Whether or not the Exodus from ancient Egypt, or that God gave Moses two stone tablets, ever truly happened as per The Bible, is questioned by scholars, but remains a popular theory today. The fact is that corrupt government officials and wealthy property developers would do well to heed the example of high morals, in all their dealings, especially where it comes to financial enslavement.

Unfortunately, the planning system, the way it is at present is largely corrupt, as has been shown by a compendium of cases researched and investigated by a former member of the Wealden Action Group, now featured on an independent website: What's Wrong With Wealden.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.

2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.

3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

6 “You shall not murder.

7 “You shall not commit adultery.

8 “You shall not steal.

9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

10 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

God may have parted the Red Sea for Moses, but will he reverse the laws of nature for the benefit of property development sinners?

The qualities needed to survive and thrive in local politics are by and large the exact opposite of the 10 Commandments. This Decalogue should not be taken as applying to all Councillors. Obviously, there are members with high ideals, but by and large they soon leave office and don't get re-elected if they don't tow the party line. Once newcomers start asking awkward questions, the career as a politician is almost always cut short. The list below is tongue in cheek to some extent, but is a formula for success in local and national politics. Indeed, the higher one goes and the more temptation for profit arises, the more politicians tend to adopt such a strategy for survival in a jungle that many would not believe exists.

THE TEN GOLDEN RULES OF PUBLIC OFFICE - IN THE UK

1 Profit and backhanders should be sought for mates and self while in any position of trust, such as planning consents and well paid directorships. This is the first rule of public office, no matter the harm to the environment. This is your opportunity to grab as much as possible with immunity from prosecution because of corrupt police and crime commissioners paid by local authorities not to investigate anything on their patch and to harass anyone asking incriminating questions, including arrest, detention and a good beating in persistent cases.

2 Never represent the interests of the electorate, especially the less well off, save where you benefit financially personally or are offered in kind services, and it makes you look good. Take every opportunity to milk and enslave the electorate of taxes and rents for your banking and loyal chums. Show no mercy in the quest for more, never give anyone an even break. Especially not the homeless. Endeavour to keep house prices high to prevent access to the property ladder, to ensure rental enslavement, ignoring the housing crisis and deaths on the streets. Encourage health services to operate administrative merry go-rounds to reduce the aging population, by denying treatment, where they are no longer taxable, despite any Hippocratic oaths to protect life and assisted suicide being illegal. Help the State gain early death duties, from accelerated passing. Dead men make no claims.

3 Never criticize any council official or party policy, and never ask any awkward questions - even where the advice being given is illogical or illegal. Just keep a straight face and act dumb. For if you genuinely represent the electorate, you will be black-balled and not included in the fold, and this will rebound when you need a planning favour.

4 Take regular holidays at public expense to make you unavailable for comment. Put in as few hours as you can get away with. Make sure your family understand these Golden rules, and be sure that your administration is working for you at all times on the Public Relations front to cover your tracks, especially concerning tabloid bad press that stands to cause political unrest and show your profiteering from the system in a bad light.

5 Grab all the inheritance you can and be sure not to give any to HMRC using tax havens, offshore facilities and dubious accounting. Always aim to cheat other family members, but give the appearance of being fair. Claim all the expenses you can, including manufacturing receipts for private work, that you can pass off as a legitimate expense.

6 Where you may need a favour one day, always support masons, quangos, or other secret society members, even in causing premature death or torture, even though this may be illegal. Be sure to befriend judges and crown prosecution fellows and make sure your legal representation has no morals. Never act impartially and with integrity and be sure your colleagues understand that they can count on you in this regard.

7 Never officially register a conflict of interest, not until you are likely to be found out and have no option, and then claim it slipped your mind or you didn't understand the rules. Offer to apologize to avoid investigation. Always abuse your code of conduct and fornicate freely to obtain your way, including making false accusations as to such activities if this may obtain the same result as actual fornication or adultery. Never leave a chamber where your interests are being decided. Stay there and assert your presence to be sure the others vote the right way for you, and give dirty looks to dissenters. If reminded as to conflict and forced to leave any tribunal, don't forget to threaten those revealing the association, and cover your tracks with a retrospective entry in the official Register, by tippexing out an earlier entry, if necessary.

8 If you witness any possible crime in progress on the part of anyone in the fold, or if a member of the public report a crime to you, you didn't see anything, you heard nothing and so cannot say anything about any fraud or abuse of public office. This will give you greater bargaining power for when others discover your transgressions. This is good team work. Be a team player no matter how corrupt the group is, including high ranking officials. The more corrupt you are and the fewer questions you ask, the more crooked officials will reward you. Think of your enhanced pension for remaining silent.

9 You should spread false rumors at every opportunity to make your council or political party decisions look good, even when they are bad, by the back door, such that you may not be held accountable for libel or slander and to further your ambition. Never answer a direct question as to dubious policies or misfeasance, always defer to a civil servant to deflect inconvenient truths. You have the right to remain silent, even where your are supposed to be accountable and operate transparently. Always find a scapegoat and decline appearances on TV shows such as Newsnight on awkward topics.

10 Always discredit your neighbours and competing investors, such as to purchase their property at an undervalue and deprive them of their human or any other legal rights, or to gain financially for your family and friends, and gain a hold over neighbouring persons. Use your influence and taxpayer's money, never your own, to enforce and discriminate institutionally, to blight a prospective purchase in the locality and devalue it, where such blight may be lifted conveniently if and as it falls into your lap as a result of such misdeeds. Ignore sustainable development rules completely, leave this to the hippies, for such considerations will restrict your profiteering and undermine your investments, and nobody other than the Greens pay any serious attention to conservation issues.

ABOUT MOSES

Moses was born in Egypt and was among those ordered to be killed, as he was a first-born Hebrew son. At three months old, he was set in a basket on the Nile River to escape the Pharaoh’s decree. He was saved by the Pharaoh’s daughter and raised in the palace. At 20 years old, Moses saw an Egyptian killing an Israelite and killed the Egyptian. The crime forced him to flee to the town of Midian where he married and had two sons. When he was 80 years old, God revealed himself to Moses in a burning bush. He instructed Moses to save the children of Israel. He died on Mount Nebo at the age of 120 years.

The Bible holds that the Israelites lived as slaves in Egypt for 400 years until the time God inflicted the ten plagues upon Egypt, in an effort to convince the Pharaoh to free the Israelite slaves. Some accounts place the number of Israelites in the Exodus at 500,000, while others place the number at 2.5 million. Moses told the Pharaoh of Egypt that God wanted him to set the slaves Israelites free. If he didn’t comply, he was warned, God would strike Egypt with 10 plagues.

SCHEMERS GET OUT - In the scapegoat ritual of Yom Kippur and the bird ritual of the metzora, sin/impurity is transferred onto an animal and it is sent away. In English politics, it pays to have someone to blame for any impropriety when the shit hits the fan.

THE TEN PLAGUES OF EGYPT

According to the story of Exodus, Egypt was struck with every one of these plagues:

1.   The Nile River turned to blood

2.   The arrival of thousands of frog

3.   A plague of lice

4.   Swarms of flies

5.   Diseased cattle and other livestock

6.   Boils on people’s skin

7.   Heavy hail that turned to fire when it landed

8.   A plague of locusts

9.   Darkness for three entire days

10.  Death of the first-born son, which included the house of the pharaoh

Mount Sinai is a significant religious location. It is here that God spoke with Moses, telling him why he had rescued Israel from Egypt. God had chosen the people of Israel to be his treasured possession. Israel would be made into a holy nation of priests for God.

One day God called Moses to the top of the mountain. He gave Moses the first part of his new system of laws for the people - the Ten Commandments. These commandments summarized the absolutes of spiritual and moral living on earth, that God intended for his people.

God continued to give direction to his people through Moses, including civil and ceremonial laws for managing their lives and their worship. Eventually, God called Moses to the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. This time he gave Moses instructions for building the tabernacle and conducting the offerings.

When God finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him two tablets of stone inscribed by the very finger of God. The tablets contained the Ten Commandments.

Meanwhile, the people of Israel had become impatient while waiting for Moses to return with a message from God. Moses had been gone for so long that the people gave up on him and begged Aaron, Moses' brother, to build them an altar so they could worship.

Aaron collected offerings of gold from all the people and built an idol cast in the shape of a calf. The Israelites held a festival and bowed down to worship the idol. Quickly they had fallen back into the same type of idolatry they were accustomed to in Egypt. They were acting in direct disobedience to God's new commands.

When Moses came down from the mountain with the tablets of stone, his anger burned as he saw the people given over to idolatry. He threw down the two tablets, smashing them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. Then Moses destroyed the golden calf, burning it in the fire.

Moses and God proceeded to discipline the people for their sins. Later God instructed Moses to chisel two new stone tablets, just like the ones God had written with his own finger.

The Hebrew meaning of Ten Commandments is literally "ten words." The Greek translation gives us our word decalogue, referring to the moral law. In general, the first four commandments are directed toward God and our obligations to him. The next six focus on our duties toward other people in the community. Together, the ten serve to create a community devoted to one God that is characterized by social justice.

COUNTRYSIDE ABOMINATION & HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS - If you buy one of these (proposed) houses, not only will you be adding to global warming, but you could be letting yourself in for many years of litigation as to civil claims, not least of which is the potential to be charged under groundwater contamination laws and imprisoned as part of joint enterprise. At least 40% of the houses shown are in a direct line to poison the only working well in the village - Lime Well - in the lower left of the picture. The developers will also fall foul of the Human Rights Act 1998, for interfering with the peaceful enjoyment of a water supply.