Saturday, August 13, 2011

OK white man! Glenn Beck warned you about this on his chalkboard!

Yep....Nobody is buying tea party crap no more! It is left to rebel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6i9OJ3SWLA
Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no government like no government at all. There no business
like no business
at all! Yippieeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You better hide with your guns!!!!!!

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Re: 10. Questions Tea Party members can't answer!

kolko is a quack.

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Stephen Stink <not4udude@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Aug 13, 4:49 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> THE KOLKO I KNOW DIED IN 1962.
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Well then you know the wrong one, ya fucking idiot. We aren't
> talking
> about your friggin dentist.
>
> Gabriel Kolko got his doctorate in 1962, and is still alive.
>
> Feel stupid yet, Stink?
Reply: Gabriel Kolko is fictional character like Ayn Rand's John
Gault.
Another fictional character is Saul Alinsky. The fake book: Rules for
radicals
was writen by a member of the Birch Society: Who stupid now?
>
> On Aug 12, 4:14 pm, Stephen Stink <not4ud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > WHY DO YOU THINK I AM PART OF A MOVEMENT I AM NOT YOU STOOPID KNUCKLE
> > DRAGGING
> > PARANOID? THE RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA MACHINE HAS CREATED A PHONEY
> > KOLKO. THEIR KOLKO
> > IS A FANTASY. THE KOLKO I KNOW DIED IN 1962.
> > I AM AN INDIVIUAL AND NOT PART OF ANYTHING DOOTY FACE. YOU....ON THE
> > OTHER HAND
> > ARE PART OF COLLECTIVE CALLED THE TEA PARTY FINANCED BY RICH ARYANS
>
> > On Aug 12, 11:57 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Your reply is completely ignorant as expected
>
> > > Kolko wasn't even read in the 50s but in the 60s and 70s, when his writing
> > > was central to New Left academia
>
> > > I haven't been mixing fundamentalist Christianity with anything
>
> > > Unable to think you can only do your little farts
>
> > > That's why you lost Wisconsin turdlett
>
> > > And why you will lose the Senate
>
> > > Because you're a retard
>
> > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:04 PM, S.Palin <not4ud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > > On Aug 10, 4:41 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > you are simply a monkey mewling gibberish
>
> > > > > look up Gabriel Kolko on wiki pinhead
>
> > > > > corporations only have any power because of your progressives and the
> > > > > regulatory state they created
> > > > Reply:
> > > > This quasi mixture of libertarian belief system mixed with fundamental
> > > > Christian
> > > > religious beliefs has tragic results. What you got is this hysterical
> > > > John Birch Society
> > > > rhetoric. Gabrial Kolko? This hack from Harvard was discredited by
> > > > objective historians
> > > > way back in 1956. He sold his garbage to right wing red hunters and
> > > > was paid blood
> > > > money. He needed the money for his Herion addiction. Got that dumbell?
>
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Re: 10. Questions Tea Party members can't answer!

Even your numbers don't add up.

Fpor your information.... white anglo-saxon protestants ARE Aryan. Mormons ARE Aryan. Catholics ARE Aryan. Athiests ARE Aryan.

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Stephen Stink <not4udude@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Aug 12, 2:04 pm, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rich Aryans pay 80% of the taxes in the USA.
WRONG! IT'S MOSTLY MIDDLE CLASS WASP! Rich Aryans do creative
accounting.
> Rich Aryans employ 75% OF THE us WORKING POPULATION.
WRONG! HOLLYWOOD JEWS EMPLOY A BULK OF THE WORK FORCE.
CIVIL SERVICE HIRES 28 % of the work force. CATHOLICS HIRE A LOT OF
THE POPULATION.
RICH MORMONS HIRES 36% of the work force.YOU GOT FUZZY MATH
> Rich Aryans are responsible for the computer you are using.
WRONG! JEWISH INVENTORS AND LIBERAL WASP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT.
> Rich Aryans are responsible for 90% of all money given to charity.
WRONG! WRONG! RICH JEWS AND CATHOLICS PLUS ANTHISTS WASP GIVE MORE.
> Rich Aryans are the only reason ANY social programs exist.
WRONG AGAIN! THE 19th century progressives gave us that!
>
> The "knuckle draggers" are the good folks like you that think us rich
> aryans owe you even more than we already give.
SORRY...YOU NOT THE MASTER RACE NOR YOUR GODS.
YOU ARE SCARED WHITE BOYS HHIDING IN IROY TOWERS
AFRAID OF THE ANGRY MASSES.
>
> When is the last time YOU gave 100 grand to help end malaria (or any
> other cause)? Why not? MOST rich aryans have public educations and
> come from middle class families. Just what is your excuse??
ABOLISH MONEY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

>
>

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Riots

So if more cities have riots, will urban, gentrifying gays be likely targets

This harassment happened in DC, which like London, has been disarmed by gun control for decades, only now beginning to end.

Twelve years ago or so I was walking with a group of lesbians, 4 or 5, a very petite couple and their much larger friends, down 16th Street along Meridian Hill Park (Malcom X Park), in which there are bashings of whites and gays (including gay people of color), and which has hosted gangs of kids who throw rocks at cars driving by (mine was hit, creating a $1600 repair bill, and only not causing traffic fatalities by sheerest luck). A man reached out from the bushes and grabbed the smallest woman off the sidewalk, pulling her in. We were walking along rather stretched out, not clumped together, and he thought she was alone. The bigger women ran in and confronted him and he let her go and ran away.

If the economic dislocations of late stage disaster statism and the envy-infused "ethics" of the nanny state and the media continue, will we see more urban riots with gays being attacked? In the story below the DC police seem somewhat feckless, like the London police.

Teen Charged In D.C. Lesbian Attack Held Without Bond

August 11, 2011 |

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By Lou Chibbaro Jr. on August 11, 2011

A D.C. Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered a 19-year-old District man held in jail without bond following his arrest one day earlier for allegedly assaulting five lesbians on July 30 on the sidewalk next to the Columbia Heights Metro station.

Judge Karen Howze issued the order after prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office charged Christian Washington with one count each of hate related simple assault and hate related threats to do bodily harm. Both charges are listed as misdemeanors.

A report of the incident prepared by an officer with the police department's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit says Washington allegedly called the five women "dyke bitches" before he and an unidentified male suspect allegedly punched each of the women in the face and head.

Police said the incident took place at 14th and Irving Streets, N.W. about 3 a.m. Police said they are continuing to investigate whether others were involved in the attack.

Two of the victims told the Blade that one of the two suspects became enraged when the women politely spurned his attempt to flirt with them and one of the women informed him she was with her girlfriend. The two women said a second suspect joined in the attack and a third man who was with the attackers used his cell phone to capture the incident on video.

In a court hearing Wednesday, Washington pleaded not guilty to the two charges.

Howze scheduled a follow-up hearing on Aug. 17 to determine whether Washington should be released while awaiting trial or continue to be held. The judge set a status hearing on the case for Sept. 6.

Court records show that Washington was arrested on July 26 — four days before his alleged role in assaulting the five women — on a charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle that police say was a motor scooter. That arrest took place near the 1300 block of Columbia Rd., N.W.

A police report shows that Washington and a second man riding on the scooter with him led police on a Hollywood-style chase through streets and alleys before the men dismounted the scooter and attempted to flee on foot. The report says police apprehended Washington but the second suspect escaped.

Court records show Washington was released on his own recognizance at a July 27 court hearing after being formally charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle.

The attack against the five women drew widespread media attention when news surfaced that police officers arriving on the scene refused to take a report of the incident and released a suspect they apprehended upon their arrival.

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier released a statement calling the officers' behavior "appalling." She told members of the D.C. group Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence that the officers could be fired for not taking a report depending on the finding of an investigation of the incident.

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Re: 10. Questions Tea Party members can't answer!

On Aug 12, 2:04 pm, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rich Aryans pay 80% of the taxes in the USA.
WRONG! IT'S MOSTLY MIDDLE CLASS WASP! Rich Aryans do creative
accounting.
> Rich Aryans employ 75% OF THE us WORKING POPULATION.
WRONG! HOLLYWOOD JEWS EMPLOY A BULK OF THE WORK FORCE.
CIVIL SERVICE HIRES 28 % of the work force. CATHOLICS HIRE A LOT OF
THE POPULATION.
RICH MORMONS HIRES 36% of the work force.YOU GOT FUZZY MATH
> Rich Aryans are responsible for the computer you are using.
WRONG! JEWISH INVENTORS AND LIBERAL WASP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT.
> Rich Aryans are responsible for 90% of all money given to charity.
WRONG! WRONG! RICH JEWS AND CATHOLICS PLUS ANTHISTS WASP GIVE MORE.
> Rich Aryans are the only reason ANY social programs exist.
WRONG AGAIN! THE 19th century progressives gave us that!
>
> The "knuckle draggers" are the good folks like you that think us rich
> aryans owe you even more than we already give.
SORRY...YOU NOT THE MASTER RACE NOR YOUR GODS.
YOU ARE SCARED WHITE BOYS HHIDING IN IROY TOWERS
AFRAID OF THE ANGRY MASSES.
>
> When is the last time YOU gave 100 grand to help end malaria (or any
> other cause)? Why not? MOST rich aryans have public educations and
> come from middle class families. Just what is your excuse??
ABOLISH MONEY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>

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Re: 10. Questions Tea Party members can't answer!

On Aug 13, 4:49 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> THE KOLKO I KNOW DIED IN 1962.
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Well then you know the wrong one, ya fucking idiot. We aren't
> talking
> about your friggin dentist.
>
> Gabriel Kolko got his doctorate in 1962, and is still alive.
>
> Feel stupid yet, Stink?
Reply: Gabriel Kolko is fictional character like Ayn Rand's John
Gault.
Another fictional character is Saul Alinsky. The fake book: Rules for
radicals
was writen by a member of the Birch Society: Who stupid now?
>
> On Aug 12, 4:14 pm, Stephen Stink <not4ud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > WHY DO YOU THINK I AM PART OF A MOVEMENT I AM NOT YOU STOOPID KNUCKLE
> > DRAGGING
> > PARANOID? THE RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA MACHINE HAS CREATED A PHONEY
> > KOLKO. THEIR KOLKO
> > IS A FANTASY. THE KOLKO I KNOW DIED IN 1962.
> > I AM AN INDIVIUAL AND NOT PART OF ANYTHING DOOTY FACE. YOU....ON THE
> > OTHER HAND
> > ARE PART OF COLLECTIVE CALLED THE TEA PARTY FINANCED BY RICH ARYANS
>
> > On Aug 12, 11:57 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Your reply is completely ignorant as expected
>
> > > Kolko wasn't even read in the 50s but in the 60s and 70s, when his writing
> > > was central to New Left academia
>
> > > I haven't been mixing fundamentalist Christianity with anything
>
> > > Unable to think you can only do your little farts
>
> > > That's why you lost Wisconsin turdlett
>
> > > And why you will lose the Senate
>
> > > Because you're a retard
>
> > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:04 PM, S.Palin <not4ud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > > On Aug 10, 4:41 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > you are simply a monkey mewling gibberish
>
> > > > > look up Gabriel Kolko on wiki pinhead
>
> > > > > corporations only have any power because of your progressives and the
> > > > > regulatory state they created
> > > > Reply:
> > > > This quasi mixture of libertarian belief system mixed with fundamental
> > > > Christian
> > > > religious beliefs has tragic results. What you got is this hysterical
> > > > John Birch Society
> > > > rhetoric. Gabrial Kolko? This hack from Harvard was discredited by
> > > > objective historians
> > > > way back in 1956. He sold his garbage to right wing red hunters and
> > > > was paid blood
> > > > money. He needed the money for his Herion addiction. Got that dumbell?
>
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Re: European tax on American travel

Gee,

Sounds like the EU is pulling a Gringo. Just as confusing to the
europeans are the existence of State v. Federal laws in the US. The US
lets whichever suits the situation best (in its mind) stand. (point in
fact... the INS asks for help from the states and even sets out
guidelines to them... then when the states actually adopt Federal
statute as state law the states are told to stay out of it and taken
to court.)

The EU is confusing though... It does have Sovereign States as members
(like the US claims...but not really, not any more) It is empowered by
the votes of it sovereign members.... the US has basically discarded
any such notion and is entirely under the thumb of of the Central
Government (remember the USSR and its' "claims" on this subject??)
with very few (and getting fewer) exceptions.

It all goes back to states rights.... where are they? They are
disappearing in Europe just as they did in the US...

All US Airlines that fly to Europe are also registered as corporations
there. They do this so they can have employees there... and avoid some
very high cross-boundary taxes and insurances... now Europe is taxing
those corporations... they have the same right to do so as the US has
to tax any citizen or company when working outside the US.

> *Climate-change levy is cover for EU money-grubbing*****
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> By Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner****
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> The Washington Times****
>
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> Garsys for The Washington Times]Illustration: Air travel tax by Linas Garsys
> for The Washington Times****
>
> Bottom of Form****
>
> While Republicans have been fighting new taxes in Washington, Americans may
> face a new tax from an unlikely source - the European Union (EU). Beginning
> Jan. 1, 2012, the E U will extend its cap-and-trade system (aka cap-and-tax)
> to all airlines entering or leaving its airports. Americans flying to and
> from Europe will begin paying higher fares to cover the EU's new tax.****
>
> The EU's emissions tax will cover the entire flight. For example, if a U.S.
> carrier is flying from San Francisco to London, the tax will take effect
> when the aircraft begins to taxi on the runway in California. The bill will
> continue to accrue throughout the entire flight, even though only a small
> portion actually occurs in the EU's airspace. The airlines estimate that the
> EU's new tax will cost them $3.1 billion by 2020 and they project a
> potential fare increase of more than $50 on a trans-Atlantic flight.****
>
> The environmental benefits of these actions will be, at best, negligible.
> The entire U.S. aviation industry is responsible for just 2 percent of our
> total emissions. In 2012, the EU will require a 3 percent reduction from the
> average emissions from 2004-06 on all flights into, out of or within the EU.
> Carriers that fail to meet this standard will have to buy emissions credits
> from and pay fines to the EU.****
>
> European countries have no obligation to use collected funds for
> climate-related programs. It is simply revenue straight from U.S. pockets to
> European coffers.****
>
> The EU argues that it is creating incentives for airlines to reduce their
> fuel consumption and that airlines can avoid fines by simply increasing
> their efficiency. Airlines, however, already have this incentive. According
> to the Air Transport Association (ATA), a one-penny-per-gallon increase in
> the cost of jet fuel results in an additional cost to airlines of $175
> million per year.****
>
> These cost realities have driven airlines to make great strides in fuel
> efficiency. The commercial aviation industry has improved fuel efficiency by
> approximately 110 percent from 1978 to 2008. It continues to improve, but
> given costs and safety considerations, technological innovations necessarily
> move at a slow pace. As a result, it is simply impossible for airlines to
> avoid the EU's fines.****
>
> The EU's actions are a blatantly illegal affront to U.S. sovereignty.
> Article 1 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, known as the
> Chicago Convention, provides that individual countries may only regulate
> their own airspace. The ATA has filed suit in EU courts, but legal experts
> agree that the EU courts are highly unlikely to overturn an EU law.****
>
> The EU has offered two preposterous arguments in its defense. First, it has
> argued that a cap-and-trade system is not a tax because the purpose is
> emissions reduction, not revenue collection. Proponents of climate
> legislation in the United States made similar arguments in support of
> cap-and-tax, but the reality remains that an obligatory financial transfer
> from a private party to the government is, by definition, a tax, regardless
> of the government's purported purpose.****
>
> The EU also argues that it is not a signatory to the Chicago Convention.
> Technically, this is right. Every single country in the EU, however, is a
> signatory. The implications here are staggering. European countries are
> asking a European court to sanction their ability to pick and choose their
> international obligations. Under this logic, individual countries in the EU
> can sign treaties and benefit from their protections, but can then hide
> behind the EU to avoid their obligations.****
>
> As EU courts are not expected to uphold international law, it will be up to
> Congress and the administration to protect U.S. carriers and passengers from
> illegal taxation.****
>
> Congress' option s are frankly limited. Congress has already introduced
> legislation to bar U.S. carriers from paying the EU's tax. The legislation
> is, however, a blunt fix. If passed, airlines would face conflicting legal
> obligations. EU law would require airlines to pay fees, but U.S. law would
> bar them from paying them - forcing a standoff. Only the administration has
> the ability to negotiate a diplomatic solution.****
>
> The Obama administration opposes the EU's new tax, but with the Jan. 1
> deadline looming, it must work quickly before the illegal fees take effect.*
> ***
>
> *Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner is a Republican member of the U.S. House of
> Representatives from Wisconsin.*****
>
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Huckster for the Regime

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Huckabee was just on Fox News. He said that Ron can't win the nomination and if he wins today, it invalidates the results. Of course, the rest of the segment was about Bachmann vs. Pawlenty.
Ron at 14% can't win the nomination, but Pawlenty at 3%, despite massively greater media coverage, can? It's not like Huckabee's the first to say this nonsense, of course. The memo went out.

Ron Paul Wins Iowa GOP Debate; Is Right On Iran

Ron Paul Wins Iowa GOP Debate; Is Right On Iran
Scott Rubin,
Friday, August 12, 2011

The verdict is in - Ron Paul won last night's GOP Presidential debate in Ames, Iowa. Much to the chagrin of the neo-cons at Fox News, the polls, and applause, overwhelmingly showed that the people thought Ron Paul won the debate. Fox News was even forced to take down its own poll from its website after Paul crushed the competition in a landslide. Readers can can view that poll here. This is the largest online GOP debate poll, and just under 30,000 Americans have voted. Ron Paul has received a whopping 16,188 votes thus far, which is more than triple the support of runner-up Newt Gingrich.

In fact, Paul is winning nearly every single online GOP debate poll, many of them by a very wide margin. It was also obvious who the crowd preferred last night in Ames, as Ron Paul supporters were clearly the loudest and most influential contingent at the event. Still not convinced? During and after the debate last night, Ron Paul was #4 on Goggle Trends, well ahead of the other candidates. At last check, he is still #4, which is quite a feat. Furthermore, he remains one of the top trending topics on Twitter, which is a very reliable gauge of interest.

Even TheHill.com is declaring Paul victorious. Last night, was a huge boost for the Texas Congressman who has emerged as one the GOP front-runners, and is polling third nationally, only trailing Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. It is becoming quite clear that the American people are gravitating towards Paul's honest and principled positions which emphasize peace and personal liberty. Unfortunately, the rest of the field is made up of Establishment figures whose pandering is determined by which way the wind blows. Clearly it is blowing in the direction of Dr. Paul, as his influence continues to shape the course of the GOP primary, with candidates such as Newt Gingrich and Michelle Bachmann now parroting many of the ideas that he has been promoting for the last thirty years. Gingrich actually attacked the Federal Reserve last night.

The problem that these other candidates have, however, is that their records simply don't lend them much credence, whereas Paul has an unblemished, and unimpeachable, Congressional voting record. Despite the best efforts of the media to get Dr. Paul to flip flop on his libertarian views, he just won't do it - even when the questions are tough. Last night, when he was asked what his response would be to the possibility that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, Paul stuck to his non-interventionist position and said that he would prefer more diplomatic discourse and trade with Tehran, as opposed to just relying on threatening rhetoric and war mongering.

While this may have seemed like an extreme position to Americans whose only source of information on Iranian/U.S. relations is media propaganda, it is in fact quite sound, and part of an already existing strategy. The Obama administration has acknowledged that Iran deserves a seat at the international table. In 2009, he told the Iranian people that "The United States wants the Islamic Republic of Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations. You have that right-but it comes with real responsibilities." Iran and the United States also are trade partners.

Furthermore, the Obama administration has been warned in no uncertain terms by a panel of academics and ambassadors that a military attack against the country would be a mistake, and that the only viable course of action was unconditional negotiations. This panel included former special envoy to Afghanistan James Dobbins, former ambassador to the UN Thomas Pickering, and Middle East scholars from American universities. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to claim that his country's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, and Iran is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty along with the United States. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has issued a fatwa against the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons.

On the terrorism front, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has said that Iran is "a helper and a solution" for Afghanistan and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq stated that Iran has a "positive and constructive" role in helping the Iraqi government improve security in that nation. Another thing to note about Iran is that it is a democratic country, and the hard-liners may not be in power much longer. Ahmadinejad's 2009 re-election caused significant debate and protest in that country, and it is becoming ever more clear that he is losing the support of the Iranian populace.

We have seen this trend throughout the Middle East in countries such as Libya, Egypt, and Syria. None of this should be interpreted as an endorsement of Iran as a shining beacon of peace and freedom, but it does underscore where Dr. Paul is coming from. Under his foreign policy, countries such as Israel, and the Europeans, would have much more latitude to deal with the Iranians as they saw fit, without U.S. meddling.

The American people have absolutely no desire to engage countries such as Pakistan and Iran in war, yet the government's rhetoric suggests otherwise. Ron Paul is the only candidate that can guarantee the American people that we will not preemptively engage in another war of aggression such as Iraq, which is now viewed as a mistake by the majority of U.S. citizens.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/12/benzinga1854956.DTL#ixzz1UuzS4VLR

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New Labour's toxic legacy
Tony Blair created a generation without hope or aspiration – and we must pay the price.
Rioters drag plastic bins towards a burning car in Hackney - New Labour's toxic legacy
Rioters drag plastic bins towards a burning car in Hackney Photo: EPA/KERIM OKTEN

By Peter Oborne

8:37PM BST 12 Aug 2011

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The rioters who have rampaged through the streets of Britain over the past seven days were the children of Tony Blair. Many of them were born under Tony Blair. They went to school under Tony Blair. They learnt their system of savage values and greed under Tony Blair. They are the product of the policies of Tony Blair.

So what happened? What explains the savage irony that New Labour, a movement that was supposed to do so much good, created instead so much evil and despair? This is the urgent question that David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband must each try to answer as they get to grips with the horror of last week.

At the heart of this problem lies New Labour's approach to the welfare state. Gordon Brown developed a social security system that entrenched dependency and trapped the unemployed in poverty. Certainly he gave them more money – the benefits to which a single mother is entitled rose by 85 per cent under New Labour. But he made one crucial mistake as he set out to create a Labour client state. He did not give people hope or self-respect. Indeed, as Iain Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, is starting to discover, Brown made it economically irrational for many people to seek work, thus turning unemployment into a way of life. I would guess that many of the young men and women drawn into last week's frenzy come from families where there have been no jobs for generations.

Shamefully, New Labour knew that form of dependency was a by-product of its policies. It did not care. I once sat on a panel with Lord Giddens, a social theorist and one of the architects of the "Third Way". I drew attention to the phenomenon of intra-generational unemployment and he replied that, statistically, it was fairly insignificant. Well, we are experiencing the consequences today.

The second New Labour failure concerns education. Blair promised the earth, and his government poured billions of pounds into the creation of gleaming new school buildings. But New Labour did not challenge the culture of failure in British schools. It did not improve discipline in the classroom.
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Instead it created the illusion of change. Year after year exam results would show a marked improvement, and ministers would claim that this reflected an underlying improvement in what they called "standards". Of course nothing of the sort was taking place, as employers and universities knew all too well.

Fundamentally New Labour lacked the will to take on the teaching unions, partly because the education profession provides such a high proportion of their party activists. This meant that they never took the brutal and necessary step of sacking useless or idle teachers. Only at the very end, with academy schools – a reinvention of John Major's city technology colleges which New Labour had abolished when it first came into office – did New Labour take a step in the right direction. But this move came too late to save the generation of rioters and looters.

Most disturbing of all was New Labour's teaching on the family. Behind much of the outrage of the past few days lies the absent father, and the collapse of traditional marriage. Young children, boys in particular, need male role models. If they cannot find such figures at home, they will look elsewhere. Horrifically, this means joining the gangs that caused such mayhem and destruction.

New Labour simply refused to acknowledge this basic truth of human nature. It is true that Tony Blair loved to parade himself as a family man to send out a reassuring image to the voters of middle England, but behind the scenes party policy was captured by feminists such as Patricia Hewitt (who became health secretary) and Harriet Harman (eventually elected deputy leader) who viewed the traditional two-parent family as an instrument of male, patriarchal oppression. Any attempt to bolster marriage or the traditional family was repulsed on the grounds that it would stigmatise single mothers.

So New Labour in office ended the married couples allowance. This happened in one of Gordon Brown's early budgets, cynically entitled "a budget for the family". By the end, marriage itself ceased to be a category recognised in Whitehall, meaning that when data were analysed for policy purposes it was impossible for civil servants to make any judgment about whether marriage had better outcomes for children.

What New Labour was doing was encouraging a remarkable social experiment. Traditional marriage has been at the heart of British society since time immemorial, providing stability, security, a bulwark against an overmighty state, and the ideal framework for rearing children. The riots of last week show the devastating consequence of that leap into the dark.

Fourthly, New Labour promoted a divisive and unequal society. Within months of entering office, Peter Mandelson, then trade secretary, made his infamous pronouncement that Labour felt "intensely relaxed" about people becoming "filthy rich". Meanwhile, Gordon Brown pioneered a series of tax breaks that have enabled a tiny group of men and women to make personal fortunes of a kind not seen since the plutocrats of Edwardian Britain. A significant proportion of these hugely rich men feel the identical sense of impunity and entitlement as the unemployed youths who plundered shopping centres last week. Every bit as surely as so-called feral youth – and with far less excuse – they have played a malign role in generating the moral disequilibrium of modern Britain.

New Labour could not see this. It believed – and this is perhaps understandable in a party that lost four elections in a row from 1979 – that the only thing that mattered was election victory. So Labour strategists only concentrated on those sections of society who voted. Unemployed black youths in Tottenham, or the white working class in Manchester and Liverpool, were simply taken for granted. Crucially, they tended to congregate in constituencies with large Labour majorities, not the vital marginals where elections are won and lost.

So for 13 years they were the invisible and the forgotten – until last week's eruption. Successive British governments, through wilful neglect, have created a monster, and now we have to live with the consequences or, better still, to find a solution.

Paradoxically, I believe that the Conservatives are best placed to do this. To their enormous credit they used their long years in opposition to ponder the problem of an emergent urban underclass. Iain Duncan Smith, during the wilderness years that followed his humiliating assassination as Tory leader, led this work – with the full backing of David Cameron. In a series of reports from the think tank Centre for Social Justice, Duncan Smith identified the factors that lead to social despair – drugs, alcohol, debt, unemployment, family breakdown. He argued that the answer to social collapse does not just depend on the injection of large sums of money, which was Labour's answer to any predicament. Far more important is the restoration of people's independence, pride and self-respect. This is hard, for there are now many parts of Britain where the tradition of work has vanished, and entire communities that have become dependent on the state.

Changing the welfare system so that there is a genuine economic incentive for the unemployed to go out to work is one part of the answer. Restoring hope and aspiration is another. Rebuilding the family, and the values of independence and steadfastness it brings, is perhaps most important of all.

Iain Duncan Smith's programme of change and renewal means redefining what it is to be a human being and a British citizen. It means widespread moral regeneration – and not just for the poor. All of us have to acknowledge that we are part of society, with the obligations and duties that involves. It also means recognising the power of virtues that have been unfashionable for much too long: decency, courage, discipline, duty and self-sacrifice. Only if we rebuild those age-old values can we come close to confronting the disaster in Britain's inner cities.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8698033/New-Labours-toxic-legacy.html

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