English Yokel

Yokel was horrified to read in the Mail this weekend about the attack on Bin Laden in his Pakistan hideout!

Of course Pakistan knew where bin Laden was holed up. They play a two faced game, aiding the US in English, and the Islamists in Urdu/Arabic. So what? It's an old game for those with their eyes open (see MEMRI).

No. What troubles Yokel is what the serving United States Secretary of Defense (Leon Panetta) had to say. As well as castigating Pakistan for their feigned ignorance of bin Laden's whereabouts, he also confirmed that a Pakistani national (currently in custody in Pakistan for treason) was the source of the US information. In doing so, he (Leon Panetta) has undoubtedly sentenced this brave doctor to death; probably a painful extrajudicial death.

Yokel concludes that the current US Administration is trying to ensure that it receives no further intelligence, and can therefore justify losing its half hearted fight against the jihadis. How can a government hate its own people so much? Yokel doesn't know, and will refer all additional questions to the British Government, who give the appearance of having already decided to do the same. And it matters not whether the government is red flavour or blue flavour, it makes not a jot of difference to the actions they actually take.

Things have been moving very slowly in the further development of ACTA. Yokel originally commented in July 2010. Yokel now suspects that this slow progress was a deliberate attempt to keep it well below the radar, until it came to be imposed in national law as a, by then, non-negotiable "treaty obligation".

So the powers that be will be rather upset about some MEP resigning as their fig leaf of democracy, and making some rather astringent comments about the whole thing.

Yokel still thinks that the whole thing has a very unpleasant aroma associated with it, and that it is merely a foundation stone for something even more unpleasant. But he still has no idea what that will be.

It is often said that the British have a problem in conversing with strangers; that they only have one topic of conversation, and that is the weather. These days, the professionals in the field would actually have us believe we should use the term climate instead. Either way, Yokel found this juxtaposition on the front (web) page of the Mail rather amusing:

This takes Yokel back to his childhood, when "scientists" predicted we were headed for a mini ice age. But instead all we got was the Al-Gore!

It is with great joy that Yokel reports this story. A film maker (probably a left winger by inclination) has written on the Daily Kos (itself a publication with a left wing slant) about the manner in which loonwatch has become a propaganda tool for the jihadist tendency.

There will be more joy in Heaven over one who changes his ways than for the 99 who never needed to. (A Yokel paraphrase of this verse from this chapter of Luke's Gospel.)

Equally of course, it means that it is now too late to stop the "time of Jacob's trouble". The forces have been unleashed. Let us use this time, just like the "phoney war" of early 1940, to prepare for what is to come. We must choose which side we support, arm ourselves with knowledge and understanding of our cause, and await further instructions while keeping in communication with HQ.

Yokel wants his voice heard. There are two parties in a divorce; it is only fair that both should have a say on the parting of the ways. The whole of the UK should have a vote in the referendum on Scots independence.

You might guess that Yokel would be all in favour of keeping the Union. After all, he has so often championed "doing things the old ways". And by that he means the ways that things were done before the Scots Bliar and Brown started on their 15 year orgy of wrecking. But no. Yokel wishes the Scots out as fast as they can run away.

The Union was started because the Scots had run out of money and had to come asking for a sub, "'till pay day". The then English government had a bit more gumption that our present lot, and insisted on something a bit more permanent. So the English money sorted out their problems. Ever since then they have had more out of the coffers than the English (per head of population). The Scottish Mafia (Bliar, Brown, Darling, et al) did their best to destroy the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And then they were thrown out of government. But now they wish to dictate the terms of their leaving, having left the cupboard bare!

So all they can do is to try to divide the Union, and invoke the "Auld Alliance" between Scotland and France.

What the Scots are being told they want is:

What they will probably get is: , largely because Salmond wants it.

The end result however, will probably be this, because in the eyes of some commentators, this is what the EUssr appears to want.

Scots, you made your bed when you elected the SNP Government. Now is the time to lie in it! No more messing around! Be off with you!

Yokel wrote yesterday's request to have our Double Jeopardy rule back while wondering at the same time just how long it would be before there was another move in the wrong direction. Little did he think that the following day there would be this in the Mail:

Secret justice: How Cameron and Clegg vowed to hand back our liberties but are instead planning illiberal changes to justice system

What a difference 19 months makes. Speaking in the sun-lit Downing Street gardens as he launched the Coalition back in May 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron promised it would be ‘committed to civil liberties and curbing the power of the state’.

Nick Clegg added that after years of Labour authoritarianism, theirs would be a government ‘that hands you back your liberties’.

Now, however, almost unnoticed, this same Government is planning to enact highly illiberal changes to the justice system.

If, as Mr Cameron intends, they become law later this year, the consequences will be an unprecedented growth of secret hearings in both civil court cases and inquests; to deny ordinary citizens the ancient Common Law right to challenge evidence against them; and to make it far more difficult to call wrongdoing by government agencies to account.

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So in short, they will make it possible for the citizen to be punished for an unproven allegation, of which the accused is unaware, and for which there is no proof.

Yokel is struggling to see how these ‘commonsense proposals’ by Kenneth Clarke are different in principle from this dramatisation of the Russian Terrors (The Chekist) shortly after the second revolution. If you have the stomach to watch it all the way through (and it is a VERY brutal story) you will notice the widespread use of arbitrary, unchallengeable arrest for trivial pseudo offences for which the outcome is always pre-determined. Rather like the court in Alice in Wonderland, only a damn sight more serious.

Fellow Britons, this Yokel fears that the story in The Chekist is what awaits us, unless we awake from our stupor and DO SOMETHING.

Yokel thanks those film makers in 1992 who had the guts to make that film only a year after the Politburo had tried to oust Gorbachev in a coup. The KGB, successors to the Cheka had yet to be defanged. On YouTube, use the CC button to access the English subtitles. It is also available on torrents.

PS Yokel also spotted this story about the use of 20 Security Company (V) to monitor the activity of those arbitrarily deemed to be "enemies of the state". So the precedent has been set. And we all know about "Mission Creep", don't we.

Now that the judicial system has made up for the initial shortcomings of the investigation, and a couple of the mob who murdered Stephen Lawrence are now behind bars, please can we have our protection against Double Jeopardy back?

The protection against being tried twice for the same crime had lasted for some 800 years until thrown away by Bliar and Brown and Blunket in 2003. Its principal purpose was to prevent the State from gaming the prosecution of an individual citizen until it wore them down so that they no longer had the stamina to defend themselves, or a compliant judge and jury was found to convict at the State's bidding.

But given the era in to which we are being ushered, this Yokel has no doubt Stephen Lawrence was merely the excuse for its removal, rather than the reason.

While it is still legal, Yokel will take this opportunity to wish his readers a peaceful Christmas, and a New Year in which they can successfully look after themselves and their loved ones.

Large doses of "real life" are washing over Yokel at present, but he hopes to be back regularly at the keyboard in the New Year.

May the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob make His face to shine upon you and give you His peace. The peace that the world cannot understand.

The true face of Islam: to leave Islam is to be murdered.

Iran: Pastor Nadarkhani refuses to recant during trial 26/09/2011

Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has twice refused to recant his Christian faith during two court hearings held in Rasht, Gilan Province on 25 and 26 September. Sources close to CSW indicate that recanting will again be demanded at sessions scheduled for 27 and 28 September, and that if he continues to refuse, he will be executed thereafter.

Pastor Nadarkhani was tried and found guilty of apostasy (abandoning Islam) in September 2010 by the court of appeals in Rasht. The verdict was delivered verbally in court, while written confirmation of the death sentence was received nearly two months later. At the appeal in June 2011, the Supreme Court of Iran upheld Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s sentence, but asked the court in Rasht, which issued the initial sentence, to re-examine whether or not he had been a practicing Muslim adult prior to converting to Christianity. The written verdict of the Supreme Court’s decision included provision for annulment of the death sentence if Pastor Nadarkhani recanted his faith.

Following investigation, the court in Rasht has ruled that Pastor Nadarkhani was not a practicing Muslim adult before becoming a Christian. However, the court has decided that he remains guilty of apostasy because he has Muslim ancestry.

There is more ...

Time is of the essence. Please take action today. CSW is calling for urgent prayer and action on behalf of Pastor Nadarkhani today. Please email the Iranian embassy as soon as you can, urging them not to go ahead with the execution following the trial.

Yokel comment: It seems that this approach to individual freedom, conscience and thought is what our multicultural EU masters wish to impose on us.

Thanks to JihadWatch for the initial information.

Those of us with our eyes open, and our common sense switched on, have known for a long time that this politicians mantra about "green jobs" was a load of old ... rubbish.

Now at last, someone has proven it with numbers. A report, The Myth of Green Jobs by economist Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University, examines the long-term impacts of subsidising expensive "green" renewable energy projects. He calculates that this dream will cost a 2 or 3 percent reduction in GDP per annum until the lunacy has worked its way through. His expectations of energy prices is enough for Yokel to advise one of his customers to think seriously about going offshore, where energy costs may be cheaper.

The full report is on the GWPF site, and a review is at The Register.