PREPOSTHUMOSITY AUGUST 2006
PREPOSTHUMOSITY
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Dog Days in PROVENCEThe Lady wife and I are staying en Provence for our annual sojourn amidst the lingering fragrance of the recent Lavender harvest. A particularly good year not only for that, but for the abundance of plums and Apricots. Our French neighbours hold the latter fruit in high esteem, referring to ‘les abricots’ in a tone of voice that to the foreign ear sounds amorously appreciative. Lady Phyllis doesn’t agree, clearly she misses the subtlety of their patois, but it doesn’t fool me. I look them straight between the eyes, so letting them know that I have no time for all their ‘Ooh La La!’Something we both agree on is that the French are Foreigners in their own land, whilst we the English are but Visitors in it. We eat what they eat, we drink what they drink, our only aberration is to attend the Open Air Service laid on each Sunday for benefit of an inclusive British Congregation. Pere Augbust the Catholic Priest expresses his admiration for our high turnout, for his own Church no longer thrives. We never let on that things are much the same for us back home. It is just that we feel we need to show the Flag before retiring to the Britannia Club for a snifter before having Sunday lunch there.France TodayIt is not my intention to abuse French hospitality in any way, but I feel one can still express myself in France for here one still has freedom of speech, something that has been proscribed in my own country.Here too there is an Immigration problem. Many new citizens settle by right, each an honoured Frenchman. There are now some six million Muslims in France, each with or without legitimate entry for the frontiers leak as might a colander. Little provision is made for such persons, and many are left to beg on the Street, whilst others live in the banlieu. Levels of unemployment are high, even amidst the qualified indigenous French. Laws were enacted allowing employers to engage the young on a short term contract, prior to engaging them at a ‘Union’ Rate of Pay. Unfortunately the latter employment most often fails to materialise, for the same job goes to a cheaper replacement youth .The French as a Race are at best un-governable. Their tendency is to agree to everything, but do absolutely nothing. If ever they intend to do anything, there is never an intent to do it today. There are exceptions primarily Road building and anything associated with Beton, as they term Concrete.We were very impressed driving down, frequently Lady Phyllis was able to touch on a speed of over fifty miles an hour according to my tachometer calculation. Already excellent roads , are being upgraded using money from ‘Europe’. Each Commune passed by, demands its own roundabout, as if its Status depended on the possession of such an embellishment. I never see such frenetic activity in England. The road that passes by our home resembles a pitted dirt track.How with unemployment so high, and all those immigrants, does the French nation do so well? Do they not now own Christie Manson and Wood our long established Auctioneers, Our Electricity and Water Supplies, Crosse and Blackwell, all our Cement and Plasterboard companies etc. One might have expected the British to purchase into French Commerce, but too frequently French legislation prohibits such acquisitions. Protectionism, and financial backing using tax payers money is prevalent in France.There is too a tremendous black economy. Cash in the hand does not go unrewarded. Planning constrictions are circumnavigated, holidays are frequent, retirement is early, Pensions are higher, and the lunch ‘hour’ still long. One wonders how success is possible in such adverse circumstance? As a nation they do not play cricket, maybe therein is the explanation.IMMIGRATION INTO BRITAINBritain has become too soft hearted. We fall for every alleged Asylum seeker who knocks on our front door . We accommodate them, feed them, give them spending money and free use of our Health Service. Provide them with education for their children, and translators so that we may better communicate. I heard a Councillor tell that his Borough has an hundred tongues to cope with, elsewhere a teacher spoke of twenty six different languages spoken in his school alone. Has our nation gone daft ?‘Those whom the Gods seek to destroy they first make mad’ I suspect that when London hosts the Olympic Games, we will acquire many more Athletes than we start off with.Britain is the indigenous abode of the Anglo Saxon Celt. It is not any Africa State, nor Pakistan, or Bangladesh. India or the abode of the Arab Nations. Do we the British have any right to transfer our culture to any of those Great Sovereign Nations, or can we ubiquitously practice Christianity in their midst? I think not. I heard that Home Secretary chap John Read on the wireless the other week. He talked a lot of sense. If there is to be another leader of his Party I think he might be the better alternative, for the other hopeful has had so much rope he’s seemingly hanged his opportunity. Well now, Read rightly suggested that it is possible to discuss these matters without accusation of Racism. Very sound advice.What does Racism mean? According to this Computer the definition goes as follows:ra·cism [ráy sìzzəm]n (disapproving)1. animosity toward other races: prejudice or animosity against people who belong to other races .2. belief in racial superiority: the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities, and that some races are inherently superior or inferiorEncarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Home Secretary Read spoke correctly. If we have a problem, it is not that of anyone’s superiority or inferiority to any one else, nor of one culture being better than another.None the less we the British have a culture of our own distilled from many lands not least the Middle East. It is a culture that suits us as an Island Race, a culture which I for one have no wish to see submerged beneath that fuming tide, the Diaspora of other nations. All have been made welcome in the common cause of humanity. Those who have benefited of our largesse, should not make it their business to proselytise falsehood and do so allegedly in the name of Islam. True Followers of Islam should surely reject hot heads, and speak out, for silence does Islam a disservice .http://www.islamfortoday.com/fundamnetalism.htmThere are branches of Christianity in Britain other than the Church of England. One among many is the Catholic Church. For hundreds of years adherents of that religion suffered suppression. That was not only in Ireland, but on the mainland too. There was a time when the practice of the faith was illegal, the Mass and Catholicism forbidden. The Gentry went abroad for an education. As late as the eighteenth century Catholics were not permitted to own real estate, by that I mean a house. As late as the 1970s a Catholic was not permitted to become Lord Chancellor. Possibly is still not entitled to be the Prime Minister nor marry the Monarch, nor ‘of right’ qualify to be an Officer in her Majesty’s Services. The Order ‘Fall out the Roman Catholics’ carried a vestigial overtone to it. Judaism has had its own problems but I believe it faired well in our Government, whether in Office of Premier, or in Cabinet. There are no prohibitions against such participation by Islam either.I suspect that a majority in Britain has heard more than enough about Fundamentalism, especially that proclaimed by a deviant minority . There is a figure banded around of 25%. I know nothing about that, but if such persons do not like the way things happen in this country, they would do better to conform to the norms of our Democratic process whether they like that process or not. For that is the way things are done here. Our Government doesn’t please everyone. Parliament is indecisive and often incompetent, it has seldom housed the brightest or the best, but it took a thousand years to evolve into its present circumstance.Crashing aeroplanes into the twin towers, or putting gunpowder under the seat of Government never achieves its intended purpose. It brings ignominy to the aspirations of those who perpetrate such violence; whilst doing untold damage to others who respect and understand the teaching of the Prophet of Islam or Jesus Christ respectively, because such action is wrongly attributed to an entire Religious Denomination.None are happy about Iraq, or the Lebanon , or Afghanistan or the Taliban; or come to that about Saddam Hussein’s Regime killing the Kurds, or Israel behaving as it now does. Neither of Hitler exterminating the Jews and the Gipsies, and Homo Sexuals, nor of his invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland. It would have been very easy for this our Island Race to have adopted an ‘I am alright Jack’ attitude, but we didn’t. I wonder what Herr Hitler thought of Islam, what were his plans for the non Caucasian Races? Was it wrong that this country and eventually America declared War on him?If some Fundamentalists are indeed first generation British Muslims, they are persons well educated at ‘free school’ and possibly by Subsidised University. Each such Man or woman might enquire what it was that caused their Parents to leave the land of their birth in the first place? Did they come here just to get a better lifestyle, were they seeking Asylum from an oppressive regime or what? I know the West Indians, to some extent our kith if not kin, came ‘to run the buses’ , but what attracted your parents here? I am very sorry if some of you don’t like the rest of us, or don’t like the Country we now share, but so far as I am concerned you will just have to put up with it, just as the rest of us have to do.Britain has no wish to be fighting anyone in Iraq or Afghanistan. We are supposed to be rebuilding the infra structure, and seeking to restore self Government to the people.Young dissidents of any faith who had the opportunity to vote in Britain are as culpable as anyone else is for our Foreign Policy. If blame is perceived you too are at fault. However dissidents do not represent the voice of Islam nor speak from the Koran. It is time that the authentic voice of Islam is heard in this Country. Possibly false prophets, those who speak with ‘forked tongues’, should be sent back whence they came.I did not approve of the introduction of the Holocaust Day, believed it to be a mistake to single out such an atrocity amidst so many others. What of Stalin’s Purges? Thus it is by the same standard I do not regard Islam as any sort of special case. If the Police decided to raid my home on the basis that I am a suspected subversive element, they are not going to go around to tell the Vicar first; but they did advise an Imam prior to the recent multiple arrests concerning the alleged planned attack on those air liners.Things can not go on the way they are. An open door is both an entry and an exit. Please will the malcontents bear that in mind. Gen. Wrant retd.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Dog Days in PROVENCEThe Lady wife and I are staying en Provence for our annual sojourn amidst the lingering fragrance of the recent Lavender harvest. A particularly good year not only for that, but for the abundance of plums and Apricots. Our French neighbours hold the latter fruit in high esteem, referring to ‘les abricots’ in a tone of voice that to the foreign ear sounds amorously appreciative. Lady Phyllis doesn’t agree, clearly she misses the subtlety of their patois, but it doesn’t fool me. I look them straight between the eyes, so letting them know that I have no time for all their ‘Ooh La La!’Something we both agree on is that the French are Foreigners in their own land, whilst we the English are but Visitors in it. We eat what they eat, we drink what they drink, our only aberration is to attend the Open Air Service laid on each Sunday for benefit of an inclusive British Congregation. Pere Augbust the Catholic Priest expresses his admiration for our high turnout, for his own Church no longer thrives. We never let on that things are much the same for us back home. It is just that we feel we need to show the Flag before retiring to the Britannia Club for a snifter before having Sunday lunch there.France TodayIt is not my intention to abuse French hospitality in any way, but I feel one can still express myself in France for here one still has freedom of speech, something that has been proscribed in my own country.Here too there is an Immigration problem. Many new citizens settle by right, each an honoured Frenchman. There are now some six million Muslims in France, each with or without legitimate entry for the frontiers leak as might a colander. Little provision is made for such persons, and many are left to beg on the Street, whilst others live in the banlieu. Levels of unemployment are high, even amidst the qualified indigenous French. Laws were enacted allowing employers to engage the young on a short term contract, prior to engaging them at a ‘Union’ Rate of Pay. Unfortunately the latter employment most often fails to materialise, for the same job goes to a cheaper replacement youth .The French as a Race are at best un-governable. Their tendency is to agree to everything, but do absolutely nothing. If ever they intend to do anything, there is never an intent to do it today. There are exceptions primarily Road building and anything associated with Beton, as they term Concrete.We were very impressed driving down, frequently Lady Phyllis was able to touch on a speed of over fifty miles an hour according to my tachometer calculation. Already excellent roads , are being upgraded using money from ‘Europe’. Each Commune passed by, demands its own roundabout, as if its Status depended on the possession of such an embellishment. I never see such frenetic activity in England. The road that passes by our home resembles a pitted dirt track.How with unemployment so high, and all those immigrants, does the French nation do so well? Do they not now own Christie Manson and Wood our long established Auctioneers, Our Electricity and Water Supplies, Crosse and Blackwell, all our Cement and Plasterboard companies etc. One might have expected the British to purchase into French Commerce, but too frequently French legislation prohibits such acquisitions. Protectionism, and financial backing using tax payers money is prevalent in France.There is too a tremendous black economy. Cash in the hand does not go unrewarded. Planning constrictions are circumnavigated, holidays are frequent, retirement is early, Pensions are higher, and the lunch ‘hour’ still long. One wonders how success is possible in such adverse circumstance? As a nation they do not play cricket, maybe therein is the explanation.IMMIGRATION INTO BRITAINBritain has become too soft hearted. We fall for every alleged Asylum seeker who knocks on our front door . We accommodate them, feed them, give them spending money and free use of our Health Service. Provide them with education for their children, and translators so that we may better communicate. I heard a Councillor tell that his Borough has an hundred tongues to cope with, elsewhere a teacher spoke of twenty six different languages spoken in his school alone. Has our nation gone daft ?‘Those whom the Gods seek to destroy they first make mad’ I suspect that when London hosts the Olympic Games, we will acquire many more Athletes than we start off with.Britain is the indigenous abode of the Anglo Saxon Celt. It is not any Africa State, nor Pakistan, or Bangladesh. India or the abode of the Arab Nations. Do we the British have any right to transfer our culture to any of those Great Sovereign Nations, or can we ubiquitously practice Christianity in their midst? I think not. I heard that Home Secretary chap John Read on the wireless the other week. He talked a lot of sense. If there is to be another leader of his Party I think he might be the better alternative, for the other hopeful has had so much rope he’s seemingly hanged his opportunity. Well now, Read rightly suggested that it is possible to discuss these matters without accusation of Racism. Very sound advice.What does Racism mean? According to this Computer the definition goes as follows:ra·cism [ráy sìzzəm]n (disapproving)1. animosity toward other races: prejudice or animosity against people who belong to other races .2. belief in racial superiority: the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities, and that some races are inherently superior or inferiorEncarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Home Secretary Read spoke correctly. If we have a problem, it is not that of anyone’s superiority or inferiority to any one else, nor of one culture being better than another.None the less we the British have a culture of our own distilled from many lands not least the Middle East. It is a culture that suits us as an Island Race, a culture which I for one have no wish to see submerged beneath that fuming tide, the Diaspora of other nations. All have been made welcome in the common cause of humanity. Those who have benefited of our largesse, should not make it their business to proselytise falsehood and do so allegedly in the name of Islam. True Followers of Islam should surely reject hot heads, and speak out, for silence does Islam a disservice .http://www.islamfortoday.com/fundamnetalism.htmThere are branches of Christianity in Britain other than the Church of England. One among many is the Catholic Church. For hundreds of years adherents of that religion suffered suppression. That was not only in Ireland, but on the mainland too. There was a time when the practice of the faith was illegal, the Mass and Catholicism forbidden. The Gentry went abroad for an education. As late as the eighteenth century Catholics were not permitted to own real estate, by that I mean a house. As late as the 1970s a Catholic was not permitted to become Lord Chancellor. Possibly is still not entitled to be the Prime Minister nor marry the Monarch, nor ‘of right’ qualify to be an Officer in her Majesty’s Services. The Order ‘Fall out the Roman Catholics’ carried a vestigial overtone to it. Judaism has had its own problems but I believe it faired well in our Government, whether in Office of Premier, or in Cabinet. There are no prohibitions against such participation by Islam either.I suspect that a majority in Britain has heard more than enough about Fundamentalism, especially that proclaimed by a deviant minority . There is a figure banded around of 25%. I know nothing about that, but if such persons do not like the way things happen in this country, they would do better to conform to the norms of our Democratic process whether they like that process or not. For that is the way things are done here. Our Government doesn’t please everyone. Parliament is indecisive and often incompetent, it has seldom housed the brightest or the best, but it took a thousand years to evolve into its present circumstance.Crashing aeroplanes into the twin towers, or putting gunpowder under the seat of Government never achieves its intended purpose. It brings ignominy to the aspirations of those who perpetrate such violence; whilst doing untold damage to others who respect and understand the teaching of the Prophet of Islam or Jesus Christ respectively, because such action is wrongly attributed to an entire Religious Denomination.None are happy about Iraq, or the Lebanon , or Afghanistan or the Taliban; or come to that about Saddam Hussein’s Regime killing the Kurds, or Israel behaving as it now does. Neither of Hitler exterminating the Jews and the Gipsies, and Homo Sexuals, nor of his invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland. It would have been very easy for this our Island Race to have adopted an ‘I am alright Jack’ attitude, but we didn’t. I wonder what Herr Hitler thought of Islam, what were his plans for the non Caucasian Races? Was it wrong that this country and eventually America declared War on him?If some Fundamentalists are indeed first generation British Muslims, they are persons well educated at ‘free school’ and possibly by Subsidised University. Each such Man or woman might enquire what it was that caused their Parents to leave the land of their birth in the first place? Did they come here just to get a better lifestyle, were they seeking Asylum from an oppressive regime or what? I know the West Indians, to some extent our kith if not kin, came ‘to run the buses’ , but what attracted your parents here? I am very sorry if some of you don’t like the rest of us, or don’t like the Country we now share, but so far as I am concerned you will just have to put up with it, just as the rest of us have to do.Britain has no wish to be fighting anyone in Iraq or Afghanistan. We are supposed to be rebuilding the infra structure, and seeking to restore self Government to the people.Young dissidents of any faith who had the opportunity to vote in Britain are as culpable as anyone else is for our Foreign Policy. If blame is perceived you too are at fault. However dissidents do not represent the voice of Islam nor speak from the Koran. It is time that the authentic voice of Islam is heard in this Country. Possibly false prophets, those who speak with ‘forked tongues’, should be sent back whence they came.I did not approve of the introduction of the Holocaust Day, believed it to be a mistake to single out such an atrocity amidst so many others. What of Stalin’s Purges? Thus it is by the same standard I do not regard Islam as any sort of special case. If the Police decided to raid my home on the basis that I am a suspected subversive element, they are not going to go around to tell the Vicar first; but they did advise an Imam prior to the recent multiple arrests concerning the alleged planned attack on those air liners.Things can not go on the way they are. An open door is both an entry and an exit. Please will the malcontents bear that in mind. Gen. Wrant retd.
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