Reply to James Edwards

A member of the public Mr James Edwards, who lives in Wisbech South has replied to one of my posts here.

(Mr Edwards comments are in blue, mine are in black)

sorry to have to mail you but as a life long resident of the local area i find it disturbing that an ex police constable is able to believe in these stupid idea’s about less restrictions.

All these restrictions (drug laws, gun laws, database state) do is make things worse. If drugs were fully legalised all the drug pushers would be unable to compete with proper businesses like Tesco and would have to take up another way of making a living (like working behind the tobacco kiosk of the local Tesco). Crime would plummet and the tax on drugs would be enough to fully fund really excellent treatment of addicts. Even the drugs themselves would be of much more consistent quality so no more overdoses. Think about the ending of prohibition in America. The incidence of public drunkenness went DOWN, and organised crime hand to do something else ie a lot of them stopped being criminals. The whole of American society benefited.

As a life time english man I find that the only source of reason in the local area is cllr King and Cllr Tuck.

Cllrs King and Tuck believe in a large and powerful state with heavy taxation and ordinary people being pushed around at the politicians whim. I don’t call that reasonable, perhaps you do.

Yes I do not agree with some of the conservative ideals well a lot of them but hey If wisbech can be bought into the present day then only people like Cllr king and prospective candidate Steven Tierney.

Steve Tierney has told me he has libertarian leanings. If David Cameron wins the next general election Steve will end up severely disappointed that the tories only pay lip service to freedom.

About the Library Funding I went to a meeting about this and only 500k is coming out of the local budget and that money was transferred from central gov the other 2 mill is from the lottery

I have already pointed out elsewhere that £2m of the cost is voluntarily funded (as people are not forced to play the lottery) and that £500,000 comes from taxation (where people are forced to pay) Never the less, this spending is still a total waste of taxpayers money, the new library will not have any more books and doesn’t need a cafe, there are plenty of commercial cafes already in town.

now where would you rather this go to the library or the Immigrants or even worse wasted in some foriegn country.

I think this money should not have been taken by force from the taxpayers in the first place.

Also, libertarian policy is to scrap the foreign aid budget, stop giving immigrants any taxpayer funded welfare and only let in immigrants on a points basis based on skills shortages. We would also abolish Income Tax. Totally and for everyone. So if individuals really wanted to fund foreign aid or immigrants, even if they had minimum wage jobs, they would have an extra £108 a month with which to indulge themselves.

If YOU as an individual want foreign aid or welfare for immigrants then put your hand in your own pocket.

Also with less laws and control are you condoning the rule of power. Cause if so can i get your telly(joke).

Libertarians believe in strong law and order, for instance, I think parole should be abolished and that little old ladies should not live in fear of walking the streets at night but should be allowed to arm themselves with the best tools for self protection if they so wish. Anything other than this is nothing more than a criminals charter. Criminals can already get as many guns as they want, and being criminals they don’t care about the law. Why should the law mandate that little old ladies should be easy prey? If criminals didn’t know if their intended targets had the means to fight back, they would be much less likely to take the chance and crime would plummet.

 I do belive that this country needs a shake up and certainly those up the next rung of power need a good boot up the rear but in the local area, we need the stability that certain people bring and yes your not one of them.

The tories have been in charge of the council since 1997. Now admittedly, the labour govt keeps a tight rein on councils with regard to what they can and can’t do but the local tories have not shown any ability to run things properly.

If you keep on voting for the same tired old parties you will keep on getting the same tired old results.

as i said sorry and i hope you use my blog cause i’d love the reply. Also long live my country keep it ours don’t give it away, but no hate we are all built the same under the skin.

I would be quite happy to comment on your blog but you have to let me know its name first. I also care deeply for my country, that’s why I am standing for the Libertarian Party whose policy is to trade with Europe but not be ruled by them. We also despise the left wing socialist racists of the BNP.

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I will publish my expenses

If I am elected by the good people of Wisbech South to be their representative at Cambridgeshire County Council I promise to publish my expenses in full.

I also promise to not use the expenses system to fraudulently claim for that which I am not morally entitled. In other words, even if the expenses system says I can claim, I won’t if such a claim would be unjustified.

Let me give you a few examples. If I get elected, I am apparently entitled to a laptop and a filling cabinet. I won’t accept the filing cabinet as I already have plenty of space for filing at home. I already have two computers at home as well so I assume that I won’t need one supplied by the council. I have been told (but have not verified this for myself) that I can claim for internet access. I already have broadband at home and it would be morally repugnant for me to claim that so I won’t. I think I’m right in saying that I can get a mileage allowance for going to council meeting. I probably won’t claim for that either unless I end up driving to Cambridge and back much more frequently than I expect.

So there you have it, I will be totally open and honest about what I get and don’t get unlike some I could mention.

Lets see if the other candidates for Wisbech South, especially Cllr Simon King, follow my lead.

Update Apparently, as a councillor I can join the local govt pension scheme. This is one of the best in the country and costs the council tax payer a fortune. It’s also something else that I’m not going to join. I shall make my own pension arrangements and not ‘trough’ at the taxpayers expense.

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Imprint – as required by electoral law. Printed and promoted by Andrew Peter Hunt of 73 Camargue Place, Wisbech, Cambs, PE13 2SX

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Ruperts big mistake

Global media company News Corp. headed by Rupert Murdoch is preparing to charge for access to at least some content on its web sites after a nearly 50 percent drop in quarterly profits.

Unless a lot of other news sites also start to charge for access at the same time this will fall flat on it’s face.

The dead tree press simply don’t get the fact that it is their content that is failing and that they are no longer the arbiters of what is newsworthy or true.

Blogs like Guido are now popular enough in readership to circumvent the old ways of doing things and the stranglehold on information that the main stream media used to have.

This can only be a good thing.

Censorship will become a thing of the past.

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The Police are now the enemy

As a former policeman I find it difficult to express my feelings about this, but ever since 1997 the govt have been turning the police into a bunch of jackbooted thugs ever ready to do the govts bidding to trample over the hard won freedoms of the British people.

Indeed, the BBC report that

Police are too heavy-handed in dealing with protests, harassing and intimidating people, a leading parliamentary committee has said.

The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights also criticised the misuse of legislation used against demonstrators.

It says peaceful protesters have had personal property seized and have been intimidated by police.

It wants tighter restrictions to prevent the use of anti-terrorism laws. Police say they are acting lawfully.

The committee also said police were too heavy-handed with journalists reporting on demonstrations. It comes as police forces prepare to deal with large-scale protests in London ahead of the G20 summit.

In a statement, the committee said police had used “legal powers not designed to deal with protests such as anti-social behaviour legislation and the Protection from Harassment Act 1997″.

It added: “Witnesses also referred to local authority restrictions deterring protest, such as requiring third party insurance or licences for the use of sound equipment.”

It also found the use of officers in riot gear to police protests could “unnecessarily raise the temperature” of crowds, making conflict more likely, and said police should not be using Taser stun guns at peaceful protests.

The police must be made accountable which is why Libertarian party policy is to have elcted chief constables and to scrap all the new anti terror laws that the labour govt have introduced.

It’s not really the fault of your local ‘bobby on the beat’, it’s more to do with the open politicization of the top ranks of the police and the deliberate introduction of authoritarianism, for example the database state.

A quarter of all government databases are illegal and should be scrapped or redesigned, according to a report.

The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust says storing information leads to vulnerable people, such as young black men, single parents and children, being victimised.

It says the UK’s “database state” wastes billions from the public purse and often breaches human rights laws.

The government spends £16bn a year on databases and plans to spend a further £105bn on projects over five years but does not know the precise number of the “thousands” of systems it operates, the trust claims.

In the wake of numerous data loss scandals, the cross-party trust – which campaigns for civil liberties and social justice – examined 46 public sector systems.

It said 11 were “almost certainly” illegal under human rights or data protection laws.

These included the national DNA database and ContactPoint, an index of biographical and contact information on all children in England which notes their relationship with public services.

Meanwhile, the Department for Work and Pensions is developing an £89m data-sharing system for anyone issued with a National Insurance number, accessible to 140,000 government staff and 445 local authorities.

Staff at 30 councils have already abused the system and information has been made available to private firms, according to the trust.

Needless to say that the Libertarian party would scrap all this and return peoples right to privicy as well as saving the taxpayer £105billion.

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UK becomes banana republic

The UK Libertarian party reports that the police can now arrest people for merely taking their photograph. I am not making this up.

The UK has finally become a banana republic.

The conservatives and libdems have been very quite on this, thus proving they are all the same, a bunch of authoritarian scum.

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Standing up and being counted

Regular readers of this blog will have a good idea that I hold the political class in deep and utter contempt.

They really are in it for themselves, all the corruption and expenses fiddles bare this out, added to which they are a bunch of authoritarian scum ever ready to get involved in other peoples lives and boss them about.

So it is time I stood up to be counted.

I’ve got the nod to stand for election for the Libertarian Party for my county council division (Wisbech South, Cambs county council) on 4th June and the parliamentary constituency of North East Cambs whenever the general election is.

The three main parties are pretty much the same, the BNP is old style labour (which explains why I label them left wing socialists) who hate niggers, UKIP is single issue tory lite and the greens want most people to die with the remaining few living in mud huts and dying from easily preventable diseases at the age of 35.

With freedom loving libertarians on the ballot the electors now have a real alternative from the “we’ll tell you what to do and tax you into penury” scum.

Blimey, I never thought I’d ever stand for political office myself as I’ve never wanted to lord it over others, it’s a strange world and no mistake.

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Councillor Jill Tuck – authoritarian to the core

I’ve sent another letter to the Wisbech Standard.

In last weeks edition council leader Jill Tuck had a ‘puff’ peice in the letters page which finished by asking for more ideas from the readership to help with the credit crunch.

So I sent in this:-

Sir,

Council leader Jill Tuck has asked for ideas to deal with the currant situation that Fenlanders find themselves in.

Firstly, she should refrain from taxing people more than necessary. She points out that she will force people to fund £250,000 a year of voluntary sector activity that she approves of. This is wrong, stop taxing people so heavily and they will be better placed to decide what charities they themselves would like to support.
Secondly, it’s not just the credit crunch that frightens people but the pervasive CCTV surveillance state with council snoopers prying into peoples private lives. Cllr Tuck should give a guarantee that whilst she remains leader, that the council will not use anti-terrorist legislation to spy on the contents of peoples waste bins or check where they live.
Two suggestions that will make peoples lives better, but I bet Cllr Tuck does neither, thus proving that she is a nasty authoritarian.

I do hope they publish and she responds.

Update They did indeed publish it in full.

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Schillings is shite

Schillings, the evil libel lawyers for rich people with plenty to hide are trying to stop Craig Murray, the UK’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan from publishing his latest book “The Catholic Orangemen of Togo and other conflicts I have known”.

So Craig has made it available, on the internet, in a jusisdiction outside of Schillings control, absolutely free.

More details can be found here on Mr Murrays blog.

The book is available here;- http://cryptome.org/cot-murray.zip

So bugger you, Schillings, you bunch of evil unscrupulous scum, you can take your 30 pieces of silver that you got from mercenary Tim Spicer and shove it where the sun don’t shine.

Incidently, I think I should mention that as a Libertarian I am against all censorship (apart from possibly important military stuff) the reason being that bastard scum lawyers should not be able to use the law to stop the truth coming out. Sensible, provable stuff that embarresess the political elite SHOULD be made freely available.

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The threat from Europe

Many people still don’t seem to understand what a bad idea it is that the UK is subjugated to the EU.

So let me give you a perfect example.

THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.

The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws

So there you have it. We are forced to suffer the actions of our european overlords and the craven political scum that form the labour, tory and lib dims are more than happy for this to continue. Of course, this is not to say that the labour govt have been coersed into this authoritarian move, I don’t doubt for a second that they fully agree and support such proposals, they may even have introduced the idea in the first place.

Can we leave yet?

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Jackart gets it wrong

Jackart over at A Very British Dude has commented on mine and others views about scrapping the Olympics. He thinks it should go ahead.

His reasoning boils down to;-

But I do not think we should Scrap the games.

£9,000,000,000 is the kind of money Governments lose down the back of the sofa. And the damage to Britain’s reputation and prestige will hurt Britain and British business to a far greater tune if the Games were cancelled. Britain gets a reputation for failure to deliver? – no thanks! It’s not as if that money would be returned to Taxpayers, is it? It might mean a few fewer diversity outreach co-ordinators are employed at the taxpayers expence. It might mean a slightly higher national debt for a few years. So like it or not, the Olympics are coming to London and the best thing we can all do is tighten our belts and put on a good show.

I think he is wrong.

It might only be £9bn, but that is still £9bn that has been taken from taxpayers by force.

Britains reputation might be badly affected amongst other nations leaders and socialist scum but it would soar amongst ordinary people as Britain got a reputation for putting personal freedom and liberty first.

It would mean fewer non jobs were created to suck at the taxpayers nipple and every non job destroyed or not created would be a success for reason and common sense.

The National debt would be a bit lower and any dent in that massive trillion plus figure is to be welcomed.

But like it or not, this Quadrennial drug cheats’ Gymkhana is coming to the UK and the best thing we can do is to point out all the bad things associated with it, in a forcable and public manner so that those who support it get tarred with the same brush.

We Libertarians will kick up a stink, the general public will realise they are not alone in their dislike of this overblown school sports day, it can only be good for the Libertarian movement, especially as the credit crunch hits home and people actually see the spendthrift socialist scum throw taxpayers money around like confetti.

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More BBC bias

Yet more bias from the beeb.

I heard a few days ago, the  BBC Political Correspondent on Radio 5 say that President Obama had an overwhelming popular mandate, funny that I don’t remember the beeb being so enthusiastic about Ronald Reagan winning bigger majorities in 1980 and 1984, but I do remember the beeb were gloomy after the 1980 election and kept criticing Reagan.

The beeb is not supposed to show any bias but they always do.

And ordinary people are forced to pay for this because of the licence fee television tax under threat of imprisonment if they don’t comply.

I have no problem with private organisations showing bias and having an orgasmic frenzy when their political heros win because the taxpayer doesn’t have to support them and can choose not to use their products/services.

The beeb must be broken up completely, all the staff should be sacked and the assets sold piecemeal.

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Obama brings back slavery

Barack Obama, Americas first black president brings back slavery. How ironic is that.

The US Libertarian Party blog reports:-

The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.

So there you have it. Instead of taking peoples money he will be taking their labour directly. I bet he kept that quite before people cast their votes.

What a nasty little authoritarian socialist (same thing really) piece of shit he is.

For more on this see Coyote blog.

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Finnish shooting

A Finnish man has recently shot and killed several people at a technical college where he was a student.

As usual the media and the usual left wing suspects have been jumping up and down in a joyous pant wetting frenzy as they can once again bleat that all guns should be banned.

Whenever I have tried to reason with them, they always proclaim “What about Columbine” as if it was some sort of magical incantation that would provide support to their idiotic beliefs.

OK, lets look at Columbine. Did you know that the two killers planted two 9kg bombs in the cafeteria that if they had gone of would have killed a great deal more than the 12 dead they managed to get with guns. Indeed, before the attack the killers had made a total of 99 bombs of which several were used.

As can be seen, the use of guns is merely a useful and convenient tool. Just like teenagers in London using knives to kill each other, the death count in London has recently reached 17 in one year. The tool doesn’t cause the crime, the crime is committed using the best tool that can be found.

These spree shootings have one thing in common.

• Most attackers had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures. Moreover, many had considered or attempted suicide.
• Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted or injured by others prior to the attack.

In other words they had trouble coping with society.

So what can be done.

Firstly, let ordinary decent members of society arm themselves and use guns to defend life and property. This lets people fight back against all criminals not just spree killers in society.

Secondly, have a libertarian society that leaves people alone. This will remove the hate for society that these sort of people experience. After all, they aren’t going to hate something that leaves them alone to get on with whatever they wish.

I am not being facetious when I say that spree killings are yet another of the failings of socialism. The state had corralled the two attackers into a 2000 student ‘factory unit’ and condoned the bullying that went on. It is no wonder that the two attackers reacted violently.

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The truth about the prophet Mohammed

With news today that three people have been arrested for arson against the publisher of a novel about Mohammed’s wife, I thought it would be instructive to find out the facts.

According to the koran, Mohammed married his last wife, Aisha when she was six years old and had sex with her when she was nine. He also spread his religion by warfare, basically killing everyone who didn’t convert to his way of thinking.

I therefore find it strange that three people should have a go at the publisher for presumably saying bad things about islam/mohammed. After all their holy book, the koran mentions he was a blood thirsty warmongering child molester and you can’t really get much worse of an insult than that.

Interestingly, the novel ” A jewel of Medina” has yet to be published so I wonder what prejudices these three arsonists from the religion of ‘peace’ are showing.

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Hacker loses extradition appeal

A Briton accused of hacking into secret military computers has lost his appeal against extradition to the US reports the BBC here.

The unemployed man could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers.

The 42-year-old admitted breaking into the computers from his London home but said he sought information on UFOs.

Mr McKinnon asked the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to delay his extradition pending a full appeal to the court against his extradition but his application was refused.

He claimed the extradition would breach his human rights.

I have no idea if Mr McKinnon is innocent or guilty, but I do know one thing and that the UK should never extradite *ANYONE* to America simply because they don’t get a fair trial, and yes, I would extend this to everyone including Osama Bin Liner.

Why do I say this?

Because America uses plea bargaining. In other words their system is fundamentally corrupt and doesn’t even try to assertain the facts. Don’t get me wrong, The UK justice system is also far from perfect but it doesn’t have this sort of systematic corruption built in as a feature.

For more on this try these two links.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/murphy5.html

http://www.slate.com/id/2075319

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