Week after week, we see the Covid 19 Inquiry. I see clips of it on Twitter, and I hear about it on radio.
Matt Hancock spoke today again. He said, that he would have shut everything down as soon as the virus came from the Laboratory in China, to Britain.
It is on my mind to say, that Hancock (The King's School, Chester; Exeter College, Oxford), like the entire top level of British cultural and political life, are the enemies of proper government.
This is a principle, proven by logic and experience: it is not the job of the state or the 'government' to save your life. You can see this in the following way: I was employed by the British government to get myself into dangerous scrapes with the country's enemy, and submit to being killed if necessary.
That's actually the job of the government: to use whatever means necessary, including forcing young men to die, in order to achieve some greater aim.
Therefore, it is very clear to anyone with the use of logic and working from principles, that the purpose of the state and government is not to keep me alive.
It occurs to me, that it is not even my own purpose, to stay alive. There are purer objectives.
The government's purpose in the past and in the present is to preserve property. This is sad, when put so bluntly; however, it is entirely true. This is so as follows: no man does anything unless he gains an advantage from it. I have to work, or else I will starve. So, I chose to work, and thereby I gain property; by property I mean food, clothing, a house, and money. Nobody does anything unless they have some advantage, or unless it has some meaning. I have a choice whether I starve or not, and the state represents those who chose not to perish, who therefore work, and who therefore have property as their objective. That's the deal between me and the state.
I suppose that this principle boils down to something more fundamental: the state is permitted to help me to defend what belongs to me, but I will not allow it to grant or remove from me my very existence and life.
My life is my own business. This is not something which I am alone in believing: it is how everyone lives. Granted, there are people who think that somebody else owes them life or a living; but such people are either children, or should be looked after by professionals outside the state.
Now, the state protects my property. That is its job; we delegate the government to do that for us, and we work together to achieve that aim. We also have higher forms of property: namely, our culture and our religion. For, it will be objected to me, that some people work selflessly, and not for money or property. And I point out, that your culture is what you thereby work for. As examples: the education of your children, the musical groups and venues they play at, your Church and the relics of your God, and so on. These are also property, and they do belong to you. These are what the government is meant to protect.
Now, on the BBC just now, World at One, the presenter rather flippantly pointed out, that the government got involved in every nook and cranny of our lives from 2020 to 2022, on account of its policy of saving our lives. I'm not going to give this activity of the government any common name. I could call it totalitarianism; or perhaps characterise it as one of the degenerate results of democracy. It is to be understood, that democratic states do make serious errors from time to time.
Rather, I would describe that activity of 'getting involved in our lives in every nook and cranny' as something moral: I would describe it as stupidity.
Matt Hancock is not alone. I have just now also heard the King speaking at COP. He said: 'The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth'. Again, the diagnosis is stupidity. It is not a purposeful dishonesty.
When does the King reflect, you should ask yourself, that in principle, the King owns every part of Great Britain? Galya is downstairs rehearsing her Oath of Allegiance, for becoming a British citizen: she has to vocally swear allegiance to the King. But he refuses to state, that he owns anything, saying rather that 'we do not own the Earth'.
That it is his job to take possession of vast properties and our faithful allegiance, is obviously a fact. And this man then declares: 'We do not own, etc.'. How would it sound if I then replied to the King: if you no longer want to be King and to do your job, then why not let me have a go? Such a question is appropriate.
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People get on with their lives. Most of us live in such a way, that we consider our own life to be something in our own hands; there are things we have to die for. It would be intensely dishonourable, and shameful, if we simply refused to risk our lives on any account.
One of the most shameful things is, to have someone watching you all the time while you live. During Covid Lockdowns, the government's instructed agents caught me and Galya out walking in Llangollen, and another time at the Horseshoe Pass. We were told, like you, to avoid having visitors; to keep sexual contact to a minimum; to stay away from children and family, and so on. What dishonour it would have been to have obeyed these sorts of commands.
I would rather not mention the incredible sums of money spent on this spying and coersion. I said that the Covid response then, and the plans to do it more intensely next time, was due to stupidity, so let that be enough.
But you can see how illogical it is, for the state to set out to save lives, when you notice that by setting out to do so it did this: they 'tanked' the economy. That is, they murdered us, stole our future prosperity, and wrecked our chances of economic survival.
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I don't know how this universal infamy and stupidity can be put right.
As I say, the purpose of the King, the government, and the various tiers of social and political life is, to protect our monetary, physical, and cultural property. For sure, there are plenty of people who are out there who want to take it from us. Be under no illusion about that. But the state and its people do the exact opposite. Just watch them do the precise opposite of what they exist in order to do.
Because the diagnosis of these crimes and mistakes is 'stupidity', then the cure is 'intelligence'. I suppose it is necessary to start applying intelligence amidst this mare's nest of fools - and that will put an end to it.
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When the King says, that 'the Earth owns us', and 'we do not own the Earth', there speaks the Defender of the Faith. In our faith, God gave the Earth to us, and each man is required to work it, and take possession of it. But you can work out for yourself what is going on, where the Bible says one thing, and a man says another.
01.12.2023
Jason Powell