Some fascinating videos this time around (if you want to post them on the boards at least give us some credit or forever be a loser). Whats interesting in some of these is the perspective of the commentators and a few factual gems that demonstrate just how poorly researched so much about both sets of pirates has been in the past. In other words some decent research on some of these videos, and yes a few of the old easily discredited cliches about Ronan and the birth of Caroline.

Finally we have been a little tougher on comment moderation here for the past few weeks, just trying to filter out the angry brigade and keep things more on topic. I'd rather have no comments than the nasty stuff and visitor levels are holding up despite a slowing down on new features.

These two videos may well be familiar to many of you. However putting them together and focusing in particular on the segments and commentary regarding the setting up of both Radio London and Swinging Radio England in Florida, reinforces much that Mervyn Hagger has said about the origins of these two stations.

Having said that, should I now expect the usual Mike Wilson is Mervyn Hagger, or that I am his side kick nonsense from the usual suspects, or are we going to look at the subject matter? Or maybe the videos will just appear on the Joke Forums without a mention of this place.

Out of interest, has any Caroline fanatic ever considered that he or she might just be part of a manipulated cult? Just a thought, and no I personally do not hate the modern day version of Caroline, regardless of some of the comments left here, I just don't listen because it's not to my taste musically, so why would I listen?

First it was the GPO, then it became the DTI and today we are blessed with OFCOM, whose masters the BBC, ITV, Sky & company, make sure the TV market is nice and cosy (hence the furor when GB News appeared to break rank) and of course its the Biased Boring Corporation and their partners in kind at Global & the other one, who ensure those naughty pirates are kept under scrutiny using of course, tax payers money.

In the time the DTI were harassing, raiding and spoiling tens if not hundreds of thousands of peoples enjoyment with those wonderful alternative land based pirates, that apparently stole or according to some of the hysteria kidnapped listeners (yet no ransom money was ever asked for), the DTI enjoyed the privilege of protecting people from their own free will.

You would think that fans of the original land based pirates in the UK would be keen that the legacy of those stations is also remembered. What better way than doing that than giving a big thumbs up to those who keep the free radio flag flying over the big cities of our country today!

Yet over the last two decades rather than support them, an awful lot of older anoraks have derided such stations, following the mantra of OFCOM, BBC, and commercial radio stations that they are all a bunch of drug dealers, illegal party messengers, and basic criminals. 

Just like Tony Benn calling the sixties offshore stations 'pirates that should be outlawed' and the persistent attempts of the Post Office and the DTI to shut everything land-based down from the seventies on-wards (and of course the eighties offshore stations) most older anoraks today seem to have switched sides and agree these are 'not real pirates'  and must be silenced.

I say most, because not everyone swallows the propaganda of our wonderful authorities, and the closet and sometimes very open racist opinions of narrow minded individuals that simply want shot of them because they are the wrong colour, or that the music they play is just a noise (do any of you remember hearing that about pop music in the sixties?).

However FM free radio is still about as last years video below confirms.

Even though I was quite young, it didn't take me long to realize that far from replacing Radio London in 1967, Radio One was a complete sell out on all fronts. You may well be familiar with the photo below of the first line up of DJ's that in all honesty followed the money rather than caring for any listener.

Years later as the video demonstrates they were down to just two of the old school. Some had managed to migrate to the then awful Radio Two, and some got a gig on commercial radio. Far from remaining household names the vast majority of offshore DJ's of the sixties right through to the eighties are simply now forgotten from the public consciousness.

Yet a few hundred anoraks cling on to the past like it's some magical kingdom of wonderful radio that can never be repeated. Yet today's radio choice if you include online streaming stations has never been so varied and caters for so many more listeners!

Personally I think that when a presenters ego grows far more quickly than his audience, or when the future cannot change (in their minds), then it's only a matter of time before there is blood on the carpets.

My final thought is this, is it now time for some more blood on the carpet in regards of the dreadful presenters who pretend to be DJ's on the current offshore tribute stations, particularly those who say they have a real connection to the past, albeit pretty much unlikely.

This is our weekend piece on the Bombardment page, however because of the quality of investigation and honest journalism, and the fact that in the first ten minutes alone you can see just how much is being held back from people in general. The legacy news media and politicians, from left to right lie about the climate, weather, and the need to control you, as they continue to strip away your freedoms. 

SO THESE VIDEOS SUDDENLY BECAME PRIVATE. HOW VERY TYPICAL OF SOME WET BRAINED ANORAKS TO DO THIS. This is not a coincidence, There is collusion from the Mervyn haters, even though this is not his website, to keep on trying to undermine this place. Those oh so lovers of freedom who censor as much as the new Government seems hell bent on doing, expose themselves simply as bitter old men.

So no more publicity for the provider of these videos (as you can see everything has been deleted). I have left the post in place because of the comments that have been left. Unlike the sad losers who caused this, for that is what these petty minded people are, we will continue to provide great features. We have contacted the moderators at YouTube and are also in contact with Boardhost regarding possible copyright infringement. If you want to play dirty, then so be it.

The Dutch had a special word for anoraks, they were clearly ahead of the curve!

The vast majority of people who listened to the close down of Radio London and the other offshore stations on August 14th 1967 have not only moved on, they have forgotten all about it.

Even Keith Skues didn't know what Johnny Walker was talking about at first during their brief phone conversation over the past weekend, when Walker mentioned a special date coming up on Wednesday.

Looking at the Anorak forums today with only a handful of people mentioning the 57th anniversary of the MOA act that shut down the offshore stations, it raises a sensible question, Is it not time to just move on and leave that day and date behind?

If the goal back then was for commercial radio in the UK then we have had that since 1973 and  in more recent times, alternatives such as internet and community radio stations have not only developed they have exponentially expanded and flourished .

In fact with the internet we have seen an explosion of independent radio stations from one man in his bedroom through to some highly up-skilled professional online services.

Apart from a few hundred anoraks nobody cares anymore, there have been so many bigger injustices since the MOA and the governments of today are becoming far more radical control freaks, where individual choice is of no importance, whilst the indoctrination of children through the school system is the stuff of George Orwell's 1984.

Whilst you live in the past hanging on to memories of the golden age of offshore radio, what do you achieve?

With hate speech laws now being used to silence dissenting opinions and the rise of religious and cultural division in the UK, freedom is far more at risk than it was in 1967.

Perhaps we should focus on 1984 as the 'virtual date' we all should mourn, because it has (to quote from an old Caroline sweatshirt) arrived a little late, but arrived it has.