Monday - January 02, 2012
OBIT, RIP Colonel Peter Storie-Pugh, and thanks for the laugh
Back but not ready for full time.
Woke to the pleasant whinny of horses today instead of a cough which has left me pretty well tired and rough.
For those who don’t know, we live on the very edge of horse country. Most of the time we never hear anything. There’s a horse vet at the end of our road, enjoy seeing the offspring when we can. Hard to do with large hedges surrounding the place.
This area was once upon a time the major center of horse racing and breeding in the UK. There are still a couple of large ranches down the road that I believe breed. Owned by Arabs of course. Who else can afford them? Took a walk down there some time ago in time to watch the colts who were being watched by their mums all with racing names. I need to make an effort to go back this spring. It’s not like it’s far away. Anyway,
This damn cold bug really got to me in more ways then one. Having had a flu shot months ago, I thought I was clear with no worries. Ha. I even missed the Christmas dinner we’ve been going to at a friends house. First time missed in seven years.
So then, having had a chance to do more then the normal amount of reading over the last week or two, I came across this and but for illness would have posted it sooner.
It’s a military obit and probably the only laugh I got last week. Now what could possibly be funny about an obituary?
Take a look and all the rest is at the link. There is something very Macdonald Fraser about that prank below.
Colonel Peter Storie-PughColonel Peter Storie-Pugh, who has died aged 91, was an inveterate escaper while imprisoned in Colditz for most of the war
One prank in which he took part was to climb to the top of the castle and replace the swastika with the Union Jack. Some excitable Germans soldiers thought that the British had somehow taken over the castle and opened fire. Others, believing that they were under attack, retaliated. It was remarkable, Storie-Pugh commented, that no one was hurt.
Storie-Pugh, a lieutenant in the 6th Battalion Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment (QORWKR), went to France with the British Expeditionary Force. During the withdrawal to Dunkirk, he was in command of a post covering a roadblock near Doullens, north of Amiens, when it was attacked by an armoured column.
He was armed with an anti-tank rifle and disabled two tanks. The post fought so stubbornly that the enemy chose to pull back and bypass the position. Storie-Pugh was badly wounded and his courage and leadership in what was an important delaying action was recognised by the award of an MC.
His family then received a telegram to say that he had been killed in action; in fact he had been wounded, taken prisoner, and was in a German military hospital.He escaped from there but was caught and imprisoned in Oflag IX at Spangenberg Castle, central Germany. One evening, after roll call, he hid in a drain and, taking advantage of a rumpus created by his comrades, emerged and ran to an incinerator in the shadow of which he manage to escape a searchlight beam.
He cut through the perimeter wire and, together with a small group of fugitives, dropped into the river Fulda and got clear. A child saw their escape, however, and the alarm was soon raised. Two of the party were captured at once but Storie-Pugh was chased for several miles before being caught after breaking an ankle in attempting to board a moving train. On the way back to Spangenberg he was slashed in the face by a bayonet brutal treatment which continued on his arrival at the castle.He wrote to his father in a code which the decoding department never succeeded in cracking. Maps and money concealed in items like gramophone records were sent to them by the War Office.
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Permalink • Wednesday - December 28, 2011
Is This Some New Holiday Multinational Tradition?
Unlike at the Mall of America incident, the UK Telegraph gives you the guy’s picture. Not that you need to see it. Gang related killing, sneaker store. That’s all you need to figure it out. Muslim kid with foreign name just gives it away. That he had a rap sheet a yard long is icing on top of the icing.
Seydou Diarrassouba, 18, bled to death in front of hundreds of onlookers after a fight in a shop selling trainers on Boxing Day.
It was one of at least three suspected gang confrontations on Britain’s busiest shopping street during the day but it is thought there may have been many more.
There are now fears that the killing could spark a spiral of revenge attacks following the stabbing of a second youth nearby only a few hours later.
Detectives believe that the lure of cheap designer clothes and trainers drew gangs from across the capital onto Oxford Street for the post-Christmas sales.
Seydou, 18, who was on bail for robbery and assault at the time, suffered a single stab wound to the heart during a clash in a branch of the Foot Locker, sportswear shop at lunchtime on Monday.
The kid had been in court just over a week ago. Naturally the entire incident was caught on CCTV cameras and hordes of cell phone video. This is the 15th “knife crime” death in London so far this year. Another man was later stabbed in the leg in another part of the city, but he survived. 11 or more arrests have been made at this point.
The human race has gone mad. Certain parts of it, seemingly.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 22, 2011
it’s RACIST to use the word colored. wtf. why is that a bad word? what’s next?
I just happened upon this a minute ago. I don’t follow sports here, or as the Brits call it, Sport. No ‘s’ on the end.
But the headline caught my eye and I was going to pass on it until I realized the word was “colored.” There’s a video at the end at the link. Take look and listen.
His accent is pretty hard but judge for yourself if he said anything in an offensive way. Or meant it to be taken as ridicule based on race.
Jeesh. The stupid hand wringing bed wetters are making things worse by the day.
So then, an apology for the use of the word colored. Fucked up politically correct left wing dictatorship has taken over.
Gaffe of the day: Alan Hansen forced to apologise after making race blunder TWICE on Match Of The DayOutrage on Twitter after pundit calls black players ‘coloured’
England captain John Terry to be charged over alleged racist remarks
By EMMA REYNOLDSBBC pundit Alan Hansen is the latest to come under fire in football’s race row after making an embarrassing gaffe on Match of the Day.
The commentator - who is paid a huge £40,000 per show - shocked viewers by twice describing black players as ‘coloured’ when discussing the John Terry and Luis Suarez cases.
Fellow pundit Lee Dixon looked on in apparent discomfort as Hansen, 56, said: ‘I think there’s a lot of coloured players in all the major teams and there are lots of coloured players who are probably the best in the Premier League.
‘If you look at 25 or 30 years ago it was probably in a bad way - not as bad as some of the other nations on the Continent - but certainly there is always, always room for improvement.’
The ex-footballer had been discussing the separate allegations that England captain Terry and Liverpool striker Suarez have hurled racist abuse at other players on the pitch.
Ex-Liverpool star and broadcaster Stan Collymore was quoted in The Sun saying: ‘What colour would that be? Blue? Green? Orange?’
Although he didn’t see the incident, musician Example waded in to the debate, saying: ‘I didn’t see MOTD but did Alan Hansen really say ‘coloured players’?? Wow. Hand him his P45.’
Hansen was even labelled ‘ignorant’ and ‘overpaid’ by society blogger Toby Young on the Telegraph website - the same newspaper Hansen writes for as a columnist.
Mr Young wrote: ‘Alan Hansen, the overpaid football pundit, just dropped a clanger on Match of the Day. In fact, make that two clangers.
‘Clearly, Hansen’s intentions were honourable. But his ignorance is breathtaking. Is he really unaware that the word “coloured” has been verboten since the mid-70s?’
Hansen has now apologised, but it may come too late with fans and observers horrified at the lack of action to stamp out racism in football.
He said: ‘I unreservedly apologise for any offence caused. This was never my intention and I deeply regret the use of the word.’
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Permalink • Wednesday - December 21, 2011
honor killing BS. it’s murder period.
So they immigrate to a civilized country but continue as always to drag along their stone age religion and foreign ways.
Worse yet, the west continues to allow them in, where they thrive and they multiply like insects on the way to becoming the majority. Who will vote.
Welcome to multi culture and diversity in the 21st century.
Muzzies won’t do us in. The political pygmies running things in the west will do it all for them.
There is no reasoning or any possible accommodation with ignorant turd world scum.
How would it possible to try and talk reason to a jerk who think honor means killing the baby AND the family. Funny thing, don’t hear much about them killing themselves. Do we? After all, surely if they carried that much ‘shame’ they’d want to check out of this life in search of their 72 virgins. Oh no. It’s always others have to buy the farm.
Baby born to Muslim mother after affair must be adopted to stop honour killing attempts by ‘shamed’ grandfatherUnmarried mother ran away after becoming pregnant because she feared what her father would do
One-year-old baby girl will be adopted by Muslim family
Natural father wanted child to live with him and his wife
By ROB COOPERA baby born to a Muslim mother after an affair must be adopted to prevent the child becoming the victim of an honour killing, the Court of Appeal ruled today.
The baby’s mother, who is not married, was so ‘terrified’ of how her family would react to her affair with a married man and becoming pregnant that she ran away from home.
She then concealed her pregnancy by wearing loose clothes and travelling to the other side of town for her antenatal care.
The baby’s maternal grandmother had told police that if her husband found out about the child ‘he would consider himself honour-bound to kill the child, the mother, the grandmother herself and the grandmother’s other children’.
Today Lord Justice Munby, Lady Justice Black and Lord Justice Kitchin said in a joint ruling that the child was at risk if she was not adopted.They said if the grandfather discovered the affair ‘it would be a matter of intense almost unimaginable shame to him and his family’.
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Permalink • real life chucky at the age of two terrorizes school
Good grief ....
Take a look at this.
And then read this.
Mother’s anger as girl, three, is sent home from nursery looking like this after being beaten black and blue by a two-year-old nicknamed ChuckyGirl was taken to hospital with suspected fracture to her eye socket following attack
‘Out of control’ two-year-old is nicknamed ‘Chucky’ after violent doll from the film Child’s Play
Parents demand nursery expels ‘out-of-control’ girl after she ‘attacks 10 other children’
By KERRY MCQUEENEYThe mother of a little girl who was beaten black and blue by an ‘out-of-control’ two-year-old at nursery has called for the child’s expulsion.
Katie Ann Guttridge, aged three, sustained a bruised eye socket, scratches and three bite marks when she was attacked by her classmate during playtime at Ratby Pre-School Nursery in Leicester.
The little girl’s mother, Clara Mackow, said her daughter was almost blinded in the attack and that her injuries were so bad that she was taken to hospital with a suspected broken eye socket.
Police were called in to investigate the assault but were powerless to act because the girl who attacked Katie is below the legal age of criminal responsibility - which in this country is 10 years old.
When confronted by journalists, the mother of the violent girl refused to discuss her child’s behaviour, saying only: ‘My daughter is two years old. I want nothing more to do with this.’
‘The little girl who attacked her has a history of beating up other children. She’s out of control.‘I know 10 other children have been assaulted by the girl since September. The staff at the nursery don’t seem able to cope with the difficult children.
‘Ironically, the little girl’s mother is a child minder with close links to the nursery and school so the staff consider her one of their own and seem reluctant to discipline her.
Before long we’ll be hearing from the lawyers.
Perhaps a visit from Guido to the mommy dearest of the budding little monster might set things straight.
Might want to send him to the nursery school for a little heart to heart with the school head cos there’s something very wrong here.
If the cops can do nothing, and the school feels defenseless, the only option left is vigilante justice. And I’d vote for that were it my little girl.
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Permalink • debate over shooting orders in riots and arson.
It’s idiots like this and the ideology they can turn into policy that make me despair.
Actually, kinda pissed me off at the same time. What a total and complete idiot and isn’t it typical of folks like that, to equate the subject of shooting rioters and arsonists, and extending it to ppl double parking and dropping gum on the streets. Freekin schmuck. Putz!
This is in reference to the news which isn’t new according to the newspapers, in regard to the police having a shoot to kill okay where life is in jeopardy.
Let’s give the police machine guns. They would feel so much more secure if they could mow down a perp .... or one who looks as if he might be. It would also fulfill a boyhood ambition to get a job where you can shoot people, just like one did on computer games but for real. Also, once we let half crazed young men and menopausal older men (I refer of course to the police) play with real guns we won’t need to bring back capital punishment. Which will save lots of money wasted on court trials. Shooting miscreants dead will certainly be a powerful deterrent against all sorts of caught-in-the-act crimes, including speeding, double parking, dropping chewing gum on the pavement, wearing a hood and so on. It will make the USA with their three-strikes-and-you’re-out policy seem like a bunch of cissies.
- rob alka, London UK, 21/12/2011 10:02
I ask you. Is that stupid er what?
The Daily Mail ran this editorial today. And the idiot head of a police association agrees. Shooting ppl just isn’t the English way he said on radio last night.
BTW, The Mail is generally a conservative paper. Well, most of their better columnists are.
Shooting rioters is not the answer
By DAILY MAIL COMMENT
There is no greater supporter of law and order than the Mail. But is it really necessary for senior officers to say that in future riots, police may shoot arsonists who attack commercial properties linked to people’s homes?
Of course, strictly speaking they are merely restating the existing law. All British citizens (including the police) can claim a defence for killing, when it is the only way to save an innocent life.
But this is a deeply disingenuous argument. For by issuing the threat in its official review of riot-control tactics, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary is indulging in provocative – and we would say counter-productive – bravado, unworthy of the British police force’s tradition of restraint.
Goodness knows, the Mail holds no brief for rioters, who deserve the heaviest punishments the law can throw at them.
But in truth, it is almost impossible to imagine circumstances in which shooting an arsonist would be the sole means of saving a life.
On the contrary, in the vast majority of cases – as we’ve seen so often in the U.S. – when the police open fire with real or plastic bullets they only inflame unrest, leading to further loss of life.
If you want to, you can finish reading the rest at the link. They’re wrong,wrong,wrong PERIOD! They only ppl who might be inflamed, aside from the hand wringing bed wetters on the left, are the criminals themselves. What does it matter if a few hundred of them were shot dead by police during a riot? Who’d miss the bastards?
Of course, not all comments agree with the DM or the libtards. For example.
It seems CP of KENT 11.43 and other criminal-friendly posters would prefer to see the world tolerate arsonists etc. and would prefer, instead, to see the world as a “better place” without anti-arsonists and other anti-criminal complainants, like Eric Brown , 7.43? Is it any surprise that criminality is a rapidly growing “business” when they know that certain people would rather punish the complainants than punish the criminals?
- John Smith , Birmingham, England, 21/12/2011 12:12
So not all are idiots. But unfortunately the country is run by them and the left and so the only conclusion one can draw is one of hopelessness that things will improve.
The liberal gun hating left seem to forget and dismiss should they remember, photos like this. That’s because it isn’t in their back yard. That’s cos it isn’t any of them jumping out a window in fear for their life. Miserable SOBs!
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Permalink • Monday - December 19, 2011
more law and disorder and the joke named justice
Tiz always thus. One rule and law for one group, and another set of standards for another.
These stories have made the news and passed pretty quickly cos more important stories take their place. Like how the evil American empire, so described on the radio here by the lawyer of that queer traitor Bradley Manning, is treating his baby faced innocent client. The other person interviewed (for the prosecution) holds the view and correctly I believe, that Manning could not have had the time to read all 125,000 docs he stole and gave to Wikileaks. So the claim of his altruistic intention is rubbish. I sidetracked myself again. That isn’t the subject of this post.
This is.
Ok, fair is fair and if someone fiddles at the expense of the taxpayer, they damn well should face the humiliation of fines and exposure and jail time. These are the leaches that sit on fat asses passing regs and new laws and more rules that the rest of the population is made to live by and with. The average person doing the same thing sometimes does go to jail. Ah but, some things depend on who and what you are.
The crooks here are white, so far. And not members of any favored minority. They are, or were, members of the Labour Party. Think left wing. Or as Lyndon refers to it, the Lie-bour Party. I believe he has a few more colorful names as well. They’ve wrecked this country.
(this does not let off crooks of a conservative bent btw)
MPs’ expenses: jailed trio ordered to pay back legal costs
Three former Labour MPs who were jailed for fiddling their expenses have been ordered to pay back a total of £125,000 – less than half of the money spent on their court cases.But a fourth disgraced politician was spared any repayment on the grounds he is already bankrupt.
Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Eric Illsley, exposed for claiming too much on their Parliamentary allowances after the landmark investigation by The Daily Telegraph, were told by a judge they must give back their legal aid funds and contribute to prosecution costs.
They have already been denied the “parachute” payments given to most MPs when they leave Westminster, and forced to pay back their fraudulently claimed expenses.
So that’s one little part of the expenses fiddle by crooks in control of the public purse.
Here’s another that made the news in the last week. Just a small item which set me to thinking.
Recently a fellow named James Lunn, was working for the Ministry of Justice. Which as we all know doesn’t really exist anywhere in the world anymore. In addition to the crime of being white and middle class, Mr lunn apparently has sticky fingers and has been caught with his paws in the ministry cookie jar. The headline said that he used his MOJ credit card like a piggy bank. His piggy bank. So not an altogether honest man we may all agree.
His lawyer said that his client was working in an enviorenment where everyone abused their expenses.
Oh well, if everyone does it .... Anyway, Mr. Lunn is now facing a year in jail and well deserved as this is not the first time he’s tried to glom money from the public cookie jar. You might interested to learn that the sum he stole was £3,400. Or in our dollars at the current rate. $5,270.15. Not a small sum but then not the Great Train Robbery either.
But for real chutzpah (Yiddish for nerve, in spades. ) take a look at this one. And just so you know, she’ll be entitled to draw money just for signing in when the dust settles. But whatcha gonna do? She came to this country at the age of 13 and has learned well how to fleece the infidel. She was made a Peer, the first muzzie female peer I believe. She’s a baroness FYI. Might be a token jest-ture to prove there isn’t any anti female anti islam feelings and it’s quite pc too.
Take a look at this. Has she drawn a year in the pokey for a hundred thousand plus fiddle? Uh huh. I see you know the answer already.
She was raised to the peerage as Baroness Uddin, of Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, for life by Letters patent in the afternoon of 18 July 1998, at the House of Lords.
She was the youngest woman on the benches and the only Muslim and Bangladeshi woman to be appointed to the House of Lords. She was invited to the House of Lords for her contribution to the advancement of women and disability rights, swearing in by saying “Almighty Allah” as she took her seat in the parliament. Since entering the House of Lords, besides claiming the maximum possible amount she could fleece the taxpayer for, she has supported a handful of initiatives.
In 2010, The National Executive Committee of The Labour Party suspended Uddin indefinitely from the Party in light of the expenses claim allegations.
In October 2010, Under the recommendation of The Privileges and Conduct Committee of The House of Lords a suspension is to be handed down to Pola Uddin until Easter 2012 at the earliest for claiming expenses “to which she was not entitled”. The Committee also acknowledged a repayment agreement for expenses wrongly claimed.Uddin claims on her House of Lords Expenses that a flat inMaidstone, Kent is her main residence on which she has claimed £30,000 per annum in tax-free expenses since 2005. This is said to have allowed her to also claim the second home allowance on her London property, a scheme that ostensibly exists to compensate politicians living outside London for the cost of accommodation close to Parliament. Residents living near the flat in Maidstone reportedly said they had not seen any occupiers in the flat since Uddin purchased it and that it has remained completely unfurnished, but Uddin claims: “The Maidstone property is furnished and I strongly deny that I have never lived there” Uddin’s husband even denied having a property in Kent when questioned on the issue
She also has one of the highest claims for overnight subsistence of any member of the Lords.
Uddin’s home in Wapping, where she lives and is registered to vote, is a housing association property. Spitalfields Housing Association received a public subsidy of £37.8 million in 2008. The average rent for its properties is £104 a week, a sixth of the market rate. The allegations of fraud led the Tory opposition leader in Tower Hamlets, Peter Golds, to state, “Lady Uddin is depriving a low-income family of a home which was built for the needy at public expense.” On 5 May 2009, one of the senior Lord’s official, Clerk of the Parliaments, has announced the House of Lords authorities are investigating the report by the Sunday Times. Uddin welcomed the review: “I welcome this review and will co-operate fully with him in the hope of a speedy resolution and clarity that I did not break the rules of the House.”
On 23 November 2009, Uddin’s cases was passed to the police for possible prosecution for fraud. The Daily Telegraph later reported that she was refusing to cooperate with the police investigation, refusing to answer any questions.The Crown Prosecution Service announced on 10 March 2010 that Baroness Uddin would not face any charges on the grounds that a senior parliamentary official ruled that a Peers “main house” might be a place they visit only once a month. There were no indications that the expenses would be paid back.
On 18 October 2010, the House of Lords Privileges and Conduct Committee ruled that Baroness Uddin had ‘acted in bad faith’ and recommended that she should be asked to repay £125,349 as well as being suspended from Parliament until Easter 2012.In November 2011, it was revealed that no formal mechanism existed to prevent Baroness Uddin’s return to the House of Lords, even if she refused to repay the expenses that were fraudulently claimed, leading many members of her own party to call for her to resign rather than bring the House of Lords into further disrepute.
The amount of money quoted in her case (£125,349) is probably the largest amount in any of the House of Commons or House of Lords expenses scandals.Bangladesh Mansion
Further expenses claims by Uddin were later discovered when The Sunday Times revealed that she owns a mansion in Bangladesh. The mansion was described as made out of Italian marble with tiles, mosaics and with a balcony.’ An investigation of this has been acquired to whether she does have a home in Bangladesh. The mansion was believed to be built after Uddin became a peer in 1998, costing £140,000 which was organised by her husband Komar, located in Jawa Bazar in Chhatak; this is where many of her in-laws are originally from. However Uddin claims that the land was bought by her husband’s family, purchased by Kumar’s father in 1980.
FULL UNEDITED WIKIPEDIA VERSION HERE
OH BTW .... SHE IS NOT PAYING BACK ONE SINGLE DIME.
Now then, if Mr. Lunn, thief tho he may be were a member of her privileged group .... any questions?
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Permalink • Thursday - December 15, 2011
Today’s Lesson: Sex Sells
‘Why I stripped on webcams to pay for my uni fees’: Woman tells how she turned to the sex industry to fund her studies
* She is forced to continue stripping because ‘there are no jobs for young people at the moment’
* One in five lapdancers are students, NUS warns
* NUS says students turning to ‘informal’ sector for cash
* Emma Green was paid £200-a-week to strip for men on webcam
That about says it all, doesn’t it? Read the rest. Savvy young business woman, or lazy skank making excuses? It’s not like she was going for a degree in particle physics.
Personally, I think she looks pretty used up for a 25 year old.
The Brit press loves to publish these “I was forced to turn tricks to pay for my school (or baby, or whatever)” stories, in a bit of socialist arm twisting, since Big Bad Government had to audacity to cut down on the education free ride a while back. Remember the riots?
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Permalink • a justice (?) system in the toilet. well hell. no wonder it stinks. and it damn well does.
Ever have your eyes opened for the first time?
But late in life rather then early?
It isn’t that I’ve never been sceptical about the law or the injustice system. It’s more like I hadn’t discovered just how unjust it can be. Until late in life.
So I’m up all night reading a book impossible to put down called “The Color of Law.”
There is a line, one among many, that stands out and strikes a chord.
It reads as follows.
The law is just a business, a game we play with other people’s lives and money.
Another line says
Check your conscience at the door each morning or you won’t last long in the law.
Coincidence that I’ve read the book at about the same time as the tilt against justice was made in a court last week, and which was reported on here as well as many other blogs. You may recall I posted a story about four black muslim slags who beat the heck out of a white girl while calling her racial names. For those of you who missed the article, although I can’t see how, the judge in the case decided that since the four were drunk for the first time (they claimed), then he would not jail the sluts because as muslimes, they were clearly not used to drinking and so acted contrary to their normal behavior. So they got a get out of jail card. Now any white that in anger or not would use the ‘N’ word would definitely find themselves in a cell and fined heavily since words do more harm then a severe kicking and beating.
Well as the old song went, “The Beat Goes On.” and “Ain’t That a Shame?”
This old man, age 79, was hit with what you see him holding. It was thrown by the vermin shown here on the right.
Of course, it was just all in fun and yoot being yoot. It was done by this piece of worthless shit who had this to say after appearing in court.
“HaHa, Got off with a tag.” In other words, he was spared jail time by the system in place here.
He was part of a gang of feral youths that threw a 40lb paving slab at the old man shown, leaving him writhing on the ground in agony.
Ryan Girdlestone walked free from court with a curfew and an electronic tag after his lawyer convinced magistrates the 18-year-old was full of remorse for the incident that ended with Bernard O’Donnell, 79, with a suspected broken leg.But that is not how he appeared just minutes later, as Girdlestone boasted on his Facebook page: ‘Jus got out off court wiv a 4 mouths [sic] tag hahahha d**ks!!!’
Last night, his victim, a retired deputy head teacher, said: ‘Clearly he has no care for the damage he has caused. If they are laughing at the consequences then it’s hardly a deterrent.’
So why should this miserable thug worry about the law? There’s no teeth to bite the bastard with.
And there’s this insane example of justice not done. Another case of fuck the victim.
Maybe it’s almost well that guns are hard to come by here. I have a feeling that otherwise there’s be running gun battles in the streets with 12 year olds armed to the teeth. On the other hand, the feral shits already own the streets. The law abiding should be armed with permission to shoot to kill.
Here, take a look at this dumbo ruling.
‘Only a tyrant would tag someone on their 21st birthday’: Judge spares man caught with keys to stolen car so he can celebrate his birthday· Corey Brown, 20, who was caught with the keys to a £30k car, repeatedly failed to turn up for unpaid work
· Recorder David Hall refuses to give him an electronic tag - and instead adds an extra seven hours to his community punishment
· Brown says he saw punishment as a ‘bit of a joke’
By KATHERINE FAULKNERCorey Brown had been ordered to do 150 hours of community service for his role in the theft of a pensioner’s car, but when he failed to turn up for the work sessions five times he was hauled back into court to be given a curfew and an electronic tag.
But he was spared after complaining that the punishment would ruin his plans for a night out on his 21st birthday.Turning to Brown– who had sat smirking throughout the hearing at Warwick Crown Court – Recorder Hall then said: ‘If I give you seven more hours [of community service] to do, and you keep out of trouble, is that a fair deal?’
Brown, from Bedworth, Warwickshire, simply nodded, and then walked free from court.And Brown – who has already been to prison three times – admitted that even he was surprised he had been let off.
He said: ‘I was expecting to get a tag for missing my probation dates. Technically, they should have activated my prison sentence. But the judge told me I’d done well so far. He said he didn’t see the point.
‘Thanks to the judge, I can enjoy a few drinks for my birthday, instead of being stuck in with my gran or in prison.’
When asked why he had not turned up to do his community service, he replied: ‘I don’t know; just didn’t think about it. I didn’t care.
‘I suppose I did see the whole thing as a bit of a joke.’
As he prepared to celebrate his 21st birthday yesterday, Brown added: ‘I’ve been to jail three times and I haven’t learned a thing.
Well of course he sees it as a joke. Because it freekin well is a joke. Not a very funny one either but it proves my constant point.
Nobody will fear laws and punishments with no teeth. No one will have a reason to fear being caught for any kind of crime. There will always be a lawyer ready to play the game. And judges and magistrates with no common sense and less brains then god gave a tennis ball aren’t a big help.
Since liberals have achieved a choke hold on the criminal injustice system world wide, we can all look forward to more of the same.
I’m sure by now you have all been made aware of the killings in Belgium over the last 24 hours. Drew posted the story. Here was a man, another scum sucking bit of worthless flesh with a record. A violent one. What was he doing out on the streets? Oh right. His human rights.
The papers said he came from a North African immigrant background, also had convictions for drug dealing, handling stolen goods and sex abuse. An immigrant background? Does that mean he was born of immigrant parents, or that he was himself an immigrant? Because here in Britain, there are thousands of criminal immigrants and so far, no way or no will to deport them.
For example:
Rapist asylum seeker who dumped victim on rubbish tip is released after being TWO hours away from deportation
· Alphonse Semo, 54, was allowed by judge to marry girlfriend so can stay in Britain
· Father-of-five was jailed for eight years for rape in 2002
By ROB COOPERAn asylum seeker who raped a woman and dumped her on a rubbish tip when he was ‘finished’ has been freed despite Home Office attempts to deport him.
Alphonse Semo, 54, was jailed for eight years for the rape and at the end of his term was due to be sent back to the Congo.
However two hours before his flight he was given permission to marry his girlfriend and stay in the country.
Now a judge has allowed the father-of-five to be released from an immigration detention centre.
And btw, for a crime of this sort where there is no doubt about guilt, why was the sentence so small? A crime like rape deserves the death penalty after first ripping off the rapists parts or burning them off. Wanna bet this non human bit of shit will be on benefits?
In Italy, a man opened fire on some Senegalese merchants killing two.
He was described as being a Fascist and belonged to a right wing Fascist party.
Not that killing a couple of innocent merchants is justified. Ever. But I keep waiting for the violent backlash against the liberals who have brought us to this state. The guy in Italy was angered by immigration and I suppose (no supposing about it ) he was acting on race based ill will. But if he had to kill anyone, why not the liberals who are responsible for the situation that led to his anger and hate.
Can’t anyone on the far right with violent intent ever get it right? There’s loads of lawyers for example, on the left, who specialize in civil rights cases. There are so many legitimate targets to choose from but no. They always seem to shoot the visible result of liberal policy, instead of the liberal ‘activists’ who are the cause.
Machine-gun thug killed ‘blameless’ pair in a row over parking
By COLIN FERNANDEZ
An argument over parking led to a ‘completely good and blameless’ businessman and his nephew being machine-gunned to death by a drug dealer.
Khan, who has previous convictions for robbery and possession of crack cocaine with intent to supply, looked ‘furious’ as he drove away. About ten minutes later three Asian men returned and started to damage the van which had blocked the road. One pulled out a gun from a bag and opened fire, killing both Amarjit and Rajinder.
Harjinder Tiwana watched in horror as the gunman aimed the gun at her, before the gang fled with hoods pulled over their faces. In February 2004 she identified Khan as the gunman. She told the court: ‘I will never forget the face of the man who murdered my father.’
Mobile phone evidence revealed that after leaving the scene Khan repeatedly phoned another man, Abu Bakr Mansha Khan – who was later jailed for six years in 2006 for plotting to kill a decorated British soldier, Corporal Mark Byles.
Jurors heard that Abu Bakr Mansha Khan was arrested in September 2003 but released and has not stood trial in relation to this incident. It also emerged that the MAC-10 gun used in the murders had been used in another shooting that year, in Coventry.
Prosecutor Nicholas Hilliard said: ‘Nobody hearing about this case could have been anything other than horrified. Two good, blameless men shot dead in broad daylight with a machine gun. It raises a whole host of issues that people feel strongly about – the availability of firearms,
Seems to me they should worry more about criminals who can’t be deported and the abuse of the human rights industry by civil rights lawyers and a too soft approach to punishment. When there’s any of that, that means anything. Firearms are NOT easily available to the law abiding, and those who don’t abide don’t care. What is it they (officialdumb) don’t understand? If you read the comment by Brits it’s pretty clear they are tired of all the BS. But the powers that be just are not listening enough. They are letting technicalities and loopholes put the law abiding in ever more danger with no hope.
If I’ve bored the readers here with all this, it hasn’t been intentional. I’m just so damn sick of seeing this kind of thing so often, and so often the criminals getting off lightly and laughing their way out of court. And if you think the little bit I have posted here is all of it, you’d think wrong. These are just a few examples of a justice injustice system that is broken.
And here’s the last bit of proof of that. This is fuckin sick and it isn’t even the very worst of what I’ve seen over the last 7 years. But it’s damn well bad enough.
Gang of nine who beat autistic teenager so badly she was off school for 10 months escape without ANY punishment
· Sophie Russell, 16, was punched about 20 times in the face
· Four girls and five boys let off and police handed just one of the mob a caution
By EMILY ALLENSophie Russell, 16, was attacked by the teenage yobs who left her seriously injured with a broken nose and shattered face at her school in February.
The teenager from Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, had to have facial surgery and was forced to take 10 months off school to overcome traumatic panic attacks and rebuild her life.
Her mother Helen, who owns a heating ventilation company with husband Iain, 45, in Louth, Lincolnshire, has criticised police for not prosecuting the youths, saying ‘there has been no justice.’
Sophie, who has Asperger’s syndrome, said: ‘What I went through was really traumatic and ripped the family to bits. I was just walking to my boyfriend’s house and wasn’t expecting to be attacked.
‘Because they are juveniles they have got away with it. If the main offender does it again she will end up in front of a judge, but why give them a chance to do it again?’A Lincolnshire Police spokesman said the case was passed to the Youth Offending Team who decided not to press charges but to give a caution for common assault.
Gee, if this is a “common assault” I’d sure hate to see what they regard as uncommon. See the link and read the comments. She’s been patched up and is a pretty girl. But inside the damage will last a lifetime. And the punks walk away free. Justice would demand that the very same thing be done to them, as they did to her.
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Sir Isaac Newton’s handwritten notes about momentous discovery.
Look at this. Wow! All those numbers. No computer. Not even a typewriter. Candles for light if he wanted to continue after dark.
And he also ran the royal mint and ran down a major counterfitting ring. More then one actually. He set the mint to rights. A man of genius and many talents.
See the link below. I just couldn’t post it all here.
Sir Isaac Newton’s handwritten notes about momentous discovery of laws of motion and gravity now available online
More than 4,000 pages of scientist’s works uploaded
Includes seminal Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
By DAILY MAIL REPORTERAn original manuscript containing Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion is being made publicly available online, along with other historic works by the great scientist.
Cambridge University today published more than 4,000 pages of Newton’s most important works on a new digital library website.
They include the scientist’s own annotated copy of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - and handwritten notes where some of his most famous theories first came to life.
First published in July 1687, ‘Principia’ not only contains the laws of motion, but also Newton’s law of universal gravitation. It is widely regarded as one of the most significant works in the history of science.
Over the next few months the university library will upload thousands more pages, making almost the whole of its Newton collection available for anyone to view and download.
Work on the Cambridge Digital Library (http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk) began in 2010 with the Newton collection being photographed during last summer.
Up to 200 pages were captured each day, although major conservation work had to be carried out on several manuscripts and notebooks before they could be digitised.
The programme also aims to upload works by other famous scientists from Darwin to Ernest Rutherford.
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I am so tired of this subject but.
Now it’s closer to home (USA) because apparently America is on the Euro-weenie climate bandwagon. OK I know we always have been. But I just didn’t expect this, this soon. Not very observant of me perhaps. But considering who is in the White House, and the nest of vipers on the left, I should have expected it even sooner.
God, how I hate the idea of us co-operating with those zealots. And I think you all must know it’s going to cost us all a lot more as well.
But be careful. You know what happened to people in the past who didn’t follow the prescribed religious line. And this is definitely the new religion.
Watch out for Torquemada. He wears a suit and tie these days. His many adherents can be found wearing scruffy jeans and scraggly beards and some wear commie glasses and caps and with their unwashed female friends, can usually be found either occupying some public space with profound slogans on cardboard or else holding hands singing we are the world.
Sorry but these sky is falling climate freaks just annoy me.
see the link below for all the story and the video.
Durban climate change conference: Big three of US, China and India agree to cut carbon emissions
A new deal to “save the planet” will force the world’s three biggest emitters the US, China and India to cut carbon emissions for the first time, although scientists fear it will come too late to stop global warming.
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent, in Durban
More than 190 countries managed to finally agree a new climate change deal amid chaotic scenes in the early hours of Sunday morning in Durban, South Africa.
As the United Nations conference overran into its second day it looked like the talks were on the brink of collapse as the EU and India argued over just two words in the text.
In the end the wording was decided in an extraordinary 10 minute ‘huddle’ between the exhausted ministers to decide the fate of future generations.
The ‘Durban Platform’ will commit all countries to a global deal on cutting carbon emissions by 2015 although it will not come into force until 2020.
The UN marked it as an “historic breakthrough to save the planet”, that makes up for the collapse of the last high profile attempt for a global deal in Copenhagen in 2009.It was the first time that the ‘Big 3’, the US, India and China, that make up almost half of the world’s emissions, have agreed to cut emissions as part of a legal treaty.
“What we have done today is a great success for European diplomacy. We have managed to put this on the map and take the major emitters – the US, India and China – to a road map that will secure an overarching deal,” he said.
The EU has also agreed to a second commitment of the Kyoto Protocol from 2013 as part of the deal so that the world has a legal treaty to cut emissions in place before 2020.
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Permalink • Sunday - December 11, 2011
Silly Foreigners
UPDATED UPDATED UPDATE: Still trying. Getting tired of going around and around with the emails. And I was wrong that both pictures had been sent to me to use. Only one was. The other—I’m only guessing here --- must have been attached to the original email I received, along with a full pasting of the text from my post. Because I wouldn’t recognize one of my own posts by it’s title just a couple days after posting it, nor would I be able to follow a hyperlink onto my own blog. Whatever. It doesn’t matter. That picture no longer exists on this blog, nor does the quotation that went along with it. I think everyone should be happy now.
I think this is about the last time I try and cover anything about any book anyone writes. It’s too much bother. I’ve been down this road several times before and I’m tired of it. In the future I’ll just be lazy and do a GR* and give you a link to somewhere else. Free publicity is getting too expensive from my end.
( * = I don’t want to write “Glenn Reynolds” or “the puppy blender” or mention “Instapundit” because I don’t want to hear from him ... or Frank J (who coined the ‘PB’ moniker I think, and who I hear from once every 3rd blue moon anyway, hope the baby’s doing great Frank.) for mentioning them without their prior approval. Who needs the hassle? )
UPDATED UPDATE: I think we’re OK now. I’ve heard back from the publisher and I’m using the pictures they provided, and a short excerpt from some of the text provided. Always nice to have a bit of official blessing.
Um, Drew, those are the same pictures you had before! Uh, um, no, they only look the same. These were provided with permission, instead of being harvested from somewhere else where they may not have been used with permission. Highly nuanced, but that’s how the world is these days.
UPDATE: I got an email from the publisher asking for the picture to be pulled. They say they are willing to supply an approved picture. Guess they’re pretty busy - I’ve seen the pictures on a dozen web sites at least. So I’ll play nice, and see what they send me instead.
In the mean time, reader Dan has written me a couple of times with information about women with guns on one of more of the Outdoor Channels. Seems there’s this reality show, Wildgame Nation about this family who work as hunting guides? And they also happen to host a beauty pagent that also has a hunt-off or something as part of it. News to me, I don’t watch that channel. I think Dan’s point was to show that pretty girls do exist who are no strangers to weaponry, not just posing with a rifle or a shotgun. Good point. Granted, that isn’t the point of this book. And I’m sure the Euro-wienies have all sorts of twisted theories about why American guys like to look at pictures of pretty American girls shooting guns. Or even regular looking women holding their own guns. Psst, EU: We aren’t afraid of strong women. Armed or not. Heck, they’re a blessing. Does carrying a gun make a woman (or a man) strong? No, but the attitude that grows alongside owning and responsibly using firearms does. It isn’t blood lust, and it isn’t homicidal intent. But it is a very American thing ... y’all over there just wouldn’t understand.
It’s often either humorous or irritating reading examples of American stereotyping in the foreign press. Sometimes it’s both. In the UK they apparently believe we’re all a gun mad lot, armed to the teeth and running about just hoping we’ll get the opportunity to shoot someone. Anyone. Everyone! It’s such a wrong idea that it’s laughable, but they keep right on believing it, year after year.
Here’s the latest ... ‘Chicks With Guns’ a new photo essay book that looks at the “often unsettling” relationship between American women and their own firearms. It’s been covered in a fair number of the British papers. Watching Americans is like watching a horror movie to them I think, or a slow motion train wreck. They’re badly frightened, they form the completely wrong opinions, but they can’t look away. Here are a couple excerpts from the book:
Alexandra and Truitt, Texas
This is a downsized and cropped picture of a woman, her baby, and her shotgun. Sent to me by the publisher with explicit permission to use it. It is in the book. The book tells her story. It must be a good story because every other web site on the planet that is covering this book is running this picture and telling you all about the woman and her story. I, however, will tell you only that one of the digital newspapers in the UK misidentified her double barreled shotgun as a rifle. Don’t get on their case too hard for that, because in the the UK the upper classes who own firearms often own double barreled rifles. They are very expensive. They look quite a bit like shotguns, except that they have sights on top of the barrels.
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My take? Another Strong Mom picture. I wouldn’t mind having the shotgun. I think it’s an Ithaca, in 20 or 28 gauge, which means it isn’t super expensive, and a 28 gauge doesn’t recoil very much. I’m sure that the naked baby and the empty shotgun will give the Brits apoplexy, making them foam off about Dick Cheney, ‘Elf & Safety mandated pre-natal infant hearing protection, or something. Silly foreigners.
Greta, California
“Many weekends were spent on hunting trips and I loved waking up early to begin the adventure. As I wanted to be a true part of the shooting parties, I studied hard with my dad’s help and completed the Hunter’s Safety Course at the California Department of Fish and Game so I could receive a Lifetime Hunting License. I was so proud when the certificate arrived in the mail three weeks before my tenth birthday!
As I got older and became more familiar with guns, I graduated to a beautiful .22 Winchester automatic rifle, which I am still using for target shooting.”
Based on polling research and gun-sale statistics, an estimated 15million to 20million U.S. women own their own firearms.Ms McCrum, who does not own a gun herself, chose to document some of them in her book, saying that while the numbers of gun-toting females may be high, their profiles are low.
In ‘Chicks with Guns’, the women photographed talk about why they own a firearm and what doing so means to them.
Some work in law enforcement, some on ranches. Others relish the excitement of hunting big game, while several are accomplished competition shooters.
Some are fiercely concerned about protection and self-defence, while for others, such as Mrs Knight, the guns have been passed down for generations and become cherished heirlooms.
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Lindsay McCrum’s ‘Chicks with Guns’ is graced on the cover by Greta, a young woman who received her first gun as an infant and earned her lifetime hunting license before her 10th birthday.
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My take? I find this shot, which is the cover picture, quite interesting. Not a single one of those antique firearms was made in America, from the early schutzen matchlock rifle on top to the two left handed flintlocks in the middle down to the Danish blunderbuss at the bottom. Her pistol is an English Forsyth system* scent bottle pistol, ca. 1820. [thanks for that info, publisher lady!] And I’m pretty sure that the deer is a Red Stag, the kind that only grows over there. Hey, Americans can own nearly any kind of boomstick, but this seems an awfully European looking picture for a book about American women and their firearms. Nor was I aware of any states that had lifetime hunting licenses available to minors.Update: Guess I’m wrong about the lifetime licenses; you can get one in California. And while I’m right about the guns and the stuffed animal in the picture, the young lady is from California. I gather her family collects antiques, including antique firearms. Greta got to play a young Annie Oakley in a PBS American Experience Special. They liked her shooting ability so much that they expanded her role and used her in more shooting scenes than she’d originally expected. Cool.
I guess I should be fair to the UK press. They do actually present the information about this new book in a pretty straightforward manner, at worst saying the images are “unsettling” but the public can comment on the article, and comment they certainly do. Both Wired Magazine and Huffington Post here in the US have covered the book, and even at those not-exactly-Red-State-America kind of blogs the reader reaction has been generally positive. About the worst they can come up with is that the women in the pictures aren’t always beauty queens, and perhaps they’re being exploited for profit by the photographer. Or that there aren’t enough/any black women in the pictures shown online. The Brits, on the other hand, pretty much loose their marbles and start foaming at the mouth, linking to US crime statistics and calling for world disarmament. I guess they just can’t handle it, but I’m not sure which “it” I’m referring to: the guns, or the strong and capable women who are carrying them?
In Chicks with Guns, Lindsay McCrum has created a cultural portrait of women gun owners in America through photographs that are both beautiful and in a sense unexpected. The book examines issues of self-image and gender through the visual conventions of portraiture and fashion, but the guns are presented here not as superimposed props but as the very personal lifestyle accessories of the subjects portrayed. And it defies stereotypes often associated with aspects of the popular culture of both guns and women. Like the 15-20 million women gun owners in this country, the women we meet in Chicks with Guns ( their portraits are accompanied by their own words), reside in all regions of the country, come from all levels of society, and participate seriously in diverse shooting activities. The women here are sportswomen, hunters, and competition shooters. Some use guns on their jobs and some for self-defense. They may not all be classically beautiful, but in these photographs they all look beautiful, exuding honesty, confidence, poise, power and pride. They are real women with real guns that play a part in their lives. By focusing her camera respectfully on this particular aspect of the American scene, gun-wielding women and girls, Lindsay McCrum sheds new light on who we are in America today.
See Peiper, I do read my mail. It sometimes just takes a while for me to do anything about it!
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Peiper mailed me this essay a few weeks back. Lazy me for not posting it then, but things haven’t changed one white in the meantime. The author laments the loss of nearly all labor skills in the UK, and is bothered that while the demand for a good part of that labor still exists, the only people available with the skills to perform it are foreigners. Generations of left wing schooling has taught the nation that it beneath them to get their hands dirty doing work ... with the result that their are now millions who are completely unemployable, and this has caused
A million young Britons are on the dole while motivated foreigners fill job vacancies
The economic news has been relentlessly bleak. But it is not the Eurozone nor the banking crisis that presents Britain with its greatest potential crisis. It is unemployment - or rather the fact that so many Britons today are actually unemployable.
This week, unemployment hit a 17-year high of 2.6million and experts warned of a ‘lost generation’ of young people since more than one in five, or one million, aged between 16 and 24 are now out of work.
But these statistics are far from the only ones we should be worried about. What is really alarming is that while fewer and fewer Britons have work, foreigners seem to be taking all the jobs that are available.
Last year, as the number of Britons with jobs fell by 311,000, the number of overseas-born people taking jobs in Britain rose by 181,000 or by 495 per day.
To politicians, obsessed as they are with equality, the disappearance of the working class is a wonderful endorsement of their policies. They boast how so many more of our young are in higher education than ever before, being trained to do something useful in society when they leave college. And it is true that some of them are.
But huge numbers of the young emerge from their colleges resolutely unemployable in any obvious capacity. They have been gulled by these boastful politicians into learning subjects which are entirely unsuitable for higher education, ranging from media studies to hairdressing - subjects which in the past were learnt on the job through apprenticeships and experience.
There are three unbudgeable historical reasons for the unemployment catastrophe we face. The first is the wrecking of our educational system during the Sixties and Seventies. The second is the dismantling of our entire manufacturing and industrial base during the Eighties in favour of ‘service’ and ‘financial’ industries. And the third is the welfare state - which is largely responsible for the erosion of the work ethic in our society.
Fifty years of bad education, 30 years of placing all our hopes in the City of London, and three generations of welfare dependency have put this country in a position where it is almost impossible to see how it can help itself out of its difficulties.
No politician dares to tell the truth to the million unemployed young people, and the millions more ‘students’ who hope to be employed when their studies are complete.
The truth is that this country has been ruined by a political and establishment class with no vision. A class which has undermined the notions of endeavour and duty and replaced them with a cradle-to-grave sense of entitlement in which the State would always bale you out if you were too lazy or too incompetent to work.
It was this deluded liberal class which instilled the belief that to work in a shipyard or a factory or to learn a craft is humiliating —much better to go to a Mickey Mouse university to study some pointless degree.
The result is that we live in a country which makes hardly anything the rest of the world wants to buy. A country whose future is deeply perilous and which has long since lost belief in the three things which made Britain great in the days of Brunel and Wedgwood: training the young; trade; and honest, hard work.
Surely this is a UK-only kind of situation that could never ever possibly happen here in the USA. Right? I’d ask Pedro, Juan, and Jorge their opinions, but they’re over there up on that ladder, still painting that house since 7 o’clock this morning.
It’s a good essay, well worth the 10 minute read. One thing about it that I do disagree with though, is that the old English class prejudice against being in trade is still in evidence: although the author bemoans the lack of painters, plumbers, electricians, and other manual laborers, he can’t let go of the rotten “this kind of work is suitable for those with low intelligence” attitude. Wrong. Wrong, wrong. “dirty hands, empty head” is a crock; there is no reason on earth that a crown molding specialist can’t have a degree in philosophy, or that an electrician couldn’t possibly understand quantum. Besides ... these days a plumber earns more than a corporate middle manager, sets his own hours, runs his own show, and doesn’t ever have to attend a Monday morning status meeting.
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Permalink • Saturday - December 10, 2011
transgender education for five yr olds, and laws that prove the law is an ass
This is an update to an earlier post along the same line. Sex ed for toddlers. Or so I view 5 year olds. OK, maybe not strictly speaking toddlers but kind of young I would think for this. Transgender classes for five year olds? What next?
Glad I’m not a parent. I’d really be stressed. Above and beyond my present state.
Something else in the article here that proves how stupid things can get. Apparently if you kill a transgender person due to hate of that state of being, you will get 30 years in the slammer. I guess as opposed to just killing someone cos you felt like it or were angry at them. Or killing in a robbery or home invasion. BUT,
if the crime were done out of hate, that’s much worse. WTF? Dead is dead period where the victim is concerned. Talk to the families of victims and it’s doubtful they’d feel any better knowing their kin was murdered but hey, the killer didn’t hate the victim. Oh, well that’s alright then. 10 years off in five for good behavior.
A 19-month-old toddler called Fletcher was punched to death by his father, because he would not stop crying in his cot. Daddy was sentenced to nine years. Presumably, if he’d killed a transgender person his sentence would have been much higher.
Fraken idiots.
Transgender lessons for pupils aged five: Classes will ‘overload children with adult issues’, say critics
By JACK DOYLE
Children as young as five could be given lessons on ‘transgender equality’ under Government plans.Information about transgender people is set to be included in the curriculum for personal, social and health education lessons, which are taught in thousands of primary and secondary schools.
The proposal is part of a Coalition policy programme entitled ‘Advancing transgender equality – a plan for action’, which was published yesterday.In it, ministers warn a wide range of steps are needed to combat ‘transphobic bullying’, which is defined as the taunting of children who express ‘gender variant behaviours’.
‘Tackling transphobic bullying helps to address unacceptable behaviour and ensures that our society becomes more tolerant.’
As part of its review of PSHE, the Department for Education will consider adding ‘the teaching of equality and diversity, including transgender equality’ to the curriculum.But critics said there was a danger that children were being overloaded with ‘adult issues’ as a result of such lessons.
Margaret Morrissey, founder of campaign group Parents Outloud, said: ‘These are adult issues and we should leave it until children are older or until they ask.‘The problem is we are overloading our children with issues that they should not have to consider at a young age. PSHE is already overloaded with other issues.
‘We have given them sex education and teenage pregnancies have risen year on year.‘We have told children about drugs education and we have a serious problem with drugs. We have told them about drinking and cigarettes and we have more children with alcohol problems and smoking.’
Also announced yesterday were longer jail terms for murderers who are motivated by hatred of transgender people.
The basic sentence for anyone convicted of such killings will be 30 years, Kenneth Clarke said.Similar attacks on disabled people will also face the same tough minimum term.
The Justice Secretary said that offenders ‘should be in no doubt that they face a more severe sentence for these unacceptable crimes’
Here’s a comment from a Daily Mail reader.
The basic sentence for anyone convicted of such killings will be 30 years, Kenneth Clarke said. The public want the basic sentence FOR ANY KILLING TO BE THIRTY YEARS not just those motivated by some sort of hatred towards a particular group. By making these comments he is effectively saying that a transgenders death is more worthy than an heterosexual persons death. I could not care less what a persons sexual orientation is but equality does not mean treating these groups more favourably or punishing those who commit crimes against them more severely no matter what the motive.If I was mugged the police would simply give me a crime number and that would be it but under Clarkes new rules If I was transgender and stated the crime was a hate crime more effort would be put in to catch the mugger .
- Rolf Kitchingr, Gosport Hampshire,
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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