Government versus the people

I was chatting to a man yesterday who is exactly the voter being targeted by all political parties: he is hardworking, qualified, runs his own business, has a mortgage, has a wife, two children and a dog.

What does he think of the government?  “They are all shits”

Does this comment relate to particular party.  “No, they are all the same.”

He spent several years as an apprentice learning how to become a fully qualified electrician only to see the government introduce a “quickie” six week course that allowed people to claim they were qualified electricians.  This was done because various governments have not supported industry training schemes.  “Cowboys now undercut me; customers are being given a shoddy service; the only people who benefited are the ones running the training schemes.”

To shore up his income in the light of his now-struggling electrical business he spent £30,000 enrolling and paying for certification in the government’s energy conservation scheme for homeowners (“HIPS”) only to find that the scheme was scrapped a few months later.

This is a man trying to make ends meet in a government created recession being knocked sideways by constant changes in government policies. 

Never in the history of mankind have we had such big governments.  It’s an untried experiment.  When things are done on a human scale systems tend to be self-regulating.  If an individual takes undue risks they ‘come a cropper’.  Big government, however, can make laws that distort human behaviour – and particularly financial behaviour – that leads to massive catastrophe.

The Greeks, once they got rid of their military government were doing alright until they joined the Euro.  As were the Portuguese and the Spanish.  The problem in Greece was massive corruption; not out-and-out theft but an inability to tell the absolute truth about the viability of many projects undertaken by big business too closely allied to big government. 

The same was true in Spain: local authorities, completely ignoring basic financial prudence, embarked on massive, and in many cases unnecessary, infrastructure projects – airports that were just not needed.

The only people who benefit from big government are the people working in it or the big businesses directly linked to it.  Amazon is the latest of many examples: one of the world’s biggest companies receives more in British government aid than it pays in taxes.  My electrician friend wishes he could be treated the same.

More conspiracies to defraud the public?  Read The Ministry of Cannabis on Amazon

Helicopters and MI5

Paranoid?  Moi?

Some weeks ago I made an appointment to see my local Welsh Assembly Government Member.  Here in Wales we have a form of devolved government within the United Kingdom.  The Assembly Member is, I suppose, roughly equivalent to the US Congressman.

The meeting was scheduled for 10^th May (yesterday).  At precisely midnight on Thursday 9^th May  the North Wales Police helicopter stationed itself fifty feet above the house (Maxine’s house, incidentally because I am no longer allowed to possess property) and rattled the roof slates for 15 minutes until Maxine went out into the garden and gesticulated at them.

Either this was an attempt at intimidation or else a forlorn attempt to get something on me.  Maybe they hoped I was growing cannabis in the attic.  The idea was so obviously to interfere with my meeting.  The more the authorities play these games the more certain I am about how much they have to hide and how they fear exposure.

My dossier has now been passed to Mr Darren Millar, A.M. so we shall see where this takes us.  He intends, in the first instance, to pass my allegations to the local Chief Constable.  No matter what the result of that action, he (the Chief Constable) does not, I believe, have the authority to investigate the allegations relating to the actions of some of the legal profession.  It is going to be interesting how he views the possibility of investigating the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service).

I was advised this morning, via a trusted source, that ‘the boys on the banks of The River’ are keeping me under surveillance.  I have hit the big time if MI5 are now watching me.  It had been suggested to me once or twice before but I have always dismissed the suggestions as vague possibilities not actualities.  I have always resisted saying “you know I’m under surveillance by MI5” because it sounded so egotistical, being wary of the riposte “you think you’re that important, do you?”  Anyhow, I have just heard it from another source so now I am inclined to believe it is true.

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Money, money, money

Money 1

It's been a few days since I updated this blog.  I've been very busy with my infant web design business.  Incredibly busy, actually.  I'm not short of work - just money. Recently, I've been back and forth to Blackpool a few times - what a crazy town that is. It's having more than its fair share of financial woes but you have to respect its fighting spirit.  I like the town because it is packed with small enterprises; what the Americans call 'mom and pop' businesses. That gives the place a human touch.

Money 2

A couple of people have reminded me that I promised book two "The Cannabis Conspiracy" for March.  "I refer my honourable friend to the previous statement" as they say in Parliament.  The second book is going to be very complex because I want to thread together a lot of personal stuff, my thoughts about the prison system and a number of observations about a bent legal system.  There is also the little matter that events are not finished - by a long way.

I wrote to the CPS back in October 2012 suggesting we draw a line under further hostilities.  Their response, though, semi-transparent as usual, was that they were still interested in taking my pension.

They have a number of problems now, not the least of which is that they justify taking people's money on the grounds that they are seizing 'proceeds of a crime'.  Well, of course, 70% of the UK population don't view cannabis as a criminal substance.  

The next problem they have is that taking a pension bought and paid for back in 1984 cannot, by any stretch of the imagination be described as being a proceed of a 'crime' committed in 2004. Furthermore, as events on TV are currently proving, no one can live on this planet for 80 years without doing something wrong.  If your entire life's pension pot is to be considered as being held as a ransom against the day that someone tries to sue you, in this increasingly litigious world, a man would have to be very foolish indeed to have one – and that flies in the face of current government policy, which is to encourage (or force) everyone to have a pension. 

In my case there is one further matter: it is a distasteful experience being told by a holier-than-thou law enforcement system that I should suffer because I have broken their rules when they have conspired to steal from me on a vast scale. This latter matter is to be the subject of a meeting I will be having this coming week with local politicians - stay tuned.  We are not finished yet!

Money 3

I couldn't understand why, fifty years on, so many, now well-mature women, wished to regurgitate their youthful indiscretions.  Then I read that Jimmy Saville's £8 million estate had been frozen by NatWest Bank (who charged £1 million for the service) in anticipation of a flood of compensation claims.

Now I read that Stuart Hall is being pursued by an ambulance-chasing solicitor representing his 'victims'.  They hope to seize and sell his house.

Then, 'coincidentally' the Deputy Speaker of The House of Commons is accused of a two year old rape by a man with whom he thought was still on amicable terms with him.

The government has turned our country into a shabby money-grabbing society.  For years, all the government has ever wanted from us is our money.  It exists to tax us in one form or another and lies to justify its insatiable demand for more each year.  Unsurprisingly, the people copy.  When the Blair government began 'spinning' every story by extracting key facts and over-emphasising irrelevancies, first big business copied, and now the people, on their own scale, do the same.

Everybody is now a whore for money.

There is no such thing as truth - only an 'angle'.

Government versus The People

What a treacherous government the last Labour government in Britain turned out to be.

They introduced 3,000 new laws, rules and regulations during their three terms - most of them intended to oppress ordinary people.

The trouble is, they weren't simply ordinary 'in-your-face' restrictive laws; they were devious laws with stings in their tails.  The government said they were to "protect us from 'X'" - always some threat that we didn't know existed when really they were about hurting us while enriching the ruling elite.

My rant is usually about 'POCA' - the Proceeds Of Crime Act that is, in reality, neither about crime nor proceeds.  It is a law designed for the governing elite to take money off people - often perfectly innocent people - without the need for proof.  It is a law that enables the police to thieve without any comeback, a law that neutralises the principle of having any proper legal defence and a law that not only allows judges to pass sentences without any evidence, it actually encourages them to ignore any evidence that might stand in the way of the prosecution's argument.

But this is not the only bad law they passed.  Barely a month passes without a UK citizen being lined up for extradition to the US on the flimsiest of allegations.  The Americans don't allow us to seize their citizens and drag them over here so that we can threaten them.  The Americans have not even signed up to the Hague convention on Human Rights.  So why do we allow our citizens to be handcuffed and put on planes when there is no evidence of any wrong-doing?

The case in the news today is of a Brit who allegedly overcharged a company in Iraq.  The tentative connection with the US is that it was an American company.  In Britain this would be classed as a 'civil' case - an argument in the Mercantile Court about whether or not a bill was fair.

It is outrageous that our (Conservative) government allows this to continue - and that is because, no matter which so-called political party you vote for, they all have the same agenda.  That is becoming increasingly true across Europe.

It is noteworthy how much European public opinion has shifted this year, not just in the UK, which has always been eurosceptic, but in countries such as Germany and Poland which were extremely pro-European in outlook.  In Spain the anti-European feeling now runs at 76%.

This has come about because, once again, the ruling political classes pushed for a pan-European currency to cement their political ideology.  They were told by people who new about finance that the Euro would not work.  The politicians did not care because they would not be the ones to suffer.  They do not have to go out and run businesses to earn a living; all their money comes from the taxes they impose on us.

If you vote for there parasites in the belief that one group is less dishonest than the other you give them a legitimacy they do not deserve.

Creative Accounting

I have written much in general terms about the increasingly sordid goings on in the British legal and law enforcement establishments in part to illustrate that it is not merely some kind of malicious mindset on my part that compels me to comment on the manner in which the people once known as “civil servants” now act as though they have the absolute right to be our cruel masters. 

We gave a certain amount of power to these people to run the state on our behalf.  In the last half century this group has cunningly usurped more control for its own benefit.  We have never had a state apparatus this large in peacetime.  No one can say with any certainty whether it is a good or a bad thing.  My view, obviously, is that it is bad – and it is daily getting worse.  I doubt anyone outside a couple of offices in Whitehall knows exactly how big the state machine has become.  Gordon Brown, and it has to be said, Lady Thatcher, were responsible for fudging the issue of what is government activity (costing us money) and what is private enterprise (supplying a service).  Gordon’s public-private finance initiatives were the kind of exercises in creative accounting that would have resulted in the imprisonment of any commercial chief executive.

Here in Wales we have Welsh Water – supplier of the most expensive water in the Kingdom.   Have you any idea how much rain we get in these mountains?  When Mrs Thatcher privatised the company it found itself with such an embarrassment of riches that it splurged the cash on foreign investments – all of which (if you will forgive the pun) went down the drain.  The company went broke and the government refloated it (more unintentional puns) as a “non-profit making company”.  The strange thing was: water charges were never reduced.

The trickery in all of these quasi state-private affairs is that they don’t show a profit because of a combination of contrived inefficiency and fictional accounting.  A “normal” company is taxed on profits before capital expenditure or re-investment.  The state enterprises (the police being a good example) purchase cars and other items that swallow money and have lax procedures that not only allow but encourage staff to take prolonged sick leave and early retirement on index-linked pensions and then claim that they make no profit. A company that did not have unlimited income could not operate in this fashion and survive. This argument has been cunningly extended to the money that “crime” generates.  I highlight the word crime because so much of what is now described as “crime” is a contrivance to extract money from people.

Tony Blair once said that the confiscation of assets was “returning ill-gotten gains to the community”.  Leaving aside the phrase “ill-gotten gains” for another day, let’s be absolutely clear: the money that the police and government lawyers take in does not go back to “the community”.  It goes to the police and these same secretive organisations where it is paid out in perks and other difficult-to-trace transactions.  Some of it is re-invested to provide the means to target more money.  We saw an example of it with speed cameras where the income from fines was used to purchase more cameras to generate more income.  That scam was fairly obvious; others are more subtle.

Tomorrow I want to comment less on generality and more on personal specifics.  Those journalists and commentators who dare write about such things do so from the disadvantaged position of lacking firsthand knowledge.  That is not a problem I have.

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Life imitating art

Regular readers of this blog will know what a twisted crowd of wannabee gangsters now run the British government.

I have written that the so-called "Proceeds Of Crime Act" has little connection with either "crime" or its "proceeds".  It is a piece of legislation designed to enable the government to take, without need to supply cause, anyone's money. In previous blogs I have given examples of how they have done so on many occasions.

Not only does POCA demonstrably not target criminal money, as the government and police claim, it does not reduce crime either.  It increases crime.  Why?  Because if you take off a family every penny they have, strip them clean, it is more likely, not less likely, that another crime will be the result.  People have to eat and pay bills.  They will not simply curl up an die.  POCA is about encouraging more crime.

Our state employees have taken George Orwell's 1984 and used it as a template for government.  Words now mean exactly the opposite of their original meaning.

There's another book our policeman and government lawmakers should read: Fahrenheit 451.  In it the firemen are the ones who cause the fires - by burning books.

In North London the police have set up a dummy pawnshop to encourage young people to steal and then sell goods to them.  Rightly it has been described as a "honeypot".

Shauneen Lambe, executive director of Just for Kids Law, added "I believe a police force should exist to prevent crime, not create it."
Metropolitan police accused of creating crime

In a country which had any kind of functioning legal system the attempted prosecutions of these kids would be summarily thrown out as entrapment.

For all those policeman and government legal hacks who read my blog, here's a suggestion for a book you might want to read "Six Days of the Condor" by James Grady.  It's a book about CIA staff who read novels to get ideas for real life intelligence scams that they can use.

Government policy is increasingly based on books that state employees read while at University. At this rate the British legal system will be based on Fifty Shades of Grey.  We are already subject  to laws based on the philosophy of a pre-Christian madman, have convictions without trial, secret courts, reversal of the burden of proof, assumed guilt, guilt by association and punishment of innocent family members (here we are copying North Korea and Chinese "custom") and psychological torture; we have Revenue and Customs publicly shaming "tax dodgers".  It is only a matter of time before we revert to whippings and public floggings.

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Beyond the police state

I was sorting through some of the year's newspaper clippings as part of the research for my forthcoming book, The Cannabis Conspiracy, and when you have them all piled in front of you it really hits you just how many regular assaults on our freedom are made by the government.

Obviously, I'm not the only one saying this.  The Bishop of Liverpool has become so concerned that he has called for a special law to "control the powerful".   Nice idea but fat chance!

Then there has been the various manoeuvrings of the government throughout the year to bring secret courts into being.  The excuse, of course, was terrorism but no one believes that.

I suspect that some of my overseas readers think I am exaggerating.  How could Britain, that bastion of fair play, have become a police state?  (The head of the Counter-Terrorist Squad confirmed some years ago that we had become a police state adding "it's a pity").  It's more than that - it's a crime against the people.

Our government is now up to so much skulduggery that it is impossible to keep up with it.  Pro tem I have uploaded a few press clippings up to www.right2party.zxq.net

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