DO WE NEED A REVOLUTION?

KNOW THINE ENEMY

Reports were circulating that the Security Services were preparing for a summer of discontent amongst the people of the UK in 2009. Certainly the Establishment was rattled in 1997. My personal belief is that any such expression of restlessness will be as ruthlessly smothered as Gadaffi is smothering his own revolution in Libya in 2011. The Security Services, bent on propping up our increasingly corrupt neo con society, which is unravelling well after its sell by date, will collude with those who need to be overthrown. Any disgruntlement expressed this year will serve only to enable the Security Services to identify the leaders of a revolutionary movement and ensure that those leaders are permanently disabled.

Taking a stab in the dark I believe that we are a few years shy of a potential full throttled revolution. The full effects of the credit crunch have yet to bite the middle classes to the same extent as the credit crunch has already bitten the working classes. Both Labour and Conservative Governments have failed to rein in the bankers and the neo cons who are now patently corrupt. When light bulbs retailing at 65p and three inch steel screws retailing at £2.60 are bought by the Ministry of Defence at £22.51 and £103* respectively, (*See page 5 of The Sun Friday 4th March 2011) it stretches credibility to ascribe this to incompetence. Corruption is all too often explained as incompetence and such ‘incompetence’ on a national scale needs addressing.

During the years of boom those at the bottom of the pile failed to benefit during the years of plenty. Their wages were eroded, their security of tenure as tenants in the housing sector and workers in the world of employment were similarly eroded. A blind eye was turned toward illegal immigrants and the cheap labour they brought to employers in the UK.

Our anger is being misdirected by groups like the EDL, in the usual smoke and mirrors way, towards immigrants, rather than toward those who have deliberately turned a blind eye and encouraged illegal immigration.

Illegal immigrants are vulnerable. As we saw in the deaths of those Chinese immigrants at Morecambe Bay, the MP reported her worries to the immigration authorities, as did the police. The immigration authorities refused to act. Virtual slave labour is a far more profitable enterprise than paying the workforce a living wage. That is after all how Britain came to world dominance – through the slave trade. Damian Green MP was arrested (2008). His ‘crime’ was to seek to publicise the fact that up to 5,000 illegal immigrants had procured jobs in Whitehall and the House of Commons. This apparently was a ‘State Secret’ deserving of a police raid on the House of Commons and Mr Green’s homes and offices with the collusion of Speaker Martin and his minions.

If illegal immigrants are placed in sensitive positions of work they may well do as they are bid in order to ensure that they remain in this country. If that means that whilst they clean offices they are also asked to collude in snooping on our elected representatives and unbiddable civil servants, then they have little choice but to do so. Illegal immigrants should not be punished for this cynical and ruthless establishment exploitation of their vulnerability.

The ‘working class’ have been squeezed until the pips squeak and now they are being squeezed even harder. The working classes – those who earn under £12,000 a year – have long suffered penury and increased direct and indirect taxation so that they are hardly able to scratch a living without resorting to questionable practices. As unemployment rises the working classes are being galvanised into venting their resentment against immigrants, rather than against Government.

As Robert Tressel teased in his novel: The Ragged Trousered Philosophers, the ‘working class’ have no appetite for revolution. It is only when the credit crunch begins to bite the ‘middle classes’ that a revolutionary spirit takes hold and the Security Services, enslaved to those with a neo con agenda, predicted this ‘middle class’ unrest would be felt in the Summer of 2009. Following the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt Yemen and Libya are we wrong to suppose that such a revolution might not overtake us in the UK? Revolutions are infectious.

The erosion of union membership has meant that many workers feel they have to ‘put up and shut up’ – that they have no choice but to bow to changed working practices, temporary contracts and an increasingly unsympathetic managerial regime. The Government deems it entirely feasible that an unemployed person can live on an income of £65.00 per week. Everyone knows this income is wholly inadequate to pay utility bills, insurance and living expenses, let alone commute to sign on. The working classes have long realised that working illegally, whilst drawing Job Seekers Allowance is the only solution and think it an acceptable risk to face the chance of prosecution. They too work for less than the legal wage in an effort to supplement their diet with more than baked beans on toast.

Unemployed lawyers, accountants and other professionals know that their integrity and future professional standing make the option of working illegally a far riskier proposition. In short the middle classes care about a criminal record; or perhaps they care more about being caught. And it is the middle classes that Governments look to appease, quite rightly, since without them revolutions are rarely possible.

However there is a growing lack of morality amongst many within the so called ‘middle class’ echelon of society, who also know that they are immune from prosecution and can do as they please within the boundaries of secret societies whose members favour one another.

Members of these societies promote one another, cover one another’s backs and have a strict code of ‘Omerta’ – a mafia like code of silence.

If caught and facing criminal charges, like most Mafia clans, these people will take the rap and not squeal. The most high profile example of this code can be seen in the guilty plea of Bernard Madoff, who took the rap in order to ensure that the microscopic glare of the judicial system and the world did not uncover the full extent of that Ponzi scheme, which milked billions from ordinary investors. It is investors, pensioners deprived of their pensions and countless others in other Ponzi schemes, who will begin to realise how they have been ripped off.

As more and more educated people of an honest disposition find themselves deprived of economic means, a pension, a voice, retaining a decent standard of living, the freedom to express their views and gain justice they will lose faith in the long treasured but largely fictional freedoms of our society and a tide of revelation will reveal just how much we have been duped by successive governments of all political hues. Successive Governments have promoted the inhumane, amoral and unacceptable neo con face of capitalism. When that moment comes the British people should be aware of the tactics which our out of control Security Services are capable of using against innocents who trip over unpalatable truths.

This blog aims to make those intent on such a revolution aware of the infrastructure they are up against, to remove the blinkers of innocence and rid all would be revolutionaries of their trust in our judicial system. After understanding one’s own motivations the next essential key to victory over those neo con forces of corruption, which currently rule our society, is the axiom: ‘Know thine enemy.’

Past revolutions should teach us a great deal, but we would be wise to realise just how ruthless and devoid of moral rectitude are those who currently hold power.

The tactics used by the South African Defence Forces against those who rose in the struggle against apartheid had more than a smidgeon of help from our own Security Services. I have talked to someone who claims to have worked as an active soldier, under cover and with complete deniability, in Angola and another in what was then Rhodesia. They both claimed to have actively supported the all white regimes of both countries with the collusion of our Security Services in the UK. This provided a learning curve in population control, which still holds good today. However it is always wise to bear in mind that those who feed one these stories may be dealing in half-truths, although there is an element of corroboration in independent press reports.

It was widely reported that prostitutes in Johannesburg were infected with HIV in the early 1980’s. ANC activists were the primary targets and the prostitutes merely used as a tool of infection. This story has since been denied, but the rate of HIV infection was highest, in its earliest days, around the Johannesburg area. In Rhodesia highly toxic insecticides and herbicides were sprayed onto the veldt in the certainty that guerrilla fighters – who were largely barefoot – would suffer the side effects of such toxins as they made their way through the bush.

The greatest asset any out of control Security Service has is the refusal, by the general population, to believe that any arm of government could be so utterly evil, ruthless, wicked and malevolent.

Those who are prepared to collude with these forces do so in the firm belief that they are adhering to a patriotic duty to keep the status quo intact and unassailable and realise that without this small advantage they too would be subjected to penury and corruption. Particularly since they themselves are financial beneficiaries of that system. These are people whose grasp on morality is so tenuous that they believe ‘the ends always justify the means’ and have little in the way of intellectual power to understand the harm they are conspiring to perpetrate. These people are not capable of divining quite what ends they really serve; they remain in blissful ignorance of the ‘banality of the evil’ to which they have signed up.

History is littered with the acts of individuals who have counted on the honest judging others by their own moral principles. As J Edgar Hoover said:

‘The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous – he simply cannot believe it exists.’

After any atrocity has been committed there will be those who will argue that it is now history and that the crimes need no longer be investigated. Often those who make this argument have something in their own past, which they wish to bury. To bury one’s head in the sand is to allow such atrocities to be committed again and again.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa only brought to light some crimes committed against some people, it did not address the very organised crime wave which propped up the apartheid regime over many decades and it failed to penetrate the code of ‘Omerta’ which still exists in South Africa to this day, and which many migrants from South Africa to the UK still hold to.

Most in South Africa, who did struggle against apartheid, did so through absolutely and utterly peaceful means. However the South African Defence Forces ensured that the peaceful actions of protestors were subverted; to be perceived as violent actions. It cannot be proven, but the entirely peaceful paper bucket bombs, which merely showered those in the vicinity with confetti, were subverted by out of control defence force stooges.

A man, known to have a weak heart, was lured into the vicinity of one such a paper bomb, which the South African security services had intelligence of. He was supposedly treated for shock at the time and died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. Whether his demise was entirely fortuitous or something more sinister is not known, but the lesson is there. Even the most innocuous actions can have dreadful consequences once out of control security services find a means to escalate that action and paint the perpetrators as malign murderers, rather than peaceful demonstrators.

The fact that the general population refuse to believe that such amoral tactics can be employed merely gives those prepared to use these tactics carte blanche to do as they please, secure in the knowledge that they can dub those who begin to suspect the truth as ‘conspiracy theorists.’

Planning and efforts to quell any such uprising in the UK are in train we, poor benighted saps who have no idea of just how our society is really organised, will inevitably find ourselves subjected to the machinations of our out of control Security Services.

Any responsible Member of Parliament who begins to stray into ‘verboten’ questions about our Security Services will initially be told that: ‘This is a matter of national security.’

If this fails to shut him or her up they will then be targeted to ensure that their own probity comes under scrutiny. Caught up in the nightmare of trying to prove their own innocence, or trying to downplay their guilt, they will quickly lose interest in exposing the excesses of our Security Services. If they persist they may be found guilty of fraudulent share dealing, whilst being assured by colleagues that ‘everyone does it; ’ dead with a quarter tablet of co-proxamol ‘overdose, ’ or with an orange in their mouth and a stocking over their head in an embarrassing death by misadventure from an uncharacteristic auto erotic experiment, which good taste dictates precludes further enquiries.

An unbiddable Minister for War may be lured into an affair with a young woman who has also been placed in the arms of a Russian diplomat. An unbiddable Home Secretary may find his son’s alleged drug use becomes the subject of newspaper hints so vast that the Home Secretary is forced to deal with the family dilemma, rather than pursue policy changes within the Home Office. Another Home Secretary may find her expenses under such close scrutiny that she is constantly frustrated in her Ministerial duties by having to fire fight accusations of expense claims which in the end undermine her position as Home Secretary so entirely that she is either rendered incapable of pursing policy change or driven from office entirely.