Speaking to ITV’s Peston on Sunday she said: “I think it’s very sad when a public servant who’s given very good service to the public, when their career ends in disgrace.” [What she presumably means in plain English is, it's very sad for her credibility when her dishonest associates are exposed.]
UPDATE ON WHY ANTI NUCLEAR DETERRENCE BIGOTS CENSOR THEIR OPPONENTS INSTEAD OF ENGAGING IN HONEST DISCUSSIONS: 24 FEBRUARY 2017
There is another analysis of the use of bigotry dressed up as "taking offense at other people's views" by Stephen Pollard out today: This Country Has Been Taken Over by the PC Brigade, Daily Express, 24 February 2017, page 12, which is vital for understanding how and why groupthink "liberal elite"-camouflaged fascists get away with ignoring the substance of the argument (which debunks their agenda of dogmatic Marxism, socialism, or whatever). If you hold a political garbage belief that you cannot honestly defend by reasoned argument, then you act as a bigot by censoring out all alternative, more defensible ideas as being immoral.
This was the way the medieval Catholic Church, the USSR Stalinist's and Goebbels' Nazis propaganda machine worked: they were paranoid, claiming that all their critics were racist infidel, a trick still used by Marxists against Jews and Western capitalists. Socialists claimed they were fighting back against anti-Aryan, or anti-Russian bigotry when they starved, beat and gassed millions. Then concentration camp eugenics was deemed the only way to stop anti-Aryan or anti-Russian "racism". By simplistically and falsely dressing up any criticism as being simply "rude" or "racist", this "shoot the messenger" card was used to protect socialist ideology from reform (rudeness is used by Marxists whenever it suits their agenda to rant and rave and scream, to divert themselves from the task of honest debate, and because someone has been angered or embittered by dogmatic authority doesn't by itself prove their criticisms to be wrong):
"Political correctness has become a poison ... it destroys ordinary people's faith in the system by treating their genuine and decent concerns as somehow immoral. And when people no longer feel that mainstream politics and the system can reflect their values, then they look elsewhere. ... take the NHS ... It doesn't matter that no other country in Europe has an NHS and almost all of them deliver better healthcare to their citizens. ... to make sure that people have better healthcare ... you offend against what is politically correct. ... The problem is that although political correctness began in the 1970s as a form of radical Left wing politics [stemming from USSR backed opposition to America's involvement in Vietnam, and from Bernstein and Woodward's Washington Post saturation coverage of Nixon's misjudgement in permitting a bungled raid on Democratic Party lawyers at Watergate] and was at that time little more than the preserve of students, one generation's students are the next generation's establishment. So the mindset of 1970s students ended up becoming the mindset of the establishment ... Political correctness is now the dominant mindset in public life. ...
"Look at the BBC. Its editors would say that they are open-minded and curious, free of bias and always interested in ideas. But try this ... Imagine a drama series on the BBC where the hero was a Brexit [anti-EU dictatorship] campaigner or a Trump supporter. You can't, can you? Or how about a BBC documentary which suggested immigration is out of control? Again, you can't.
"Of course, the BBC would never dream of such programmes because they offend political correctness ... Indeed, Trevor Phillips [former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission] recalls in his film [about political correctness blunders, not shown on the BBC, 23 February 2017] how he was accused by a well-known BBC Radio 4 broadcaster of 'peddling a racist narrative' after he said that President Obama's iconic status as the first African-American president shouldn't be allowed to mask his poor record in office. This kind of political correctness that censors offending views and refuses to allow the discussion of certain topics is very dangerous. First, because human beings evolve through intellectual inquiry and endeavour. If we simply block off some ideas and views, then we diminish ourselves [the way to debunk claims by holocaust deniers or Moon landing conspiracy theorists is with a discussion of the factual evidence, not by simplistic censorship or dictatorial abuse]. But more immediately, because a society that treats the concerns and values of many of its people as simply beyond the pale and seeks to wipe them from view is headed for trouble."
- Stephen Pollard,
This Country Has Been Taken Over by the PC Brigade, Daily Express, 24 February 2017, page 12.
The next page, page 13, has another example of this problem, written by Frederick Forsyth,
Nobody in Britain is above Criticism (Daily Express, 24 February 2017), where a fashion-bigoted, critic-intolerant judge who made a mistake is trying to impose censorship to preserve his dignity:

"The great and good Lord Neuberger, president of the Supreme Court, is not pleased ... He has been contradicted, even criticised. ... But the noble lord does not like being disagreed with let alone criticised so he took to the airwaves ... no one in this old country is immune from criticism and that goes right up to the monarch, and she is a lot higher than Lord Neuberger. Our forefathers fought many tyrants for the right to speak our minds ... So if the noble lord ever felt like redecorating his robing room let me recommend a large placard at one end saying: 'Every mouthful you eat, every stitch on your back, every cup of petrol in your limousine is paid by us. So please do not treat us with disdain. Signed, the people of the UK'." [The problem here is that the judge would simply reply: "I pay tax too, therefore I pay my own salary! Now get lost, before I have judge you guilty of incitement of hatred, high treason, racism, rudeness, lack of respect, and political incorrectness!]
There is a deeper truth that these journalists are missing. All forms of dictatorship can invent some contrived excuse to fail to engage into a constructive discussion with critics to make progress.
The usual claim that all criticisms of judges, lawyers, priests, political ideologies, physics theories, or religions is a "hate crime" that must be censored as rude, and that only nice, polite praise of orthodoxy is acceptable, is a dictatorial counter-revolutionary trick: the opposite of free liberalism.
UPDATE: 25 February 2017
ABOVE: Leo McKinstry's analysis,
How government gave compensation to suicide bomber, Daily Express, 23 February 2017, page 12:
"The warped ideology of political correctness is fuelling the demise of the West, making a mockery of justice. In the madhouse built by our ruling elite ... we are literally paying our enemies to wage their brutal war against our civilization. ... Abu Zakariya al-Britani ... was reported to have blown himself up in a suicide attack on an Iraqi army base near Mosul ... not just a terrorist but also the recipient of a reported £1 million from the British taxpayer. This vast sum was handed to him by our supine politicians ... for alleged mistreatment while he was held in the US detention camp of Guantanamo Bay, having been arrested in 2001 by US forces ... the Labour government lobbied hard for his release, which soon took place in 2004.
"When he was freed ... the Home Secretary David Blunkett grandly declared that 'no one who is returned will be a threat to the security of the British people'. That empty boast now lies flattened ... Altogether 16 people from Britain received handouts after spells in Guantanamo, with the total sum estimated to be £20 million. ... our sick system means that people such as him are lavishly rewarded. Hatred of our values is the cue for riches. ... They despise our gullibility dressed up as compassion and our cowardice masquerading as tolerance. ...
"Lenin famously described his Western supporters as 'useful idiots' ... the civil rights lobby led by the sanctimonious Shami Chakrabarti [now a Labour Lady and British shadow Attorney General, a close colleague of labour leader Jerry Corbyn] of the pressure group Liberty, who built a public career out of shrieking against anti-terrorist crack-downs before she became one of Jeremy Corbyn's acolytes. Typically, when al-Harith was released in 2004, she said she was 'delighted', even though the American authorities had said ... that he was 'a known Al Queda operative' who represented 'a threat to the USA, its interests and allies'. ... The new US President Trump also recognises this. That is why he and his new Attorney General Jeff Sessions are determined to keep Guantanamo Bay open as they strengthen America's counter-terrorism policy."
The Marxists are hypocrites and fakers, haters of free speech yet disguised as liberals, haters of differences yet disguised as anti-racists, haters of individualism yet disguised as tolerant, haters of progress yet disguised as progressives, haters of understanding and hope yet disguised as compassionate people. This is why they exploit and facilitate the "divide and rule" tactics of Lenin: race war, cultural war, religious war, class war. They are obsessed with creating divisions, opposing improvements, and facilitating terrorism because their dogma is one of fear, violence and destruction.
Update, 2 March 2017:
It has been pointed out to me that the UK House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, who has stated that he refuses to permit President Trump address Parliament during his state visit later this year, backed the £1 million UK government funding of IS suicide bomber Jamal Al Harith and others after their release by Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw on 25 January 2005. Speaking in the Commons, Bercow stated:
"Would it now send an invaluable signal if the foreign secretary instead of simply saying, 'If people come to us about compensation we will follow it up', 'There is no reason in principle why they should not receive compensation and every reason why they should'?"
Labour MPs Keith Vaz and Jeremy Corbyn joined Bercow in demanding compensation for these Guantanamo Bay terrorist suspects. Jeremy Corbyn stated complacently in 2013 that the terrorists compensated were to be praised: "the British nationals who have been released from Guantanamo Bay ... in fact, have made a commendable contribution to arguments for justice and for closing it down." How wrong he was proved when Al Harith blew himself and others up in Iraq last month! He has failed to apologise or retract his false statements, just as he ignores the full facts about civil defence effectiveness and the deterrence needed against terrorists. In the past, Corbyn has made a point of being friendly to IRA bombers and has praised Hama terrorists. That's his "compassion".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/21/british-man-launched-isil-suicide-attack-guantanamo-bay-detainee/
ReplyDeleteBomber named by the group as Abu Zakariya al-Britani CREDIT: UNIVERSAL NEWS AND SPORT (EUROPE)
Gordon Rayner, chief reporter
22 FEBRUARY 2017 • 8:54AM
ABritish Islamic State fighter who carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq this week is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was paid £1 million compensation by the government.
Al-Harith, who used the nom de guerre Abu-Zakariya al-Britani, entered Syria via Turkey in 2014 to join Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, leading to questions at the time about the monitoring of terrorist suspects.
It also raised the possibility that compensation money paid by British taxpayers had been handed on by him to Isil.
Earlier this week Isil released an image of him sitting inside the bomb car grinning broadly, with wires and what may be a detonation button in the background.
... The 50-year-old, originally from Manchester, was arrested by US forces in Pakistan in 2001 as a suspected Taliban sympathiser, before being sent to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in 2002.
ReplyDeleteAt the time of his release, the then home secretary David Blunkett said: “No-one who is returned...will actually be a threat to the security of the British people.”
Earlier this week Isil named him as the man who had blown himself up in the car bombing at the Iraqi army base, and released a picture of him. ...
(If this is true, it is another example of left wing terrorism support using british tax cash, in the name of undermining justifiable American anti terrorism measures. Again, as pointed out in previous posts, lawyer led prosecutors cannot prevent terrorism using "innocent until proved guilty" idealism. We need civil defence, or the only alternatives are spying on thousands of suspects at immense expense and "civil liberties" controversy, or detention of suspects without charge - the method used in dictatorships. I prefer civil defence plus credible deterrence, to endless legal hypocrisy and preventative wars. Walls are better than civil wars.)