touched this particular nerve very much on the raw - the UK Civil Service has now grown to the bloated 5.5 million mark - a little over 20% of the total workforce. When you add in the Local Government employees, you find that this figure shoots well past 35% of the total and is in fact very close to 40%. Further, the creeping regulation of every aspect of our lives is now so pervasive that we are in fact more heavily regulated, and probably more assiduously policed than the citizens of the openly communist regimes. This is, after all, the Socialist agenda - complete control of the organs of government and of wealth creation - purportedly for the benefit of all, but in reality, for the benefit of the "ruling class". These days that is increasingly Civil Servant Mandarins and Middle Class "professional" politicians and their offspring.
Is this the world those brave men and women fought to create? I doubt it very much indeed, and it should make us all ashamed of what we have allowed to be done in their name and in ours to create this perverted version of liberty and justice. Those who now peddle the poison of Political Correctness, banning everything they object to, are no different from the Heinrich Himmlers, Adolf Hitlers, and Joseph Stalins who plunged this world into the global conflict of 65 years ago. And it is they who, with their twisted and perverted sense of "justice" and "fairness", will bring about the destruction of liberty and the continuing rise of terrorism. These are the same people who for decades supported terrorist organisation in Africa, in the Middle East, in Europe, and in the Americas in the name of "freedom". Everytime you see the image of Che Guevarra you should remember the murders and the executions he performed in an attempt to create his vision of paradise. Even his closest supporters found this uncomfortable!
Was this the world our fathers and grandfathers fought for? Of course not, nor should we permit it to continue.
If they thought they were fighting for democracy and freedom, how have we allowed ourselves to become so restricted. How have we come to this point where a government (even a Labour one) can so blatantly gerrymander the electorate? The debacle in the North East, where there will be no Polling Stations, only Postal Balloting, where over 4 million voting papers will not be delivered by the deadline, and where there is precious little in the way of safeguards to prevent fraudulent use of those ballots that are delivered, speaks for itself. Is this the society our soldiers fought to create? Of course not, this is the vision of the power-hungry cretins who will do anything to preserve themselves in power - and are prepared to use any means at their disposal, just as Adolf Hitler and Joe Stalin did, to remain in power.
On June the 6th, we will remember those who fought for our liberty, we will remember those who fell getting ashore, and we will remember why they had to do it. The very least we can do is to make it plain to our political leaders and to the bureaucrats that they have gone beyond far enough with their lies and their deceitful restrictions of our democracy and our freedom. It is time to demand they change their thinking and their way. It is time to create a truly free nation of which we can be proud - not a mockery of democracy and a closet communist state that masquerades as a "free" nation, but one which is truly free.
That would be a real mark of respect to the men who went ashore in 1944 and rolled back the Nazi regime. Let us hope that there is a really strong turn out at the polls - and that the electorate see more than just the usual tribal loyalties as their reason for turning out. As to the great Northern experiment; let us hope that it proves to be an expensive and fraudulent failure, because that, more than anything else will expose the dishonesty behind it.
We should look back on June the 6th with pride and with sadness. Pride in the achievement of those brave men who gave everything and sadness at having thrown it all away. In their name, let us take back our country.
Posted by The Gray Monk at June 1, 2004 08:51 AM
Comments
A wonderful Blog.
What has grown up over the years is a left-liberal elite which has seized power from the people. It is indeed a development from the USSR style of socialism, aimed at taking power the easy way. It is disguised as a democratic movement and owes much to the philosophy of the Italian communist, Gramski. Power can be taken by an alliance of the elected using the public purse to provide it's power. It is not a conspiracy of a power mad group, more a minipulation of useful idiots.
By this means we in Britain are swamped with 650 MPs, 650 Lords, and inumerable devolved representatives, regional, county, and town councillors. These are supported by armies of civil servants, quangos, local civil servants and legions of local government employees. Nepotism and a new old boy/girl network covers the whole country and now extends over Europe.
You point our that almost 40% of the population now forms part of this movement. One of the characteristics of the movement is the power to use public funds at will. All of the elected faction can vote themselves and friends salary increases and expenses in addition to bomb proof pensions.
The movement is in reality a form of social parasitism. It will, to survive, probably not kill it's host; but it will seriously weaken it.
Posted by: harryj at June 2, 2004 09:35 AM