Reassigning Races

USA 2012

Jake England (Paleface)

Jake England is a Cherokee Indian who is currently in prison charged with a series of shootings in Tulsa Oklahoma, which allegedly targeted black males.  It is believed the killings may have been racially motivated as England's father was murdered by a black man in 2010. Despite England's Native American ethnicity and appearance, in support of their agenda the US authorities and media have decided that this red Indian has shape shifted into a white man.

George Zimmerman (Gringo)

George Zimmerman, the most famous neighbourhood watch volunteer in history, as a half Peruvian, half Jewish Hispanic with a black Grandfather, he is in fact the poster child for the ethnic diversity so cherished by the American left. That was until he shot a black youth whom America's post racial president declared looked like the son he never had.  The moment the shooting became an exploitable event Zimmerman's rainbow, and visually unmistakable, minority status was snatched from him and in support of their agenda the US authorities and media decided that this Latino had morphed into a white man

Elizabeth Warren (squaw) 

Elizabeth Warren is a tenured Harvard Law professor currently standing as a Senate candidate for the Democratic party in  Massachusetts.  In 1894, Ms. Warren's great, great, great grandmother listed herself as a Cherokee Indian on a single document, which if correct, means the blonde, blue eyed, professor Warren is 1/32 nd Cherokee (The same tribe as Jake England).  In support of their agenda, the authorities, the media, Harvard Law school, the Democratic party and Warren herself proudly declare and celebrate her status as a successful ethnic minority female. 

Who knew ethnicity could be so conveniently flexible when a Liberal narrative is at stake!!.

Four White Sex Offenders

As a related topic, I have republished below some pictures I posted last year showing some more chaps, all allegedly sex offenders, whom the US authorities had, for their own reasons determined to be white men.

Of course, should any of these guys become the victims of crime, they will suddenly cease to be white.

Derbyshire - broke but unbowed

As most of you will be aware, the right wing writer John Derbyshire was summarily sacked by National Review earlier this year as punishment for an article he had written for a separate source which dared to be a little too truthful when addressing that now most dangerous of topics, race.

Derbyshire’s article which was published by Taki Magazine in March was entitled “The Talk Nonblack version” and was a response to various reports in the media of the alleged talk which African American parents claim to have with their children regarding the perils of living amongst white people.  However, Derbyshire addressed the issue from the perspective of a white parent advising their child on how to deal with living with black people.

Unfortunately, in doing so John Derbyshire ignored the first commandment of modern day race politics, namely that what is good for the black goose can have near fatal consequences for the white gander.

His assertion, backed by copious statistics, that associating with black people places young whites at a significant level of risk broke the greatest of 21st Century taboos by daring to tell the truth and was greeted by shrieks of outrage by the chattering fantasists and media zealots whom we have inexplicably allowed to adopt the role of arbitrators of what it is and is not permissible to debate.

Surrendering cravenly to the demands of the pike wielding mob, National Review genuflected in a manner which would make a North Korean public mourner blush and dismissed Derbyshire from his long standing role as a columnist.

Like Pat Buchanan before him, driven out the shrill demands of the assorted pressure groups of the new world order, Derbyshire had become unemployable by the mainstream media and deprived on the means of making a living or supporting his family.

I have to admit that, in my view, The Talk Nonblack version, was not a particularly good article, and I would argue with some of the points which John Derbyshire makes, his advice that a black man standing for political office should be scrutinised more closely than a white man does not stand up to scrutiny when one considers that the greatest political crimes against the white race have been committed by traitorous white politicians

Also, although there are many examples from Dr Esmee Ruck in 1950's Kenya through to anti Apartheid campaigner Amy Biehl in a South African Township in 1993, and this guy, just last month  exposing the dangers experienced by whites who play the good Samaritan to blacks, Derbyshire should have realised that his advice that whites avoid helping blacks in need would expose him to false allegations of hate and bigotry.

However, Derbyshire was not sacked for writing a bad article, he was sacked for speaking the truth, it was for that crime the twitter-nazis demanded his head.

However, I am delighted to note that he has not been cowed or intimidated and that in his latest article, again published on the Taki Magazine site, he continues to express his non conformist views with as much aplomb and vigor as he continues to expose great lies of our current age such as “the lie that poverty causes crime, the lie that white people’s malice causes black poverty, the lie that race is a mere “social construct” with no biological reality"

Derbyshires writing is not always comfortable but it is always direct and astute, for instance he pills no punches when he says of the British:

“In one of history’s greatest acts of collective folly, the Brits voluntarily opened up their unique, ancient, introverted national culture to a rabble of Third World sadists and cultists. They are now choking on their folly, and it’s hard to have much sympathy.

As the new totalitarianism tightens its grip across the West dissidents such as Buchanan and Derbyshire are  being driven out of the mainstream, but while the new media still exists their voices can still be heard.  Sadly, however, by its very nature the remuneration offered by the internet is much less, therefore, I draw readers attention to the new “Donate” button on John Derbyshire’s website, and hope that those who have enjoyed Derbyshire’s writing or who oppose what has been done to him and simply wish to express their support, do what they can.  

We are all under attack and malevolent powers act ruthlessly in silencing anyone who dares to speak against the orthodoxy, which is why now, more than ever, we should stand together and support our own.  
  

Farmers wife executed in front of her children

William and Vanessa Stafleu

The Afrikaner language newspaper Bleed reports that two traumatised children, a boy of 5 and his 3 year old sister ran into the African night seeking help after seeing their mother murdered before their eyes.

In the latest farm attack, on Monday night, on a farm near Randfontein in Gauteng province in North Eastern South Africa, 34 year old Vanessa Stafleu was shot in the back of the head execution style while kneeling in front of her killers.

Mrs. Stafleu's husband William found his wife's body when he returned from a nearby dairy farm in Doornfontein, where another farmer Koos van Rooyen died in an earlier farm attack last year.

Afrikaner speakers can watch an interview with Mr. Stafleu at Censorbugbear reports by clicking here

News report

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Hat tip Mulder

Le Pen’s Triumph had the Liberal Press reaching for the Vitriol

By Tim Heydon

Nationalist Economic Solutions are ‘Snake Oil’.  Oh Yes? With Hyperinflation around the Corner?

 

Nationalist solutions are ‘Snake – Oil Solutions’ according to Ian Birrell in the Daily Mail (April 24th).  As this country and the West in general tries to struggle out of the rubble left by the collapse of the liberal dream of an ever–closer globalised world economy, this remark would be comic were it not so stupidly biased.

In its reliance on imaginary money, the present government is a bit like Adolph Hitler in the last stages of WW11, shifting imaginary tank divisions around to defend Berlin.  Could a Nationalist Government do anything economically, however inept, which would be worse than what has befallen this country at hands of its present political class?

What could be more of a snake-oil solution, after all, than Blair’s and Brown’s  bubble economics which have left this country with an Everest of debt which will still be saddling our descendants generations from now.  Not to mention of course, their mad and secret opening up of this country to mass immigration in pursuit of the globalist dream of the ‘free flow of capital and labour’ and (unmentioned) the destruction of Britain.  This is increasingly dividing our society in a manner not seen since the Dark Ages.

George Osborne - Failure

Is not George Osborne’s remedy for this cataclysmic disaster: printing mountains of money whilst clocking up more long-term debts with an economy still in annual deficit, proving to be a further disaster?  It is a recipe for robbing the savers, on whom the country must ultimately rely for the provision of reliable capital - capital that can be made not to flood out of Britain at the first hint of trouble - whilst rewarding the spenders, those who got us into this disaster in the first place.  It is storing up jobs-and savings-destroying inflation, ready to burst out if and when the economy, pumped up by all this printed money, ever gets going.  Or even before if the depressing effect on it of unemployment begins to fade. 

Osborne is Kicking the Problem down the Road

Meantime, this government continues to allow hundreds of thousands of foreigners into the country who batten on our benefits system as well as taking jobs which should be going to our own people.  In 2010, 87 per cent of new jobs went to immigrants.

www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefingPaper/document/51  

www.migrationwatch.org/briefingPaper/document/236f

Osborne’s solution is merely kicking the problem down the road.  Sooner or later, all this extra money is going to explode in Hyperinflation.  As Ludwig von Mises remarked:-

‘There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved’.

If ever there was a recipe for social unrest, this is it

Ed Balls - Idiot.

‘What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen’ – George Orwell

It is truly astonishing that a colossal failure like Balls, whose government was instrumental in favouring the conditions which brought what remains of our economy crashing down around our ears, could have the chutzpah to give any economic advice whatsoever.  That he does is testimony to the arrogance, stupidity and rhinoceros hide of this man.  Such is the wreckage that  Thatcherism and the policies of New Labour have left that Vince Cable was moved to remark in a leaked document (one of his few sensible observations) that ‘it is not at all obvious how (this country) is going to earn its living.’

No ‘New Deal’ is a Good Deal

And is not the idiot Balls’ solution; the further expansion of public spending, even worse than that of of the Coalition?  Public spending would certainly favour New Labour’s client state, the public services, whose jobs in the fake ‘boom’ years were overwhelmingly filled by immigrants.  But as the experience of Roosevelt’s New Deal in Depression – era USA shows, notwithstanding uncritical praise from – who else - the BBC, ever in favour of socialist Big-State spending, there is no substitute for hard work and increasing productivity, as the Germans and the West’s creditors, the Chinese, have shown.

www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/bitesize/higher/history/usa/newdeal_rev3.shtml

The New Deal actually hindered economic revival in the USA.  (For an accessible, easily readable demolition job on the BBC-backed left fascism of FDR’s New Deal, read:

‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal’ (The Politically Incorrect Guides).

Nationalist Economic Solutions

There must be incentivisation through the cutting of taxes linked to the de–incentivisation of idleness, ie immediate cuts in the blubber of overgenerous social security benefits and useless make-work jobs in the public sector.  When work is available, ‘if a man will not work, he shall not eat’.  It must mean an immediate withdrawal on negotiated terms from the anti-democratic totalitarian straightjacket which is the EU.  These terms must include the re-assertion of our 200-mile fishing rights and a refocusing on export markets in the BRIC countries and elsewhere.

Educating our People to World, not Third World Standards

It must mean an end to the content-free nature of courses and the all–must–have–prizes syndrome in the education system which is a recipe for mediocrity and decline into third-world status.  Egypt and other moslem countries churn out hundreds of thousands of graduates annually, but their degrees are worth little because they are not up to high standards.  The only middle eastern country with some institutions that are competitive is Turkey.

There must be a return to unabashed elitism which rewards competitiveness, talent and hard work.  Only this will ensure that our youth can take on the Germans and the fiercely competitive Orientals in a world where only the best take the prizes.  The talents of our people are our only real resource.

Protecting our People

It means exchange controls to ensure that the accumulated capital of this country is kept here to benefit our people with the setting up of new industries and processes - an end to the shipping overseas of our manufacturing and other industries.  That fool Gordon Brown allowed the sale of our nuclear power industry to the French at the very moment when we will have to depend on nuclear power.  Tariffs on selected imported goods (The World Trade Organisation maximum is 5% on certain goods and services) should be in place but kept to a minimum to ensure maximum competition commensurate with protecting  industries vulnerable to imports from cheap labour countries with dire employment conditions.

If all this damages the City, then so be it.  It is the ordinary worker in this country who should benefit, not banking fat cats and the greed of globalising capitalism. 

A country is more than a rich standard of living, especially for the relative few.

Mary Riddell:  Smearing for a Living

Over at the Daily Telegraph, the collapse of the globalisers’ economic model and the rise of Le Pen and others like her is causing palpitations amongst the Cameroons.  ‘The rise of Marie Le Pen fits an emerging pattern of Hard Right resurgence that should chill all who inhabit the tolerant centre ground,’  Mary Riddell tells us in a prominent piece.  (24th April) Well, one would hope so, given that the ‘tolerant centre‘ ie (in world terms) left of centre in Britain has ‘tolerantly’ acquiesced in the destruction of this country by the social hard leftists of left-liberalism. Thanks in part to people like her, this country is likely to be majority Moslem in the lifetimes of our grandchildren.  How tolerant or indeed British does Riddell think Britain is going to be for them?

Plundering the Dictionary of Insult

Riddell, a quintessential member of the deracinated and cocooned metropolitan chatteratti plunders her armoury of insult to describe those who do not agree with the agenda of treachery to our forebears who struggled in WW11 to protect the homeland of their ancestors as their inheritance and hand it down to their children and their children.

Le Pen, she asserts, is a ’proto fascist peddling a glossy rebrand of hatred’.  It’s the same old intellectually third-rate non-sequitur; pure smear.  If you prefer to live amongst your own people in your own way as you and your forefathers always have done and object to the deliberate transformation of your country by its ideological enemies, you are peddling ‘hate’.

Likewise, the claim that the EDL are ’Neo Nazis’ is pure smear.  This is an organisation which ideologically is scarcely distinguishable from UKIP.  But for Riddell, UKIP is merely the more 'acceptable face of xenophobia'.

Again, Breivik who she bitchily and for no good reason describes as a ’puffy–faced computer nerd’ (One could make extremely unflattering remarks about her personal appearance) has a ‘white supremacist world view’.  However repulsive his crimes, does being opposed to the islamisation of Europe mean that you are a ‘white supremacist’?

‘Sooner Whites in Charge in their own Country than Blacks or Browns’.  Sorry, is that ‘Nazi’?

Does wanting the cradle of your ancestors to stay as it was mean that you are a ’white supremacist’?  In Riddell’s lexicon of abuse it apparently does.  In which case just about every Briton since Boudicca has been a ’white supremacist’ since it is the most natural thing in the world to want to preserve your homeland for your own people.

So the Chinese and the Japanese, who do not welcome immigration, are ‘yellow supremacists’?

The Saudis who do not like European Christians in their country are ‘Arab Supremacists?

Mugabe who hates whites; the South Africans who are dispossessing white South Africans; all the African countries which have turfed out their whites – they are black supremacist?  And so on and on and on.

But not being ‘racist’ or ‘white supremacist’ no doubt makes the ‘tolerant’ Riddell feel very good about herself.  And that’s all that really matters and never mind the logic or the lack of human feeling.

Obama is to be re-elected by Non-Whites at least partly because he is Non-White.  But that’s OK.

Riddell actually mentions the views of the American immigration ‘expert’ Frank Sharry, who suggested that the huge rise in the immigrant vote in the USA will likely ensure the re- election of Obama.

That is, although Riddell doesn’t seem to notice, much of the non-white population there, imported for globalising reasons, will vote for another non-white as many of them did when Obama was first elected.  (96% of blacks voted for him on that occasion).  It's OK if Blacks and Browns are 'supremacist' but not Whites.  Why?

Again, she mentions Galloway’s victory but stupidly puts this down to ‘the rage’ vote against Labour rather than to the success of someone who deliberately went out for the moslem vote and got it.  Once more, it isn't racial supremacy when blacks or browns do it, or if it is, it is somehow acceptable when white 'supremacy' is not.  What a fool this woman is.

Riddell and her ‘tolerant’ ilk are so far above petty, human concerns, such as feeling more at home amongst one’s own ethnic kind than otherwise, that she entirely fails to see what’s going on.  Which makes her a pretty useless journalist as well as an unjustifiably self-satisfied one.  How much does she get paid for the malevolent, intellectually third rate tripe she writes?

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Mike Wilson - Time For Change

TIME FOR CHANGE 

A Poem by Mike Wilson

The wind is rustling through the leaves and close at hand a Blackbird sings.

A myriad ferns spread out their fans to catch a glimpse of summer’s hand.

A silent shadow moves this way to catch his prey and feed this day

But Blackbird’s warning gives the clue that helps the hunted live anew.

So here we see life’s lessons taught and heed the warnings that we ought

To listen to the world around, yes, listen for that warning sound.

Don’t get complacent day by day as all our rights are stripped away

But be aware of changing laws that have exposed the EU’s flaws.

The rabbit runs to save his life and hops and bounds away from strife

Whilst we just sit and watch strife come and let the other’s will be done.

We know full well our hands are tied and see our problems multiplied

As powerless we wait our fate against the Muslims at the gate.

The force of nature does not change yet humans think we can arrange

The world to be a different place, without regard to hue or race.

We forgot what evolution told - that survival is for the very bold.

Our race is under strong attack, should we accept or just fight back?

Forget the trite attempts by those we really should regard as foes

Who tell us that the meek will win and being strong is just a sin.

By being meek and standing back we find ourselves to be attacked

So forget about the other cheek and letting others think us weak.

It’s time for nature to take its course and it’s time for us to fight because

Without us fighting back in strength these mobs will go to any lengths

To keep us down and drown us out by shouting ‘Racist’ all about.

The time has come, we’ve had enough, it’s time for us to cut up rough!

For us to keep our country clear we need to clean it every year.

We need to take our country back from those without the will to act.

We need to take the rubbish out and clean the place, there is no doubt

That politics won’t give a hand, to recover our ancestral land.

Democracy has had its day and the one party state is here to stay

So what will you do to put things right other than begin to fight?

Copy nature stop being weak and stop turning the other cheek.

Start making moves to put things right, bring these problems into the light.

My Articles

I would like to clarify a statement about myself which has recently been made on the British Resistance site.

 I have not started writing for the BNP, and have no plans to do so.

What occurred recently was that I received a request from the the BNP asking permission to re-publish some of my previous articles. As it has always been my policy to allow any Nationalist site to use my work if it furthers the Nationalist cause, I agreed to their request.

You will note from my writing that I seek to address the wider issues impacting on Nationalists in Britain, South Africa, America and elsewhere in the world, and I have sought to remain scrupulously neutral with regard to the various divisions which have occurred within British Nationalism in recent months.

The Green Arrow, whom I continue to respect and view as an old friend, is fully aware that I do not support all the views expressed on his site. For instance, as I have stated previously, I find the attacks on gay people ill judged, offensive and irrelevant. I am also a friend and admirer of Paul Weston of the British Freedom Party, and, although I do not agree with everything he says, I do not share or support the low opinion of him currently being expressed at the British Resistance.

My contribution to the British Resistance site has never been an endorsement of all the views expressed here, however, as a believer in free speech I respect other writers’ right to hold those views.

Likewise, by permitting the BNP to republish my work I am not endorsing the BNP, in the same way that I did not endorse Dr. David Duke when previously permitted him to do the same.

*As it turns out it appears the BNP may have chosen not to use my work after all, (possibly because of my previous association with the British Resistance site) but that is beside the point, as they can still do so if they wish to. My sole concern remains the survival of our people and all those of European origin, wherever they are, whatever political party they support and irrespective of the narrow sectarian divisions which I believe are doing terrible damage to our cause.

*Update:  The first of my articles has now been published by the BNP, it was held up because of the forthcoming election not for any other reason. 

St George’s Day must be preserved and promoted

By Richard Barnbrook

This year, in my part of the world at least, one could be forgiven for assuming that St George’s Day had been cancelled! No flags or buntings, no celebrations, no dedicated evenings in local pubs and restaurants, no staged events. When I visited Trafalgar Square in the early evening of yesterday, I met only a small handful of celebrants, and sadly there were no red and white flags to be seen in the surrounding area.

The Liberal Elite have long felt awkward in publicly acknowledging St George’s Day. They feel ill at ease with any overt display or appreciation of Englishness, presumably because they are anxious at our being reminded in a positive way about our indigenous ethnic roots.

Despite five decades of post-war negative indoctrination, the collective persistent and stalwart efforts of a dedicated few individuals succeeded in putting St George’s Day back on the national calendar. In recent years, its prominence had increased so much that there were calls to make it a bank holiday. Then to some extent, the lefties decided to jump on the band-waggon in an attempt to derail the essential patriotic element by foisting it with an all-inclusive, ‘multi-culti’ bias. Now it seems as if everyone’s given up, which is just what the Establishment has wanted all along. Mission accomplished, or so they think!

But there’s more to the English than the Liberal Elite have bargained for! We are committed to the celebration of St George’s Day as an annual celebration of our valiant, unique English heritage- a birthright of which we can all feel jointly and justly proud and which we must work together to preserve and promote, both for ourselves and for our children.

Stoking the flames

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The above screen grab of the CNN news homepage (US edition) was taken this morning.  It is becoming clear that CNN, together with other US media organisations are determined to cause racial conflict in America, maybe even a race war.  Why else, in the middle of all the hype about the Treyvon Martin shooting would they choose to give the greatest prominence on their NEWS website to an 80 year old story about lynchings in pre-world war II America?

I can only assume that they believe that racial conflict will encourage African Americans to vote for a black presidential candidate in November (Or should that be a white black president given the manner in which ethnicity of the man accused of shooting Martin is now described) and that evoking images of long dead white racists, will shame whites into doing so too.

Given that the world has never yet seen a liberal fantasy turn out as it was supposed to, I suspect that once the monster they are goading is released from its cage, they will find it is impossible to get back under control.

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Related: Black men attack white man as "revenge for Treyvon"

The Definition of Art

By David Hamilton

There is confusion about what art is. The qualities that make something art are intrinsic, not external. It is the artifice, the organising of elements, perspective, choice of colour etc, that make it art. The result is obtained by transforming reality and thus nature through human imagination and emotion and is realised by skill and technique.

The word Beauty (or beautiful) is descriptive if used as an adjective to express the response of the beholder to an object, or if used within a clear context; if used as an abstract noun it is universal, and therefore meaningless.

A significant difference between contemporary art and traditional art is the split between form and meaning. This Cartesian duality is the split between mind and body, subject and form. The split is in all the various forms and styles and substance and meaning, of the respective art forms. In architecture contemporary buildings look like objects they are not which is why they are given comic nicknames - The Gerkhin, The Cheese Grater, or Liverpool's Catholic Cathedral, The Mersey Funnel. The form is not related to function - the interior of a modern cathedral could be anywhere.

Traditional art develops within traditional forms and it develops the forms. In his Christian paintings of the fifties Dali adapted forms to his individual vision but they are recognisably traditional forms. Dali was a genius - contemporary artists are not. They need to shock to get recognition. Real Art grows out of tradition and provides sustenance, spiritual or worldly, for people rather than negative emotions like shock or offence that are harmful.

To Marcel Duchamp it was enough for an artist to deem something "art" and put it in an art venue. But it does not matter where you stick a urinal it is always a urinal with a specific non-artistic purpose. To say something becomes art because you put it in a gallery is very muddled thinking. I had an experience in the Ikon gallery in Birmingham where the only objects with artistic qualities are the water closets and washroom taps which had pleasing curves and smooth surfaces. But they are not art: they are objects for specific non artistic purposes.

It is not the context of underpasses that makes or unmakes street artist Banksy's work art or otherwise: it does not have artistic subject matter and is just technique. Artistic subject matter is realised through qualities of artifice and held together by purpose which concentrates the artifice and technique to the goal of producing art.

George Dickie and Arthur Danto held that works of art are objects connected to various social practices. This depends on beauty as some objects like the taps or a motor car can be beautiful but because they have non-artistic functions are not art whereas a painting is. To Dickie art is about being self-assigned but you can put a car anywhere, it is always a car and its function is different from a work of art even if it is beautifully designed. When Artists begin to create they have a purpose and an artistic end in mind and to bring this into being they use appropriate technique. They do not take into account aerodynamics, say, or how fast water pours out or precisely where its trajectory will take it as these are not part of the artistic purpose. They are to engineers and designers of those objects.

This is the institutional theory of art which is a theory about the nature of art that holds that an object can only be art in the context of "the artworld". Whatever an artworld is.
Danto wrote in:The Artworld: "To see something as art requires something the eye cannot descry-an atmosphere of artistic theory, a knowledge of the history of art: an art world." That has nothing to do with the work itself but where it is. Art is practice not theory.

Nothing can make Duchamps "readymades" art because they were made for a specific non-artistic purpose. Theory does not change a pile of Brillo cartons in a supermarket into art, yet Danto thought if it was put in a gallery a substantive transformation took place. Andy Warhol's pretentious Brillo Boxes (a pile of Brillo carton, replicas actually, so they are doubly pretentious) are a pile of Brillo boxes wherever they are put.

Dickie's institutional theory can be assessed from the definition in Aesthetics: An Introduction: "A work of art in the classificatory sense is 1) an artifact 2) upon which some person or persons acting on behalf of a certain social institution (the artworld) has conferred the status of candidate for appreciation." On the contrary, what makes something art is the intention of producing art through artifice and technique successfully realised.

Tracey Emin and Damian Hirst have declared works to be art because they say so. They were promoted and financed by Saatchi who first declared their works art but he is not an artist. It is critics and elite art buyers who decide what is art and usually because of its commercial value but that is external to the work, not intrinsic. They are right about the commercial value of objects but not about its classification as art because designating something as art because it has commercial value is to apply external or non intrinsic criteria as the standard of judgement. Some people are supposed to think they are Napoleon or royalty but does that make them so?

This takes us back to Duchamps folly. This argument is that because he placed it in a gallery it became art. To say something like Damian Hirst's pickled shark is important is pretentious. It is supposed to make us think but by taking the shark out of context (the sea) it is rendered meaningless because it is deprived of its being which is its life, and its function to swim and hunt. It habitat and how it lives in are essential not extraneous. A graffito by Banksy is not it is added to the environment not part of it.

Picasso: "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs." Well, he has dismissed proportion but that is only one part of the whole.

Splodgeness Abounds

Commercial galleries need to appeal to a buying public and be more popular than avante garde painters yet they follow the fad of impressionistic landscapes that lose their meaning by technique over imaginative vision: the scene is obscured by splodges of paint! This obtrudes between the scene depicted and the viewer and causes a disjuncture in the meaning. This is technique over intuition; skill over the knack. By contrast the camera can elevate the knack over technique as one makes an artistic judgement on what to photograph. It gives a clear reproduction of the scene not splodgy brush strokes that could be anything from a cloud or wave or a sunbeam to just a slip of the brush. These smears festoon every commercial art gallery in the country. This effect is demonstrated by comparing these with photographs of the same scenes.

Public Art

Fills our ordinary lives with meaning and provides different feelings as they have different purposes.

Trying to shock people is petty and there are many more responses. To shock is a means to the end of making themselves rich because the elites reward these attacks on our Art. It is as though they have a brief to undermine our artistic traditions. They have minor imaginations which cause only one response whereas a work by a major artist like Dali prompts several emotional responses.

A Liverpool pub, The Jacaranda, has a mural in the downstairs bar which John Lennon had a hand in painting when he was an art student, and this creates fascination and joy at the thought of someone so famous being part of it. The painting is well executed but not devoted to a high purpose, but conveys feelings because we know who was involved.

The Peter Kavanagh, also in Liverpool, has a delightful mural based on Dickens characters in the snug-bar. The story is that an artist who was a regular customer in the 1930s could not afford to pay for drinks on account, so he painted the mural. It produces delight and merriment, adds to the pubs character and raises it above the ordinary. ]

Statues are stylised and used to convey various human qualities. Military heroes say, were shown in proud and honourable poses that suggested authority, fortitude, steadfastness such as Lord Nelson's famous column in Trafalgar Square. They were cast in forms that conveyed meaning but contemporary public art fails in that elementary intention as the meaning is disjunctured.

I spent a few days in Shrewsbury recently. It has honoured its famous local Charles Darwin by "public art". But does it succeed in its purpose? One known as Quantum Leap is dissociated meaning as the form is not directly linked to the subject so there is no representation. The title Quantum Leap actually refers to something in physics not evolutionary biology which was Darwin's study. It is probably the contemporary informal term for making a major leap forward but applied to something celebrating Darwin confuses rather than elucidates. These contemporary artefacts arouse no curiosity and one does not feel inclined to enquire about them. They cannot be taken seriously as there is no spirit of genius behind them; rather, a commercial motive which are part of contemporary popular fashion and do not gain gravity from tradition. Quantum Leap looks like an armadillo crossed with a pack of cards and seems to be influenced by popular film Jurrasic Park rather than Darwin.

The Darwin Gate is three separate structures which unite to create an apparently solid structure. What does it mean? How does the form convey the meaning? The sculpture apparently combines the form of a Saxon helmet with a Norman window inspired by features of St Mary's Church which Darwin attended as a boy. They claim that as darkness descends defused light shines through the columns suggesting stained glass windows with the tops of the posts resemble ecclesiastical arches. When it unites it resembles the shape of a church window. However, there is no connection with Darwin and the transmission of meaning to the public is split. It is called The Eggbeater.

 

Even ordinary works can, if in surprising places, prompt a myriad of responses. The Nags Head in Shrewsbury, has an unusual and painting with an obscure origin. It has an unusual context in being on the inside door of a cupboard in a room above the pub. There is a strange atmosphere up there, where the temperature can plummet in seconds. Some think the painting depicts Neptune, others, the Devil. It is thought to be by a prisoner of war during World War II but staff at the local Rowley's House Museum purvey only a mystic tale but no accurate record. One told me it is of a woman who committed suicide by jumping from an upstairs window. In this legend it is said that the female figure will return if painted over. The painting is not of a woman but there is an ambiguity as the figure has feminine legs which are disproportionately long and thick, and a short body. This painting prompts wonder, amusement, mystification, delight.

Rowley's House museum holds the excellent Morning View of Coalbrookdale by William Williamse. (3) An important function of both painting and photography is to reflection a way of life or, as in this case, a defining historical era. There is too little representation of ways of life in contemporary art and fiction and people need this affirmation of themselves. These engaging paintings convey a powerful impression of the impact of early industrialisation on a still natural landscape. There are many forms of art which convey something important to people and prompt a variety of responses. Shock is just one: it is negative and it is unimportant.

Saint Alkmunds church in Shrewsbury, has a beautiful and moving stained glass in the east window. This is The Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Francis Egington. In this the Virgin Mary at the end of her journey through life and about to ascend to heaven. She is standing on the firm ground of the cross; with the Bible as the word of god for guidance and the sacraments represented by the chalice. The struggles of life are symbolised by thistles on the path. She is looking up in faith at the symbolic crown with her arms outstretched and open to heavenly influence as if she were asking and waiting to be uplifted back to her home in heaven. These were developments by Egington the artist who based the work on The Assumption of Saint Mary by Guido Remi of 1638 which is a more conventional Assumption painting and has Mary being lifted by Cherubim.

As you enter the church you are transfixed and walk towards it in awe looking up. It immediately begins to form an emotional response and the feeling of awe grows as you advance. This is not an intellectual proposition but a deep feeling of transcendent emotions.

 

This acts like great art, on a deep, unconscious level like an archetype. It opens the imagination transmitting holy or noble feelings in contrast to the degenerate contemporary art which spreads negative and evil thoughts. Old works have a quiet authority and the viewer pauses to contemplate it with respect, as when looking at old gravestones, to recreate the departed. It is a development of traditional form and links us with our roots.

The contemporary age is one of excess of technique. Jeff Robb, who has a permanent exhibition at the Victoria and Albert, uses a method of lenticular sheets which are only sold by one firm which is in Switzerland. This is very clever and often fascinating but the subject matter is ordinary - nudes. His art is the cleverness of what he does with the subject but he does not transform the actual subject. Jeff needs specific equipment and ink cartridges to produce his results. Technique is important but should be guided by the vision not for its own sake or it is empty form.

The qualities that qualify a work as art are intrinsic to art in general but Art with a capital "A" has an elevated, sublime, purpose and is only realised by a high quality of conception and execution. A visual object or experience created through an expression of skill or imagination. The term art covers various media: painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, and installation. The various visual arts exist within a continuum that ranges from prompting deep feeling or transcendent emotion and great skill to reproducing figures or landscape which have a mood and also prompt thought or feelings.

Kimbolton School has murals by Pellegrini. They give a sense of grandeur and seriousness and create a suitable frame of mind for study.

 

 The modern understanding of art derived from Abbe Batteux in the 1740s who regarded the essence as an "imitation of nature" and, principally, that it caused pleasure. They cause various mental states in the beholder. He defined these mental states as pleasure and the experience of beauty. Prior to this, individual modes of art were attached to various sciences like Music to Mathmatics but this is the skill not the purpose. Kant promoted a universal criteria to decide if something was Art. He used a geometric idea of patterns of shapes and lines. In The Critique of Judgement he developed the notion of beauty as the cause of the the mental state. The problem is beauty is so abstract as to mean something different to everyone, though it is a word that describes the individual appreciation of something very pleasing.

English philosopher Michael Oakeshott described two sorts of knowledge:

"The first sort of knowledge I will call technical knowledge or knowledge of technique. In every art and science, and in every practical activity, a technique is involved. In many activities this practical knowledge is formulated into rules which are, or may be, deliberately learned, remembered, and, as we say, put into practice; but whether or not it is, or has been, precisely formulated, its chief characteristic is that it is susceptible of precise formulation, although special skill and insight.

The second sort of knowledge I will call practical, because it exists only in use, is not reflective and (unlike technique) can not be formulated in rules... "
In art, this equates to the distinction between natural talent or genius and the skill and technique which realises the vision and meaning. Soccer players show a high degree of skill and to great players it is natural but developed by coaching and practice, but there is no high purpose involved.

Technique or genius; skill or a knack

There is a phenomenon in English art: a seven year-old Kieron Williamson. He has an indefinable knack that is called genius. This is artistic judgement in the practice of painting when one knows instinctively what to put and where. He has natural qualities: perspective, choice of colours. He has them automatically but perspective is a technique for realising the vision and choice of colours is part of the expression of the vision.

This knack is the artistic judgement. It is a non rational process - it is intuition or instinct and it is this that technique realises. In Kieron's case it was triggered by the Devon and Cornwall landscape and "sprung full-born into life" like Athena from Zeus's head. It was instantly realised, not slowly educed. (2)

To clarify the working of the two functions of form and content, technique and vision we have a fine example from music. Music was suffering the same culture war as painting and was dominated by atonal styles and was saved from an unexpected quarter. It was a paradox:

What we know as the culture wars and political correctness could not have made progress if it had not been adopted by the popular musicians of the 1960s. The words to The Beatles hit Get Back were developed from a spoof of Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech. Paul McCartney later turned into a more conventional rock song.

McCartney and John Lennon wrote melodies and through harmony revived tonal music. Atonalists were destroying traditional classical music as composers Schoenburg and Stockhausen did with water gurgling down a drain noises. The Beatles natural musical genius was realised through the technique of producer George Martin: The Beatles were raw talent, Martin supplied the form.

McCartney and Lennon upported the New Left and McCartney had a single banned by the BBC for apparently supporting the IRA ; Lennon was figurehead of the New Left-Politically Correct movement and his records like the album "Sometime in New York City" promoted it. He donated to The Black Panthers and The IRA.

Atonal composers disdained their audiences as Bourgoise but Lennon and McCartney brought them together. Martin's skill at realising their meaning added to the whole and triumphed over the split between form and meaning in contemporary music.

Martin wrote the orchestral arrangements and instrumentation in collaboration with them. It was Martin's idea to put a string quartet on "Yesterday". To demonstrate his point he played it in the style of Bach to show what "voicings" could be used. To realise "Penny Lane" McCartney hummed the melody, and Martin wrote it in music notation and David Mason, the classically trained trumpeter played it in a piccolo trumpet solo. Eleanor Rigby was heightened by Martin's strings-only accompaniment inspired by Bernard Hermann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho.

For "Strawberry Fields Forever", Martin combined two different takes into one. For I Am the Walrus he provided an original arrangement for brass, violins, cellos, and vocal ensemble. He worked closely with McCartney to develop the orchestral 'climax' in A Day In the Life.

The Artistic Subject

When he became a Christian, Salvador Dali found an artistic subject and the inherent spirtuality of the subject gave him a fuller, more elevated vision and he painted the masterpieces of the twentieth century. He was a skilled draftsman who developed his skills of realisation by studying Renaissance masters. Much criticism of Dali was because he supported General Franco rather than the Marxism of the orthodox Surrealists and art critics. They were ideologues and like all ideologues expected their members to conform to the manifesto or have their thinking corrected. Breton banned Dali from The Surrealist movement in 1941 and tried to ban his "Sistine Madonna" from the International Surrealism Exhibition in New York in 1960. It is said that Breton a Trotskyist, called Dalí in for questioning on his politics as his political allegiances had changed. After World War II, Dalí became close to General Franc's movement and issued statements of support. He congratulated Franco for his actions aimed "at clearing Spain of destructive forces" met him personally and painted a portrait of his granddaughter.

His fascination with the hypercube a four-dimensional cube and unfolding of a hypercube is featured in "Corpus Hypercubus" which changes the traditional form but it is still recognisable and we know what it represents. His "Last Supper" and "The Christ of St. John of the Cross" are the masterpieces of the twentieth century. This brings us to the essence of great Art: genius and inspiration.

Contemporary painters and makers of installations show contempt for the audience and do not work for the public good. They seek a response but it is a negative response. They are not geniuses and have to shock to get noticed. In fact they are not really artists - but purveyors of clever tricks without deep meaning. Art is communication but contemporary art fails to communicate because of a disjuncture between subject and beholder, form and purpose.

The indefinable knack is intuitive practice called genius. This is artistic judgement in the practice of painting when one just knows instinctively what to put or where. This knack is the artistic eye, artistic judgement and it is a non rational process - it is intuition or instinct and it is this that trained and developed technique realises."
John Dryden captures it :"But genius must be born, and never can be taught." It is the technique that is taught not the genius, which is inborn, as the qualities that make a work art are intrinsic to the work, not external nor contingent on where the work is put.

The difference between nature and art is this. When I point my camera at something that pleases me I first use artistic judgement but I record natural phenomena. If I take a sunset it is reproducing nature and is not art but nature. However, if I then use the zoom function, it has the effect of condensing the distance and thereby magnifying the gold or red which is moving from nature to art because it is introducing a technique to change the reproduction of the natural phenomena and make an artistic end. I recently took several photos of a sunrise in Penzance Bay in Cornwall and sunset at Brighton. There is little technique involved and as long as you point the camera at the right thing you are away. The camera is recording natural phenomena but a meaning is conveyed from photographer to viewer as the scene automatically conveys certain emotions to the viewer. In the above examples it is natural beauty. When you look at a photograph of a landscape a chain of thought is triggered which moves from the inherent emotional state conveyed to personal and often unconscious thoughts and feelings.

A similar process occurs in art as the idea or a scene is transformed through human imagination and emotion till it becomes a work of art: transformed reality.

(1) http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/michael-oakeshott-rationalism-in.html

(2) http://www.kieronwilliamson.com/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203226/Pictured-Incredible-watercolour-paintings-boy-aged-just-SIX.html

http://www.magnoliabox.com/art/96482/Morning_view_of_Coalbrookdale_1777

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Islam and Racism

By Mike Wilson

Islam and racism, the two words that sum up the decline of western societies. The Christian ethos that the meek shall inherit the earth is bringing about the biggest change in Western society that not even two world wars could achieve. The meek won’t inherit the earth, they will simply be subservient to the powerful forces that gave them the lie. Nature does not let the weak survive in favour of the strong so why do we think that nature has other plans for people with ethics and moral values?

Christian morality is at the heart of this decline of Western civilization. We have been so busy turning the other cheek that we did not realize that our pockets were being picked and our lands taken over by those we sought to forgive.

Nature does not forgive and epitomizes the fact that might is right and that the weak perish and disappear. Strength to survive is what nature understands and without being able to protect oneself then we are left vulnerable to those who are determined to take what is ours by force or by subterfuge. In the case of Britain the population has become so brainwashed by those seeking our downfall that we allow stupidity to govern our daily actions rather than to oppose these laws and fight to take back what was once a great and prosperous country.

To have to put up with the endless waves of immigrants from Africa or the Middle East who demand housing and jobs and support all at the expense of the British people is just breathtaking yet we accept it because we have been brainwashed into agreeing that the meek shall inherit our earth, not theirs. For a white Western country to be held to ransom by Islamist racists who are intent on converting us to their way of life is an indication of the extent to which we have sunk because we have done so without attempting to fight back. We have allowed ourselves to be subjugated by laws dictated by foreign interests with no regard or thought to what the average Briton thinks only that we will do as we are told by outside interests who are only intent on taking over our country. The establishment (and who can forget Andrew Marr’s comments, former head of the BBC) has quietly converted the mechanisms of government to do their own bidding and by that I mean the police as well as the politicians, local governments and the main stream media.

To complain about mass immigration is to be called racist in one’s own country and to see events changing our world and being able to do nothing about it is an obscenity. It is both degrading and disgusting yet we still allow speed breeders to demand access to housing and government support when less than the smallest percentile have any plans to do something to help our economy. They would rather just breed themselves into a situation where they don’t have to work. For a race that has a supposed IQ of around 70 they have worked out very well just how to get the best out of life at our expense.

To accept Islam into Britain is akin to turning the other cheek but to reject Islam is to fight back. To accept calls of racism and racial hatred laws is only justified if the white Anglo Saxon is the one doing the calling and not some rainbow coloured free loader. Racism will only be a hate crime whilst it is aimed at the white population so by not accepting it we fight back. Whilst the establishment is busy integrating all manner of foreigners into this country we should be reminding them that this country is British, we are not Islamists nor are we racists but most of us are pure Anglo Saxon White Protestants who dislike these changes and want our country back.

What matters now is what we can do about it and how we do it. By tacitly accepting the overriding laws brought in by the EU and their cronies and our politicians just pandering to these foreign states we are getting closer to the situation becoming irreversible. Since 2009 when the EU laws took precedence over British ones and we became a satellite state of the EU we have been changed dramatically to a subservient state thought by most to be totally vanquished. We don’t have to be but it is up to us not to just accept what has been done to us but to oppose it and take back what is ours. Reject the so called democratic government in favour of British patriots who refuse to accept the rules of foreign governments. Raise awareness of the basic problems affecting us and demand that we become free and independent once more.

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Three in a Bed

I may be missing something here, but can someone please explain how two me can be in bed together, having sex with the same drunken woman at the same time, yet only one of them, the white one, is guilty of rape? 

The double standard of the left

The BBC have finally been forced to admit that the clenched fist salute, which Norwegian mass murdered Anders Behring Breivik has been making at the beginning of each day of his trial, is not “a far right salute” as the media have so far been insisting, but is in fact one which is more usually favoured by left wing extremists. A gesture, at its most iconic when made by Nelson and Winnie Mandela in front of the world media on the day Nelson was released from prison in 1990, or by black athletes as a sign of “black power” at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

I can only imagine the BBC have been shamed into making this admission by those who have pointed out how misleading earlier reports about the salute had been.

ANC Supporters making what Channel 4 News reader Jon Snow called "salutes to the far right"

A particularly shameful example of the previous day's attempts to mislead the public was that of Channel Four News's superannuated anchorman Jon Snow, who has been around long enough and supported enough dodgy left wing causes to know full well that Breivik's gesture was not the “salute to the far right” which he chose to describe it as in Monday night.

It was left to another Jon, this time Jon Kelly of the BBC, to come clean out the nature and history of the clenched fist salute, its heavily socialist origins and its symbolism within those causes which the left have championed over the years.

Of course, in his article the obedient Mr Kelly attempts to distance his treasured causes from the acts of Anders Breivik by saying that the clenched fist salute “has a long history as a symbol of defiance and solidarity, commonly associated with both left-wing politics as well as the struggles of oppressed groups - most of them far removed from the politics expressed by Breivik”       

Au contraire Mr. Kelly, au contraire, in fact the politics of Anders Breivik bear very strong parallels with the struggles of oppressed groups whom the left have, selectively, championed.  However, the left wing media refuse to acknowledge that, just as they have always refused to acknowledge the “wrong victims” such as the Kulaks in the Soviet Union during the 1930s the Khmer Rouge's victims in the 1970 or the Coptic Christians and Afrikaner farmers of today. They will not acknowledge it because, once again the left is on the side of the oppressors, and Anders Behring Breivik belongs to a group they, the left, wish to see oppressed.

There is actually nothing very unique about Breivik's crime, it is only within the attitude of the left that that we see a contrast.

History is full of such events. On the 22 July 1946 (65 years to the exact day before Breivik committed his act of terrorism) the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed, killing 91 people and injuring another 46, this was an act of terror by the Zionist group Irgun against the British forces which were then in charge of Palestine, and it was one of the main factors which led to the setting up of the state of Israel two years later.  The leader of Irgun at the time, and primarily involved in planning the atrocity was Menachem Begin, who went on to become the sixth Prime Minister of Israil, and in 1979 he received the Nobel peace prize.

On the 26th of March 1953, in what was then Colonial Kenya a group of Mau Mau terrorists (or freedom fighters depending on your perspective) attacked the peaceful village of Lari in the Kenyan uplands and hacked to death pro-British Chief Luka and 97 Kikuyu loyalists, mostly women and children.

 Statue of retired terrorist Jomo Kenyatta

Although the Mau Mau were technically defeated, the bloodshed in Kenya was one of the main factors leading to the end of the British Empire and Kenyan independance. Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta was made Independent Kenya's first prime minister and the country even changed the pronunciation of its name in his honour.  Kenyatta went on to become one of Africa's most internationally celebrated leaders, as  is usual with retired African freedom fighters, fabulously wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice.
  

 Church Street, Pretoria 1983

Three decades later, the bombing of Church Street in the South African capital of Pretoria took place on the 20th of May 1983, although it only killed 19 people it injured 217, many of whom left horrifically maimed for life.  The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission identified two of the heroes of the anti-Apartheid struggle Oliver Tambo and Joe Slovo as being primarily responsible for the bombing, however, in his autobiography “The long walk to Freedom” Nelson Mandela, who although in prison at the time, remained the head of the African National Congress (ANC) freely admits that he knew of the planned bombing in advance and “signed it off”.    

The names of Tambo and Slovo are spoken by the left with the reverence they reserve for socialist heros who fought against oppression, whereas retired South African president Mandela is one of the most celebrated figures on the planet, a globally acknowledged saint, god like media icon, and another Nobel Peace Trinket recipient. Whilst, modest by the standard of retired African leaders, Mandela struggles by on a conservatively estimated net worth of $15 million.

The beatified Nelson Mandela with his equally blood stained wife

Many will recoil at these comparisons, especially to the beatified Mandela.

However, cold blooded mass murder is still cold blooded mass murder whatever the politics behind it. 

The left may have fallen out of love with Israel, but likes of Mandela, the Mau Mau, Castro and Che Guevara, all of them mass serial killers, are praised and celebrated by the left because they are viewed as fighting for “their people” against regimes which were, in the view of the left, oppressing “their people”.

That, of course, is exactly how Breivik views his own actions, in fact Breivik goes further, he does not only consider the Norwegian government to be oppressing his people, he believes the government is actively engaged in a deliberate act of genocide against his people.

Had Breivik committed his crime on another continent, or had his skin been a different shade, can anyone doubt that the left would already be excusing his actions and some already calling him a hero.

As it happen, I share Breivik's assessment of the Norwegian government, although, I do not believe they are the worst, the Swedish, French, American, and I am afraid, British governments are all far further down the road to disinheriting and eradicating their own people than are the Norwegians.

However, Breivik is a Norwegian, and he is right to care first about Norway, he is also right when he claims that most western governments are guilty of acts of genocide against their own people, and he has correctly identified multiculturalism as the vehicle of that genocide.

Where he is terribly, terribly wrong however is in believing cold blooded premeditated murder, particularly of children, is the solution or is an act can ever be justified.  Only in the minds of the left wing can a massacre such as he committed ever be forgiven.

In the same way that I entirely condemn the bombing of the of the King David Hotel, the bloody slaughter of Lari village, and the evil carnage of Church Street Pretoria,  I also, with equal vigour, condemn and reject the monstrous acts committed by Anders Behring Breivik on 22 July 2011.

The left however, is far less unequivocal in it's condemnation of mass murder. They rightly condemn Breivik for his blood stained and vile act. Yet they cherish and praise equally bloody and vile acts when they are committed against their enemies and by their friends. Their hypocrisy and their dishonesty would be stunning had we not become so accustomed to it.

In his clenched fist salute the Norwegian monster embraced the gesture of the left, in the same way that in his ghastly act he embraced the methods of the left.  In his terrible crime he chose a solution and a means which has been historically celebrated by the left.

Anders Behring Breivik may have seen what we see, he may have cried for his homeland as we cry and he may have identified the same cause and the same guilty men as we have. Yet when he embarked on his evil work he became their creature, a creature of the left. The left may not want him, but when he chose their path he became one of theirs, he is not one of ours.   
  

"Men of Good Character"?!

 

An interesting report on Simon Darby's site about the support being provided to some of the accused in the Rochdale child rape trial currently taking place at Liverpool Crown Court.

Click here for "Labour & Lib Dems back child rape accused"