Freedom of Speech-A Freedom, which cannot be abused - is not worth having.

 

In the Daily Mail on Friday the 18^th February 2005 a timely article by their columnist Andrew Alexander on the most important issue to be raised in a true democracy, which is Freedom of Speech for without it, a People are deprived of the very means to find the TRUTH.

 

Though at times the means to achieve this may lead to differences of view which after all is what it all means to speak one’s mind. There is already protection in British law to curb those who wish to encourage violence. Affray and disorder. When others put this basic right of comment under threat then who is there to defend the Principle of Free Speech.

 

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We all have a Right

 

to

 

Freedom of Speech

 

Ken Livingstone should not apologize. He may not be everyone’s cup of tea, certainly not mine, but the issue has now become one of freedom of speech. The possibility that a government-appointed body could suspend him from office is one of the most outrageous things I have ever heard.

 

What he said to an Evening Standard reporter was something no gentleman would say. But so what? Politics, local or national, has never been distinguished by gentlemanly behaviour and never will be. Newspapers can play it rough, too. Both sides expect to give and take hard knocks.

 

The real villain of the piece is an item of legislation entitled-soporifically-The Local Authorities (Model Code of Conduct) (England) Order 2001. Under ‘General Obligations’, we find the astonishing subsection, which says that councillors ‘must treat others with respect’.

 

Note the word ‘must’- not ‘should’ or ‘would be wise to’ or ‘wouldn’t be nice if all councillors were to’. No, politeness is mandatory.

 

Consider also the ludicrous word ‘others’, not voters, officials, fellow councillors or anything so narrow. ‘Others’ can mean anyone on the planet, from David Beckham to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

 

How on earth, you may wonder, did this preposterous threat to free speech creep in? It seems that when the legislation in question was introduced, the Conservatives concentrated their fire on the excessive regulation of parish councils, which was then being established.

 

The Tory promise was that, if it returned to power they would abolish the bureaucratic Standards Board for England (SBE)_ a collection of nonentities chosen by the Government-and leave sorting out of councillors’ problems about conflicts of interest and the like to the Local Government Ombudsman.

 

The Opposition made no move to oppose the wretched 2001 Order when it came along-no protests, not even a demand for a vote.

 

This sinister threat of censorship, which should be fought to the last ditch, passed on a nod, leaving the SBE [Standards Board for England] with the power to bar someone from office for up to five years for breaching the code.

 

The matter of Livingstone’s words has been referred to the SBE by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a disgraceful move. It does British Jewry’s reputation no good to have the Deputies leading a campaign against freedom of speech.

 

Livingstone’s remark about a reporter behaving like a concentration camp guard has, also absurdly been dubbed ‘racist’.

 

It may have played harshly on the target’s sensitivities, but by no stretch of the imagination did it belittle or attack a race.

 

The only thing this sort of exaggeration shows is how far the rot of ‘anti-racism’ has taken us. We are becoming like the U.S. where the obsession about ‘race’ has reached the proportions of a national mania.

 

No doubt, we shall hear the commonplace retort from those accused of trying to curb free speech that of course they are all in favour of freedom, except where it is abused. This is nonsensical view.

 

A Freedom, which cannot be abused, is not worth having.

 

The threat to Livingstone comes in the wake of another threat to free speech in the Government’s new legislation to ban remarks, which stir up religious hatred. Freedom of speech, if it means what it says, involves the right:

To Irritate

 

Annoy

 

Dismay

 

And Shock

 

Anyone who Listens.

 

The only sensible limitation should be on speech designed to lead to violence, affray or disorder. But that has always been enshrined in British law anyway.

 

I can’t help recalling from my youth, in relation to this whole issue, the harmless joke in one of those monologues wonderfully recited by [that great entertainer and loveable gentleman] Stanley Holloway-the Lion and Albert, and all the rest.

 

As some readers may remember’ one explained how the barons of old descended on King John when he was having tea' on Runningmede Island in the’Thames’ and made him sign the Magna Carta…’but his writing in places was sticky and thick through dipping his pen in the jam’.

 

The verse concludes:

 

‘In England today we can do what we like

So long as we do what we’re told’

 

How I laughed then, I would not have believed that this joke could one day be transmuted to:

 

‘And that is why we can talk as we like

So long as we talk as we’re told.’

 

A final touch of absurdity is added by the claim that Livingstone’s remark may jeopardise London’s attempt to host the Olympic Games. If it did, it would be one good outcome. The cost, the upset, the dislocation, the sheer waste of effort if London is chosen is too appalling to contemplate.

 

But if his comment really threatened London’s Olympic bid, it would show what a silly solemn people make up the International Olympic Committee.

 

It might have been a nice thing if Livingstone had originally apologised for having been gratuitously rude. But the issue has gone beyond that now. For him to retreat in the face of a threat to freedom of speech is in no one’s interest.

 

Andrew.Alexander@dailymail.co.uk

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[WE applaud the above lone voice in the wilderness who has touched on the real issue instead as is usual these days the usual witch-hunt to destroy any outspoken comments not subject to law in order that all dissent is crushed under a ‘racist ‘ label which will have as a result the erosion of one of the most precious possessions of our People -a right of Freedom of Speech within the law for ALL the citizens of our Island.

 

The Prime Minister himself when first asked his opinion said that Livingstone should apologise [for his rudeness] and move on to more important things. - Whether he knew at the time He was right in that instance.

 

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THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING? * Ditch the EU TREATY after IRISH REJECTION SAY VOTERS by Daniel Martin Political Reporter [Daily Mail-Wednesday, June 18,2008] MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain should drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of its rejection in last week's IRISH REFERENDUM' The poll comes as the Tories launch a last-ditch bid in the HOUSE of LORDS today to delay the RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY. And 10,000 people have signed a PETITION on the DOWNING STREET- WEBSITE within the past few days JUNE16-2008 , calling on the GOVERNMENT NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL [WHY DON'T YOU?]   Downing Street website is http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/ * JUNE 18-2008

 

 

 

 

 

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THEN WHY NOT SIGN THE

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The extra tier of citizenship was thrust upon the people without their consent -and in many cases knowledge.

The PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN should be allowed the option of opting out of the EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP if they so wish. The GOVERNMENT will then be able to provide those who have opted out with

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	CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!   A BLUNT REPLY TO THE QUEEN'S SPEECH ON CHRISTMAS DAY-25th DECEMBER ,2007. *     TIME FOR DECISION   THE BRITISH LEGACY-AUSTRALIA-CANADA-NEW ZEALAND-WHY THEY MATTER. * The Act of Settlement of 1701-WHY IT SHOULD CONCERN -YOU! * The Common Law of ENGLAND is the LAW of THE COMMONWEALTH and AMERICA * The Commonwealth Realms V The Constitution for Europe- 4-PARTS * MESSAGE FROM AUSTRALIA-SUPPORT THE CROWN * WHY WE MUST BE ALERT AND WITH OUR COMMONWEALTH PATRIOTS MAINTAIN CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY * YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH.   WILL THIS CHRISTMAS  QUEEN'S SPEECH BE THE LAST IN A FREE INDEPENDENT ENGLAND -SCOTLAND AND WALES? Will HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN ASSURE YOU THAT YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FROM BECOMING A PROVINCE OF EUROPE. OR WILL THE QUEEN MAKE IT PLAIN THAT OUR FREE INDEPENDENT NATION STATE IS SACROSANCT BUT THAT IF THE PEOPLE WISH TO BECOME SLAVES -THEN A REFERENDUM THERE MUST BE. WE BELIEVE THAT NO ENGLISHMAN SHOULD BE ASKED WHETHER HE WISHES TO BE A SLAVE OR FREE!   THIS CHRISTMAS WE WILL FIND OUT IF OUR PROTECTOR OF THE 'Rights and Liberties' of Englishmen Will keep by HER SACRED OATH or the MONARCHY be nothing more than a  THEME PARK in the future THIS IS THE TIME FOR BLUNT SPEAKING AS THE VERY EXISTENCE OF OUR UNIQUE NATION STATE IS IN DIRE PERIL. We are told on the BBC  (Brussels Broadcasting Service) at 11.30 pm on Saturday the 23rd December, 2007, that the QUEEN now has a website which has footage of the Royal Family in the past and that the QUEEN is NOT 'Stuck in the past' Well! as far as many patriotic subjects are concerned we need to remain in the PAST when it concerns the protection of  our FREEDOM and COUNTRY.   Change we have had and will continue to have but it must not threaten our very WAY-OF-LIFE our Common Law of England and all which makes our country the most unique parliamentary democracy in the world. THERE CAN BE NO SURRENDER!   Should the Monarch fail to protect our inherited RIGHTS and Liberties then we shall have to fight for a REPUBLIC  as happened in the 17th century because the Monarch of the day ignored those very 'Rights and Liberties of Englishmen' which will still survive in the English Speaking World today in December 2007. How can the MOTHER of PARLIAMENTS give away what is already our and our children's  INHERITANCE which cannot be taken away by PARLIAMENT or the QUEEN.   If the above publicity exercise is to be used to soften the impact to the population of the BETRAYAL of their CONSTITUTION and COUNTRY then it would be the greatest TREASON by a Monarch since James II who sold our COUNTRY to the FRENCH for MONEY and RELIGION. WE ASK WHAT PRICE ARE OUR RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES WORTH? THEY ARE PRICELESS! * A BETRAYAL OF OUR NATION –CONSPIRATORS NAMED *   The Choice is Yours!-but time is running out FAST! 6 months to be EXACT! *   THE EU   WE-AND THEM!   WE are to join THEM THEY are not joining US WE have more to LOSE THEY have more to GAIN WE have been clear of dictators from EUROPE for most of our HISTORY THEY have been cursed with that abomination for most of their HISTORY and NOW! * Our Queen and the EU Constitution * The Spirit of England by Winston Churchill * THE ENEMY IS EVERYWHERE * MESSAGE TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE II * We now learn from the Daily Mail COMMENT on Christmas Eve that the Queen's Speech will cover the catastrophic fall in Values and Moral behaviour since the beginning of her 56 -year reign. This has been brought about by the actions of HER MINISTERS and the greater number of those in HER PARLIAMENT who have placed THEIR CONCERNS before the INTERESTS of THE PEOPLE and NATION STATE.    As for the fact that HER PEOPLE feel LOST that has been the direct result of the actions of HER SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS and the TRAITOROUS POLITICIANS including PRIME MINISTERS who have stealthily over the 56 years of HER MAJESTY'S REIGN have almost achieved their aim of ENSLAVING the PEOPLE to a FOREIGN POWER.  The reason for the marked drop in the number viewing THE QUEEN'S SPEECH is no doubt because the mass of people have realised years ago that the MONARCH is powerless to PROTECT their WAY-OF-LIFE and events up to now have PROVED THEM CORRECT. There is a well know saying 'Nero fiddled while Rome burned' Is it the case on Christmas Day 2007 while the  Monarch talks  our Rights and Liberties are being taken from us under our very  noses? Of course the QUEEN under HER CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE can only 'Advise and Warn' HER MINISTERS but when the matter concerns the very LIFE of an INDEPENDENT STATE we expect that HER MAJESTY consider the arrangement to be AT AN END as it would make a MOCKERY of the PRIME IMPORTANCE of the MONARCH to protect our inherited Rights and Liberties which HER MINISTERS  are endeavouring TO GIVE AWAY. We as loyal subjects of the MONARCH who is the living embodiment of OUR RIGHTS and LIBERTIES  ask at this late stage with only months to the eradication of a FREE NATION STATE some veiled comments that HER MAJESTY will PROTECT our RIGHTS and LIBERTIES. As for the MORAL tone of the NATION STATE at this most crucial time in ENGLISH CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY this matter should be left to CHURCH LEADERS who's responsibility it is to CARE for their FLOCKS particularly at this FESTIVAL of CHRISTMAS. IF HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH has not been pre-recorded  we ask HER MAJESTY to give those MILLIONS of HER subjects some hope that their PROTECTOR has NOT FORGOTTEN THEM. Should this APPEAL not be answered we can at last confirm that the MONARCHY is after all nothing more than a talking shop suitable for YouTube and therefore nothing more than a THEME PARK * Hear Tony Benn's comments about the despotic and corrupt EUROPEAN UNION and the need for a REFERENDUM http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o0I-ZdvQz1o From a politician with INTEGRITY and love of country who has for decades witnessed the growth of the monstrous creature soon to be a UNITED STATES OF EUROPE. *   Liberties of Parliament- Birthright of Subjects of England. *   [All words/word underlined  have a separate bulletin]

 

 

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE TO ALL OUR VIEWERS.   WE WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR IN 2008 [Since our Xmas message to you all last year we find that our sentiments remain the same with the added emphasise on the coming danger to YOUR COUNTRY from those many traitors in YOUR HOUSE of COMMONS who intend to sell YOUR COUNTRY to a FOREIGN POWER] We Remember The Year 2006   The Spirit of England-Winston Churchill-1953 [We were warned in 1953 to beware of wreckers of our Constitution and Way-of- Life but it had taken Tony Blair just 10 years to do just THAT while everyone had their minds they thought on more important matters. Well! in 2007 his predessessor Gordon Brown is leading you to SLAVERY and only awaits the final signature of the present holder of the House of Wessex the over 1000 year  PROTECTOR of our inherited RIGHTS and LIBERTIES of ENGLISHMEN HER MAJESTY-THE QUEEN Of the House of Wessex since King Alfred 'the Shepherd and Darling of England' in the annals of 893 -897 'We still leave it to the work of Alfred the Great  that England was saved to become the first individual nation -state which over 1100 years later a member of that same House of Wessex has already signed away much of those ancient Rights and Liberties and fundamentals of justice and Rule of Law and only awaits a final signature to enslave her people into a despotic undemocratic godless police state to call itself a UNITED STATES OF EUROPE It is within the power of Her Majesty the Queen to refuse to ratify the New EU TREATY because whatever lies her ministers have given her over her long reign the TRUTH is now clear for ALL TO SEE. In the Netherlands a number of years ago their MONARCH resigned for a day rather than sign the Bill put before him. The New EU TREATY is the death of a NATION STATE of over 1200 years in the making. It is the treasonable actions of HER MINISTERS which has placed THE QUEEN in the forefront in the protection of the Rights and Liberties of HER SUBJECTS as on no one else can HER PEOPLE DEPEND. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN * WILL THIS CHRISTMAS  QUEEN'S SPEECH BE THE LAST IN A FREE INDEPENDENT ENGLAND -SCOTLAND AND WALES? *   A WARNING MESSAGE TO THE FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE OF ENGLAND by Harry Beckhough [Author of Germany's Four Reich's] 2004 * 'There'll always Be an ENGLAND' -NOT any MORE     * THE EU OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WILL PORTRAY ITSELF AS THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD 'Don't tell the voters-or you will ruin everything '   "...we have to make sure that there are no discussions taking place in the open air" Guenter Burghardt, a former EU ambassador to the US, warning that details of the new EU diplomatic service (officially to be known as the External Action Service) should not be discussed in public before the UK PARLIAMENT had ratified the NEW EU TREATY  and Ireland has held its TREATY REFERENDUM early next summer (source: EU Observer on 27th November ,2007 The EU has also stated that none of its institutions should rock the boat until the English have ratified their TREATY. Over the next few months you will hear more than ever the wonderful benefits of the EU. Whether it is Global warming or whatever they feel shows them in a good light and when you have swallowed the bait you will not know what has hit you. They intend to show how reasonable they are and that they are there to make you happy. If you all fall for this con-trick then you will deserve the SLAVERY that is in store for YOU! Referendum: how Labour could still smell of roses. and 'Money to spare' when we leave the EU in 2008? Open Europe says:   Build 40 brand new general hospitals each year 2007-13 or Cut council tax by nearly 50 per cent or Cut the basic rate of income tax by 3p or Cut petrol duty by 75 per cent or Pay the total bill for the London Olympics in less than a year AND MUCH MORE Commons debate on the European Communities (Finance) Bill on Monday 19th November,2007. REFERENDUM DAY will be RECOMPENCE DAY? * A TIME FOR EUROSCEPTICS TO LEARN FROM THE PAST-ONLY A TWO-PRONGED ATTACK CAN BRING VICTORY AND SAVE YOUR FREEDOM -CONSTITUTION AND COUNTRY. *

 

 

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