Tag Archives: freedom

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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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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Politics, navel gazing and Edith Cavell

  By Giolla | 2012/12/26 - 19:09 | , , , ,
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Just in case the title of this post wasn’t enough warning, I must warn you that this post is rather navel gazing in content and may even tend towards being a bit hippy in places. I do apologize and I shall try not to make a habit of it. As with many other people I get a tad thoughtful around this time of year, partly it is of course the end of a calendar year so seems a good time to review but also it’s quieter at this time of year so I have time to pause and think. It’s … Continue reading →

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The endarkenment

  By Giolla | 2012/12/07 - 00:13 | , , , , , , ,
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With the dumbing down of education and politics and the rise of the new priests of the green god, the god of offense and the god of “health” – who have all demanded that the scientific method, facts and truth be perverted and sacrificed upon their altars the endarkenment is surely upon us. What is the endarkenment I imagine I hear you cry, why I shall tell you, it’s the undoing of the progress we’ve made since the enlightenment, the slow dimming and putting out of the lights of scientific rigor, debate and truth. What value truth if it offends, … Continue reading →

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A good day

  By Giolla | 2012/11/30 - 19:45 | , , , , , , , ,
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It’s almost December and today saw the first proper frost of the winter down in my neck of the woods, leaving a shimmer on the bamboo and Cobb nut trees in my garden (pictured), and despite everything today has been a good day. For the first time in ages I almost start to wonder , like Snowolf did a while back if maybe there may yet be change in the air. Despite Mr Clegg showing once more why they should be called the illiberal democrats (and people may be noticing) by teaming up with Mr Milliband to clamor for state … Continue reading →

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Drinkuary an update

  By Giolla | 2012/11/28 - 23:44 | , , , ,
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As the concept of Drinkuary has now been launched for a whole five days I thought I’d share a small update. Rather gratifyingly the FaceBook event has already over taken Alcohol Concerns “Dry January” by a respectable margin, despite not having months of planning, media consultants and tax payers money to call upon. At the moment Drinkuary is ahead 620 to 513 and improving, apparently people are rather fed up with being told what to do and seeing more and more costs applied to the things they enjoy. If you’ve not joined in already do join in the fun, and … Continue reading →

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#alcoholaware2012 – dry January no thanks

  By Giolla | 2012/11/23 - 11:49 | , , , ,
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Just as No-Smoking day became no smoking month, so the puritans and killjoys are following up Alcohol awareness week with “Dry January”. Not only do they want people to not drink during January – which is fair enough if you don’t want to and it’s traditionally the time of year for new resolutions and the like; but they’d also like people to be sponsored to do this to raise more money for them so they can nag us better. Dick Puddlecote has the details and in some ways it’s heartening to see a fake charity having to make it’s own … Continue reading →

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Modern justice or something

  By Giolla | 2012/10/11 - 17:25 | , , , , ,
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I’m not going to link to anyone’s blog just for a change, but I’m really quite astonished by some of the things that have been said in blogs I tend to frequent. Most of the blogs I read seem to generally be in favour of justice, against mob rule and generally believe in the old fashioned idea that someone is innocent until proven guilty – or at least I thought they did. Following the recent allegations about the late James Saville even before any sort of investigation has taken place an awful lot of people seem to be of the … Continue reading →

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Extreme porn update

  By Giolla | 2012/08/02 - 14:39 | , , ,
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Via Katabasis, it seems what I said ages ago was right – want to get someone in trouble send them a “banned” pick then tip off the police, the offence is possession so how you got it or even if you looked at it doesn’t matter. Mind I love the defence that the e-mail server etc. belong to the company (in the case microsoft) so as you don’t own the mails but merely have a license to access them are you in fact in possession. “DS Callahan was recalled to the witness box. The main point of contention involved the … Continue reading →

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Another slippery slope

  By Giolla | 2012/08/01 - 22:50 | , ,
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Yet another slippery slope that we were all told wouldn’t be applied to nice law abiding people just horrible horrible evil pervert – thus provoking at the time the response from numerous law abiding people of “yeah like hell it won’t just wait”. And thus verily it did come to pass that images of fisting should be classified as extreme porn and the possessors of such should receive up to three years custody and be put on the sexual offenders register. (If you don’t know what fisting is google at your own risk, but not I’d advise at work, or … Continue reading →

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