25-11-2009, 07:02 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:One probably needs to take care with the Monckton family who have been historically associated with the British Establishment, the Conservative Party, and the Her Majesty's Secret Service for generations. The family is also intimately associated with SMOM, also for generations.
This is not to say that his statements are untrue but that they need to be sifted with caution.
I'd remove the "probably" and say that Monckton is a far right ideologue.
He was a key advisor, along with Keith Joseph, to Margaret Thatcher when she engaged in her Shock Therapy of the UK from 1979 and in the early 80s.
Also, as David writes above, Monckton is a member of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, an Officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Very SMOMy and not to be taken at face value about anything.
Everything he says needs to be unpicked to reveal his true ideological agenda.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war