“The purpose of all this, funded by hundreds
of millions of pounds of public money, is partly to
keep in being the vast fostering industry, run by dozens
of agencies, often owned by ex-social workers, which
also receive £20,000 a year for each child they
place...”
—
“Parents are forbidden to talk to the media or
even to their MPs about the injustice they are suffering.
Several times in recent months, councils have sought
injunctions to prohibit me reporting anything at all
about a case, even though no person or even the council
itself would be identified. More than once, parents
have been threatened with contempt of court and prison
if they talk to me or anyone else about how they are
being treated.”
—
“For parents who fall foul of this system, often
on no more evidence than malicious hearsay, the first
shock is to find themselves treated like dangerous criminals.
To seize children, social workers seem able to enlist
the unquestioning support of the police, who arrive
mob-handed, six or eight at a time, beating down doors,
tearing babies from their mothers' arms, holding parents
in custody for up to 36 hours while their children are
removed into foster care.
“The parents must then wrestle with a Kafka-esque
system rigged against them in every way. They find themselves
in courts where every normal principle of British justice
has been stood on its head. Social workers may give
written evidence to a judge which the parents aren't
allowed to see. The most outrageous hearsay evidence
may be accepted by the court without the parents even
being allowed to cross-examine on it.”
An insight into what is wrong with
the state ‘education’ cartel.
“I lean my head to the side. “Yes, but
hasn’t there ever been a really bright boy, one
who you’ve always thought was so clever, who hasn’t
got in?”
“They agree that sometimes that happens, that
there was one boy from a couple of years ago, who was
superb and yet somehow, he didn’t get in.
“ “Why do you think that was?” I
probe.
“They shrug again. “He must have messed
up at interview.”
“I shake my head, rejecting their polite conversation.
“No, no, don’t you think that maybe there
is a bias against you boys? Being from Eton and all?”
“They shake their heads vigorously. “No,
no… it will have been because he messed up…
maybe on the exam…”
“I keep going. I’m not satisfied with all
this business of taking responsibility for oneself.
I mean, they’re kids after all, and kids make
excuses for themselves. At least most of the kids I
know, do.
“ “Doesn’t it annoy you that some
state school kids might gain places because of their
potential, rather than their achievements? That some
of you might have more A grades, more accolades, more
to show for yourselves and yet they get a place instead
of you?”
“One of the boys draws back from me as if I’ve
said something dreadful. He frowns. “But we’ve
had advantages that they haven’t had. They haven’t
had the privilege of our education.”
“And we will also provide support for the early
years of our children. The increased entitlement to
15 hours a week free education for all three and four
year olds - introduced under this government - will
continue. Sure Start services will be protected in cash
terms, and the programme will be focused on its original
purpose. And we will help them further by introducing,
for the very first time, 15 free hours of early education
and care for all disadvantaged two year olds.
“So that these children have a chance in life
and are ready, like the rest of their class mates, for
schools.”
The most vital years of education
deprivation are the very youngest years, from
birth onwards.
Waiting until the age of two misses
the point.
Further, as far as cooperation can
be achieved, it is important that carers are taught to
enhance the early development of children’s learning,
and thus that those adults are incorporated into creche/
education development.
Waiting until the age of two,
let alone three, heavily undermines any substantial value
emanating from early education/learning.
“Now that the 20th century is over, it is possible
to see more clearly how utterly different life has been
for those born in its second half than it was for those
born in its first. I was born in 1956, and no bereavement,
war, revolution, injury or financial crash has seriously
intruded upon my life. My situation is not uncommon.
Debo Devonshire was born in 1920, so the world of her
own generation was turned upside down. Because of the
gigantic loss of life in the First World War, and the
apparent moral completeness of victory in the Second,
the British tend to underplay the trauma of 1939-45.
But those who went through it know different. She tells
what it was like.”
Wait for Me!:
Memoirs by Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire,
Charlotte Mosley
As usual, I’m near to
saddened at the stream of so-called fossil media ‘reporters’
trying to spin (or precis) Benedict’s speech, but
failing to report it!
“The central question at issue, then, is this:
where is the ethical foundation for political choices
to be found? The Catholic tradition maintains that the
objective norms governing right action are accessible
to reason, prescinding
from the content of revelation. According to this understanding,
the role of religion in political debate is not so much
to supply these norms, as if they could not be known
by non-believers – still less to propose concrete
political solutions, which would lie altogether outside
the competence of religion – but rather to help
purify and shed light upon the application of reason
to the discovery of objective moral principles. This
“corrective” role of religion vis-à-vis
reason is not always welcomed, though, partly because
distorted forms of religion, such as sectarianism and
fundamentalism, can be seen to create serious social
problems themselves. And in their turn, these distortions
of religion arise when insufficient attention is given
to the purifying and structuring role of reason within
religion. It is a two-way process. Without the corrective
supplied by religion, though, reason too can fall prey
to distortions, as when it is manipulated by ideology,
or applied in a partial way that fails to take full
account of the dignity of the human person. Such misuse
of reason, after all, was what gave rise to the slave
trade in the first place and to many other social evils,
not least the totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth
century. This is why I would suggest that the world
of reason and the world of faith – the world of
secular rationality and the world of religious belief
– need one another and should not be afraid to
enter into a profound and ongoing dialogue, for the
good of our civilization.”
The word ‘prescinding’
is probably a mistranscription. I think that he meant
‘proceeding’,
but his accent and grasp of English allows the confusion
in transcribing. Nor is the text of that paragraph clear
enough to be certain.
And this is probably the critical paragraph
in his speech.
“What Hawking appears to have done is to confuse
law with agency. His call on us to choose between God
and physics is a bit like someone demanding that we
choose between aeronautical engineer Sir Frank Whittle
and the laws of physics to explain the jet engine.”
—
“...because there is a law such as gravity, the
universe can and will create itself from nothing.”
[Stephen Hawking, allegedly]
“Around 2 p.m. on 10 June 1944, four days after
the Allied invasion of Normandy, approximately 150 Waffen-SS
soldiers entered the tranquil village of Oradour-sur-Glane
in the Limosin region of south central France. For no
apparent reason, Hitler's elite troops destroyed every
building in this peaceful village and brutally murdered
a total of 642 innocent men, women and children, an
unexplained tragedy which has gone down in history as
one of the worst war crimes committed by the German
army in World War II.”
—
“The Oradour church only had a seating capacity
of 350 persons, but 245 frightened women and 207 sobbing
children were forced inside at gunpoint while the men
were still sitting on the grass of the Fairgrounds,
awaiting their fate. The women and children were locked
inside the church while the SS soldiers systematically
looted all the homes in this prosperous farming village.
Then around 4 p.m. a couple of SS soldiers carried a
gas bomb inside this holy place and set it off, filling
the church with a cloud of noxious black smoke. Their
intention had been to asphyxiate the women and children
in the House of God, but their plan failed.
“As the women and children pressed against the
doors, trying to escape and struggling to breathe, SS
soldiers then entered the crowded, smoke-filled church
and fired hundreds of shots at the hapless victims,
while other SS men stood outside ready to machine-gun
anyone who attempted to escape. The soldiers fired low
inside the church in order to hit the small children.
Babies in their prams were blown up by hand grenades,
filled with gas, that were tossed into the church. Then
brushwood and straw was carried into the stone church
and piled on top of the writhing bodies of those that
were not yet dead. The church was then set on fire,
burning alive the women and babies who had only been
wounded by the shots and the grenades. The clamour coming
from the church could be heard for a distance of two
kilometers, according the Bishop's office report.”
“There could have been few more bizarre meetings
anywhere in Britain last week than that between a married
mother and the social workers who had taken her six
young children to place them unhappily in foster care.
The officials, of a council I cannot name, are fixated
with the idea that this respectable Christian is a "sex
worker", whose children all have different fathers
and who is engaged in "child trafficking".
“They appear to have no evidence for these charges
other than the hearsay surmising of a single "witness".”
[Quoted from telegraph.co.uk]
“After decades of hushed shame, the children
of the Lebensborn program to create a blond, blue-eyed
master race have started to speak out. Topic number
one is the painful search for their true parents. And
then that nagging question: "Was my father a war
criminal?"
“Guntram Weber, 63, found out his father was
an SS major-general who escaped a death sentence for
war crimes. They were bred to be the elite of Hitler's
1,000-year Reich but ended up cowed by shame, alienation
and uncertainty for decades.” [Quoted from spiegel.de]
“1939 began one of the most horrible aspects
of Lebensborn policy: the kidnapping of the 'racially
good' children from the eastern occupied countries.
Himmler resolved to deport from occupied parts of Poland
to the Reich, in order to be individually settled and
thereby uprooted as a people approximately four million
persons of 'good racial extraction'. Himmler gave the
outline of the whole action in his 1940 memorandum.
It provided for an annual selection on racial grounds
of Polish children aged from six to ten, and their taking
away for Germanization. Himmler stated:
“ "It is our duty to take [the children]
with us to remove them from their environment, is
necessary by robbing or stealing them. Either
we win over any good blood that we can use for ourselves
and give it a place in our people or we destroy this
blood" (Sosnowski, 1983, p. 49).” [Quoted
from colanmc.siu.edu]
