Category Archives: Civil Liberties

Do you really support protecting all sub cultures against hate crime?

  By Giolla | 2013/04/05 - 14:42 | , , , , ,
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My friends feed continues to be full of people rejoicing at Greater Manchester police not treating everyone as equal before the law, and calling for the extension of hate crime legislation to include alternative subcultures and as the Sophie Lancaster campaign says: “To campaign to have the UK Hate Crime legislation extended to include people from alternative subcultures or Lifestyle and Dress.” The press is even being terribly glad about it and people are writing articles praising this new attack on equality. Last time I checked assault was illegal and so was harassment so there is recourse if you need … Continue reading →

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It’s all hate crime now

  By Giolla | 2013/04/04 - 10:34 | , , ,
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I will confess from the outset that I’ve never been convinced about hate crime legislation, from experience it doesn’t hurt anymore if the people attacking you are calling you names or not, nor do I see why some forms of verbal harassment should be considered worse than another. Still slowly but surely the special interest groups are getting their favoured groups tagged onto an ever expanding list of people you mustn’t say nasty things about. Today it’s the turn of Goths and Rockers to joined the hallowed ranks of special victims, with Manchester police force recording attacks on members of … Continue reading →

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Blog off

  By Giolla | 2013/03/21 - 15:19 | , , , , ,
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Following a rather dubious bit of political chicanery in the early hours, but not in a smoke filled room, our glorious leaders along with friends of Mr Huge Grunt have cooked up a typical mess of a piece of legislation to regulate “the press”. Of course this ignores that everything the press supposedly need to be regulated for was already illegal, and the editors and such could probably have been done on conspiracy charges, nope new legislation was needed #hackedoff insisted on it, and they got it and it went far beyond what Levesson proposed. It’s voluntary except if you … Continue reading →

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Liberty Forum London

  By Giolla | 2013/02/13 - 14:01 | , , , , , , ,
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Thanks to a post over at SamizData my attention was brought to the upcoming Liberty League Freedom Forum in London. the line up of speakers and talks looks good and being close enough to not need accommodation at £25 quid it’d be daft not to. Given my recent fun and games with Drinkaury I’m really quite looking forward to these talks: Chris Snowdon, Director of the Lifestyle Economics Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and author of “Sock Puppets: How the government lobbies itself and why”, on “Are you paying for Prohibition?” Wolf von Laer, chairman of European Students … Continue reading →

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This is not equality

  By Giolla | 2013/02/13 - 00:22 | , , ,
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Now that Drinkaury is over – though of course the fight against the puritans go on, it seems I missed all sorts of other things. This means I’m afraid that I’ll be doing a few catch up posts on the bits of news which didn’t entirely escape my attention. One of those things I’m afraid was this whole “gay marriage” thing. As you may have suspected I’ve a couple of problems with this legislation. The first of which is why are they even bothering with this at the moment, as last I checked: it wasn’t in anyone’s manifesto, it wasn’t … Continue reading →

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In the pay of big Drinka

  By Giolla | 2013/01/03 - 00:37 | , , , , , ,
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Wow I seem to have made it to the big time, or rather drinkuary has. It would seem that I’m in the pay of “big Drinka” over on the “Bad science” forums they’re discussing drinking and health related matters and someone linked to my humble endeavour and well it’s sparked a bit of a thread – which I shall be addressing on Drinkuary tomorrow, but this just tickled me so much I had to comment. Scottish Eric seems to think I’m in the pay of big Drinka, can’t wait for those cheques to start rolling in, some people more reasonably … Continue reading →

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Gay marriage and democracy

  By Giolla | 2012/12/26 - 23:45 | , ,
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According to the Guardian the majority of people in the UK now support the legalization of gay marriage. A term I find odd as it’s not really illegal for gay people to marry it’s just not recognized, which may be splitting hairs but I think points to the way in which the survey was probably phrased. I am it seems learning to be ever less trustful of polls and how they can be slanted. That aside though this lead to people I know uttering statements of anger towards the Rev Vincent Nichols, for having the audacity to suggest that the … Continue reading →

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