Saturday, 4 February 2012
Friday, 3 February 2012
More Than One Holocaust - A Guest Post
The following is a copy of a letter I sent to my local paper. My original headline was "More than one Holocaust" - but the Derby Telegraph never will leave my headlines alone! Dr. Saros Kavina is a retired apparatchik of the race relations industry who frequently writes to say how beastly and racist Britain is. A while ago, he actually wrote that Stalin was preferable to Hitler because he was not "racist"!
SAROS Kavina gave us a timely reminder that we should not forget the horrors of the Nazi holocaust.
Many of the officials involved (called Schreibtischtaeter in German – desk criminals) went on to successful post-war careers in German and European politics, administration and industry.
Yet the notoriety of the Nazi horror somehow eclipses the far greater slaughter inflicted by Communist regimes in the name of the workers of the world and the brotherhood of man.
So far, nothing has outstripped the 70 million who were "deprived of existence" by the Chinese Communist regime, although Soviet Russia's executioners and starvation camp commandants far outdid the scale of Hitler's beastliness.
The historian Robert Conquest was the first to quantify the scale of the Soviet Terror and he composed a rather grim limerick as a reminder:
There was an old Marxist called Lenin,
Who did one or two million men in.
That's a lot to have done in, but where he did one in,
That old Marxist Stalin did ten in.
The French parliament recently passed a law making it an offence to deny the genocide of Christian Armenians by the Muslim Turkish Empire in 1915.
Oddly enough, Heinrich Himmler used this example to quieten his lieutenants' fears of retribution.
"Who remembers the Armenians now?" he asked in the thirties. Well, it seems the French do.
A historian or apologist for the Turks might deny the fact of this genocide in Britain.
He could then be extradited to France for this new offence under the European Arrest Warrant.
A crime does not have to be committed in the country issuing the warrant and you can be arrested and extradited to any EU country for offences which are not crimes under British law.
So much for freedom of speech in the supposedly democratic EU.
Edward Spalton
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Safer Roads
In this part of the world more and more often I read of court cases in which eastern Europeans are involved. Drink driving, driving without insurance and/or road tax and careless driving are all convictions I've read in the past few months.
Often I've wondered why so many eastern Europeans are involved in breaking the rules of the road, but now I know.
It is to be hoped that the transport minister Mike Penning takes urgent action to ensure that no more driving tests, either theory or physical, are taken involving interpreters.
Surely vital to road safety is the ability to read road signs where necessary and be able to understand the basic language involved with using the roads. Back in the 70s I sat a driving test in Germany and had to undergo a written test and road test without an interpreter. Prior to both tests I chose to undergo a German language course which specialised in vocabulary associated with all aspects of driving and vehicle ownership. There was no mention of an interpreter being available and the choice was simple; learn the language and then you will be able to sit the relevant driving tests.
Fortunately my new language skills made it easy for me to pass the Swiss driving tests some years later and I can't recall any mention of an interpreter then either.
Visitors to these islands have a difficult enough time coping with driving on the left hand side and many, prior to visiting, make themselves acquaint with the laws of the road. They may have language difficulties if they become involved in some incident and that's acceptable, but those who decide to live permanently must be able to understand enough English in order to help keep our roads safe.
If English classes, which teach language associated with owning and driving a vehicle, have to be introduced then surely that would be money well spent instead of the millions paid out in interpreters.
Who Founded The EU And Their Influence Today
I know this is a longish video but it's of importance to us all.
The video is based on a speech by Rodney Atkinson at a public meeting at the Houses of Parliament on 26 February 2008 - updated in 2010.
Rodney Atkinson is a former adviser to Ministers and an internationally praised author of 6 books on political economy and the crisis caused by the European superstate. He has broadcast on radio and television in the UK, Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, Austria and the USA and his books have been sold in more than 50 countries.
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
A 'New' Anthem - Poll Results
The poll asked 'Does Scotland Need A 'New' National Anthem?" and the results show a majority for one, although Flower of Scotland seems to have have a strong following too.
With 378 votes the results shouldn't be ignored by the powers that be. An anthem competition could well infuse the referendum debate with a little light-heartedness.
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