Setting an example

When just one person goes where angels fear to tread, three or four more will follow immediately. After that it gets a lot tougher, but the advertising of success breeds success. Those who set an example can one day set the agenda.

A little ray of Sunshine

I cannot tell you the pleasure it gives me to announce that the generosity of Sloggers has rapidly made possible the establishment of the first borehole for fresh water in the tiny village of Toniataba in the Jarra district lower river region of The Gambia.

The Slog appeal’s donations exceeded 2,170 GB Pounds sterling at lunchtime last Friday, and so the first borings can begin almost immediately under the supervision of Alhagie Njie, the President of the Join hand togther Fruit & Vegetable Garden Association (FAVGA) and his hard-working colleagues.

The Slog has, all up, some 14,300 followers via various media assists. During the collection and delivery of the donations first time around, the entire project was made ten times more difficult by the hypocritical regulatory enthusiasm of the Banksters. But I feel that both Alhagie and I think the process of further donation has been rendered easier and more reliable by this initial experience.

So – with a second borehole still required – I’m asking for those (who perhaps have so far been put off by the red tape) to make donations to the following bank details:

Bank: Trust Bank Ltd, 3-4 Ecowas Avenue, Banjul, The Gambia

Swift Code: TBLTGMGM

Account Name: JOIN HAND TOGETHER FRUIT AND VEGETABLE ASSOCIATION

Account No: 11090889401

You MUST use the Swift system, I’m afraid. But should you prefer to send the money direct to me, you can do so by sending to Wise Bank, John Anthony Ward, Account number 92365866, Sort Code: 23-14-70, IBAN Code GB52 TRWI 2314 7092 3658 66. If you send in GB Pound sterling, it’s free, quicker than Swift – and will be in my account within seconds.

Please give whatever you can afford, however small.

Like most active users of (and suppliers to) social media at present, I’m engaged in a process of rethinking the role we all have in this War of words versus the liberty-vandalizing bulldozers of Anything Goes Neoliberal Civilisation Demolition.

So two nights ago – feeling more than a little confused – I took the evening off to return to Netflix after a long absence.

There was not a single movie I had any desire to watch or not already seen. Until eventually, I stumbled across a German documentary – ‘Ordinary Men: the Forgotten Holocaust – which, instead of being light and distracting entertainment, held me gripped by several insights.

The true story concerns ordinary German policemen recruited in 1942 as the Greater German Reich grew larger but the manpower to run it remained a problem. These were civil cops, not political yobs or Gestapo. They were to be shipped out to the new Empire, ostensibly as administrators and order keepers.

Abruptly one morning, the Chief Police Officer in charge of the men opened his mail and found some extremely unpleasant orders he was instructed to obey: he must ask his recruits to carry out summary executions of undesirable elements (at first in Poland) – especially Jews. But (the orders continued) he must give every officer at the outset the chance not to be involved in the actions.

At each roll call the Chief Officer read this last codicil out. For up to 40 seconds, nobody moved; then one person did. This then encouraged 3-4 others to follow. The rest stayed firmly in line.

It was a fascinating anthropological exercise in observing the will to conform, but above all the role of setting an example came to the fore: once one objector stepped out of line, up to four would follow.

There is a useful lesson here for all of us engaged in resistance to the New World Order aims….but there’s more on the negative side too. For most of those who stayed grew to delight in their Licence to Kill, and never had the slightest doubt that culling of ‘undesirable elements’ was a worthwhile task, supporting their geliebte Fuhrer’s aims. This supports research done secretly by Goldman Sachs some ten years ago showing how graduates with, at best, doubts about the ethics of certain trading practices, soon grew to accept them as natural.

In short, first up: those who refuse to accept the wrong number of fingers in Room 101 can not only stay steadfast, they can act as a vital role model for more feeble sympathisers who need to be given a lead. Here too, the growth of Blade Runners against ULEZ shows the same human tendency to be inspired by example.

And secondly, The New Normal psy-op propaganda is also to some extent on solid ground – that is, you can order someone to become a killing machine….and in a remarkably short time, such an occupation can be ”normalised”.

Despite what a small trollstorm tried to suggest about me the week before last (”miserable pessimist Grammar School boy”, I have to admit, was a corker for the SlogOddities File) I am a realist who recognises when we’ve gone past the Tickling Contest stage.

The best I can do is repeat the evidenced adage: ”When faced with a State that won’t listen, it is every citizen’s right and duty to join a hard-edged programme of social disobedience as the only thing that will get the State to accept that – while it may see itself as a Rottweiler – we will always be the dog owners with a firm grasp on the lead”.

Again, I urge you all: cherry-pick the Neoliberal Communist policy idiocies, and sabotage the State’s ability to carry any of them through….there’s a lot at stake here. If you doubt this, I offer some recent, particularly malodorous examples of the New World Abnormality stamping its signature (and jackboots) on the face of a once civilised Planet Earth…..

Black Councillor in London urges a boycott of White shops in her area, in an attempt to create Krystallnacht 2.

Moscow now has 700 cameras that can identify drivers who aren’t wearing seatbelts and automatically issue them fines. (Don’t be smug: Switzerland has had this for nearly thirty years, and France is working on a similar system)

Statins produce adverse reactions at a high level, reports pharmaceutical expert Maryanne Demasi. Big Pharma hides this by creating a sample much larger than they need, having a pre-trial test period (fancy title, a run-in period.) This identifies everyone with an adverse reaction before the trial starts and then these are culled from the final trial. Simples! [If an industry calls such a sector ”ethical pharmaceuticals”, bet the farm on them being produced by anti-social pricks at the level of Grant Shapps and below]

The WrongThink mentality of the US FDA has gone up a couple of octaves with the formation of ”Rumor Control”, a classic Sovyet-style example of Right v Wrong aiming to divide and rule with this utterly charming promise:

”If you see any misinformation on social media platforms that the US government is not legally allowed to censor, we would appreciate it if you would perform the censorship for us. And we have made it really easy: one-click to turn people in for each platform”.

Yes People, you too can be a constitutional bounty hunter with just one click. Are you like me – staggered that this is going on but Mrs Dumb and Mr Dumber prove every day that they don’t care?

I am using this post and the previous one to test an entirely different approach to the full spectrum of social media. You will be given zero-bollocks data on how successful or not it was in short order.

Have a good day