Looks like London is a no-go area for something like 6 weeks. For an event billed as something that will bring money, business and investment to the capital, I wonder how that will work out for those who are not gigantic global corporations. Economically, socially and in other areas (like the roads and areas of London which have been closed down), I'm beginning to wonder if the fallout from these Olympics could be quite considerable indeed.
1 April 2009: Ian Tomlinson is caught up in a G20 protest. He collapses in the street and dies.
4 April: Police say post-mortem examination show he died of "natural causes".
7 April: Video footage emerges of Mr Tomlinson being pushed to the ground by police officer
April 2009: Further post-mortem tests find cause of death was abdominal bleeding, caused by blow
22 July: Prosecutors say there will be no charges as there is no agreement on death cause
3 May 2011: Inquest verdict of unlawful killing
20 June 2011: PC Simon Harwood charged with manslaughter after review of inquest evidence
18 June 2012: PC Harwood goes on trial at Southwark Crown Court
19 July 2012: PC Harwood found not guilty
Timeline: Ian Tomlinson's death'.
Message to British public: The police can kill you and be let off. So don't try anything on. We're not here to protect you. We're here to protect the powerful and the powerful will protect us.
Fr Paul Kramer is worth listening to, no matter what people say about him and the messengers of Our Lady of Fatima. I think he is right that we are not far from WW3 and it looks like either China agree with him near totally or the State TV station enacts its various fantasies about global destruction out in their sports commercials. Chill out, China! It was only a football tournament and you weren't even taking part!
Some people find Fr Paul a bit scary but I'd take him over the guy below...Love the bit where the psycho Mason says, 'Well, that was quite an overview!' Yes, it was, thanks for that! If the video below is a fake, then its an impressive fake. He's got those really frightening eyes down to a tee.
Recently the IOC released this animation to promote the Olympics. Anyone would think the IOC have obtained the Third Secret of Fatima. I find it disturbing for its symbolism on many levels. The animation opens withe the masonic 'one eye' symbolism gracing the dollar bill, various corporations and institutions and now the Olympics imagery and its irritating one-eyed mascots. Firstly, whatever you think of Parliament, Big Ben is for us a symbol of national sovereignty and heritage, the rule of law and democracy. The five rings of the Olympics, representing the continents of the World are here represented as giants of the Earth - an elite described at the end of the promotion as 'The Best of Us'. Who are the 'Best of Us'? The Olympic athletes themselves or the corrupt officials organising this corrupt, supranational, pagan tour de farce?
The foot of the Olympic giant, presumably representing Europe dressed in blue, smashes into Big Ben and destroys a known monument to national sovereignty. A London bus is present at the point at which the blue foot destroys Big Ben, reminding the viewer of the 7/7 bombings. The revolving 'light' tower is in the background as the gap betwen London, Italy (represented by the Colosseum) and Greece (represented by the Acropolis) gets closer. A bright green vehicle that looks like it is made of uranium emerges from what looks like a London Underground tunnel on its way to God alone knows where. Hopefully not a stadium. All of the continents are pulled in - roped in, indeed - to form one cemented world. There is no 'choice' here. Nor is this is celebration of different cultures or individual sporting achievement. There don't appear to be too many people in that World. The Olympic giant of America is in garb redolent of both an ice-skater and a heavy SWAT commander and when he is 'on the pull' above his body are choppers surveying the citizens below as if to represent some kind of dark era of martial law. The woman in one continent appears to be almost thrusting the rope inside her while the other woman evades a private jet that flies past her, again with a look of sexual ecstacy on her face.
The foot of another giant stops a car dead in its tracks, symbolising in some way the end of individual liberty in that continent or everywhere. At 0:44 mins, on the coastline of another continent appears to be the Twin Towers covered in red, perhaps to symbolise a blood sacrifice that was made there or a sacrifice that will be made again. The woman in red appears to be rescuing a small group of survivors in what looks to be a massive flood. The green Olympic giant, complete with aryan blond hair and blue eyes pulls the whole thing together. The animation ends with joy and fireworks presumably not because the Olympics has been a success in London, which is the scene of carnage and destruction, but because the World has been brought into complete 'unity' by the violent force of an elite group who consider themselves totally above the rest of the World. The few 'little people' represented in the animation treat these giant figures like gods who have rescued them from a World of total chaos, violence and danger. The only figures left are the Olympic giants following what appears to be a white light engulfing the scene akin to that that marks the brightness of a huge nuclear explosion. The fire thrown out in unity by the Olympic giants starts out as a three-fold firey swirl that looks rather like '666' and continues to swirl until the Olympic rings form leaving the World with 'The Best of Us'.
Impressive animation but, if I may say so, it appears to have been made in incredibly poor taste. It does, however, sum up the 'spirit of the Olympics'. Concerning also is a statement made by the co-founder of the International Society of Olympic Historians when asked by Associated Press why no public statement had yet been made as to the place of the cauldron in the Olympic stadium. His reply? "There will be a cauldron," Mallon said. "I'll betcha the cauldron will rise out of the stadium somewhere."
And as if all that is not bizarre and disturbing enough, get a load of this creepy BBC promotion for the Olympics complete with scenes of destruction, atomic explosion, riots, police enforcement, fire, mayhem and all to the tune of a chorus of children singing the London's Burning rhyme. Er...poor taste? Somewhat. Perhaps the powers that be are trying to create more conspiracy theorists at the same time as depopulating and enslaving the World. What with the police state gathering numbers and force in London, I'm sure Dr William Oddie is not alone in considering these Olympics to already amount to a national disaster.
I don't know about you, but I read Dr William Oddie's piece today on the website of The Catholic Heraldwith a sense of foreboding.
I really hope and I really pray that our Government are truly concerned about the protection of the nation in the 2012 Olympics, but I am beginning to have my doubts.
With so much live ammunition, missiles, regiments and thousands of security forces in and around London you could be forgiven, as Dr Oddie says, for thinking that Islamic terrorists have won because national security is being ratcheted up so much that anything resembling 'normal life' is, in London, at least, being suspended. People who work in certain jobs, like civil servants in Whitehall are being told to work from home. This has alarm bells ringing in my ears because it reminds me of how various people were called and told not to go to work on the day Twin Towers fell and some were told not to fly.
The hope is that these games pass without incident and that the fears aroused in some quarters of the internet are unfounded. I certainly hope and pray that is the case. Without wishing to sound like a character from Star Wars, however, I personally have a 'bad feeling' about these games. When I was in London I experienced a sense that these Olympic games will not pass well, that there is something afoot and that through it Britain is about to lose its liberty. Feelings are feelings, they are not to be trusted but then I read around and I am now preparing myself for whatever may come.
'Devastating shocks like September 11, the
Southeast Asian tsunami of 2004, and the
2010 Haiti earthquake had certainly primed
the world for sudden disasters. But no one
was prepared for a world in which large-scale
catastrophes would occur with such breathtaking
frequency. The years 2010 to 2020 were dubbed
the “doom decade” for good reason:the 2012
Olympic bombing, which killed 13,000, was
followed closely by an earthquake in Indonesia
killing 40,000, a tsunami that almost wiped
out Nicaragua, and the onset of the West China
Famine, caused by a once-in-a-millennium
drought linked to climate change.'
Now, of course this Rockerfeller report mapping out potential futures and 'scenarios' for the World and how Governments might want to prepare for them could be innocent enough. After all, we all worry about the future and investors, and let's face it the Rockerfellers are investors, have stakes in it, some more than others. According to the Rockefeller Report, it could look something like this:
Looks fun doesn't it? Especially 'lock step'. My concerns are heightened by an interview with an investigative journalist called Lee Hazledean who went undercover at G4S and reported what he saw.
Here's the blurb from his interview which you can download here.
'The 2012 London olympics start in 4 weeks
time. Exclusive interview with investigative journalist Lee Hazledean
who is training undercover as a security guard for the London olympics
with private security firm G4S.'
Lee is a filmmaker and investigative TV
journalist. He has also been involved in major stories on the IRA and
how British Army infiltrated the organisation and carried out false flag
operations. He has managed to get undercover as part of the security
team at the 2012 Olympics with G4S.
He has found there is a media black
out on all major news outlets to do with the Olympics unless the story
is broken in a news paper or foreign news agency it’s unlikely to see
the light of day. Security training and officers are so appaling that
the safety and security of the London 2012 Olympics are in jeopardy.
A
few example’s: The security training is woefully inadequate run by a
training company called Contemporary International. Lee has been
assigned to work in a PSA (Pedestrian Screening Area) the main security
for the stadiums. During an exercise he was asked to pose as a would-be
terrorist and managed to get knives, guns and IED’s through security
screening on every occasion and every exercise.
The X-Ray operators have
only two days of training, they aren’t trained properly and miss the
most obvious prohibited items gun’s, knives, IED’s, ammunition etc. Bag
and physical searchers again are missing dangerous weapons, trainees
can’t use vital security equipment like the HHMD (Hand Held Metal
detectors) they can’t even communicate properly with the public on a
basic level.
Worryingly the ‘Rapiscan’ walk through metal detectors
don’t work properly and aren’t sensitive enough to pick up large knives,
ammunition and other metallic threats. He was told that they would be
set to go off only after 50 people have walked through to limit queuing
time and to get spectators into the venue.
So a Terrorist if they
basically queued up would probably get through wearing a suicide vest.
G4S are dragging the job centres to recruit the long term unemployed for
security officers regardless of how suitable they are for the role. In
classes there are drug deals going down, people can’t speak any English
whatsoever and others who find people with disabilities offensive and
are constantly making disabled jokes.
People with no security experience
are being rushed through training for their SIA licenses. People who
haven’t even completed their SIA licenses yet are being picked to be
Team Leaders over highly trained security officers, ex soldiers and ex
police. Being a team leader is an important role as the first and last
line of defence. Lee is concerned that weapons or worse will be getting
into the games.
However, what’s more disturbing is that uniforms are
already going missing or being stolen from the uniform distribution
centre/training facility. The training facility is an accurate mock-up
of the actual security measures at the Olympic venues.
Lee has witnessed
several people taking photos on their mobile phones in the training
facility and whilst they have been a few people caught by trainers most
aren’t noticed.Even when they are caught they are just told to delete
the photos and they continue on the training. We know that terrorists
take surveillance photos to gain intelligence.
Contemporary
International claim that they have mobile phone ‘jammers’ in the
facility, however trainers admitted to Lee that there were no ‘jammers’
at all, it was a verbal deterrent. The training facility is a non
sporting Olympic venue and a terrorist target. Therefore G4S can’t even
secure a school let alone the Olympic Venues.
Also there are plans for the evacuation of London, G4S are going to be
at the forefront, as well as 100,000 troops coming in via Woolwich
barracks made up of regular British Forces, American regular army and
European troops.
Lee was not told why there would be any need for an
evacuation of the whole of London, they just said it was to be a
“defining moment in the history of London”. This could just be a
precaution but the public should be made aware of the foreign invasion
which is taking place right now.
The troops are being held across London
in various barracks once they’ve been through Woolwich. Lee also had
this information confirmed by an army doctor who was shocked at all the
foreign troops coming into London.
There is also a shipment of what are
being described as casket linings, each casket can hold four or five
people and 200,000 casket linings have been delivered we believe from
America. This could all be precautionary in the event of a major
terrorist attack.
Also we were shown videos of drones attacking targets
in Afghanistan and were told that drones will be patrolling the sky’s
over London during the Olympics carrying out surveillance and search and
destroy missions if necessary. Lee believes there is something
fundamentally wrong with how the security for the Olympics is being
implemented by G4S. With exactly 4 weeks to go until the games Lee feels
he needs to expose the inadequate security in place in the hope that it
can be improved so that the London 2012 Olympics can be a safe
environment for spectators and Athletes alike, and not a cause for
national and international embarrassment for Great Britain.'
Well, if security is a 'shambles' then I guess its best to prepare for the worst, but the strange thing is that security doesn't look a shambles at all. It looks like the Army have London covered for every possibility. It looks distinctly like a war zone from certain pictures. Have we brought the 'war on terror' to the United Kingdom? Why is it that the London 7/7 bombings took place the very next day after the news that London had won the Olympics? What is this bizarre sacrificial exploding London bus dance at the close of the last Olympics in Beijing? Why have this years little Olympic mascots each only one eye? What's with the weird occultist symbolism that surrounds the Olympics and their weird, masonic, pyramid lit stadiums? Why is it that the rituals and symbols of the pre-Olympics dancing priestesses just makes you think of The Wickerman?
Well, I'm no prophet, I am merely an investigative Catholic blogger who has most likely met his match and may soon meet his Maker. So allow me to tell you what I have learned.
Who, or What is G4S?
You thought, like I, that G4S were just an ordinary security company. I've seen their cash security van at Brighton station. If you had told me this company were securing oil pipelines in Iraq and working in Yemen I would tell you you were mad. In fact I see their security van every day, same time in town. I figure they just collect money from train station machines.
I mean, security companies do security and we've all been to events where there has been an element of security. Perhaps you thought G4S were just a big company that provide security solutions in the UK for banks, shops and convicts. They're known now for not knowing what they are doing, bungling prisoner moves and the like and today for being hapless in providing enough decent staff to cater for the security needs of the Olympics. Olympics news reports, however, a bit odd. News that the Olympic officials have a quick get away lane out of the Olympic village and that taxi drivers are being urged not to work for six weeks is unsettling. It's like something out of North Korea. Is that where the rest of us not in the 'Olympic lane' are headed?
Allow me, however, to make an assertion. The staff at London 2012 may indeed be cowboys, but G4S most assuredly are not and if they are cowboys it is because this gigantic company/organisation/force has deliberately ensured that to be the case. They are huge. Massive. G4S are a leviathan of a company which, were its full power to be used, could crush a whole nation into submission under martial law with all the technology at their disposal to enact the dystopic visions of Orwell and Huxley. They are nothing short of a global police force. They're reputation is being destroyed in the Press now because it is important for this agenda that they are viewed as hapless chancers and we can all thank God that the British Army are here for us to protect us. The staff may be, but G4S are not amateurs. Allow me to introduce you to their services and their prestigious roles around the globe.
Brothers and sisters. This is no ordinary security firm. I know the Olympics is a big international event, but this company are huge in expanse, in responsibility, in regions of the World where you just would not expect them to be. Who on Earth is this company? What kind of a security company have such a massive remit as this one? For this G4S Global also manage security technology for Government,Education, Emergency Services, Prisons, Manufacturing, Transport, Telecommunications, IT, Leisure and Hospitality, Retail, Telecommunications, Transport, Utilities, Oil and Petroleum. They provide: Unified Security Intelligence, Symmetry Access Control, Symmetry Video Management, Symmetry Software Modules, GCS Guard Patrol, Cashless Payments, Consumable Products, Secure Payment Processing.
They secure GCHQ. They have the keys, I guess, to Parliament itself. The range of their technology is immense. G4S have been 'securing' the activities of Halliburton since 1998 and manage security at the Hoover Dam.
Its Maritime Security Solutions spans the globe. Look. Below is a map of where they have operations. Gosh, well would you look at that. These guys work in Pakistan and the Yemen and Saudi Arabia too!
It was nice knowing you readers. According to their site, 'All G4S security teams have the latest in defensive and communication equipment to best protect our clients’ people and assets. G4S sources only the very highest level of safety and defensive
equipment such as body armour and helmets along with other necessary
equipment for all G4S Maritime Security Officers to carry out their
duties to the best of their abilities. All of the G4S weapons and ammunition are bought in Europe and cleared by the UN. From here they are transported to the various navy
armouries where G4S are licensed to move armaments. They are kept under
lock and key by the authorities before being transported to the waiting
vessels.' They are responsible for maintaining the safety of the seas from Somali pirates.'
According to their webpage, 'All G4S security teams have the latest in defensive and communication equipment to best protect our clients’ people and assets. G4S have a dedicated Maritime Incident Management Centre open 24hrs X 7 days a week. From this centre G4S manage all the communication operations and
report directly to the Shipping company and military authorities: UKMTOMSCHOA, NATO SHIPPING CENTER, MARLO BARHAIN, IMB. G4S Team Leader is equipped with global communications equipment, he can
contact G4S Maritime Incident Management Centre 24hrs X 7 days a week.'
Are you still with me? Allow me to continue. G4S boast, too, of being, wait for it, the experts for valuable cargo with G4S International Logistic. Oh boy, and do these guys do business with the big guys. Real big guys! Listen to this...
'At G4S International Logistics, our decades of experience developing
industry standards for high security shipping best practices enables us
to create secure logistics solutions for just about any high risk
transport. We are keenly aware of the economic and reputational risk
associated with the transport of currency components, finished banknotes
and sensitive bank documents. Our proven secure shipping solutions
mitigate that risk across every leg of the transport journey, ensuring
safe delivery.'
Their secured shipping solutions includes: secure collection, tactical solutions including routing, escorting, anonymity and timing, customs clearance, secure delivery, insurance and assumption of liability.
That bit, by the way, is promoting their work for Central Banks of the World. They handle the sensitive supply chain for pharmaceuticals, Government, mining, precious metals and it looks like they might just be giving a helping hand to the blood diamond trade. Their global secure international transport service includes a global all-risk policy up to $200M per shipment. Now that's what I call insurance! Why not check out their webpage and find an office. According to the site, its Headquarters are in London. In Princess House, Thames Tower, 1 Suffolk Lane, London EC4R 0AX. G4S share office quarters with Lloyds Bank.
When you type that address into Google you get a site called the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) listing its members and parent company members. G4S are listed with all of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's best banking friends, such as JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. I don't know, maybe they were the company who shipped all the gold out of the country when Brown sold it all, or something, or maybe they're just plain old 'market members'.
It sounds to me like this company, all round, don't mind getting their hands a bit dirty. Perhaps they're just the kind of guys we want closing down London. But what they are not is cowboys. And here is what worries me.
We are being prepped for a major event that seemingly has little to do with sport and everything to do with the imposition of some kind of totalitarianism in the United Kingdom. The militarisation of London is scaring the pants off Londoners and quite rightly so. The armies now based in London are not just from Britain, but from other countries too.
I'll cut to the chase because I think I've taken this as far as it can go. Hopefully, it will go right into the heart of the British Establishment. G4S as well as being responsible for the provision and manufacture of the most state of the art equipment with which to create an all-seeing Government also have a branch called G4S Government Solutions. They happen to be responsible for nuclear security in the USA, so if, let's say, any nuclear material went missing in the US and ends up in London at the Olympic Games then you may as well not just blame G4S for being slack at searching Muslims, but you may as well blame them also for the nuclear material actually going missing in the first place, since they guard that too. That's the point. They guard everything, most likely, including gold.
G4S GS has been entrusted to protect some of our nation’s most critical facilities and strategic resources. Utilizing a cadre of highly trained and equipped para-military security personnel, G4S GS ensures the security of the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA) Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, East Tennessee Technology Park, Savannah River Site, Nevada Test Site, Sandia National laboratory Tonopah Test Range, and the Hanford Site.
These facilities, which comprise the bulk of our nation’s nuclear weapons program infrastructure and material storage facilities for plutonium, uranium and tritium, as well as leading-edge scientific research facilities, are critical to our national security and require the highest level of security.
In addition, G4S GS also provides security for several key National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) facilities and programs, including the Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, White Sands Test Facility, Ames Research Center, and Dryden Flight Research Center. A critical element of this G4S GS mission includes protection and support to the Space Shuttle Program, at the Kennedy Space Center, when the shuttle is enroute from Dreyden Flight Research Center to Kennedy Space Center, and wherever the shuttle is located or expected to be located.
The vast majority of the personnel employed by G4S GS to perform these high-level security missions have extensive military and/or police experience, many with recent combat experience in Iraq or Afghanistan. They are trained by G4S GS at some of the best, state-of-the-art training facilities in the country.
These facilities contain live-fire shoot-houses, reconfigurable tactical training facilities designed to replicate any target facility on a site, indoor and outdoor live-fire ranges, high-tech weapons simulators, tactical training ranges that allow both mounted and dismounted firing, and pursuit driving courses.
Armed with the same weapons and outfitted with the same equipment as the US military, organized into small units for tactical deployment, and fully trained to detect, deter and/or defeat a determined and well-equipped adversary force intent on compromising our national security, our protective forces assure our clients that their sensitive facilities and material are secure. M-4 carbines, light and medium machineguns, automatic grenade launchers, Dillon-Aero Gatling guns capable of firing 3,000 rounds per minute, fragmentation grenades, night vision devices, armored vehicles, and airborne and waterborne firing platforms for engagement or insertion of forces, are but some of the weapons and equipment used by our security personnel at various sites.
G4S GS protective forces at these sites perform the full gamut of security services, to include: manning fixed posts and mobile patrols; checking badges and searching personnel and vehicles; alarm monitoring, dispatch and response; canine explosive and human detection; airborne and waterborne surveillance; response force tactical operations; vulnerability assessments; and performance testing.
In addition to the approximately 1,500 para-military Security Police Officers at these DOE/NNSA/NASA facilities, G4S GS also has over 350 Special Response Team/Special Weapons and Tactics (SRT/SWAT)-trained personnel dispersed at these sites, who are capable of performing offensive/defensive operations, recapture/recovery operations, building clearing, deliberate assault and rescue, and long range precision rifle engagement operations.
Throughout their employment with G4S GS, our security personnel are required to re-qualify with assigned weapons at least semi-annually, as well as to attend frequently scheduled refresher training on all facets of their duties to ensure they maintain the training, battle focus and readiness needed to provide the dedicated and professional security demanded by the very nature of the sensitive facilities and material we protect.
All G4S GS security personnel assigned duties at these critical facilities maintain “Top-Secret” level security clearances and meet the requirements of their agencies’ enhanced human reliability programs, which require annual and random drug and alcohol testing, psychological testing, and, in some cases, polygraph testing.
G4S GS is committed to providing the best trained, equipped and dedicated security force available to protect our client’s and our nation’s strategic facilities and resources. A testament to the outstanding performance of our protective forces at these facilities is our longevity (45 years at Nevada, 26 years at Savannah River, 10 years at Oak Ridge) and the outstanding Performance Evaluation scores received, which average in the mid-high 90’s at each of our sites.
G4S GS is proud of our service to our country and we remain steadfast in our goal of providing best in class security services for our clients.
All in all, it looks like the G4S Gurkhas responsible for apparently training our Army are going to have to be on red alert over the London Olympic Games. All I'm saying is: Pray the Rosary, if you live in London or indeed Brighton, keep calm and pray the Rosary. I, for one, am a little perplexed why in 2010 a man wrote an article for the Daily Mail suggesting that, you know, terrorists could drive a boat up the Thames with a nuclear bomb and blow up London. Good to know G4S will keep us safe, because they are registered with the UN as a licensed provider of Armed Maritime Security Services. Even more disturbingly the BBC did some psychological preparation on us for some Olympic terrorist event in an episode of Spooks called 'Spooks: Code 9'. For those who don't know, spooks are MI5 agents.
Maybe, were something evil afoot, they don't need G4S to bring the nuclear material to London anyway. After all, one Times report suggested that one of the stadiums was built on the site of an experimental nuclear reactor in the heart of London. As well as securing our borders at ports and airports, G4S also provide security to government, leisure and tourism, major corporates and industrials, oil and gas, private energy and utilities, retail, transport and logistics.
Their services include, and these will come in handy in the coming complete takeover of British society by the State: care and justice services, cash management solutions, event security solutions, facilities management, global events, investigative services, manned security services, ordnance management, risk management and consultancy, secure data solutions, security systems and technology, training, transport services, utility services. That should be the United Kingdom pretty much covered. And that is G4S, well and truly covered. Makes you wonder about who is letting through all those illegal drugs doesn't it, eh? What are they? To me they look like an international police and security force led by the UN. They seem, after all, to have signed up to the UN's Global Compact agreement.
As you can see, these guys are professionals. They are not, I repeat, not amateurs. If security is lax then we have every reason to be concerned because it means security has been made lax deliberately. I have a terrible suspicion that something terrible and terribly evil is afoot. The mass media are making this company look like clowns. They are not! G4S are experts in security. Their technology, wealth and might makes it such a formidable machine that it may as well be a confederation of the CIA, Mossad and MI5. I mean, what on earth is a 'Guided Vehicle System' and why is it made by this firm if they're so cack-handedly useless for Heaven's sake? We are being cruelly deceived. I would not like to be in London over the next seven weeks. Keep calm, go to Confession, receive Our Blessed Lord and pray the Rosary because, remember, whatever happens over the course of the next six weeks, the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph.
And there were we thinking that, under the Liverpool Care Pathway, we were already starving and dehydrating dementia patients without their or their families consent.
Refreshingly honest for an ethicist. Why can't politicians just come right out and say it as well?
Elderly people, terminally ill and those suffering with dementia are expensive to treat and nourish, so let's kill them by starving and dehydrating them to death.
You don't have to believe in the message of Fatima or be wary of Agenda 21 to see that the opinions publicised in the BMJ are becoming entirely predictable.
Through our speech, our word, our deeds, let us allow the power and grace of Christ to liberate us from every sin. Let us also with God's aid liberate mankind through the proclamation of truth, liberating it from all falsehood and illusions which beset us on every side, so that seeing the wickedness that emasculates politics, finance, culture and society and the snares laid in our path by the enemy of God, of humanity and of Christ's Church, Satan, that they may turn from the evil one who has deceived them, to the God who is all merciful, all loving and Who brings good even from the gravest of evils. Let us go to our local lodges and post Miraculous Medals through their doors, which open upon all who walk therein a world of magic, of illusion, but ultimately, of darkness, a darkness which, if left unreported and without criticism, will inexorably envelop the whole World.
Pope Leo XIII on Freemasory, in Humanum Genus
For these reasons We no sooner came to the helm of the Church than We clearly saw and felt it to be Our duty to use Our authority to the very utmost against so vast an evil. We have several times already, as occasion served, attacked certain chief points of teaching which showed in a special manner the perverse influence of Masonic opinions. Thus, in Our encyclical letter, Quod Apostolici Muneris, We endeavoured to refute the monstrous doctrines of the socialists and communists; afterwards, in another beginning "Arcanum," We took pains to defend and explain the true and genuine idea of domestic life, of which marriage is the spring and origin; and again, in that which begins ''Diuturnum,"(11) We described the ideal of political government conformed to the principles of Christian wisdom, which is marvellously in harmony, on the one hand, with the natural order of things, and, in the other, with the well-being of both sovereign princes and of nations. It is now Our intention, following the example of Our predecessors, directly to treat of the masonic society itself, of its whole teaching, of its aims, and of its manner of thinking and acting, in order to bring more and more into the light its power for evil, and to do what We can to arrest the contagion of this fatal plague.
9. There are several organized bodies which, though differing in name, in ceremonial, in form and origin, are nevertheless so bound together by community of purpose and by the similarity of their main opinions, as to make in fact one thing with the sect of the Freemasons, which is a kind of center whence they all go forth, and whither they all return. Now, these no longer show a desire to remain concealed; for they hold their meetings in the daylight and before the public eye, and publish their own newspaper organs; and yet, when thoroughly understood, they are found still to retain the nature and the habits of secret societies. There are many things like mysteries which it is the fixed rule to hide with extreme care, not only from strangers, but from very many members, also; such as their secret and final designs, the names of the chief leaders, and certain secret and inner meetings, as well as their decisions, and the ways and means of carrying them out. This is, no doubt, the object of the manifold difference among the members as to right, office, and privilege, of the received distinction of orders and grades, and of that severe discipline which is maintained.
Candidates are generally commanded to promise - nay, with a special oath, to swear - that they will never, to any person, at any time or in any way, make known the members, the passes, or the subjects discussed. Thus, with a fraudulent external appearance, and with a style of simulation which is always the same, the Freemasons, like the Manichees of old, strive, as far as possible, to conceal themselves, and to admit no witnesses but their own members. As a convenient manner of concealment, they assume the character of literary men and scholars associated for purposes of learning. They speak of their zeal for a more cultured refinement, and of their love for the poor; and they declare their one wish to be the amelioration of the condition of the masses, and to share with the largest possible number all the benefits of civil life. Were these purposes aimed at in real truth, they are by no means the whole of their object. Moreover, to be enrolled, it is necessary that the candidates promise and undertake to be thenceforward strictly obedient to their leaders and masters with the utmost submission and fidelity, and to be in readiness to do their bidding upon the slightest expression of their will; or, if disobedient, to submit to the direst penalties and death itself. As a fact, if any are judged to have betrayed the doings of the sect or to have resisted commands given, punishment is inflicted on them not infrequently, and with so much audacity and dexterity that the assassin very often escapes the detection and penalty of his crime.
10. But to simulate and wish to lie hid; to bind men like slaves in the very tightest bonds, and without giving any sufficient reason; to make use of men enslaved to the will of another for any arbitrary act ; to arm men's right hands for bloodshed after securing impunity for the crime - all this is an enormity from which nature recoils. Wherefore, reason and truth itself make it plain that the society of which we are speaking is in antagonism with justice and natural uprightness. And this becomes still plainer, inasmuch as other arguments, also, and those very manifest, prove that it is essentially opposed to natural virtue. For, no matter how great may be men's cleverness in concealing and their experience in lying, it is impossible to prevent the effects of any cause from showing, in some way, the intrinsic nature of the cause whence they come. "A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor a bad tree produce good fruit."(12) Now, the masonic sect produces fruits that are pernicious and of the bitterest savour. For, from what We have above most clearly shown, that which is their ultimate purpose forces itself into view - namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism.
11. What We have said, and are about to say, must be understood of the sect of the Freemasons taken generically, and in so far as it comprises the associations kindred to it and confederated with it, but not of the individual members of them. There may be persons amongst these, and not a few who, although not free from the guilt of having entangled themselves in such associations, yet are neither themselves partners in their criminal acts nor aware of the ultimate object which they are endeavoring to attain. In the same way, some of the affiliated societies, perhaps, by no means approve of the extreme conclusions which they would, if consistent, embrace as necessarily following from their common principles, did not their very foulness strike them with horror. Some of these, again, are led by circumstances of times and places either to aim at smaller things than the others usually attempt or than they themselves would wish to attempt. They are not, however, for this reason, to be reckoned as alien to the masonic federation; for the masonic federation is to be judged not so much by the things which it has done, or brought to completion, as by the sum of its pronounced opinions...
If a Pope wrote it and a President said it in a TV address then it is not a conspiracy theory. If it walks like a conspiracy, if it talks like a conspiracy and if it behaves as a conspiracy, against Truth, against God, against humanity itself, then it is not a theory at all. It is a conspiracy.
'Alabama became the first state to adopt a tough law
protecting private property and due process by prohibiting any
government involvement with or participation in a controversial United
Nations scheme known as Agenda 21.
Activists from across the political spectrum celebrated the measure’s
approval as a significant victory against the UN “sustainability” plot,
expressing hope that similar sovereignty-preserving measures would be
adopted in other states as the nationwide battle heats up.
The Alabama Senate Bill (SB) 477 legislation, known
unofficially among some supporters as the “Due Process for Property
Rights” Act, was approved unanimously by both the state House and
Senate. After hesitating for a few days, late last month Republican
Governor Robert Bentley finally signed into law the wildly popular
measure — but only after heavy pressure from activists forced his hand.
Virtually no mention of the law was made in the establishment press.
But analysts said the measure was likely the strongest protection
against the UN scheme passed anywhere in America so far. The law, aimed
at protecting private property rights, specifically prevents all state
agencies and local governments in Alabama from participating in the
global scheme in any way.
"The State of Alabama and all
political subdivisions may not adopt or implement policy recommendations
that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private
property rights without due process, as may be required by policy
recommendations originating in, or traceable to 'Agenda 21,' " the law
states, adding a brief background on the UN plan hatched at the 1992
“Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro.
The people of Alabama acting
through their elected representatives — not UN bureaucrats — have the
authority to develop the state’s environmental and development policies,
the official synopsis of the law explains. Therefore, infringements on
the property rights of citizens linked to “any other international law
or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the Constitution of the
United States or the Constitution of the State of Alabama” are also
prohibited under the new measure.
Of course, as the law
points out, the UN has enlisted a broad array of non-governmental and
inter-governmental organizations in its effort to foist Agenda 21 on the
world — most notably a Germany-based group called ICLEI,
formerly known as the International Council of Local Environmental
Initiatives. But the new measure takes direct aim at that problem, too:
“the State of Alabama and all political subdivisions may not enter into
any agreement, expend any sum of money, or receive funds contracting
services, or giving financial aid to or from” any such entities, as
defined in Agenda 21 documents.
“This bill, that would bar the
state from taking over private property without due process, is intended
to shelter Alabamians from the United Nations Agenda 21, a sustainable
development initiative that some conservatives see as a precursor for
the creation of a world government,” explained
Alabama GOP Executive Director T.J. Maloney when announcing that it had
been signed into law. The Republican National Committee (RNC) adopted a
resolution earlier this year blasting the global scheme and urging
policy makers to oppose it, and state parties have followed suit.
Public
support for the Alabama law was overwhelming and bipartisan as citizens
who had been terrorized by Agenda 21-linked schemes targeting their
private property spoke out. But according to analysts and state
Republican Party officials cited in press reports, Gov. Bentley was
originally hesitant to sign the bill — almost certainly due to concerns
over the potential loss of some federal funding.
The U.S.
Senate, of course, has never formally ratified Agenda 21. But the
executive branch — in conjunction with accomplices at the international,
state, and local levels — has for two decades been quietly attempting
to impose the plan on Americans by stealth, mostly using deceptive terms
like “Smart Growth” and “Green.” And proponents of the global scheme
consistently threaten that states seeking to protect citizens from the
UN plot could end up losing some federal funds.
“Every time you take a dollar of federal money, there’s strings attached,” explained
Ken Freeman, chairman of the Alabama-based group Alliance for Citizens
Rights (ACR), an organization that fought hard to ensure that the
Governor signed the bill into law. “We were originally walking soft on
this issue, to tell you the truth, because when things were going our
way, why change anything?”
But when Gov. Bentley did not
immediately approve the bill, Freeman told a reporter, ACR turned the
activism up a notch, urging citizens to contact the Governor’s office
and express their support for the measure. The grassroots pressure paid
off: Alabama became the first state to be officially shielded by law
from UN-linked anti-property rights scheming.
“It seems that Agenda 21 does actually bring people together in communities — just not in the way the U.N. had hoped for,” remarked Justice Gilpin-Green in a column for the conservative site Townhall,
citing Freeman and other instrumental supporters of the effort.
“Hopefully other states can mirror Alabama’s determined nature in
passing their anti-Agenda 21 legislation. It was citizen awareness and
direct action that finally brought about the needed changes last week
and that same awareness and action will be needed for the future of
every other state.”
Legislative analysts said the bill, sponsored
by GOP state Sen. Gerald Dial, was extremely well crafted: protecting
citizens and individual rights from UN decrees in a simple,
straightforward manner that Agenda 21 advocates would have a hard time
criticizing. Liberty-minded organizations and lawmakers are already
examining the measure for potential use as a model in other states
currently struggling to expel the global scheme and its myriad
tentacles.
“Alabama House Bill 618 [SB 477] is a large step
towards protecting Alabamians against UN meddling. It protects the due
process rights of Alabamians. It keeps Constitutional Law above
International Law,” noted Jason Baker, a Montgomery-based conservative pundit with the Examiner. “Now state after state awakens to the threat it poses to freedom and sovereignty.”
Across
America, Tea Party groups, liberty-minded Democrats, libertarians, and a
broad coalition of activists have been turning up the heat on Agenda
21. Tennessee, for example, adopted a bipartisan state resolution slamming the UN scheme as an “insidious” and “socialist” plot that
is completely at odds with American traditions of limited government,
individual freedom, private property, and self-governance under the
Constitution. Numerous other states are pursuing similar measures.
A bill similar to Alabama’s seeking a complete ban on Agenda 21 and unconstitutional UN “sustainability” efforts in Arizona was approved overwhelmingly
in the state Senate. The legislation died in the state House even after
clearing several hurdles, however, when the legislative session ended
before a final vote could be taken. New Hampshire is reportedly working on a bill to ban Agenda 21 that sailed through the state House last month.
Meanwhile,
local governments across America — under intense pressure from citizens
and activist groups — are slowly awakening to what critics call the
“dangers” of the UN scheme. Dozens of cities and counties have withdrawn from ICLEI in recent years, and as awareness continues to grow, that trend is expected to accelerate.
The
UN, however, is doubling down on its controversial plan. In June,
governments from all over the world will be meeting in Rio de Janeiro
for the so-called “Conference on Sustainable Development” — known as
Rio+20 for short. According to official documents released by the global
body, the summit, headed by Chinese Communist Sha Zukang, will be
seeking to dramatically transform human civilization under the guise of environmentalism.
Production,
education, consumption, individual rights, and even people’s thoughts
will all be targeted under the global plan to create a so-called “green
economy,” the UN admitted. But with the tidal wave of opposition in
America growing stronger every single day, analysts expect fierce U.S.
opposition — if not from the Obama administration, at least from the
increasingly outraged citizenry.'
Above is a video of a duo singing Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary and singing it properly and well. A friend of mine who attends St Mary Magdalen's came over to mine yesterday after the pub where we regularly go for lunch. The last time he came over we bought a load of beer and got smashed. We both like beer, we both like fags and we both like secular music. So usually we end up smoking loads of fags, drinking loads of beer and listening to loads of music on YouTube.
We both have a copy of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary now and are familiar with saying the prayers in Latin. We decided that we would try singing Vespers as well as a couple of the Offices of the day which we had missed. Not being terribly familiar with Gregorian Chant, however, we decided that we would sing the chant of the Little Office on a monotone. A remarkable thing occurred. We didn't get smashed. We both commented that we felt 'different' after having sang the Office and ended up singing Compline and Matins as well. His sudden enthusiasm for singing Chant, after we had sang the first time was quite infectious. Now he and I want to learn the Chant properly and meet to sing together. Perhaps someone will teach us to sing the Office well.
We both felt that we had been 'lifted up' and felt quite joyful after having sang the praises of God and the Blessed Virgin, however imperfectly or even badly we had sung them. We ended up singing the Te Deum for Matins along with some monks on YouTube. Like I say, I fully expect that if we had not sang some of the Office together we'd have both gone to the off-licence to get a load of beer and got smashed again. The Chant is extraordinary. It is something other. It takes you away from the ordinary. It is prayer. It is common prayer, it is liturgical prayer and focused on the Lord. It is the praise (however imperfectly sung) and worship of God, for Whom our hearts were made. If the Chant takes me away from my vices and towards God, and the Chant can take him away from his vices and towards God, then who else could the Chant take away from their vice and towards God, who gives joy to our youth?
Chant looks boring. It sounds sonorous, boring yet beautiful and even a little hypnotic and meditative. The World offers so much to stimulate our senses in ways which delight us, but leave us empty-handed and empty hearted. The praise of God leads us to contemplation and to seek His Face. The praise of His name may leave us wanting more, but it leaves us wanting more of God who alone can satisfy our hearts.
The ones on the left look okay, but the old folk could explode at any moment...
With G4S giving brewery hirers a lesson in how not to organise a celebratory function, you could be forgiven for thinking that maybe if terrorists are lurking around London plotting something even more ominous than the building designed in a bid to stab God's foot, that this year they may just win gold.
But its not just the threat of a terrorist atrocity that we have to deal with in Cameron's Britain. No, there is something just as explosive and as dangerous as bombs hidden inside people's pants. That's right. Old people.
The Office for Budget Responsibility, so-called because the country's budget has been managed very responsibly ever since the department was opened, is warning of a demographic 'timebomb' caused by elderly people who just won't lay down and do the honourable thing. If you are now, have been or ever will be old, take note because the climate of the United Kingdom is not going to be favourable to you. You see, advances in medicine in a society that prizes health as something so important that it informs what kind of butter you should buy, or indeed whether you should buy butter at all, mean that people are living longer lives.
In the bad old days when the State didn't care for the 'welfare' of the people - when there was no welfare State - people met their Maker quicker than they did before. In those bad old days when people lived less long, people also had more children. In fact, some people, backward types, had more children so that one or maybe two would look after them when they became older and less able to look after themselves. These people, in modern wisdom, were clearly born senile. In these days, I believe considered by the majority in Britain to be the 'dark ages', you would think that there was less talk of what people now consider a 'demographic timebomb'. Except, there that wouldn't be true...
The Rockereller Foundation, for one, published a little 1968 report warning of the dangers of too many human beings being around. In it appear this quote, under the heading 'Problems of Population':
"Experience of the past few years indicates that the oral pill and the IUD, while far superior in many respects to contraceptive methods available previously, have serious drawbacks that limit their effectiveness. . . . We are faced with the danger that within a few years these two 'modern' methods, for which such high hopes have
been held, will in fact turn out to be impracticable on a mass scale. ... It is clear that major improvements in contraceptive methodology are required. . . . Radically better methods can come with certainty only from research of high quality
undertaken in depth from different approaches. First-rate research is today well below the level needed to bring about major developments in reproductive biology."
It's worth a read, that report, especially for those still doubting whether artificial contraception and abortion is about anything other than 'population stablization' (whatever that means). Of course, years later we understand just how effective was the influence of such foundations in spreading at home and abroad the abortive/contraceptive agenda that is so unquestioned and rampant that when David Cameron tells a conference of eugenics advocates at a gathering with Melinda Gates that the Church should be encouraged to change and relax its attitude to artificial contraception, or that the West needs to send this stuff to Africa NOW! before the continent starves to death for lack of contraceptive injections, the mainstream media don't bat an eyelid.
So, there was a demographic 'timebomb' in the 1960s. It was awful. What we were looking at was a bleak future in which there would be too many people because people were having quite a lot of children. There literally wouldn't have been enough cake for the people to eat. You could have sown wheatfield after wheatfield and the bread would not have gone around the World while the Rockerfellers and the other misanthropic billionaires still today calling for population culling drank champagne and chatted with Presidents. What was worse was that revolutions in healthcare meant that people would live longer.
Thank God above, however, that the West bought the propaganda that surrounded the advent of the pill and acceptance of abortion because, since then, lots of people, millions of people in fact, have either been aborted of not conceived. We created a 'sustainable future' and thwarted God into the bargain. Two for the price of one! Except, wait! The future is not sustainable enough. Why? Because the old people are living longer and the State, which cares so much for the welfare of its citizens that it created a 'Welfare State' now realises that there isn't enough money in the coffers to look after the elderly people it so lovingly embraced to its bosom.
Something must be done and the State is the only one around here that's going to do it because, let's face it, obviously God's plan for humanity ("Go forth and multiply") fell short. What humanity really needed was a serpent to tell the woman to take the pill, for the woman to tell the man to wear a condom and the man to encourage her to have an abortion. Everyone's a winner! At least, that's what we thought, but now we come to the crunch - the credit crunch.
The idea of a welfare state supporting the elderly is great. In practise it works badly, but the idea is essentially not intrinsically evil. But once people have either decided against being open to children, not only do they have fewer visitors at the elderly care home when its their turn in the house that society forgot (to visit), but all the little taxpayers and potential taxpayers that either did exist or should have existed do not exist in this World - perpetually. We slaughtered our future and with it we tore a gaping hole into the budget. We bought the lie that the contraceptive culture would bring us riches, liberation and convenience, but now our children worship what we worshipped and prize their independence and financial security above even loyalty and familial ties. We are left to the whims of the State, reduced to a statistic and told that our existence is threatening the economic stability of the entire nation. We are tearing a hole in the budget like a giant shard of glass piercing the London sky. We are a drain on the resources of the country. We are old, we are getting sick, we can't remember who our husbands were, we need help to get to the toilet, we don't make it there and we are informed that we are in to be put on the Liverpool Pathway, yet Penny Lane is nowhere to be found.
The truth, of course, is that the Government cannot afford the elderly because the economy and the Government is 'bust' even though its hosting the Olympics and spending loads of money on contraceptives to export abroad and visit the economic, social and spiritual disaster that is contraception and abortion upon the 'developing humans' in the 'developing nations'. The truth is that this is a 'demographic timebomb' not because old people won't kick the bucket, but because young people looking after them or paying taxes for the State to look after them are becoming rarer and rarer. After these young people have been subjected to the culture of death for long enough, then after them will come even fewer young people because the World is such a miserable place and its so 'overcrowded', 'overpopulated' and polluted with the 'cancer' that is the class of humanity that isn't endowed with mansions and good 'breeding', why would anyone want to have children anyway?
No. What the United Kingdom needs is a population that is manageable, controllable, if you will, like the water flowing along until it meets a dam from out of which comes a tiny, sustainable trickle creating the perfect reservoir of humanity below. The truth, of course, is that the agendas driving Government are not ill thought out. We were told in 1968 that there was a demographic timebomb. Today in 2012, there is a demographic timebomb. The first timebomb was exploding children. The second timebomb is exploding elderly because we put a stop to exploding children and the State created a health service to keep people alive longer. Both exploding children and exploding elderly people are dangerous to humanity - or, at least - our twisted vision of it. We dealt with the kids in the sixties. Now its time for the elderly.
Both children and elderly people need to be eliminated or at least curbed on a mass scale in order for a harmonious society to exist peacefuly and, most of all, 'sustainably'. That's sustainable development and you won't be too surprised that the entire academic arena of sustainable development is awash with Marxists. They're not just working at The Tablet. Any sensible Government, any sensible newspaper indeed, would see the current crisis as an opportunity to tell the population of the United Kingdom that the drug-fuelled, Bealtes/Stones-fuelled social experiment of the 1960s has been an economic, social, political and spiritual failure of truly epic proportions and that the family must be promoted, that marriage must be promoted and that motherhood must once more be something esteemed and honoured.
That's the kind of thing they are starting to say in Russia because the population is shrinking. In Japan, where there has been only a tiny proportion of immigration, the population is being decimated by the abortive and contraceptive culture on a scale that far exceeds the human destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet, in Britain, the Government doesn't recommend any of these things. There must be another way! Indeed, there is and, instead, the 'Office for Budget Responsibility' recommends...yep, you guessed right: Immigration. Anyone would have thought the State was fully engaged in war not just in foreign territories, but on its own citizens. So, the Government are set on a policy, 'engineered' by Labour's Tony Blair to replace the children not being born in the United Kingdom with immigrants? As we know, anyone who questions that kind of policy of social engineering is a racist, xenophobic monster who deserves a kicking so hard that he can't even think anymore.
RIP United Kingdom. What with radicalised Islamists migrating here to replace the children we didn't have, breeding well and guarding your national sporting events, the future looks both rosy and secure. Sadly, we committed suicide in 1967 when we, as a nation, stood by (yes, I know I wasn't born then) and allowed the Government to even debate the contraceptive pill being made available first to married couples on the NHS and then to every schoolgirl who was up for it. We committed suicide in 1967 when we allowed the Government to even debate allowing private companies masquerading as charities to invade the wombs of its citizens and kill its unborn citizens in cold blood for the purpose of social and population cleansing and control. We are in danger of comitting suicide again by adopting that other sustainable development measure - 'gay marriage'.
And, here's a prediction. We'll commit suicide for real and it won't be a 'cry for help', if Lord Falconer has anything to do with it. After all, once a nation has killed its future, its bound to feel suicidal one day. That's how you engineer the collapse of nations while the banks still prosper even after banks, with the help of the State, rob their customers and the State's citizens blind. That's how you engineer a New World Order of which Britain is but one small block. Oh, and it is global. Just ask David Cameron. After all, this is the deadly recipe for not just for the United Kingdom, but for Africa, Asia and, indeed, for all continents. It's called Agenda 21, a blueprint for total control of nations and their populaces under a form of 'global governance'. Communism, or something like it, is on its way back, just as Our Lady of Fatima foretold. Ah, but what would the British public care if it was? The British public gave up on politics and Our Lady and her Divine Son years ago. It's never too late to take back your country. I hope and fervently pray that is what Our Lady thinks when she looks down upon England, her dowry.
When you hear people saying that all religion is evil because it causes war, emnity, disagreement and strife perhaps what they really mean is that there will be no 'peace' until everyone worships either satan, the State or a combination of the two.
There is clearly some confidence in the City in certain quarters...
I saw it today. It's really rather imposing.
Why not put the Ministry of Love in the top office?
In those bad old days it was Church spires that raised eyes to the skies. In the 21st century, let's hear it, everybody, for mammon. You can trust in mammon. Never lets you down...
It suddenly dawned on me that G4S are the same company that used to be riddled by tales of incompetency in the field of security - Group 4. Group 4 basically merged with Securicor. You can see the history of G4S here.
By the way, G4S also won 'welfare to work' contracts from Government to get people signed off as 'fit for work' by Atos Healthcare off DLA and Incapacity Benefit and into 'work programmes'. Concern has been expressed that Atos Healthcare are signing people who aren't fit for work - like people suffering from schizophrenia and other health issues - as ready and able.
I think a number of those work programmes involve working in security. I hope the company aren't using people from the 'welfare to work' programmes - for which they have contracts in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Warrington, North East Yorkshire and the Humber - as guards at the Olympics, but if anyone remembers the cock-ups regularly publicised about Group 4 in the days before it merged with Securicor, it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
I've been out busking a couple of times this week. First, I went out to see George and Diane by the taxi stand on the London Road. I went out really to see if I could talk with some of the men and women who live in homeless accommodation in Brighton. A local reporter wants me to put him in touch with some people who live in homeless accommodation because a certain local newspaper would like to run an investigation into the homeless system in Brighton. Unfortuntately, when I managed to get a man called Peter to talk on the phone the local reporter was away from his desk, but he did have a lot of interesting things to say.
Because I was going to see George, I took my guitar. It turned out Peter played guitar too and really rather well. He did an excellent version of 'The Needle and the Damage Done' by Neil Young and 'Comfortably Numb' by Pink Floyd. There was a nice vibe among a small group of people singing along to some classic songs. George was half way through an impressive rendition of 'Massacheusetts' by The Bee Gees when, unfortunately, the sound of music was enough to attract a couple of local Police Community Support Officers. The group were accused of drinking by association and we were forced to disperse. It was true that one or two of the group had a can in their hands, but I felt the local PCSOs were a little heavy handed. People were having fun - there was no agro.
A couple of days later I went out busking on the London Road with Jason. We managed to get him a small drum, so I played outside the co-op some songs from my song folder. We didn't really make any money but we were having a nice time. Two PCSOs stopped on the other side of the road and stared at us for about 10 minutes. Sure enough, a while later they arrived where Jason and I were playing and told us we had to stop busking. Apparently the drum was too loud and Jason was too loud. The police had received a 'complaint'. From whom we were not told. I was handed a small laminated card laying out in black and white the local bye-laws on busking. No amplification. No drumming. I guess what Jason and I were doing amounted to 'anti-social behaviour'. Jason was upset that he couldn't play his drum having been told by the PCSOs that this was the case. Jason and I both accused the local PCSOs of operating double standards. There are lots of buskers in Brighton, especially at Pavillion Gardens, around New Road near the Theatre Royal and all around town. Brighton's a musical town - there are lots of budding musicians here.
I was a little miffed that the PCSOs had picked on us so I told them it was funny how all these bye-laws are suddenly relaxed in August for Gay Pride when the sound of drumming, whistles, shouting and music streams down London Road along with an army of street drinkers. I asked them why there was one rule for revellers on this day and another rule for the homeless who they seem to clamp down as soon as either they feel it is right or a member of the public makes a 'complaint'. After all, I'm sure not everyone in Brighton loves the Gay Pride parade. They didn't appear to have an answer to my question, but told us to move on anyway. Of course, we could move on, but I reminded them that Jason is banned from 44 roads in Brighton, so exactly where were we to move on to?
As we walked down London Road a police van pulled around the corner. A policeman called out to Jason from the window: "I hope you're not thinking of playing with that, are you?" as if Jason had in his hands sawn-off shotgun or something. Poor guy, he'd had his eye on that drum for weeks and we'd wanted to form a small busking band. Looks like the PCSOs have put paid to a little venture Jason and I had wanted to get off the ground. The idea was Jason on drums, George on guitar and vocals, me on guitar/vocals. It could have been sweet...Within 5 years, me, George, Diane and Jason could have been supping champagne on our yacht. As the Beastie Boys once sang, unless you have a certain social status, it looks like in this town you really have to fight for your right to party. Poor man. In Brighton, the authorities have a habit of treating him like an animal. I don't know. The authorities seem to clamp down on the homeless in Brighton and 'move them along' because they are worried what tourists and locals will think. Why can't they just let people think for themselves?
