ON PROBATION
Most of us are unsurprised
by the verdict, but remain confounded as to how.
We hoped justice
would prevail, but deep down, with meetings between Dara and Mike going on in
secret, and Transport for London
Let us not forget
that TfL and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan were forced into this situation by
the hard graft of Chris Johnson, Danny O’Regan and a few others who blew the
Bellany emails into the public domain.
Sadiq Khan does
not want to be remembered for being the man who got rid of Uber.
Never mind his
broken promises and embarrassing climb downs, or his selfie obsession. He knows
if he is seen as the man who beat Uber, the Establishment would ruin him.
TfL cannot stab
their partners-in-crime in the back. Uber know where all the bodies are buried.
Why do you think TfL
never ‘revoked’ Uber’s license?
Why do you think
TfL never questioned Uber’s modus operandi?
If there was not so
much interest in this case, TfL and Uber would have come to pre-trial agreement.
Mike Brown had
been testing the water for months.
In the end the two
partners were forced into a face off in public.
What we got was a
case which was contested about as hard as the infamous ‘Black Sox’ game.
Uber’s license
appeal case was reminiscent of the ‘Meter’ case, in which Jo Bertram perjured
herself and TfL failed to hide their disinterest.
Although Judge
Emma Arbuthnot did seem to suffer from an attention deficiency disorder at crucial moments
in the trial, I believe her decision was made easy by TfL's compliance to
Uber's suggestion of a temporary license.
We can look into
Judge Arbuthnot's husband and his links with SC Strategy Limited, who are
linked to the Qatar Investment Authority, who invested the best part of £2
billion into Uber.
But show me a Tory
who is not directly or indirectly linked to investors in Uber, and I will show
you an honest Uber executive.
Even our Prime
Minister and her unctuous predecessor have links with Uber.
Uber’s General
Manager, Tom Eldridge admitted that Uber has traded illegally since 2012.
On three previous occasions
Uber have admitted in court that their app puts the prospective passenger in
direct contact with a driver. And that the driver, not the Operator, accepts
the job.
None of Uber’s
drivers hold an Operator’s License.
This in itself
makes every job accepted by an Uber driver illegal. Two million illegal jobs a
week that should have been accepted by Taxi drivers only.
Of those two million
jobs stolen every week from Taxi drivers, none of them were insured, because of their
illegal status.
Will the insurance
industry be claiming their money back from claimants?
I doubt it. They
will just up our premiums.
Let’s finish with a quote from my ol’ mate George Carlin:
“There’s a reason education sucks, and it’s
the same reason it will never, ever, ever be fixed.
It’s never going
to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.
Because the
Owners, the Owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real
Owners now, the big Owners! The Wealthy - the real Owners! The big wealthy business
interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the
politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the
idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have Owners!
They own you!
They own
everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the
corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress,
the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and
they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the
news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls!
They spend
billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want.
Well, we know what
they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll
tell you what they don’t want:
They don’t want a
population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well
informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not
interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests.
That’s right. They
don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think
about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard
thirty fucking years ago. They don’t want that!
You know what they
want? They want obedient workers.
Obedient workers;
people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And
just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with
the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and
vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now
they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money.
They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street,
and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or
later because they own this fucking place!
It's a big club,
and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not
in the big club.
By the way, it's
the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when
they tell you what to believe.
All day long
beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to
think and what to buy.
The table has
tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to
care.
Good honest
hard-working people; white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what colour
shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people
of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a
fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a fuck about
you!
They don’t care
about you at all… at all… at all! And
nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on.
The fact that Americans will probably remain wilfully ignorant of the big red,
white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the
owners of this country know the truth.
It's called the
American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Sound familiar?
Be lucky!