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Virginia Tech Massacre - the NRA solution.
Posted Apr 18, 2007
If, as the nutters claim, every student in Virginia Tech carried a gun, there would be far more nutters carrying guns, and they would be used more often.
Killings would be a regular occurrence, and the college would close.
On the street, anyone would be fair game at the slightest provocation, the 'Precautionary principle' would see to that, and the killer could always claim self-defence as the victim would also be carrying a gun.
It would be a return to an even darker age of barbarism than the one America is now in. Which is the object of the exercise.
The Nutter tendency reassures us that guns will only be issued to the 'decent and responsible'. Who are these 'law abiding citizens'? And how do you spot them?
What criminal tendencies did the Virginia suicide killer display?
The truth is that this insane fantasy that more guns means less killing has been disproved by the entire history of America. So what this boils down to is that if the patient nearly dies from the medicine, double the dose.
In fact it is nothing but an opportunist rabble-rousing designed to create even more fear and division in America than already exists - exactly the factors which create the deranged individuals who kill their fellow students without warning or apparent motive. Exactly the same factors which fuel Neo-Islamic suicide bombers - appropriately enough.
So if they have their way, the profiteers of the arms industry will create a society in which everyone is a potential murderer and no-one is to be trusted. A complete breakdown in the social fabric, with only fear holding together a basic level of functional barbarism.
The world of 1984, in other words.
So will the NRA appear next week in Blackburg to cash in on the slaughter and bring its brand of comfort to the bereaved, as it did in Columbine?
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Latest reply: Apr 18, 2007
Up That North, and why does it sound that way?
Posted Apr 4, 2007
I can't be the first to notice how place names in a corner of North West England seem to confirm the stereotype of the area. That is, of dark Satanic mills, pollution, utilitarian manufactories, Dickens' "Heads of elephants in a state of melancholy madness" and, well, grimness...
The names positively rattle with ironmongery and incineration.
BLACKpool
BOLTon
BURNley
BURY
PRESton
ASHton
BLACK BURN
Even
BOOTle
OLD HAM
and
WIGan
hardly dance with the skylarks above a field of ripening corn.
So what is it?
It would be nice to think that the engineering bolt was actually named after Thomas Bolton, and so the town bearing his name is only incedentally industrial. But what of the rest?
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Latest reply: Apr 4, 2007
Slavery Arguments
Posted Mar 6, 2007
1. The Relative Morality Excuse.
The fact that shackles had to be used at all proves that the Relative Morality Apology for slavery is nothing but desperate hogwash.
Many people at the time knew slavery was an outrage, from the chartists back through the levellers and beyond saw the parallels and differences betwen their position and that of slaves, and abhorred both. But most of all the shackled slaves themselves, unless of course their version of morality doesn't count, in which case, the people peddling the argument that slavery was acceptable and normal at the time, and impossible to condemn retrospectively, are merely perpetuating the morality of slavery.
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Latest reply: Mar 6, 2007
Paedophobic Britain. UNICEF Report - Britain Cares Least
Posted Feb 14, 2007
"UNICEF report ranks well-being of British, U.S. children last in industrialized world"
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/14/europe/EU-GEN-Germany-Child-Welfare.php
Tell us something we didn't know.
http://tinyurl.com/35gapd
But at least it's now official. We hate children most. We are officially the most paedophobic industrialised country.
And is it any wonder? The sole purpose of everything else in our godforsaken consumerist orgy is to bring as much gratification to those who can afford it as possible, so why shouldn't children serve the same purpose? They have become another product, a toy designed to enhance the social standing of the owners and make them feel good about themselves.
They do not represent the future, or even human beings in their own right. If they did, we would treat them as human beings. Our society would see that by wasting the social instincts of the next generation of decision makers, we are committing social suicide. But instead we bow to the needs of our cars the Property Market by cleansing our streets of children, whenever they appear to be enjoying themselves, or merely being children.
From an early stage, if they are to learn to socialise and feel part of their communities, children need some kind of space, however primitive and improvised, they can call their own. Where they are NOT confined and bossed about at every turn, where they get the chance to negotiate their own rules. The technical term for this process is 'Play'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_%28activity%29
The destruction of communities and the unprecedented consumer spending boom of the last ten years has bulldozed away Play, replacing it with television. There was simply no money in it...
Unless we blame British parents en masse. There is that excuse, I suppose. It seems that catching the ferry from Calais infects every parent with a virus which numbs the sense of nurture in human beings. Shouldn't we try to come up with a vaccine of some kind? Until then, all british parents should be put in prison, perhaps. It's the only way!
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Latest reply: Feb 14, 2007
David Camberwell-Carrot Smoked Dope At Eton
Posted Feb 11, 2007
David Camberwell-Carrot Smoked Dope At Eton, so what? Does this matter? Hasn't the boy suffered enough by not being brought up in a normal family environment?
Is the punishment of pupils taking drugs in public schools the same as in the comprehensives? Are the reasons for drug-taking the same?
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Latest reply: Feb 11, 2007
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