Paul Malpas

Scenes played out on the television screens yesterday in Greece made me think of that day in July 1789 when the sans culottes stormed the Bastille in Paris and put in motion the violence that led to 10 years of the French Revolution, where most of the second estate (the nobility or those that were exempt from tax) fled the country or if dilatory, were executed.  This revolution took France a long time to recover from and get back on its fiscal feet, but it certainly turned their medieval form of government around and also that of most other developed countries round the world.  In fact it put the shit up the British Government so much that it was many years before they recovered their savoir faire. They thought the revolution would come to England and it certainly made for improvement in political thinking in the land of John Bull.

The very same conditions that festered the French revolution into being are occurring in Ireland and England at the moment.  Years of fiscal mismanagement have taken their toll.  The First Estate (The Clergy) have been running rampant for years and the Second Estate (The Nobility now in the form of bankers, politicians and lawyers) have all  deliberately and cynically conned us, the Third Estate, for long enough.  They need all clearing out, and it is up to us the sans culottes, the disenchanted, the deceived, call us what you like, to start a revolution.

In Ireland where the First Estate has virtually vanished up its own arsehole and where despite the recent blip in the polls, the Fianna Fail government, who are  part of the Second Estate is still reaching out its scrawny arm to every town in Ireland and telling the people what they can and cannot do and appointing ill-qualified  officers of government to all aspects of life, even as far down as managers of Social Welfare Offices.  These officers do not need to be qualified for the job in hand, they just need to preach the Fianna Fail gospel and the grateful masses attending will then praise the lord or whatever Cowan calls himself these days.  The other parties have no chance whilst this subterfuge or legerdemain continues.

In England, the First Estate is a docile little kitten with no voice, the Second Estate consisting of paedophilic politicians, grafting bankers, self appointed lords and a legal system containing members of the first three categories, allows blackmail and corruption to run rife and in fact, if you are not being blackmailed by some other obnoxious offender you will get nowhere. The Third Estate is just right for revolution.  Life is has become one big conspiracy theory and conspiracy is slowly becoming the truth.  The case of Hollie Greig is one such point.  Hollie, a Downs Syndrome girl cannot get justice for her abuse because her paedophilic ring of abusers in Aberdeen pull strings in Edinburgh and in London.  But the day has come the revolution has arrived, the truth will out and let us defrock this corrupt Second Estate of ours.

It is no use having the revolution in Greece, Portugal or Spain, they are not big enough to influence the world, although I can see the possibility of having something like a World Cup Draw for disillusioned revolutionary peoples. No, those countries are not powerful enough, let us have it in a country with a strong establishment, an establishment that has got too big for its boots.  Let us start the revolution in England and its half brother Ireland.

We have been told recovery due to fiscal mismanagement is going to take years, the French Revolution with all its violence took 10 years, my non-violent revolution based on civil disobedience will or might take longer but we will vanquish the bastards of the Second Estate.  We  will write another Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen and this time make it work.  The Philosophes will be vindicated.

As Richard Price, a Dissenter, said in his keynote speech to the Society for the Commemoration of the Revolution of Great Britain in 1789:-

Tremble all ye oppressors of the world!  Take warning all ye supporters of slavish governments……Call no more reformation; innovation.  You cannot hold the world in darkness.  Struggle no longer against increasing light and liberality.  Restore to mankind their rights; and consent to the correction of abuses, before they and you are destroyed together.

The forces of oppression,  tyranny and misery need to be overcome.

Vive Liberte, Egalite et Fraternite.