Ray Martin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇸 🇮🇱

Meghan Markle certainly has singular accomplishments. Aside from the determination she is presently displaying, and has displayed in the past, to twist, turn and exploit everything that happens to her advantage (something she is presently doing as she exploits her father's disgrace to her advantage), she has graduated from being a member of the Royal Family with a platform for doing good for humanity through public service under the umbrella of a respected thousand-year-old institution, to a guest star on an Australian cooking show. This has been by way of several (by her own account) multi-million dollar deals, all of which exploited the status she acquired upon marriage to the detriment of her husband's family, the British people's welcome to her, and race relations within Britain and the Commonwealth, as several diplomats of colour from the Caribbean and Africa had cause to complain to me, a Jamaican born and bred who is, like all Jamaicans irrespective of colour or class, regarded as a fully paid-up member of the Black community. She has also achieved the distinction of working her way downwards from being one half of one of the most popular and desirable couples on earth to one half of the most unpopular couples in the world. Along the way, she has been justly accused of being a bully, a ruthless and Macchiavellian conniver with scant regard for the facts, the rights of others or the injury she causes to those she targets, irrespective of their age, rank, relationship to her, or the justice of the victimisation. Although she and her husband have commended the SS, as their Sussex Squad is popularly known, for their support, neither of them has once called out this latter-day version of its earlier namesake as it seeks, on behalf of the couple, to bully, abuse, intimidate others who are going about their lawful business, as this gaggle of bullies misuse the law with chilling alacrity reminiscent of the earlier (albeit more deadly) squad which also shares the same abbreviated initials. Indeed, there is the suspicion, born of the Sussexes' support of the SS, that they approve of its activities, even when those activities are gross violations of the rights of others. In the latest example of the gross misuse of the power ithe SS seeks to acquire for itself, one of them has had the temerity to send me via my agent, with copies sent to ITV (the latter day version of the Ministry of Propaganda headed up by Dame Carolyn McCall, whose irresponsibility to the shareholders was so great that she shoved out her leading star, Piers Morgan, for daring to say that he did not believe a word out of Meghan Markle's mouth during the Oprah Winfrey interview [quite right too: It emerged Meghan's account of the facts contained no fewer than 17 distortions] and Chris Ship, propagandist in chief on the ground - or maybe it would be more accurate to say over the air?) a letter demanding that I cease and desist from saying anything critical of Meghan Markle. The irony is outstanding that followers of a woman, who complained about being silenced by the family which welcomed her as it had never welcomed anyone before - and who has taken loquacity to such lengths, along with her husband, that we now know what the tip of his and his brother's penis looks like, and what activities they were engaged in when he proposed - remains silent while her enforcers try to silence others who are merely going about their lawful business. She and they can lie as much as they want. They can violate anyone's privacy. But, as far as they're concerned, no one should dare to speak the truth about her or them without them attempting to shut their said victim down. What Meghan Markle's SS doesn't seem to realise is that this country is not yet Nazi Germany. If Meghan has been wronged by any author, journalist, commentator or broadcaster, she has recourse to the law, a right she and Harry have not hesitated to use on many an occasion as they have sought to silence criticism of their conduct. She does not have the right to unleash her legion of SS bullies onto people who are exercising their civil liberties in accordance with the rights of all citizens within a democracy, nor do those followers have the right to seek to pervert the purposes of the law for their cult leader's benefit. If Meghan wants criticism of her to end, she can end it quickly and easily. She can start to behave with the decency and decorum which she should have been employing from the very outset of her advent into a civilised world. She could also try dispensing with her cabal of public relations operatives and stop trying to hog the limelight on what is virtually a daily basis. A ladylike withdrawal from public view for an extended time would be welcomed by all with the possible exception of her, her husband, and their SS followers. She doesn't frigthen me, nor does her SS band of bullies, though this latest foray, following as it does an earlier one to fraudulently fabricate a GodFundMe account with the objective of accusing me of impropriety, suggests to me that I seem to frighten her and her followers. Would it be disingenuous of me to ask why, when I have always scrupulously adhered to the facts and her conduct, she or they would fear anything I could say or do, especially as how there are the laws of libel in place (something she and Harry are all too familiar with), yet never once have they had cause to deploy them against me or indeed to complain to me about anything I have ever said or written. Ah, but I'm forgetting the lessons of history. People who have or support the SS use force to club the innocent into submission when they can't deploy the law against them. And what better time to do so than when she and her equally money-grubbing brother are exploiting the truly ghastly accusations against their father for their own financial and reputational benefit.