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Only Tyrants remove Trial by JuryNovember 26th, 2025 |
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The US constitution has saved it from tyrany. We really need our ancient rights put beyond parliaments power to change. Our rights arent safe otherwise.
Stuart Noyes – I fear it is already too late for this nation.
Still “it is better to have fought and lost – than not to have fought at all” (“The Flashing Blade”), so I applaud the barrister for making the film and Thomas Fairfax (a great name from a great county) for posting it.
Given that my ancestor could very well be one of those evil Normans, I could have a great name too. Magna Carta was granted from force. A great man said freedom is the result of struggle. Looks like were in for dkme of that from now on.
The only way to do that would be to establish the people as a power higher than parliament.
You must, as a people, re-arm and make your government respect you, or at least fear you.
If you do not do that, parliament will never have any reason to share that power.
The question that remains, on both sides of the Atlantic, is what is to be done about it? I note that as I type two West Virginia National Guardsmen [for brits reading this that is a cross between Army Reserves and militia] who were outside the White House were shot. The news about it has been uncharacteristically subdued. There are reports that they are still alive, and reports that they have both died. A suspect has been arrested with consistent reports that he also is wounded. Usually, our media are speculating wildly on every aspect, but there is not talk of who the shooter might be. This carries in these days a suspicion that he is either Islamic, Leftist, or other protected class. For information, President Trump was/is in Florida and Vice President Vance is in Kentucky; so if it was an attack on them it was a singularly incompetent one.
Those of us on both sides of the Atlantic have much to ponder.
Subotai Bahadur
Stuart Noyes – struggle with what?
The people are disarmed.
And we also have no economic independence – most people either work for the state (national or local), or are on benefits, or work for Corporations – who are joined at the hip with the state.
A society of independent farmers and independent craftsmen and traders we are NOT.
Just FYI:
An update on the Washington DC shooting I reported on yesterday. The shooter was a 28 year old Afghan national admitted to the US without vetting in 2021. He is reported to have yelled “Allahu Ackbar” before opening fire. His visa for admission expired earlier this year and he was therefore a hostile foreign invader. The two National Guard members shot ARE alive but in critical condition. At least one was shot a second time in the head.
There are unconfirmed reports that after he shot the two, an otherwise unarmed National Guardsman used a pocket knife to fight back, delaying him until an armed National Guardsman could shoot him.
As the master of my online avatar is reported to have said, “Be Thou then Truly Resolved. Duty is as heavy as a mountain, while Death is as light as a feather.”.
Subotai Bahadur
There is no way a government sitting at 17% approval should be announcing that it is stealing this ultimate power from its citizens.
If they do this, then they must be removed. BAMN.
Paul Marks
“The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle…If there is no struggle there is no progress…This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.”
― Frederick Douglass
Stuart Noyes – Mr Frederick Douglas had the United States Army to fight for him, in a war that cost over half a million lives.
I repeat – the British people are both unarmed, and have no economic independence.
Most people in America in 1860 were either farmers or craftsmen or traders (or some combination of these things).
Most people in Britain in 2025 either depend on government benefits, or are employed by the state (local or national), or work for vast corporations that are joined at the hip with government.
So what are we supposed to do?
We neither have weapons, nor economic independence.
Any revolt here would have no basis – not a military basis, or an economic basis.
We can VOTE – so those British people who are about in May 2029 have a chance to vote out the current government.
Although that rather assumes that the elected government makes the decisions – whereas, sadly, it is often officials and “experts” who make the decisions, with elected politicians being told this is what they must do.
The regime, as a special concession, has said that its judges will only imprison people for three years without trial by jury, rather than the originally planned five years.
It should be noted that British prisons have changed a great deal in recent decades – whereas once they were placed of confinement, but fairly civilized places, they are now increasingly controlled by gangs and by corrupted staff.
The chances of a dissenter (someone sent to prison for dissent – as is increasingly common) surviving in such a place for three years are not good.