The U.S. Government Has Broken Hundreds Of Treaties And Agreements

The Explosion Of The Prison Population In The USA.

Most people imagine that the explosion in the U.S. prison population during the past 25 years reflects changes in crime rates.
Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3million in such a short period of time due to changes in laws and policies, not changes in crime rates.

Yet it has been changes in our laws, particularly the dramatic increases in the length of our prison sentences, that have been responsible for the growth of our prison system, not increases in crime.
One study suggests that the entire increase in the prison population from 1980 to 2001 can be explained by sentencing policy changes.
( Michelle Alexander )

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
No one in this world, so far as I know, and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
( H.L. Mencken )

Theresa May And The Tories Created A Hostile Environment.

I can recall exactly where and when I felt most proud of the country I was born in.
The evening of July 27, 2012, in the London Stadium, watching Danny Boyle’s jaw-dropping Olympics opening ceremony, which ditched the usual jingoistic flaunting of our Empire-ruling history and told the world about another version of Britain that rarely makes the tourist biscuit tin lids.

It showcased this country’s humour, ingenuity, resistance, generosity and openness.
We saw NHS nurses, suffragettes, CND protestors, punks, Jarrow marchers and the first wave of Commonwealth immigrants from the Caribbean marching behind a huge model of their ship, the Empire Windrush.

It made most of us feel good about living in a successful multi-cultural country, an emotion that exploded in that stadium the following Saturday when half-Jamaican Jessica Ennis and Somalian-born Mo Farah helped give British sport its proudest night.
Many on the right despised Boyle’s show, though.

A daily Telegraph report attracted 800 angry comments, the first of which read:
“We don’t want that Marxist tripe vision of Britain”.
And Tory MP Aidan Burley called it “leftie, multicultural crap”.
Downing Street distanced itself from Burley’s comments, saying “Clearly we don’t agree”.
But how clear was that disagreement?

Months after those Olympics, the then Home Secretary Theresa May introduced a policy of creating a “hostile environment” for foreigners with a group set up to examine Migrant Access To Benefits And Public Services.
Their mission was to make it so hard for people to access the system without papers documenting their entire stay in the UK, they would be forced back to their country of origin.

To hammer home the message, threatening billboards were driven around London saying: “Go home or face arrest”.
May now denies this was a deliberate policy to deport people as she chased some mythical net immigration figure, but the then head of the civil service Lord Kerslake told the BBC that some ministers felt the hostile environment policy was “almost reminiscent of Nazi Germany”.

At the time, the Tories were panic stricken over their core voters defecting to UKIP due to immigration levels.
They had to appear tougher than Nigel Farage to win back those votes, so deliberately depicted immigrants as a problem rather than a solution to the nation’s skills shortages.
It was partly why David Cameron called a referendum on EU membership, which allowed the Nigel garage-led Leave EU camp to successfully play the xenophobic card, portraying dark-skinned foreigners as the enemy within.

The racist genie was out of the bottle.
Hate crimes went through the roof, anti-fascist campaigning MP Jo Cox was murdered by someone wanting “Britain First” and members of that Windrush generation, invited by the Crown to rebuild post-war Britain, were now losing their jobs and benefits, being denied cancer treatment, and sent to deportation centres unless they had detailed documentary proof they weren’t undesirable aliens.

Officials even destroyed their Windrush landing cards to make that act harder.
This has been a shameless period in British history as the bigoted and economically illiterate notion that immigrants are innately bad has become accepted wisdom.
The racist genie has to go back into the bottle.
We have to remove this lingering stench from the national conversation.

We have to remember that we’re all descendants of immigrants just like those who came over on the Empire Windrush.
We need to take our country back.
Not to some all-white, 1950s fantasy world that never existed, but to that inspirational evening in 2012.
When Danny Boyle made us realise that Britain’s greatest assets are its tolerance, diversity, defiance of oppression and desire to embrace.
( Brian Reade, 21.04.2018 )

Boris Bikes Or Ken’s Cycles ?
He was a terrible Foreign Secretary in a rehearsal for No 10, laughing about dead bodies in Libya and cack-handedly extending a British-Iranian mother’s jail sentence in Iran.
Equally his eight-year reign as London Mayor was a complete failure compared with Labour predecessor Ken Livingstone’s innovative terms, the Tory scamster squandering £40million on vanity buses and a £43million luvvie unbuilt garden bridge.
Boris Airport was a pricey fiction and even the “Boris Bikes” network was inherited from Livingstone, “Ken’s Cycles” a more accurate eponymous tribute.
( Kevin Maguire on Boris Johnson, 16.06.2019 )

The Relentless Smear Campaign Against Jeremy Corbyn.

The Conservative Party, the Tory-supporting media, and Jewish activist groups, who some claim many have infiltrated the Labour Party by becoming members, seem to devote much of their time and energy attempting to discredit and blacken the reputation of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The relentless rhetoric, unfounded allegations, propaganda and fear-mongering have persuaded many, both neutrals and Labour supporters, and some who should know better, to join the attack on Mr Corbyn.

The reasons for the prolonged smear-campaign, which started almost the moment Mr Corbyn was elected as Labour Party leader, are fairly obvious to smart and intelligent people.

The initial, ridiculous unfounded attacks were for being a threat to national security and befriending just about every terrorist organisation.
When this didn’t work, the meaning of anti-semitism was changed overnight.
Because Mr Corbyn is sympathetic to Palestine and criticises Israel, this has been the relentless rhetoric ever since.

The reasons, of course, is that the elite and the wealthy are worried (shit-scared, in fact) that if Mr Corbyn did take office as Prime Minister he would, without doubt, look closely at tax-havens, offshore bank accounts, tax-evasion, money-laundering, corruption, and the dodgy goings-on in the banking and financial sectors.

They simply want to stop Mr Corbyn becoming the UK Prime Minister, no matter what they have to do or say, or how dirty or low down in the gutter they have to go.
( Len Firswood, 27.06.2019 )

The U.S. Government Has Broken Hundreds Of Treaties And Agreements.

Some years back Richard Nixon warned the American people that Russia was bad because she had not kept any treaty or agreement signed with her.
You can trust the Communists, the saying went, to be Communists.
Indian people laugh themselves sick when they hear these statements.

America has yet to keep one Indian treaty or agreement despite the fact that the United States government signed over four hundred such treaties and agreements with Indian tribes.
It would take Russia another century to make and break as many treaties as the United States has already violated.
( Vine Deloria Jr. )

Boris Johnson Avoided As Much Questioning As Possible.

During his time as London Mayor, Boris Johnson bought water cannons for £320,000, although he never used them and sold them at a £300,000 loss.
He also wasted £46million of public money on his botched Garden Bridge without ever beginning construction.

He dropped targets for new affordable homes and slammed the ‘lefty’ idea of social housing as something that’s ‘not good for people’.
The Estuary Airport was a Boris vanity project.
He spent around £10million of taxpayers money on a scheme which was ultimately rejected by the Davies Commission.

When Ken Livingstone was London Mayor he took questions every week until the journalists had run out of questions to ask.
Boris Johnson avoided as much questioning as possible and took only one question per journalist with a strict half-hour cut-off time at his press conference, once a month.
Likewise, he cut the State of London Debate from a day at a weekend to two hours on a weekday evening.
( Wilfred Soon )

To Be Offended Is A Choice We Make.
Certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offence.
However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me.
Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false.
To be offended is a choice we make.
It is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
( David A. Bednar )