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Cultural Marxism's "Long March Through The Institutions" of Western Civilisation

"I saw the revolutionary destruction of Society as the one and only solution.
A worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries"
[George Lukacs, The Frankfurt School, {date}]

"We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks" [Willi Munzenberg, The Frankfurt School, {date}]


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Mainstream Media and Press   |   Popular Culture & Entertainment
The Tower of Babel: UN, EU, NWO   |   Eco-Fascism   |   Demonising the Dissenters
Marxism, Communism, Socialism, National Socialism, Fascism   |   Liberalism, Progressivism, Leftism
Olympics 2012 Opening & Closing Ceremonies

 

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Political Correctness   |   General   |   Multiculturalism, Immigration, Racism
Tolerance, Equality & Diversity, Relativism, Human Rights, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Thought Control, Hate Crimes
 

Page Two:
Gender Fascism   |   Marriage, Family, Children, Child's Play   |   The State as Parent  
Statism   |   Crime/Law Enforcement, Courts/Legal System, Surveillance, A Police State
Education and Academia   |   History and Revisionism   |   Capitalism Etc
 

Political Correctness Articles Pages   |   Websites and Recommended Materials   |   Scripture References


 

Mainstream Media and Press

"One should be clear that in referring to the 'state propaganda apparatus' here I do not mean that it comes from the state. Our system differs strikingly from, say, the Soviet Union, where the propaganda system literally is directed and controlled by the state. We're not a society which has a Ministry of Truth which produces doctrine which everyone then must obey at a severe cost if you don't. Our system works much differently and much more effectively. It's a privatized system of propaganda, including the media, the journals of opinion and in general including the broad participation of the articulate intelligentsia, the educated part of the population. The more articulate elements of these groups, the ones who have access to the media, including intellectual journals, and who essentially control the educational apparatus, they should properly be referred to as a class of 'commissars'. That's their essential function: to design, propagate and create a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent understanding and analysis of institutional structures and their functions. That's their social role. I don't mean to say they're conscious of it. In fact, they're not. In a really effective system of indoctrination the commissars are quite unaware of it and believe that they themselves are independent, critical minds. If you investigate the actual productions of the media, the journals of opinion etc., you find exactly that. It's a very narrow, very tightly constrained and grotesquely inaccurate account of the world in which we live" [Noam Chomsky, Chronicles of Dissent: Interview with David Barsamian (1992), pp.??].

"Political Correctness is an enforced morality, not a real morality. It gives the appearance that people are treating each other with respect, while underneath it causes resentment. It is also patronising, dishonest, and a shoddy replacement for British manners. The BBC is the chief exponent of Political Correctness and should be sorely reprimanded" [comment by Harry: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/05/08/missing-words/].

"In my view, 'bias' is too blunt a word to describe the subtleties of the pervading culture. The better word is a 'mindset'. At the core of the BBC, in its very DNA, is a way of thinking that is firmly of the Left" [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349506/Left-wing-bias-Its-written-BBCs-DNA-says-Peter-Sissons.html].

"Peter Sissons' memoirs serve to confirm everything we already knew about the ingrained bias at the BBC. Pro-Europe, anti-American; pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel; pro-Labour, anti-Tory. All you had to do was turn on the wireless yesterday morning. According to the BBC, the most important story in the whole world at 8am was that an Arab television station was reporting that the peace-loving Palestinians had been scuppered by the evil Izza-ra-aylees. Half an hour later, the next most important story was that the wicked Izza-ra-aylees had been found guilty of 'war crimes' by an entirely independent UN committee, featuring representatives of those beacons of human rights, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. You won't be surprised to learn that the wickedness of the evil Izza-ra-aylees was the front page lead in the Guardian yesterday. I don't know why the BBC even bothers to pretend it is impartial. its idea of balanced 'news' is reading out the Guardian every morning" [Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail, 25 January 2011].

"The BBC is, of course, not interested in the truth. In fact, it fills very well the role of an Orwellian Ministry of Truth, whose only purpose is to indoctrinate the public in socialist claptrap. How long must the people of Britain supinely pay the license to these ['useful idiots']?" [Reader's comment, March 25th, 2011, 9.06am, in http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6811005/an-mp-speaks-out-against-the-bbc-on-israel.thtml].

"On BBC Radio 4 this morning John Humphrys suggested that by identifying the rapists as Pakistani Muslims rather than just Asians was to give ammunition to the right-wing. So the BBC continues to cover up the brutality of Muslim gang rape rather than face the reality of the modern Britain produced by malignant and catastrophic left-wing ideology. By doing this the BBC ... is complicit in the rape of our children" [http://britishfreedom.org/video-muslim-rape-and-liberalleft-complicity/].

"I say it again, what is wrong with the diversity that Britain already has? We hear time and time again from the BBC lecturing us that Britain is a multicultural society. Well I'm afraid outside the main city centers it ... isn't; unlike the anti-white, anti-English, anti-Christian BBC, some of us ... are still proud to be white and British - and I couldn't care less what culture or race one comes from so long as they respect our way of life and traditions. I love different cultures of the World and enjoy living side-by-side Sikhs and Buddhists and so on BUT this is Britain and the BBC should remember that we too want to be recognised for who we are and not have our identities airbrushed from the pages of history by upper class, guilt-ridden urban liberals who hold the working classes in utter contempt. ... I would remind the BBC that the majority of people who fund its existence are not from outer Mongolia or Trinidad but Britain so why don't they stop obsessing over race and imposing the multicultural thought on us all and just get on with what they are paid to do until such time the tyranny of the enforced TV Licence is removed once and for all..." [Comment by Merlin: http://biasedbbc.org/2012/06/10/hideously-white/].

"If [Carol Thatcher] really doesn't know that it's crude bad manners to call black people 'golliwogs', then she's even stupider than she looks. And yet, despite all this, I have to say that her sacking is a creepy and disgraceful thing. It's creepy because of the Stasi-type informer who reported her, when an upturned glass of red wine over the Thatcher blonde locks would have been more honest and a better lesson. And it's disgraceful because of the BBC's feigned outrage, when it shelters in its studios great regiments of Left-wing bigots and hate-mongers who can say what they like" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 7 February 2009].

"Don't make the mistake of thinking that the BBC is a news reporting organization. The BBC is a campaigning organisation with many agendas to further. The news is subservient to the various narratives that the BBC wish to advance" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/08/19/expert-is-someone-who-knows-more-and/].

"How we used to jeer at the Soviet Union for claiming record tractor production, record wheat production and record economic growth. These fatuous lies were obvious falsehoods, ... But our own official figures are now just as laughably false. The worst of all are the annual claims that our schools are producing a new generation of brilliant wonder children. ... For more than a decade, people like me have been abused and denounced because we dared to point out that British school standards were failing, and that our bench-mark examinations were being watered down. ... Now our case is absolutely proved, by the sudden halt in ever-improving grades. This was caused by a simple warning from the government, requiring the exam boards to show that any more 'improvement' was justified by better quality work. And yet the lies continue. The BBC, ... has never questioned the absurd Stalinist claims of our education industry, ... That is because the causes of our wretched education standards, ... lie in the failed Left-wing policies of the Sixties. The BBC passionately supports these policies, and the Tory Party has adopted them just as their utter failure has become evident to anyone with a spark of intelligence" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 26 August 2012].

"Here's the real reason why the BBC can't host a statue of George Orwell (Orwell himself would have loathed the idea of such a graven image). Orwell was neither of the Left nor of the Right, but dedicated to truth at any cost. The BBC, by contrast, can and does distort the truth to serve its Leftist ends" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 26 August 2012].

"Last weekend, almost every BBC radio bulletin I listened to, over several days, mentioned a petition calling for full implementation of the Leveson Report into the press, and said that the number of signatures was rising. Unless they can show that they have ever done this with any other comparable petition, I believe this is objective evidence of BBC bias on a matter of public controversy. Will the BBC Trust act?" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 09 December 2012].

"I am besieged by unhappy citizens distressed by the BBC's decision to move a favourite programme, Sunday Half Hour, from its evening slot on Radio 2 to a pre-dawn timing.  One writes: 'It is obviously a move to kill off one of the few Christian programmes.' I suspect he may be right. The BBC's right-on executives tend to treat older listeners as if they are already dead" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 13 January 2013].

"First, the new BBC director general makes New Labourite James Purnell his strategy director. Now, with the appointment of Guardian veteran Ian Katz to edit Newsnight, Tony Hall adds another Left-winger to his stable. With a political editor who was also at the Guardian, and an ex-Trotskyist as economics editor, Mr Katz will be among soulmates on the programme. One question: how can 'new broom' Lord Hall claim, with a straight face, that the BBC is politically unbiased?" [Daily Mail Comment, 18 May 2013].

"In a rare moment of inspiration, the BBC sent Justine and Bee Rowlatt, and two of their children, to live in Germany the way Germans do, for a TV programme. It is amazing how little we in Britain know of our great rival, and this was a clever way of opening our eyes. I just wish the Rowlatts, especially Bee, had made a bit more of an effort to learn the language and to wonder if the Germans didn't have something to teach us, especially about raising children. Here's what they found. Germany has schools that teach people the skills of work. It has real apprenticeships. It has family-owned manufacturing industries in every town, which export around the world on quality as well as price. Work itself remains hard and disciplined, but it is well-paid, and money goes further there than here. If you have children, you are subsidised and mothers are not pressured to go to work - rather the reverse. Debt is feared and despised. Thrift is encouraged. ... Sunday is a real day of rest. Noisy neighbours get into trouble, and inconsiderate drivers meet with immediate disapproval. ... I might add that it still has grammar schools and wonderful railways. And that it is the only Western nation with millions of citizens who actually experienced communism, and who were liberated from it. Which is perhaps why they value their country more highly than we value ours" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 11 August 2013].

"Have you noticed how mainstream advertisements are turning political? While waiting to see that puzzling but exciting film Captain Phillips, I endured two bank commercials. In one, a young man was seeking a home loan because he didn't like his granny's 'Right-wing views'. In another we were shown two female twins, with contrasting lives but the same sort of debit card. One had a husband. The other had a lesbian girlfriend. What are these commercials really selling?" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 27 October 2013].

"I am absolutely appalled by the way the media is making [Nelson Mandela] out to be a god. For the first time in my life I have come to understand how the 'whole world' will follow after the beast. Never could quite get my head around that, but now I do. With every passing day, we [here in South Africa] have either a farmer murdered, baby raped (last week was 6 WEEK old baby), an old pensioner brutally attacked and our media is silent. All because of the AbortionNecklacingCommunists" [comment at http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2013/12/07/nelson-mandela-more-inconvenient-truths/].

"[T]he uncritical hysteria following the death [of Nelson Mandela] is verging on propaganda. ... I was particularly struck by the uncritical coverage by the BBC, ignoring part of the story which they clearly do not want to be seen. They've fallen over themselves to see the positivity, with one view, but not highlighting the pursuit and endorsement of terrorism which left a trail of victims" [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/unionist-allister-hits-out-at-bbc-uncritical-nelson-mandela-coverage-29821257.html].

"Nelson Mandela's South Africa is the rape and murder capital of the world, not something to [be] celebrated really, but all I am seeing across the entire MSM is gushing praise for Mandela. Now this might be right, or it might be wrong, but why is no counter-argument permissible? The Daily Telegraph has five articles praising Mandela that THOU WILL NOT DISSENT - all the comments are disabled. When it comes to non-White Saints we must approve or be forced into silence, RIP freedom of speech in Great Britain" [Paul Weston, comment at http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6196-mandela-man-of-peace].

"I rather enjoyed singer P.J. Harvey's edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. It wasn't that much more Left-wing than it normally is, and I agreed with its strong support for liberty, its dislike of war and its condemnation of torture. It was far more honest and blatant than usual about its bias - which of course makes that bias much easier to resist. The BBC's real partiality is effective because most people don't notice it - the careful selection of subjects and guests to exclude some views and help others, the prominence given to favoured causes, tone of voice in interviews, who gets selected for soft treatment, and who for the third degree, and who gets the last word. How about P.J. Hitchens as guest editor next Christmas? I could show them how genuinely fair broadcasting can be done, even by a biased person, though I'm not sure they want to know" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 05 January 2014].

"The left-wing Guardian newspaper (the only one BBC staffers read) rightly takes a firm line against censorship. But when Melissa Kite submitted an article on 'addiction', in which she described me as 'intellectually brilliant', The Guardian censored the words. Personally, I think Melissa was far too kind, but that's not the point. She said it. They cut it out" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 19 January 2014].

"How does the BBC get away with its blatantly racialist plan to ensure that one in every seven actors or presenters is black, Asian or from an ethnic minority within three years? When are we going to judge people not by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character, as Martin Luther King said we should? Anyway, if it's diversity the BBC wants, it could start by employing any journalists at all who are aren't fanatically Green or Left-wing" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 29 June 2014].



Popular Culture: Entertainment / Emotionalism / Personalism / Empathetic Identification

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. ... In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us" [Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, pp. vii-viii].

"[P]opular culture, particularly the cinema, has molded opinion in identifying its heroes with a false image of THE LEFT and ... Hollywood has never dealt honestly with either the crimes of Stalin and the gulags, Pol Pot, Castro, Arafat, or the principled resistance in World War II to the Nazis on the part of conservative, Christian, monarchist, nationalist and authoritarian parties and leaders..." [from a review of the book, The Left is Seldom Right, by New English Review].

"Being based primarily on emotion rather than reason, the politically correct prefer the personal in an argument rather than the abstract. ... telling personal stories, particularly hard luck cases. These personal stories, which work well for TV, may shed light on a general issue, but often they don't. Concentrating on the horrors faced by a starving African child will induce a sense of guilt in Western readers, but it gives no clue to whether the child is starving because of corrupt governments and lack of rule of law, or because the West is not giving enough aid" [Anthony Browne, The Retreat of Reason, p. 23].

"If I really wanted to influence national life, I'd try to become the editor of a major soap opera. These dramas have a strange power over the national mind, spreading ideas by stealth, turning unpopular views into mainstream conventional wisdom. ... just as we were once powerfully influenced by the real people who lived around us, now we want to be liked by the soap characters who have replaced them. ... So if you can make those characters do certain things in a noble-seeming way, or put certain views in the mouth of a popular figure, you can influence and even change public opinion. You can also change language and manners. ... I've no doubt that the Coronation Street drama about Hayley Cropper doing away with herself will greatly help the campaign to extend abortion on demand from unborn babies to ill or otherwise inconvenient children and adults. How long before they, too, can be pressured into seeking death, and then lawfully snuffed out? For Hayley Cropper is a well-liked character, and the sympathetic portrayal of her plight plunges straight into the emotions of viewers. I think this is insidious and underhand. That's not just because all such soap propaganda is in the hands of the Politically Correct - though it is. Vanessa Whitburn, who radicalised the radio soap The Archers, once blurted out: 'To be PC is really to be moral. It is having a correct moral stance'. The worst thing is that this sort of propaganda by melodrama bypasses wisdom and reason. Those who are manipulated by it do not know what is happening to them. In short, it is brainwashing. It's so sinister that if commercial advertisers did it, it would probably be illegal" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 19 January 2014]. 

 

The Tower of Babel and Global Governance: UN, EU, NWO

"Paths of development, region-specific rather than based on narrow national interests, must be designed to lead to a sustainable balance between the interdependent world-regions and to global harmony. A 'horizontal' restructuring of the world system is needed, i.e., a change in relationships among nations and regions and as far as the 'vertical' structure of the world system is concerned, drastic changes in the norm stratum. Cooperation by definition connotes interdependence. Increasing interdependence between nations and regions must then translate as a decrease in independence" [Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974, quoted at: http://green-agenda.com/spiritualunitednations.html].

"Regionalism must precede globalism. We foresee a seamless system of governance from local communities, individual states, regional unions and up through to the United Nations itself. The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation" [UN's final report, Commission on Global Governance, chaired by Maurice Strong, quoted at: http://green-agenda.com/spiritualunitednations.html].

"The UN was a lovely idea, but its primary objective was to make sure the British Empire was got rid of" [James Lovelock, 29 March 2010, quoted at: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/mar/29/james-lovelock/print].

"When a new British Prime Minister takes office, he goes immediately to Buckingham Palace to kiss hands with the Monarch. When a new French President takes office, he goes immediately to Berlin to kiss hands with the Chancellor of Germany. Why does nobody comment on this? Is it because it is too embarrassing to acknowledge the tragic truth, that France is a German vassal? [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 20 May 2012]

"You have to hand it to them these Marxists are pretty smart in a sneaky kind of way, whilst we were all focussed on defeating communism in the east, they infiltrated all our political parties and institutions in Western Europe and slowly turned them all Marxist, including today's conservative party in Britain under David Cameron. They did it in such a subtle - to many - way, using the excuse of progressivism that only now have people woken up and realised that Europe is a Marxist multicultural totalitarian police state. Some probably still don't realise it and continue to vote for the Marxist labour Party in Britain whilst looking forward to the next episode of the X Factor or Strictly Come Dancing. They have been bought off with bread and circuses whilst not realising they are living in a prison" [comment at: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/an-open-letter-on-tommys-30th-birthday.html]

"May I volunteer to teach BBC staff our lovely customary English measures, which are now to be brought back into schools?  The poor things are floundering with the foreign metric system, recently claiming that some cliffs in the Falklands (actually 600 feet high) towered to a height of '2,000 metres'.  This is because metric measurements are inhuman, and hard to memorise or imagine" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 13 January 2013]

"[David Cameron's] referendum pledge is such a blatant attempt to fend off UKIP that surely even the dimmest voter can see through it. UKIP voters, in any case, are actually far more worried about mass immigration than they are about the EU. As well they might be, since the current Government is actively continuing New Labour's policy of 'rubbing the Right's nose in diversity' by permitting immense, unrestricted, revolutionary migration. This - the next stage is the unstoppable arrival of who knows how many Bulgarians and Romanians - is in fact a direct result of our EU membership and could be halted only by our leaving. Yet our national understanding of this issue is still so poor that most people won't know that when it happens. And so we struggle on, dragged ever deeper into an unfriendly empire we don't even understand" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 27 January 2013].

Time to defy the EU: David Cameron encourages Indians who share our values and work ethic to settle in Britain, but not Romanians and Bulgarians, who he perhaps feels have less to offer. He has launched a doomed campaign to deter these Eastern Europeans from coming here, and is exploring ways to deny them use of the NHS and other public services. Yet the idea that we will compromise our civilised values by allowing Romanian women to give birth on the pavement, or injured Bulgarians to rot from gangrene, is simply preposterous. If we don't want these people here, ban them from coming at all, and dare the EU to stop us" [Simon Heffer, Daily Mail, 16 February 1013].

"First, politicians want to muzzle the Press and end freedom of speech in Britain. Now we learn that some of the pressure groups campaigning for such totalitarianism are receiving European Union funds. The EU has long hated freedom of speech - threatening to stop the pensions of former employees who criticise it, sacking whistleblowers and even punishing MEPs who make anti-European remarks. It's another example of the anti-democratic nature of the EU that we must avoid here [Simon Heffer, Daily Mail, 20 April 2013].

"It's such a pity that nobody knows any history, or it would be quite obvious what so-called Scottish 'Independence' is about. Our continental enemies sought for centuries to detach Scotland from England, to weaken us. Now they're doing it again. If Scotland breaks away from England, it won't be run from Edinburgh, but from Brussels and Frankfurt, and Scots will discover what it's really like to be someone else's subject province. I'm sure they'll have more sense" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 01 December 2013].

"Unilateral action is not really helpful because it risks presenting the UK as the kind of nasty country in the European Union" [Brussels Commissioner Laszio Andor warns David Cameron over his plans to curb migration from other EU states, Quotes of the Week, Mail on Sunday, 01 December 2013].

"Dominic Grieve, the Attorney-General, says that the EU is engaged in a 'flagrant' power grab from member states. Meanwhile, Lord Judge, the former Lord Chief Justice, warns that a 'democratic deficit' will result if the European Court, rather than Westminster, keeps on making our laws. With men of such eminence arguing so wisely, David Cameron must reconsider his decision to wait until 2017 to have a referendum on Europe. If our democratic rights are being smashed in this way, surely we need to discuss it now, not in four years time?" [Simon Heffer, Daily Mail, 07 December 2013].

 

Eco-Fascism

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Diapraxis / Dialectic / Consensus / Values Clarification / 'Facilitators and Change Agents'

 

Demonising the Dissenters

"It hath been found by experience that no matter hoe decent, intelligent or thoughtful the reasoning of a conservative may be, as an argument with a liberal is advanced, the probability of being accused of 'bigotry', 'hatred' or 'intolerance' approaches 1 (100%)" [Cranmer at http://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/].

"I often wonder why Leftists refer to conservatives as 'wingnuts'. A wingnut is a very useful device that adds versatility wherever it is used. Clearly, Leftists are not even good at abuse. Once they have accused their opponents of racism and Nazism, their cupboard is bare" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/]

"A Leftist's beliefs are all designed to pander to his ego. So when you have an argument with a Leftist, you are not really discussing the facts. You are threatening his self esteem. Which is why the normal Leftist response to challenge is mere abuse" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/]

"Because of the fragility of a Leftist's ego, anything that threatens it is intolerable and provokes rage. So most Leftist blogs can be summarized in one sentence: 'How DARE anybody question what I believe!'. Rage and abuse substitute for an appeal to facts and reason" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/]

"Their threatened egos sometimes drive Leftists into quite desperate flights from reality. For instance, they often call Israel an 'Apartheid State' - when it is in fact the Arab states that practice Apartheid - witness the severe restrictions on Christians in Saudi Arabia. There are no such restrictions in Israel" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/]

"The term 'Fascism' is mostly used by the Left as a brainless term of abuse. ... In fact, Fascism is simply extreme socialism plus nationalism" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/]

"Are the DM [Daily Mail] going to refer to UAF [United Against Fascism] and Hope Not Hate as extreme left wing groups or is it only right wing groups that get labeled ''extreme'? The far left has done the country more harm than the so called far right" [comment by Raskilnikov: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167009/The-far-Right-leader-Sikh-headscarf-disturbing-anti-Muslim-alliance-EDL-joins-protesters-angry-grooming-girls.html]

"People who transgress politically correct beliefs are seen not just as wrong, to be debated with, but evil, to be condemned, silenced and spurned ... Because the politically correct believe they are not just on the side of right, but of virtue, it follows that those they are opposed to are not just wrong, but malign. In the PC mind, the pursuit of virtue entitles them to curtail the malign views of those they disagree with. rather than say I would like to hear your side, the politically correct insists: 'you can't say that'. ... Instead of addressing the explicit content of an argument, the politically correct attack what they see as the hidden psychology behind the argument: their opponents are not just wrong but bad" [Anthony Browne, The Retreat of Reason, pp. 6-7]

"Accusing someone of hidden and malign motives avoids the often intellectually and emotionally difficult task of engaging with their actual arguments. ... The inevitable consequence of psychologising arguments is ad hominem attacks, attacking the arguer rather than the argument. Those who question the politically correct shibboleths are deemed a viable target for any personal abuse in either public or private. Those who critique politically correct nostrums are often denounced as extreme" [Anthony Browne, The Retreat of Reason, pp. 21-22]

"Political correctness succeeds by attaching a sense of moral superiority to itself, and a sense of shame to opposing beliefs. ... The politically correct enforce the censorship with powerfully silencing accusations of 'sexism', 'homophobia', 'racism' and 'fascism'. they are widely inappropriately applied, because the aim is not an accurate analysis, but merely to silence opposing views" [Anthony Browne, The Retreat of Reason, p. 48].

"Interesting that Nigel Farage, ... easily won the EU debate against Nick Clegg, despite several attempts to smear him. I'm familiar with most of these smears, especially the 'living in the past' one, always used by people who have run out of arguments" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 06 April 2014].

"Roger Helmer, Ukip's candidate in the forthcoming Newark by-election, is vilified by the Left for supporting the death penalty. I though capital punishment, rather like abortion, was a matter of conscience: but of course the Left allows no one to have a conscience unless it coincides with theirs. Incidentally, Barak Obama endorses the death penalty - so why doesn't the Left attack him?  [Simon Heffer, Daily Mail, 10 May 2014].

 

Marxism, Communism, Socialism, National Socialism, Fascism

"[F]ar from socialism being the answer to all our problems, it is in fact often the cause. Wonderful and worthy as socialist ideas and political correctness may sound, they encourage dependency, they kill free spirit and enterprise, they hide or reverse truth" [http://www.politicallyincorrect.me.uk/WhoWhy.htm (No Date)].

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half get's the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it" [Adrian Rogers].

"Marxism in a free society is like a cancer. It grows and spreads and infiltrates every facet of society, always demanding more taxes to provide universal health care, a living wage, adequate housing, education and other entitlements, until eventually, there are no more taxes to take" [http://www.wnd.com/2010/04/135625/].

"Socialism makes the individual the slave of the state - capitalism frees them" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/].

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" [Margaret Thatcher].

"'[F]ascist' is a modern word for 'heretic', branding an individual worthy of excommunication from the body politic. The left uses other words - 'racist', 'sexist', 'homophobe', 'christianist' - for similar purposes, but these words have less elastic meanings. Fascism, however, is the gift that keeps on giving. George Orwell noted this tendency as early as 1946 in his famous essay 'Politics and the English Language': 'The word Fascism now has no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable".'" [Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, p. 4].

"Today, a better working definition of a fascist might simply be a conservative who's winning an argument" [Jonah Goldberg, Daily Mail, 04 January 2009].

"Hollywood writers use the words 'fascist', 'Brownshirt', and 'Nazi' as if they mean no more and no less than 'anything liberals don't like'. On NBC's West Wing support for school choice was deemed 'fascist' (even though school choice is arguably the most un-fascist public policy ever conceived, after home-schooling)" [Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, p. 4].

"The most important priority for the left is ... to maintain Orwell's definition of fascism as anything not desirable, thus excluding their own fascistic proclivities from inquiring eyes. ... the response [to inquires] is usually more instinctive, visceral, or dismissively mocking than rational or principled. Their logic seems to be that multiculturalism ... and such are good things - things that liberals approve of - and good things can't be fascist by simple virtue of the fact that liberals approve of them. Indeed, this seems to be the irreducible argument of countless writers who glibly use the word 'fascist' to describe the 'bad guys' based on no other criteria than that liberals think they are bad. Fidel Castro, one could argue, is a textbook fascist. But because the left approves of his resistance to U.S. 'imperialism' - and because he uses the abracadabra words of Marxism - it's not just wrong but objectively stupid to call him a fascist. Meanwhile, calling Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, and other conservatives fascists is simply what right-thinking, sophisticated people do. The major flaw in all of this is that fascism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left. This fact - an inconvenient truth if ever there was one - is obscured in our time by the equally mistaken belief that fascism and communism are opposites. In reality, they are closely related, historical competitors for the same constituents, seeking to dominate and control the same social space. The fact that they appear as polar opposites is a trick of intellectual history and (more to the point) the result of a concerted propaganda effort on the part of the 'Reds' to make the 'Browns' appear objectively evil and 'other' (ironically, demonization of the 'other' is counted as a definitional trait of fascism). But in terms of of their theory and practice, the differences are minimal" [Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, pp. 6-7].

"What is Communism?  Red Russia holds too much which is detestable... I am not ready for a creed which does not care how much it destroys the liberty and security of daily life, which uses deliberately the weapons of persecution, destruction, and international strife. How can I admire a policy which finds a characteristic expression in spending millions to suborn spies in every family and group at home, and to stir up trouble abroad? How can I accept a doctrine which sets up as its bible, above and beyond criticism, an obsolete economic textbook which I know to be not only scientifically erroneous but without interest or application for the modern world? How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts a boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of human advancement? Even if we need a religion, how can we find it in the turbid rubbish of the Red bookshops? It is hard for an educated, decent, intelligent son of Western Europe to find his ideals here, unless he has first suffered some strange and horrid process of conversion which has changed all his values. In Western industrial conditions the tactics of Red Revolution would throw the whole population into a pit of poverty and death" [J. M. Keynes].

"The phrase that jumped out at me from [Daniel Cooper's] letter was 'in Russia the working class took power'. So the idea that the armed coup led by Lenin which led to a bloody Civil War, the establishment of the USSR, and the dictatorship of Stalin was 'the working class' taking power, still exists. I was astonished, has this student never heard of the Cheka, the Gulags, the Berlin Wall. It's like reading the sort of left wing drivel that I thought had died out after the invasion of Czechoslovakia"  /  "Perhaps we should have a Day of Remembrance for all those millions exterminated  in the twentieth century by communist regimes, armies and guerillas? The millions shot against walls, hanged in prisons after show trials or no trials, sent to gulags, shot trying to climb out East Berlin, slaughtered in the Chinese civil was and the Cultural Revolution, left to starve by dogmatists, massacred in their millions by Pol Pot - how about a wreath for them? Then maybe Daniel Cooper would turn up. Whoops - don't forget to include the homosexuals shot by Che Guevara, they were also victims of communist fervour" [comments at: http://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-shame-of-university-of-london-union.html].

"Socialism intervenes between the children and the parents, claiming to support them, protect them, and educate them for its own ampler purposes. Socialism, in fact, is the State family. The old family of the private individual must vanish before it, just as the old water works of private enterprise, or the old gas company. They are incompatible with it" [George Bernard Shaw].

"The only doctrine where communism and National Socialism disagreed was on ownership of the means of production: communists felt that 'the people' (newspeak for government) should have ownership; Nazis left ownership in private hands but controlled production. The street fighting between communist and Nazi should be mistaken for 'opposition'. This was not a battle of opposing views, it was sibling rivalry for the same audience: lower middle class and upper working class Germany" [http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5393-my-old-maiden-auntie].

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it" [Thomas Sowell, quoted at http://americasvoicenow.org/the-mindset-of-the-left-part-i-ii-by-thomas-sowell/].

"From the beginning, [Nelson Mandela's] dream was of a unitary South African dominated by black voters supporting a leftist political party, with a thin crust of whites to fund it and keep it going. South Africa's decline into criminality and chaos is simply these ideas playing out to their logical conclusion" [Gregory Hood, http://www.amren.com/features/2013/12/mandela-white-genocide-with-a-whimper/].

"[Nelson] Mandela had the luxury of living to an old age and dying of natural causes, the victims of the terrorist acts at the hands of the ANC were not given such privilege. ... Yes Mandela was fighting against apartheid but other movements had used peaceful methods. Ghandi fought by exclusively peaceful means using publicity and awareness, whereas Mandela chose to endorse terrorism" [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/unionist-allister-hits-out-at-bbc-uncritical-nelson-mandela-coverage-29821257.html].

"According to the best academic estimates, Communism killed between 80 and 100 million people in the 20th century. Hitler only killed fewer because he was stopped in history's most violent war. And, as I see the history of oppression between the great and terrible psychopathic totalitarian systems, the Nazi holocaust was the worst and most degraded single crime of the modern era, while Communism was the greatest criminal system" [http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4426/of_mandela_apartheid_communism_and_apologists].     

 

Liberalism, Progressivism, Leftism

"[T]he left is governed by the Manichean belief that everything not the left is right; that the left is the embodiment of virtue; and that the right is therefore irredeemably evil" [http://www.melaniephillips.com/the-biters-on-the-left-are-bitten].

"An extremely effective tactic of the Far Left is to call themselves 'centre left', and to label anyone who opposes or disagrees with them even slightly as 'right wing'. I should remind you that most if not all of [our] views and policies were regarded as common sense just 30 short years ago" [http://britishfreedom.org/the-far-left-controls-britain/].

"It is undeniable that the Left is a great success in the United States and throughout Europe: from rebelling boomers who instigated the age of Aquarius to today's teenagers who wear Che Guevara tee-shirts, a large number of people identify themselves with the Left and accept unquestioningly its caricature of the Right" [from a review of the book, The Left is Seldom Right, by The Discriminate Thinker].

"Leftists hate the world around them and want to change it: the people in it most particularly. Conservatives just want to be left alone to make their own decisions and follow their own values" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/].

"Because their beliefs serve their ego rather than reality, Leftists just KNOW what is good for us. Conservatives need evidence" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/].

"Politics is the only thing Leftists know about. They know nothing of economics, history or business. Their only expertise is in promoting feelings of grievance" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/].

"Message to Leftists: Even if you killed all conservatives tomorrow, you would just end up in another Soviet Union. Conservatives are all that stand between you and that dismal fate" [http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/].

"The left-wing Politically Correct indoctrination that has enabled these shameful events means one thing and one thing only: By deliberately ignoring crimes against humanity and subsequently seeking to disguise these crimes, the liberal/left have lost their very own humanity, along with their morals and their souls. ... Despite facilitating genuine evil and wickedness their prime concern is to ... seek to halt the rise of what they term the 'right wing' ... But ... [the right] are rising only because the public are awakening to the results of all that the liberal left stands for. ... Betraying your country via mass immigration and Multiculturalism is bad enough, but to betray, and to continue to betray your own children is simply a step beyond the comprehension of all decent people, and no amount of liberal/left propaganda and evasion can alter this one simple fact. For the first time in a very long time I feel deeply ashamed to be part of a country that you, the liberal left have produced" [http://britishfreedom.org/video-muslim-rape-and-liberalleft-complicity/].

"Indeed, it is a sign of just how intransigent the Left has become that even when approaching an issue such as abortion, it does not begin by asking what stance is morally valid or illegitimate, but rather it starts by asking what is Left or Right" [http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1857/the_left_s_bizarre_internal_spat_over_abortion].

"It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. it's just that they know so many things that aren't so" [Ronald Reagan].

"It is not for nothing that George Orwell had to invent terms like 'double-think' and 'double-speak' to describe the universe totalitarians created. Those who have watched the left as long as I have, understand the impossible task that progressives confront in conducting their crusades. Rhetorically, they are passionate proponents of 'equality' but in practice they are committed enthusiasts of a hierarchy of privilege in which the highest ranks are reserved for themselves as the guardians of righteousness, and then for those they designate 'victims' and 'oppressed', who are thus worthy of their redemption. Rhetorically they are secularists and avatars of tolerance, but in fact they are religious fanatics who regards their opponents as sinners and miscreants and agents of civil darkness. Therefore, when they engage an opponent it is rarely to examine and refute his argument but rather to destroy the bearer of the argument and remove him from the plain of battle. Consequently, misrepresentation of facts, distortion of motives and general acts of character assassination are the preferred modes of progressive discourse, as any conservative who as acquired a public persona can attest. ... Efforts by the targets of this malevolence to correct fabrication and mis-statements of fact are guaranteed to fail nearly every time, in part because progressives don't regard their judgements as opinions but as received moral (and therefore incontrovertible) truth. Eventually an alternative reality is created by this process which no one would even think to check" [David Horowitz, The Surreal World of the Progressive Left at: http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=29654].

"The use of the term 'anti fascist' is a clever poly by the extreme left. It allows them to avoid stating what they really believe in (most of them don't really know what they believe in or are middle class pseudo commies). When you are lucky enough to come across one of these hate filled hypocrites avoid the temptation to stoop to their level and try asking them what they actually believe in. They are all very vocal about what they hate, (fascism, racism, capitalism etc) but most of them will struggle to even define what any of those concepts actually are and they rarely want to state what they actually believe in. ... Most of them have no understanding of politics, economics, or life beyond what you would expect of the average sixth form student. Their beliefs (if they have any) are based on emotion and not fact. They are hypocrites and fools are being used and mislead" [comment at: http://britishfreedom.org/the-uaf-police-state/].

"Even though we are greeted every day with countless stories of 'political correctness gone mad' we tend to dismiss them as solitary or silly. But the reality is that they fit into a bigger picture, a coherent Left-wing agenda" [Jonah Goldberg, Daily Mail, 04 January 2009].

"The loss of Mr Greaves, a 68-year-old grandfather, has left a great dark gap in the lives of many people who loved, liked or respected him. But it is the manner of his death that ought to wake a feeling of alarm - and shame - in the minds of those who have subjected this country to a vast, 50-year liberal experiment. We were going to be so enlightened and progressive that we would no longer have to be good. Authority, punishment, morality, self- discipline, patience, thrift, religion were all deemed to be outdated and unnecessary, not to mention repressive, backward and unfit for this wondrous new century. It was, of course, a terrible mistake, though none of those responsible will admit it, so it goes on and on. And now we can live in a country where an organist can meet a violent end on his way to to a Christmas service, and the police an explain such an incident as 'a robbery gone wrong'. Who thought of this idiotic, insulting phrase? Do our modern non-judgmental police think there is ever a robbery that goes right? The trouble is that they probably do" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 30 December 2012].

"The Liberal Elite normally prefer to ignore me as if I were a bad smell. ... [But] Mrs Vince Cable ... wrote to criticise my article about how cultural revolution and mass migration have destroyed this country we used to know. She accused me of nostalgia for the Fifties, and argued that independent-minded individuals could flourish without the married family. She claimed we need mass immigration, and that a property tax would narrow the gap between rich and poor. First, ... I don't want the past back. I just think we chose the wrong future. The best way of bridging the gap between rich and poor would be to rebuild the old middle class, open to all with talent. But it has been squeezed half to death by confiscatory tax, an expanding State and by the destruction of the grammar schools - like the one her husband went to. It is in childhood that the stable married family promotes private life, allowing one generation to pass on its morals, faith, language and traditions to the next. These days most children are swiftly indoctrinated either by the TV or by the State, ... As for her idea that we 'need' the skills of migrants, who does she mean by 'we'? Certainly not the British-born people priced out of work by newcomers. If Britain does need these skills, then why can't it impart them to the millions of young people already living here, now idle on benefits? Could it be because of the disastrous failure of comprehensive education, evident to almost every thinking person in the country, except for politicians like her husband?" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 30 December 2012].

"Whatever he was, Enoch Powell could not have been a collaborator with Hitler, nor could he have been part of a government that rounded up Jews and sent them to certain death in National Socialist concentration camps. He actively hated Neville Chamberlain's policy of making concessions to Hitler, and joined up to fight in 1939 as soon as he could. But modern Leftists, who like to insinuate that all conservatives are Nazis at root, can't understand that. I think this must be why the author C.J. Sansom thought he could get away with portraying Powell as a Nazi collaborator in his new thriller Dominion. It's all very well making up historical episodes that never happened but might have done. But if you bend the truth too far, you actually betray your craft. Actually, many prominent Left-wing people in British public life did collaborate with Stalin's communist tyranny. If I ever take to writing thrillers, I could have a lot of fun - and stay within the bounds of truth - by talking their actions to their logical conclusion. In the meantime, I suggest that Mr Sansom says sorry to Mr Powell's family for this babyish, historically illiterate slur, before the book goes into paperback" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 13 January 2013].

"It's amazing how the left hold non-whites to a much lower standard than whites. It's so patronizing and racist but they don't get it. If a white guy committed the kind of violent acts of terrorism that Neo-Marxist Nelson Mandela committed you'd never hear the end of it" [comment at http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2013/12/07/nelson-mandela-more-inconvenient-truths/].

"A great tidal wave of syrup swept across the surface of Earth as soon as the death of Nelson Mandela was announced. ... He chose to adopt the path of violence. he did not have to. Apartheid South Africa was a political and moral slum, but many fought it without resorting to gun or bomb. ... The ANC was dominated at every level by the South African Communist Party, the most rigidly Stalinist movement outside North Korea, and grovelling supporters of Kremlin repression. This is the real point of the whole exaggerated Mandela cult. Anyone looking at the world in the second half of the 20th Century could see that the harshest and cruellest regimes on the planet were Left-wing ones, in Moscow, Peking and Havana. But the fashionable Western left will never admit that. They are interested only in 'Right-wing' repression and secretly think that Left-wing oppression might actually be justified. That is why there was nothing like this fuss on the death of another giant of human liberation, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn was at least as great as Mandela - and, in my view, greater. He never wielded anything more deadly than a typewriter, yet he brought down an Evil Empire, with all its concentration camps, tanks, guns and bombs. But when he died in August 2008, I don't recall hours of eulogies on the BBC, or his face on every front page. Ask yourselves why" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 08 December 2013].

"Ed Miliband jumped on Alex Salmond's bandwagon and offered votes to 16-year-olds. He does this because at that age most minds remain half-formed, and therefore it is highly likely that their owners will vote for a party with joke policies run by charlatans. I've never been convinced by the arguments that led to the reduction in voting age from 21 to 18 in 1967. If you are going to give the vote to children, then, frankly, don't complain if you get politicians with childish policies" [Simon Heffer, Daily Mail, 27 September 2014].

 

Olympics 2012 Opening and Closing Ceremonies

General Comments

"It was a social worker's history of Britain - a nation of simple peasants crushed and besmirched by evil top-hatted capitalists, but rescued in the end by the NHS, immigration, the suffragettes, and the egalitarian strains of pop music. I half-expected the giant Voldemort to transform itself into a menacing Thatcher figure, trampling, slashing and cutting every nice nurse in sight, and tossing bedsteads out of the stadium with a callous sneer. It is a strange sort of nation that can turn a hospital bed into a symbol of national pride, especially in an era when you can die of thirst in one. But most people under the age of 40 have been taught not to have pride in their country, so the Health Service is all they've got left. They have been cheated of any real knowledge of history. I'm not talking here about the Armada or the Empire - it's hard to trumpet military glory when you've scrapped the Armed Forces, and the Olympics might not be the place for that in any case. It's our dogged insistence on liberty of thought, speech and assembly that needs to be celebrated in a world where arbitrary power and censorship are stronger every day. It is our greatest gift to mankind and we don't even know it's ours. I'm sure Danny Boyle could have found a way of portraying that great tradition of limited government and human freedom that grew out of Magna Carta and flows through our history, and that of the world, like a mighty stream. But to do that, he might have needed a few more words and a bit less drumming, miming and dancing. It was strange how little use he made of that other great possession of ours, the English language. Where were Dickens or Wordsworth, Keats or Tennyson? As for Shakespeare, I suppose it would now actually be subversive for such an occasion to include the thrilling words of John of Gaunt's dying speech: 'This blessed plot, this Earth, this realm, this England', for 'England' and 'English' are words that social workers don't like to hear" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 29 July 2012].

"There was too much going on with hospital beds for far too long, and it must look a bit weird to foreigners that we appear to have turned our healthcare system into a kind of national fetish. Nor can I accept that CND is/was an integral part of our national heritage to be worthy of of such a visible inclusion. There are surely other voluntary organisations that are more widely supported and ingrained in public life. This, along with the oh so PC olympic flag carriers and the concentration of ethnic minorities was clearly a sign of the producer stamping his political outlook on proceedings"   /   "I agree, what about the RSPCA, RNLI and many others?"   /   "The RNLI would have been a good choice. Unlike CND, they've actually achieved something - as the many people whose lives they have saved will attest. Or the Salvation Army, formed in the UK. Even the Citizens Advice Bureau has done more to help people in their everyday life than ... CND" [comments at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/].

"This was a great chance for the real unsung heroes of Britain to be recognised for the work they do - the volunteers and charity workers (the proper variety, not the government paid ones), selfless people who really understand the meaning of the word 'community'" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/].

"[It] was at times blatantly socialist and at times obscurely occult. Overall it aimed to present the world with the concept of man as the supreme ruler of his own domain" [Tricia Booth, http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/prophetic/olympics2012.html]

"That's My Sort of History Lesson"

"Blake's 'green and pleasant' land never existed. Before the industrial revolution most people lived in rural poverty where they had to work dawn to dusk to grind out a meagre living. Haven't any of these allegedly smart 'intellectuals' ever asked themselves why millions of peoples fled farms to go to dirty and dangerous cities to work in the gritty early factories? Because it was better than what they left" [comment at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2911848/posts?page=23]

"[L]ife in the Middle Ages wasn't a rural idyll of dancing round maypoles. It was marked by ignorance, savagery and terrible poverty and hardship. The industrial revolution, in turn, wasn't a hell of harsh-faced bosses and oppressed workers, but happened to be the engine of progress and modernity that produced the affluence we all enjoy today. The idea that industrialists are heartless tyrants and workers are helpless victims is, frankly, a fantasy that belongs to crude Left-wing agit-prop" [Melanie Phillips, http://melaniephillips.com/oscars-all-round-for-a-patriotic-feelgood-fantasy]

"Strenuous attempts have been made to suggest that Boyle was being ironic in his broad historical commentary with his portrayal of Britain as being a pastoral idyll before this was rudely disturbed by the industrial revolution. I wish I could believe he was, but I cannot because this is just the type of sentimental ahistorical pap which a certain type of left liberal adores and, even more worryingly, believes. ... Boyle's putative historical representation of a blissful agrarian life filled with peasants who were trampled by the grinding face of capitalist engineered industrialisation is ludicrous to anyone who has any understanding of British and in particular English history" [Robert Henderson, http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/]

"I was very impressed - in the most negative sense possible - by the Marxist imagery in the segment on the Industrial Revolution. The way it was handled served to deny images of brilliant innovation, as from Scotland's Watts, and the wise use of private capital, to what seemed like an endless stream of grimy 'exploited workers'. Of course to anyone who actually understands the economic and social dynamics, the Industrial Revolution was not about exploiting the poor. It was in fact the dawn of opportunity for urban dwellers, who for two centuries had been living in some really abject slums. I do not know the philosophy of the director of the farce - whether he is a doctrinaire Leftist, or simply a brainwashed toady, reflecting that British education has become as corrupt as public [state] education in much of America; but visual Egalitarian propaganda has no place in something like the Olympics, which is supposed to be about affording an opportunity for the best athletes in the world, to excel - to achieve above and beyond the ordinary; to demonstrate that there is joy in excelling" [comment at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2911848/posts?page=23]

"First we had the Arcadian bliss of pre-Industrial revolution England with its happy peasants milling about ... [whose] idyll was destroyed by the 'satanic mills' represented by the marvellously theatrical chimneys rising up from the ground. This is the view of industrialisation provided by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto ... in which they lamented the effects of industrialisation and Free Trade, and wrote of the destruction of 'feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations' that had supposedly existed in the countryside. It seems barely to have occurred to Marx and Engels, any more than it does to Boyle, that the lives of the pre-Industrial Revolution rural poor were disfigured by ignorance, disease and illiteracy, and that life in the cities, though undoubtedly very hard for many, led quite soon to a higher standard of living and at least a modicum of education. ... For him, subsequent history has consisted of a series of challenges to capitalist power (the Marxist class struggles) ... his Marxist version of our island history was ludicrously lopsided. Marxists will not mind. As I'm not a Marxist, I do" [Stephen Glover, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2182328/London-2012-opening-ceremony-Danny-Boyles-genius-taken-Marxist-propaganda.html]

"There were no references to the achievements of the Empire ... Empires for the likes of Danny Boyle are purely repressive. Nor were there even fleeting references to the role of the Church or religion in British society (Marxists don't like God) or to the inventions or innovations (railway engines, steam ships, telegraph etc.) which powered the evil capitalist Industrial revolution that Mr Boyle abominates. ... [I]f there was space for the suffragettes and the Empire Windrush, the Beatles and the Arctic Monkeys, there was surely room for one or two of them" [Stephen Glover, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2182328/London-2012-opening-ceremony-Danny-Boyles-genius-taken-Marxist-propaganda.html]

"One of the commentators described it as 'my kind of history lesson' and probably for many it was. For anyone with discernment, it was a totally unreal piece of creative imagination which fitted in with the superficial modern mindset that swallows propaganda without thinking. The pre-industrial age was not an idyll of happy peasants living on the land but had times of oppression and terrible poverty. The industrial revolution did bring hardship for multitudes but it was not all harsh faced capitalists and oppressed workers. it was during this time that the Gospel message went out powerfully into the British Isles and from these islands spread around the world. The modern age is certainly not a time of liberation and enlightenment, as we forget God, obsess over media and sports stars, while plunging into debt, with a culture filled with immorality, violence, addictions to drink and drugs and the occult. Much of that culture was celebrated in the ceremony" [Tony Pearce, London's Weird Olympic Opener]

"Not surprisingly any positive view of the contribution of Christianity to Britain's past was omitted. The 19th century saw revivals of Christianity with 59% of children attending Sunday School in 1859, and missionaries going out to spread the light of the Gospel to the world. Nor was there anything about the British Empire or the contribution of Britain in promoting parliamentary democracy and the rule of law in the world. This is entirely in keeping with the worldview our youth are constantly being presented with in schools and entertainment (particularly from the BBC). According to this view the past traditional values of Britain are a subject for mockery and rejection. One sensed something of this spirit in the sequence where 'Mr Bean' was sending up the opening scene of the 'Chariots of Fire' film and even in the arrival of the Queen with the mock up of being parachuted out of the helicopter" [Tony Pearce, London's Weird Olympic Opener]  

"It opened with Britain's agrarian peasantry being 'violently uprooted' from their happy lives ... [and] forced into the Dante-esque factories of the Industrial Revolution, where they performed oppressed proletarian toil under the eyes of capering, smug, stovepipe-hatted capitalists. ... We progressed with great speed up to the present day, pausing only to note the more obvious examples of Marxist class struggle in the Suffragettes, the Trades Union movement, the Jarrow Marchers, and last but not least an absurdly reverential paean to the greatest symbol of socialism possessed by Britain - the National Health Service. All of the above have made a truly positive contribution to modern day Britain, but why were they the only examples deemed worthy of attention? Why was the formation of modern Britain viewed only through a Marxist prism? Where were the references to Common Law, William Wilberforce, The Pilgrim fathers, Magna Carta (one of the mainstays of our liberty), Catholicism and Protestantism, great British inventions that formed our modern world, or indeed, for good or bad, the British Empire?"  [Paul Weston, http://britishfreedom.org/londons-marxist-multicultural-olympics-2/]

"[B]lack Victorian Capitalists? Empire Windrush? None of Brunel's real achievements? No great British inventions - except the Web - where were Stephenson's Rocket, Baird and the TV, the Penny Post, Chadwick and public sanitation, Newton et al, the concept of satellites, penicillin, ... if the CND logo could be included, surely more significant British items could be referenced? Even the importance of the canal system was hardly touched on although the flame was carried up the Limehouse canal. And nothing really about Britain seeding so many notions of civic freedom, parliamentary democracy, rule of law etc. With so many despotic nations attending, it would have been good to rub their noses in such stuff. ... And it might have been worth reminding the world that Britain invented so many sports - and codified them, and spread them around the world via that horrid British Empire and via British trade under Pax Britannica" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/28/nhs-worship-on-license-fee/]

"As a history graduate I object to this re-writing of our history. What's the most famous ship this country ever produced? The Mary Rose, The Golden Hind, Victory, Warrior, The Great Eastern, The Ark Royal. No silly, it's the Windrush. ... It's all part of the plan to rob us of our culture that the BBC have been pushing relentlessly for years" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"Danny Boyle presented pre-industrial England as happy, carefree, delightful and united in its allegiance to the old ways of folklore, superstition and the worship of the ancient spirits. We saw men and women at play, laughing and friendly, clean and healthy! Nothing could be further than the truth. Large parts of pre-industrial Britain were filthy, lawless, drunken, impoverished, disease-ridden and ignorant" [Tricia Booth, http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/prophetic/olympics2012.html]

"Today it's fashionable among liberals and idealistic environmentalists to demonise industry and commerce, because they associate it with what they call 'imperialism' and 'capitalism' as well as 'strict morality'. But I'm willing to bet that none of them would refuse to educate their children, or prefer to use gas lamps, or ask the local quack round to perform an amputation without anaesthetic. Danny Boyle himself would be hard pressed to find a job as a movie director without the technological advances that began in the Industrial Revolution. Although some parts of the Industrial Revolution can be seen as ghastly and negative, the majority, including the final outcome, was outstanding good for Britain! Fundamental changes took place in agriculture, textile and metal manufacture, transportation, economic policies and the social structure in England. It is almost impossible to imagine what the world would be like if the effects of the Industrial Revolution were swept away. Electric lights would go out. Automobiles and airplanes would vanish. Telephones, radios, and television would disappear. Most of the stocks on the shelves of department stores would be gone" [Tricia Booth, http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/prophetic/olympics2012.html]

"My 13-year-old son had some pals over last night to watch the opening ceremonies. After an hour or two of the gibberish, I turned off the boob tube, and gave the boys a brief lecture on the history of the Olympic Games (ancient and modern), and the greatness of Great Britain - starting with colonization of the New World and carrying on through the Battle of Britain. When I was done, the kids said: 'That would have been a lot better than what they did'" [comment at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2911848/posts?page=23]

"[O]thers have pointed out, rightly in my view, that if it was meant to be a history of these isles, then such references were selective at best and just bad history at worst" [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12695/]

"England and Britain have a fascinating history. ... And they managed to reduce that to this?" [comment at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2911848/posts?page=23]

"I've never minded being in a minority - its usually the surest sign that you'll turn out to have been right later. The mob can be relied on to be wrong about anything important. But there's still something downright odd about the universal praise lavished on the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, recognised by many Leftists as a triumph for their version of the truth. It's as if the Olympics are now going to be what the Millennium Dome was supposed to be, and failed to be - the founding ceremony of a new age in which our proud past is ridiculed and our history rewritten. personally I find it creepy and disturbing that the Nelson statue in Trafalgar Square and the Duke of Wellington's statue, have been officially defaced and trivialised. I think people like me are being told this isn't our country anymore" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 05 August 2012]

"Apparently our only national achievements are the NHS, the juvenile 'texting' habit and mass multi-culturalism as typified by the representation of the population of bucolic pre-industrial Britain. This was just another manifestation of the fact that the left decided some time ago to colonise the past and re-write history - a typical marxist trick. Insidious, weak PC hogwash accompanied by a BBC voice over 'that's my sort of history lesson'" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Racism

"I liked a couple of bits - the section where the chimneys rose up, and where the Olympic ring was wrought and then raised to meet the others moving into position up in the air. ... Otherwise it was a sick-inducing lefty multi-culti fest, made little sense to us and even less to viewers overseas" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"Once again the opportunity to 'rub our noses in diversity' was embraced wholeheartedly. Junk history at its worst. ... in fact it seemed that every 'vignette' had a disproportionate number of ethnic minority participants. Surely the leftists don't honestly think the global audience will be fooled by this..." [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"The MV Empire Windrush also got a mention with no apparent historical rewriting this time - all those disembarking were non-white. But this was not actually the case. Fifteen percent of the immigrants were refugee Polish women who had fled Nazi occupied Germany and were subsequently picked up by the Windrush in Mexico. The racist Boyle and Ugwu chose to ignore this reality" [Paul Weston, http://britishfreedom.org/londons-marxist-multicultural-olympics-2/]

"I noticed no concern about anachronistic representation of 'vibrants' as C18th peasants and even one 'capitalist', yet when the 'Windrush' arrived ethnic authenticity was instituted" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"[I]t was spoiled for me by political point-scoring and continuous observance of political correctness ... to the point where it began to feel racist" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/28/nhs-worship-on-license-fee/]

"It is extremely interesting that the lefties in charge of the ceremony considered it PC to include minorities in the industrial revolution section of the show, when it is clearly the case that they, to all intents and circumstances, were not part of the population at that time (some were even used to play the industrialists!) and yet the immigrants in the ship section were, quite correctly, all black. This is an absolute classic example of why political correctness is a disastrous mind set for any person to labour under (pun ENTIRELY intended), let alone an entire organisation. Why is it allowable to do this? The reason is that political correctness, by its very definition, assumes a 'goody' and a 'baddy' within any given scenario. ... it goes without saying that in the mind of left wingers and therefore of the BBC that the 'whities' are the devil and the minority in any given scenario are the 'good guys'. When the politically correct mindset is put under even the slightest intellectual probing it unravels like the leftie web of lies that it truly is" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"This is the kind of event that the diversity industry can really make a visible impact on, and it showed. Look at any local council or central government literature or presentation and you will see the same kind of over representation. This is what diversity managers exist for - their sole purpose is to increase the amount of representation of certain favoured groups within the public sector, with no regard to whether that representation is proportional. If they were to consider the percentages of these groups within the population as a whole, these things would look a lot less diverse than any of them would find acceptable" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"[N]ote Marr's declaration of London as a 'world city'. It was like a soundbite from a multiculturalist's victory speech" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"This multicultural equality agenda was so staged it was painful to watch" [quoted at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2911848/posts?page=23]

"Boyle also included the rapper Dizzee Rascal as a representative of modern, multicultural Britain. Why? Mr D Rascal is hardly an advert for racial cohesion let alone decency, kindness or morality. ... Why was such a man with a clear anti-white agenda and a man who glorifies in criminal violence allowed anywhere near the opening ceremony?" [Paul Weston, http://britishfreedom.org/londons-marxist-multicultural-olympics-2/]

"Even the Telegraph have gone all Beeboid. One of their bloggers, Tim Stanley has just said, on Sky (in response to Burley) that, 'The issue of multiculturalism is settled now, in this country.'  Where have we heard that sort of phrase before? Well young man (he looks younger than Owen Jones), No it isn't - and there are many, including Trevor Phillips, who think it has ill served the country and our diverse communities" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"What I found most enlightening about the whole thing was the 'modern' tech set. ... what was the reason behind having [the black girl's] new boyfriend be himself black? Wouldn't it have made more sense for him to be a blond 'English' type? That is, if we want to be representative and all that. The way they did it edited out most of the actual  indigenous English in favour of recent immigrants, as if they are the only 'English' that matter" [comment at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2911848/posts?page=23]

"In the opening ceremony, there were 70 sheep, 12 horses, 10 chickens, 3 cows, 2 goats, 10 ducks and 9 geese. But apparently in an idyllic British farmyard there are no dogs or pigs. Well fancy that!" [comment at: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2012/07/shami/]

"There was also the silly agenda going on that 'we are a nation of immigrants' - something much exaggerated and used as a justification for mass immigration ... in the past immigration to this country was minimal: a few people came and brought their ideas - not millions of people. The Norman conquest added immigrants but no more than 1% of the population; ditto with other 'waves' of immigration" [comment at: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2012/07/shami/]

"During the singing of 'Abide With Me' which is a genuine Christian hymn, there was a dance scene led by Akram Khan, a Hindu who is a devotee of Sri Pratap Pawar who is known as 'India's Divine Dancer'. He is an outstanding exponent and teacher of the North Indian dance form, kathak. According to Wikipedia 'kathak' dance begins with 'an invocation to the gods'. One of Akram Khan's most well known works is a presentation called 'Gnosis'. On his website we read about Gnosis: 'Inspired by the Mahabharata story of Queen Ghandari, who blindfolds herself for life to follow her blind husband, Gnosis explores the notion of inner knowledge and clouded vision, of 'seeing darkness yet being blind to light'. Those with discernment will recognise this as bringing in New Age / Hindu concepts which are anti Christian in their origins. It also links into Gnosticism, the heretical belief system that infiltrated and plagued early Christianity. Multiculturalism, which has really become the belief system of modern Britain, demands that we merge Christianity with other religions and declare them all to be one. This was part of the message behind a Hindu inspired dance group performing while a Christian hymn was being sung" [Tony Pearce, London's Weird Olympic Opener]

"The anti-white ideology [Boyle] promoted really was disgusting to all those who realised the underlying message he was so assiduously promoting. Is it now so politically incorrect to be an indigenous Brit in Britain that we all need to be airbrushed out of existence?" [Paul Weston, http://britishfreedom.org/londons-marxist-multicultural-olympics-2/]

Our Trite, Disrespectful, Narcissistic, Culture

"Are [texting and hooking up] the great achievements of British endeavour?" [comment at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2911848/posts?page=23]

"Girl loses phone, boy finds phone, girl loses phone, boy finds phone, just shoot me now"  /  "If boy had her phone, how was he able to phone phoneless girl to say he had her phone? Or maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention to the trite, hackneyed, multiculti cliches and missed it" [comments at: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2012/07/shami/]

"[I]t celebrated the Sixties as an age of liberation. In fact, that period fatally subverted the Britain of morality, self-discipline and tradition. ... the sixties tableau culminated in an 'all-you-need-is-love' celebration of lifestyle choice - the doctrine that in fact did so much to replace love by self-interest, and condemned countless children to the misery of fractured family life" [Melanie Phillips, http://melaniephillips.com/oscars-all-round-for-a-patriotic-feelgood-fantasy]

"[W]hat was meant by the attempt to portray the significance of the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Leigh, by wrapping him up in a story of staggering banality about British youngsters connecting with each other digitally? [Robert Henderson, http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/]

"It's a crying shame that the true splendour and glory of Britain was glossed over, while the overwhelming amount of time was given to rock music and disco dancing, along with mobile phones, TV, movies and the Internet. The tracks chosen seemed to proclaim the same message: social revolution, the freedom to do as we please, and the overthrow of morality. ... All the loud music, partying and dancing seemed to be heading for a climax, but in the end what was revealed in the virtual house centre stage was none other than the inventor of the World Wide Web! He sat surrounded by computer screens, hailed almost as Emperor of the Feast. It was as if HE were the secret magician pulling all the strings of the Ceremony, hidden behind the screen-filled 'house'. He was a kind of Wizard of Oz revealed behind theatre curtains, but with about as much authority and magnificence" [Tricia Booth, http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/prophetic/olympics2012.html]

"[Dizzee] Rascal ... anti-police song about mugging innocent people. Nice chap, definitely one of the best Britains [sic] since the industrial revolution" [comment at: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2012/07/shami/]

"[I]t appears we are a nation of celebrity. ... And of course the [Q]ueen. But she too has now got to be a celebrity rather than the embodiment of the Crown. So they cast Her Majesty in a skit with Bond actor Daniel Craig, and made her the Queen of Comedy. ... if I was a royalist rather than a republican I would have been aghast at what they done to my monarch" [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12694]

"There were also what can only be hoped were the last throes of Blair's 'Cool Britannia', with the celebration of the inane and superficial. ... [with] the Queen as herself, sadly reduced to the status of a pantomime walk-on" [Robert Henderson, http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/]

"I would even question the depiction of the Queen, which most people apparently regarded as a hoot. ... A joke? Of course - but a joke with a purpose. Mr Boyle, we may reasonably surmise, is a republican. As even he can't actually get rid of the Queen, the next best thing he can do is to have her chucked out of a helicopter in a manner that was hardly intended to increase the dignity of the institution" [Stephen Glover, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2182328/London-2012-opening-ceremony-Danny-Boyles-genius-taken-Marxist-propaganda.html]

"I wonder what Mr Boyle's views on our monarchy are? They certainly don't appear to be well-intentioned. There was no mention of her long service to this country, just an admittedly amusing but ultimately disrespectful stunt pretending she was parachuting into the stadium. ... No doubt the Sex Pistols' rendition of 'God Save the Queen' offended her. It should have done, because that was always Johnny Rotten's anarchist intention, as Mr Boyle knows only too well" [Paul Weston, http://britishfreedom.org/londons-marxist-multicultural-olympics-2/]

The NHS

"Just in case this government hasn't got the message yet, Danny Boyle has repeated it to the world: don't mess with the NHS" [comment at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/29/danny-boyle-joyful-celebration]

"[F]or Boyle and many others, the NHS is an eradicable symbol of all that is good about Britain - because the myth that it gave birth to altruism and that, without it, the poor will be left to die, goes very deep. The NHS was always an impossible dream. But then, Left-wing thinking is driven almost entirely by such Utopian fantasies. As a result it creates cartoon villains who it thinks thwart such ideals, while sanitising favoured groups - both such villains and heroes were on display in Boyle's show" [Melanie Phillips, http://melaniephillips.com/oscars-all-round-for-a-patriotic-feelgood-fantasy]

"There is something strange in sanctifying a system for delivering health care. We do not venerate the schools that educate our children, let alone the Tube trains that transport us to work. If Paris had won the Olympics, there would have been no dancing doctors and giant baby in its opening ceremony, even though its insurance-based service is often judged the world's best. Unfortunately, Britain's misty-eyed myopia over the NHS - which will intensify now it is an official part of our island story - is a delusional, self-defeating national tragedy" [Ian Birrell, http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/is-this-the-scene-that-won-labour-the-next-election-7987077.html]

"My humble opinion is that they were showing support for Obamacare. That's what leftists do. Still boggles the mind a patient dying due to lack of drinking water" [comments at: http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=602961]

"Well, the Olympic London 2012 Opening Ceremony is now behind us and what a piece of Statist agit prop nonsense it was. Little wonder the BBC have been going on about how 'wonderful' Danny Boyle's production had been. ... The NHS section was particularly odious and yet that seems to be one of the bits the BBC liked best. A paean to a BLOATED grossly expensive inefficient cold statist monstrosity - mmmm... think I know WHY the BBC liked it so much!" [http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/28/nhs-worship-on-license-fee/]

"It's often forgotten that the NHS is now on a par with the Nazis in terms of the number of incinerated foetuses" [comment at: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2012/07/shami/]

The Flag Bearers

"Far too much pop music - there was a place for it, given our history, but they overdid it - and an overdose of leftist propaganda, both of which required stiff mental discipline to keep the shouting-at-the-tv Tourette's at bay (resistance finally cracked with the appearance of Chakrabarti and Lawrence)..." [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"Where was the mother of Kriss Donald the 15 year old white victim of the countries [sic] worst racist abduction torture and murder at the hands of an Asian gang - doesn't fit in with the multicultural message so lets have some more of Shami and the Lawrences" [comment at: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2012/07/shami/]

"Why was Doreen Lawrence, ... one of the Olympic flag bearers? There are many mothers, both black and white who have had their sons murdered by disgusting racists, but the inclusion of Doreen Lawrence was an overt statement of black racial politics which had no place in what should have been an impartial Olympic ceremony" [Paul Weston, http://britishfreedom.org/londons-marxist-multicultural-olympics-2/]

"This achingly politically correct flag-carrying by Shami and [Doreen Lawrence] was the weakest and most misplaced part of the whole opening ceremony. Did they deserve to be there? No" [comment at: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2012/07/shami/]

"Surely, it would have been far better to have survivors of the Islamist bombings (a result of immigration here, it must be said) hold that flag ... in a clear show of defiance against enemies within and without. ... Not PC that, though" [comment at: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2012/07/shami/]

"For those who really fought for our freedom and that of others - this sort of Political Posturing by Shami and Liberty undermines their heroic efforts - and that is sad" [comment at: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2012/07/shami/]

Demonising the Dissenters

"Apart from among a few embittered bigots and backwoodsmen, the ceremony has been well received across the political spectrum"  /  "And right there in that statement ... you have in a nutshell the approved BBC answer to any and all criticism" [comments at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/28/nhs-worship-on-license-fee/]

"Mitt Romney, Aiden Burley, Toby Young, the EDL - your boys took a hell of a beating tonight" [comment at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/29/danny-boyle-joyful-celebration]

"[The Daily Mail article (now removed) by Rick Dewsbury] appears to have attracted a concerted lefty attack. As one supportive comment warned 'Well said, now wait for the hate mail that will surely come your way. As you know, you must not express the 'wrong' opinion'" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/28/nhs-worship-on-license-fee/]

"What's distressing is that there is clearly an editorial lockdown on dissent throughout the media. Only squeaks of disquiet are being allowed through, even in newspapers like the Telegraph and the Mail. For the most part the meejah seem to have decided it would be unpatriotic not to be seen supporting this collectivist nightmare" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/28/nhs-worship-on-license-fee/]

"The extent to which the media and politicians have fallen into line with the Boyle politicking demonstrates the success the liberal left have had in acquiring the levers of power and working them ruthlessly. Whenever a highly contentious subject provokes little public debate you may bet your life on it being the consequence of the suppression of one side of the debate. It is no wonder that in present day Britain so little public opposition to the nature of Boyle's show should have occurred. Politicians and people with access to the mainstream media know only too well that to go against the politically correct tide is to invite serious trouble" [Robert Henderson, http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/]

"Boyle was fully aware he was historically misrepresenting our racial history, but he did it in such a way that those who recognised his virulent anti-white racism would be too afraid to raise the issue publicly. And it has worked. Not one mainstream media outlet has mentioned this. Stephen Glover (alone) picked up on the Marxist propaganda but skirted around the obvious racial angle. Very wise too, if Mr Glover wishes to continue in his employment. What a dreadful indictment of totalitarian multiculturalism in action" [Paul Weston, http://britishfreedom.org/londons-marxist-multicultural-olympics-2/]

"Taking to Twitter when the NHS was worshipped, as if it were not a state institution that has given us MRSA and let young men die of thirst, I quipped: 'Not even communist China were so brazen as to extol their nationalised stranglehold on their country so blatantly.' I don't like state worship. In any form. I found the Jubilee fairly nauseating too, but when I said that I wasn't hounded for seventy-two hours. ... So far that tweet has earned me a kicking in the New Statesman, twice that in the Guardian, endless tweets and some charming emails. Even the former footballer Stan Collymore weighed in online. We are through the looking glass when a man who beat up his girlfriend becomes a moral arbiter. ... While I disagree with Aiden Burley's reference to 'multicultural c***', I do agree with his lefty nonsense jibe, but even if I did not sympathise with part of his sentiment I'd like to think I wouldn't be clamouring for his blood. ... The second [an MP] puts his or her head above the parapet, especially if it is to criticise the sacred NHS, normally reasonable commentators literally call for them to resign. It's madness - disagree, for sure. But silencing dissent? Come off it. The media has lamented the tight rein that Lacog and co (pun intended) have run these games on. ... the stifling of freedom in the name of the games has rightly been attacked. But when you can't even hold an opinion that differs from the rest of the sheep then surely Locog have won? If silencing people is the legacy of these games then count me out" [Harry Cole, http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1468/the_legacy_of_these_games_is_looking_dark_]

But Definitely No Political Agenda...

"Sometimes you have to take a step back and consider whether your own bias is distorting your view. Had I really watched a tribute to socialism posing as an Olympic Games opening ceremony? I consulted Professor Andrew Chadwick, Professor of Political Science at Royal Holloway College. An exultant Professor Chadwick told me 'Olympic ceremony is socialist realism meets cabaret. A triumph!', adding further that 'So many subliminal and not so subliminal lefty messages in the Olympic Ceremony. We are all Progressives now'. ... Seems I was right. ... (Alright, so I didn't really consult Chadwick. Those quotes are his tweets.)" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"The London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony saw plenty of laboured nods to progressive and collectivist thinking, from the sly CND slogan to the bizarre NHS episode" [http:///www.thecommentator.com/article/1462/nice_olumpics_ceremony_pity_somebody_else_did_it]

"Just what I expected. It should not have political but of course they don't think it is if its left wing" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/28/nhs-worship-on-license-fee/]

"I watched the opening ceremony with a son-in-law who is ... decidedly leftie in most of his views. he commented almost immediately - and before me - that there was a lot of PC stuff in there. Several times he groaned at the superficiality of the PC inserts" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/28/nhs-worship-on-license-fee/]

"Danny Boyle's analysis of the history of Britain was splendidly subversive and leftwing. After a communal rural Eden and the Fall, it was the competitive ruthlessness of the industrial revolution - which produced, among other things, the individualism of a competitive Olympics. Salvation came in the form of the caring NHS and this was in turn threatened by the evil rising of Voldemort (while JK Rowling was reading). Was I the only watcher to recall that the nickname of the current health secretary is Voldemort?" [comment at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/29/danny-boyle-joyful-celebration]

"Was it dripping with political correctness? Certainly. Was it suffused with sentimentality and cliches? Of course. How could it not be? For that is what Britain has become. In today's Britain, objectivity has given way to emotion. reality has been replaced by the creative imagination. Truth has been supplanted by wishful thinking. Anyone who dissents from any of these orthodoxies is treated as a pariah. Those for whom this is anathema, for whom the loss of the Britain they once knew and loved causes real anguish, felt Danny Boyle's ceremony was an affront" [Melanie Phillips, http://melaniephillips.com/oscars-all-round-for-a-patriotic-feelgood-fantasy]

"By its very nature the Olympics opening ceremony should be apolitical because of the vast range of political behaviours and ideologies which are represented by the two hundred or so competing nations. No overtly political production could do other than irritate many whilst pleasing few. It should have gone without saying that the opening ceremony should have eschewed any ideological message. Boyle ignored this imperative wholesale and pumped out the liberal internationalist message with shards of Old Labour thinking embedded within it. ... Apart from being politically partisan it was doubly crass because the overwhelming majority of the foreign audience would not have had a clue about what was going on. The British have an additional beef because they were taxpayers paying for unambiguous political propaganda which came from only one side of the political spectrum. Judging by phones-ins and comments left on blogs, newsgroups and mainstream media comment boards quite a few Britons cavilled at that" [Robert Henderson, http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/]

"To understand how inappropriate Boyle's show was, imagine an equally political partisan and uncritical show put on by a director with non-pc nationalist sympathies crossed with a religious belief in free enterprise. (This would be a stupendously improbable event in modern Britain but do your best to get your imagination to stretch to the Herculean lengths required). Such a director might have started by extolling the British Empire as a great civilising force, portrayed pre-industrial Britain as a place of poverty and brutality which was transformed into a much wealthier and more ordered society by industrial capitalism, created a narrative which depicted state interference with the economy as disastrous with the nationalised industries of Attlee including the NHS being shown as inefficient and wracked with political activists, showed the dockers' march of 1968 in support of Enoch Powell after his Rivers of Blood speech resulted in his sacking by Tory leader Ted Heath and the Notting Hill riots as legitimate political protests against mass immigration before ending with a scene encapsulating the erosion of freedom in Britain by the combination of political correctness and the vast opportunities for surveillance offered by modern digital technology. This last could have had Tim Berners-Leigh with his head in his hands as a court sentenced someone to prison for putting out a non-pc message on Twitter. All that would have been as inappropriate as Boyle's offering but no more so" [Robert Henderson, http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/]

"The obvious liberal left agenda showed so what is new? It was to be expected. They still believe they have the moral high ground. To me it showed that this is now two Englands. London and the shires. As the poet said we must seek the place where London ends and England can begin. It is London's Olympics and I wish the city well of it. I really do" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

"[I]t would be a huge mistake to write off this production as a piece of harmless fun. It may have been fun, but it was not intended to be harmless. Danny Boyle is engaged in a cultural battle of ideas that matters a great deal to him. The absence of almost any criticism on the Right suggests to me that the Left may have already won" [Stephen Glover, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2182328/London-2012-opening-ceremony-Danny-Boyles-genius-taken-Marxist-propaganda.html]

"This is serious. If we have become so brainwashed we can no longer see overt propaganda for what it is, then Britain is finished. The divisive ideologies of multiculturalism and mass immigration have already caused great damage to our community, whilst socialism has already economically bankrupted us. ... we must ... become politically aware of the leftist policies designed to fracture our country, no matter how disingenuously they are presented to us" [Paul Weston, http://britishfreedom.org/londons-marxist-multicultural-olympics-2/]

"Interesting factoid - the guy who wrote the script for the Open[ing] Ceremony, Frank Cottrell, cut his teeth writing for Living Marxism. No bias there, obviously" [http://www.atangledweb.org/?p=34097]

"Danny Boyle worked with one scriptwriter and four selected assistant directors to stage the opening and closing ceremony. [These included]: Frank Cottrell Boyce ... [who] started his career writing for the far-left magazine Living Marxism [aka] The Journal of the British Revolutionary Communist Party. Stephen Daldry [who] was a member of the Socialist Workers party ... in the 1960s, ... The SWP describes itself as Anti-Capitalist and Revolutionary. Catherine Ugwu ... Her work is quoted on reading lists centred on Marxism and Black Liberation Theology" [Paul Weston, http://britishfreedom.org/olympic-opening-ceremony-hijacked-by-far-left/]

The Last Word

"Mrs U and I watched the opening festivities with some old friends from France. After the display of highly selective British history, M. Dupont turned to me and remarked, 'C'est formidable mais ou sont les Anglais?' - sums it up really" [comment at: http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/07/27/couple-of-bbc-tweets-about-olympic/]

And so to Close...

"... [I] laughed quite a lot at the [Closing] Ceremony (or Cacophony), ... It was, unintentionally, quite funny. ... it [was] even more of a Moronic inferno than the opening ceremony, and ... was explicitly anti-religious. It gave a central place to the anti-religious song 'Imagine', getting children to sing it (doesn't that rather fly in the face of the Dawkinsite rage against children being brought up *with* religious belief? Wouldn't the same difficulty apply to bringing them up with an active unbelief?) And it gave an even more central place to the singing of 'Always look on the Bright Side of life', which was an important part of the puerile anti-Christian film 'Life of Brian'. (Even more childishly, some people continue to deny that it was anti-Christian. Don't bother.) In case anyone didn't get the message, this was accompanied by a chorus of Roman soldiers (fresh from Golgotha?) and by a squadron of women dressed as nuns, speeding about the stage on roller blades. Well, I never, what a wheeze (I don't think, actually, that many orders of nuns in this once-Protestant country were to be found wearing the elaborate winged coifs sported by these fake sisters, but what the heck, making a joke out of nuns has always been a key part of anti-religious agitprop, from the French Revolution onwards). ... By the way, although I don't like the old Beatles numbers that were played at the closing ceremony (though I do quite like 'Waterloo Sunset', alas sung without much strength to it), the old songs have a certain power to them, and a memorability. It does seem to me that pop music since the 1960s has become utterly uninteresting by comparison. I think it's because it's now conventional, and has no power to shock, and also because it has already said all that it could possibly say. Listening to George Michael (which I'd never knowingly done before) was a form of torture. How can anyone enjoy this? It also seemed to me as I watched it that the closing ceremony failed on its own terms. I thought the praise for it this morning was a bit faint. But the Olympic frenzy still has a little life in it. Most of the media have lost all detachment, and are still reporting it as if it were a sacred ceremony rather than an event. ... Take this closing sentence from a BBC news report, on the Today programme: 'The warm memories [of] the games have a while yet to glow'. This sort of thing was rightly mocked, 30 years or so ago, in sycophantic reports of royal visits. But, as always, the revolutionaries themselves are just as bad as those they've overthrown, once they're firmly in power. The slobbering over Mr. Blair's 'great' conference speeches by supposedly independent journalists was worse than any Royal toadying. And so is this." [Peter Hitchens, http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/08/on-being-pompous.html]

"If the Opening Ceremony presented us with a struggle through Britain's past to recover its ancient religious roots, the Closing Ceremony celebrated in song what the New World Order will be like, and who will rule over it. Music at the show was indicative of the kind of morality we have come to expect at this kind of event. ... The choice was interesting, and the lyrics said it all. John Lennon's song Imagine about a united world with no religion could have been composed especially for the occasion. ... Finally, [the band] The Who took to the stage ... [and] was then joined by other performers ... for one last song: My Generation - the new generation's contempt for all that has gone before" [Tricia Booth, http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/prophetic/olympics2012.html]

"Raising a Fist in the Face of God"

"The main Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies reminded me of the Tower of Babel as almost every item depicted, in one way or another, man 'climbing high' and trying to reach perfection (or heaven) in his own strength.  The Closing Paralympics Ceremony, titled a 'Festival of the Flame', displayed at one point a very unpleasant 'face' set alight behind a wall of fire, in front of which danced semi-clad people, bringing to my mind Moloch, one of the gods who was worshipped by the descendents of Lot (rescued from Sodom...)" [Michael Smith, personal letter on file]  

"Not only the thousands present in the flesh but perhaps billions around the world watched the ceremonies on TV. Many more will see them on subsequent digital media. How better to reach the entire world with a new message? 'The first essential characteristic of the Olympics, both ancient as well as modern, is to be a religion. It represents, above and outside the Churches, humanity's superior religion.' (Baron de Coubertin, reviver of the Olympic Games and founder of the IOC). The message I watched removed God from not only Britain's past but the world's future. He was not given one iota of recognition or praise for the many blessings we have received over the centuries in this country. Indeed, the height of evangelism and missionary endeavour of the 19th and early 20th century was entirely reduced to a bleak, black and 'satanic' nightmare called 'pandemonium'. ... beyond the blatant paganism and idolatrous symbolism I felt there was a challenge to the sovereignty of God at this time, a rejoicing in man's own strength and ability, and a desire for self rule" [Tricia Booth, http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/prophetic/olympics2012.html]

    

 

 

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"
(Isaiah 5:20-21)

 

 

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