Obsidional obmutescent obloquy...

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The people on this list (it includes my MP who was a stalwart all through the Brexit saga too) could form the new slimmed-down UK parliament. The savings will be enormous, added to an MPs' Travel Lodge instead of 2nd homes...I digress. 

From the same link you can select those that voted 'aye' - these will not survive - and those that had 'no vote recorded' will be interviewed to see why they did not vote, some for obvious reasons (Speakers, SNP, SF etc), they may be allowed to continue. 

This craziness has to end: very slowly, but very surely, more people are realising. The hole is deep enough, just stop digging. But hey, this is just Health Protection right? All for our own good! "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive...." Thank you C.S. Lewis for that quote.

To digress further, the number of great quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist) is amazing and almost all very applicable to the modern era; a half dozen of the best (the first was also so true during the Brexit division!). The Enemy Within: 

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." 

"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
"Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed."
"Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice"
"Politicians are not born; they are excreted."

"The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are."

Obsidional obmutescent obloquy...

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The people on this list (it includes my MP who was a stalwart all through the Brexit saga too) could form the new slimmed-down UK parliament. The savings will be enormous, added to an MPs' Travel Lodge instead of 2nd homes...I digress. 

From the same link you can select those that voted 'aye' - these will not survive - and those that had 'no vote recorded' will be interviewed to see why they did not vote, some for obvious reasons (Speakers, SNP, SF etc), they may be allowed to continue. 

This craziness has to end: very slowly, but very surely, more people are realising. The hole is deep enough, just stop digging. But hey, this is just Health Protection right? All for our own good! "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive...." Thank you C.S. Lewis for that quote.

To digress further, the number of great quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist) is amazing and almost all very applicable to the modern era; a half dozen of the best (the first was also so true during the Brexit division!). The Enemy Within: 

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." 

"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
"Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed."
"Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice"
"Politicians are not born; they are excreted."

"The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are."

Otoise oxyphonic objections...

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...from the US media who in the main are completely losing it over President Trump's constant ribbing. They are being played and they can't handle it except shout back weak insults. In the article HERE (scroll down) you'll see twenty or more of them whinging about the First Amendment, 'fake' President (oh ha ha...except he is patently NOT a fake president, I guess that's even MORE of their fake news); some mention Fascism, Nazism, Bolshevism...

Only a FAKE PRESIDENT would declare the First Amendment to be the enemy of the American people. https://t.co/ZFZvlTf8Az

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) 17 February 2017

No, he is declaring YOU the enemy of the people: just like the BBC news and political output in the UK. Freedom of the Press doesn't mean freedom from being called out on fake news. The media lies, omissions, stealth edits,  ignoring of facts, the one-sided bullshit fest. President Trump is calling you out. If you are intentionally misinforming the people - and you are - then you are their enemy.



Not yet a Clear and Present Danger situation but I foresee the Incitement Lawless Action being dusted off anytime soon: "The two legal prongs that that constitute incitement of imminent lawless action is as follows: Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and (2) is likely to incite or produce such action." [Wiki].

By the way, he said he would too. More than once and guess what: "...good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells" D. Trump, "The Art of the Deal".



From the blog post title, much of the media seem: otiose - superfluous; redundant; futile; useless...

oxyphonia - sharpness or shrillness of voice

Otoise oxyphonic objections...

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...from the US media who in the main are completely losing it over President Trump's constant ribbing. They are being played and they can't handle it except shout back weak insults. In the article HERE (scroll down) you'll see twenty or more of them whinging about the First Amendment, 'fake' President (oh ha ha...except he is patently NOT a fake president, I guess that's even MORE of their fake news); some mention Fascism, Nazism, Bolshevism...

Only a FAKE PRESIDENT would declare the First Amendment to be the enemy of the American people. https://t.co/ZFZvlTf8Az

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) 17 February 2017

No, he is declaring YOU the enemy of the people: just like the BBC news and political output in the UK. Freedom of the Press doesn't mean freedom from being called out on fake news. The media lies, omissions, stealth edits,  ignoring of facts, the one-sided bullshit fest. President Trump is calling you out. If you are intentionally misinforming the people - and you are - then you are their enemy.

Not yet a Clear and Present Danger situation but I foresee the Incitement Lawless Action being dusted off anytime soon: "The two legal prongs that that constitute incitement of imminent lawless action is as follows: Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and (2) is likely to incite or produce such action." [Wiki].

By the way, he said he would too. More than once and guess what: "...good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells" D. Trump, "The Art of the Deal".

From the blog post title, much of the media seem: otiose - superfluous; redundant; futile; useless...
oxyphonia - sharpness or shrillness of voice

Obliged obedience or oppression?...

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More interesting stuff: Samizdata blog in yesterday's quote of the day quoted Rand Paul:

"With regard to the idea of whether or not you have a right to healthcare, you have to realize what that implies….I'm a physician, that means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me, it means you believe in slavery. It means you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the assistants, the nurses…There’s an implied threat of force, do you have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away, and force me to take care of you? That’s is ultimately what the right to free healthcare would be."

Now that may sound a bit harsh, silly even ("slavery"?) but he has a point. On Samizdata two concepts of liberty (negative and positive: Isaiah Berlin) is mentioned whereas also IMHO, the distinction between negative and positive rights (not the same) comes into play: witness almost the exact thing Rand Paul mentions, "In the field of Medicine, positive rights of patients often conflict with negative rights of physicians" [Wiki]. Going further: the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (IEP) provides reams in a 'philosophical analysis of the concept of human rights': Moral vs. Legal Rights [IEP]; Claim Rights & Liberty Rights [IEP] ...we can see how easy it was for politicians to make a dog's breakfast of all this.

Obliged obedience or oppression?...

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More interesting stuff: Samizdata blog in yesterday's quote of the day quoted Rand Paul:

"With regard to the idea of whether or not you have a right to healthcare, you have to realize what that implies….I'm a physician, that means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me, it means you believe in slavery. It means you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the assistants, the nurses…There’s an implied threat of force, do you have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away, and force me to take care of you? That’s is ultimately what the right to free healthcare would be."

Now that may sound a bit harsh, silly even ("slavery"?) but he has a point. On Samizdata two concepts of liberty (negative and positive: Isaiah Berlin) is mentioned whereas also IMHO, the distinction between negative and positive rights (not the same) comes into play: witness almost the exact thing Rand Paul mentions, "In the field of Medicine, positive rights of patients often conflict with negative rights of physicians" [Wiki]. Going further: the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (IEP) provides reams in a 'philosophical analysis of the concept of human rights': Moral vs. Legal Rights [IEP]; Claim Rights & Liberty Rights [IEP] ...we can see how easy it was for politicians to make a dog's breakfast of all this.