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A Political Prisoner of HMG Writes to His Liege, King Charles III

A KINGLY PROPOSAL: LETTER FROM JULIAN ASSANGE TO KING CHARLES III

5 MAY 2023

 

To His Majesty King Charles III,

On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.

You will no doubt recall the wise words of a renowned playwright: “The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.”

Ah, but what would that bard know of mercy faced with the reckoning at the dawn of your historic reign? After all, one can truly know the measure of a society by how it treats its prisoners, and your kingdom has surely excelled in that regard.

Your Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh is located at the prestigious address of One Western Way, London, just a short foxhunt from the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. How delightful it must be to have such an esteemed establishment bear your name.

It is here that 687 of your loyal subjects are held, supporting the United Kingdom’s record as the nation with the largest prison population in Western Europe. As your noble government has recently declared, your kingdom is currently undergoing “the biggest expansion of prison places in over a century”, with its ambitious projections showing an increase of the prison population from 82,000 to 106,000 within the next four years. Quite the legacy, indeed.

As a political prisoner, held at Your Majesty’s pleasure on behalf of an embarrassed foreign sovereign, I am honoured to reside within the walls of this world class institution. Truly, your kingdom knows no bounds.

During your visit, you will have the opportunity to feast upon the culinary delights prepared for your loyal subjects on a generous budget of two pounds per day. Savour the blended tuna heads and the ubiquitous reconstituted forms that are purportedly made from chicken. And worry not, for unlike lesser institutions such as Alcatraz or San Quentin, there is no communal dining in a mess hall. At Belmarsh, prisoners dine alone in their cells, ensuring the utmost intimacy with their meal.

Beyond the gustatory pleasures, I can assure you that Belmarsh provides ample educational opportunities for your subjects. As Proverbs 22:6 has it: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Observe the shuffling queues at the medicine hatch, where inmates gather their prescriptions, not for daily use, but for the horizon-expanding experience of a “big day out”—all at once.

You will also have the opportunity to pay your respects to my late friend Manoel Santos, a gay man facing deportation to Bolsonaro’s Brazil, who took his own life just eight yards from my cell using a crude rope fashioned from his bedsheets. His exquisite tenor voice now silenced forever.

Venture further into the depths of Belmarsh and you will find the most isolated place within its walls: Healthcare, or “Hellcare” as its inhabitants lovingly call it. Here, you will marvel at sensible rules designed for everyone’s safety, such as the prohibition of chess, whilst permitting the far less dangerous game of checkers.

Deep within Hellcare lies the most gloriously uplifting place in all of Belmarsh, nay, the whole of the United Kingdom: the sublimely named Belmarsh End of Life Suite. Listen closely, and you may hear the prisoners’ cries of “Brother, I’m going to die in here”, a testament to the quality of both life and death within your prison.

But fear not, for there is beauty to be found within these walls. Feast your eyes upon the picturesque crows nesting in the razor wire and the hundreds of hungry rats that call Belmarsh home. And if you come in the spring, you may even catch a glimpse of the ducklings laid by wayward mallards within the prison grounds. But don’t delay, for the ravenous rats ensure their lives are fleeting.

I implore you, King Charles, to visit His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh, for it is an honour befitting a king. As you embark upon your reign, may you always remember the words of the King James Bible: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy” (Matthew 5:7). And may mercy be the guiding light of your kingdom, both within and without the walls of Belmarsh.

Your most devoted subject,

Julian Assange

From DECLASSIFIED UK, here.

(Reprinted with permission.)

Israel Refuses to Anoint a True King, so Usurper ‘Anoints’ with Israeli Oil

Oil from olives harvested and grown on the “Mount of Olives” in Jerusalem, pressed outside Beit Lechem and then profaned in a Jerusalem “anglican” Beis Tiflus is soon to be misused by a Cursedian galach this coming Shabbos for “crowning” some brutish Brit nicking the rightful glory of the Davidic dynasty. The oil has also been perfumed with essential oils – sesame, rose, jasmine, cinnamon, neroli, benzoin and amber – as well as orange blossom.

Shame On Us!

 

Kennedy Family ‘Heartbroken’ About Bobby: He Could Have Stayed An INSIDER!

When a lesser person goes “off”, nothing. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is important enough to get a NYT article quoting his circle’s wailing about the change.

The title sounds like a village newsletter:

A Kennedy’s Crusade Against Covid Vaccines Anguishes Family and Friends

Some enlightening excerpts:

Mr. Kennedy, 68, began inveighing against vaccines well before the arrival of the coronavirus, contending that they cause autism — a notion that has been soundly rejected by medical experts.

… he was drawn into this issue when the mother of a child with autism brought stacks of studies purporting to show a link between vaccines and the condition to his Cape Cod home and stayed there until he reviewed them.

“I realized the huge delta between the official narratives promoted by Pharma and public health regulators on one side and the published science I was then reading,” Mr. Kennedy wrote. He said he tried to raise his concerns with top federal health officials and that “those conversations made me angry enough that I got drawn into this battle.”

Hmmm, have any readers ever tried to raise your personal concerns on XYZ with “top XYZ officials“? What? You couldn’t get an appointment?! How strange! Almost sounds undemocratic.

Once a top environmental lawyer who led the charge to clean up the Hudson River in New York, the third eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy has emerged as a leading voice in the campaign to discredit coronavirus vaccines and other measures being advanced by the Biden White House to battle a pandemic that was, near the end of February, killing close to 1,900 people a day.

Mr. Kennedy’s rise as the face of the vaccine resistance movement has tested as never before the solidarity of a family that has for decades remained resolute in the face of tragedy and scandal. It has rattled the Hollywood and entertainment circles that he inhabits, while showing how the vaccine debate is upending traditional political alliances.

Wait, what “debate“, exactly?! I’m not aware of any debate. All I see are voices crying in the wilderness, if not being actively persecuted, with anything they have to say deemed well beneath notice.

Five of his eight surviving siblings — two of his brothers have died — have publicly rebuked him over the past two years for his campaign against vaccines, a remarkable development in a prominent American family that tries to manage its problems in-house.

What’s “remarkable” about that? He’s way over the line of nice, acceptable scandal!

From his earliest days growing up in Virginia, to his years at Harvard University, to his work as a co-founder of Waterkeeper Alliance, created in 1999 to battle water pollution, Mr. Kennedy has been known as someone with obsessive energy, passionate to the point of being exhausting. For nearly 40 years, he has made a mission of warning about mercury contamination — first from coal-powered plants and now as a preservative in some vaccines. Even his most prominent critics say they do not doubt his sincerity, even as he has become one of the most prominent spreaders of misinformation on vaccines.

Imagine that…

“I don’t think he worries much” about his vaccine stance marring his reputation, “because he believes in whatever he says,” said Mr. Green, who sought Mr. Kennedy’s support when he ran for mayor of New York as a Democrat in 2001.

Oh, you think?

Kerry Kennedy said she continued to treasure the memories of growing up with Bobby, and will always admire her older brother.

“We have much more in common than our differences on vaccines, but on that subject we are diametrically opposed,” she said. “I can’t say enough how much I love Bobby. It’s so heartbreaking. It’s so tough.”

Cry me a river!

Kerry sounds like Haman:

ויספר להם המן את כבוד עשרו ורב בניו ואת כל אשר גדלו המלך… אף לא הביאה אסתר המלכה עם המלך… וגם… וכל זה איננו שוה לי…

Will they choose Haman’s solution as well (יעשו עץ גבוה…) or does it end with an article?

See the rest of this black humor here…

How Media Elites Caused a Massive Crime Wave

Magical Thinking at The New York Times

Before the Dawn of Human Reason!

Ann Coulter
Red line is the date of George Floyd’s death. (Charts from Professor David S. Abrams University of Pennsylvania)

Ancient primitives — or as we now call them, “Indigenous people whose land we stole” — believed in talismans, voodoo, rain dances and other versions of “A preceded B, so A caused B.” Today, we consider such reasoning classic fallacy. Except at The New York Times.

First, you need to understand that the Times is no longer a newspaper, but more of a shaman. The paper used to report news. Anyone reading it for information these days might as well pull into a gas station and expect the nice man in a crisp white shirt to dash out and pump his gas.

Much like a Starfish tuna factory, the news comes in, then has to be cleaned, chopped up, soaked in oil and tightly packed into a tin can. If you peered into the Times’ back room, you’d find hundreds of woke scriveners repacking the news to fit the narrative.

Second, an urgent cleanup operation was needed to explain the paroxysm of violence that followed 2020’s anti-cop mania pushed at places like the Times. It simply could not stand to have people imagine that revering criminals while anathematizing the police would have any effect on the crime rate.

No, that wouldn’t do. The facts had to be retrofitted into an alternative narrative. What was the best backup explanation? The pandemic!

Attributing the massive crime wave to the pandemic solved two problems that would have arisen had the Times simply reported the facts: the upsurge in black crime, and the Times’ active encouragement of such.

Unfortunately, doing a rain dance to bring rain is quantum mechanics compared to the Times’ cause-and-effect theory about “The Pandemic” inciting the post-George Floyd violence.

Here are the facts.

During the first few months of the pandemic, violent crime plummeted everywhere. You couldn’t have missed it. The Washington Post, Politico, Voice of America, Cambridge University, and on and on and on — even the Times itself! — reported that violent crime had virtually disappeared in cities around the world due to the COVID shutdowns.

And then on May 25, a fentanyl addict with a bad ticker died in police custody in Minneapolis, whereupon the de-policing demands of Black Lives Matter swept the nation with the active encouragement of all organs of elite liberal opinion, especially the Times.

Cops, the only people who seem to really believe “black lives matter,” risking their lives to bring safety to dangerous neighborhoods, were viciously slandered and kneecapped at every turn. Again, especially by the Times.

You’ll never guess what happened next.

After going into free fall during the first 10 weeks of the pandemic, homicides and aggravated assaults in the U.S. rose by about 35% from Floyd’s death to the end of June. Burglaries, mostly commercial, shot up by an eye-popping 190% the last week of May — the height of looting during the “mostly peaceful protests.”

Other countries, also affected by the pandemic, saw no such rise in violent crime.

Continue reading…

From Ann Coulter, here.

Hyehudi Responds (Regarding Rabbi Dovid Cohen)…

For those who don’t read every word ever posted here, and do thorough, regular chazarah (gasp!), here is the chronology of events:

First, there was this, posted approx. weeks back (sending readers to an article by Yechezkel Hirshman against Rabbi Dovid Cohen’s remarks): The Torah Doesn’t Exactly Belong to Rabbi Dovid Cohen…

Then, noticing I posted one too many articles that day, I reposted it again a few days ago. A Hyehudi reader helped me see the original article had since been hidden, which I subsequently noted to all readers. Mr. Hirshman wrote us a letter I made public yesterday.

Following are some excerpts and my response:

… I have really only seen two posts referenced and the substance of these two posts in particular give me a bit of insight. (Oddly enough, they both mention Rav Dovid Cohen.)

Actually, we referenced this gem, as well.

… I think you likewise have an obligation to notify me if you reference my posts.

My own policy is to approach the mentioned writer if their email address is public (including those using pseudonyms) only in case of both lengthy, and personal, or especially biting criticism, such as I did with this and this (which I was planning to do with Mr. Hirshman as well). In all other cases, I rely on the writers’ own writing mediums to inform them (I believe “backlinks” are enabled by default on Blogger, as well). Even if doing more wasn’t near-impossible to Hyehudi.org, as a curated aggregation site, this would still be unnecessary.

Back to the deleted post, all I will say on why I deleted it is that Rav Dovid Cohen is still a distinguished person and represents the Torah world, so to denigrate him any more than is absolutely necessary would be  לא תלין נבלתו because, when any distinguished Torah personality is disgraced, it is  קללת אלוקים תלוי and I do my utmost to be sensitive to Kavod shamayim.

I cannot concur.

I have written more about my views on these questions here, here, and here (start at “By the way”).

Rabbi Cohen does not represent the Torah itself, since, as Rabbi Yitzchak Brand says, Torah observance is parceled out among various groups, so who cares what community he represents?

Rabbi Cohen hasn’t retracted his ignorant, one-sided nonsense or personal smears and incitement to abandon the Temple Mount [All in one! Here is the original quote] (or anything he and his ilk blindly and uncaringly caused with Coronavirus craziness, as noted by Mr. Hirshman himself!), so why should his voiceless, forcibly anonymous critics fall silent? Mr. Hirshman says Rabbi Cohen is being “disgraced”, but that is by his own hand (or honest disagreement, not disgrace).

See especially this: Repeating a Rabbi’s Own Words Is Not Lashon Hara!

To the contrary! The “קללת אלוקים תלוי” is that people like him don’t fear saying things like that. And the masses or non-Jews assume all observant Jews are like that (which is the Gemara’s reasoning behind “מפרסמין את החנפים מפני חלול השם” in cases of physically committed sins), or “מדשתקי רבנן ש”מ ניחא להו”, Heaven forfend.

And the so-called “Torah world” has looong been the “אין לי אלא תורה” world!