tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post5373143545065920594..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: On Fascist HeroesPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-34407390423270028762018-08-14T23:20:29.425+01:002018-08-14T23:20:29.425+01:00What on earth are you on about?
And no, not every...What on earth are you on about?<br /><br />And no, not every sponsored game was shit!!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-30976919268624700032018-08-13T16:13:06.131+01:002018-08-13T16:13:06.131+01:00cant believe i came here to read about a NES game ...cant believe i came here to read about a NES game and ended up depresed bout politricks. This essay is means i can never vote for these happy clappy labor. Its all wannabe middle class posers bigging it up bout revolution wiv Rosa and ends up all "lumpen trash". Yeah we get it you hate the undeserving poor. thing is bruv us trash are usually the ones fighting the nazis with r hands wile you have a jolly good time behine a keyboard. jog on back to morgageland<br /><br />and every sponsord game was shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-45026754001140181362018-08-05T15:16:14.991+01:002018-08-05T15:16:14.991+01:00I remember having epiphany on reading an article o...I remember having epiphany on reading an <a href="https://www.al-islam.org/hijab-muslim-womens-dress-islamic-or-cultural-sayyid-muhammad-rizvi/why-hijab" rel="nofollow">article on a Shi'a website defending the Islamic dress code</a>, which quoted a passage from Germaine Greer's book <i>Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility</i>:<br /><br /><i>“Women who wear cortes or huipiles or saris or jellabas or salwar kameez or any other ample garments can swell and diminish inside them without embarrassment or discomfort. Women with shawls and veils can breastfeed anywhere without calling attention to themselves, while baby is protected from dust and flies. In most non-Western societies, the dress and ornaments of women celebrate the mothering function. Ours deny it.”</i><br /><br />We could also note that when Mary (the mother of Jesus) is depicted by Christian artists, she is almost always wearing clothes similar to what Muslim women wear today.<br /><br />Perhaps this is one of the reasons why women in Islamic dress are so often attacked by racists – because their attire is seen as dangerously celebratory of motherhood, and thus accentuates the racists' fear of being "out-bred"? (Note also those infamous "1 Shot 2 Kills" T-shirts marketed by the Israeli military!)George Cartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12170378024031141482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-41626849779240841882018-08-04T18:32:41.213+01:002018-08-04T18:32:41.213+01:00In Denmark, as bastion of the ‘free world’, women ...In Denmark, as bastion of the ‘free world’, women are now being fined for wearing the wrong clothes, i.e. Islamic clothing. This is completely normalised by the mainstream. And they are scratching their heads wondering why the far right are making headway. You have to chuckle.<br /><br />Modern day fascism is not stupid, it has seen a gap in the market, a place where it can peddle its racism, supremacist ideology and thuggism behaviour relatively freely. That place is called Islamophobia and/or Muslims. In this place any kind of racist garbage can be peddled without too much fuss from polite society, hard working families, identity politics foot soldiers or liberal lefties. It is fertile ground to build a movement in an otherwise hostile environment. <br /><br /><br />Let us call islamophobia a safe space for fascists. If only those Muslims were Jews it could be oh so different!<br /><br />Welcome to the free West, where you can’t do this and you can’t do that, you can say this and you can’t say that, you can’t think this and you can’t think that, you can’t want this and you can’t want that, you can’t traverse this and you can’t traverse that, you can’t move here and you can’t move there, you can’t believe this and you can’t believe that, you can’t produce this and you can’t produce that, you can’t post this and you can’t post that, you can’t wear this and you can’t wear that, welcome to the free West! <br />TheOnlySanePersonOnPlanetEarthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-85317493686904511832018-08-03T09:32:01.110+01:002018-08-03T09:32:01.110+01:00If this is getting boring now Southpunch I’ll stop...If this is getting boring now Southpunch I’ll stop. As for juries only deciding on what is put to them or not, I can concede that in England, recent rape trials have collapsed because the police hadn’t released all the social media evidence to the defendants before the trial was due to begin. This could be seen as an underfunded geek squad being careless, or not.<br />As for supine juries not being aware of what is being missed out; I was on a jury on a rape trial and we sent at least one letter to the presiding judge asking why people who had been named as being at the event where the alleged rape took place were not being called. We were told that neither of the prosecuting or defence barristers had decided to call these people as witnesses, and drew a set of conclusions from that. After 5 days at £5k per day to run a trial, the prosecution case thinned out and eventually the jury brought in a Not Guilty verdict.Kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-16531313894476417652018-08-03T00:07:56.629+01:002018-08-03T00:07:56.629+01:00"...the arbitrary application of state power ..."...the arbitrary application of state power against someone for their political views..."<br /><br />...is not remotely relevant, unless you choose to believe the transparently false narrative of a lying publicity-seeking fascist arsehole.<br /><br />'Tommy Robinson' committed a fairly serious crime (prejudicing a trial), then while on a suspended sentence for that, went out and publicly did exactly the same thing again. That's why he was in jail, because obviously that's what would happen if you did that.<br /><br />So there's two possibilities: 1) He's so unbelievably stupid that it didn't occur to him, or 2) He was courting arrest deliberately as a self-promoting stunt to raise his own profile as a leader of the right/far-right.<br /><br />Neither possibility would qualify him as a "political prisoner" or any kind of martyr, victim, or hero. Again, what he really is, is a lying publicity-seeking fascist arsehole. Nothing more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-10125069835970001422018-08-02T20:17:48.682+01:002018-08-02T20:17:48.682+01:00I can't see how (very rare) instances of e.g. ...I can't see how (very rare) instances of e.g. a jury acting independently or even deciding to acquit when the defendants openly admit guilt (e.g. the jury who acquitted Pottle and Randle who helped heroic comrade George Blake to escape - that has a name, a 'perverse verdict'. maybe?) is relevant here, Ken. <br /><br />No jury is independent e.g. it doesn't do its own investigations, call what witnesses it wishes - its verdict arises from what is put to it (and what is hidden from it) and the rules it works, under e.g. the judge's summing up. <br /><br />I'm not arguing the US system is better or worse than UK, as I said, I don't know. But I'm not presuming what our state imposes is best and the immediate 'justice' that lowlife Robinson was served appears to be lower even than that standard . <br />Southpawpunchhttps://twitter.com/Southpawpunchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-64777897019737624022018-08-02T20:02:22.391+01:002018-08-02T20:02:22.391+01:00What Ken said. Jury trials are the most democrati...What Ken said. Jury trials are the most democratic aspect of the existing system, and I mean "democratic" in the revolutionary sense. They're the last thing I feel we have to change and, tellingly, one of the first things this fascist felt he had to challenge.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446971119516931999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-7628021267302555712018-08-02T15:37:01.825+01:002018-08-02T15:37:01.825+01:00Not with you there Southpawpunch about the “craven...Not with you there Southpawpunch about the “craven....adoption of the ruling class ideology..” There is a long history of getting juries to be independent of outside pressures, usually from the “ruling class”. In one celebrated instance, the judge had the jury locked up until it changes it’s verdict of not guilty. In the case of Clive Ponting, a civil servant who leaked documents the government would rather have kept from the public, the press and government wanted him jailed. All this pressure was shut off during the trial. Only the evidence presented was judged by the jury. The result? Not guilty.<br />It’s a valuable check on the misuse of power by the powerful, or, the rabble-rousers who know better than the jury.Kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-10261161089578055722018-08-02T00:15:54.884+01:002018-08-02T00:15:54.884+01:00What about Malcolm X? I believe he had an interes...What about Malcolm X? I believe he had an interesting journey from petty criminal through extremist anti-white racist to quite nuanced thinker before he was murdered. Maybe there is hope for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon yet?Konradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-81936449128090987582018-08-01T23:36:03.349+01:002018-08-01T23:36:03.349+01:00This is where Lefts are indistinguishable from lib...This is where Lefts are indistinguishable from liberals - and to the right of the state (which has now released Robinson) on this particular issue.<br /><br />When I heard the claim that Robinson had been locked up just a few hours after he was nicked I thought that was bad unlike the rest of the Left (even the Revolutionary Left) who welcomed his imprisonment.<br /><br />Any Left with sense sees that the arbitrary application of state power against someone for their political views - as his release would appear to confirm - is alarming. If they can do such to near fascists like him (and I hope the vile bigot drops dead tomorrow), they can do it to Lefts and, liberal that I am maybe, I would not support the persecution of anyone for their politics by a capitalist state.<br /><br />This article is riven with assumptions that are so ingrained in the UK Left that I think some think these are 'natural'. 'What he did was illegal' - maybe, but that is no test for us. Lots of things that break the law are fine with us, others not.<br /><br />'Ah, but he was messing with a trial. That's bad.' My understanding of the law in most/all of the US is that you can say things about people on trial well beyond the strict restrictions on such that there are in the UK. <br /><br />I obviously don't think the USA is a workers paradise but the UK does seem a long way behind them on freedom - e.g. the right to silence still exists there, continuing no double jeopardy rule, right to bear arms. <br /><br />So if I was to guess, I would imagine the US rule on trials and contempt is better than our own. I can see that is debateable on this issue but it is the assumption here - he broke one of our lawsm so must be wrong - is just so craven in it adoption of the ideology of the ruling class. Think critically. Southpawpunchhttps://twitter.com/Southpawpunchnoreply@blogger.com