(0600) Coffee and muffin. (0726)

 

6. The temptation would be too much for me

5. Well of course

The problem with this “breaking the law thing” is … does one make a distinction between inadvertently doing it (e.g. through ignorance of the law, the prime defence of the invader) and deliberately doing it … or is that not the only criterion? Maybe another criterion is the extent to which there is a victim or not.

Example … in Russia, my international driving licence, backed by my home one allowed me to drive on this town’s roads. Now, there was a notorious corner near the opera house where the road veered left, the side of the road packed with parked vehicles (it was an office block area of town).

The road was shaped and narrowed in such a way that every single vehicle heading into town had to pull out to avoid the parked cars BUT that took us into the tram lane and at one crucial spot the wheel’s of any normal car had to cross the double line for seconds.

Now, as everyone charged said … what the hell were there double lines where no vehicle whatever could get through? Why were cars allowed to park just there? Not our problem said the traffic police. Thus, if that month, they were short of their quota of fines … well, you know where this is going.

Now, one picks up points for every violation, and after a certain number, it’s an interview in police HQ. In practice, plod were not interest in the minnows … they were after the bigger fry … I was never acosted there but was at another time, another place.

The judgment was given against the native as it happened and an officer took me over to the screen to see my history for further action … I had zero points. Whaa? He looked at me and said goodbye.

The Soviet days had put vastly more new “crimes” on the books than even Gordon Brown over here and by definition … by obeying one dept’s law, you were transgressing another’s. Everyone knew it from childhood, everyone knew it was the whim of the authorities, had you not geen a good boy or girl.

The second solver of the conundrum was a word known as roubles or rubles … lots of them.

4. Criminal insanity ruling govts west-wide

3. Illinois

Sometimes it’s not necessary to deep dive into a US state … just note the sort of things happening, the various reactions … Western Lensman:

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a. Yesterday I asked, “What is it with Rennes and Nantes?”. Here we go again ! The investigating chamber of the Rennes Court of Appeal has refused to release a 44-year-old man from Nantes accused of “aggravated rape” on partners forced to take drugs during their sexual relations.

(JH: As every reader who is up to speed on such matters knows full well, there is no way I can mention the name in Britain. The “incarcerable stricture” applies equally to admin and readers but also extends back to platform provider … thus I must modify the name where it appears … sorry, DAD.)

b. Two French Maires in Trouble … for having “deliberately” refused to remove a Christmas crib installed in its town hall … “I’m angry, astounded by what’s happening to me. I hope to deal with sensible magistrates,” (Maire Ménard) added.

c. …fraudulent network in the ambulance and medical transport sector, with undeclared work and fraud against health insurance and Urssaf.

d. 45-year-old bank branch manager was arrested on January 29 at her home in the western Paris region. In total, twenty-three men and women, aged 37 to 59, were taken into custody in this case. And the amount of money concealed through a myriad of “taxi companies” is estimated at twenty million euros.

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Four: USAID Accused of Funneling $260 Million to Organizations Linked to George Soros’s Open Society Foundations … $100 BILLION in Medicare and Medicaid Waste … AfD’s Petr Bystron Demands Investigation into USAID in EU … more vital items…..

Three: Comprehensive Audit of Pentagon … Slash Tax Breaks for Billionaire Sports Owners … “Individuals and Networks Stealing Government Property” … much more…..

Two: Uke sit-rep … [The] Ukraine wants Orban removed … Kellogg … more…..

One: NHS, emergency services and public health have always known … many other stories in the op ed style…..