Palm Sunday At The English Cotswolds.

By Uncle Monty.
***
From what I could see, the estimated 230,000
racing punters had already left town the day before
at the close of the National Hunt Event at historic
Cheltenham Spa. Yet you’d think they were still all

there with the heavy patrols of motorized and foot

police in their hideous and blinding yellow neon jackets,

large riot-designed white police vans, and their black

billyclubs all at the every ready as I explored for the

first the Regency period town of Cheltenham at the

heart of the English Cotswolds on the eve

of Palm Sunday.

***

***

So as we strolled along The Promenade of the
once 18th century small English market town,
Elizabeth Middleton and I happened upon the
the delightfully worked cast iron characters, shown
above with me, which were six to seven times taller

than the many little kidz that ran upto them and

then stared in pure wonder at the strange figures

and then to “chat” with them, too. Invariably,

always be on the lookout for unusual things when

you travel, and at no matter where you go, for nice

surprises like the cast iron characters tend to add

treats to one’s open-ended travels and one’s always

curious mind and eyes. Enjoy then being surprised by

those unexpected surprises and lovely moments.

***

***

The English have historically and passionately been

into making and publicly displaying stone and brass

statues of various heads of British Royalty over

many years and especially those statues and monu-

ments to and of Queen Victoria that have been widely

scattered arcoss the country at her Imperial Reign and

after her 1901 death. So when I happened upon the

1914 stone statue of George V, I was at first abit

surprised to see him instead of Victroia in all her

usual statue form. It was also the first time that I’d

seen such a statue of him being surprisingly depicted

with a WWI orphan girl and him all grim faced and

dressed in either rolled-up trousers or three quarter

short military khakis at Cheltenham’s Off Rotunda.

Since the early 20th century the statue has stood

there undisturbed, I guess. I decided to also add

my own colour to the sky to enchance the poignant

imagery of the photograph I took of the 15ft. high

statue of George and the war orphan.

(What is odd, too, is that ER is inscribed on the

base of the George V statue instead of his GR.)
**

***

Elizabeth and I also attended the English Concertina
Orchestra’s Saturday evening performance of Vivaldi’s
Introduction and Gloria in D Major and Handel’s
“Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened” under the wings

of the Cheltenham Choral Society, which is celebrating

70 years this year of making classical music since 1938.
Bravo … The steady conductor was Ian Higginson
along with his Soprano Vicki Beauregard and Tenor
George Howarth of whom we both liked. As we also

did with Alto Jennifer Taylor and Bass John Collins.

George Ewart was the good leader of the orchestra.
***
While right here at Cheltenham is the 1874 birth home

of British composer Gustav Theodore Holst at Clarence

Road. I went to his home just before the mentioned

evening concert, but was too late to visit inside the

home-cum-Holst Museum since it was closed by the

time I could get there. He died, incidentally, in the

same year of 1934 has did the two other quint-

essential English composers Sir Edward Elgar and

Frederick Delius. For Holst, his musical fame

rests primarily on his repertory works of

The Hymn of Jesus and The Planets. So came

Jupiter, Mars, and the other planets of Holst's

musical mastery and “We Laid Upon The Altar

The Dearest And The Best …” was also the

classic form of the English Hymn of “I Vow To

Thee, My Country” and that was adapted from

Holst’s celestial composition of The Planets.
***
A couple of other things that stuck me about
Cheltenham Spa was the 1821-built Christadelphian
Hall and the undated old Masonic Lodge and the red
pillar boxes still in use with the emblem VR on them

from the 60+ year reign of Queen Victoria,
who has now been dead over a century.
***
The Christadelphians themselves formed in the

US of A at the time of just before the rise of the

American Civil War at the early 1860’s. A Londoner,

called John Thomas, organised the religious sect there

that was based on the simple apostolic faith of 1st

Century Christianity. They believe, too, that political

events of the day are seen as fulfilments of biblical

prophecies. Socially, they shun others and reject

organizational membership in civil and political

groups. To them, Heaven and Hell doesn’t exist,
states Pears Reference on Ideas and Beliefs.
***
Standing forlorn and empty is the old Masonic

Lodge on Cheltenham’s Portland Street. With

Masonic craft symbols on the outside of what

looks like a mid-19th century structure to me,

the only sign of life were the two locked blue-

painted doors and black iron railing at the front

of the building that stands at three stories high.

Clearly, the building showed a strong and active

Masonic Order at Cheltenham of bygone years.

Masonic membership has been in sharp decline

in England and elsewhere for quite some years

now. And so in order to bring in some new, and

much needed younger blood, the secretive
Masons have recently endeavoured to recruit

students at college and university campuses across

the country. So then they still have a large and un-

used Masonic Lodge to fill-up with some new and

young recruits at least here at the old spa.

***

While outside at the town’s Starbucks, large knots

of all-white youthz had gathered at about 5:00pm
to simply shoot the breeze. They were a motley
group of male and female godless goths, myrmidon

mohawks, punky punkz, and egotistical exhibitionists

of perhaps aged 14 to their early 20’s. They crowded

the sidewalk so that nobody else could move or pass

by them very easily. At a short distance away, I also

noticed a large dark mustard coloured police van full

of Cheltenham’s finest sitting inside their van with
the engine still running to presumably pounce on

the youthz with their black bullyclubs, if need be.

While another police van proclaimed “You Are Caught

On Camera” as its mobile CCTV unit drove by the

knotz of modern day English youthz who are a very

far cry from what I remember when I was a youth

of five decades ago. Whatever, I almost wanted to
wave at the police unit to get myself on its mobile
CCTV … simply for the heck of it …
***
Then nearby Gloucester beckoned Elizabeth and
I today to The Anglican Service of Palm Sunday at

the imposing presence of its renowned Cathedral

that is presented here with the above caption photo-
graph that I shot while we were there to go worship

and to sing His praise. Thus, the start of Holy Week is

now upon us with Eastertide just only days away …
Truly, Uncle Monty.
+Palm Sunday, 2oo8.

Ken's Black Jasper Is Now A Huge Black Question Mark.

By Uncle Monty
***
He could almost now be called a sex fiend with having
nine kidz of his own and his exposed salacious and
obscene e-mails to black women he fancies sex with
outside of his own marriage. Black Jasper has been a
close buddy of London Mayor Kenneth Livingstone,
whose mouthy personality and political garbage I
utterly loathe along with the public ilk of his clone
Anthony Blair. Due to what he claims are “racist
attacks” against him by The Evening Standard,
and other news media, Black Jasper suddenly

resigned the other day as the chief race advisor

to the mouthy mayor.
***
Good riddance to him and hopefully Black Jasper
will be jailed if found wanting. Pity he’s not deport-

able as a mixed-race citizen that would allow the

mayor to then send him weekly food parcels to starve

off future starvation of Black Jasper and his nine hungry

kidz at wherever he was then deported to. Whatever,

Black Jasper sounds to me like a real son of bitch no

matter how he is packaged by his fan the red mayor.
***
He, Black Jasper, really stands out when it comes

to jasper that usually comes only in colours of red

for Ken, yellow for fever, and brown for excretion

or BS. Take your pick and figure out which colour or

colours best describes Black Jasper’s skillful manipu-

lation of funnelling over £3.5 million of public money

to his various black pet projects and his compatriot

black buddies. I understand that little of the huge

money is now accountable since much of the book-
keeping either never existed or was so slap-happy
in whatever accounting took place it is now hard to
know where the money trail finally ended after

so many calculated twists and turns.
***
What we do know is that Black Jasper was very

happy with his political prowess and racial vicegrip

over Mayor Ken, who is running for re-election this

May 1st, 2oo8. If he is re-elected, Ken Livingstone will

become even redder and blacker and more arrogant

than he already is. The only way to save London from

him and Black Jasper is NOT to vote for him ever again.
Never, ever again … I never did vote for him and
I never will come hell or high water.
***
Ken’s Black Jasper has now brought a huge black

question mark over both of them and much of it is of

their own making I’d say. Yet, the same blithering

mayor then stated he’d happily re-hire him again to

presumably grab more free money from the mayor’s

public trough that Black Jasper could command, it

seems, at whim or just at the drop of an English penny

at City Hall on almost any day of the week. Or just by

a mere phone call or text or a Black Jasper e-mail.

E-mails for black sex and hot free public money

appear to go hand in hand very nicely for him.

He won’t get much of that in the future, if he is

finally banged-up in some jailhouse or shipped off
to a removal centre if deportable and at where he
should belong if they get the black goods on him …

***

Ah, and guess what? Black Jasper is listed as one of

100 Great Black Britons. Is that a sickie joke? Blimey,

it should be. He is also a member of the Black Jewish

Forum and is currently the Deputy Representative of

the UK on the European Council’s National Anti-Racist

Network. What’s the big deal there for

Black Jasper, I wonder?
***
He needs to be removed from any public or private

positions forthwith if he is found to be criminally

culpable at any stage of the present criminal investigation

against him. No doubt Black Jasper will soon pull the Race
Card again against the cops that are now investigating him

for any criminal offenses that they may find against him,

just like he has already done against the news media

for exposing his City Hall wheelings and dealings.

***
What they, the copz, need to do before anything else

is to also legally freeze his financial assets to ensure

such doesn’t “disappear” like all the other hundreds

of thousands of pounds that seems to have gone on

his various empty pet projects and for his happy

black spongy spongers.
***
Ah yes, Black Jasper is also the police adviser to

the Met on black race matters. Can the cops then be

free of such a conflict that he represents when trying to

impartially investigate criminal matters against him? I’m

not sure if they can or will knowing how the British police

have become so politicised under New Labour and under

Sir Ian Blair the present Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
I’ll withhold my judgement and opinion on that until I see

if Black Jasper is finally brought to justice or is

exonerated under the legal process.
***
Will Ken Livingstone be re-elected again to run London

into the ground? You bet, if he and his political cronies

can portray his mayoral opponent Boris Johnson as a

cad, as a bore, as a toff, as a bigot, and/or as a rant. It

is upto Boris himself to show us, and clearly pinpoint

to us, that KL and Black Jasper are no longer fit or

worthy for City Hall and that the future of London in

the hands of such local government shysters is a no-no.

Remember when you vote, that Ken’s Black Jasper Is

Now A Huge Black Question Mark. If you vote for Ken

Livingstone, you also vote for Black Jasper. Goodbye

and good riddance to them both. You nasty little

babes ain’t going to get my vote that’s for sure

come May or whatever may.
***
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of any kind. Anybody who says I am a political mouth-

piece for some political party or group or candidate is

not only a bare face liar but is also talking out of the

top of his/her stupid head.
What I write is of my own verse above and beyond
anything else. I am always happy to hear from others
who may or may not agree with my considered opinions.
Please feel free to offer your open comments or disagree-

ments that I will also freely post unless you otherwise

request I not do so. E-mail me at thebiggerissue@k.st
at your own free will. Kudos … UM. ]

***
In today’s Britain “Political Correctness Has Become a

Tool of Repression.” It stands against all the norms of free
and differing expression in a society that always claims to be
open and democratic. That fact of the matter is that Britain
is now less free and democratic in its constant need to bully,
to criminalise and to brainwash those of us who disagree with

the strains of multiculturalism, the rise of interracial marriages,
the foreignization of the country, mass immigration of useless

Third Worlders and world immigrants, the illegal military invol-

vement of Britain in America's Iraq and Afghanistan bloody

mess, and New Labour's refusal to let the British people vote,

up or down, on our unvoted membership in the European

Union. All of the above needs to be STOPPED – period.

That’s what I say …

***

:: N E W S U P D A T E ::

Black Jasper has now been arrested less than 36 hours after

my piece on him first appear here at thebiggerissue.org. Two

other suspects were also arrested and "held over alleged fraud

involving cash given to The Green Badge Taxi School," reports

the freesheet METRO. In the meanwhile, Mayor Ken Livingstone

then had the gall to declared there was a moral vacuum in

which parents were failing to teach their kidz right and wrong.

Perhaps he should send his newly arrested aide Black Jasper

on compulsory visits to local parents and school students to

instruct them on how to determine the right and wrong way

to instill public trust and integrity at City Hall ... That's

where the moral vacuum seems to also lay quite

evidently for some.

***

If Red Ken can call the American Ambassador Robert

Tuttle " a little chiselling crook" for his refusal, rightly so I

think, not to pay almost £2 million in congestion charges

and penalties against US Embassy staff, then perhaps the

mayor really needs to apply that more correctly to his ar-

rested political buddy and aide Black Jasper. Ambassador

Tuttle is no more a crook or a chisller than I am a black

pot-bellied pig. But, maybe Black Jasper is ...

European Union Homeless Dying on London Streets.

:: By Alistair Murray ::

***

Homeless people from EU (are) dying in London. The recent cold

weather has taken a heavy toll on London's homeless and destitute

people from the EU. There have been several deaths as a result of the

denial of help from statutory services. This week's Pavement carried

a short piece about a young Polish man called Krzystof Marszalek who

died of a drug overdose in a toilet cubicle at Victoria. The day before he

had visited the A&E dept. at St. Thomas' Hospital. He joins the growing

list of those who have died on the streets or in church yards denied

help from homelessness agencies because they are not entitled to

benefits. This is an intolerable state of affairs. Why cannot people

who are clearly homeless and vulnerable receive the help they so

desperately need, regardless of their nationality?

***
The main source of help for people in this situation is volunteers

in churches and church linked drop-ins, shelters and soup runs

which do not have to exclude poor, homeless and hungry people

just because they do not receive state benefits.

***
The partnership between Barka and the Broadway Day Centre

in Shepherds Bush is another practical solution, working with the

visionary support of LB Hammersmith and the Polish Senate. An

example of a positive alternative to living (and dying) on the streets

of London. I understand that the funding for their vital work is un-

likely to continue unless other London local authorities and partners

can be found. Can you lobby your local council and MP to create

more solutions like this in your area? Related info:

NCVO workshop on the impact of EU migration on voluntary services

***

[Disclaimer: The opinion(s) herein by the above named author(s) is their's alone

and is not necessarily the reflection and/or the opinion of thebiggerissue.org]

***

HOMELESS STEVE REPLIES ...

> hi alaistar..and if you are homeless,like myself with a partner,

you,ve got no chance,of getting into a shelter together,because

its for single homeless,and all they will do..outreach workers..is

to split up..to get into a hostel..we live in the 21st century.and

its about time the vouluntary sector got to grips with this..

instead of turning a blind eye,for the sake of money, we are

human beings not commoddities..regards; Homeless on the

streets of London, with a partner who has a health problem,

and not happy about it.. steve <

***

Further comments and insight from Steve:

Alastair, it would appear that a lot shelters,daycentres,

have a strong church based background,example the

Passage in Victoira,support workers are based there,as

well other workers to help you,WHY!! does this stop the

moment you say that you have a partner,sorry we can,t,

wont help,we can if you leave,or split up from your partner..

is this the way forward for anyone,does this mean the

church based orrganisation does not belive in marriage,

so if this is the case its better to live in sin..also what

happened to family christian/catholic values

regards steve..

***

[Perhaps, Steve you would like to write a full piece

for the biggerissue.org on the issues you raise re-

garding the homeless with married partners and

what you've personally experienced yourself?

If so, please simply post your article to

thebiggerissue@k.st.]

Why 12 Year-Old Ladz Leave The Church.

By Uncle Monty
***

All too many 12 year-old British, American, and

European ladz today have been plucked from their

magical years of childhood to face the new realities of

being forced to grow-up faster than ever in the modern,

the materialistic, the selfish, the secular, and the global

world in which they and us now live. Many parents

say that childhood is now over by age 11,

reports ICM research.
***
No wonder then so many Digital Age children show no em-
pathy toward others or care not two hoots about anything
except for themselves. The loss of childhood is the loss of
boyhood for such ladz that can also bring about a false
configuration and a skewed sense of manliness and man-
hood. True too, they are oftentimes sad clones of their
own "misdimensional" and dysfunctional parents or
guardians. They are a societal product, for good or

bad, of the present society in which they are reared

and nurtured beyond their domestic situation and local
pathology. The lack of communication skills, low edu-
cational goals, anti-social behaviour, fragmented
relationships, negative attitude, and refusal to abide
by collective rules, are evident and widespread among
many of the so-called "tweenagers" of ages 10 to 13.
Such helps to explains why many 12 year-old ladz
decide to leave the church no matter what
their folkz do or say.
***

Many of today’s children - who are little more than
grotesque, miniature adults in some cases - are all alive
and well on the surface, but beneath that they are so
spiritually, so emotionally, and so psychically empty and
dead. Like many of their unchurched parents, such ladz
also soon learn to reject the church and all thingz remotely
religious. While those other parents who are somewhat or
fully churched, have a dickens of a time each Sunday to
entice their 12 year-olds or older ladz to go to church with
them. It's not koooooooooooool to be seen in church or to
be seen as "good." That's not "bad" and being bad means
being good in the slang of today's mindless youths ... Dare

I also say that I think their insatiable appetite for online

and video games and consoles are like hallucogenic drugs

to many teenages that controls and shapes their warped

view of life that is surely in direct conflict with the panoply

and life of the church. Yes, I hear derision loud and clear

to that view of mine. But that's what I think is an unsaid

and unrecognised factor in why some youngsters are

so alienated against religion and the clergy, too.

***

So when The Church Times (7 Mar. ’08. No. 7564) carried a
two and half page spread entitled “The lost boys: the Church’s
great teenage exodus,” by Rebecca Paveley, I was immed-
iately interested to read and absorb what she had written
on the subject.

***

Rebecca Paveley doing her artwork ....

So herein, I present some of the highlights

of Rebecca's piece:
1st: Ladz (and girlz) become bored with Church.

2nd: "Role models and good Christian friendship

are critical to keeping young" ladz and girlz

"involved and interested in church."

3rd: Loss of older teenagers to the church

has a knock-on effect on the younger ones.

4th: Keeping ladz thru sport can be a real

"ice-breaker," but not a cure all for keeping

them actively involved in church.
5th: Ironically, because sporting events are

played more and more on Sunday mornings

such has also impacted on ladz attending

those events instead of church.

And, 6th: Without further shifts in the style

and substance of ministry to teenagers,

the exodus of ladz of all ages from the

church will continue.

***
My own opinion of why alot of ladz don't even

attend church, let alone make an exit if they do so

as they get older from the church, is based on all

the modern thingz that attract ladz or tweenagers or

older teenagers from church attendance. It's because

England itself has become more and more a "pleasure-

oriented society" over the past two or three decades that

now sees folkz spending so much money on all thingz

that give them material and personal satisfaction and

comfort no matter how ephemeral and expensive such

pleasures may turn out to be. Thus their own world of

property buying, owning the latest model cars, buying

digital gadgets galore, seeking far flung travel adventure,

soaking up constant shopping sprees, holding easy

credit, and living beyond their means, all rub off on

those young ladz and girlz to figure how they, too, can

get hold of such pleasures. They pray, like so many

adults, for thingz, but not for their salvation or forgive-

ness of sins. The every day influences of avarice and

over-indulgence is endemic among the exploding populace

of the UK, Europe and the US of A. We are no longer

citizens per se, but rather we've become consumers only.

We live to eat and eat to live. And that's the passageway

of why so many 12 year-old ladz leave the church among

other reasons why. One can hardly blame them with

such glaring examples shoved down their throats

and paraded before their young eyes at every new

morning of their formative lives ...

***

But then there are other extraordinary 12 year-old

ladz that do service for the church and are not the

ladz (or girlz) who are leaving the church has stated in

Rebecca Paveley's "The lost boys: the Church's great

teenage exodus." You’ve seen their angelic faces at

Westminster Abbey. You’ve heard their heavenly

voices singing at Mattins and Evening Song. You’ve

watched them at procession in their bright crimson

gowns and their pure white Anglican Choir collars

and surplices. And, you’ve admired their presence

at church. These, then, are no ordinary ladz. They

are part of The English Church tradition that goes

back for centuries and is the bedrock of Christianity

and Churchianity in England. Such ladz are called

Choristers or choir boyz. Or in Latin: Chorista.

They gather and sing throughtout the land at

British Cathedrals, Collegiate Churches, and Chapels

Royal and not just at Christmastide or Passiontide or

Ascensiontide, but at all the religious "tides" of the

year. If they were the ladz leaving the church, then

The Church of England would be in greater fear of

collapse than I ever thought or imagined was possible.

Thank God for such ladz is all I can say. And,

God Bless their little cotton socks and their

divine harmonies of hymns and psalms.

***

While in the meantime, of the

24 million born-Anglicans in Great Britain, only

about a million attend Sunday morning service or are

active in the life of the parish to which they belong.

Now that's what I call sad and rather pathetic to say

the least. Surely we can do better than that as

Anglicans in our own country? Let's try boyz and

girlz, momz and dadz, brotherz and sisterz,

auntz and unclez, nephewz and cousinz, and

friendz and neighbourz, to uphold more of the

traditions of our local and national church to en-

sure its rightful place in our British way of life.
***

Some final thoughts on what's going on in The

Anglican Church of England from what I see

of it on a pretty regular basis. I suspect that

the 12 year-olds to which Rebecca Raveley cites

are mostly white or Anglo-Saxon boyz who are

leaving the church. With the influx of immigrants,

especially those African Anglicans, joining local

parishes in England there would seem to me to be

the emergence of immigrant youths replacing many

of the local church boyz and girlz at an ever rapid rate.

When I attended St. Matthew's, which was the last

church that Diana, Princess of Wales, opened before

her tragic death, I noticed the congregation was

growing more African by the week and less and less

white youngsters and their parents appearing at the

weekly congregation. Indeed, once parents perman-

ently leave the church then their youngsters follow

suit. I suspect, too, that one reason why white

boyz and girlz are leaving the church is because

they have become, or are becoming, outnumbered

by immigrant youths at their local parish. The

Africanization of many London Anglican parishes

is stark and overwhelming and does not sit well

with many local whites who have worshipped for

years at their once all-white church. While com-

mentators have remarked on the religious

Islamization of Europe, I have yet to read any

material on the Africanization of the Church of

England and what this means in future regarding

the church and what it may become down the road.

***

While black Anglican clergy on the ground

is pretty thin in England right now, what I sus-

pect will happen as the older local white clergy

resign or retire or die off, that new black clergy

will emerge to lead the local black flock. Certianly,

with our first black Archbishop of York now in place

since 2oo5 - he is Dr. John Sentamu, the Ugandan-

born cleric - if he should become the next 105th

Archbishop of Canterbury after Dr. Rowan

Williams ends his present archbishopric, then

as the first black Archbishop of Canterbury

he may well oversee an explosion, and greater

seminarian training, of black clergy in the future

Church of England. Some local London and Black

Country parishes of the West Midlands will soon

become, if they're not already, majority black

parishes in any event. What the youngsters will

do at such black parishes will remain to be seen,

but they'll probably be more loyal to their parent's

wishes to stay with them in church as opposed to

many of the white British boyz and girlz who want

to flee in order to enjoy their freedom not to

attend church for whatever their reasons. So

herein lies perhaps some of the answers why 12

year-old (white) ladz (and girlz) leave the church.

It isn't a pretty picture when you think about it.

+Eve of Passion Sunday, 2oo8.

***

And, This Just In ... From New York

Ecumenical News International (ENI) reports:

Blair accepts Yale position to teach on faith, globalisation.

Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has accepted

a one-year position at Yale University in which he will

participate in a course examining issues related to religious

faith and globalisation. He will serve as the Howland

Distinguished Fellow during the 2008-09 academic

year, the university announced on 7 March. Blair will

work with the faculties of the Yale Divinity School

and the Yale School of Management.

March 10th, 2oo8.

That Beautiful Summer's Day At Royal Ascot.

:: By Uncle Monty ::

***
Rarely does she consent to being photographed.

So when I casually handed my instamatic camera to

Contessa Maria's chauffeur to take a momento of us

at Royal Ascot on 2oo6 Ladies' Day, I was quite
surprised she silently consented without first
kicking-up a big fuss about being photographed
against her wishes. She seemed so pleased to be
photographed with me in all her frilly pink

raffinement and her open glad face.

***
The above photograph was the excellent result
and to which Maria granted me permission to post
as long as her features were partially blocked out
to avoid instant recognition by those who may seek
to kidnap her for ransom or to rob her because of

who she is. So she stated to me. Hence, the black

stripe across her aristocratic eyes was imperative

to ease her mind. But with a dowry of $18 million

to her name, she may need to fret over such things

that "pofolkz" like you and me needn't ever worry

about. We are, after all, oftentimes imprisoned

by what we own and by what we want to own.

***

As she later went off to chat with some of the royals,

I then had free reign to photograph all the many

beautifully-clad, and some what snooty, ladies all

milling around the enclosure like bumptious bumble

bees at the premier royal racing event of the year.

I had a field day with my cameras to say the least.

I went first for those younger ladies wearing

their delicious and expensive hats for us all to see

and to admire on Ladies' Day. And, almost

100.000 ticket-holders were there on that

beautiful summer's day at Royal Ascot.
***
At the races, politeness and snobbery go to-
gether. But when I saw a rather course woman

with her unironed frock pulled up high above her

porkchop thighs having a go at urinating on the race

track, due presumably to her inability or ill-manners

to control the call of mother nature, I was disgusted

at such an antithesis to the royal image that is so por-

trayed of Royal Ascot. The lower the class, the cruder

the behaviour. Yet set against such a background,

I also saw and mingled with those rather Eton toffs

and "horsey folks" from the countryside that would

rather be seen prancing dead at the royal enclosure

than at an Anglican parson's burial service ...
***
So without any further ado from me,

here then are just a tiny few of the 100

or so images I took at Royal Ascot:
***

1. Classic ladies of Ladies' Day.
2. It's the hat, my dear, not you.
3. All tuckered out was she on the green grass.
4. Look at the expressions on their faces ...
5. Wide-angle view of the Silver Enclosure.
6. Simply gorgeous isn't she, guyz?

7. He'd be ideal as a royal butler.

***

As for Contessa Maria, I am still

rather concerned about her health

after that nasty fall she had in New

York over the 2oo7 Christmas season.

She's had an hip replacement with all

the pain that goes with such a fixture

and despite such a successful operation.

She's now back in Italy for the time be-

ing. She'll not, however, accompany me

this time to Cuba's Old Havana at the end

of the month. It was her birthday gift

to me that she then paid for my whole

Cubana trip without even a blink of an

eye. Thankz so much, Maria ... I pray

you'll get completely better day by day.
+Blessed John Ogilvie, 2oo8.

Such Stems From The Culture of Abandonment.

Above: Haut de la Garenne Children's Home. Below:

One of the good Cocker Spaniels sniffing out the long, dark

secrets of abuse and horror against Jersey children.

:: By Uncle Monty ::

When mere children are systematically housed

in underground torture chambers or "punishment

rooms" for the ghastly gratification and sexual

maladies of perverted hetrosexual and/or homo-

sexual adult authority figures or so-called "carers"

over such hapless youngsters, then such stems from

the culture of abandonment that permits the vile horror

of Haut de la Garenne Children's Home to thrive un-

checked and undetected against state committed

children for decades at a time at the Island of Jersey.

~~~

Due to the culture of abandonment, those in

authority who happen to be emotionally and sex-

ually perverted are given illicit entree to practice

their deformed lust and orgasms on children who

are oftentimes unloved and unwanted by their own

parents and families, if such first existed for them,

and by society at large. Once a child is

thrown to such predatory wolves in the name of

state care, then he or she is easily sentenced to a

kind of "soul murder" which was seemingly

practised day in and day out at the Jersey children's

home by the very "protectors" that did not protect

them, of course, but rather terrorized them at every

step in the secretive and macabre dungeons of official

child care. Thus from "protectors" some of them then

changed their moral colour and code to that of be-

coming sick predators and vicious perpetrators of

the defenceless and confined children in their care.

~~~

Whenever the culture of abandonment has taken

root, there is always the ever present danger

of exploitation and abuse of those subjected to

such abandonment. We see such in nursing homes,

in paramilitary groups, in closed prisons, in outlandish

religious sects, in youth boot camps, in childrens homes,

in psychiatric wards, in military brigs, and in other "total

institutions" that the American sociologist David

J. Rothman critiqued in the early 1970's and how

techniques of "behaviour modification" are applicable

to all total institutions. Certainly, Haut de la Garenne

Children's Home was a classic total institution that

practiced "behaviour modification" to its extremes

by physical, sexual, and mental abuse and tyranny

against vulnerable children placed in care of such

evil practices.

~~~

About 40 suspects and 160 victims have thus far

been identified surrounding the ever growing abuse

and sex scandal of Haut de la Garenne. I suspect

we shall hear stories of suicides from some of the

suspects once they are exposed and charged

with alleged betrayal of trust and care of those

children that they improperly handled against the

norms of decency and well-being. The tragedy

is the damage already done to so many victimized

Jersey children who can never be compensated by

the same system that allowed them to be committed

in the first place with no oversight or accountability

from those in charge of them. Who guards the

guards? It seemed that those who guarded the

guards were also willing to turn a blind eye or

were themselves participant abusers. Those

outside - such as the local police and church -

also turned a deliberate deaf ear to those who

attempted to report such demonic goings on at

Haut de la Garenne. The culture of abandonment

robs the voice, too, of those who are abandoned.

Thus, they were ignored when they came

forward as abandoned people who had no

voice of credibility to those set in authority

to uphold the law and to protect the weak

of the Jersey society.

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~~~

I may just decide to go to Jersey myself to talk

with folkz there about the unfolding horrors

that may also have existed, so I understand, at

other children's homes and care institutions

besides the one called Haut de la Garenne. With

its Nazi past, I wouldn't be surprised now of other

dirty secrets and revelations that may tumble out

for us all to discover at the Island of Jersey.

~~~

In any event, what the story here tells us is that we

must abandon the culture of abandonment if we are

to protect and preserve the young and elderly from

those who, of whatever persuasion or perversion,

seek to excerise their own brand of abuse and

violence and stranglehold over them.

+St. Zacharias, 2oo8.

Anglican View on Contentious Religious Matters.

:: By Elle Moore ::

I appreciate that Americans are obsessed with the "American Secularism",

so what I am about to write here may be surprising to you Americans.

Although Britain is a very open and tolerant country, regarding religion,

we are still basically a Christian country and proud to be so identified.

Although religion does not play a direct part in the Governance of the

country, all our state ceremonies, rituals, crowning, conventions of Head

of State and the Church relationships, we are an anglican country,

a Christian nation, and proud of it. With that introduction, I would

like to give you Americans an insight into the role of the Church

in British Politics, which is not imminent in America as you are a

Secular Nation. As you know, the Islamization of European nations is

of great and serious concern for some (most) of us and it is express-

ed well in reading this article about the Bishop of Rochester, an

Anglican Bishop but of Pakistani origins. (Interesting origins, and

because of it he sees more clearly the true problems and unclothes

the dressings of political politeness and calls a spade a spade.)

I would like to highlight the Bishop of Rochester's bold stance

on his Anglican Beliefs:
The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, who received death threats

for airing his views on Islamic issues, has vowed that he will

continue to speak out. His claim that Islamic extremism has

turned some parts of Britain into "no-go" areas for non-Muslims

led to fierce rows between political and religious leaders over the

impact of multiculturalism on this country. Threats were made

warning that he would not "live long" and would be "sorted out"

if he continued to criticise Islam. "If you disagree, that must be

met by counter-arguments, not by trying to silence people. It

was a threat not just to me, but to my family. I took it seriously,

so did the police. It gave me sleepless nights." However, it's

not the first time that his life has been endangered.
Shortly after being made a bishop in Pakistan - at 35 he was

the youngest in the Anglican Church - he was forced to flee to

Britain to seek refuge from Muslims who wanted to kill him.
He says that he never expected to suffer the same treatment in

Britain and expresses concerns over recent social developments.

"The real danger to Britain today is the spiritual and moral

vacuum that has occurred for the last 40 or 50 years. When

you have such a vacuum something will fill it. "If people are

not given a fresh way of understanding what it means to be a

Christian and what it means to be a Christian-based society

then something else may well take the place of all that we're

used to and that could be Islam." A highly-respected acad-

emic, he studied at Cambridge and Oxford - he speaks calmly

and with a measured deliberation. While the archbishop

received widespread support from within the Church,

Dr Nazir-Ali found himself isolated from his colleagues.

"I don't court popularity. If I say something it's because I

think it's important enough to say it. What I said was based

on evidence, and that has been strengthened as a result

of overwhelming correspondence." He wishes the Church

would be more vocal on issues of multiculturalism and

sharia law, but refuses to criticise his colleagues, although it

is clear he is baffled by their silence. "I can't guess why they

haven't talked on the issue. I'm not responsible for other

people's consciences." Is it due to cowardice?

"You'd have to ask them."
Finally I add: In quotes - "We all know that in virtually every

big city there are places where different kinds of people feel

uncomfortable. The Bishop of Rochester was right to raise this.

" Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights

Commission "I don't believe in multiculturalism. When people

come to this country they have to obey the laws of the land."

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the head of the (Roman)

Catholic Church in England and Wales "There's a place for finding

what would be a constructive accommodation with some aspects

of Muslim law." Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury
"In the name of multiculturalism, we have created

monocultural ghettoes." Ed Husain, author of The Islamist and

a former activist in the extremist Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir
[The above summary is to highlight how one Bishop is able

to express the anxieties of all Britons on issues that

have been swept under the carpet for Political Correctness.

It is time the Church of England spoke out for the Anglicans

of this country as well as for all loyal citizens of Britain.]

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The lead caption photo of The Cross, I took inside

St. Andrew's Anglican Church at London's High

Holborn. And while there, I also encountered the

three bishops shown here from left to right:

His Excellency, Most Rev'd Bernard

Longley, Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of

Westminster; His Grace, Right Rev'd

Christopher Chessun, Anglican Bishop of

Woolwich, and His Eminence, Bishop Basil

of the Russian Orthodox Church.

It was a golden opportunity for me to photo-

graph the three bishops of three faiths together

and to meet once again Bishops Longley and

Chessun from other personal encounteres with

them elsewhere. And to also meet for the first

time Bishop Basil, who is one of many other

Orthodox Patriarchs and Archbishops that

I have encountered and photographed in

different parts of the world over the past

30 years ... We were all at St. Andrew's for

the Centenary Celebrations of Christian

Unity Week (CCCUW).

Faithfully, Uncle Monty. +St. Chad, 2oo8.

Leaving Homeless In Unfit Housing Is Unlawful.

:: Court of Appeal ::
Published February 27, 2oo8. Regina

(Aweys and Others) v Birmingham City Council.
Before Lord Justice Ward, Lady Justice Arden,

and Lady Justice Smith
Judgment February 7, 2oo8.
<>
A housing authority acted unlawfully
when persons unintentionally homeless
and in priority need, but unsuitably
accommodated rather than on the
streets, were left in the same accommo-
dation pending permanent re-housing.
<>
The Court of Appeal so stated when dis-
missing the appeal by Birmingham City
Council from declarations by Mr. Justice
Collins, ([2007] EWHC 52 (Adim)) that:
(i) the housing authority was in breach
of its duty to secure suitable accommo-
dation for claimants, Abdishakur Aweys,
Abdiladif Mohammed Ali, Amina Abdulle,
Muhidin Adam, Nimo Sharif, and Helena
Omar, and (ii) its allocations policy
was unlawful.

<>
Mr. Jan Luba, QC and Mr. Zia Nabi
for the claimants; Mr. Ashley Under-
Wood, QC and Ms. Catherine Rowlands
for the council.
<>
LORD JUSTICE WARD said that the
housing authority decided to leave
at home those who might be called
"homeless at home," not the "street
homeless," until something better
turned up, and its allocations
policy gave preference to the street
homeless. The appeal concerned the
main duty to homeless people with
priority need, eligible for assist-
ance, and who were not homeless
intentionally, governed by section
193 of the Housing Act 1996.
Where the claimants' families were
found homeless because they lived
in overcrowded accommodation was
suitable for their occupation.
Asking whether that duty, under
section 193(2), was discharged by
leaving a homeless family in its
current premises which would not
be reasonable for it to occupy,
the answer was "No." The words
in section 193(3) replicated the
words in section 175(1) and
"accommodation available for
occupation" had to bear the same
meaning in both sections.
Thus if the premises were not
"accommodation" for section 175(3)
purposes, in determining whether
the claimants were homeless, they
could not be "accommodation" for
section 193(2) purposes for discharg-

ing the obligation there imposed.
The housing authority was there-
fore in breach of its main duty if it

did no more than leave a homeless
family at home.

<>
Turning to the allocations scheme:
those homeless at home ought to have
been placed in temporary accommodation,
just as the street homeless had been;
and there was no justification for
having the homeless in different

bands, as had been the case.
<>
Lady Justice Arden gave a judgment
concurring in the result and Lady
Justice Smith agreed with both.
Solicitors: Community Law Partnership.
Birmingham; Mr. Mirza Ahmad, Birmingham.

<>
Source: The Times. Feb. 27th, 2oo8.
Law Report. Register p. 67.
Your's, Uncle Monty.
+Mothering Sunday, 2oo8.

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