25-02-2010, 10:06 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:....I keep hearing the name Baroness Scotland and it is never good.She is a first generation immigrant from the Dominican Republic - arrived here aged 3 according to Wikipedia.
In the claustrophobic world of the British Establishment it is often the case that, when someone who would normally be treated as very much an outsider (ie as far from the Harrow/Eaton - OxBridge mould as can be envisaged) makes it by whatever means to senior political rank, they are likely to be extreme in their protection and defence of that which provides them with their exalted position and place. They become VERY useful tools of 'The Establishment IOW - with attributes akin to 'the zeal of the convert' in religious terminology.
Baroness Scotland is something of an archetype of the genre.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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