Jonesy, simply a human

I am not Jewish I admit, I am not Christian or Muslim or Hindu. I identify with no religion. I am a socialist and a human being. I do not know the religious belief or heritage of any of my friends or comrades unless they choose to tell me. I have been an anti fascist and anti racist my entire life and my views and actions were and are informed by many historical atrocities, but by far the horror those of the Jewish faith and culture, that had to endure the horrors of National Socialist Europe.
I have been a Labour supporter and member since being 13 in 1980. I had various reasons for joining Labour including wanting a fairer Britain and world but also because the Party stands against discrimination.
In my time supporting Labour I have listened to members telling racist jokes, which I absolutely challenged, hold racist or fascist views that again I challenge, some focusing upon colour, gender, sexuality, race, belief and ability, and yes some of that has been focused upon Jews, but also on Muslim’s, Indians, Africans, Germans, French, Sikhs, Catholics, Disabled, Irish, Italian, Welsh, Scottish, and even just folk that are poor. None of this is acceptable in any way. Humour is not an excuse for discrimination, especially when we as a party have and continue to strive towards a hate free society of fairness and equality.
Equally I cannot stand by and watch idly any country or state oppress, murder, maim, injure and discriminate against others because of expansionism and imperialist land grabbing. I will not let any country or state do this for racist, fascist, or even historical feuding reasons and stand silent for the fear of myself being branded fascist or racist due to the main culture and religion of that state previously being subjected to and being made to endure horrors themselves. The saying ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ is so true.
Using the plight of their forebears to defend their own martial and horrific actions is not acceptable or moral. A valid criticism of Israel is not antisemitic nor anti Jewish. It is not racist nor fascist, it is standing up against genocide, murder and occupation. If and when any country invades, attacks, shoots, bombs and kills human beings because they want their land, disagree with their culture and/or faith, for profiteering, mineral deposits, strategic position, or any other reason bar humanitarian (and then only if backed by the majority of the global international community for moral and ethical reasoning), I will stand against them. I will voice my views, and if I am threatened and called for doing so then so be it.
I will not ever remain silent against wrong doing and persecution. I am not racist. I am not antisemitic. I do not see the Jewish faith and its followers as my foes. I am a human being and treat other humans with compassion and respect until they prove themselves undeserving.
I will always fight oppression, whoever the oppressors may be. Being previously persecuted is no excuse to persecute others.
If a member of Labour or indeed any British citizen attacks you, calls you or insults you because of race or religion, or indeed for any form of discrimination, report it to the Party and Police. I and many others would always support this response. If I see it of you or anyone it is how I would respond. No one should feel oppressed for any reason. This is why I am fighting and striving for a better world.
I am a human. I am humane. I am socialist. I am Labour.
Jonesy Jones

For sale
The Royal Hospital Chesterfield. £1. Then all us patients will pay you for treatment. You only need to employ staff on zero hour contracts and minimum wage. When you have earned enough then we will buy it back from you for a few billion then we can sell it back to you for another quid. See a no brainer. #privatisation really works for the rich and corrupt.
#saveourNHS

Every bomb we drop, every missile we supply, every bullet we sell not only damn us but gives birth to new foes. And for why do we do it? Humanity? Defence? Morality? Because its right? No we supply, train, arm and attack for greed, power and corruption. Its that simple. We are murderers by association, collusion and beneficiary. Can you live with that?
Every man, woman and child, maimed, wounded or killed by our arms, our finance or our political masters leaves blood on our hands. They are our responsibility. We all try to live as ‘good people’ but ignorance will never cleanse us from this.
Sadly though we seem ineffectual at stopping our government and their masters from killing our own friends, families and selves so what hope do we have in stopping our association and collusion with genocide abroad!
Jonesy Jones

I would just like to point out to any Labour MP considering leaving the Party Whip on the A-S bandwagon, following in the malicious path of Frank Fields, a Labour MP who in my opinion is only such in name only given his propensity for voting with the Conservatives, you need to not only consider your political future, the needs of your constituents and your duty towards them, but also how history will remember you.
You shall be forever infamous, you will share a reputation of a betrayer, sabotaging the party and I am sure our country and our children. You will be seen to have sacrificed morality and ethics, and for why? The continuation of corruptive practices in politics? For an extended ride on the gravy train that provides expenses and perks beyond what should be deemed reasonable? For the promise of blood money from the Establishment and foreign state’s governments/powers?
You certainly will not be remembered fondly for your role in perpetuating the cruelty, corruption, oppression and murder that the British Capitalist State is focusing upon its own people, your constituents. You will be vilified for your support of a rogue state that hides behind the genocide inflicted upon people of its main religion by National Socialist (NAZI fascist state not a socialist state) Germany in the 1930’s and 40’s in order to now commit its own crimes against humanity focused upon the Palestinian Peoples.
You will be ever known as career politicians that hid within a party that was born to stand for the rights of the people, yet you used deceit and subterfuge to assist others to erode and steal those rights.
Yes you will be remembered, but remembered in the same way Quisling was, with morality of Vichy.
Is that why you got into politics, to sabotage the ethos of fairness and equality, to support a corrupt and wicked regime, to destroy a party that stand for what is right?
Ask yourselves was a Judas purse worth the cost to our society?

Jonesy Jones

If you are in a union, do you know how they originated, with blood, hardship and lives given, taken and lost? Do you realise that they were the foundation of the Labour Party and that their struggle and yes war to bring you rights that many feel able to allow the government to strip from us was the birth of socialism?

Think about it!
Jonesy Jones

First of all, I do not know the religious persuasion of my friends, unless they decide to tell me. It is not important to me in choosing my friends. I can not identify the religion of people in public unless they choose to wear identifiable religious dress such as dog collar, burka, turban, kippah, habit, kasaya, or any other that denotes their faith.
When I meet someone for the first time or at any time I do not ask their beliefs, unless it is part of a wider conversation, and am not offended by their following any faith or indeed no faith.
I do not want a genealogical history of anyone, and do not judge based on skin colour, features, ability, diet, culture or dress.
To me and to be honest the majority of people I associate with, a person is a person. Any decisions I make in regard to them are through their personality, social presentation, and my interaction with them. If we get on then we can call each other friend, if we don’t then we may be acquaintance, and rarely if their is reason then maybe even foe, but that truly is rare. There are folk I like and have common interest or values, their are those I like though we share little mutual commonality.
This is how I live my life. I actively challenge all discrimination, I hope I always have and know I always will.
I am a member of the Labour Party for the Party, its leader and the vast majority of the membership seem to me to share my morality and views.
I will not claim to have never met a racist party member, but I could count on one hand those I have come across in 35yrs, and can categorically state I have not met face to face any that have voiced antisemitic views.
I have seen odd comments on facebook that I can see come across as antisemitic, but these are not stand alone comments, are always linked to the horrors of Palestine and if they cross the line of criticising the perpetrators of terror, torture, oppression and genocide of the Palestinian people, I absolutely challenge them and if appropriate I would report to the appropriate authorities and Labour Party.
Often peoples lack of language skills, or inability to recognise the difference between governments, groups and individuals, and the actions of each, may lead to misinformed comment or statement.
People in all walks of life share memes or quotes sometimes with no true understanding of the source or meaning. Yes this needs picking up on.
I however state unequivocally that my understanding is that yes there may be racist members of the Labour Party, but given his past life record Jeremy Corbyn is not one of these. That he has proved time and time again to stand against oppression and hate, and in many ways share my morality, ethics and views. That he challenges racism and I include antisemitism in that definition.
I am concerned that there are people within religious groups of most faiths that are scared of a possible world leader that cannot be bought, that values honest, fairness and peace. That will take on corporations and even the establishment to provide a fairer society that benefits the majority rather than an elitist wealthy minority.
I believe these people will use whatever immoral lies, spin, fabricated allegations and propaganda to discredit him and those who stand with him.
I believe there are a number of foreign governments that are using underhand tactics to prevent his being elected, and yes members of his own party, in particular the right wing of the Labour Party that are sabotaging his leadership from within.
These unprincipled people are being supported by a press and media owned by those who are frightened by his strength and purpose, and who are desperate to depose him.
I am not alone in my views, the Labour Party now boasts 800,000 full members. Associated membership through union membership increases the figures further.
We on the whole I believe are members because we believe in socialism, in fairness, equality and yes stand against all forms of discrimination.
So when you read a slur story, or hear a defamatory comment please look who is making it, think of what they may lose if we have a country that uphold socialist values, or what they may gain by attacking Jeremy Corbyn or the members of the Labour Party.
It really is all I can ask of you, but then hopefully you will see past the bile and realise those currently pulling the strings of our lives are vile venom filled greedy corrupt haters that will do anything to protect their own power and wealth at our cost.
Thank you for reading this, please feel free to share in any medium, but keep my name upon it.
Another human.
Jonesy

I know that words are mightier than the sword but to trawl through years of speeches in an attempt to find a single misuse of one to defend the perpetrators of genocide, murder and war is going a tad far. Bullets shot into innocent Palestinians, bombs dropped on Yemeni children, strafing civilians in Syria are far worse crimes, and ones our so called leaders are all too complicit in.
We have no free press, just the paid puppets of corporations, rogue states and our own lovely Establishment.
So when you get angry about the way someone is criticising ‘Zionists’ or has allegedly ‘made’ someone feel ‘unwelcome’ think about those poor folk killed, maimed and living in fear each day at the bidding of those paying to feed you their propaganda.
Jonesy

By the way this is not spam or hate. This is free speech.

Speech is never free. There is always a cost. We may offend, or water down our views so as not to offend. We may lie or wave our moral and ethical belief. We are often censored and even silenced. We can be victimised or ostracised. All we can truly do is keep saying it as it is and hope someone hears, reads and takes note.
Hiding the truth never succeeds in anything but enraging the masses once outed.
In the old days so to speak we used soap boxes, chairs and steps to raise us to speak. At the moment its face book and twitter but if need be I am sure I can find another box, and then I can only be silenced by force.
My words can be written, spoken sang or screamed.
Facebook’s colluding with the establishment and right wing will only hinder, never stop us, and ultimately will be its own end.
We are strong, we speak the truth, we demand freedom and equality.
Jonesy Jones

How cool would it be to look at the world and only see the world we want.
The only criminals being on impoverished estates designed to keep them from us. All theft carried out by drug addicts looking for their next score.
Police there to protect us and tell us the time if our mobile runs out of batteries.
The government making life better for us.
The army there to defend our great nation.
The news giving us daily truth.
Education there to give us knowledge.
A job for all that want one and only the lazy are unemployed.
Middle class is better than working class. But upper class are there to rule us as is ‘gods will’.
The poor disabled have lots of money and all use wheel chairs.
If you are ill the hospitals make you better no matter what, but only ‘real English’ should use them.
The rich have money because they worked hard. We all can be rich if we work hard too. Or win the lottery.
Being a celebrity makes you important. Seeing one is exciting.
Only the lazy are fat.
Scruffy people are thieves or layabouts.
Being gay is a sin.
White people deserve a better standard of life than anyone else.
All black people are in gangs.
All bikers are in gangs.
Teenagers on the streets need curfews.
Kids should not be allowed to play out as they are just a nuisance.
Unions are only there to disrupt the country.
Socialism is communism and evil.
Money is what life is about.
A good person has better stuff.
Homeless people are all druggies and need to be arrested.
Politics is boring and I don’t do it. Just vote conservative as they know whats best.
All Muslims are terrorists.
Immigrants come and take our jobs and benefits.
The poor are only poor because they choose to be or cannot be bothered to budget.
Free Sally Webster

The list goes on. Its ridiculous is it not. Surely no one sees like like that? Sadly though too many do. Thats what we are fighting. Its not voter apathy, its folk that really have no idea how the world works and frankly do not care.
If you are reading this you probably are not one of them, but we all know of them, often even live with them.
These are the people we would need to wake up to make a difference.
Every one of these people need a good shake, but how do we achieve that?
You tell me.
Jonesy