THOSE IN POWER DEFINE THE MEANING OF “EXTREMISM”
I noticed
in the Guardian on the 23rd January edition an article by Peter
Walker, the Political Correspondent, entitled
“New national security unit set up to tackle fake
news in UK”.
The key extracts are:-
“The government is to set up a
dedicated national security unit to tackle fake news and disinformation,
Downing Street has said. The prime
minister’s spokesman said.
One
specific area agreed as needing new resources by the national security council
as part of the NSCR is the spread of fake news, he said.
“We are
living in an era of fake news and competing narratives. The government will
respond with more and better use of national security communications to tackle
these interconnected, complex challenges.
“To do
this we will build on existing capabilities by creating a dedicated national
security communications unit. This will be tasked with combating disinformation
by state actors and others.”
The unit
will “more systematically deter our adversaries and help us deliver on national
security priorities”, he added, saying there was as yet no information on where
it would be based or who would staff it.”
Here is a
link to the original article >>> https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/23/new-national-security-unit-will-tackle-spread-of-fake-news-in-uk
It is worth noting that Oxford Dictionary’s definition of “extremism” is:–
“The holding of extreme political or religious views; fanaticism”.
Anyone
who is not a fully signed up multiculturalist or, to quote the Judicial
Appointments Commission (on the requirement for judicial office in our cartel
democracy), a person “who can demonstrate a life -long commitment to equality
and diversity” should bear in mind what I explained in one of my previous
articles called “Fight the Good Fight
with all thy might” (here is the link >>> http://robintilbrook.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/fight-good-fight-with-all-thy-might.html) when I
pointed out that now even a scripturally based Christian has been re-defined by
the British Government as an “extremist”!
Also the expression of any view at odds with the official one is likely
to be classed as “offensive” just like the Electoral Commission calling our
slogan “England worth fighting for” offensive.
(click here for my article on that called “UK’s Electoral Commission rules that “England worth fighting for!” is
OFFENSIVE!” >>> http://robintilbrook.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/uks-electoral-commission-rules-that.html)
This
means of course that we are now truly in a political landscape where it can rightly
be called out saying what John Tyndall did years ago, that:-
“The
first lesson is to realise that it is our lack of power not our so-called “extremism”
that is the big deterrent and anyway what is “extremism”?
At
different times across history extremism has meant different things.
So what
has changed since then? Has the truth
changed? Is what was true then no longer
true now? No. What has changed is power. Power then was in different hands and that is
what we are up against. Those who have
the power today…. they are able to determine what is mainstream and respectable
and what is extreme.
We have
to understand that “extremism” is a meaningless term. It is entirely what the current makers of
public opinion decide it will be. No
more, no less.
Our
activity must be geared to the winning of power. That still has to be said to some people…
They are crusaders for the truth but they don’t relate it to necessities of
winning power. It cannot be said
enough.
‘Power is
what must be won.’
First
just a little bit of power, then more power and finally complete power.
Activity
geared to anything else is a waste of time.
But we
one day will be answerable to our grandchildren and our grandchildren are going
to say to us when that great time of decision came what did you do? Did you give in or did you fight?
Are we
going to say to them well the struggle was too severe. The odds were too strong. Perhaps we left it
a bit too late. We hadn’t a chance and
therefore we lost our country, we lost our nationhood?
Or will
we be able to say to them with pride and honour I was one of those who fought
and there were more and more who came and fought with me. I went off into the streets and worked and
struggled for our Cause. We stood firm
like the men at the Alamo, like the men at Rourke’s Drift, like the men at
Blood River. We fought to the bitter end
and we won!”
So it is
worth bearing in mind that what is meant by the word “offensive” is also
changing.
In the
English Democrats Judicial Review Case in which we were judicially reviewing
the Electoral Commission’s removal of our long registered description saying
‘England worth fighting for!’ They claimed this is now offensive. Evidence was produced of the Electoral
Commission’s thinking which read as follows:-
“LE: I
would retain all the descriptions except the ‘fighting for’ one. They all advocate support for England, which
is itself exclusionist (ie, it excludes other parts of the UK). But favouring one part of the UK is an
established policy position that parties can and do hold, not just in relation
to England. If the slogans referred to
the English I would be more concerned, as that is a distinction based on
race. I don’t think you can read
‘English’ into ‘England’ in this instance.
In my view the phrase “worth fighting for” is commonly used and
understood in a non-violent context.
Phrased like ‘ideas worth fighting for’ or ‘relationships worth fighting
for’ are common (try a Google search), and would not be read to mean physically
fighting for them. If this description
was seen in the context of all the others, I think it would be reasonably clear
its intention was non-violent. Seen on
its own, however, as it could be on the ballot paper, I think that it is
arguable that the only way to ‘fight for England’ is a violent or militaristic
way. Seen on its own, I think it can be
viewed as offensive in the context of this by-election. It’s the potential for that to happen which
leads me to conclude that we should remove it.”
So it now
appears that it is okay to say as one slogan does which is still registered
with the Electoral Commission ‘Fighting for Wales’ and of course the Scottish
Party is allowed to ‘Fight for Scotland’, but the English are not allowed to be
“exclusionary”!
I
produced evidence in court of the Oxford Dictionary’s meaning of ‘offensive’
which is defined as follows:-
ADJECTIVE
1.
Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed.
‘the
allegations made are deeply offensive to us’
‘offensive
language’
1.1 (of
a sight or smell) disgusting; repulsive.
‘an
offensive odour’
2. attributive Actively
aggressive; attacking.
‘offensive
operations against the insurgents’
2.1 (of
a weapon) meant for use in attack.
‘he is
also accused of possessing an offensive weapon’
2.2North
American Relating to the team in possession of the ball or puck in a game.
‘Shell
was an outstanding offensive tackle during his 15 years with the Raiders’
But
clearly the Establishment wishes to be able to re-define what it considers to
be “offensive” rather than taking account of what ordinary people think or even
what the Oxford Dictionary says that the word means! As per George Orwell’s 1984 “War is peace, freedom
is slavery and ignorance is strength!”
Welcome
to the Age of “Cartel Democracy” in the UK where even our English language has
been co-opted into the Cartel Parties determination to dominate us all and
extinguish English nationhood. Who is
willing to let them win without a fight?
Political Correctness is the only truly extremist ideology that I have encountered. If anyone expresses misgivings about mass immigration, he is pounced upon by the Politically Correct and accused of "hating immigrants". If misgivings about the teachings of Islam are voiced then, those giving voice "hate Muslims". And so on. It's all part of the same problem and needs to be confronted (using reasoned argument) and defeated.
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W-s-M.
THOSE IN POWER DEFINE THE MEANING OF "EXTREMISM".-WRONG!!!
ReplyDeleteThose in (with) power are only able to define the meaning of extremism,as a consequence of the inability of those with potentially equal power,to challenge,change,destroy those definitions that empowered them from the outset.
My contesting statement is fully validated by the content of the article. If studied properly.
Take the present Governments intention to set up a dedicated national security unit,to take on,apparently,fake news and competing narratives.
In other words,they are seeing the rise of the Alt-Right,with their increasing ability/power to challenge the dominant narratives,to such an extent,that Governments are running scared.
Unfortunately it would seem that the ED,with its stymied political manifesto is nowhere to be seen among the wider Alt-Right and rising New Nationalist Movements.
In existence since 2002,it is clear that the ED in its current form has hit the buffers and therefore stands little chance of winning sufficient power, enough that is, to introduce their own definitions.
The time has come for the ED to prepare for the narrative wars to come.Not least, to take on the 'imprisoning'definitions imposed by the Globalist Archetype-"Post"Imperial GB.
Time for you Robin and ALL ED members to become word smiths,equal to the task of taking on the Marxist word smith professionals of the media and the new 'National Security Unit'.
Says-Bill from Harold Hill.
I read today that Len Goodman, former Strictly Come Dancing judge got into hot water by calling for more English pro dancers. Apparently, that's "racist". However anyone calling for more "diversity" (i.e. FEWER English pro dancers) is not "racist". How does that work?
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W-s-M.
Some advice for new commentators,from a regular commentator.
ReplyDeleteRegular commentators know that the inbuilt spell/word arrangement checker has been designed for American rather than GB/English usage.Some words containing the letter S for example are underlined in red but are quickly accepted when changed to Z as required in the American version of the same word.
Most important however and the main reason for this particular comment,is the fact this inbuilt US system seems to sabotage certain words. Take for example the word 'WORDSMIH',of course we all know that it is one word.However and this is crucial,the inbuilt US spell checker underlines it in red and will only remove the red line when the word is split into two separate words.
As the author of the above comment-namely as Bill from Harold Hill.I fell foul to the red line nuisance.Busy trying to get my message/comment out and not having used the word wordsmith for months if not years I seccumbed to the red line two separate word requirement.
For direct to comment box,rather than pre-prepared text commentators, I hope this advice serves as useful!-?
Says Bill from Harold Hill.
We all know what will be deemed extremist of course, anything outside the pc boundaries.
ReplyDeletePolitical correctness meets the qualification of a totalitarian ideology because it (1) says there is only one permissible position, namely the politically correct one and (2) it literally can be applied to any aspect of life because of the non-discrimination rule at its heart.
ReplyDeleteWe all know what will be deemed extremist of course, anything outside the pc boundaries.
Political correctness meets the qualification of a totalitarian ideology because it (1) says there is only one permissible position, namely the politically correct one and (2) it literally can be applied to any aspect of life because of the non-discrimination rule at its heart
Q. What do they have in common? SRA (wanting the right to fine up to £50mio) and the Office of the Public Guardian (relayed here as making a grab for grannies' stash):
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9RpUQWOuDQ&t=23m54s
UK Column News 23 February at 24 minutes
A. Have they both received a note from H.M. Treasury demanding they optimise revenue, to help meet the spiralling cost of financing that falsified indebtedness quaintly called the National Debt?
Presumably a FoIA request would be spurned as exempt on some ground or other...?