In Anglo-Norman law all land has been held from the sovereign or state. This is the nature of freehold possession since 1169. Various Acts passed by the Norman French and Acts of Saisin and the Act of Settlement steadily dispossessed the native Irish who held land communally until O'Neill was made Earl of Tyrone and O'Donnell and Maguire were made lords of Tyrconnell and Fermanagh in the 1560s. The landlords of English, Scottish and Welsh extraction who arrived were of adventurer-military stock and are today deeply involved in reactionary intrigues on behalf of the British Crown. A new Act of Saisin must be passed to bring their limited holdings back into state ownership and break up their cabals.
In 1169, the Normans received a so-called Papal Bull to invade Ireland from the Pope of Rome who claimed ownership of Ireland on some fastastical basis. In the thirteenth century King Henry II was given another papal bull. The Norman-Welsh established themselves in Leinster and Munster and introduced the Church-State symbiosis. They reorganised the Irish Church on parish lines and waged constant warfare against the Irish until they were assimilated.
In 1534, a Pope of Rome proclaimed Henry VIII Defender of the Faith and deigned to pass all of Ireland into his possession on a presumptive basis.
In the Elizabethan, Cromwellian and Williamite wars the conquest and plantation of Ireland was accomplished.
By 1715, 92% of land in Ireland was in English hands. Adventurers had been paid in land. Penal laws prohibited the Irish from holding land other than by a yearly tenancy.
In Norman law, land which is gained by force is not in the legal ownership of the adventurer. Nec vi, nec clam, nec precario - neither by force, neither secretly nor by putting in danger precludes the claim of adverse possession i.e. squatters rights. The English landlord class still occupy their land illegally in their own law. Force majeure establishes their possession not their title - the distinction in English law.
Most of the landlords land was sold off to tenants under the Land Purchase Acts 1886 to 1906. Today the landlords occupy their fine houses only during the winter months, their possession having passed to the National Trust in order to pay death duties and inheritance taxes introduced by Labour Governments in 1964. The transfer of illegally-seized land to farmers is therefore a fait accompli and cannot be reversed. Catholics and Protestants both joined the Land League agitation. There was no bad faith or violence on their part and they are the legitimate and legal owners of their land.
However, the landlords have established long leases and gain ground rents from their former possessions. The Irish and English courts have protected their claim to extract rents from lands which have passed into other hands and which have often been built upon.
The landlords represent the interests of the British society in the North; they co-ordinate intelligence-gathering, covert SAS and police operations and direct attrition against hostile interests.
It is imperative that they be dispossessed of their remaining holdings and claims to fishing, hunting and other rights.
Since all land is held from the sovereign power i.e. parliament, what is simply required is that the Dail or Northern Assembly pass a new Act of Saisin to dispossess the descendants of these interlopers and set them to flight. If the courts reject parliamentary authority and sovereignty, the Ministers of Justice must remove the prerogative of the legal profession to appoint judges and make it a democratic mandate requiring selection as has been the example in the United States since the Revolution of 1776.
Thursday 4 March 2010
Wednesday 3 March 2010
The Famine Diseases (2009)
It is the habit of M16 and Irish military intelligence to inflict injury as distinct from killing people. They learn this from the Central Intelligence Agency whose motto is 'injure, not kill'. the tactic of the former soldiers in these organisations is to arrange the infection of 'targets' with serious illness. The doctors are consulted but are talking to teh police when not talking to their clients.
In 1981, I found myself in Greece with a part-time soldier in the Irish army, who was studying commerce at University College Cork. He encouraged me to smear sugar and water on my arms at night to prevent mosquito bites. This was obviously the last thing any knowledgeable person would have done but he exploited my medical ignorance. I was infected with typhoid, a flu-like illness which leads to fever. This was a famine illness which killed millions before the age of antibiotics. When I returned to Queen's University, Belfast doctors refused to treat me. My immune system was already weakened by hereditary blood disorder.
This tactic was facilitated by a relative who reported my whereabouts in Germany to military intelligence - the spy in teh cab followed me from Germany where I worked to Greece.
Laboratories at the City Hospital, Belfast and the Tyrone County hospital provided false reports of blood samples to the doctors who did not wish to treat me anyway even though the symptoms were clear. In the 1980s, the Catholics who worked at the City Hospital were threatened by Loyalist gangsters.
As well as typhoid, the famine diseases are Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, Dropsy and Scurvy (a deficiency of Vitamin C).
The local gentry and former landlords who once brutalised and exploited the Irish have moved on to 'higher' things. They play a leading role in the security and intelligence agencies.
The former soldiers and serving soldiers who are their henchmen and largely on their own initiative having established contacts with medical students at University.
In 1981, I found myself in Greece with a part-time soldier in the Irish army, who was studying commerce at University College Cork. He encouraged me to smear sugar and water on my arms at night to prevent mosquito bites. This was obviously the last thing any knowledgeable person would have done but he exploited my medical ignorance. I was infected with typhoid, a flu-like illness which leads to fever. This was a famine illness which killed millions before the age of antibiotics. When I returned to Queen's University, Belfast doctors refused to treat me. My immune system was already weakened by hereditary blood disorder.
This tactic was facilitated by a relative who reported my whereabouts in Germany to military intelligence - the spy in teh cab followed me from Germany where I worked to Greece.
Laboratories at the City Hospital, Belfast and the Tyrone County hospital provided false reports of blood samples to the doctors who did not wish to treat me anyway even though the symptoms were clear. In the 1980s, the Catholics who worked at the City Hospital were threatened by Loyalist gangsters.
As well as typhoid, the famine diseases are Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, Dropsy and Scurvy (a deficiency of Vitamin C).
The local gentry and former landlords who once brutalised and exploited the Irish have moved on to 'higher' things. They play a leading role in the security and intelligence agencies.
The former soldiers and serving soldiers who are their henchmen and largely on their own initiative having established contacts with medical students at University.
Sunday 14 February 2010
Psychiatry and Human Rights Abuse (2009)
Psychiatry represents one of the major abuses of human rights in the modern world with hundreds of thousands imprisoned in psychiatric hospitals. The World Health Organisation peddles transparent lies and myths about the mental imbalance of millions of people while doctors profit richly from this cult. Legal remedies are too late to deal with arbitrary injustice and many of the victims of the police, clergy and judges take their own lives.
I will begin with my own personal account. I was infected with tapeworms by a family pet when I was seventeen and suffered fits and convulsions which were diagnosed as schizophrenia when I was long past ‘the biochemical switch-on’ age at twenty-five years of age. I had graduated in law after an early involvement in politics. Constant complaints of rectal itching in the area of the colon, cramp, vomiting stomach upset, rashes, coughing, fever, diarrhoea, cysts, weight loss and constipation firstly to doctors tht Queen’s University medical service and to doctors in Enniskillen and Lisnaskea should have led to effective treatment. In the event, it was thirty-two years after the infection that the parasitic infection was accepted by doctors. They carefully investigated any political views and refused to treat me on political grounds.
I was often confined in psychiatric hospital for four and a half years, to be precise, while worthless investigations failed to reveal proof of tapeworms. The psychiatric nurses form a secure vested interest. Their attitude is one of malevolence; their behaviour is one of obstruction and their training leads them to wilful ignorance. In total, they are socio-paths who are in denial about the number of the misdiagnosed and hopeless who succumb to suicide after their stay in a psychiatric hospital…psychiatry accelerates death.
Looked at from a legal perspective, rights to a private and family life are violated by the doctors, administrators, social workers and nurses. There is interference in the family nexus, relatives become estranged. The Offences Against the Person Act 1848 which protects the physical integrity of the person is freely violated. Recidivism is the origin of a slothful, self-seeking, navel-gazing sub-class of mendicants who often enter hospital to escape criminal justice.
The administrators oat the behest of psychiatrists transfer medical records across frontiers leading to a pandemic of medical hysteria and slander in faraway places.
The media are poisoned pens in this scenario and refuse to publish accounts of psychiatric detention. They share the class interests of the doctors and have the same sadistic views on punishment of political dissidents. They share and promote the prevailing prejudices of the medical elite and the wider middle class.
One of the chief sources of criminal practices in medicine is the police force. Their targeting of the politically discontented is assisted by the medical elite. Mental exhaustion is often the outcome of extra-judicial measures such as constant surveillance, sleep deprivation and psychological warfare which is practised in the trouble-spots of the developed world. One is reminded of the Book of Jude railing against ‘these men [who] speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals – these are the very things that destroy them’, when one thinks of doctors, administrators, social workers, nurses and police. In the north of Ireland and in Germany, a police state has grown up in the midst of political and economic crises.
In their relations and contacts with their patients the doctors pretend to superior intellect and judgement as a pretext for their moral depravity. They search for ‘insight’ or guilt in their patients. Their first precept is that truth is absolute and that they possess the gift of telling the truth when confronted with normal aggression as a reaction to stress and coercive detention. Their second presumption, it follows, is that they can read minds. They expect their patients to accept violence, unjust and unlawful acts which are against the patients interests. Their third precept is that they must correct deviant behaviour i.e. brainwashing.
Asserting legal rights against slanderers, criminal psychopaths and murderers is a lengthy process in Britain and Ireland. The process takes seven to ten years under normal juridical conditions. Asserting legal rights is a nerve-wracking procedure which is, in itself, sufficient to cause suicide but it is the sole option in conditions of confinement.
The history of psychiatry as a real phenomenon does no reach back further than the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century Da Silva, a Portuguese crank and psychopath, gained a Nobel laureate for carving out parts of the brains of patients – a frontal lobotomy. In 1924 Bleuler, an Austrian, erected ‘Schizophrenia’ from the psychological manifestations of syphilis. In 1945, Carl Jung invented psychotherapy to keep the show on the road when Allied soldiers had found evidence of mass murder in German psychiatric hospitals. Jung added cold grist to the medical mill of repression and violence.
In the North of Ireland, psychiatry is the last refuse of rogues and scoundrels of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, a clientelist party of the Catholic Church.
In Germany, the presence of mercury as a metal and in vaporised form in the large metal-working industry gave rise to German psychiatry. Mercury in metal-working is the source of the madness of the Germans.
As a social class, the doctors represent a dangerous clique who offer one another mutual support. They cover up one another’s crimes, mal-practices, and negligence. The world medical association laid down statutes in 1948 which obliged doctors to regard one another as ‘brothers’. There is powerful support from the Catholic Church for the cult of medicine as laid down in the Book of Ecclesiasticus, ‘let him who does not fear God, come before a doctor’.
To conclude, the medical elite demonstrate a pathological form of insanity in most of their dealings and are more interested in their luxurious houses, cars and holidays than in their patients. They are motivated by professional self-interest. Any reform of psychiatry must reduce the copious apparatus of hospitals and ‘beds’ to a tiny proportion of what it has grown to. Law reform is required to offer a speedy remedy to the patient from an impartial tribunal of trade unionists, lawyers and ex-inmates of the asylum. A Medical Audit Commission must be formed under law with powers of arrest and detention of doctors prior to trial.
I will begin with my own personal account. I was infected with tapeworms by a family pet when I was seventeen and suffered fits and convulsions which were diagnosed as schizophrenia when I was long past ‘the biochemical switch-on’ age at twenty-five years of age. I had graduated in law after an early involvement in politics. Constant complaints of rectal itching in the area of the colon, cramp, vomiting stomach upset, rashes, coughing, fever, diarrhoea, cysts, weight loss and constipation firstly to doctors tht Queen’s University medical service and to doctors in Enniskillen and Lisnaskea should have led to effective treatment. In the event, it was thirty-two years after the infection that the parasitic infection was accepted by doctors. They carefully investigated any political views and refused to treat me on political grounds.
I was often confined in psychiatric hospital for four and a half years, to be precise, while worthless investigations failed to reveal proof of tapeworms. The psychiatric nurses form a secure vested interest. Their attitude is one of malevolence; their behaviour is one of obstruction and their training leads them to wilful ignorance. In total, they are socio-paths who are in denial about the number of the misdiagnosed and hopeless who succumb to suicide after their stay in a psychiatric hospital…psychiatry accelerates death.
Looked at from a legal perspective, rights to a private and family life are violated by the doctors, administrators, social workers and nurses. There is interference in the family nexus, relatives become estranged. The Offences Against the Person Act 1848 which protects the physical integrity of the person is freely violated. Recidivism is the origin of a slothful, self-seeking, navel-gazing sub-class of mendicants who often enter hospital to escape criminal justice.
The administrators oat the behest of psychiatrists transfer medical records across frontiers leading to a pandemic of medical hysteria and slander in faraway places.
The media are poisoned pens in this scenario and refuse to publish accounts of psychiatric detention. They share the class interests of the doctors and have the same sadistic views on punishment of political dissidents. They share and promote the prevailing prejudices of the medical elite and the wider middle class.
One of the chief sources of criminal practices in medicine is the police force. Their targeting of the politically discontented is assisted by the medical elite. Mental exhaustion is often the outcome of extra-judicial measures such as constant surveillance, sleep deprivation and psychological warfare which is practised in the trouble-spots of the developed world. One is reminded of the Book of Jude railing against ‘these men [who] speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals – these are the very things that destroy them’, when one thinks of doctors, administrators, social workers, nurses and police. In the north of Ireland and in Germany, a police state has grown up in the midst of political and economic crises.
In their relations and contacts with their patients the doctors pretend to superior intellect and judgement as a pretext for their moral depravity. They search for ‘insight’ or guilt in their patients. Their first precept is that truth is absolute and that they possess the gift of telling the truth when confronted with normal aggression as a reaction to stress and coercive detention. Their second presumption, it follows, is that they can read minds. They expect their patients to accept violence, unjust and unlawful acts which are against the patients interests. Their third precept is that they must correct deviant behaviour i.e. brainwashing.
Asserting legal rights against slanderers, criminal psychopaths and murderers is a lengthy process in Britain and Ireland. The process takes seven to ten years under normal juridical conditions. Asserting legal rights is a nerve-wracking procedure which is, in itself, sufficient to cause suicide but it is the sole option in conditions of confinement.
The history of psychiatry as a real phenomenon does no reach back further than the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century Da Silva, a Portuguese crank and psychopath, gained a Nobel laureate for carving out parts of the brains of patients – a frontal lobotomy. In 1924 Bleuler, an Austrian, erected ‘Schizophrenia’ from the psychological manifestations of syphilis. In 1945, Carl Jung invented psychotherapy to keep the show on the road when Allied soldiers had found evidence of mass murder in German psychiatric hospitals. Jung added cold grist to the medical mill of repression and violence.
In the North of Ireland, psychiatry is the last refuse of rogues and scoundrels of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, a clientelist party of the Catholic Church.
In Germany, the presence of mercury as a metal and in vaporised form in the large metal-working industry gave rise to German psychiatry. Mercury in metal-working is the source of the madness of the Germans.
As a social class, the doctors represent a dangerous clique who offer one another mutual support. They cover up one another’s crimes, mal-practices, and negligence. The world medical association laid down statutes in 1948 which obliged doctors to regard one another as ‘brothers’. There is powerful support from the Catholic Church for the cult of medicine as laid down in the Book of Ecclesiasticus, ‘let him who does not fear God, come before a doctor’.
To conclude, the medical elite demonstrate a pathological form of insanity in most of their dealings and are more interested in their luxurious houses, cars and holidays than in their patients. They are motivated by professional self-interest. Any reform of psychiatry must reduce the copious apparatus of hospitals and ‘beds’ to a tiny proportion of what it has grown to. Law reform is required to offer a speedy remedy to the patient from an impartial tribunal of trade unionists, lawyers and ex-inmates of the asylum. A Medical Audit Commission must be formed under law with powers of arrest and detention of doctors prior to trial.
Tuesday 9 February 2010
Fascism, Eugenics and Psychiatry (2009)
Today the threat of fascism has receded. The link between the cult of the superman and medicine is eugenics. Medicine in its fascist apparition manifests itself in the form of psychiatry. Eugenics or selective breeding to create a superman weeds out the weak or the political dissident. Truly, psychiatry represents the awful horror of the Apocalypse standing in the place of curative medicine.
In 1856, Gladstone, a liberal and contemporary of Darwin, manifested his own worldview of the ‘Survival of the Fittest’ with his Lunatic Asylums Act, Ireland. Psychiatric hospitals were built by the landlords to replace the fever hospitals and workhouses.
At the level of ‘nursing’ the cult is one of hate, violence and slander as the nurses provide the doctors with the raw materials of their assessments. No depravity is too much for these self-appointed guardians of public health and safety. In Germany between 1939 and 1945 violence turned into the outright murder of those deemed to be ‘mentally sub-normal’.
In the psychiatric hospitals, one often encounters the religious not just the over-keen but religious men and women who have, in a previous time and place, found themselves in the Gulags. In Ireland, Britain and Germany, they are judged by the middle class to be suffering from ‘religious mania’ and confined without trial.
In 1856, the large numbers of Irish Republicans who took root in the United States attracted the intervention of Gladstone who also passed a Coercion Bill against illegal drilling and the possession of arms. The Fenians in Ireland soon filled the psychiatric prisons. In our times, Republicans in Leitrim knew the Sligo Psychiatric Hospital as the Sligo-Leitrim Hotel.
In the times before licensing laws were properly established, poteen (or illicit spirits) poisoned and thereby provided the psychiatric hospitals with a lot of their cannon-fodder.
In modern times as the secret state records many political dissidents are locked in with the genuinely mentally ill i.e. those who harm themselves, abuse alcohol or take street narcotics. For the genuinely mentally ill, the asylum provides a haven from the pressures of life.
Fundamental change is required. Compulsory confinement must be restricted to those who have been sentenced to such places by a Magistrates Court. A medical audit commission composed of Trade Unionsts,(well-paid) lawyers and general practitioners must decide on whether the human horror of premature death in psychiatry should lead to the imprisonment (for life) of psychiatrists.
In 1856, Gladstone, a liberal and contemporary of Darwin, manifested his own worldview of the ‘Survival of the Fittest’ with his Lunatic Asylums Act, Ireland. Psychiatric hospitals were built by the landlords to replace the fever hospitals and workhouses.
At the level of ‘nursing’ the cult is one of hate, violence and slander as the nurses provide the doctors with the raw materials of their assessments. No depravity is too much for these self-appointed guardians of public health and safety. In Germany between 1939 and 1945 violence turned into the outright murder of those deemed to be ‘mentally sub-normal’.
In the psychiatric hospitals, one often encounters the religious not just the over-keen but religious men and women who have, in a previous time and place, found themselves in the Gulags. In Ireland, Britain and Germany, they are judged by the middle class to be suffering from ‘religious mania’ and confined without trial.
In 1856, the large numbers of Irish Republicans who took root in the United States attracted the intervention of Gladstone who also passed a Coercion Bill against illegal drilling and the possession of arms. The Fenians in Ireland soon filled the psychiatric prisons. In our times, Republicans in Leitrim knew the Sligo Psychiatric Hospital as the Sligo-Leitrim Hotel.
In the times before licensing laws were properly established, poteen (or illicit spirits) poisoned and thereby provided the psychiatric hospitals with a lot of their cannon-fodder.
In modern times as the secret state records many political dissidents are locked in with the genuinely mentally ill i.e. those who harm themselves, abuse alcohol or take street narcotics. For the genuinely mentally ill, the asylum provides a haven from the pressures of life.
Fundamental change is required. Compulsory confinement must be restricted to those who have been sentenced to such places by a Magistrates Court. A medical audit commission composed of Trade Unionsts,(well-paid) lawyers and general practitioners must decide on whether the human horror of premature death in psychiatry should lead to the imprisonment (for life) of psychiatrists.
Hegel – a real German Genius (2009)
Prussia was in 1793 an agricultural country and, therefore, in a position to give rise to a genuine genius by virtue of long classical training. Such a genius was Georg WF Hegel, a sympathiser with the French Revolution and author of Logic (1793), the Philosophy of Right (1821) and the Epistomology of Right. Hegel’s views changed under the influence of Napoleon’s domination and he became an advocate of Divine Right, dialectics which left a place for God.
Hegel’s logic marked his sympathy with the French Revolution. It was published in 1793 when was a professor of Jurisprudence in Berlin. In it he examines the nature of thought. Thought or voices are the mental reflection of sensory images, reflections, memories, feelings and so on. When modern day psychiatrists ask ‘are you meaning voices’ to someone they intend to label as a schizophrenic, they were pre-empted by Hegel in Logic who described such phenomena as natural. Hegel therefore pre-empted the cult of psychiatry.
Also, in Logic, we get a full mapping out of the laws if relativity one hundred and twenty years before Einstein. (Einstein’s only unique discovery was that uranium was the softest metal and could be split to create a nuclear reaction).
In Logic, we also get a pre-sentiment of Marxist practice in the Judgement.
During his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence, Hegel adopted the belief in legitimate royal and moral authority as being vested in a King by God. The dialectics which began in Aristotle were taken further and fleshed out in the Philosophy of Right. Recht in German means moral justice, the law, legal procedure, moral right and pertaining to the administration of justice.
Marx took thesis, antithesis and synthesis and claimed in Capital volume 1 (introduction) to have turned it right side up. This is nonsense which accommodates Marx’s world-changing and revolutionary ambitions. Hegel’s dialectics was much more sound. Marx’s dialectics were based on civil code procedures on the continent where the defence – rather from the prosecution – presents its evidence first In legal proceedings. Then in the Napoleonic or Continental system prevalent in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Japan, etc, the prosecution presents its case there is no argumentation on facts or cross-examination on suspects, witnesses experts or police, this is followed by the verdict. In sum, the Napoleonic system is known as the administrative or consensus approach, there is no equity or justice.
Hegel died in 1831. His Logic was published in 1793 and his Philosophy of Right in 1821.
Hegel’s logic marked his sympathy with the French Revolution. It was published in 1793 when was a professor of Jurisprudence in Berlin. In it he examines the nature of thought. Thought or voices are the mental reflection of sensory images, reflections, memories, feelings and so on. When modern day psychiatrists ask ‘are you meaning voices’ to someone they intend to label as a schizophrenic, they were pre-empted by Hegel in Logic who described such phenomena as natural. Hegel therefore pre-empted the cult of psychiatry.
Also, in Logic, we get a full mapping out of the laws if relativity one hundred and twenty years before Einstein. (Einstein’s only unique discovery was that uranium was the softest metal and could be split to create a nuclear reaction).
In Logic, we also get a pre-sentiment of Marxist practice in the Judgement.
During his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence, Hegel adopted the belief in legitimate royal and moral authority as being vested in a King by God. The dialectics which began in Aristotle were taken further and fleshed out in the Philosophy of Right. Recht in German means moral justice, the law, legal procedure, moral right and pertaining to the administration of justice.
Marx took thesis, antithesis and synthesis and claimed in Capital volume 1 (introduction) to have turned it right side up. This is nonsense which accommodates Marx’s world-changing and revolutionary ambitions. Hegel’s dialectics was much more sound. Marx’s dialectics were based on civil code procedures on the continent where the defence – rather from the prosecution – presents its evidence first In legal proceedings. Then in the Napoleonic or Continental system prevalent in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Japan, etc, the prosecution presents its case there is no argumentation on facts or cross-examination on suspects, witnesses experts or police, this is followed by the verdict. In sum, the Napoleonic system is known as the administrative or consensus approach, there is no equity or justice.
Hegel died in 1831. His Logic was published in 1793 and his Philosophy of Right in 1821.
Monday 4 January 2010
Social Oppression and Medicine (2009)
In our times, medicine and psychiatry represent the real force of social oppression. In this contest the productive and idle classes clash. The doctors are drawn from a privileged elite which has never performed any productive labour. The working class is discriminated against at ever turn in their contact with the doctors.
In the United States barely 11 million uninsured are claimed to need $1.1 trillion of medical aid in the proposed reforms. The reality is that most of those uninsured do not want contact with doctors, social workers or administrators. The figure of the uninsured at 44 million persons include the medically fit, the soldiers, the federally insured civil servants and those who do not want any contact with the upper classes posing as doctors.
The doctors have forced 114,000 (2006) into welfare dependency and claimed that 30,000 of this number are “mentally ill”. This equates to about one in fifteen of the population. The doctor’s apologists in medical research claim that 22% of Catholics and 20% of Protestants suffer from mental illness at some stage. Other pundits project mental illness as a phenomenon in the life of every person in the North. In the U.S. only 400,000 out of a population of 300 million people are in psychiatric care. These projections and ideas are motivated by an extreme right-wing ideology of those who profit from this trade in idleness, sloth and death. In Sweden, the psychiatric catchment group of a population of eight millions is only 30,000 “schizophrenics”.
The reality is that Paul Goggins, former Minister for Health in Northern Ireland, trimmed a twelve-bed intensive care unit and two 24-bed admission wards to a single 14-bed unit to be opened in 2011 for Fermanagh and Tyrone on the basis of the real needs and situation which I informed him about in 2007. In 1974, the same psychiatric institution had 1,400 inmates.
From 1,400 to 14!
The failure to crush fascism in the universities, the judiciary and medicine in the 1940s and its re-emergence in the slander and poisoning of such a vast number of working and unemployed workers is manifested in psychiatry and medicine.
The rise of sloth is consonant with the decline of British society into panes et circes. Disability Living Allowance i.e. hidden unemployment, mass sport and industrial collapse are the prominent features of contemporary British society. These were also the features of the slow death of the Roman Empire. English society is going the same way under the guidance of a privileged, unaccountable elite. Soul-searching is encouraged by the self-seeking elite of doctors to the detriment of society and the working life. This is psychiatry looked at internally and externally. Psychiatry is discriminating on social grounds and dragging society into the abyss of welfare dependence, sloth and economic collapse.
Like Pitt’s England we need to launch a new era in reform by cutting the medical placemen, social workers and medical administrators to survive the crisis.
In the United States barely 11 million uninsured are claimed to need $1.1 trillion of medical aid in the proposed reforms. The reality is that most of those uninsured do not want contact with doctors, social workers or administrators. The figure of the uninsured at 44 million persons include the medically fit, the soldiers, the federally insured civil servants and those who do not want any contact with the upper classes posing as doctors.
The doctors have forced 114,000 (2006) into welfare dependency and claimed that 30,000 of this number are “mentally ill”. This equates to about one in fifteen of the population. The doctor’s apologists in medical research claim that 22% of Catholics and 20% of Protestants suffer from mental illness at some stage. Other pundits project mental illness as a phenomenon in the life of every person in the North. In the U.S. only 400,000 out of a population of 300 million people are in psychiatric care. These projections and ideas are motivated by an extreme right-wing ideology of those who profit from this trade in idleness, sloth and death. In Sweden, the psychiatric catchment group of a population of eight millions is only 30,000 “schizophrenics”.
The reality is that Paul Goggins, former Minister for Health in Northern Ireland, trimmed a twelve-bed intensive care unit and two 24-bed admission wards to a single 14-bed unit to be opened in 2011 for Fermanagh and Tyrone on the basis of the real needs and situation which I informed him about in 2007. In 1974, the same psychiatric institution had 1,400 inmates.
From 1,400 to 14!
The failure to crush fascism in the universities, the judiciary and medicine in the 1940s and its re-emergence in the slander and poisoning of such a vast number of working and unemployed workers is manifested in psychiatry and medicine.
The rise of sloth is consonant with the decline of British society into panes et circes. Disability Living Allowance i.e. hidden unemployment, mass sport and industrial collapse are the prominent features of contemporary British society. These were also the features of the slow death of the Roman Empire. English society is going the same way under the guidance of a privileged, unaccountable elite. Soul-searching is encouraged by the self-seeking elite of doctors to the detriment of society and the working life. This is psychiatry looked at internally and externally. Psychiatry is discriminating on social grounds and dragging society into the abyss of welfare dependence, sloth and economic collapse.
Like Pitt’s England we need to launch a new era in reform by cutting the medical placemen, social workers and medical administrators to survive the crisis.
Socialism and Republicanism (2002)
The question of national independence and self-determination was a burning issue for most countries of eastern and south-eastern Europe and Africa and Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Marx, Engels and Lenin intervened at key times in the international socialist movement to defend the right to self-determination of oppressed nations and to promote a free union of states without privilege or violence.
The basis of national-democratic movements is the economic drive for a home market. The primary need of capital is to expand itself. In 1922, only 4% of workers were engaged in industry in the Twenty-six counties, 96% being engaged in agriculture and commerce. In 2000, 7.9% of workers were engaged in agriculture while 268,400 out of a workforce of 1.7 million were engaged in manufacturing, transportable goods and so on (CSO, 2001).
In Marx and Engels’ early years of political activity, the questions of national independence e.g. for Poland and the socialist stirrings were already top of the agenda. Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto that the role of socialists is to support every revolutionary movement while emphasising the social and economic content of the struggle. A revolutionary-democratic struggle is both superseded and given new life by the political and economic struggles for socialism. In the political struggle in the independent countries, Engels remarks that “all the intermediate parties must come to power in turn and destroy themselves” (MECW, Vol 47, Page 35). Revolution is a “lengthy process” where part of the middle class deserts to the side of the working class movement and world history has shown that it is largely the product of external factors. In the twenty-six counties, the impetus for the revolutionary movement from 1914 to 1923 was the slaughter of the First World War (which is nothing worthy of commemoration). This struggle was eventually routed when Britain was in a position to bring its military-bureaucratic apparatus to bear on the Irish revolutionaries with the full force of the leading imperialist power.
The struggle for democracy and socialism is itself only a transitional state between capitalism and communism and is not unique to oppressed classes within imperialist powers.
At the height of the imperialist slaughter of 1914-18, Lenin argued for the right of secession of nations which had been locked into the imperialist vice. He saw nothing contradictory between the socialist revolution and the struggle for national liberation. Lenin was emphatic that the socialists of an oppressor nation must fight for the right to self-determination and succession of an oppressed nation while the socialists of an oppressed nation must emphasise the need for the unity of nations i.e. the “merging of the workers of the oppressed nation with the workers of the oppressor nation” (Lenin, CW, Vol 39, P738). Furthermore, the workers of the oppressed and oppressor nations alike “must uphold, not the federative principle, not the formation of small states, as the ideal, but the closest unity of nations, stressing the harmfulness of all separation of nations, the harmfulness of cultural-national autonomy, the advantage of democratic centralism, the advantage of very big states and unions of states” (op cit).
Writing in early 1916, Lenin said that political democracy “implies complete freedom to agitate for secession and for a referendum on secession by the seceding nation” (The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination). He also stated in these theses that the socialist revolution “may flare up not only through some big strike, street demonstration or hunger riot or a military insurrection...but also as a result of a political crisis...or in connection with a referendum on the secession of an oppressed nation, etc”.
The practical Lenin also foresaw the phenomenon of the (Irish) Tories deceiving the people and creeping into power in quieter times, “The bourgeoisie of the oppressed nations persistently utilise the slogans of national liberation to deceive the workers; in their internal policy they use these slogans for reactionary agreements with the bourgeoisie of the dominant nation...”
When one remembers how the Irish money-farmers sent a huge cash tribute to the English Stock Exchange and finance speculators while embarking on ‘all-for-Ireland’ political forays and preaching “national freedom”, one can see through the Fianna Fáil slogan of “Peace, Prosperity and Progress” which is directed at a working class that consumes less than half of the wealth it produces annually. (The Americans consume over three quarters of the wealth produced in that great country and the British consume over six-tenths of the wealth produced there).
The socialist workers’ parties are small in Western Europe but their influence is much greater. They too must struggle for the “equality agenda” alongside the democratic movement of Europe’s last colony. In a “young” country practice in the form of experience comes before theory. The three decades past have shown that as the struggle for national independence develops, it is the workers who come to the fore as the most determined, ruthless and courageous fighters. The leap from the struggle for national independence to socialist revolution is but a leap in theory while, in practice, it has already been realised nine tenths of the way by the earlier revolutionary mobilisation of the people.
In 1914, Lenin summed up the National Question in Austria, Hungary and Russia (Lenin, CW20, P109-10). The demand for “cultural-national autonomy” i.e. educational segregation is not a socialist demand. Socialists of the oppressor nations struggle for the right to secede for subject peoples. “The class conscious workers do not advocate secession. They know the advantages of large states and the amalgamation of large masses of workers” (op cit). The socialist struggle of the workers of the oppressor countries against oppression and privilege must, therefore, include the right to secede.
The basis of national-democratic movements is the economic drive for a home market. The primary need of capital is to expand itself. In 1922, only 4% of workers were engaged in industry in the Twenty-six counties, 96% being engaged in agriculture and commerce. In 2000, 7.9% of workers were engaged in agriculture while 268,400 out of a workforce of 1.7 million were engaged in manufacturing, transportable goods and so on (CSO, 2001).
In Marx and Engels’ early years of political activity, the questions of national independence e.g. for Poland and the socialist stirrings were already top of the agenda. Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto that the role of socialists is to support every revolutionary movement while emphasising the social and economic content of the struggle. A revolutionary-democratic struggle is both superseded and given new life by the political and economic struggles for socialism. In the political struggle in the independent countries, Engels remarks that “all the intermediate parties must come to power in turn and destroy themselves” (MECW, Vol 47, Page 35). Revolution is a “lengthy process” where part of the middle class deserts to the side of the working class movement and world history has shown that it is largely the product of external factors. In the twenty-six counties, the impetus for the revolutionary movement from 1914 to 1923 was the slaughter of the First World War (which is nothing worthy of commemoration). This struggle was eventually routed when Britain was in a position to bring its military-bureaucratic apparatus to bear on the Irish revolutionaries with the full force of the leading imperialist power.
The struggle for democracy and socialism is itself only a transitional state between capitalism and communism and is not unique to oppressed classes within imperialist powers.
At the height of the imperialist slaughter of 1914-18, Lenin argued for the right of secession of nations which had been locked into the imperialist vice. He saw nothing contradictory between the socialist revolution and the struggle for national liberation. Lenin was emphatic that the socialists of an oppressor nation must fight for the right to self-determination and succession of an oppressed nation while the socialists of an oppressed nation must emphasise the need for the unity of nations i.e. the “merging of the workers of the oppressed nation with the workers of the oppressor nation” (Lenin, CW, Vol 39, P738). Furthermore, the workers of the oppressed and oppressor nations alike “must uphold, not the federative principle, not the formation of small states, as the ideal, but the closest unity of nations, stressing the harmfulness of all separation of nations, the harmfulness of cultural-national autonomy, the advantage of democratic centralism, the advantage of very big states and unions of states” (op cit).
Writing in early 1916, Lenin said that political democracy “implies complete freedom to agitate for secession and for a referendum on secession by the seceding nation” (The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination). He also stated in these theses that the socialist revolution “may flare up not only through some big strike, street demonstration or hunger riot or a military insurrection...but also as a result of a political crisis...or in connection with a referendum on the secession of an oppressed nation, etc”.
The practical Lenin also foresaw the phenomenon of the (Irish) Tories deceiving the people and creeping into power in quieter times, “The bourgeoisie of the oppressed nations persistently utilise the slogans of national liberation to deceive the workers; in their internal policy they use these slogans for reactionary agreements with the bourgeoisie of the dominant nation...”
When one remembers how the Irish money-farmers sent a huge cash tribute to the English Stock Exchange and finance speculators while embarking on ‘all-for-Ireland’ political forays and preaching “national freedom”, one can see through the Fianna Fáil slogan of “Peace, Prosperity and Progress” which is directed at a working class that consumes less than half of the wealth it produces annually. (The Americans consume over three quarters of the wealth produced in that great country and the British consume over six-tenths of the wealth produced there).
The socialist workers’ parties are small in Western Europe but their influence is much greater. They too must struggle for the “equality agenda” alongside the democratic movement of Europe’s last colony. In a “young” country practice in the form of experience comes before theory. The three decades past have shown that as the struggle for national independence develops, it is the workers who come to the fore as the most determined, ruthless and courageous fighters. The leap from the struggle for national independence to socialist revolution is but a leap in theory while, in practice, it has already been realised nine tenths of the way by the earlier revolutionary mobilisation of the people.
In 1914, Lenin summed up the National Question in Austria, Hungary and Russia (Lenin, CW20, P109-10). The demand for “cultural-national autonomy” i.e. educational segregation is not a socialist demand. Socialists of the oppressor nations struggle for the right to secede for subject peoples. “The class conscious workers do not advocate secession. They know the advantages of large states and the amalgamation of large masses of workers” (op cit). The socialist struggle of the workers of the oppressor countries against oppression and privilege must, therefore, include the right to secede.
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