Showing posts with label Bills of Right. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bills of Right. Show all posts

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Something for politicians to remember........

Magna Carta and the Bills of Right are not hearsay. They are not - and never have been - a bunch of legal myths passed along by word of mouth. They are not - and never have been - a depository for judicial delusions and ideological pipe dreams. They are not - and never have been - a figment of some Marxian imagination. They are written documents and are thus legally binding contracts with the people of this nation, contracts whose words, spirit and intent are clear - and they should not be changed, or altered, without the consent of those they were written to protect.

A people seeking a life of liberty and thus a freedom to choose, do not look upon those whose measures create a loss of that liberty and freedom to choose; and it should be remembered that it is the supposedly well behaved citizens that eventually make the most formidable revolutionaries. They say nothing, they are in plain sight all the time; during which, eventually, they make their 'masters' invariably pay the ultimate price. People have memories and politicians would do well to realise that that is something that cannot be taken away. For such people revolt is but an inch beneath the veneer they present to those politicians.

To those who decry the calls for mass revolution and that change can only be made using the 'democratic' system currently in use, I would refer them to a quotation, one attributed to Audre Laude:
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change."
Something else I felt just needed saying..........