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A Christmas
Message-2004
The past year has
witnessed the 60th Anniversary of the
Commemoration of the Normandy landings on June 6th
1944. attended by the reduced ranks of the survivors
whose brave actions brought Freedom and Hope to
Europe.
Shortly after this
emotional and significant event in the annals of our
history our Prime Minister Tony Blair signed
twenty-five times the Treaty of the New European
Constitution at Rome
against the wishes
of millions of the subjects of the Queen
who do not wish to become citizens of the EU which
would take away the very liberties for which were
fought for those 60 years ago.
We have yet to see
Tony Blair say sorry for lying to Parliament and the
People and for taking the Country to war in Iraq on
a Lie. We still await the
resignations of the Prime Minister and Geoffrey Hoon
and John Scarlett of M16.
We also deplore
the action of the Prime Minister and Defence
Secretary for moving the Black Watch and supporting
troops up to the Baghdad area and the lose of life,
also the injuries –some very serious - which our
brave soldiers have received in their stoic
performance of their duties. As their Commander
said his troops ‘
will attract insurgents like Bees to Honey’.
Our thoughts are
also with the families of the six Redcaps who
have been told that ‘No one to Blame’ and
therefore, they are left with no alternative but to
take the matter further in order to obtain what
appears the unobtainable with the present government
‘JUSTICE’.
Our thoughts are
also with the family of the Trooper
who though
cleared by the Army on two occasions of the unlawful
killing of an Iraqi citizen has by the Attorney
General Lord Goldsmith been committed to the Old
Bailey to stand trial. This
is the same Attorney General who claimed the war on
Iraq was unlawful.
With Christmas
only a month away our thoughts are with the families
and friends of those soldiers who gave their lives
and those who have been injured –some possibly
disabled for life, in their duty and service to
their Country, and those who must remain in Iraq
until recalled.
Our wish this
Christmas is that our troops will be home with their
families no later than Easter next year –earlier if
possible.
Since last year
everything is not gloom
we have had the resounding ‘NO’ from the
Northumbrian’s to any suggestion of giving up
their local self –government to a EU
Quango -which would be answerable to the
unaccountable despotic bureaucrats in their squalid
stable in Brussels.
The
‘Victory’
in the North East must be put into perspective.
It was a magnificent achievement when one
considers as stated elsewhere…“that the ‘Yes’
Vote had years to prepare;
support of all sorts of state and
pseudo-state bodies; a budget dozens of times the
‘NO’ campaign; the Tories had no significant forces
in the region other than some grass- roots
volunteers; the business organisations assumed a
‘Yes’ vote; the BBC was manfully on the ‘Yes’ side
and repeatedly tried to throw the campaign
Prescott’s way; the two biggest regional papers were
pro; three
month’s earlier headline polls suggested they [The
‘Yes’ vote] had something like a thirty point lead…”
So do remember the
attitude of the BBC Northeast and that section of
the Press who would rather put the freedom of the
Press and Media in jeopardy for their own EU agenda.
And the lack lustre attitude of the defeatist
Conservative Party who must again be saying to
itself –how can it happen – that so many times we
have been proved wrong -yet again –when
will we learn? –When too late?
We hope the bias
of the BBC in the Northeast is the exception,
otherwise we may need International Observers from
Ukraine and Iraq and Sudan or wherever to oversee
the general election and referendum to ensure fair
play and truth prevails in our present supposed
democracy.
The intention of
the Government to increase its hold on the
population by taking away our most sacred liberties
and rights must be fought to the last –until we are
successful.
The justification for their
infringements is sketchy to say the least and cannot
be permitted to succeed.
What might help
their credibility would be if those Ministers
responsible admitted their fault and resigned. But
this seems to be a lost cause with the present
Executive who intend whatever it takes to hold on
till the next election.
This may be the
last Christmas that we enjoy those freedoms which we
hold so dear unless we come to our senses and
prevent the erosion of our traditional ‘Rights
and Liberties’ by supporting the
UKIP
the only party which will protect our Constitution
at the forthcoming General Election in May 2005
and give a resounding ‘No’ to the New European
Constitution at the Referendum which is
anticipated to follow.
Lastly, the
historian Sir John A.R. Marriott
outlined our
Individual responsibility in 1935 at a time of a
number of Dictatorships in Europe-Italy-Germany-Russia
(USSR)–Spain. In the closing words of his
publication ‘Dictatorship and Democracy’
which all should read- the following words:
‘Thus
the English people have come to regard themselves,
not merely as the fortunate possessors of A RICH
HERITAGE OF ORDER AND FREEDOM,
also as the trustees of a property to be held for
the common benefit of mankind.
[Which
we all and mankind would lose if we do not leave the
EU]
‘They hold
themselves to be charged with a unique
responsibility-to be stewards, in a special sense,
of the mystery of government. If stewards indeed we
are,
it is required of them
that they are found to be faithful. The fruits
of FREEDOM, hardly won, may not, without grave and
anxious deliberation,
be dissipated even to purchase ORDER; nor may the
blessings of ORDER be surrendered in vain pursuit of
the shadow of FREEDOM.
Sir John A. R.
Marriott. (1935)
To those who may
be still be unconvinced we call on a Christian
liberal European thinker of the last century Lord
Acton (1834-1902) who sought to further
the aim for Peace and Freedom in a world of
True Federal Democracies loosely formed of
Independent Nation States and he further
comments: -
‘Laws are part
of a thing’s nature. Law is National, growing on a
particular soil, suited to a particular character
and wants. Legislation should grow in
harmony with the People-should be based on habits as
well as on precepts. It should be identified with
the National character and life. On this depends
growth and progress. The People cannot
administer a law not their own. This is the reverse
of Self-Government, which proceeds not from code but
from custom, is learnt not from books but from
practice, is administered by the People
themselves.
However the code
may be, if it comes from
aliunde than
from National life and history, it destroys
Self-Government…even if its forms are liberal…it is
for this reason that it has never been possible to
export more than phantoms of the British
Constitution.
Lord Acton
concluded his speech on Freedom
with the following words: -
‘I
do not like to conclude without inviting the
attention to the impressive fact that so much of the
hard fighting, the thinking, the enduring that has
contributed to the deliverance of man from the power
of man, has been the work of our countrymen and
their
descendents in
other lands…
All these
explanations lie on the surface, and are visible as
the protecting ocean; but they can only be
successive effects of a constant cause which must
lie in the same native qualities of perseverance,
moderation, individuality, and manly sense of duty,
which give to the English race its supremacy in the
stern art of labour, which as enabled it to thrive
as no other can on inhospitable shores, and which
(although no other people has less of the
bloodthirsty craving for glory…) caused Napoleon to
exclaim, as he rode away from Waterloo, “It has
always been the same since Crecy.?
[Fonts
altered-bolding used-comments in brackets]
11/04
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A Merry Christmas
to you all.
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God Bless our Queen
and
Protect our Constitution and Country.
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God save the Queen.
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And
Details of Composer and
of John Bull
(Confound their politics. Frustrate their knavish
tricks)
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