Chapter 52 in the serialisation of the book 'Insurrection' 4th book in the 'Corpalism' series

52

All national institutions of churches,
whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish,
appear to me no other than human inventions,
set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit
Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809

The day dawned bright; Barry was in position early, this time a few rows back from the front.
Crapper started quickly, taking a new tack, "Mr. Balderstone, please confirm to the court that you have spoken about Islam and Judaism; presenting these in a negative and derogatory light?"

"I have presented all religions in a negative and derogatory light, and will continue to do so. This is the 21st century, believing in supreme beings is as infantile as believing in Father Christmas."

"Please restrict yourself to a simple yes or no, have you spoken out against Islam and Judaism?"

"I have spoken out against all redundant god syndrome belief systems."

"Please answer the question," said Crapper, "with specific regard to Islam and Judaism."

The Preacher looked towards Burke who was diligently reading his notes. Surely, 'asked and answered applied here'? No help was forthcoming from that quarter, so he raised his hands in despair and answered, "No."

"We heard from Mark Nibblett earlier that you openly accuse the Jews of murdering Christ, a well known anti-Semitic strategy. You attack multiculturalism and ethnic minorities and the number of mosques, it's all here, irrefutably, so the answer has to be yes."

"Well yes," said the Preacher, "clearly the Jews did kill Christ and......"

"And in these meetings," said Crapper, relentlessly, "did you not regularly launch a monologue against the economic leaders and financiers of this great nation with the sole intent of causing dissatisfaction and general insurrection aimed primarily at the ethnic minorities in the business world and at our own aristocracy?"

"I said that the rich entrepreneurs and the aristocracy in this country have sold out the masses in return for rich pickings earned through slave labour in the third world....."

"Yes or no please, Mr Balderstone," demanded Crapper.

"And that they have allowed cheap labour in from Eastern Europe with the sole aim of forcing down the price of labour here in the UK, yes I said all that."

"Yes, is all we're looking for here," said the judge irritably. "Strike all the defendant's preceding comments from the record, let it be shown only that he responded in the affirmative."

"Mr. Balderstone," pressed Crapper, "did you not attack the right of ethnic minorities to be in this fair land, and link their being here to some vile plot by our own economic leaders?"

The Preacher glanced again at Burke, then at the junior counsel, Martin Dix, not even a glimmer of interest.

So that was to be the way of it then; if he was to have no defence then he would go on the attack, "Yes. I did and I'd do it again."

Barry closed his eyes.

Crapper raised his hands in victory, "You admit then that you preached racial hatred?"

"Revolution," corrected the Preacher, "I wanted to inspire revolution."

"With the intention of causing physical harm?" pressed Crapper, "Even death?"

"Our society is rotten. We've been corrupted by greed. We buy dirt cheap products knowing that the person who made them lives in economic servitude. All the while the more we buy from China and India the more we drive down our own wages and the less we can afford to live on what we earn. Then the rich can argue that they have to bring in East European workers because lazy Brits won't work for the same money. Well, why should we work for peanuts? Why should our standard of living return to the dark days of the nineteenth century just so the rich can earn more? Why, I ask you why?"

Barry groaned, finding himself in company with a few others in the gallery. Burke's mouth was opening and closing but no sound was emanating. One or two of those in the courtroom nodded in agreement.

Crapper continued, "And on another occasion you were heard to say, and I quote, 'it is our leaders who we must hold responsible and it is our leaders who we must remove forthwith'. Do you deny saying this, Mr Balderstone?"

The Preacher shrugged eloquently, his eyes full of mischief, and Crapper went on, "and on yet another occasion you were heard to extol the achievements of the Nazis."

"I have never extolled the Nazis," stated the Preacher defiantly, no longer amused.

"But here," said Crapper, waving one sheet in the air, "and here," waving another, "and here," yet another, "all of these are direct quotes where you clearly state that it was the Jewish betrayal of Germany in WWI that lead directly to the allied victory."

"Yes, that's true," said the Preacher.

Burke shook his head; how do you defend the undefendable?

"I put it to you that you are fiercely anarchic, a communist who holds anti-Semitic and racist views of the worst kind, wholly unrepentant of the harm and the misery you have caused."

The Preacher was frowning now, wanting to get this across in the right way, "I maintain that Hitler was factually correct when he said that world Jewry betrayed Germany when it threw its weight behind the allied cause in return for the British offer of Palestine. I have never said that I agreed with the way the Nazis treated the Jews in retaliation for that."

"Oh but you have," argued Crapper, almost frothing at the mouth in his outrage, "you are in fact a Holocaust denier, or at the very least, a revisionist."

"Misrepresentation. I believe that millions of Jews were killed by the Germans, however, hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed by the East Europeans. Ethnic cleansing was everywhere in the old Hapsburg Empire during WWII, it's how the countries of Eastern Europe cleared out their minorities; Serbs, Croats, Slavs, Jews, Gypsies, Romanians, you name it, they killed each other."

"Obfuscation, Mr Balderstone. I put it to you, that you condone it, it says so here, here and here." He was waving yet more sheets, his voice was pitched high, his face puce.

Concerned that the QC was in danger of losing his professional distance the Judge cleared his throat warningly.

Barry was sharply reminded of the discussion he'd had with the Preacher and how hard he'd tried to deflect him from this subject matter.

"I condone nothing," stated the Preacher, "but I do predict it is where we are headed if we do not stop the influx of foreigners into this country. I am warning of a train crash that awaits at the end of this multicultural trail our leaders have forced on us. If you knew anything of history you would know that the portrayal of Hitler as a despot who forced his will upon the German people is a deliberate lie. Hitler was elected, Hitler had a mass popular following. The German people weren't bullied into following him, they did so willingly because they felt they had been unfairly treated and were fearful of their future. Well, right now British people are feeling unfairly treated and fearful. Their standard of living is being eroded, their culture and way of life is being destroyed and whether you like it or not the people feel that they have been betrayed."

There was some applause in the courtroom, muted cheers, no-one wanted to be ejected. Barry found himself leaning forward, breath bated. The judge banged his gavel, "Silence in court."

"It is clear from your ranting, Mr Balderstone," said Crapper, "that you not only support the concept of National Socialism but that you blame the Jews for our current economic climate."

"I blame certain Jewish economists and political leaders for our current plight." He was pleased that Crapper had remarked on that; sometimes he forgot what he had talked about and what he had not. "Milton Friedman and Sir Keith Joseph," he added, helpfully.

"Two of the most respected men in the Western world and this known drug addict and frequenter of brothels blames them for our current economic plight," said Crapper, holding his arms out wide, an expression of amazement on his face. There were a few giggles, hastily suppressed. "I'm sure we all appreciate your opinion of two men who worked tirelessly for the economic benefit of all. I'm sure we value your ideas when weighed against those of these distinguished men."

"Just because the system they put in place holds them high," said the Preacher, unfazed, "doesn't mean they did no harm or that the damage they did won't have long-term devastating effects."

"From other comments you have made, I think I understand you to be saying that we will be driven into a state of chaos; inviting another Hitler and another holocaust?" said Crapper.

"I've been warning that the environment that has been created by the policies of our leaders and of the previously specified members of the Jewish intelligentsia is ripe for that outcome, yes."

"Have you been warning us, Mr Balderstone? Or have you been auditioning for the role?"

"I have no interest in politics and I am not a Hitler," said the Preacher, "I am the forewarning and if you choose to ignore me then you will reap the results."

He frowned, then added, "you could see me as John the Baptist, as one who comes before, if that helps?"

"I do not believe you've been warning us; I maintain that you see yourself as this future leader and that you intend to render a holocaust on this country far greater than anything Hitler ever achieved. It's all here, your views, expressed on numerous occasions, clearly you condone everything that Hitler and the Nazis ever did."

"No, but I understand why it happened, and I'm warning you that it will happen again."

"And you condone the Nazis and Hitler," said Crapper, "for clearly you hold similar views." He was insistent on this point, it was an integral part of the prosecution's case. "You would have us believe that multiculturalism doesn't work."

"It doesn't, it leads inevitably to ethnic cleansing. Look at your history books. Unless we examine the events that lead to the ethnic cleansing horrors of WWII we will never learn the lessons. Unfortunately we have been brainwashed into blindly accepting oft repeated wild accusations as incontrovertible facts. To the point where, if you do not condemn the Germans outright, you are accused of being anti-Semitic and a fascist."

"Mr Balderstone," the judge intervened swiftly, "please confine yourself to the matter at hand." He then addressed himself to the jury, "you will ignore the defendant's last remarks as speculation," then finally to the stenographer, "let those comments be stricken from the record."

"We're not allowed to question the accepted version of what happened to the Jews in WWII," argued the Preacher, "and when victims, such as the Palestinians, ask for our support their plight is ignored and the facts carefully hidden from the public. It seems to me that the only minority with any power in the world are the Jews; everyone else can go shove it."

The judge leaned forward, "Mr Balderstone, you will refrain from making anymore controversial statements about ethnic minorities, is that understood?"

The Preacher was silent, observing the judge with an expressionless face, then he spoke quietly, "There are hundreds of books and programmes about the holocaust but few examine the social and cultural unrest that lead up to it, especially when it comes to the German point of view. Everything is always taken from the Jewish viewpoint."

"Yet another example of the malicious ideas this man spouts," said Crapper addressing the jury, "designed to foment racial tensions and unrest amongst the populace."

"I believe we live in a morally corrupt world where we pander to the demands of the powerful and the wealthy whilst ignoring the desperate pleas of the weak and the vulnerable. I believe that the rich elite own the world and are determined to run it like a fiefdom. I believe that the Americans used white phosphorus in Fallujah, that the Israelis use it all the time in Gaza, and I want to understand why, when we condemned Saddam Hussein for gassing the Kurds, the Americans still get to deny the use of Agent Orange in Cambodia."

"Strike all of this out," ordered the judge, "and you will control yourself in my court."

"If it pleases your honour," said Crapper, "the prosecution feels the jury needs to hear these racially motivated tirades from the defendant."

"That may well be the case," said the Judge, "but I'll not have it in my courtroom, is that understood?"

Cheers for reading

Arun









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