Chapter 38 in the serialisation of the book 'Insurrection' 4th book in the 'Corpalism' series

38

Israel may have the right to put others on trial,
but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
Ariel Sharon


"Did you have to call them Jews?" asked Barry, staring at the sacks of what must all be hate mail given the dozens of letters he'd opened already. And people say no-one writes letters any more, yet that was nothing to the e-mails to the website, and the twitter feeds.

The Preacher sipped his tea, irritatingly relaxed, "I wasn't picking on Jews per se, I was trying to discredit Milton Friedman and Keith Joseph, mainly Milton Friedman. Besides I did commend Jesus, and he was a Jew, surely there was nothing wrong with that."

"You called him a communist," said Barry.

"I called him a socialist, there's a difference." He took another sip of tea, "Anyway, I don't get the whole 'be nice to the Jews' thing. They're not the only people who suffered during the war."

"You definitely can't say that," stated Barry.

"Fine," said the Preacher, sighing, "that wasn't my point anyway; it's that Milton Friedman and Sir Keith Joseph destroyed our economy."

"I get that," said Barry, "but couldn't you have steered clear of mentioning they were Jewish?"

"Hardly, Friedman makes a big deal of it, it's the key note of his whole philosophy."

Barry tried again, "Couldn't you have mentioned his politics without saying he was Jewish?"

"It's not me, Friedman states clearly that his economic principles were based completely on his religion. He says he based his neo liberal economic policy on Judaism."

"That's as maybe, but you know you can't mention the Jews," said Barry, "if only because of the gas chambers, and all the centuries of persecution."

"I think you'll find it was the Russians and the Europeans who were responsible for the pogroms so why the British have to tip toe round them is beyond me," said the Preacher, adding, "anyway I didn't mention gas chambers."

"I should think not," said Barry, horrified, "some things are sacred."

"Nothing is sacred," said the Preacher.

"Well the bloody gas chambers are."

"I'm not a holocaust denier, you know," said the Preacher.

"Of course not, what is it you call yourselves, oh yes, revisionists."

"I'm not even one of those," said the Preacher.

"Really?" said Barry. He was disappointed; he liked labels even though he knew the Preacher really didn't fit anywhere. "What are you then?"

"Confused," said the Preacher, "and curious."

"About what?" asked Barry regretting the question the moment the words left his mouth.

"Don't we always say that the Germans are the most logical people on Earth?"

"Well yes," said Barry, "and it made logical sense to them to kill the Jews so they did it."

"So you believe in the holocaust then?" He had that look on his face, kindly yet probing.

Barry didn't like these conversations, didn't understand them, didn't know where they were supposed to lead. He replied, stoutly, "Of course I do, in company with most sane people."

The Preacher smiled, "And you believe that a few driven individuals committed themselves to murdering the entire Jewish race for ideological reasons."

"Of course," said Barry, resisting a strong and childish urge to say, duh.

"And that they were supported in their mission by individuals willing to do anything to get on within the structure of society?"

"I suppose so," said Barry.

"And you also believe that the rest of Europe turned a blind eye to the whole event?"

Barry gave him an annoyed look, he liked the Preacher but not when he was in lecture mode.

"There were three reasons why events took place as they did," said the Preacher, "One, there is no such thing as multiculturalism, two, the effects of the 'me first' principle and three, inherent unwillingness to disrupt the status quo."

Barry sniffed but said nothing.

"So, let's dig a bit deeper...multiculturalism. People resent those who are different, Hitler knew this. It is why he was able to mobilise the vast resources of the German state to the systematic and sustained persecution of the Jews with the sole intention of driving them out of Germany."

Barry said nothing; he'd heard some of this before.

"Secondly, me first," said the Preacher, "in every society there are those who will do anything to get on, call them 'yes' men, call them brown noses, call them what you want, these people are driven by the desire to get ahead of their neighbours." He paused, Barry waited, "Which brings us to Milton Friedman and Sir Keith Joseph."

"How does it?" asked Barry.

"That was their rallying cry, their modus operandi, in all their actions they encouraged survival of the greediest or the most willing to do his neighbour down."

"You can't say that," said Barry.

"The vast majority of people are not motivated by greed or the desire to improve their standing above that of their friends, but Milton Friedman extolled this as a Jewish virtue, though we shouldn't confuse this with the view point of the Israelis or socialist minded Jews."

"You can't say that either," said Barry.

"Our industrialists and political leaders call the majority of people lazy or loafers and spend all of their time trying to motivate us with dire warnings about GDP, but most people are happy and just want to have a good time and do enough to get by, which is of course our third reason. Most people are too lazy to argue the toss when it comes to persecution if it means they have to get off their backsides and do something about it, which is why they generally go along with persecutions until they become too uncomfortable."

Barry frowned.

"Today our leaders tell us that the unemployed are lazy shiftless scroungers who are sponging off the workers' taxes, they tell us that these same people are living the life of Riley whilst the rest of us scrimp and save and try to make our way."

"I see where you're going with this," said Barry.

"Good," said the Preacher, "we already have our yes men and women who are more than willing to impose morally wrong legislation, rules of employment..."

"And everyone else," said Barry, "will just sit back and let it happen because they can't be arsed to get involved."

"Exactly," said the Preacher.

Cheers

Arun








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