A MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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A CALL TO ARMS
At a time of great peril to our Freedom and our Way-of Life
The Song of the Earth of
England
by
Percy Bysshe Shelly
– Eng.poet (1702-1822)
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“Men of
England, heirs of Glory,
Heroes of
the unwritten story,
Nurslings of
one mighty Mother
Hopes of
her, and one other;
“Rise like
Lions after slumber
In
unvanquished number,
Shake your
chains to earth like dew
Which in
sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are
many-they are few.
“What is
freedom?-ye can tell
That which
slavery is , too well-
For its very
name has grown
To an echo
of your own.
“What art thou,
Freedom? O! could slaves
Answer from
their living graves
This
demand-tyrants would flee
Like a
dream’s dim imagery:
“Thou art
not, as impostors say,
A shadow
soon to pass away,
A
superstition, and a name
Echoing from
the cave of Fame.
Let a great
Assembly be
Of the
fearless and the free
On the spot
of English ground
Where the
plains stretch wide around.
“Ye who
suffer woes untold,
or to feel,
or to behold
Your lost
country bought and sold
With a price
of blood and gold-
“Let a vast
assembly be’
And with
great solemnity
Declare with
measured words that ye
Are, as God
has made ye free-
“Stand ye
calm and resolute,
Like a
forest close and mute,
With folded
arms and looks which are
Weapons of
unvanquished war.
“The old laws of England-they
Whose
reverend heads with age are grey
Children of
a wiser day;
And whose solemn voice must be
Thine own
echo-Liberty!
“On those
who first should violate
Such sacred
heralds in their State
Rest the
blood and that must ensue…
And it will
not rest on you.
“And the
bold, true warriors
Who have
hugged Danger in wars
Will turn to
those who would be free
Ashamed of
such base company.
“Rise like
Lions after slumber
In unvanquished number-
Shake your
chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep
had fallen on you-
Ye are
many-they are few.”
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[To Britain’s Queen the nations turn
Her rebuke to her ministers for their
Lies
And to Warn
and Advise them
To defend
Her kingdom from Demise?]
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2004
A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
-2003
AT THIS TIME OF
THE YEAR WHEN WE ALL LOOK FORWARD TO BEING WITH OUR FAMILIES
AND FRIENDS AND MANY ARE AT THIS CHRISTIAN FESTIVAL OF
CHRISTMAS THERE ARE THOSE WHO FEAR THAT THE COUNTRY THEY NOW
KNOW WILL SOON BE CHANGED – POSSIBLY FOR EVER.
MANY OF US IN
THE RUN-UP TO CHRISTMAS ARE LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT GIFT FOR
THOSE WE LOVE AND CHERISH. IN MANY HOMES IT WILL BE NOT THE
COST BUT WHAT ONE CAN AFFORD – BUT A PRESENT THERE WILL BE.
FOR THOSES NOW
FEW PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THOSE FROM
THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND ALL THE CONFLICTS AS THERE ARE
TODAY IN MANY PARTS OF THE GLOBE WHERE OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS
SAILERS AND AIRMAN ARE STILL FIGHTING TO PRESERVE THE
FREEDOM OF OTHERS
SINCE MANY REMEMBER THE
POSTER ‘’YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU’’. IF YOU CHERISH YOUR
COUNTRY-ITS INSTITUTIONS- AND THE MONARCHY THEN SIGN THE
PETITIONS WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT , THE
JUDICIARY ( AVAILABLE SHORTLY ), AND TO HM THE QUEEN,
PRIOR TO THE DECISION TO BE TAKEN ON THE NEW EUROPEAN
CONSTITUTION IN JUNE 2004.
GOD PRESERVE OUR COUNTRY
AND OUR QUEEN.
2003
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.
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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A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE-2003
AT THIS TIME OF
THE YEAR WHEN WE ALL LOOK FORWARD TO BEING WITH OUR FAMILIES
AND FRIENDS AND MANY ARE AT THIS CHRISTIAN FESTIVAL OF
CHRISTMAS THERE ARE THOSE WHO FEAR THAT THE COUNTRY THEY NOW
KNOW WILL SOON BE CHANGED – POSSIBLY FOR EVER.
MANY OF US IN
THE RUN-UP TO CHRISTMAS ARE LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT GIFT FOR
THOSE WE LOVE AND CHERISH. IN MANY HOMES IT WILL BE NOT THE
COST BUT WHAT ONE CAN AFFORD – BUT A PRESENT THERE WILL BE.
FOR THOSES NOW
FEW PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THOSE FROM
THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND ALL THE CONFLICTS AS THERE ARE
TODAY IN MANY PARTS OF THE GLOBE WHERE OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS
SAILERS AND AIRMAN ARE STILL FIGHTING TO PRESERVE THE
FREEDOM OF OTHERS
SINCE MANY REMEMBER THE POSTER ‘’YOUR COUNTRY
NEEDS YOU’’. IF YOU CHERISH YOUR COUNTRY-ITS INSTITUTIONS-
AND THE MONARCHY THEN SIGN THE PETITIONS WHICH WILL BE
PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT , THE JUDICIARY ( AVAILABLE SHORTLY
), AND TO HM THE QUEEN, PRIOR TO THE DECISION TO BE TAKEN
ON THE NEW EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION IN JUNE 2004.
GOD PRESERVE OUR COUNTRY AND OUR QUEEN
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