Thursday 23 December 2010

Christmas Fun - Victimhood Poker...

For the uninitiated, Victimhood Poker is based on the premise that different victim groups have varying levels of validity to their victimhood status and that playing cards are assigned upon value accordingly.

It is perhaps (most likely) an urban myth, but it is said to have originated in the USA following Harvard's decision to transfer the sliding scale of extra admission points for different 'victimised' groups to a pack of playing cards for easy reference by staff. Of course, they fell in to the hands of some students, who invented 'Victimhood Poker' (VP), with a full set of rules.

Thursday 16 December 2010

A Non-Smoker Writes...

A year to 18 months ago I was a non-smoker who was anti-smoking - not to the extent where I would challenge strangers who were smokers or seek to embarrass them, but certainly someone who supported the evermore restrictive practices placed upon those wishing to smoke.

So it was one of the most unexpected shift in my thinking over the past year to become pro-smoking - or rather pro the right to choose to smoke.

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Voluntary Servitude

"Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you?" Etienne de la Boetie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, c.1553
Many of you will be familiar with the text and its truth is still self-evident nearly 500 years on. So we have to wonder what on earth possesses people to do this [2min video]:

TV Tax? Read This Great Riposte...

What a great post by Alex Deane (he of Big Brother Watch) comprehensively dismantling the justification for  the license fee, which starts:
The right test for the BBC’s current set-up emphatically is not ‘do they produce good programming?’ or even ‘do they produce anything worth watching?’  The right test is, ‘should it be funded by the taxpayer?’
The thought of abolishing it is becoming mainstream thinking.

Go read it in full and see the false arguments perpetuated by those who would force us to subscribe fall.

FAV

Tuesday 7 December 2010

Bleedin' Obvious #274

Avoiding all the usual comments on vested interest groups and their relationships with the government (usually in the form of state funding in return for the 'right' report findings) the Climate Change Committee says that the power industry needs to be 'revolutionised' to meet the climate change laws applicable to the industry.

Surely, rather than overhaul the entire industry at great cost to the working man in return for a lower standard of living through more expensive, unreliable and insufficient energy supply, it would be more practical and more effective to change the law as not to have this requirement?

Seems bleedin' obvious to me.

FAV

The Failing State: Schools

[For some reason, this post disappeared! So I have reposted under a different name (was 'Emigration & Schools')]

I must apologise, having decided to blog I've been rather light in the past fortnight! This is owing to a job offer in Hong Kong, which I have accepted. I start in late January and, if the first few months are successful, I shall relocate with the family to follow in the summer.

However, I shall continue on my journey for my truth and still plan to to progress to submit an affidavit to pursue a freeman existence and also explore lawful rebellion further. Many of you reading will be like me, in that we are waiting for those to go before us and to provide a path / examples that we may follow. That is one of the raison d'etre of this site - to provide such a record and reference for others.

One of the major drivers for me leaving is the continued falling of education standards in the UK. A number of years ago (4?) an independent report* that stated that by the age of 7 the 'slowest' children of average intellectual range in private schools were more advanced than the most advanced children of average intellectual age within the state schools.

Compounding this is the curriculum within the state schools and focus on subjects that are just not necessary - for example in my child's local school they teach Punjab, which is a very likely waste of his educational time at such an important age and reinforces division within the local community. My father is Spanish and the Spanish community of London never expected the schools to teach the other children their language; they took responsibility for that at home. What they wanted for their children was to learn English well.

Wednesday 24 November 2010

Parish Notice

Right, got a bit of travelling and some family committments over the next few or four days, so expect light blogging.

Play nicely.

NOUICOR Deconstructed

It is my intention to pursue my understanding that I might draft my own Notice of Understanding and Intent and Claim of Right (NOUICOR). I'm very much at the beginning of this journey and found the following clip useful - hopefully you will too.

[EDIT 2: Thanks to Xen for the advice on how to imbed the clip]


Parts 2 and 3 are available here and here.

Lessons Learnt is not Accountability

The Information Commissioner has fined Watford council £100,000 for sending the most serious and sensitive information to the wrong recipients not once, but twice.

If it wasn't outrageous enough that £100,000 of local tax payers' money has just been thrown away, the real scandal is that our most vulnerable charges (abused children) could have had justice and / or protection denied to them owing to this error.

But don't worry folks, they've been held to account, lessons have been learnt and procedures have been changed.

Except no-one has been held to account; only the entity called the 'council' has - and the money wasn't its anyway. And we know that, in all likelihood, none of the staff will be properly reprimanded and they will continue to draw wages paid by the very people whose money they've wasted and whose children they might have failed.

Monday 22 November 2010

Consent Not Required

I've just heard the news that Brian Cowan has decided to call an election upon completion of passing of the bailout through the Irish legislature.

What a coward; and what a travesty of consent. If you are so sure that this is the right path for Ireland to take, why aren't you going to the country first?

The European Project must not fail...

Double Slavery at £300 Per Head

So now we know. We are ‘saving’ the Irish by being part of a pan-European Irish bank bailout and we are doing this by giving £300 per head of money that we don’t have (and therefore will have to borrow).

Result? The Irish remain enslaved to the European Project and we have committed our taxpayers (including our children) to longer servitude in servicing this debt.

Did anyone expect any different? The European Project will not be allowed to fail…

FAV

Update (7.55pm): just heard on Sky News that RBS and Lloyds have lent the Irish (people, companies, etc) £80bn! That's £80,000,000,000! Why are we not leveraging that to our advantage? Oh, that's right, the European Project will not be allowed to fail...

Friday 19 November 2010

Standing with their Truth: John and Tina Hurst

There is nothing more honourable than for a man to stand by his truth no matter what the consequences or how difficult the circumstances.

John and Tina: Hurst deserve the utmost respect. Their continued fight to keep our Common Law liberty in the face of insurmountable odds and injustice from powerful agencies is humbling to those of us still on our journey for truth. Whilst we look for the courage and develop our knowledge that we may make a stand, they are sailing in uncharted and dangerous waters, so that they and others may be free of tyranny. Go see.

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Starting Off

Well, here we are, finally. I've taken the plunge and decided that I needed my own forum, my own record of my development as I complete my journey towards understanding my truth. I have been inspired by many other bloggers and it's time to move on from (just) posting on other's blogs.

Forgive the self-indulgence in this first posting. I'm not quite sure what I am going to write about; nor do I know how often I will post. All I do know is that I feel the need to write, and I have something to say - which may or may not be important to the reader, but is important to me. And after years of silence, I've finally found a voice.

I am a political animal though refuse to commit to a particular party as my own.