| Barking fucking mad. |
[May. 8th, 2008|04:52 pm] |
Our ravening, foam-flecked Home Secretary Jacqui Vissarionovich Smith* today announced that the state now sanctions police harassment. Apparently the way to make people behave like productive members of society is to treat them like criminals, even when they've doen nothing wrong. Of course, this is mainly aimed at 'young people' (aka those little shits that don't qualify to vote yet so why should we give a fuck what they think), so probably no-one will give a shite. Remember when ASBOs came out? They were for 'youths' too. Can you say 'function creep', little man?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/08/police.ukcrime?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
In related news, Phil tells me that Lewes police are now issuing 'prophylactic' ASBOs to young 'offenders' who are known to them for any reason. His next door neighbour's daughter, who had a couple of run ins with the police aged 13 or so (but no convictions) and has since kept her nose clean (got into college, training to be a hairdresser yadda yadda) has just been issued, at the age of 17, with an ASBO banning her from associating with more than one person of her own age in the streets of Lewes.
What.
The.
Fuck?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
*Does Reductio ad Hitlerum apply if it's a Stalin gag? |
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| Tim Robbins +++ |
[Apr. 17th, 2008|12:13 pm] |
"I don't know about you, but show me a starlet without panties getting out of a car and suddenly the world seems a better place ... Let's stop burdening people with facts."
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| This Evening |
[Apr. 8th, 2008|02:30 pm] |
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| On circular thinking |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|03:17 pm] |
As pointed out here, Nick Eriksen has some highly objectionable views on rape. Whilst it's hard to find a sentence from the man that doesn't leave the reader wiping froth from their lapels, this gem stands out:
"To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting that force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence."
Which is apparently an attempt at justifying rape.
One - Actually, I think you'll find that force feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence. I can think of assault and battery, ABH/GBH, false imprisonment without even racking my brains.
Two - If anyone can point out to me a single case of rape that has not involved violence of one form or another then I'll eat my arse.
I know I shouldn't be dignifying these arguments with analysis, but it struck me that the above quote at least read scanned like a coherent argument, albeit one put forward by a drooling moron. Actually it's entirely circular, and makes no sense even within itself.
Well, Pete, it's a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart arse. |
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| I'm not a huge fan of the Stop The War Coalition... |
[Mar. 28th, 2008|03:48 pm] |
...but I can get definitely get behind this, plus it looks like LOADS of fun!
Tony Blair is a war criminal. He lied to Parliament, the nation and the world about the presence of WMD in Iraq. His war has led to the deaths of upto a million innocent Iraqis.
But instead of standing in the dock, he will be preaching the virtues of globalisation from the pulpit of Westminster Cathedral. We need not be reminded what Blair means by globalisation, Iraq has taught us that.
On Thursday 3 April Stop the War will be protesting outside the Cathedral. We will be creating a wall of sound to drown out Blair’s hypocritical lies. It will be a cacerolazos, Latin American style!
So bring your pots and pans, musical instruments or ululating voices and let’s silence the war criminal of Westminster!
Please come at 6.30pm. Blair will speak at 7pm. Spread the
word.
WALL OF SOUND TO SILENCE BLAIR
THURSDAY 3 APRIL 6.30PM
WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
FRANCIS ST, LONDON SW1P 1QW
JUST SOUTH OF VICTORIA STREET
Nearest tube: Victoria Station |
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| Jam Tax! |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|05:03 pm] |
Have I mentioned how much I love this site?
BUDGET LIVE!
ALISTAIR Darling has been described as 'the worst chancellor since the invention of numbers'. The pressure is on, but can he pull a rabbit out of his battered red hat? If so, will he then lose the rabbit? Or will the rabbit be appointed to the board of Northern Rock? And is this so-called rabbit domiciled in this country or not? Ladies and gentleman, all the way from Downing Street in London's fashionable West End, we give you THE BUDGET!
1230: Chancellor stands up
1231: Chancellor shits himself
1232: British economy like an injured greyhound, says Darling
1233: Curious expression plays across prime minister's face
1234: "Britain better than foreigners"
1240: JAM TAX! As expected chancellor drops jam bombshell. Sell jam now.
1241: "Jam companies have a responsibility to society"
1244: "18, 76,000, 14.6, a billion and twelve, 90," says chancellor
1248: Gordon Brown pushes chancellor out of the way and tells him he's 'doing it all wrong'.
1251: "Pruuuuuuudence! Pruuuuuuuudence!" shouts prime minister
1252: After short tussle, chancellor regains control of dispatch box
1254: Pledge to abolish poor children. 'They're so horrid' says chancellor
1257: "UK remains one of the best places in the world to do the business"
1259: Women told to stop being so lazy and get a job
1302: Free bricks to help young people onto housing ladder
1304: £10m million for plastic scissors
1306: Glasgow-London journey time reduced to 'less than two weeks'
1307: Caroline Flint bends over to pick up a pen
1309: Caroline Flint is now sucking on the pen. Go on.
1311: Tax on showrooms!
1318: Cars to be taxed based on size of boot
1320: Cigarettes to be sold from box full of cobras
1321: FUCKING HELL! 55p on a bottle of Scotch! What a prick!
1323: And he's giving it to the fucking pensioners!
1324: Chancellor sits down
1325: Chancellor shits himself. Again. |
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| 600 employees |
[Mar. 8th, 2008|01:42 pm] |
Someone emailed this in to work, it amused me.
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more
than 600 employees and has the following statistics?
- 29 have been accused of spouse abuse
- 7 have been arrested for fraud
- 19 have been accused of writing bad cheques
- 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
- 3 have done time for assault
- 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
- 4 have been arrested on drug-related charges
- 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
- 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
- 84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year
Which organization is this?
It's the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group
that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to
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| Jeremy Vine |
[Feb. 21st, 2008|11:29 am] |
Right chums, tune your radiograms to BBC R2 at around 12.30. |
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| NO2ID Social |
[Feb. 19th, 2008|11:24 am] |
Are you opposed to being tagged, catalogued and surveilled as you go about your daily life?
Want to know more about what you can do to resist the march of the Database State?
Like drinking beer?
Come along to the Old Crown Public House, 33 New Oxford St this Thursday 21st Feb from 7pm for an informal social event. Meet the organisers, ask questions, get involved, have a pint!
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[Feb. 18th, 2008|02:53 pm] |
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| ShaWhatWhoNowEh? |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|12:29 pm] |
Just heard on the radio:
"This morning the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, told Radio 4's Today programme that 'sharia law seems inevitable in some parts of Britain'"
Will you fucking God-botherers of all stripes please fuck off.
Leave aside the bizarre irony that the head of the Church of England appears to be advocating the introduction of an absolutist legal system drawn from Islamic teachings, has he lost the plot completely? Perhaps God got on the old blower and told him "Listen, I don't like these brown fellas any more than you, except my mate Allah from the corner shop, he's alright. Anyway, fing to do to keep em quiet is to set up a completely separate society for em within the UK. Bish bash bosh - everyone's happy. Well, apart from a few slags and bummers that is, and who gives a toss about them. Right? Am I right?".
Rowan Willams - mad as an eyebrow
I'm not making any crashing revelations by stating that I'm in favour of a multicultural society and mutual respect between different cultures blah blah etc, but a five year old child could see that you don't achieve that by saying 'one set of rules for you, another for me'. All you're doing in that scenario is creating totally separate societies that happen to live in the same place.
In any case, what possible relevance does the opinion of a fucking bishop, arch or otherwise have to the nature of the rule of law; what is this, 1708? Tell your magic bearded sky-mate to get back in His celestial white cloud van and sling His holy hook. Fucker. |
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| Brainfart |
[Feb. 5th, 2008|12:39 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | abject horror of humanity, dagnabbit!, don't do dubai, fear! fire! foes!, fingers crossed, fnord, going to hell in a bonham-carter, monster mash, no2id, politricks, raging injustice, things that suck, things which are good | ] |
One of the busier/more stressful weeks I've had thus far. No time to tell you what I've been up to. Instead, here's the important stuff:
1 - Last Saturday my ex-housemate and dear friend Cat "Diz" Le-Huy was arrested on the way into Dubai for carrying Melatonin, a legal drug used to combat jet lag which is available over the counter in most countries including Dubai. He is currently in his eighth day of detention without trial or access to lawyer and has been made to sign documents in Arabic, which he cannot read.
Read more here: http://users.livejournal.com/_yungfuktoi_/306878.html
and here: http://users.livejournal.com/_yungfuktoi_/307357.html
Sign the petition to free him here: http://www.petitiononline.com/cle2008/petition.html
Support the Truth About Dubai campaign here: http://thetruthaboutdubai.com/
2 - Monster Mash Gallery this weekend - this event has been stealing my weekends and driving my partner, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) misstiamaria, who is curating, to the edge of insanity. You fuckers better come along and make it worthwhile!
3 - Join the NO2ID campaign and stand up to the Government's plans to manage your identity.
http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/join.php |
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| The Monarch and the Motormouth |
[Nov. 12th, 2007|09:57 am] |
When Hugo Chávez is in full flow, politicians and diplomats know better than to try and cut him dead. But not kings. As the Venezuelan president was in mid-harangue, excoriating his "fascist" foes at a summit of leaders from the Latin world, Juan Carlos, the Spanish monarch, could take no more. He flashed a withering look at the president and uttered five words likely to go down in diplomatic history: "Why don't you shut up?"
STFU Chavez! |
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