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The Untaught Syllabus.
In Their Own Words – Quotes For Peace Activists:
Where The Blood Never Dries (Or Don't Trust The English In The
Dark.).

"That England that was wont to conquer others
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
(Shakespeare.)

"What land has not seen Britain's crimson flying, the meteor of
murder, but justice the plea?"
(British folk song, 1820.)

"The sun never sets on the British Empire."
(British Colonial saying.)

"The sun never sets but the blood never dries on the British Empire."
(Ernest Jones.)

"The sun never sets on the British Empire because the Lord doesn't
trust the English in the dark."
(Indian saying.)

"England has no permanent friends; she only has permanent interests."
(Lord Palmerston.)

"If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British
Red."
(Cecil Rhodes.)

"THEREFORE when I consider and weigh in my mind all these
commenwealths, which now a days any where do florish, so God help me,
I can perceive nothing but a certein conspiracy of riche men
procuringe theire owne commodities under the name and title of the
commenwealth."
(Saint Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellor of England, 1516.)

"Thousands of our fellow subjects... are at this moment existing in a
state of slavery more horrid than are the victims of that hellish
system, colonial slavery... Thousands of little children... are daily
compelled to labour from 6 o'clock in the morning to 7 o'clock in the
evening with only — British, blush while you read it — with only 30
minutes allowed for eating and recreation."
(Slavery in Yorkshire, Leeds Mercury, 1830.)

"As the lot of a slave depends upon the character of its master, so
the convict depends upon the temper and disposition of the settler to
whom he is assigned."
(House of Commons Select Committee on Transportation, 1838.)

"Imperialism is... the endeavour of the great controllers of industry
to broaden the channel for the flow of their surplus wealth by
seeking foreign markets and foreign investments to take off the goods
and capital they cannot use at home."
(English economist J.A.Hobson (1858-1940) "Imperialism.")

"Oh, where are you going to all you Big Steamers?
'We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter,
Your beef, pork and mutton, eggs, apples and cheese...
We fetch it from Melbourne, Quebec and Vancouver -
Address us at Hobart, Hong Kong and Bombay.'...
'Then what can I do for you, all you Big Steamers,
Oh, what can I do for your comfort and good?'
'Send out your big warships to watch your big waters,
That no one may stop us from bringing you food'."
(Rudyard Kipling.)

"The earth is a place on which England is found,
And you find it however you twirl the globe round;
For the spots are all red and the rest is all grey,
And that is the meaning of Empire Day."
(G.K.Chesterton.)

"Look how the whole capitalist world is stretching out long arms
towards the barbarous world and grabbing and clutching in eager
competition at countries whose inhabitants don't want them... It is
for the opening of fresh markets to take in all the fresh profit-
producing wealth which is growing greater and greater every day.. and
I say this is an irresistable instinct on the part of the
capitalists, an impulse like hunger, and I believe that it can only
be met by another hunger, the hunger for freedom and fair play for
all... Anything less than that the capitalist power will brush aside."
(William Morris, May Day, 1896.)

"I do not believe that anybody who has not seen with his own eyes,
can begin to imagine the poverty in which so many of our fellow
citizens of the Commonwealth are condemned to live."
(James Griffiths, former British Colonial Secretary, Oct 1951.)

"...90 per cent of the workforce are now dependent on the sugar
industry for their survival. But with world sugar prices at an all-
time low the industry has become devastated... The problem began 100
years ago when the British arrived… Self suffiency farming and a
thriving fishing industry were replaced with endless fields of sugar
cane, exported as a cash crop... Under British rule, food and goods
the islanders had once produced for themselves were imported at great
expense from other countries. As a result the islanders became
dependent on the success of their single crop. …the sugar workers and
their families still depend on the planters for their every need. If
the crop is poor they starve; when there is no planting or picking
there are no wages... But all that can be spared is one handful of
rice per child - about 150 calories. "They would be better off
throwing it in the sea," says a health expert. Children expend more
food energy than that just feeding themselves, he said. A healthy
child needs 1,800 calories a day to grow... More than 60 per cent of
the islanders have TB - "the disease of poverty" - and 66 per cent of
the children have malnutrition. …there is no room at the hospital and
they are turned away to die. Desperation could boil over into
revolution. "We are sitting on a social volcano which could erupt at
any time," warned the Bishop of Negros earlier this year."
(News on Sunday Sept 13 1987.)

"England has been made a pensioner of other lands for daily bread; we
can command it still, but the hour of weakness may come: then, when
we ask the nations for a loaf, they may remember that we gave them
cannon balls, and pay us back in kind."
(Chartist Ernest Jones, 1851.)

"In carrying out this work of civilisation we are fulfilling what I
believe to be our national mission, and we are finding scope for the
exercise of those faculties and qualities which have made of us a
great governing race... No doubt, in the first instance, when these
conquests have been made, there has been loss of life among the
native populations, loss of still more precious lives of those who
have been sent out to bring those countries into some kind of
disciplined order, but it must be remembered that this is the
condition of the mission we have to fulfil."
(Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, speech at a Royal Colonial
Institute dinner, March 31 1897.)

"The whole future of the stirling group and its ability to survive
depend, in my view, upon a quick and extensive development of our
African resources."
(Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, House of
Parliament, Nov 12 1947.)

"Western Europe cannot live by itself as an economic unit. Hence the
desire for wider integration with Africa and other overseas
territories."
(British Labour Prime Minister Attlee, Houses of Parliament, Jan 23
1948.)

"I was in the East End of London yesterday and attended a meeting of
the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches which were just a cry
for "bread, bread, bread", and on my way home I pondered over the
scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of
imperialism... My cherished idea is a solution for the social
problem. i.e: in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the UK
from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must aquire new lands
to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the
goods produced by them in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I
have always said, is a bread and butter problem. If you want to avoid
civil war, you must become imperialists."
(Millionaire financier Cecil Rhodes, 1895.)

"The only way to save our empires from the encroachment of the people
is to engage in war, and thus substitute national passions for social
aspirations."
(Empress Catherine of Russia, 1729-1796.)

"The principle of acquiring new territory, on which the surplus
population could be settled, has many advantages to recommend it,
especially if we take the future as well as the present into account."
(Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf.)

"This war is not a war for a throne or an altar, this is a war for
grain and bread, a war for a well-laden breakfast, dinner and supper
table... a war for raw materials, for rubber, iron and ore."
(Joseph Goebbels. Munich 1943.)

"Believe me, the loss of our domination would weigh first of all on
the working classes of this country. We should see chronic misery let
loose. England would no longer be able to feed her enormous
population."
(Joseph Chamberlain, British Colonial Secretary, 1895.)

"The day may come when public opinion will awake to the fact that our
race has been leavened with colour to such an extent that it calls
for action. Parliament may be urged to consider the desirability of
bringing into existence in this country legislation similar to that
which has been found necessary in the Union of South Africa."
(James Wilson, Chief Constable of South Wales, 1928.)

"The income which we derive each year from commissions and services
rendered to foreign countries is over £65 million. In addition, we
have a steady revenue from foreign investments of close on £300
million a year... That is the explanation of the source from which we
are able to defray social services at a level incomparably higher
than that of any European country or any country."
(Winston Churchill, Budget speech, April 15 1929.)

"Those who could not look beyond their personal interests should
remember that their employment and standard of living depended mainly
on the existence of the Empire."
(Daily Telegraph Oct 23 1943.)

"We are great friends with the jolly old Empire and we are going to
stick to it."
(Labour Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, January 1946.)

"I am not prepared to sacrifice the British Empire because I know
that if the British Empire fell... it would mean that the standard of
life of our constituents would fall considerably."
(Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, House of Commons, Feb 21
1946.)

"His Majesty's Government must maintain a continuing interest in that
area if only because our economic and financial interests in Middle
East were of vast importance to us... If these interests were lost to
us, the effect on the life of this country would be a considerable
reduction in the standard of living... British interests in the
Middle East contributed substantially not only to the interests of
the people there, but to the wage packets of the workpeople of this
country."
(Labour Foreign Secretary Bevin, House of Parliament, May 16 1947.)

"The development of primary production of all sorts in the colonial
territories and dependent areas in the Commonwealth and throughout
the world is a life and death matter for the economy of this country."
(Food Minister Mr. Strachey, House of Parliament, Jan 20 1948.)

"His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in
Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use
their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object,
it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which shall
prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish
communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed
by the Jews in any other country."
(Arthur Balfour, to Lord Rothschild, 1917. (The Balfour Declaration.))

"When Arthur Balfour launched his scheme for peopling Palestine with
Jewish immigrants, I am credibly informed that he did not know there
were Arabs in the country."
(Dean William Inge.)

"I am alarmed at the fact that with five Arab labourers, none of my
family will mow the lawn or drive a tractor, on the grounds
that `Mohammed will do it'. Our treatment of the Arabs, right down to
our personal dealings with workmen and others, sends shivers up my
spine… because it reminds me of our past."
(Israeli woman in a letter to Moshe Dayan, in a British television
documentary, July 1974.)

"They [white men BM] buried our babies with only their heads above
the ground… Then they had a test to see who could kick the babies'
heads off the furthest. One man clubbed a baby's head off from
horseback. They then spent most of the day raping the women; most of
them were tortured to death by sticking sharp things like spears up
their vaginas until they died. They tied the men's hands behind their
backs, then cut off their penis and testicles and watched them run
around screaming until they died. I lived because I was young and
pretty and one of the men kept me for himself, but I was always tied
up until I escaped into another land to the west."
(Tasmanian woman's story in Jan Roberts "Massacre to Mining: The
Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia.")

Not a single pure blooded native Tasmanian survives today. The
British wiped them out completely.

"The fact that you and your team have made it possible for Britain to
make and store atom bombs has made the country a world power once
again… American scientists who worked with you believe that a world
of wealth, luxury and leisure beyond human dreams will be possible
when atom power is properly harnessed for our welfare."
(Australian newspaper Daily Graphic open letter to Lord William
Penney, in charge of British nuclear testing in Australia, October 14
1952.)

"Extensive areas of Australia have been contaminated."
(Dr. Hedley Marston, investigating contamination from British nuclear
bomb testing in Australia.)

"During the two and a half years I was there I would have seen 400 to
500 Aborigines in contaminated areas. Occasionally we would bring
them in for decontamination. Other times we just shooed them off like
rabbits."
(Patrick Connolly, RAF officer during British nuclear bomb testing in
Australia; after which he was threatened by the British Special
Branch. )

"There was this bang, really loud… black smoke came rolling through
the trees and above the trees and passed right over us. I don't know
how many days after that, but most of the people became sick… some
people died… I got sick… I could see the tracks and could still track
animals, but it wasn't any good… I went blind then… that's a mystery
to ordinary people. I think only the government people know. They
wanted to make a weapon… they worried about some other countries; so
they come over to Australia… they just wanted to make something big
and powerful and blow somebody up."
(Yami Lester, Australian Aborigine, British television documentary,
May 21 1985.)

"At the white man's school, what are the children taught?
Are they told of the battles our people fought?
Are they told how our people died?
Are they told how our people cried?
Australia's true history is never read,
But the black man keeps it in his head."
(Australian Aborigine newspaper Bunji, 1971.)

British school and college history, economics, sociology and business
studies syllabus teaching and books do not contain any of this
information.
All the material and information I have presented here is readily
available to historians, writers, journalists, teachers, educators
and syllabus publishers. Although I have spent many hundreds of hours
gathering it all together, I did not have to look very far to find
any of it.
When as a trainee history lecturer, it was suggested I take the class
on a trip to the Tower of London and then set them an essay on what
life was like for a soldier in King Charles' Army centuries ago. Very
useful knowledge that! A sociology of the past perhaps? But certainly
not history in its most important sense; unless history is to mean
anything old or `interesting' that you can do in evening classes,
like antiques, flower arranging or basket weaving. When instead I
taught real history, learning from the past in order to change the
future, the collective life-experience of humanity, I was got rid of.
The head of the history department complained that the students had
remarked that I made them think; which the head of history had
probably never done in a lifetime of teaching. I ended up washing and
cleaning and emptying human surgical waste in a hospital.
Unless teachers learn to be brave and intellectually honest
(difficult when they have a mortgage and bills to pay), future
historical, social and economic education and popular `knowledge'
will also not refer to the US or British history and continuing
complicity in global plunder, exploitation, domination and control,
wars of aggrandisement and acquisition, causing the deaths and
devastation of the homes and lands of millions of people – the
thousands of children under the age of two who will die tonight
through simple lack of clean water, medicine and education – the
untold millions of unnecessary deaths among the overwhelming majority
of humanity on this incredibly rich and abundant and ultimately
sustainable earth.

Quotes from Brian Mitchell. Evolution. .

The Untaught Syllabus.
In Their Own Words – Quotes For Peace Activists:
Where The Blood Never Dries (Or Don't Trust The English In The
Dark.).

Comments

[shadowdance.livejournal.com]

Hi there.
Found your journal while searching for L.J communities to do with The Levellers.
Mind if i add you to my friends list thingy?

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

yeah, course, no worries ;-)

[shadowdance.livejournal.com]

Cheers :-)

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

"The sun never sets on the British Empire because the Lord doesn't
trust the English in the dark."
(Indian saying.)

*lol* Genius saying!

As a teacher of history myself, of medical history in a museum, I am interested in telling people the truth. The truth sometimes is not politically correct or pleasant to hear. But it is important. If you whitewash the truth, what really happened is obscured.

The classic example for me is animal experimentation in medical history; I am against it myself, but i also can't deny some important discoveries were made in the past through it. Doesn't mean they never could have been disovered any other way - but that sort of argument is irrelavent in a way; what happened happened. Very hard situation. not one that's easy to discuss.

History is also SO much more complicated than any school textbook would have it. It's commonly held, for example, that ether was discovered by an American dentist called Crawford Long; in fact, the infamous Paracelcus was anathesthetising chickens with it in the 16th century; why wasn't it used to anaesthetise humans earlier? Who knows! Sometimes, for a myriad of reasons, some apparent, some not, things sometimes just don't happen. ;) But the point is I need to say it was Crawford Long, and William Morton; these are the pioneers who's names children have to hear or they'll fail their GCSEs.

But consider this quote from the author;
"When instead I taught real history, learning from the past in order to change the
future, the collective life-experience of humanity, I was got rid of."

He does sound like a bit of a pompous prat, ne?!

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

He does sound like a bit of a pompous prat, ne?!

oh yes.
history is certainly an interesting thing (as my Brujah never gets tired of telling people;-)) and I guess always comes down to how we choose to perceive and construct the past rather than fundamental truths.