Demonising Faith ...

Following on from my rant of yesterday, I note the epithet "Christian Extremist" is used with gay abandon by the left wing media now in connection with Brevik, the Norwegian gunman and bomber. There is no excuse for doing so, the man was not a member of any Christian Church or sect, nor of any Christian organisation. He has spoken publicly denouncing the tenets of the Protestant Churches the media suggest he followed. His actions in bombing, shooting and killing were not Christian - in fact the antithesis of the teachings of every Christian Church.

So what is happening here?

Put simply, his murderous rampage is being used to create the impression in the public mind that all Christian teaching is likely to lead to murder, or to some act of intolerance. The determination to drive all religion from the public mind is being carefully orchestrated by a viscious and unscrupulous coalition of Secularists, Atheists and Humanists. Under the guise of "liberalising" society and creating "tolerance" they do not hesitate to stir up hatred against people of faith, especially those of the established church, in order to persuade the silent majority that they alone are 'tolerant.' Yet that 'tolerance' has a very strange face.

Yes, there are, for Christians, Muslims and other faiths, some very tricky moral questions regarding their attitudes to homosexuality, abortion and some of the other "liberal" doctrines. But painting us all as "evil deniers of choice" or "indoctrinators and perverters of children" at every opportunity hides the fact that they have, to date, failed to convince us that their "alternative religion" of prejudice and amorality is superior. Our children are now fed a mishmash of falsehoods in the Whitehall devised and promoted "Religious Education" which tells children - certainly two of mine were told - that the Bible has no basis in fact, the Old Testament has no historical foundation is is the creation of Zionists, the New Testament is a mix of fantasy and philosophy with no foundation in fact.

The media is controlled by the left and there is a constant bombardment of anti-Christian trivia. That pillar of socialist secularism, the Guardian never loses an opportunity to decry any objection from any Christian leader as "extremist" or "out of touch" and as for the BBC ...

What is worse, there is little point in complaining about any of this to the Press Complaints Commission - guess who controls that?

The truth is that unless the socialist left secularisers can drive Christianty out of Britain, they know there is little hope of succeeding in imposing their desired atheist secularism. Nature abhors a vacuum and secularist atheism is a vacuum.

Pro-Life, or Pro-Death?

The current 'scandal' in the Guardian, that rag of monumental misinformation subsidised by the UK taxpayers and the BBC Licence Fee, is the supposed "expose'" by a "charity" called "Education for Choice" which - presumably with completely innocent and open minded intentions - sent a "mystery shopper" to the offices of another charity which opposes abortion. Surprise, surprise, in a series of very loaded questions, the "mystery shopper" managed to "expose" the charity's part-time counselor as "failing to offer advice which was pro-abortion." The Blog Archbishop Cranmer has a great deal more detail on the issue, including the blatant bias and anti-ethics and immorality of the complainants.

According to "Education for Choice" an unborn child has no life and no right to life. Their counselors never mention any alternative - such as adoption - to any woman seeking advice. According to them, there is only one option and it isn't life for the unborn child.

I have a very simple solution to this "scandal" as the Guardian and the editor of The Humanist portray it - I would like the government to make it compulsory for all pro-abortion counselors to attend and watch abortions on the ultra-sound scans while they are performed BEFORE they are allowed to be licenced to counsel for it. The second change I want to see is one which switches the funding away from abortion. At present these "clinics" are paid per abortion and receive nothing if there isn't one. I suggest that only abortions which are necessary to save the life of the mother, or the child is likely to be still-born or seriously 'non-viable' should be paid for. All others should be counselled for adoption or pay their own way.

In Britain's current climate of Atheist/Humanist prejudice replacing religious morality, immoral action is now accepted as "moral" and those who dare to say otherwise find themselves pilloried and lampooned - or, as in the case of the charity LIFE - with the likes of The Humanist and the Guardian demanding their charitable status and licence to offer counselling withdrawn.

Perhaps it is time for someof us on the other side of the fence to pay them in their own coin - by running similar entrapment visits, collecting evidence of their malpractice - and then demanding their being struck off.

It really is time to stand up to these immoral, prejudiced and frankly poisonous individuals.

A monument to failure ...

This year sees the 50 anniversary of possibly the most infamous monument to the failure of an ideology - the building, overnight, of the "Berlin Wall." It's architects, the Socialist Government of the then "German Democratic Republic," proclaimed it was necessary to "protect the people of the Socialist Republic from the "Fascists" in West Berlin and the truly democratic Western German state. It stood for 30 years before being rendered redundant by the collapse of the system that built it and the complete exposure of "socialism" and "communism" as the oppressive and fraudulent systems they were and are.

These "workers paradises," as one Anthony Wedgewood Benn MP was fond of calling them, needed armies of secret police, networks of informers and armed border guards to prevent anyone leaving them. The real reason for the Berlin Wall and the subsequent fencing in of the entire East German Border, was the fact that the trickle of emigrants from the Socialist Republic to the West was rapidly becoming a flood. The East was suffering a brain and a skills drain that spoke volumes about the kind of "paradise" the general populace were forced to live in. The socialists believed that everyone must be allocated everything by the state, so the choice of school for a child rested with the state. So did the choice of work, higher education and living space. Of course, it was 'democratic' in the sense that everyone could vote - but with only one party to vote for, choice was again decided by the State. If this is 'paradise' then I know what my choice will be.

The Berlin Wall came down almost as rapidly as it went up. In the 30 years it stood as a monument to the fear of exposure of the Socialist leadership, eighty people were summarily shot attempting to escape the "paradise" it protected. Thousands more spent time in prison for daring to question the "system." 22 years ago, the Soviet Union went bust. With it went all the satellite states they had imposed their "socialist paradise" upon. Once the walls and the barbed wire were dragged aside the real truth emerged. Prisons for dissent, the Stasi records, the antiquated factories, the incompetence of the bureaucrats, the failing infrastructures - and the lifestyles of the "Party" functionaries.

It is completely beyond my ability to understand anything why it is then, that the UK and a large part of the political establishment of the US want to adopt this failed political system and all that goes with it... Perhaps they should be forced to study the realities of the Socialist System at first hand - but only as members of the "proletariat" and definitely not as its "Leaders."

Justice/Injustice

A report on the Yahoo News Feed caught my eye. It tells of a policeman attempting to stop a stolen car being hit when the 29 year old banned driver hit his police car and then attempted to run away. The injured policeman got up, chased the thief and Tasered him before collapsing from his own injuries. Follow the link to see this on the Police cameras.

The disgraceful thing is that when this worthless piece of filth appeared in court, the Prosecution had obviously 'plea bargained' to reduce the charge from attempted murder to a lesser charge of "driving dangerously." The Judge handed down a sentence of 23 months ... Is it any wonder crime is paying so well in the UK?

As the comments on the original post showed, many feel as I do about the manner in which criminals are now routinely treated as "victims" and let off lightly. I fully expect to read, at some point, that the Policeman has been disciplined for daring to use his Taser gun.

Socialism's Achilles Heel?

The situation in Britain after a little over a decade of socialist "Tax and Spend" economics coupled with the landslide of nannying legislation, much of it conflicting or duplication of older and better drafted, thought out and crafted law, the British economy is in the same state as many "developing nations." The one difference is that it now has a government that has at least made a start at slashing the vast amounts of money Whitehall squanders annually.

Across the pond, political brinkmanship seems to have brought a small breathing space for the socialist inclined Democrat regime. They have a budget settlement it appears for this year which doesn't seem to cut any of the Washington "Tax Spend" - instead it does a "Gordon" and raises the Overdraft limit. The interest payable on this "overdraft" must be horrendous - certainly the one Britain inherited from Liebor's Blair/Brown regime has interest repayments that would allow the Royal Navy to pay for both its Aircraft Carriers in two years and fit them out with a full complement of aircraft and manpower.

Everywhere "socialists" manage to get their hands on government it is the same. Taxes rise exponentially, vast numbers of parasitic bureaucrats are recruited and "administration" exponentially expands, spending increases in line with this expansion and the propaganda machinery cranks out the same message. Any non-socialist voice must be instantly stifled as "fascist" and reasonable debate goes out of the window as labels are applied and repeatedly used until any dissent is quashed or driven underground. We can see this happening in a number of "socialist" organs - the Guardian is typical - with an editorial attempting to blame the Oslo tragedy on "conservatism and right wing thinking." I've even seen some trying to link the actions of this pathological murderer to "climate deniers."

This is, I believe the greatest weakness of the socialist ideology. It is founded on some pretty good ideals of a fair share and a fair reward for everyone, but it does not actually work in practice. It falls apart very quickly under the pressure of simple economics. As one economics lecturer told me many years ago, increase in demand has to be met by an increase in supply. Any imbalance quickly sees prices either rise or fall. So too with wages, as they rise the cost of whatever is produced must rise to cover them - or the workforce must shrink. But you cannot shrink the workforce without reducing production, unless you find another means of producing the goods or services using fewer workers. Then the social services kicks in and now you are paying workers not to work ...

But government's have no money of their own to pay this, so they have no option but to take it from those who are working. There lies the weakness of the socialist ideology. The true socialist genuinely believes that all goods, services and wealth belong to the "state" and it is the "state" therefore that has the sole right to apportion rewards to the workers. There is the conundrum. In order to get money to spend, the "state" must first take it from the working people and they do this in the form of tax. Gordon Brown proved that he had no understanding (and nor, apparently did anyone in the Treasury!) of economics when he began to desperately look for ways to get the money for all the handouts he had promised. He didn't dare to raise Income Tax, so he did some very shady dealing in hidden taxes, one of the most infamous ruined the private Pensions system - a fact he still denies. In taking GBP8 Billion out of the funds in a "tax raid" and then imposing a tax which raises some GBP6 Billion a year subsequently, he left the majority of these funds unable to meet their commitments and several went bankrupt.

A popular - to the "Green" lobby - tax is always a hit on the price of petrol and diesel. But the Treasury fails to take into account - as did Brown and his fellow socialists - that the price of fuel impacts on food prices. As these rise, wage demands increase, as wages rise, so do the cost of other goods. Mass immigration encouraged by the socialist tendency has produced another cost spiral - housing. It has a secondary impact as well - benefit claims have gone up exponentially under the Liebor government and so has fraud. As the strain on the Treasury increases, so do the taxes and when they can't raise the money through tax - they borrow it ...

As anyone who has ever taken out a longterm loan knows, it isn't the capital that is the problem, it is the interest. By the time a large loan is repaid, the interest has usually almost doubled the original amount borrowed. If, as all socialist regimes do, you "roll the loan over" year on year and keep borrowing more to cover the interest payments and your spending plans, you eventually reach the situation of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and now, it seems, the US.

The complete failure of the socialist intelligentsia to understand the operation of a simple economic market model is the Achilles Heel of the entire ideology. Unfortunately, it seems that this lesson is beyond the understanding of the majority of voters who are beguiled by the image of a "paradise" State that provides for their every need. What the voter's forget is that they end up paying for the extravagance of the politicians and the incompetence of the civil servants. That is, perhaps, our Achilles Heel.

Short days ...

Seem to be the order of my life at present. Far too much to do or which I want to do and not nearly enough time to do any of it!

Ce la vie, I shall have to make a good post for the blog tomorrow. There are a number of important things to be looked at at the moment and I shall probably comment on some of them. But the grass keeps growing, the house needs cleaning, the cat needs attention, books have to be written, edited and nursed round the publishers ...

You get the picture.

Catching up

Today was spent on a medical check this morning and trying to catch up on a number of things at home.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better organised!