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The following five articles qrere all submitted "for publication

auiine 1989 -and

1990: trrro qrcre publishedi three r*ere not.; itEniseO Telephone Bil ls: A Doubtful Blessing" was^ publishedurtaer inE tit le'"Telephone Lines" in Outlookr (issue 6' Oct/NoviS8Sl, a traga-ine I^have no further r,rish to be associated e/ith.;-nr; Reat tto.fh-South Divide" appeared in a severely edited formin

-ef i t ic ismr (Vol 1 No 4r

- Dec 1989/Jan 1990)? a_ _negazine

pubfisnea ' in

New York by and for Brit ish ex-patriateg l iving in€n

--5Ca€es. I have Ootted an "i" and crossed a 'rt'r here and

ttrerer but both articles are essentially unchangedilre article on Edrlrard Heath and un-ited Europe and the filler

'tut Of The Frying Pan" \rere both submitted for publication lnorethan oncei neither eras ever accepted.-----

finaify, 'freedom Of The Press" r*as submitted on spec toIndex On Ceirsorship and etas also reiected.

INTRODUCTION

CONTENT AND COMMENT

'Treedom Of The Preg,s" rpas qritten specifically for Index so lilas,toned dosn substantiallyi indeedr if I. rrere to comit 19 P.P..r. nyconplete, uncensored iieq6 on the gutter pF€ssr no distributor\,Dil4-etan consider handling the pubficatioh. - Before I ever reti-Go-cafled "iournalist" I-had already forned an- extremel-y lowopinion--of tne typei nothing I have 6een since has canr5,ed me to;Ita;- thaf opinibn-except td revise it dor*nrpards. It is rcstunfoltunate that the r,ird "iournalist" is used 5,o freely toaesiribe anyone rrrtro contributes to *$oV\nes an-d-newspa'perqi thea;;ae pieis"and the gutter press are entirely differeht nedia andiLoufa- altra5rs be trEated a3 such. Certainly there is no lovei;;a betrrceh them. [Xri1e the trade prass i.s not alwayspainstatcinily accurate and meticulous over every last detailr itis- t..r. td 3aV that it exi-sts to inform an educated readership.The function of the latter I have yet to divine.

Earfy on in my struggle to establish myself as a freelance I

subnitted articlesr synopses and ideas to the gutter press' AII1 l ; rere e i ther ignored or ie iected ' and in ret rospect- I . -have noresretsi one 6an becott* tainted with guilt by association' Ato.tE point I rnanaged to get 4yself invited into the editorialofficls of a *joF daily-publication; the sub-editor I ha'd come[o-

-;ga sas unaUfe to gile rne store tha.n a f esr moments of his tine

so 5rrassed uE over to tEe nerps editor. After keeping _np traitingfor^ half an hour he reqked ne rr'hat I rpanted in as condescendlng auanner a< ;rossible. Thenr rrtren I explained Iny prolxtsed featurerhe gave ie a sotDbre lecture in a hushed tone +skiqg re- -suchpertinent guestiorrs as "did I have any training in jogrnalisn?"T-aining indeed! .----

At- tnis point I should have trrcinted out that b.ipg .ne1theran narrituar liar nor an alcotrolic- I \^ras not a "iournallst"r_- ha.dno Oliiie to beconp oner and left. Hoqeverr irrstead of walkiltout of the office I sat and endured a lecture from thisoa{ronisine rrtant.r on trow '\re tra.ve to be very Gareful" and thus Iil;-

-il4---EonsiaereO f it to rprite for ttreir- illustri-ous colour

iuprrflrent. I resolved ttris cpuld be the first and la.st tire It-ilia-;tei Ue subiected to suctr treatuent. The arrogance andigroiance--oi thi.s particular individual_are pretty ?tandard. Ifa".d--[is t\rc have^ to be very careful" less

-ironic than a si-ck

i;ke. -i.rst

how careful are-these colour supplements about thefeature rrriters theY enPIoY?----

I; L- iifativlty itroit slpce of time I read tr,p 'l1ciss andteII" stories about- then undisputed rrprld heav5rrrcight chaqrionMike T5rson. In oD€r a self -ityl_ed actress erittr the equallyptroney nale of '?eactres" explained hoW she trad been USed and;b.r;a in a sexua.I (and brutal ) manner by Iron Mike. In theoth.;, ; self-professed homosexual node- essential]V - tpe s'r'n5;i;in;.

- In spite of his crll documentedr self-destructive

Uet-viorr and 'short

fuse outside the ringr Mike Tyson isoUnTorsfy a highly sensitive and at ti-mes st-algely .vulnerableperson.

- One thlne-that has alwa5rs corE acro5s to re is that he

E lperat.fv rpants- to do the rignt thing. [,*ro can te]-1 q]hg't

tnoiiitrt= t'ust eo ttrrough his head r*tren hE readE,crap li-ke _tha.t?fn"-"niy thin[ for cErtain is that he utrst find such libelsinfiniteiy 11nre painful than the beating tre suffered at the handsof Buster Doug1as.

To take an evensuftplerentr but from athL3e libets appearedlqrtrom I \lrilf not namernecroptrilia. In partnortician to bring hii.n autombile accident

Iuore extrere exampler not fron a. colourSundav ne$EElaper. gtout ttre snr* tir'p as

a mu6h tovLdl deceased Hollyrrcod actor'!ra.s accused of no lesser perversion tten

icular it qras alleged that he bribed a'm the fresh corl)ses of young girls kil leds. Obviously they tnutd never ha've dared

2

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to remain h ighl -y speculat ive by v i r tue of the fact that thepeople in the know are not l ike ly to open thei r mouths. Certa in lythough' those of us srho have been observing the rrrorld scene forsome t ime' a lbei t f rom afar are more than just i f ied in asser t ingthat at the very least, the true nature of unrest, depressionsand so forth cannot begin to be comprehended without a thoroughstudy of the various covert pov/er groups, polit ical and financialqf,ro have been nanlpulating the r,,orld from behind the scenes forthe greater part of this century and, according to soneauthorit iesr considerably longer. (See for example Tragedy AndHope by Ca.rroll Quigley or The Naked Capitalist by t^). CleonSkousen ).

Even if these groups ope'rated openly and above boardr (as tosone extent the Trilateralists do ) ' the m.n in the street rpuldsti l l have the greatest diff iculty in understanding theirnactrinations because they talk in code. The term "Nest trlorldOrder" for example means rrrorld governmentl "economic developrentin South America" neans running a motorrpay through Amazonia andstuff the rainforest; and I 'B sure the reader r.ri l l recogni-se suchdelightful euphemisms as "rationalisation" (redundancies)i and'tealistic settlement" (a 47 rise for the shopfloor and a 2OZrise f or: lranageurent ).

Hoqrever bad is the record of the Thatctrer regimet and from aqprm's eye viee it is pretty appall ingr on€ thing is for certain:if Edward Heath had sti l l been prime ministerr this country rmuldbe i-n an even greater mess; our National Sovereignty rpuLd havebeen sold dor*r ttre river long ago' albeit from the very best ofmotives.

Recently I was informed by a fringe publisher' a lnern rrrtro isto some ertent in the know' that the Iron Lady ha.s been"educated" in certain matters, particularly s*ith regards to thetrue nature of the financial system. It could sell be for thisreason rather than the current poll tax fiasco that it ha- beendecided that 11 glorious years is quite enough.

The tmin article requires relatively l i tt le commentr thougtrI should perhaps point out that I am nor"'trere near aq naive aboutSocial Credit a.s I nnde out. Stan Goddardr (not his real name),is a gentleman I have core to know quite qrcll over the pastcouple of years. I mel him through an advertisement rptren I wastrying to organise. a stuly group. Unfortunalgly:- tre rsas the onlyserious restrrcndent so the group never got off the ground, andthough he is considerably older than me and our backgrounds couldhardly be Blore different' rre '.,rere both introduced to thew-itings of C.H.Douglas about the same time and by the same rl€r[2even though re r^rere then llving over tr^ro hundred miles apart.

Like Stan I agree that "unemployment" is a myth. In a rrorld

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sgmebody' : meal . Af ter that , beef ho fun has never tasted qui tethe same for me again.

The difference betrceen caror wirson and this miserabrewr-etch is that she rrzas a lour)gr quite attractive reorran r*rhile hewas a somer'*rat older manr unshaven and ugl-y with it. Not thesor t of person you'd inv i te in to your f iv ihe room. He d idn ' tappear to be mentally disturbed, just a m.n dSqn on his ruck, butthe sarne cannot be said for ma,ny of those one finds on thestreets of the capital nowadays.- These people have riterarlybeen f lung out onto the streets and lef t to- rot. rf i t r,nre noifor charit ies _ang other_agencies operating outside the public:;ectorr many_ of them truuld not survive. t*rether this quality orlitg is srorth- preservi-ng is - liehly debatea.ble. certaiinry ir.nyordinary people qpuld considei themselves better off dead tha;l iving such a sub-human existence.

This then is the real North-south divide: a socio-economicschism rather ttra.n a geographical one. For ttrose a.t the top ofthe ladder. l i fe 's a bal r i for those on the bot tom FUrr€r

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lnrk{gre or-qra.ge sl_avery._ Fg. those berow even thatit 's E}eepingin thq gutter and a. meal of stale beefburger and french fiie;foraged from a. rubbistr bin in a city rphich-is sti l l one of thetnnjor f ina.ncial centres of the r,nrld.

LONG LIVE CEPITETISM!

6

ITEMISED TELEptoNE B iLLs : A i lou*Tr - rJ ' - BLESSiN{ j

A recent announcement that BT are to provlde customers withi temised phone b i r rs ha i -

c^u=eo co^L i , . i - . ra t ro . , amo.gs t theygr"lll lv .sioups ortt" "p..*ti tn" osoo i"."i;;=. They f eer thatr t records or car rs a i rpear

" '1 . p i i i i ;

- ; ; ; ; i ; . * i i l 'G 'a i l l "u ragedfrom usine such servi ies as cni iai i . r" ; -- i i f r I t , , r i r i Daddy say?)ithe AIDS HElp l ine , t * r ro - " r1" -n . " " -y " " 'n . i " f r *ep ing w i th?) ; andcrimestopperi , ,

i :a:_fr1;"- t ; ; u*"r , E..=i i ie Jpzl . As such cartsare free' there is no need-for them-L"-n*"Ei i red at al l .Employers, and parents Jf-r"""=ict teena!.i!*,o.y be gratefurl therest of us should ue ariimeE;- -n"t*=;-F;;

hardly a squeak ofprotest tra.s' b-."r rortn-oming rrom -tne

usualry vocar civirl ibert ies lobby. TM---f ; ; t tht t - i t *r-s

n.,w possibte,( theoret icatrv- 6. t any i?tel-- for ai i { is i -Terecom to record thesffi:Tl+il..6lrE;;H.!='li-*o" in t[e-ui{ ;h;;i; Ei'* .iIIy" n.rr

r f such i i formtion is avairable to BT i t is of cours€ravairabre to the gover*ni . sucn-i ; i [ .* ef f ic iency of thepresent fleneration- of co'ob,rt".= --r-n^t

Jiiy "*r

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;t anypart icular t imp-could-be ; i l ; "d-;g. i ; ; i r" i .v other. By carefur.screeningr calls rmde to ipecifi" .,,rrr..; 'f - i i i l^;ydittil".=,Knosrn or susoected drug deaiers, trade unionrsts could bedetaired andr -

on the *F.=[-i,rspicion-oi J.i.r.r. l or "dissident,,act iv i tyr taps coulO Ue aut f ro i i=LO. *- * !

The stock fFpty " r f . i . i i t ; ; i ; . apg- tgeis ts is : so wtrat? r fyou 've done noth in! t^r r -o. tgr- - !or ' ,u . nbtn i ie to h ide. OnIy theguirty need privacyi and invtfri ig'-rtt irt"i iJ.=.l=*s the security or

i*rrif*i" o'lg ":::."i*;-";iit-

;i--ti;"-";.iili.,.r i.--;;i- onlyThe points -so often missed are that the most secure pracea'nyone can rive in is a prison-r and that trr- most ruthress anddangerous

".i.i?:l_tn.""!i-,",rt'ni=t"iy"i,*i n"E, tn. state. Farbetter our cit iSgns arE pragued -6v -i *i lr iao

of ord'narycriminars than norry coJorea-ui"eit e.6tnJ..- 'More f r iehteni . rg . - i r r 'o i r r 6"-L[ ; ; - i i is possibre not justto itemise, Ey! F- i;o^;r,j- t.p*

-.;;;; ;;";e ca.rr made f roman5rwtrere in thg- country r.orr.ra--tn.='ir5.[. ' Ir that soundsabsurdly futurrisl ic1 {nii l t .e.in, tn"-!""i inorogy and the *eansto do i t is orobably real isaEle th is century i the wi l l to do r thas been here ' for sore t i re .

Recentlyr the British peopl-e celebrated ten glorious years ofThatcherism. Judging by the reception the Prire Ministerreceived on lrer lp-t visit to the United States, ttre Ar"ericansvieg this as Britain's neqr econorgic rl iracle. It is true thateven after ttre cra=h of October '87 and subsequent stock market"shake out'rr and in spite of the Tories' failure to cap inflationand risi-ng unemplo5rmntr that an increaqing nunber of our peoplenever tnd lt so good. But it is also true that the gap bete,eenthe haves and the have-nots tras never been sriderr and ttrat a ner,runderclass has corc into existence over the last ferp years. lluchhas been uade of the so-called North./South divide; the risingsalaries and house prices in the "affluent" South Eastr and thesupposed desolation of all industry norttr of trb.tford Gap. Inreality though the truth is not guite so si.ryle. For wtrile thereis undoulrtably a higher percentnge of realthy people resident inthe, South Eastr EDd clhile salaries (and prices) are generallyhigherl there are also rcre people sleepirrg rough in London thanin any other ten cit ies in the country.

But povbrty does not begin and end with the troreless. Arccent survey indicated that one family in six noru li.ves in sorrcdegree of poverty. At the 5nm f,lrcr s governrmnt rcinisterclaired there is no absolute poverty at all in modernBritain! (John Moore: his staterent canrsed an outcry). Certainlythere will soon be no uneryloyedl not because the t(rro milli.oncurrently signing on rrill be miraculously found jobsr but becausethe goverrurent is very cleverly mving the goalpostsr f irst bypressurisingl ttrcn by coercing' and finally by coryell ing thelong term qpsrnFrloyed into taking up low paid iob's on 'approved"training schenes."

THE REAL NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE:UNEHPLOYMENT AND bDRKFARE IN THATCHER'5 BRITAIN

t^*lAT IS ET?

ETr and the junior equivalent YTSr(Youth Training Scheme) is acleverly disguised system of qprk for benefits. Last year,Independent Television screened a doculpntary on the Aroricanr*orkiare system in rr 'hich the former goverrunent minister MichaelHeseltine' (he of trlestland fare) sas intervier'red. l&- Heseltiner.ras very enthusiastic that peopl-e rlho qEre unable to f ind full

t ime w<r rk and rsho hac l no v is ib le mea.ns o f s -uppor i : - r l i c i i . i i . i i i - i i :requ i - r r :d to eJork f o r the i r henef i t s . i i . i s r ro t k l r r - ' r , . - i r i r i4 r -Hese l t i ne 's d is tas te o f unearned incomt : r . . :> i t r :nc is i -c> i r i : {_ rv . .T ipor t fo l io ' bu t he is a .damant tha t ab le bod iec i men ar td \ ^ {mer ) w l rore fuse to r i ro rk fo r the i r benef i t shou ld rece ive none^ The c i ru r usuras. takFn l tp b), Norman Fordlerr Secretary Gf State for- Emplo.y'rtrcni-ra l though he s t ressed in the f i rs t ins tance th ; r t l :he =chbme-u . . r - ru lc ibe_ pure ly vorun tary . Another scheme wh ich began l i fe in thevoluntary sector rpas Restart.

RESTART:FROM VELVET GLOVE TO IRON FIST

Bg!1e.. April and August of 1987, Job centres contacted over <:nemill ion qlsrnFloyed -people,

a.nd sooe B4o,ooo attended Restartr -ntervreers. rn_ pr inc ip ler the idea of Restar t is a good one.certainly _Eo?t long term unenployed people get themselies i-nto aIut psyclo logt_ca]- ly , _qnd-need to mot ivate themselves. Many a lsodo not know how- to ef fect ive ly look for a job besides v i i l t ingthei-r 1oca.I job centre once a qeek and taking cards off thEnotice board. At Restart intervierrrs some of-the rr;ays out ofunempl-o5rment vpuld be suggested by the intervier.rerl6ounsellor.Ttrese rrnuld include the conmunity Piogratlure, (now scrapped)r a.DdItt". Enterprise Allorrrance Sctreme. TFe latter, in spitl of itshigh -fail,ure rater hnq 1ed to-nnny thousands of^ previouslyuneryloye4 !0glr and \,omen starting up and running iheir oqrnsuccesifull thriving businesses.

-In-fact, for thdse rsith some

-capi-!3l_ to _investt- (eg-redunda.nt qprkers rsith sizeable gordentra.nrl<tra.kes ) the government has mde avairatrle a number of directand indirect schenps varying from courses in business *nagerentto guarantee4 Loansl arr4 l[ey should certainly be given Eieditfor this. one cannot challeirge the sincerity-of Ttre Thatchertgvernment's devotion to the enterprise cultuie. Hoqrever, forthose srithout a nq:st ege !o 4ip into, (the m-jority oi theunemployedr and.neaqly all-the long term une*Froyed), tfre elementof -encourgtgnent and nurture has been replaceb n! one of coercionand compulsion.

. rr-r lt+y of last !ear1 formal testing qras introduced into theRestart intervieca. The invitation to attend is one rytrich, ifrefused or ignored, can and does lead. to the claimant's benefitqglttC stopped-. I_n_factr I rct one young black mnn w*ro !r)as veryclr-stressed qtren his benefit rpas stopped on this pretext, eventhougtr he trad actua.lly attended the intervi-ew!

Ttre Restart f orm noq, consi_sts of no f ecrer than Zzguestionsr all of rphich must be anstr;gred. You don't win a.

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coconu t i f , you ge t t hem a l l co r rec t . bu t you do run the r i sk o flos ing con: iderablv more should you g ive a iurong ans( . rer . Man5r of!h" . -quest ions are ambi-guous, o i o f - the type:

-Have you 1ei

'o f f

beating. youl_ wife? L.)trat for example is l-claimant iupposed toansrrrer to: t*rat is ttre minimum r^ragE you wirl accept? oii How far{e you prepared to travel to rprk? The form hai to be seen tobe berieved; it is not so much a questionnaire as an inquisit ion.

clearly -ttt" ggp4asis_ of Resfart has shif ted f rom 'assisting

the-unegplgv"4 to find rrcrk to "greater testing of the craimant' iavaiLabirity for r*ork." to quote-verbatim. TEere is talk now ofcraimants bg+"9 required to_give qrritten evidence ttrat they areactively seeking c/ork everJrtime they sign on.

THE NEW POOR LA[^I

According to Hugh Lansdorrne of the 9boksich based unemplovmentcentre GAGOf.J, (Greenwich Action Group On Unemplojrment)r- theeventual airn of the new s5rstem are to-a) privatise

-the entire

benefits and 'tetraining" s5rstemsr and -b)

to create a newunderc'lassr a servant cLass. r raised my eyebrows at thissuggestione -but he shorrcd not the ghost of a-smile. Indeedr it\ras made with such conviction thit r found it impossible- todismiss the idea as empty Harxist rhetoric. rt was'the secondlbrld {^lar' says Hugh- tha.t liberated the undercrass in thisc_ountry. Before the sarr and certainly before the First WoriOqlar' everybody rlho was anybody had to ha.le at reast one servant.Servantsrtre says couldn't afford to ra.ise familis5, and tleredependent on their m-ter/eqrloyer. He mentions the new trend ofpromoting in-qrcrk benefits such- Bs fami ry credit, and says thatunder the newr proposed legistation an efrptoyer qpurd ue iule tooff.er. an a.pplicant a job on any rdag€1 eveir five pounds per rreek,and the-app_l_lcant qDuld be obliged to accept or hive his- benefitcut off . His take horg p.y rrpurd then be- made up to sutrsistanceIevels by income support and fam;ly credit.

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JOB CLUBS

I a 'sked Huqh about job c lubsi srcren ' t they an ar ter-nat ive to ET?over the 6ast g:"pl:-qi-t;#. .t[;-;"_;"i"il"t"n.s run a number oradvert isemints in the pre3s and on TV-promoting job crubs. Theidea of the job cLub.sls7i i , --- .p*fgnt ly, to f ind each member thebest iob in the_shgrtesi possiuib t ime.-- ' r t rE i runs provide use ofne(. lspapersr telephones, - 5famnsr_ advice::- : . : Acco-rding to Hugh,members of the qbal( ,r ich-rou -cr i ru-

t rao- io-mat" ' i "" :ob appricat ionsa dav! r f nothing 9rs9, i t r is-u- ing; ; - .Gt l ."r- .orry to one of thecatchphrases dseii in the idveiti.i.te-"Iil i i iE.;: :.-:.i i^;iig"i :oni s a j o b i n i t s e l f . "

THE MYTH OF EMPLOYMENT TRAINING

Returning to_ETr its i.mmediate predecessor qras cp. This is notg,orporal punishment, but Connunitt-F;ggf.;d: Cp rpas run by thenanpoq=r services csrnmi55ien, _(n6s ,#irslGa_."a i"prlJiia"6v anew Training comissionl. -rntiugn

ofgen-iiitiJi.=i J,' ;f,;*E;;rfnityHrogrAmme had _its, qood pointsr _ cp-consiitEo "r

furl tine andpa'rt time ioE:._4v "t-iLEil *it[-=o'a-a;;i"iG -.ra -6ilie.ing

proper rrcrk experi-encei Job's variea iion i.ili=".p" gardening andnursery *.k -!o-_il=ylq!irre old peoFfes;'- nones and sportsgg3lhilg:,__ There rrcre arso

""n"-ii".fiEi5i-irr".ntives. Most- partEr-rre workers rrere nore tha.n f ifteen pounas-$r veek, better .

of fthan on the dole. -Gn-.,rrro- *6lrlEo"rilIil'iid:o*." €zz.az net in;rccketr and rrcmen f.Zg.ei- on"CF on a;eiaie:-ET has no ggch rinanciir i--ircEiitivEil--rrro nothing at the endto show for it. tal;-i; i.a9! a-stiictry--rcrr for benefitsscherne. partic-i.palt:_fi pfia-tt"i.-##;it ptus a ,,premium,, often to tt'elve oounds_per qei:t<. out "F-U[i;;

,,trainees,, have tomeet thei-r cbsts or'r,ror[inEi "i[ir,E-"it-ii. examprer ?nd thefirst five pounds of tGi;-tF;ver expenses.

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RESPONSE TO ET

Severar blue ghip _ compa-nies trave taken up the ET schemelincluding constructiqn gialt Tgylor trloodrow aird the supernnrketchain Sainsbury. No doubt the latter's enthusiasm for t ire schemeha.s rpaned considerably since a number of London stores \rerepicketed _by the South Enql 1-or1{on Alti-Glorkfare tloverent. Uughg€alni Sainsbury's _give their sta.ff tqn dnys trn the :6ntraining: so much for qprk experience. So in theory, anapracticer- one can find tqp Een rrrorking gide py side, on*-i,atinghoue a hundred and tqEnt!' pound< a r,ueek, ani trre other doinfiexa.ctly the sFme job for his dole lEoney. Obviouslv anunscrupulous or greedy smFloyer rgourd think nothing of sa6kingthe first man on some. pretert and taking on anothei ET "trainee"i-n his place.

Incre9ibly the TUC, (Trades Union Congress) gave ET thegregn light- _ Pg.It pg they have become so ei.sculaled by anti-trade union legislation ttra.t ltrev- could do nothing but- t-"relygrcquiesce. or

-pelttaps they didir't appreii-ate qfiEre it

-r*ourd

1egd. _ At any rater an increa-sing nirfober of individual iradeunionists and unions trs.ve been rdaking up to the rearity of ET. rn4gg::=t-.gr^1*t -Y34r' ttrree o{ the country's biggest uiriorrsl theTG[dtr NAL@ and NLJPE spnt so far as to slinsor d-bookret: 'iSctus.reE.g= In Round Holes" qltlich roundly condEmns the scheme ana cLftifor proper_ traini.ng_and adeqrrate rates of pa.y._ - prc _slogan of ET is "I_et's tra.in the ipFkers q/ithout jobs to

do the jobs qdthout \rDrkers." In some a.reFqr grafitti artistshave altered canpaign posters to read "......tFe jobs rpithouterErgrESl" -and - other_rvitty- but 4epressingry true captions. Theertent to strich ET has been both actiieiy_Foycottei and sirnplyavoided can be.glganed frop the forlowing-figirres: NAcRo - ttrLNational Association for the Ca.re and Reiett]--ement of Offenclershas so far managed to- recruit less than 2rooo out of the 2oroooreguiredr in spite of the nranager'nt's removal of arI ttrose starrrrrho oppose ttre scbgmq. In provincial Norqrich not one unenployedperson qras recruited on to it. The latter is remarkable

-since

unny less arrare - uneryloyed people are being left with theimFression at_ Resta.rt intervierps tfra.t if al1 el-se failsr ET isc_oryulsory. qbll r it isnt r yet ! And if the Anti -Workf areHoverent and other organisations keep up the pressrirer it spn'tbecore so.

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The_government is commit ted not just to pushing r r rcrkfare, ( le t 'scal l a spade a.spade) ' to reduce the uneioploymEnt s tat l i t ics l nutarso appears to be engaging in a cer ta in 'am6unt of s tochai t , icargymnastics in order to ma.nipulate the unemproyment figuresdownqrards. Since 1982 the method of counting tire i-rnenploy-E h.sctranged_ no f errrer than 28 times ! . - trlhen they cl-airn ,rn..pioyil..tt i=noe, below the tvrc milrion mark_ thgy a.re e-xcruding the' r6maining9P_oqlF. .s (88rOOO), those on the Ei r terpr ise Schei le tSe,OOO)l the106'000 r r rho-have a l rea4y been inducted-on to ET and the aza,oooon l f tS (gompulsory) Youth Tra in ing Scheme: no t ra in ing I . roDener l t . lhese f igures are by no means inc lus ive. And thegovernrnent is not only cont inuing to juggle wi th the f igures, buti:__=!:qellg yq it: eioe3sanda danpaisiir both againi€ tne'roneterm unemployed and for ET.

MOVINC THE GOALPOSIS

LABOUR CAMPS

rf . aT{/gnF thinks labour camFs are an alien phenomenon they had:E::"trrrnk_agar-n. For as qrerl as under the Nazis and the

-GulagArchlpelago, they srere also found in Britain in. the nineteeithlrtres. Trrese caEps did_not have barbed wire and armed guardslbut the element of compursion qras stirr there: no $ork = nE dote.l*rere have tp heard that before? Norman Fowler p.itt.psi TheBritish labour _ cg.trps _have been _highlighted by a

-iecentrypubrished book: ^Labour c.rp=: The grif isn-Experiefice, ano-uy-idramtization: Brandon: The Spirit Of Resistance,

- orti.n

- i,

gytlgl}ll oq p tgyr-:pol:ofea Fy- the trade_union NALGo. rne prii|p perforngcl by shef f ierd_ Popurar Theatre company a.nd is basett o-nl le -exper lences of .unemproyed men in the 30 ' i ,

- (some l2orooo of

ttreno) qrtro rrere sent to la.bour camps to "harden them up. " Thesecamps $ere set _ up tq traln as one minister put it i 'a certaincrass of ren" srho- had been softened by bein! on ttre

-ooie- too

long. _They _rdere located in rurar areal . ThE men qrho attendedqprg given four shilli-ngs a rseek pocket money and *reie s.t toqnrk on a variety of task{_such_as iorestry ani .arpe.tt iyr-*tt i_.n,l ike ET invorved no rear traini-ng and notlring to show ai-ttre ena9f i! ' I lg qtgalif ication and no reEognised .,rorE .xp-iien-e.

-i;..t

ot thF "traini-ngl' included digging and refi lr ing holes and otherequall-y soul -destroying exercises.

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I attended ttre perfortrrnce of Brandon at Riverda.Ie Hal-l"rLer.ristlam- ol-t lay l?ttt. Sadly it r*as not rnll suplrcrted. Withinthe l imitations of this kind of ttreatre it t. 'as bbth qell acted3nd_ thought provoking. The governrnent ha.ven't got around tobuilding g nesr- generglion of labour campsl not-yet; but one\.Dnders rrrtren they trilr start one night also ask srtrat a.re thealternati.ves to ET and f inding jobs/tiaining for the unemployed,gspecially thg long term une"rployed. Unenfiloyed centrei havebeen in the foref ront of the- anti-r,prkf...- rol.tt=nt and in theresistance to the ha,rrassment of qnsmployed peoprel but it is onething_ to attack a systemi it is quit- another to replace it rrrithsorething better.

AI-TERNATII/ES TO ET

According to retired accountant Stan Goddard' the probreu is notttnt of f ingling sprk nor even of trg.iningr but of iedistributinginconeg. Stanr t*tro tra.s just had his first book published: Ttret'llrth of unerylo5rrentr explained the principre of social credit toure over coffee and bagles at his North London a1m.rtmnt."Actually- it 's not so urlch a book as a grubby l itt le 1imphletl"tre saysr because I couldn't get proper distribution.

- According _ to Stanr tha purpose of eryloyment is not toena.ble people tg 9.f.. a_ livingl- but to distribute the goorrq, andservi-ces deuanded by the comtrnity. '!'*rat rse call une4lloymentis really only superefficiency. (d-th nodern technology ther6 aretoo many tprkers chasing -too fecr jobs. If . r-"hine-can replaceten nen rrr even -a hundred penr then it makes sense to employ themctrlne i.nstead. The other nine or ninety-nirre srtro have

- been

.nde redunda.nt do not need to be found rrpik, but t*rat they doneed to be found i.s spending porer.'Trtnt the governrent 5hould do is not create unnecess;ary oreven useless- job6, but create the credit, ie the spending p6rrerto enable these ren to purcha.se ttre products they hre eaEei toconsure." Hocr is ttre governmnt to do-this? I as[<.]PV the _siryIe-expediEnt of r*-it ing figures in a bookr" he says.'?rovided it is done scientif icdtty- it need not lead

-to

infrationi the banks do it all the tire and ctrarge us interest{9..-the privi-lege of borrgwing rr*rat is in effect our or"tn rnoney."At this poin! he lgses re by soinc on to discuss the A+B theoremrbut I understand the gist of it.

According to Stanr if the governnent sere to create i-ts orrrncredit and distribute it to the public direct instead ofborror.ring it from the banking system- by the process of selling

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s€lcur i t ies, there t r rould be no Nat ional D€:bt , ant l no unemploymcntbecause the resurtl^g. i""i"^i" in- purchasing power- r+ou.d ,,realr w{lffi""i?,,

aIl Iive comroFtintv-uy-,"-itI"L-I-th;8" or. even a tr^,o d3yI eye h im-susp i c i . ous l y a t . t h i s po in t , bu t he backs up h i scra im wi t t r concre^te docunintat ion. _-- r r=-- iorr t ^g. o= rgBr, thcEconomic Research coun;ir-;dicruaea ti-,Et-ti iE govern'ent shourrlcreate arr its or*'n credit ror puuii" t^-it i--^nd that ttris wotrlclhave saved over th i i t t - tho; ;n i r ' i i i ior r -po,r ia= s ince the Lhr ."The probrem; " gavs sian;;i;;; i"i"ii,litixrliir

";;. -

ifi; .nlyplace where the sta ie ooes-c ieate i ts-o iJn-" i io i t is the Isrand ofGuernsey- Every. othei - -co l " [ .y_ in the-- r . rc . t r . oo. . , r r* ,ooney atl l ; f ; l : t t

when i t courd create- ias ; \^r . J i io i t as a sovele ig^"Then $y d9n't they?" I ask.'1.Jhy doesn't the government ban smoking? That kilrs a hundredlhousand people evEry year. "I shake nv hiraa."Because i t 's a racketr" he sa} 's ' " the r* rhole system is a racket . , ,

ABOLISHING THE POVERTY TRAP

GAGOU and other unemployed centres dgr't go as far as stan, butthey do, interestin}l1i--aaiocate tne a[otit ion of the meanstested benefit systetr--rr,a-its repfalEroen[-iy "

basic income.Anazinglv this iaea is ir io-rootaa i l-pa;' i iy Mirton Friedmanrl'lrs Thatcher's_ monetarist guru. ---F;i;ffi; -inclines

more to al:q1!1"" income- taxr uut "ttugtr La;Ea;!4n"'siys that the basiclncorne qpurd solve all the pro6rens-. :-it-i=-I. much like stan, ssociar credit' thg main aifrE.en". F.irs that this c,ould not be acredit created

!I_-!19 ,-q;ia;rurFnt1- Eu{- one f j.nanced out oftaxation- The probrem nost unskiiieo-pioiri nr"6-i=-rn i*-tn.ycan earn onrv 3 lot" rrrage' .so if ttiJiF-i5r; iliE ^pgr'-i=

sayFeventy pounds. per qFek, they nigh!-be-no-rrrcrse off or even!.t!9. off bv stavins at h6ne tayi"E- tnE-ab'I". But if thev hada guara'nteed non-means tested int8ne- or-iii r".ty pounds- per53F:---Jrthi3q thev- earneo-on-t"F- -;;Th;i_,

"*ty roorking part timeperrraps' qpurd not be claqed baci< py, ttre-nHss: This"r^iu1J givetheu a. rear incentive to qrcri. ri on-tot-"i tti=-6"J"t5oii"=Professor Frierrrmn's neE tinl'-itr"oil rli*l '"i i \rirr be seen -that

the poor and those oi v..v-roiE|*'#-ri -

*oo out of taxalthogether and at the ;ail- tip., '{ire ;,c,",f ture bf depen-ency,,q'il l have been eroded..--As-St.'. =iyf r"-ffiJt is needed is todestroy the poverty [iap-with6ut removing the safety net.,,

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Wrether - o r no t one inc l ines to e i ther o f t t res t : sc lu t lons , i ii s obv ious tha t someth ing is rad ica l l y wrong w i th t t re p resentsy=tem. Cer te r in ly the ldea o f c rea t ing jobs fo r the sa i ' - -e o f L ti s a po in t lesg exerc ise . Here one is reminded o f those men a iBr -andon d igg ing and re f i l l i ng t t re same t ro les over and over ag : i i r t .Paying the unemployed to do nothing may be abhorent to t treThatcherites with their "No such thing a.s a. fr-ee lunchphilosophyr but for the unernployedr \r lorkfare is a medicine which:i f i t cures the disease, damn near ki l ls t trr: patient as s.reI l .

The Myth Of Unemployment: Stan L Goddard one pound from ADistr i-bution' c/o 84b [*r i techapel High Streetr London El .

Labour Camps: The Brit ish Experience: Dave Colledge four poundsninety-five available from NALGO.

Square Pegs In Round Holes: Enployment Trainlng - Quality or0lorkfare? by the Unemploynent Unit' 9 Poland Streetr London [d]..

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WIIAT ARE UT'{EMPLOYED CENTRES?

Arthough qnsmproygd centres l ike GAGoU have onry really come i.ntotherr o{.in over the past few years, they have been ar6und in oneform or another since the- late sixi, ies. They stJitEl- ascraimants' unions.: pressure groups run_-by and f6r

-Genproyeo

people l - r0og! of them-wi thout a-graht . . Nofu, ' *ny of tne cEntresare.gra.nt ai9g9_ - by local authorit ies, trusts-, or a mixture.Most are st i r r run on a shoe st r ing. sr ight ly-a i f ieFent f romclainants' unions are TUc gentre6. Theie aie not so muchrepresentatives' of the unemproyed as an extention or tne- unionbureaucracy.

GAGOU is a typicar centre, as far as any centre is typical.It is situated in-the l{acbean Centre, a fecinunOrea varA6--fronthe south bank of the Thames. The gloorqrich cenCre-na6i Erob-i;facility wtri.chr ia5rs Hugh Lansdoq'ner has a nucteu]-of-foii'v tofrtty-regula{9: He stresses tho}rgh. that this is a very narginalfunction of GAGOU. The centre, r"'trich opens five days a-treet<l hasa disabled-€l9upr, vari-ous minority grbups, rrproenfs iroupl' anaeven a grafitti artq group. They have a- photocopier ind 3tock aqn(re serectton of advice' information and anti-rrcikfare leaflets.

GAGot came together in its present form about isTsl--Since1984 it has been grant aidedr aird now has trrc fuff tine tuoilersplus an administrator. Although i-t caters for a widei sereitionof -€r9ups' it is principally concerned rsitn

-aavii ine- ana

a:?+9!1T€ -un_enplgyed people. It also does outreach rprk aid isattr.Ir.atecl to the South East Federation of Unwaged Groups, thesecretariat of strich is the Tottenham Claim;rnts'-0nion.

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HEATH'S ATTACKS ON THATCHER: THE REAL }!OTM?

Ll i th the Labour Party in schism: hal f dr i f t ing fur ther to the

i"it-; -t[e-

ottte.- traii pl"Gine-to run gapitalisi better than theiiii"r,

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""pr'r-eot^io-tt"itn is Fapidrv shairing YP fo5-the,Pt?l of

Leader of the opposition. H!s increasingly. vitrt-ollc attacK.s on14.s--fnatcner ;F;-f;;a

-becoming a naggin! thorn in the side of

tG i6Fv- -t

instieani nis rafest, -5n

the theme of Nationar5Ji".iiii,tv-iJ- bv f;r the nost outspoken. But those qtho areil;ilf,Efi"-to

-put-it-arr do1"n to sour grapes. gnd disilrusion'pnt

nfve--E""n-but^one-face of the coin. -Unitoubtabfy

F- Heath. doesdiifitE--ibs rnatcn i' probably he even despises her, but his;;ii;E ;?- ha;--Jtitgg^ ^gain6t European lmitv shourd not beinterpreted as aisl;Giav eit[.i to he; or to the Tory partyr but; a declaration of loyalty to an obscuret and soneqt:tat lrcrecosrclrclitan organisation-

T.IONOPOLY

Ever since she ascended the throner- (f igurat-ively. speaking)1ilil".Et---fnatctrer ana-ne. goverrurnnt have Seen breaki1rg yp stateil i"!f,gli"s--ana--p.ivatisins"ever5rthing in sight. Leftists ha,vetGfi;;IEo

-dtri!- -;--;-l;tnei Lnsubfre atteryt to aq99t -striP

#iililiiIEa iiii"rtries-ana-iiive-Cnem off for the benefit of the;T;h:'-tuff ahe ,.Drl<ine class! In fact this is slnply-not true.a1;"' rnaictlriter--lEirfv-ao-uerieve privatisatlon bbnbfits bothiil i;iaustaiAs and the consuneFi' tb them' - -stale otnership isanathenar so ii--rcnopof V. Far- frou lntentiorrally lining . the;;a;-;f theii- triaiti6nal allies and qupportersr !tt"y tla'veijuriuea-- the causei- of-piivatisation and d9 -rcnopolisation sith-,r#Es-[i"ift; --"i;;"t; -;;a eriah [oCar indif fereFg,.!9^:l"T--th"v

"DdI;--ff-it 's a rcnopor/r rr rust go.- They trave afready amgered

!5liJit"i. Ui "p".ti;s

irp L6nveyanciqEi- barristers. by proposing. to;;;--;;- InE'r.F-to Eolicitors-i and-the brer'prs by orderi.ng- themi5-I"ri-";i'-r"ry ;i Inei; puUs. All these groups are traditionali".v-""t"i!. airO-tn"i-are' iOopting the sa-q nolnonsense attitude["-ttre-Uiegest rcnopoly of all] the Conrcn Harket'

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UNITED E I ]ROPE

To the Thatcher i - tes ' the mAin appeal of a uni ted Europe is thati t wi l l g ive them the opportuni ty to pract ise thei r own brand ofla i -ssez- fa i re on a very much larger scale, in par t icu l -ar ' to ta l lyf ree t rade. For , wi th increased t rade cones prosper i tyr ( intheory at any rate) . There are of courser m?tly otherattractions: a reduction in red tape and better co-operationbetrlreen law enforcement and drug control agencies to narIle buttso. This is r*rhat the Thatcherites qant. Hoqrever' there arethose rphose view of a united Europe extends much further.

CONSPIRACY

tilren lft- Heath voices his opinion that the concept of NationaLSovereignity is outdated all he is doing i-s repeating publiclythe private utterings of the self-appointed internationali.ste1i te.

In l.lay of 1954 a group of bankers' industrialists andinternationa.Ily minded politicians met at the Hotel BilderbergrOosterbeek' Holland. Since then' Bilderberg meetingsr as ttreyhave become knorlnr have been held annua.lly. Over the !€arsl amere handful of press releases have been issued concerning theprrrtrxlse of these meetings. The mediar our self-appointedguardians of democracyr have had little or nottring to say aboutthemr and this has led to a vast array of li.terature aimed atconspiracy buffs rpho view the supposed mactrinations of this groupas a plot to run the qrorld from behind ,the scenes.

In 1973 the Bilderberg Group i{as augurented by the TrilateralComnissioni the Comissionr r"rhich tra.s an overlapping nenbershipwith the Bilderhrgersr mai-ntains a sometrtrat higher publicprofile and even publishes a journal: Trialoguer rrrtrich r,rasr (andas far as I know sti l l is) availab].e to the public onsub'scription. Apart from this' the Commission differs frou theBilderberg Group in that qrtrereas the latter is bilateraf ie ismade up of Americans and Europeans' the Trilateralists includeJapanese polit icians, industrialists and intellectuals. Needlessto salr Hr Heath is a long standing Trilateralist. Those s*roattend Bilderberg and Trilateral meetings do so as privateindividuals. The Commission's declb.red intentions are to seek".....to promote atIrcrng Japanese' l lest Euro;reans and North

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Americans the habit of sprking together on problems of mutualcooG€r-rlr to seek to obtaln a shared understanding of thesecomplex problems. . . . . "-

This alt sounds very gra.nd and mral r but wtrat does itreally uean? In the United States rpherer }argely dge !o theefforts of the 't ight wing" Liberty Lobbyr the TrilateralCormission and the Bilderberg Group are discussed openly; theyha.ve acquired the reputation of b-ing the shadow government ofthe 0bst. That the Coumission tras tried to pick the presidentialcandidates in both parties is a rnatter of historical record.

For Europeansr the rnachinatiorrs of the Trilateralists and othersemi-secret groups trave led to the setting uP of a Potnrstructure qrtlich is designedr not so much to prorcte proEperity Fyf ree trader but to iqrose upon ttrem a vast and largelyuna.ccountable bureaucracy of a corporate socialist nature trrhichryill run the "free narkett' as a cartel in the interests of porrrEFlprofits and greed.

EUROPE

OUTDATED SO!'EREIGNTY

(&Et !ft- Heath really rearrs rlhen he sa5rs the concept of our (andeveryone else's soiereignity) is outdated is that qt shouldsurrLnder it to the pupfets-of the po$er brokers in Brussels.The result of this ,r/i11- be tha.t f acLless burea.ucrats thousandsof uiles aruay will rnake decisiorrs rrtrich affect our livest andthere q/i l l be nothing qte can do about it. So' if in theinterests of trade' iqlroved efficiency or rphatever pretext theydecide they rpant a, ioad built through the green belt inKentr to place a quota on sheep in hlales or levy an ertra tax oncertain gooasr ert-t/ i l l have no choice but to shrug our shouldersand timidly acquiesce.

Mr Heath'd obvious atrn<r)rance at Hrs Thatcher is not ba'sed onenvy or personal disLike s6 much oi on her refusal to toe thelina !,/ith the supercapitalists and her refusal to barter arrray ournational sovereignity- and self -determina.tion for sod wishy-washy

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notion of European unity.

DICTATORSHIP

Those qilro look on the Thatcher governmnt as a. virtualdictatorship catl at }east take some codort from the fact thatthere is sti l l a degree of accountabil ity in our imperfectderccracy, In spite of her stated preference for the rope, thePrire Hinister has been ;rcrnrless to bring ba.ck capitalpun1shment. The governrsnt does not i.nvariably get its orrn wayreither in the Upper House or in the Cormrmnst and t,F's of allpa.rties ale receptive to lobbying and pressure at the grass rootslevel'. If the Tories ha.ve done their best to strangle localgovernrent, the correct course of action is for the people tocampaign to reinstate itr not to take anay the potrcr- frbn ourmasters at 9bstminster and hand it over to an even rcre remteentity over strom rrrc have no control at all.

Britain has nothine to eain from surrenderinq anv oart ofher National Sovereigntf. If }t- Heath truly believeS otherr,risehe need only look at Southern Africar Central Americar KorearAfghanistan or a dozen other places. People there are preparedto die for it. l.lrs Thatcher is prepa.red to fight for ouis, andrrre should be toor even if r like lf Heathr rre rrould rattrer seesoneone else mve into Number 1O.

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OI T OF THE FRYING PAN

Recent events in Eastern Europe, the spontaneousl bloodlessrevolution and subseguent l iberation of Polandr Czechoslovakiaand East Germany from comrnunist repression is arrre-inspiri.ng, evenrnore so rrrtren oire realises ttlat nohe of ttris qpuld have h5ppenedbut for one mn. {,rXrile l.tikhail Gorba.chev is unquestionably thegreatest thing since sliced breadr and the ctranges he trasbrought about are to be qrelcom."dr there is a cloud to-this silverlining. On November lOthr LBC Radio (London) intervierped tslogentlenEn frorn the City of London rpho rpere at tha.t very Elornent enroute to Poland to help the fledgeling democracy set up a stockexglrange. The infiltration of the "Ioony left" into our torrrnha.ll-s sra-s ba.d enogghr but is ttre invasion of the Kremlin by theThatcherites likely to be any better?

Before the conrades burn their lFqt copies of Das Kapitalgnd tegr up ttreir Corumr.rnist l{anifestos they \,rould be rpell advisedto take an untrlinkered look at olrr great capitalist derccracy.Sorp of ttrem night consider a. tenttr of the spikforce idler valtnumbers' on slave labour YTS and "eryIo5rnent training" sctremes,industrial unrestr AIDSr crackr rising criro and peofle sleepingin cardboard borres on ttre Souttr Bank tolr high a price- to pa.y

- foF

the right to vote in free and fai-r elections.Capitalism has i.ts success storiesr but the increased

polarisati_on o! the haves and the tra.ve-nots in our society is theother side of the coin. The peoples of the Enqtern Bloc ha.veseen the errors of their qrays; ret us hope they learn from ratherthan repeat our mistakes.

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,a . compre te ry f i c t i t i ous a r t i c l e i s t o l a l l yinexcusatr le- Just -hbw prevalent th is sor t of th ing i= . . - , r io u.d i f f icu l t i f not impossib le to ascer ta in, but iome of- tn"react ions I have Fxper ienced f rom di f ferent quar ters Lead me tobel ieve i t is aI I but universal .

- On - approaching one editor with an interviep of a rpell knownecorogist I r,ras toli l to print _yh.t he said, but if he didn't sayi t ' not to ' rake- i t up. The edi tor of a f inani ia l .o . t t t r iv- {o ia r .the onrv p?per he has +ly- t lFe for is The sport i irplv u6ciuie itl?-F:1".?1ll-g9g"pted- that_this paper nake:;- no _pret6n6e at beingelther truthfur or objective. -

- l6ny peopre I have approached td

intervierr have lceen extremely waiy^ or' demanded tb see- thef in ished ar t ic le before i t eoes- to pr6ss.

- sportsmen- and olhgr pgopre ih ttre pubric eye are not theonl-y _gngs !q b. alruqsd by the- roediai thbre are iar more serious?nd disturbing cases on botn national and internationar rever.une rrcnders hoqr nany_wars- have been started or unnecessariryprolongedr - how .rnpny iiots have been incited, now many--ruiaersperpetratedr and how mr.rch unnecessary bitterness and hitreA- sor^rnFS!*SI the peoples o-f the qnrrd jlrst- because someuooy

--itreortt.r.

thought misquoting-a_ber-l icose polit ician qpurd moke Eood copy.Mlt-slrcrtsman friend nay rre,l sue the maga-ine qtrlch f ini: if ea

nrm. lr ne doest r rrave no doubt that he wilr win his case. Mostpeople though- are unable to seek redress throueh rilieationDecause ot the enorEous costs involved in bringing a

-ribelaction. [*nt then is the alternative, 1e ge-p1ii; a; tne presscouncil? This is l i tt le nore than a sick joke;'the press

-colncit

has no meaningful porrers._Personally I-rrpuld never sue anyone or any orqanisation for

Irbelr slander or defrtortionr no nratter horrr biatait, but I dobelieve that alyong- r*iro _-feers he or she has ueen

-wiriurri

misrepresented . by the nedia should have an automatic riefit o'rfepry. A r+rt standing trial for a rcst heinous crime on tfie mostcla-unrng evidence is entitled to have his case heard withoutprejudrce. Should ordinary people receive less justice than anaccused murderer?

There i-s arso the guestion of policing the media. Neitherl!g*plg:= nor, broadcast iedia ever _ni:- any {uarrs;br;i .ttiSrcinc3ny.Ehllg lhey perceive as 6rn injustice,

-from alleeed poricE

Prutality to-apartheid to Tiananmen Squarer and often i ightiv =o.Yet \rrtren r-t cotnes to their oqm excesses, they are Straigerys i l e n t .

0le are ruled by polit icians, but there are others wtro exertenormous influence over our l ivesr rlon€ Inore so than the FourthEstate. Polit icians have porv€r, but they ario

- -have

5esponsib i l l ty : _ ,The media, par t icu lar ly the p iess, has thetormer rrrithout the latter. Any attempts-to contatn or curtairtheir porder Q.irtg.- _forth crieS of outrage and accusations ofcensorship and totalitarianism, but the dentral issue i- Ji.,rays

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avoided- I f the press, rr la.nt porrrerl thelr must exercise i t respon-s ib ly . I f a po l i ceman behaves imoroper - ly to r r la rds a rember o f

- the

pub l ig t -he can be d isc ip t ined, even to the ex ten t o f p rosecut ionor d ismissa l . In p rac t ice th is does ha .ppen: po l i cenen ared isc ip l inedr sacked, even gao led fo r abus ing- the i r bo t "=r .- In a t ru ly f ree soc ie ty there is no reason fo i the press tofg- -gfty l-ess accountable than the pol ice. Porper without-respon-s ib i l i t y i s no t f reedomi i t i s ty ranny .

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