British Parliamentary-Police-Press Complex Splutters

Britain, Crime, English, Journalism, Law, Media, The State, The Zeitgeist

In the US we have a military-media-industrial-congressional-complex. These branches share a symbiotic relationship. For example, when the top brass in government or in the military want to launch a war on another people (Iraq, for example), or on their own (The Transportation and Security Administration), they entrust the ratings-craving (and craven) television networks to do their bidding.

In the UK they have a similar set-up, call it, for our purposes, the parliamentary-police-press complex. As in the US, its mission is to keep the populace preoccupied with puerile nonsense. The already pathetic British press, it turns out, was going above the call of duty in emulating the government: News of the World, a News Corp, Rupert Murdoch British tabloid, has been hacking the phones and voicemail of interested parties.

Not unlike the government that is currently quizzing it.

Today, Rebekah Brooks of the tumbleweed hair apologized for the editorial direction she took.

It has to be clear that this is a dance of statists.

On The Bill Meyer Show

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I’ll be on The Bill Meyer Show, AM-1440 KMED, Tuesday, July 19, at 8:00AM until 9:00AM.

Bill, an extraordinary broadcaster and thinker, will be covering Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa in detail for the next few weeks, every Tuesday, I believe. We begin with chapter one: “Crime, The Beloved Country.”

The Mercer Media page will keep you abreast of interviews related to Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa. You can listen to the first interview covering Into the Cannibal’s on the Political Cesspool.

Lovely Lack of Legislative Accomplishment

Elections, Federalism, Law, Regulation, Republicans, Ron Paul

Lack of legislative accomplishment, according to former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, makes his fellow GOP 2012 candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann “unfit to be President.”

On NBC’s Meet the Press today, Pawlenty went after Bachmann, who holds significant leads in the polls, saying “Her record of accomplishment in Congress is nonexistent — it’s nonexistent.”

Pawlenty should look for another angle to bolster his lackluster presidential campaign. Unless they are passing legislation to repeal other legislation, the less legislating the clowns in Congress do, the better—for every one of us. An example of a good legislative record is that of “Dr. No,” aka Ron Paul.

Naturally, it’s hard to find information about how voluminous the United States Code is, but it’s safe to presume that it has its own dedicated building.

UPDATE II: Great Conversation About ‘Into the Cannibal’s Pot’

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I had a wonderful time talking about my new book, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa,” with two interesting men, James Edwards and Bill Rolen of The Political Cesspool, a nationally syndicated Radio Show, today, Saturday, July 16, at 5:00PM Pacific.

I got quite passionate, but then you can do that when you feel you’re among individuals who value open debate and happen to be marvelously intelligent gentlemen too. If the men were hostile to an individualist’s perspective, as some have suggested here, they did not let on. Both Bill and James addressed the arguments advanced in my book. That’s the sum-total of a good interviewer.

I hope you search for the podcast on Political Cesspool Radio Program.

UPDATE I: James has just emailed the URL for the show’s podcasts, mine being the one on the 16th.

UPDATE II (July 17): Since I gave the exact time, date and day of this conversation, in this post, it should not be too hard for any individual to figure out when during the program I appeared. There is a limit as to how much info feeding I can do.