I start this,my last posting here,with a quote that I used earlier from Groucho Marx--
Any club that would have me as a member I wouldnt join!!
Your "moderator(Owner and censor)Pete has taken the side of Dictatorships(both Religious and Political) the world over in supporting the exclusion of Freedom of Speech from HIS Website while saying,somewhat untruthfully,that supports Freedom of Speech.
I have no doubt that very few of you will read this my last posting because it will be "moderated" by Pete in order to placate the "senior memberxs" of this cosy conformist commercially run coffee klatch who take exception to some of the undeniably TRUTHFUL(and proveable) statements I have made about their integrity and self regard especially as to their ridiculous claims of their right to call themselves JAZZ players--.
I played with Chris MacGregors "Brotherhood of Breath" in the 1960s at Ronnie Scotts Club and the Africa Centre in London--it was a band made up of persecuted South African Black/Brown guys --perseciuted by the Apartheid system whose number one way of controlling dissent was to deny Freedom of Speech--in the exact same way that Pete is doing so at the pressure from--among others-a S African "Senior Member"using hypocritically a Native surname(White guys do not have Native names)--in that band was a lot of turmoil and anger over the way that White people(British Jazzers included) in general patronised Black/Brown musicians mainly by presuming that because they(the whites)could play strings of other peoples cliches that they had memorised from records and "Teach yourself to Play Jazz Books(similiar to the ones that Pete sells)they were somehow in tune with Black/Brown aspirations and that they shared in their suffering.
Anyway now I take my leave of you--It is noticeable that not one of you wrote in support of my rights to Freedom of Speech at all--leaving me to presume that every last one of you has no regard or support for Freedom of Speech.
Freedom of Speech CANNOT be Moderated or otherwise censored as Pete says-
that way is anti-democratic and results in Dictatorships of one kinfd or another
I have learned much from one or two writers here both positively and negatively--it is unfortunate that several of the "senior members" can dictate to Pete exactly how Freedom of Speech can be perverted and unfortunate that Pete has shown himself willing to exercise censorship on their behalf
Vale
Mann
www.experientialknowingness.co.uk
PS--Pete--please leave this my last post here for all to read without changing or amending in any way what I have written--after over 400 people have accessed it and they would constitute a "hidden majority"
If you cancel this(as I suspect you must"-then it is what I would expect that a person like you would do
Regards
Any club that would have me as a member I wouldnt join!!
Your "moderator(Owner and censor)Pete has taken the side of Dictatorships(both Religious and Political) the world over in supporting the exclusion of Freedom of Speech from HIS Website while saying,somewhat untruthfully,that supports Freedom of Speech.
I have no doubt that very few of you will read this my last posting because it will be "moderated" by Pete in order to placate the "senior memberxs" of this cosy conformist commercially run coffee klatch who take exception to some of the undeniably TRUTHFUL(and proveable) statements I have made about their integrity and self regard especially as to their ridiculous claims of their right to call themselves JAZZ players--.
I played with Chris MacGregors "Brotherhood of Breath" in the 1960s at Ronnie Scotts Club and the Africa Centre in London--it was a band made up of persecuted South African Black/Brown guys --perseciuted by the Apartheid system whose number one way of controlling dissent was to deny Freedom of Speech--in the exact same way that Pete is doing so at the pressure from--among others-a S African "Senior Member"using hypocritically a Native surname(White guys do not have Native names)--in that band was a lot of turmoil and anger over the way that White people(British Jazzers included) in general patronised Black/Brown musicians mainly by presuming that because they(the whites)could play strings of other peoples cliches that they had memorised from records and "Teach yourself to Play Jazz Books(similiar to the ones that Pete sells)they were somehow in tune with Black/Brown aspirations and that they shared in their suffering.
Anyway now I take my leave of you--It is noticeable that not one of you wrote in support of my rights to Freedom of Speech at all--leaving me to presume that every last one of you has no regard or support for Freedom of Speech.
Freedom of Speech CANNOT be Moderated or otherwise censored as Pete says-
that way is anti-democratic and results in Dictatorships of one kinfd or another
I have learned much from one or two writers here both positively and negatively--it is unfortunate that several of the "senior members" can dictate to Pete exactly how Freedom of Speech can be perverted and unfortunate that Pete has shown himself willing to exercise censorship on their behalf
Vale
Mann
www.experientialknowingness.co.uk
PS--Pete--please leave this my last post here for all to read without changing or amending in any way what I have written--after over 400 people have accessed it and they would constitute a "hidden majority"
If you cancel this(as I suspect you must"-then it is what I would expect that a person like you would do
Regards