To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 550.
550) So Long Leonard Cohen And So Long To The Democracy We Thought We Once Knew.
Dear Mr Clark,
If you can't trust Mark Zuckerberg's trending Facebook, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, Fox News, The Brexit Campaign Bus or Nigel Farage's Campaign poster who can you trust if your an undecided voter trying to make their mind up?
Where is the truth hiding today? And why is it so hard to find?
In the past Donald Trump's scapegoats would have been the Jews and communists.
Today, The Big Lie was the one where voters were suckered into believing that by putting their trust in a billionaire property developer who believes it's smart and patriotic not to pay his taxes, smart and patriotic to denigrate Hispanic people and Muslims and smart and patriotic to vilify female television presenters (who are smarter and probably far more patriotic than he is in reality) - would somehow make America great again.
Ably aided and abetted by his ex-stockbroker, be-suited pillar of the English Establishment, Mr Farage, the lie took hold and completed its inevitable journey - enough voters were conned into believing the lie: that one part of The Establishment would take on and magically transform another part of The Establishment to the benefit of ordinary men, women and children.
A modern day fairy tale for grown-ups.
A bit like drug barons taking over and running pharmaceutical companies, criminals taking over and running the justice system or unelected and unaccountable ombudsmen being left free to tell us what civil justice is.
Donald and Vladimir do have one thing in common - apart from gazing lovingly at themselves in the mirror - no one seems to have a clue as to how much money they have or where they've stashed it. The FBI, FSB and CIA have all been caught napping apparently. There's a thing.
And neither Donald nor Vladimir seem overly keen to put their ill-gotten gains to the service of those struggling to make ends meet in their respective countries. No, "from each according to his abilities to each according to their needs," from these beneficiaries of their respective rigged systems.
No nobility, no generosity, no decency and no compassion there.
In, "Panama, the Hidden Trillions" Guardian reporter, Luke Harding, writes,
"The Economic system is, basically, that the rich and powerful exited long ago from the messy business of paying tax.... we see that the burden of paying tax has moved inexorably away from multinational companies and rich people to ordinary people....this began a race to the deregulatory bottom which was explained in Ronen Palan - 'The offshore World, Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places and Nomad Millionaires 2003'
A race to the deregulatory bottom.
A shadowy place where those who captured/rigged the system; lie, cheat and steal as never before and with, it would seem, complete impunity. The rest of us are told that do so is simply being, "smart" or "aspirational."
It took John Doe and not the CIA, FBI FSB, Mossad, MI5/5 etc. to expose this massive and seemingly unstoppable racket. In his, "Manifesto" John Doe writes,
"I have watched as one after another, whistleblowers and activists, in the USA and Europe have had their lives destroyed by the circumstances they find themselves in after shining a light on an obvious wrongdoing
... legitimate whistleblowers who expose unquestionable wrongdoing, whether insiders or outsiders deserve immunity from government retribution, full stop....
... Many news networks are cartoonish parodies of their former selves. Individual billionaires appear to have taken up newspaper ownership as a hobby, limiting the coverage of serious matters concerning the wealthy and serious investigative journalists lack funding...
.... the collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately leading to a novel system we still call capitalism, but which is tantamount to economic slavery."
Rigging systems and then simply not answering the peoples' questions is what lies at heart of what we call rigged market capitalism. Thomas Piketty calls it "captured" capitalism. Yet for some inexplicable reason this is still called democracy.
We leave the last words to Leonard Cohen, "I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you."
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
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