Friday, September 13, 2013
Spectator Letter on Syria - Casino Gamblers more Admirable Than Doctors HnH Say
This letter, from me, printed in the Spectator
:Sir:
Assad is not remotely as bad a man as his father. He only became heir to the throne when his older brother managed to kill himself. Until then he had been working as a doctor in south London and had married a Syrian doctor’s daughter raised in Britain. He has already won a referendum moving Syria, over some years, to a pluralistic democracy. Do we think there is any possibility that the rebels will produce a pluralistic democracy?
He strikes me as somebody who never wanted the ‘royal’ job, and he is not the sort of wastrel playboy the Gulf Arabs’ children so often are. He is what is needed to encourage the peaceful evolution of Syria into a nation governed by the rule of law.
Our potential al-Qa’eda allies, by contrast, are poised to turn Syria into a murderous barbaric snake pit.
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Now it gets interesting. I have ruffled some feathers at "Hope not Hate" (clearly the London branch) who have put this on their own website and had it planted verbatim in the Evening Standard:
Neil Craig
If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad thought he was running out of political allies, he may take succour from today’s letters page in The Spectator.
Neil Craig, Ukip secretary for Glasgow, writes: “Assad is not remotely as bad a man as his father... and he is not the sort of wastrel playboy the Gulf Arabs’ children so often are. He is what is needed to encourage the peaceful evolution of Syria into a nation governed by the rule of law.”
Now what does Ukip leader Nigel Farage think?
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The HnH site has a comment facility and I will let you know if this comment is allowed to stand there or if the ES allow it either.
"Firstly I would like to express my appreciation of HnH in Scotland recently confirming that the only major recent example of fascism here was the attack on Nigel Farage by a mob of pretend anti-English racists, some of whom were in fact SWP bussed in from England and that it "goes without saying" HnH will campaign against such thugs.
However I must protest the editing of my letter which leaves out the very specific reason for believing Assad is not as bad as his father,
".. He only became heir to the throne when his older brother managed to kill himself. Until then he had been working as a doctor in south London and had married a Syrian doctor’s daughter raised in Britain. He has already won a referendum moving Syria, over some years, to a pluralistic democracy. Do we think there is any possibility that the rebels will produce a pluralistic democracy?
He strikes me as somebody who never wanted the ‘royal’ job, and he is not the sort of wastrel playboy....."
Those are facts. It is, of course, HnH's right to disagree with me that working as a doctor is more admirable than being one of the Arab princes who waste their people's money in London casinos, after all we live in a free country. It nonetheless seems strange to me that HnH should be so contemptuous of working in the NHS, particularly bearing in mind who funds you, and your readers should have been given all the information.
If HnH wish to debate online or publicly either why they prefer casinos to the NHS or are enthusiastic for bombing Syria I would be happy to partner you.
UKIP opposes that war and indeed is the only party to have opposed all our illegal wars. We support the NHS, indeed support increased health spending achieved in the only way this is possible - by economic growth, something the other parties consider less important than building windmills. Apparently we have much room for debate.
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HnH being a liberal minded non-fascist organisation has published my comment sorry, being absolutely opposed to free speech and openly fascist has censored my comment, though they did pass another short comment from somebody else asking why HnH are so enthusiastic for bombing people.
Since Nick Knowles, HnH's fuhrer, has previous being involved in bombing a Moslem owned shop (OK it was Harrods, so also a posh shop so that's OK) his enthusiasm for bombing may be explained.
One problem this raises is, if we know for a fact that HnH, a fascistic organisation, enthusiastically "editing" the quotes they claim to be finding and censoring free speech from anybody, including those they choose to pillory, are there any circumstances whatsoever under which any claim they make can automatically be treated as truthful. I think we should be told.
So far the Evening Standard site is not accepting my comment either & I have emailed them directly as well as sending a letter. We will see what their attitude to free speech and truth is.
:Sir:
Assad is not remotely as bad a man as his father. He only became heir to the throne when his older brother managed to kill himself. Until then he had been working as a doctor in south London and had married a Syrian doctor’s daughter raised in Britain. He has already won a referendum moving Syria, over some years, to a pluralistic democracy. Do we think there is any possibility that the rebels will produce a pluralistic democracy?
He strikes me as somebody who never wanted the ‘royal’ job, and he is not the sort of wastrel playboy the Gulf Arabs’ children so often are. He is what is needed to encourage the peaceful evolution of Syria into a nation governed by the rule of law.
Our potential al-Qa’eda allies, by contrast, are poised to turn Syria into a murderous barbaric snake pit.
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Now it gets interesting. I have ruffled some feathers at "Hope not Hate" (clearly the London branch) who have put this on their own website and had it planted verbatim in the Evening Standard:
Neil Craig
If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad thought he was running out of political allies, he may take succour from today’s letters page in The Spectator.
Neil Craig, Ukip secretary for Glasgow, writes: “Assad is not remotely as bad a man as his father... and he is not the sort of wastrel playboy the Gulf Arabs’ children so often are. He is what is needed to encourage the peaceful evolution of Syria into a nation governed by the rule of law.”
Now what does Ukip leader Nigel Farage think?
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The HnH site has a comment facility and I will let you know if this comment is allowed to stand there or if the ES allow it either.
"Firstly I would like to express my appreciation of HnH in Scotland recently confirming that the only major recent example of fascism here was the attack on Nigel Farage by a mob of pretend anti-English racists, some of whom were in fact SWP bussed in from England and that it "goes without saying" HnH will campaign against such thugs.
However I must protest the editing of my letter which leaves out the very specific reason for believing Assad is not as bad as his father,
".. He only became heir to the throne when his older brother managed to kill himself. Until then he had been working as a doctor in south London and had married a Syrian doctor’s daughter raised in Britain. He has already won a referendum moving Syria, over some years, to a pluralistic democracy. Do we think there is any possibility that the rebels will produce a pluralistic democracy?
He strikes me as somebody who never wanted the ‘royal’ job, and he is not the sort of wastrel playboy....."
Those are facts. It is, of course, HnH's right to disagree with me that working as a doctor is more admirable than being one of the Arab princes who waste their people's money in London casinos, after all we live in a free country. It nonetheless seems strange to me that HnH should be so contemptuous of working in the NHS, particularly bearing in mind who funds you, and your readers should have been given all the information.
If HnH wish to debate online or publicly either why they prefer casinos to the NHS or are enthusiastic for bombing Syria I would be happy to partner you.
UKIP opposes that war and indeed is the only party to have opposed all our illegal wars. We support the NHS, indeed support increased health spending achieved in the only way this is possible - by economic growth, something the other parties consider less important than building windmills. Apparently we have much room for debate.
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Since Nick Knowles, HnH's fuhrer, has previous being involved in bombing a Moslem owned shop (OK it was Harrods, so also a posh shop so that's OK) his enthusiasm for bombing may be explained.
One problem this raises is, if we know for a fact that HnH, a fascistic organisation, enthusiastically "editing" the quotes they claim to be finding and censoring free speech from anybody, including those they choose to pillory, are there any circumstances whatsoever under which any claim they make can automatically be treated as truthful. I think we should be told.
So far the Evening Standard site is not accepting my comment either & I have emailed them directly as well as sending a letter. We will see what their attitude to free speech and truth is.
Labels: letters, Rise of modern fascism, UKIP
