My beautiful Byron,

This Thursday finds me in Big Bear, a two hour drive from Laguna, enjoying some social distancing in the Mountains. I have been following your school program and reading your papers through the online learning portal. I see you scored high in History. That makes me happy. I had high hopes for seeing you enjoy the same educational opportunities as John, both from your parents and from your schools.

Sadly, Charlotte Adler, Tom Amlot and Michele O’Leary have very deliberately prevailed in expensive aggressive litigation preventing me being a part of your ongoing education, and succeeded by Court order in preventing you from even being a part of my life, however, I am pretty sure that they are wrong on every count.

That endemic system corruption lies at the heart of the system they represent, and underpins their every decision, just as the former President of Family Law, Sir James Munby, has articulated far more fragrantly than me.

Certainly although they may have won a great deal of money in trading your time with me, I think, eventually, you will still enjoy the educational opportunities I always had in mind for you, which will enable you to make up your own mind about who did what and why in the case of Adler versus Broulidakis brought by Adler and Amlot, and where the judge was switched with enormous irregularity, on the morning of day one, from a proper judge, DDJ Burles, to one Michele O’Leary.

In the meanwhile, I thought, with VE day last week, and with your grandfather being a veteran of WW2, I would share a history lesson with you.

I learned a bit about WW2 because I never saw my dad after I turned ten, and I got to know him through his achievements in life. I had an enormous appetite for studying history.

No doubt Manos did a great thing in 1939, when he was still in his early twenties, and saw the rise of right wing dominance threaten the free world. His own historical precedent was the Turkish occupation of Greece some 500 years before. (The Turkokratia.) He grew up all too aware of the 400 year occupation of Greece by the Turks; who, in their submission to Islam are ethically concomitant with right-wing believers. This History lesson is about right-wing people. Particularly, the racist-religious-right.
How they think.
Why they think the way they do. |And the consequences of this style of thinking.

Right-wing people represent a very specific way of thinking. They support social and economic conservatism. “Right-wing” is associated with people who believe simple binary constructs. They identify with the moment not intuitively, by being in the moment – but by referencing their decision making to ‘traditional values’ and the ‘existing order’. They long for ‘The way things were’. They want to either return to ‘the way things were before’ because all too often the way things were before represents the ‘Dark ages’. The times when traditional values included slave ownership as an entitlement of a middle class white existence. The bondage of a submissive class to a dominant one. Economically, this is ‘slave labor’. Where the entitled rich whiles can expect to profit from the indentured servitude of the ‘lesser’ class. Often this is determined by the color of the lesser class.

Right-wingers are the opposite of what my Father was and what I am. And what I raised you to be, until the unfortunate events of fathers day 2013, when Charlotte Adler and Tom Amlot succeeded in making Michele O’Leary decide your relationship with your father was less important than their right to play that endemic systemically corrupt business called family court to steal some £3 million from me in conduct that represents both blackmail and the ethical paucity of the same right-wing people you will shortly read about in today’s post about Hitler and his clan.

Right Wing thinking is good for succeeding in capitalist ventures. It is important to understand what Right-Wing belief is. Conservatism. And also that Left-Wing is not the opposite of Right Wing, as you might intuitively be drawn to suppose.

The opposite of right-wing thought process is Kindness.

Right-Wingers are not Kind. My story that you will read is not about Left Wing good – Right Wing bad. That is a typical right wing binary construct. The merits and otherwise of left and right are multi layered and I am always mindful that right wing behaviors are appropriate for certain moments in time.

Left wing thinking is irrelevant in this historical lesson beyond the observation that in all two party democracies, a strong opposition is essential for democratic process to succeed effectively. Usually two party democracies have a right wing party and a left wing party. The one keeps the other in check. When right wing groups are allowed to operate on their right wing principles without the checks and boundaries of a left wing opposition, things turn nasty, quickly. As they did in Germany in the thirties. Thsi is why I have chosen to write on this moment in History. It is the text book example of what happens when Right Wing government is allowed to operate without checks and balances.

Right wing people, conservatives, generally represent the base values. All too frequently this includes racism. They are invariably white and invariably use racist discrimination to claim superiority over different races. And to unify their number in a common cause.

To illustrate the dangers of right wing imbalance, we have the examples of History, and for today I have chosen to share with you three days in History. When the world changed because people who resisted right wing leadership took up arms. People like your grandfather. Who didnt have to go fight. They were not in the path of the Blitzkrieg in 1939. They fought for a different reason than their own survival. They fought to stop right wing believers.

In the twenties, after WW1, Germany was in a mess. In this mess, a man found a good formula. He appealed to the right wing nature of the people. He identified a common target – by race – and motivated religiously trained minds to buy into the right wing ways. His inspiration was Benito Mussolini, the right wing Italian dictator who contrived a version of right wing philosophy called fascism. In a short space of time he learned how to fool one third of the population with a system of lying called Propaganda. He promised these people a racist version of white supremacy that would entitle them to more than they had. He knew once people believed the fairy story of a God in heaven, they would believe any lie told.

He succeeded. Hitler came to power in what appeared to be a Democracy, as his Party, The ‘National Socialist German Workers’ Party’ gained seats in the Reichstag, but he was never elected President in a Democratic election.

Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, then became President and Chancellor by decree in 1934 after his party gained power through thuggery and criminality during the course of the 1920’s and early 1930’s. Killing, lying, and deceiving people with fairy stories drawn from the same source as the Christian indoctrination educators of yore.

Eventually, by killing and stealing lying, he consolidated absolute power. He united all the right-wing people in a vision of white supremacy. And then, with the advantage of a tremendous engineering ability that the German people already had, he utilized slave labor to build a huge military. He unleashed to dogs of war.

Blitzkrieg is how the world came to see Hitlers right wing philosophy in action. You Grandfather and his generation saw what was happening. They were the strong at the time. Strong young men. They joined an Army – the Allies – and they went to work meeting right-wing force with an even stronger force.

The war lasted from 1939 until 1945. I have written about the last three days of Hitlers ‘Third Reich’. A right wing dream of a 1,000 year utopia for pure white Aryan supremacy.

It is important for two reasons. First, to remember that right wing people are a very real threat to the kindness motivated world we seek to live in, contributing in peace and harmony.

And secondly, your generation will face another battle of this kind. As right wing forces succeed once more in threatening the value of kindness in our world. Who would crush those who value empathy and the awareness that helping the less fortunate is essential to our humanity.

Right now, we have right-wing conservatives in the USA and the UK modelling very similar values to those that led to Hitlers power base in the thirties.

So here is my version of three days in 1945, 29 April, 30 April and 1 May.

What happened then does not need to happen again. Unless we forget the mistakes of history and continue to repeat them. We do not want to see right wing racists prevail again in 2020 as they did in 1933. Because, if they do, you can expect the same outcome that we saw on 29, 30th of April and 1st of May 1945.

Here is the blog I wrote for your History class.

Hitlers dogs and the last 3 days of the racist right reich

Miss you,
love you,
Daddy

LETTERS TO BYRON in chronological order. The original live blog pages subject to same Terms and conditions:

The first of the LETTERS TO BYRON:  The PILOT
2nd GRAHAM COY
3rd:  TOM AMLOT
4th:  Thanksgiving day
5th: MICHELLE O’LEARY. The switch Judge
6th : Raining in California
7th: Music
8th: December Rain
9th: Brexit and Greek war
10th: Winnie the Poo
11th: December kayaking
12th: Family law and Mark Zetin
13th: Xmas day 2018
14th: Maria and Anna
15th: New years eve 2018
16th: Your first smile
17th: Your Uncle GEORGE
18th: The Mighty PACIFIC
19th: WEBSTER and Summer HOLIDAY 2019
20th: Breach of Privacy offense
21st: MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
22nd: Philotimia
23rd: A short note
24th: MUSIC and KINDNESS
25th: Robin Hood
26th: SRA ethical code
27th: NINE YEARS LATER
28th: Valentines day
29th: EVZONES
30th: Rushing
31st: Quick Note
32nd: Johannesburg 2019
33rd: Still in Johannesburg
34th: More Johannesburg
35th: Last Johannesburg for now
36th: Traveling. Upgrade
37th: Spring
38th: Whales
39th: MEXICO
40th: CABO ST LUCAS
41st: 1 April. Wallace’s Birthday
42nd: SANTA BARBARA
43rd: Short letter
44th: PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
45th: KIRA visits
46th: Goodbye uncle Lazaros
47th: Easter Monday
48th: OJAI Tennis
49th: Short letter
50th: PARENTAL ALIENATION FACTS
51st: Cartagena memory
52nd: NEW RECORD
53rd: Last letter to 9 yo
54th: First letter to 10 yo
55th: D Day – 75 years
56th: LA QUINTA
57th: MASON GRADUATES
58th: DESIDERATA
59th: EARTHQUAKE
60th:  Chris and Golf
61st: Chris visits Byron in London
62nd: SUMMERTIME
63rd: PHYLLIS’ LETTER TO BYRON
64th: GUN CRAZY AMERICANS
65th: MISS YOU
66th: SCRUFFY
67th: Mason leaves for college
68th: ART
69th: Day after 911
70th: PAPOU. CALLING CHRIS
71st: Two Women
72nd: ANOTHER YEAR
73rd: PLANNING CALIFORNIA VISIT 2019
74th: KAYAKING WITH DOLPHINS
75th: M and M
76th: HALLOWEEN 2019
77th FINGER EXERCISE
78th: First late letter
89th: MIAMI
90th: Thanksgiving and the SRA
91st: Dentist
92nd: EDUCATION
93rd: Almost Xmas
94th: Boxing day 2019
95th: 2nd January 2020
96th: 9 January 2020. Liars and Thieves
97th: 16 January. Thursday
98th: 23 Jan. Mystery Thursday visit99th: 30 Jan. Months end
100th: 6 February. 2020. Summer Holiday101st: 13 February. 2020. Family Law
102nd: 20 February. Dogs
103rd: 27 February. The elderly in the desert
104th: 5 March. James Munbys’ talk on family law. And unilateral judgments
105th:  26 March covid19-what-else
106th: 2nd April. British Family law
107th. 9th April. Good news about Covid
108th: 15 April. 2020. Covid Tzar. A good pair of hands
109th:  23 April: Distance Learning
110th: 30 April. A video Letter. Byron Sundays
111th:  7 May. VE Day
112th:  14th May. History Lesson
113th:  21 May. A family birthday
114th: 28th May. Happy Birthday
115th: 4th June. Riots
116th: 11th June. Guessing
117th: 18th June. More Covid
118th:  25th June. Business open from Lockdown
119th: 2nd July. Writing and Cleaning
120th: 9th July. Six years after Scotland
121st: 23 July. Masked Lockdown
122nd: 30 July. Maybe next year?
…….130th. The one before the end
131st The last letter September 24th

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