You’re welcome to be offended

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As it’s Friday a cartoon. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal get to the heart of the difference between being “offended” and something being “offensive”

This is offensive, I am offended

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For the removal of all doubt

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Bob crow during his appearance on “10 O’clock Live” Bob Crow has proved himself an utter idiot. His genius idea for solving the current financial crisis (it was all caused by the bankers don’t you know, not by years of Government borrowing)is …. a tax on e-mail. He reckons that charging just a penny per e-mail would solve the whole fiscal dilemma we find ourselves in, after all which would we rather a mere penny per e-mail or to lose meals-on-wheels and hospitals. So lets just ignore how on earth you’d actually collect such a tax, or what you’d do about all the people using e-mail servers abroad, or the effect such a tax would have on the IT industry. As all of that would be far to easy to pick on – instead I’d just like to observe that in the same interview the rather well remunerated Mr Crow observed that no matter how much his union members earned he’d be campaigning to get them higher pay – presumably so they could afford to eat after paying all the taxes he’d raise to avoid cutting spending. Of course given his presumably aspirational salary the odd tax increase or three won’t make much difference.

I’m not actually sure why I watch “10 O’clock Live” as it has less wit and offer poorer commentary than either “mock the week” or “have I got news for you”. I think I’m still trying to decide if it’s a comedy show based on news or a news show trying to be funny. In either case it fails – but I’d like to work out just how it’s failing and what depths of idiocy it can actually plumb. I’m going to resist the temptation to whinge about any of the other bits of tonights show as I’m still boggling at Mr Crows “tax email” scheme – which they did manage to be incredulous about.

In other news apologies for even lighter than normal blogging work is a bit mad and will be for the next while at least, and I’ve had the odd social commitment all of which has conspired to keep me away from the keyboard.

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We’re all just a pack of cards

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Via the erudite pen of Captain Ranty it would seem that at least one Judge is inclined to agree with the freeman argument that it’s out legal fictions created with our birth certificates that are liable for Council tax and the like and not us. The Judge is at the very least uncertain enough to have told a council to go away and prove it’s case, having accepted that if the council can have representation then the legal fiction represented by the birth certificate can also have representation – thus accepting the differentiation between the human person and the legal person.

This has the potential to be quite a game changer, especially as more people follow the same route. I expect we’ll see lots of cases being dropped rather than being taken to court as happened with excessive bank charges – though I suspect this may prove a trickier thing for the powers that be to get out of. Though they may of course just pass a law saying that black is white and hope that no one notices, go read the comments over at CR’s as they explore various ways this may or may not pan out – but right now it’s a really terribly interesting development. Also pop over to Leg Irons for his take on the matter.

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