Harriet Harman

Getting Away With Murder

Harriet Harman, as Solicitor General - a senior minister in the UK's Labour government - voted for the UK to go to war against Iraq.

She has admitted that she made a mistake in voting for this war - because Iraq possessed no WMD's. She claims that if she had known that there were no WMD's then she would not have voted for the war.

I believe her.

So, why has she not resigned from the government?

This is an incredibly important question, not only for UK citizens, but also for all those who live in countries where democracy is supposed to be the mechanism through which their governments rule.

Unless those who are responsible for serious mistakes are held accountable, democracy is doomed

Unless those who are responsible for serious mistakes are held accountable, democracy is doomed; because it is not possible to have a democracy if the people who presume to govern us can get away with making serious mistakes.

For example, if the people cannot trust those who govern in a democracy - as a result of their serious mistakes - then the people cannot trust the democracy itself. And if the people do not trust their own democracies then democracy itself is undermined. It becomes less legitimate.

And the less legitimate it becomes - and the less do the people have faith in those who govern - the more 'separated' from each other do the government and the people become.

The inevitable consequence is that instead of working co-operatively with each other, the government and the people become more antagonistic towards each other; and the end result is that those who govern have to use ever-increasing force in order to govern; as one thing leads to another.

Those who work in organisations where trust is important for them to do their work properly usually recognise that their work is seriously undermined if those who hold high positions within them can get away with making serious mistakes. 

Indeed, over the years, we have seen politicians, civil servants, police officers, business leaders and various high-ranking bureaucrats having to resign as a result of mistakes that are absolutely trivial in comparison to the mistakes made over the decision to go to war with Iraq.

Sometimes they even resign because of extremely minor indiscretions

Sometimes they even resign because of extremely minor indiscretions - indiscretions which often have nothing much directly to do with their professional work. For example, they might have had to resign because they had extra-marital affairs - or, if they are doctors, perhaps affairs with one of their patients. Or they might have had to resign because they had made inappropriate jokes which 'offended' some minority groups; something that has happened quite a few times in recent years. 

But Harriet Harman's mistake resulted in the deaths and maiming of thousands of innocent people; people who would not have had to undergo such horrors were it not for Harriet Harman's mistake - and, of course, the mistake of all those cabinet ministers who voted for the war.

Furthermore, of course, Harriet Harman's mistake has not just resulted in misery for those unfortunate Iraqis. Let us take a look at what else her 'mistake' has led to.

1. She has undermined our democracy - as per above.

2. Those of our soldiers who were killed or maimed at the outset of the war were prepared to put their lives on the line because Harriet Harman and her cronies told them that they were protecting their own country from imminent attack.

Those soldiers were cheated.

This was not the case. Those soldiers were cheated.

(Indeed, many of these soldiers would not have taken such great risks if they had known that there was no threat from WMDs.)

3. She has undermined the confidence of the British people to give support to their government when it comes to dealing with future crises. (The people are less likely to believe what their government ministers will say.) As such, future UK government actions are undermined. In other words, the power of the British people to deal with the world has been diminished.

4. She has increased the likelihood of terrorism taking place in the UK.

5. She has undermined the standing of the UK government and its people right across the world.

6. She has made it clear to Muslims across the world that the deaths and maiming of Muslims are an irrelevance to the British people. (To understand this, imagine that a government minister had made a 'mistake' which, for example, led directly to the deaths of 100 British citizens on British soil. Such a minister would be forced to resign very quickly indeed.)

7. As a result of 4. above, we are now having to introduce billions of pounds worth of security measures (e.g. at airports, ID cards, CCTV etc) and all our internet activities are shortly going to be monitored by government officials in all types of departments. Thus, our taxes are going to have to increase and our liberties are going to decrease.

That is quite a long list of woes, courtesy of Harriet Harman's 'mistake'.

Indeed, her 'mistake' has cost so very much; to so many people.

Meanwhile, as I look at today's news ...

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A man who was arrested and cautioned for slapping his 13-year-old daughter across the face fears he will no longer be able to work with children. 

Man arrested for confronting gang

An ex-detective has condemned the actions of Northumbria Police as "an utter disgrace" after he was locked up for confronting beer-throwing youths.

...

It seems that government ministers these days can cause almost as much misery to people - by the thousand -  as is imaginable - and they can get away with it, and carry on regardless. But woe betide an ordinary citizen who puts a foot wrong.

lofty people have always been able to get away with murder,

Now, one can shrug off all this and say, "Oh well, lofty people have always been able to get away with murder," and, to a large extent this is true.

But this does not make it right . And we should not be putting up with it.

Furthermore, what we have been seeing over the past few years are clear indications that our politicians - particularly in the Labour government - are becoming more corrupt, more self-aggrandised and more self-serving. Their concern is mostly for themselves and for the party through which they gain their own power, rather than for the country and for its people. And the fact that they did not throw out of office all those ministers who led us into the Iraq war - with all its very serious consequences as mentioned above - stands as a shining example of how little concerned are they for anyone but themselves and their own careers.

More frightening is the fact that we, the people, do not seem to be able to do anything about all this; and, worse, these politicians know it.

 the power of the fourth estate to hold government to account is diminishing quite rapidly

It is true that the internet is gradually allowing lesser mortals to have a greater influence on matters that are close to their hearts but, at the same time, the power of the fourth estate (the mainstream media) to hold government to account is diminishing quite rapidly.

The fragmentation of ordinary voices into thousands of separate parts is making it increasingly difficult to mount any serious challenges to our governments - and governments are appropriating more and more resources with which to hold the people back from doing so.

A double whammy.

Indeed, the arrival of the internet and other communication technologies such as the mobile phone coupled with enormous increases in the various powers of our computers has empowered the government absolutely massively over the past ten years.

And, my goodness, does it show.

 there was no well functioning internet when the Labour party came to power in 1997.

(It might be hard to believe now, but, for example, there was no well functioning internet when the Labour party came to power in 1997. Hardly anybody was online. And people did not have mobile phones!)

Furthermore, there is not much difference these days between the left and the right when it comes to our political parties. And so voting out of office one government, and replacing it with another, is not likely to make much difference in the overall scheme of things.

So wherein, exactly, lies our 'democracy'?

Furthermore, with the huge increase in both the number and the extension of the government's tentacles into so many aspects of our lives these past few decades, how is it possible to cast any meaningful vote at all?

People cannot possibly vote properly on issues that concern them, because their single vote every few years is cast for a party that will nowadays address hundreds of issues in any given term.

the vote is nowadays just about worthless.

As such, the vote is nowadays just about worthless.

And, in many ways, it is actually worse than worthless; because the public is induced into believing that the voters have legitimised all government actions over the next few years; when they have done nothing of the sort.

The result of all the above is going to lead us all into further confrontation with our government and its officials, and my own suspicion is that the situation is going to deteriorate to the point of crises; particularly given that the internet now allows people to voice their dissent far more so than they could before.

(If this sounds contradictory to my earlier point that it is becoming harder to 'mount any serious challenges to our governments', then this is because while the internet aids the growth of dissent, it is not very effective at producing unity of purpose.) 

Furthermore, there is an astonishing amount of evidence to suggest that those in the governing elite of western governments - the world over - are actively pursuing agendas that will bring about greater disruption and disharmony to their very own peoples simply in order to justify increases in their own powers - and, hence, in their own wealth and in their own status; e.g. see The Governing Elite.

And if this sounds crazy, please always bear in mind that there would be no reason for large swathes of government to exist if the people in our societies were more 'at peace' with each other.

But those who want power - i.e. the type of people who work in the higher ranks of the government - do not just throw power away 'for the sake of the people'. On the contrary, they seek more and more of it. And so the last thing that they really want is for there to be too much 'peace'.

Indeed, one only has to look at how arrogant and tyrannical have western governments become over the past few years to see not only that there is something very fundamental and pervasive going on, but also something very sinister indeed; (e.g. see the piece entitled Harriet Harman - Hurting So Many People in order to see just how unacceptable to all of you should be the route down which the Labour government is currently taking us.)

And Harriet Harman is playing a very major part in all of this.

Furthermore, as a typical feminist, she does not believe that marriage is good for women; and so, for the past many years, she, together with her feminist cronies who are now posted throughout governmental bodies, has done just about everything that she can to break down families and, indeed, to break down all close intimate relationships. 

She also thinks that the government, not families, should be bringing up the children, and so we also have this constant push from her to get women out to work and the children into government hands.

The added benefit from her point of view - mightily appreciated by those on the left who like big government - is that the more that women go out to work, the bigger is the tax take, and so politicians like Harriet Harman and the government manage to suck up even more power unto themselves.

Harriet Harman is getting away with hell of a lot more than murder.

In a nutshell, Harriet Harman is getting away with hell of a lot more than murder.

Finally, perhaps ending on a rather trivial point, but a point that troubles me greatly, is the fact that I would hope that most of us would probably have our lives soured very significantly indeed if, through some genuine mistake or other, we ended up killing an innocent person.

Indeed, in my lifetime, I have seen numerous accounts of police officers and soldiers having nightmares for years on end as a result of genuine mistakes that they have made which have led to the loss of life or limb.

But it seems that Harriet Harman can kill and maim thousands of people on the basis of 'mistakes' and this troubles her not a jot. I have never seen her show any remorse, nor much in the way of regret. And she carries on pursuing her own ambitions regardless of what she has done.

And, to put it bluntly, I do not want to see such people working in our government; let alone flying high within it.

Now, of course, Harriet Harman was not the only politician who made a mistake over the Iraq war, but she is most decidedly also very much responsible for a huge amount of misery that has arisen in our own country; the huge social consequences of fatherlessness - something that she has purposely sought throughout the years - bringing about just one aspect of this.

Status, power and money are clearly far more important to Labour politicians than is making Harriet Harman take any responsibility for even the most appalling of mistakes and the terrible costs that she has inflicted on so many others. 

No remorse. No regrets. And they keep her in high office.

Why? - for the sake of the party; i.e. for themselves.

(Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable ... . George Orwell)

     Russell Brand               Jonathan Ross          Lesley Douglas 

Lewd Antics Backfire Gordon Brown has demanded the BBC take "appropriate action" over the lewd phone calls by its star presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand to the Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.

So, there you have it. Russell Brand has resigned from his job at the BBC, and Jonathan Ross has been suspended from his own job, as a result of the unacceptable behaviour in which they had both engaged. Lesley Douglas who was the BBC controller for the programme has also resigned from her job.

All three have apologised for their 'mistakes' and admitted that these mistakes were their own responsibility.

Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown, however, remain in office

Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown, however, remain in office; even though their 'mistakes' over Iraq have led, amongst other things, to tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis being maimed and killed.

All over the UK media, thousands of people and hundreds of journalists and commentators are now drawing the line under this lewd jokes affair because the culprits who were responsible have done the 'decent' thing; by admitting responsibility, apologising and resigning.

Not so Gordon Brown or Harriet Harman - whose 'mistakes' killed people.

What should this tell you about these two politicians, and what does it tell you about those in the Labour Party who keep Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown in high office?

After all, these two politicians made mistakes that, amongst other things, killed people.

Did they do the 'decent' thing? Did they resign? Did they apologise?

No.

Did the Labour Party do to them what the BBC has done in connection with holding to account those three people above who made 'comedic mistakes'?

No.

So what does this tell you?

Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman see themselves as untouchable and unaccountable.

The first thing that this should tell you is that Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman see themselves as untouchable and unaccountable. They do not do the 'decent' thing. And, in my view, this is because, fundamentally, they are not 'decent' people.

They believe that they have a right to rule, almost regardless of what they do.

And if you look at other evidence, you cannot avoid coming to the conclusion that they are also thoroughly self-serving, corrupt, dishonest and, in fact, deeply malicious; e.g. see Harriet Harman - Game Of Hate and Feminists Destroy the Planet? 

They have only one aim, and this is to keep themselves in high office so that they can enjoy all the benefits that come with this.

And the Labour politicians whom we currently have sitting in parliament are not much better.

If they had any integrity and any sense of decency, they would have forced Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman out of office as a result of their appalling 'mistakes' over Iraq.

And the only reason that they have not done this is because their own greed and their own self-serving ambitions might be thwarted somewhat if they undermined two of their own politicians.

Finally, every one of you reading this who believes that Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross and Lesley Douglas did the 'decent' thing by resigning, apologising and admitting responsibility for their comedic errors can surely only come to one conclusion when it comes to thinking about the true natures of people like Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown and, indeed, when it comes to thinking about the true natures of all those Labour party supporters who keep them in high office.

'Decent' people, they most decidedly are not.

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The head of the body responsible for Government security has been forced to stand down after hiring staff who had not undergone a criminal record check.

Did his lapse of judgment kill and maim people, undermine our national government, undermine our standing in the world, undermine our democracy and also increase the likelihood of terrorism?

No.

Dave Barber, who headed the compliance department at the BBC station and cleared the offending material for broadcast, has resigned from his job.

Did his lapse of judgment kill and maim people, undermine our national government, undermine our standing in the world, undermine our democracy and also increase the likelihood of terrorism?

No.

Fifteen council staff, including social workers, have been sacked or reprimanded after circulating a tasteless e-mail of paedophile Gary Glitter carrying a child in a shopping bag.

Did their lapses of judgment kill and maim people, undermine our national government, undermine our standing in the world, undermine our democracy and also increase the likelihood of terrorism?

No.