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Diary Blog, 2 December 2024

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Warsaw has changed a very great deal since I last saw it in the winter of 1989. 35 years ago. It hardly seems possible.

“Our wonderful police”

This of course goes far beyond “mere” theft of bicycles.

A couple of years ago, my Australian niece, in her early twenties and —at the time— living for a couple of years in London, decided to start cycling from her London flat (West Kensington) to her office (West End). A brave and perhaps unwise decision. All went well until, one fine summer day, a car hit her not very far from her home, at a busy intersection. A place where there are shops, cafes and, therefore, cctv. She was knocked off her bike, and left in the road. The driver sped off. Thankfully, she had no serious injuries; bruises and cuts, mainly.

My niece did report the incident (it may be that passers-by did too, at the time). The police did nothing, absolutely nothing, despite the fact that this was a hit and run vehicle crime which could well have been more serious, even a fatality. They did not even collect cctv, despite the time of the “accident” (crime) being known to within a few minutes. Useless.

Another crime: I know that I have blogged about this previously, but my regular readers will please grant me this indulgence.

A couple of years ago, in early 2023, a wheel was stolen from my car. Local people were able to provide me with some good leads as to the likely thief or his connections. I passed that information on to the police online and via telephone (they did not turn up at all in person, despite likely DNA evidence or fingerprints left on a jack). Nothing happened. No action, no investigation. Useless people.

Imagine my surprise, then (and as I later discovered), that the uniformed constable (from Hampshire Constabulary) who was in everyday charge of the relevant “neighbourhood crime team”, turned out to be the very same policeman who, together with a female colleague, had turned up, at my now very humble home, and on my birthday, in 2021, some 18 months previously, having been asked to do so by Gloucestershire Police at the behest of one Stephen Silverman, the self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” at the fanatical pro-Israel Jewish pressure-group called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.

Silverman’s malicious, and completely false, complaint to the police against me (on the ground of “racial harassment”) is detailed here:

Well, nothing came of that attempted perversion of the course of justice by Silverman, but he has never been charged (((why?))). Au contraire— the tiny but well-funded “CAA” cabal simply persuaded (via direct political pressure and interference) the Wessex Crown —or Clown— Prosecution Service (Wessex CPS) to prosecute me on a completely different legal basis, and in respect of (small parts of) 5 blog posts, out of the, at the time, well over 1,500 blog posts published from late 2016 to early 2023.

My free speech trial in late 2023, my sentencing hearing in March 2024, and the aftermath of the trial and sentencing are detailed here:

The same policeman already noted above in today’s blog and in those other days’ blogs, turned up at every hearing of my “case”— first appearance in June or July 2023, a later “case management” appearance when the trial was deferred, the one-day trial, the sentencing hearing (and another hearing prior to sentence when the “Clown” Prosecutor made a doomed attempt to give my “case” a “hate crime” uplift). Four or maybe even five hearings; every time, that policeman was there, sitting in the waiting area and at the back of the court (he did give evidence, briefly, at the trial, and was equally-briefly cross-examined by me).

So that policeman spent 5 days on attending court, related to my quite pointless trial, as well as (with other “guardians of law and order”) a number of days cobbling together the huge amount of material required by the Clown Prosecution Service. Also, parts of other days in 2021, wasted on Silverman’s completely false and malicious allegation that he was “racially harassed” by me (I did not know his address, or his telephone number or email, and had never once spoken to him, or even seen him, still less confronted him).

Days which that policeman and his colleagues might have used more productively, dealing with real crime and/or investigating Silverman’s 2021 attempt to pervert the course of justice.

Incidentally, Silverman, despite now living in Gloucestershire (prior to that, in Essex), made the fairly long journey to Southampton Magistrates’ Court both for my trial and for the sentencing hearing, though he slunk out on the latter occasion once he realized that the sentence (a 9-month “community order” and £734 costs etc) was not going to be as severe as he and his horrible little “CAA” cabal had hoped.

I should add that, on one of the preliminary days in court, in summer 2023, a different “CAA” creature turned up to snoop, a kind of bearded and very long-haired near-dwarf, like something out of Lord of the Rings.

Well, there it is. The police politicized, suborned (along with the Clown Prosecution Service) and apparently incapable of doing their proper job, while behaving as a so-far relatively velvet-glove and poundshop Stasi.

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Even many of the hard-core Zionist Jews seem to be opposed to the ethnic cleansing Israel is continuing to carry out in Gaza.

Some of those who are most in favour of the ethnic cleansing and/or genocidal policies of the Netanyahu government seem to be, looking at Twitter/X, Jews living in the UK. They will be the very same Jews who are constantly trying to destroy free speech in this country, as seen in, inter alia, my own free speech trial (trials, if you include the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal which wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred me at the behest of the Jew-Zionist lobby in late 2016: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/).

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/01/blueprint-drawn-up-to-deliver-unprecedented-transformation-of-end-of-life-care.

One of the latest Israeli war crimes

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14147069/Girl-shot-Israeli-forces-United-Nations-Gaza-airstrike-killed-aid-workers.html

A ten-year-old Palestinian girl has allegedly been shot in the chest by IDF forces close to the United Nations office in Gaza

The alleged shooting comes after four aid workers were killed following a Israeli strike in the terrority [sic] on Saturday. 

A shocking picture appears to show the child lying on the floor surrounded by UN workers in blue vests after it was claimed she was shot in the chest while crossing an Israeli checkpoint in the south of Gaza.

[Daily Mail]

“Them” again…

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It certainly was.

Anyway, what Goodwin is omitting to add is that the importation of non-Europeans into the UK and the rest of Europe is a planned and evil strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.

Starmer has no more intention of stopping the migration-invasion than did Sunak, Johnson, or the others.

The Home Office has been concealing that kind of data for not only years but for decades. I blogged, several years ago, about the experience I had when a superannuated “first six” [months] Bar pupil (trainee) in early 1992, and when my “pupilmaster” (supervisor, mentor, lager-buyer…) had a trial involving Arab Gypsies originally from North Africa, of whom the Home Office were aware, and who (a clan of about 5,000 in and by London) lived (and no doubt still live) from thieving, begging, and by accessing the social security system. See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/08/03/first-steal-a-chicken/.

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That other person, talking to Goodwin, talks about Starmer’s “loveless majority“. It may have a Commons majority, by reason of the ludicrously unfair and illogical voting system in the UK, but it has and had no popular vote majority, and its plurality of votes, in percentage terms, is one of the lowest ever— 33.7%, only just a third of those who voted; 4 out of every 12. Over 40% of the eligible electorate did not vote. Only 4 in every 20 people eligible to vote voted for Labour and Starmer.

Both main System parties are hanging on only because of a voting system that is basically binary. Tweedledum/Tweedledee. Despite that, they are both going down. Reform UK may be a poor alternative, but is a straw at which many will clutch between now and 2029.

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Diary Blog, 6 December 2023

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[in fact, pygmy goats, in this case]

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I’ve watched this video over and over and over. They way it affects me is indescribable. From the way she looks at him and rests her head on his shoulder to the way her little hand clutches his vest.

These are the little angels that we’re seeing in video after video being pulled from underneath the rubble as dusty corpses.

How could you? HOW COULD YOU!?

London. Zoo.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/shoplifter-40-kicked-co-op-28169106

[the defendant]

A shoplifter kicked a Co-op worker with her high-heel, threatened a man with a syringe, and then did a poo on a hospital floor. Nyziah Shiloh was jailed for one year at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, November 24, after admitting theft, assault, possessing an offensive weapon, two counts of criminal damage, attempted theft, and failing to surrender to the court at an earlier hearing.

[My London]

Is there any point in having such creatures in our European society? How can higher forms of society ever be fostered or brought into being when the UK is replete with creatures of that sort?

What is even more incredible is the attitude of the judge:

Judge Canavan lamented Shiloh’s lack of housing as she sent her to prison for a year, telling her: “If there was anything else I could do today because short prison sentences are not ideal… Unfortunately you qualify for none of the necessary programmes because you are homeless.”

[My London]

Any public housing available should go first to English/British families and people, of course.

Why are creatures like that even in this country?

I am far from a “hanger and flogger”, but what that judge is saying is that, had that drug addict had a home, he would not have sent her to prison. Read the full report, read what she did, factor in her previous convictions, and see whether you agree.

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In recent yrs, international students have been able to stay in UK for up to 2 yrs after completing their studies without any conditions or needing a job. To what extent, if at all, do you support this policy?”

Strongly agree 8% Tend to agree 17% Tend to disagree 23% Strongly disagree 25% Don’t know 26% AGREE 25% DISAGREE 48%.”

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This is a massive disgrace now. The banks proved, about 15 years ago, that they were hugely incompetent and hugely greedy. They would all have failed, their far-too-well remunerated directors and senior staff made redundant, had the British people, via the State, not bailed them out. Now they refuse to honour the social contract by keeping branches open.

Most local bank branches in my local town have either already closed, or will close in 2024. Any problems will have to be sorted out on the telephone, and apparently even that (often impossible because of endless questions and passwords etc) is going to be withdrawn for most people.

This is not a purely commercial matter. The banks have a responsibility which they are unwilling to honour.

It is, also, part of the ongoing alienation of people in this country from the society in which they live.

A couple of caveats: firstly, I oppose any non-European/non-white being an MP, still less Cabinet Minister. Secondly, I cannot see that Suella Braverman accomplished any more than similar (?) Israel-lobby puppet Priti Patel in her time as Home Secretary. Third, I cannot endorse most of her views on purely domestic policy areas.

Having said that, she is of course undoubtedly correct in her view of the migration invasion, though she seems less clear about “legal” migration, which after all brought both her parents and those of Priti Patel to this country. “Legal” migration is 10x or even 20x as high as “illegal”.

I think that she is right about the political tsunami about to hit the Conservative Party, though immigration is only one of many policy areas where this absurd government of clowns has failed.

I wonder what will happen if/when the Conservative Party is left with 100 MPs, or even 50? At present, she seems to appear as the standout candidate to be elected Leader of the potential rump party that might be left, following the 2024 General Election. Her own seat must be one of the safest, partly by reason of speeches such as that made today.

Suella Braverman seems to be positioning herself as a latter-day Margaret Thatcher, who was called “the only man in the Cabinet“.

Of course, Suella Braverman was dismissed, so this speech is only nominally a “resignation” speech.

Christmas cards for political prisoners

As some readers will know, I do not belong to any political party or group. I therefore republish the appeal below in the spirit of looking at the big picture.

https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/a_christmas_card_for_a_political_prisoner.

Even more than most public inquiries, this current one is a total waste of time and money.

Any faction which (like Sunak’s, or that of Jenrick and Suella Braverman), doormats for Israel and the UK/US Jewish/Zionist lobby, gets a thumbs down from me. Same goes for Matt Goodwin, though he makes some cogent points elsewhere.

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[Mina Fonda Ochtman, The Evening Lamp]

First, Steal A Chicken

This post is one in the line of reminiscences of my life at the English Bar. More exactly, it is another story of my days of pupillage (“on the job training”) as a newly-minted barrister in 1992-93, still under the control of a “pupilmaster” (though, as explained in other posts, my “pupilmaster” was in fact the same age as me, a consequence of my “rolling stone” or “wander-bird” youth). It tells the story of a fairly minor series of thefts, but at the same time says something about UK and even European society generally.

A timeworn joke says that the first line of an old Hungarian recipe for chicken goulash starts, “First, steal a chicken”…Well, in this story there was no chicken but what there was was an Arab Gypsy woman in East London who was expecting a baby. Well, a baby needs all kinds of things and especially clothing, so the family of that woman– a man, a boy of 14, the pregnant woman, our defendant (an exceptionally beautiful girl aged about 18 who was a cousin of the pregnant woman), and another woman– set out one fine morning to steal the requisites. Their chosen emporium was British Home Stores, Ilford, part of East London.

The aforesaid shopping expedition was initially successful, but came to an abrupt end when the “shoppers” were arrested by police as they were getting into their car, laden with their “acquisitions”. A woman store detective had noticed them and had alerted her colleagues and the police.

It is at this point that the story becomes interesting from the “crime and punishment” point of view. The man arrested was not charged, on the basis that he had not entered the store, not handled the goods and had not admitted knowing anything of the thefts. The 14 year old boy, having admitted acting as a look-out (a pretty poor one, as it turned out), received a police caution. The other women admitted theft in the magistrates’ court and were fined £50 each. So that left our defendant, who was called something like Maroush or Marousha.

Now it transpired that Maroush was also going to be sentenced for being part of a gang which had visited towns in Dorset and Somerset and had stolen quite large amounts from shops by distracting the cashiers while the tills were open (in fact, they could somehow get them open, silently and in seconds, even when the tills were closed). Maroush was a minor player in that game but would be sentenced with several others, they like her having pleaded to those offences, after the conclusion of her shoplifting trial.

Now the point was that theft is an either-way offence and Maroush could have pleaded guilty in the “mags”, in which case she would no doubt have received a £50 fine like the others. Why she had decided to elect Crown Court trial, God knows. We only got her case at the Crown Court stage.

So it was that we all appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court one day. Snaresbrook is a large rambling building near the end of the Central Line in Essex, and which even then had, I believe, 26 courtrooms (Wikipedia says 20, but that was in 1988; trial was in 1992; it’s pretty big, anyway…). One thing that struck me was when pupilmaster and I were provided (by the Crown Counsel) with a copy of a short Home Office report marked “Restricted”, all about Maroush’s clan origins.

It seems that Maroush came out of a clan of Arab Gypsies who lived (no doubt in poverty and on the margins of Arab society) in pre-WW2 Libya. The Second World War dislocated the states and colonies around the Mediterranean. The clan took the opportunity, after the war finished, somehow to get to Italy. They were eventually granted residency, and some, citizenship. The EEC/EC/EU arrived, with its “free movement” provisions. The clan then moved to somewhere where they could live off the host population more easily– the UK. The Home Office report was fairly direct, which perhaps was why it was “Restricted”: one would not want the British people or Press to see the truth…In fact, the report made it clear that few if any of the 5,000 Arab Gypsies of that clan then living in and around London had remunerative work. They all lived from theft, begging and State benefits.

The trial itself should have taken a day, but in fact took three, to the irritation of the judge. Pupilmaster was usually extremely long-winded, almost absurdly so. In fact, because the trial only ended late on the third day, sentence had to be put off to a fourth, because the other “£50 note trick” defs would be sentenced alongside Maroush. In the event, she was –almost inevitably– convicted of the Ilford shoplifting, and was sentenced to, if memory serves, 22 months’ imprisonment, though most of that was for the Dorset/Somerset offences. Still, she would have been better off pleading to the shoplifting, in the mags. She cried in the dock. I felt sad (I was younger and perhaps more sensitive then).

Not sure why that trial has stuck in my mind: the Home Office report? The youth and beauty of the defendant? The manifest silliness of her decision both to fight the shoplifting charge and, far worse, to do so in the Crown Court? All was put to one side over a few beers in the nearby Spread Eagle pub (if I recall the name aright) not long after. Life went on.

Note:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaresbrook_Crown_Court