THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS - AND DONALD TRUMP

I can't decide if Donald Trump is mad or just that his mouth isn't connected to his brain, either of which  would go some way to explaining his continuing bizarre utterances, think -

 'The USA should take over the Ukraine's atomic power stations'

'I don't regard Putin as a bad guy, (this invader of other sovereign nations he wants for his own)

'We're changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America'

'The United States will take over  the Gaza Strip and make it the Riviera of the Middle East............

but his latest  takes the biscuit, that it “Sounds good to me” that America should join the British Commonwealth of Nations!

An organisation made up of fifty six nations who at one time or another were British colonies or possessions, which of course America was until it decided to leave in 1776 and quite frankly I don't want back!

No Donald, you stay on your side of the Atlantic, play golf and wreak your nation, but don't think for one second you'd be welcome in our organisation of free sovereign states.

 THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT AND ILLEGAL ALIENS

There has been various cases of late regarding asylum seekers, criminals  and illegal aliens avoiding deportation by citing their rights under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights.

One such case was that of convicted criminal Klevis Disha, an illegal immigrant, who was allowed to stay in Britain because it would be “unduly harsh” for his 10-year-old son not to be able to get chicken nuggets in Albania and would thus infringe his rights under Article 8, the right to a family life.

Another is that of a woman, repeatedly refused asylum who, citing her right to family life, in that she would be at risk of persecution if she returned to Nigeria, even though the tribunal judge acknowledged that she was lying, was given leave to remain in the UK.

For those unsure as exactly what this much-misused Article 8 says I quote:

RIGHT TO RESPECT FOR PRIVATE AND FAMILY LIFE

1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

Note my underlining - Article 8 is NOT an absolute right but a qualified one and can be disregarded in the interests of public safety, like allowing a convicted criminal to stay in the UK, despite his son's love of chicken nuggets, or a lying Nigerian member of a terrorist organisation to also stay here.

The fact is, appeal tribunal judges are treating Article 8 as an absolute right, so either they are ignorant of the law, in which case they should not be on appeals tribunal in the first place, or they are, for personal political reasons, deliberately misusing the law, in which case they should be in prison.

 AMERICA FIRST

The European nations now getting themselves in a collective fit about America's seeming threat, led by its new President Donald J Trump, to withdraw from its position of the defender of western civilisation, as if this was something new.

Whilst the world has got used to seeing America in the role of global policeman, and has happily sheltered under its nuclear umbrella, it has in reality been fooling itself since 1945.

America at its heart is isolationist, and why not?

It has all the oil, coal and gas it can use; it can, should it so choose, produce more food than it can eat and is wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. The world might need America, but it is doubtful that America needs the world.

Since its inception the United States has been essentially an inward-looking nation and where it has involved itself in world affairs it has been only to serve its own self-interest.

The USA would never have become involved in the First World War had Germany not incited Mexico to declare war on America and if Germany had not been so stupid as to order its submarines to sink US ships. Even when it did, belatedly, join the war it was not as a partner to the French and the British, rather it fought its own private war with German, did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles but made its own peace with Germany in 1921.

It is highly improbable that America would have chosen to take part in the fight against Hitler's Germany during World War Two.

There was, and has always been, a strong anti-British feeling amongst Americans, driven by their envy of our innovation, Empire and language. There was, in 1918, a very real possibility that America, now it had an army in Europe,  would 'sort out the British once and for all', presumably in revenge for losing the war of 1812.

There was at the same time a corresponding strong pro-German sentiment, the USA had, in the 1930s, the largest Nazi party outside Germany.

After Pearl Harbour America would have been quite content to have its own private Pacific War with Japan and leave Europe to sort out its own destiny and salvation had not Germany, in an act of madness, declared war on the USA.

Since the end of WWII we have seen American expansion and aggression across the globe, but it has rarely been to the advantage of the nations affected.

Korea, due to America's war, is a divided nation, each half living in perpetual fear of the other.

Vietnam was wracked with strife for 20 years, and for what? Not for Vietnam's benefit that's for sure.

The Gulf War, nothing more than America's revenge for the loss of the Twin Towers, no matter how it might be dressed up as a fight for freedom.                                                                                              

One hundred years on from Woodrow Wilson's 'America First' annunciation in 1916 we see its resurgence in Trump's  threats  to withdraw from international treaties and  conduct an isolationist trade policy, imposing tariffs on imports in an effort to return America to a self-sufficient nation.

And now, Trump wants to buy Greenland, annex Canada and invade Panama, all for the greater good of..........the United States of America!

America First!

 

 TRANS-GENDER MADNESS

Actress Shobna Gulati as decided, at age 58, that she is now 'non-binary', has she no longer wishes to be identified as either a man or a woman!

So it's taken her 58 years to decide she is ........what exactly? An it?

Meanwhile Eddie Izzard, age 63, has announced he is 'gender fluid', a man one day and a woman on another.

While this may seem funny, and bordering on both the ridiculous and attention-seeking from two so-called celebrities who are hardly household names, this fixation on gender carries with it great dangers, best illustrated by the case of Jennifer Melle.

She is a 40 year old nurse, with a 12 year career of caring for people, who while removing the catheter from the penis of six feet tall convicted paedophile referred to him as a man, hardly surprising as she had his penis in her hand!

Now we know Two-Tier Keir Starmer thinks that 0.1% of women have a penis, or about 63,000 people,but most sensible folk might conclude that nurse  Melle was correct, but apparently not!

This penis-wielding six foot paedophile 'identifies' as a woman and launched a vicious racist tirade against nurse  Melle who instead of being supported was instead subjected to an investigation by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and has been sanctioned by her employer the St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Jennifer Melle is now suing her employer for harassment, discrimination and for a breach of her human rights, and how I hope she succeeds against this creeping malaise now affecting all sectors of society and from which none of us is safe.

This persecution of anyone who dares to speak out against this trans-madness has all the hallmarks of the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem witch trials and the  McCarthy campaign of the 1950s.

From the 14th to the 21st century, seven centuries of persecution .............. and we've learned nothing!

 BERNIA SANDERS AND A LESSON IN DEMOCRACY.

I take grave offence at the American political commentator Bernie Sanders' contention that America is the world's oldest democracy.

Great Britain has had a parliamentary democracy since at least 1660, some 116 years before America, who did not attain true democracy until 1964, 300 years after Great Britain.

Great Britain was amongst the first countries in the world to hold secret ballots for elections, the first such occurring at Pontefract on 15 August 1872.

America did not convert to nationwide secret ballots until 1950!

So come of it Mr Sanders, America has nothing to teach the United Kingdom about democracy.

 THE LESSON OF HISTORY

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat its mistakes

On the 7 March 1936 German troops re-occupied the Rhineland, a de-militarised zone set up, and in direct contravention of,  the Treaty of Versailles which had ended the First World War.

The victorious powers, France and Great Britain, made only a token protest at this gross violation of the treaty.

On the 30 September 1938, after threats from Germany to invade Czechoslovakia, Britain, France, Italy and Germany reached an agreement generally called the Munich Agreement, hailed by the then British Prime minister Neville Chamberlin as 'peace in our time' to allow Germany to annex the Sudetenland, the border areas with Germany of Czechoslovakia.

Emboldened by this easy victory  in March 1939, Germany occupied the remainder of Czechoslovakia in direct contravention of the Munich Agreement.

 The seeds were now sown in Germany's mind that they could get away with invading and taking over another sovereign state and the great powers, Great Britain and France, would stand idly by and let it happen.

German invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and Great Britain, at last, issued Germany with an ultimatum, "withdraw your troops from Poland or a State of War will exist between us".

No such undertaking was given,  the Second World War began, and 40 million died.

Had the Great Powers resisted Germany's 'pushing of the boundaries' it is possible that the Second World War might never have occurred.

In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it, in a mirror image of Germany's actions towards Czechoslovakia in 1938, some 76 years before.

Whilst various countries, and the United Nations, condemned the Russian invasion as a violation of international law nothing was done and Russia got away with this annexation of part of the sovereign state of Ukraine.

Just as Hitler in 1939 so Putin in February 2022 thought the Great Powers would not interfere so Russia invaded the Ukrainian mainland.

President Trump of the USA is now prepared to compel the Ukraine, under threat of removing its military assistance, to reach a settlement which would include the Ukraine ceding some 20% of its territory to Russia.

Peace in our time? Perhaps not.

How long before Putin's Russia, sensing the west's, especially America's reluctance to stand in its way, moves to occupy all of Ukraine as German did with Czechoslovakia in 1939?

 And what then? Which country will next fall to Russian expansionism? Estonia, Lithuania, and will the world and Trump's America, stand by and let it happen?

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat its mistakes

 

                                                            MURDERED by HAMAS

for the Lord shall be thine

everlasting light, and the days

of thy mourning shall be ended.

Isaiah 60:20