President Asad has today been airing his views on the rebels fighting in his country. It is as though he thinks he actually owns his country and every life in it. Listening to part of his speech I found it quite laughable as everything he said could of been spoken by a rebel commander who had been given the publicity to air their thoughts. Asad should not be given the oxygen of speech he is now without doubt becoming a tyrant. Much in the same way as Gaddaffi and Saddam have been. These tyrants look after their own and then put the rest of the country into termoil, like parasites they suck the blood out of them.
The freedom of speech is not given to other political parties, to the rebels, to anyone who opposes the views of Asad. His words come across as those of a mad man, again similar to the mad men rulers of yesterday who are of course dead. Asad, you will tear your country apart, Syria needs to be free, you will be guilty of murder and so will your followers. Many will die and it will take a long time, but your days are certainly numbered.
Sunday, 6 January 2013
Saturday, 15 December 2012
America and guns, God Bless the right to murder
The American constitution (second amendment) gives citizens of this great country to right to bare arms. On examining this constitution I can see it has a moral and social equality and how it unifies the people. It is something American's consider with pride and is like apple pie, a very important part of their identity. Beyond words. But the constitution is old, it is out of date. It reflects a time and place when having a fire arm was necessary to survival. So today, it is quiet obviously a redundant feature. You don't need a gun to protect yourself, but you do need a gun to kill. So in this notion of freedom Americans now have a right to not just possess a weapon but for any American to possess a weapon and for them in turn to take the life of another.
Connecticut, Newtown, Sandy Hook Elementary School. A twenty year old young man (Adam Lanza).,disaffected with life, possibly having a mental illness and most certainly emotional instability kills 20 children and 6 teachers. After which he sets the gun on himself and kills himself. He had the right to bare arms, he had the right to protect himself, he did not have the right to kill innocent young children. Children whose parents had probably already bought them Christmas presents. Presents which will now lay unopened for eternity. Children who no longer have the right to life because it has been taken away from them. They will in turn not have their own children, not know what it is like to have their first boyfriend or girlfriend. Now their mothers and fathers will mourn them and wonder if America is such a great country after all. However, if by some chance their parents don't the rest of the world certainly do. It doesn't take much reason to understand, the unavailability of firearms therefore makes it more difficult to quickly kill another individual. If someone is intent on murder there is nothing to stop them. Yet, if they are murderous emotionally unable to control their own feelings or understand them then a firearm gives them the ability to quickly kill and not to consider the consequences of their actions while they are happening.
God bless America, the right to bare arms and the right to kill indiscriminately when an unhinged mind is behind the firearm. The world looks on you and knows, something is wrong, very wrong. The world can see this time and time again. Columbine High School in Littleton America also comes to mind. In the UK such a right does not exist. The number of firearms used in killings is far less per capita. We do have firearms but they simply are not readily available. There are not gun shops scattered all over the place and there is very strict licensing. We don't have it right, but it is better. To this extent we value life. Whereas the right to bare arms removes the right of life.
America get it right, do something. The gun lobby isn't the only lobby, a school in Newtown Connecticut has a viewpoint worthy to challenge any. Sadly though, it will all happen again, because nothing will change.
Connecticut, Newtown, Sandy Hook Elementary School. A twenty year old young man (Adam Lanza).,disaffected with life, possibly having a mental illness and most certainly emotional instability kills 20 children and 6 teachers. After which he sets the gun on himself and kills himself. He had the right to bare arms, he had the right to protect himself, he did not have the right to kill innocent young children. Children whose parents had probably already bought them Christmas presents. Presents which will now lay unopened for eternity. Children who no longer have the right to life because it has been taken away from them. They will in turn not have their own children, not know what it is like to have their first boyfriend or girlfriend. Now their mothers and fathers will mourn them and wonder if America is such a great country after all. However, if by some chance their parents don't the rest of the world certainly do. It doesn't take much reason to understand, the unavailability of firearms therefore makes it more difficult to quickly kill another individual. If someone is intent on murder there is nothing to stop them. Yet, if they are murderous emotionally unable to control their own feelings or understand them then a firearm gives them the ability to quickly kill and not to consider the consequences of their actions while they are happening.
God bless America, the right to bare arms and the right to kill indiscriminately when an unhinged mind is behind the firearm. The world looks on you and knows, something is wrong, very wrong. The world can see this time and time again. Columbine High School in Littleton America also comes to mind. In the UK such a right does not exist. The number of firearms used in killings is far less per capita. We do have firearms but they simply are not readily available. There are not gun shops scattered all over the place and there is very strict licensing. We don't have it right, but it is better. To this extent we value life. Whereas the right to bare arms removes the right of life.
America get it right, do something. The gun lobby isn't the only lobby, a school in Newtown Connecticut has a viewpoint worthy to challenge any. Sadly though, it will all happen again, because nothing will change.
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Shame on University Hospital Wales
The care which nurses now provide in NHS hospitals is coming under scrutiny. Time and time again stories arise how nurses fail to care for patients. This does not apply to all nurses it applies to some, the some who have no compassion for the people they actually look after. Caring for another individual when they're sick is a huge responsibility. To do it correctly includes having all those human attributes which historically have been associated with good nursing. But now it seems these nurses are failing the patients, not giving them water when they are thirsty, cleaning them when they are soiled or making the last moments of life dignified and comfortable. The fact is, these nurses should not be doing the job. They should be sacked. It's simple. Unfortunately the only conclusion I can come to is they are protected by the Hospitals they work in and by their colleagues who believe it is loyal to support one of your own staff.
An example of disgraceful nursing care has just come from MP Ann Clywd. Her husband was terminally ill at University Hospital in Wales. She has spoken about her experience and her husband's death on national radio. If there are any rational spokespersons on behalf of this hospital they should be seeking out who those nurses were on the ward when her husband died. The nurses who put inadequate bed covering on Mr Clywd which would not keep him warm, an oxygen mask which did not fit and did not give him the curtisy of a dignified death. The nurses, the administrator and the chief executive should all be made to account for their roles. There are plenty of unemployed people who want jobs and training, and if these nurses are not up to common basic standards of compassion they should not only be sacked but considered to have broken health and safety legislation. Then called to account and bought to trial. Negligence in the care of sick people is a criminal offence and negligence by common compassion and common sense should be on the statute book.
Shame on you University Hospital Wales
An example of disgraceful nursing care has just come from MP Ann Clywd. Her husband was terminally ill at University Hospital in Wales. She has spoken about her experience and her husband's death on national radio. If there are any rational spokespersons on behalf of this hospital they should be seeking out who those nurses were on the ward when her husband died. The nurses who put inadequate bed covering on Mr Clywd which would not keep him warm, an oxygen mask which did not fit and did not give him the curtisy of a dignified death. The nurses, the administrator and the chief executive should all be made to account for their roles. There are plenty of unemployed people who want jobs and training, and if these nurses are not up to common basic standards of compassion they should not only be sacked but considered to have broken health and safety legislation. Then called to account and bought to trial. Negligence in the care of sick people is a criminal offence and negligence by common compassion and common sense should be on the statute book.
Shame on you University Hospital Wales
Friday, 26 October 2012
A Chancelor who loves history but can't add up
I really can not understand how a man who has a degree in Modern History can actually be qualified to run the country's bank account. Yes, I'm talking about an ignoramus called George (the Toff) Osborne. The very man who has led such a privileged life he believes the best way to cut the budget deficit is to put a tax on pasties. He of course doesn't eat them himself but he does see a lot of poor people eat them and believes they may as well dig his rich banker friends out of a hole. Just as Cameron jumps up and down and says it was the previous labour government which put the country in the place it is now. This excuse is now wearing pretty thing, again this is the excuse of an idiot who does not actually look around to see how much traffic there is on the road before crossing it. "It's a world bloody recession you twat," is bellowed by an under 35 year old who has found out they will not get the adult rate of subsistence in housing support and have to share a house with multiple other occupiers.
As for the Liberal Democrats, well. Bile rises up inside when I think how they came across as a rational clear thinking alternative before getting in bed with the Tories and creating one of the most dangerous coalition governments there has ever been. Mark my words. Lib Dems will not see the poster of power again for another 70 years once the coalition ends. They have well and truly signed their own death warrant. There is no third party alternative. What will happen is voters will get disillusioned and then vote any other crack pot political grouping. Then Parliament will be crammed out with loonies all representing their own interests and nothing ever getting done. It will be proportional representation by stealth, something the Lib Dems have never considered, but then by that time there will probably only be one Lib Dem left in parliament and he or she go in by pretending to be something they're not. No change there then.
As for the Liberal Democrats, well. Bile rises up inside when I think how they came across as a rational clear thinking alternative before getting in bed with the Tories and creating one of the most dangerous coalition governments there has ever been. Mark my words. Lib Dems will not see the poster of power again for another 70 years once the coalition ends. They have well and truly signed their own death warrant. There is no third party alternative. What will happen is voters will get disillusioned and then vote any other crack pot political grouping. Then Parliament will be crammed out with loonies all representing their own interests and nothing ever getting done. It will be proportional representation by stealth, something the Lib Dems have never considered, but then by that time there will probably only be one Lib Dem left in parliament and he or she go in by pretending to be something they're not. No change there then.
Monday, 6 August 2012
The privileged classes just don't know
Sparkling has been watching the Olympics and then asks if I have seen
it. No I reply, which is more out of stubbornness than anything else.
For I can not see there is any justification in 9.4 billion pounds being
spent on it, when 9 high tech state of the art hospitals could of been
built and ran and saved thousands of lives. Bile rises up in me. This
country is not rich and is going through the worst recession in
history. The UK is in a new age in many respects and it will take at
least ten to twenty years before we see a change, and it is not guaranteed that change will be for the better. It could be we are now
becoming an under developing country who's status is moving from innovator and producer to user and stagnation. Maybe it is the pessimist head I have put on which is effecting me. Maybe everything will be hunky dory, but why do I feel this would be false optimism. Just like the time Thatcher was in government and managed to degrade and make the working classes nothing more than something stuck to the bottom of her shoe. There is only one common theme, Tory ignorance is it.
The privileged can not, and do not understand what life is like for the working classes or the unemployed. They have not felt poverty, by virtue of their wealth. Anyone who has been bought up from a privileged family or background will not understand how tough it can be. They take for granted and acceptance when the light is switched on it will work. The notion the electricity bill has not been paid doesn't come into it. When a privileged person sits down to eat, they don't wonder about the amount of food on their plate, a person who has experienced poverty will. But also in the experience of this they will have compassion for others. They know what deprivation is, a privileged person never can. They also know what it is like to be taken advantage of, to be discriminated against because they can not afford decent clothes. They have not sat in overfilled classes and been taught by teachers who are worn out and are no more than child minders to teenagers who don't want to be there. They don't know how depression and disaffection towards the future, effects those teenagers living in it. They don't know what it is like to be waiting in a hospital for hours on end needing medical attention, or not go on a holiday because it can not be afforded, year after year. And Tory leaders have always lacked compassion to be completely loaded with their own ignorance.
If they don't know what more than half the country is feeling how can they run the country? They simply can not. The results of their poor decision making will make the poor even poorer, the vulnerable more vulnerable and the greedy richer still.
God save the Queen, but don't give a toss about the rest of us.
The privileged can not, and do not understand what life is like for the working classes or the unemployed. They have not felt poverty, by virtue of their wealth. Anyone who has been bought up from a privileged family or background will not understand how tough it can be. They take for granted and acceptance when the light is switched on it will work. The notion the electricity bill has not been paid doesn't come into it. When a privileged person sits down to eat, they don't wonder about the amount of food on their plate, a person who has experienced poverty will. But also in the experience of this they will have compassion for others. They know what deprivation is, a privileged person never can. They also know what it is like to be taken advantage of, to be discriminated against because they can not afford decent clothes. They have not sat in overfilled classes and been taught by teachers who are worn out and are no more than child minders to teenagers who don't want to be there. They don't know how depression and disaffection towards the future, effects those teenagers living in it. They don't know what it is like to be waiting in a hospital for hours on end needing medical attention, or not go on a holiday because it can not be afforded, year after year. And Tory leaders have always lacked compassion to be completely loaded with their own ignorance.
If they don't know what more than half the country is feeling how can they run the country? They simply can not. The results of their poor decision making will make the poor even poorer, the vulnerable more vulnerable and the greedy richer still.
God save the Queen, but don't give a toss about the rest of us.
Thursday, 19 July 2012
PC Harwood -Guilty as...
PC Harwood has been found not guilty of manslaughter, even though he is responsible for the death of an innocient bystander Ian Tomlinson on 01st April 2009. Harwood attacked Tomlinson while Tomlinson was strolling away with hands in his pockets. Harwood is known to have had 10 raised incidents during his carreer when he showed excessive violence. Yet he still walks away clear. I can't see how such a verdict has happened. He must be guilty of something, his actions led to the death of Tomlinson. Could this be another case of the judicial system protecting its own even when it knows its own are rotten? When someone is attacked from behind, and they have not shown any form of aggression or provocation how can the assailant be allowed to walk away free? To what extent can British justice ever redeem itself after such an event? In a barrel of apples all it takes is one bad one and the rest turn.
This man should not be allowed to ever work in any law enforcing role,
or one of authority. The disbelief pushes me to the point of speechlessness. Especially in considering had Harwood's actions been taken by another citizen who was not wearing a Police uniform then would the outcome of been the same? Hell no. Not in a hundred years.
This now leaves it up to the family of Tomlinson to decide whether to take Harwood through the civil court process. Even to use the phrase of Health and Safety, because under such law Harwood again becomes personally liable for what he did. In full reality this is what he should be accepting, full personal responsibility. Instead listening to the news a character sketch is drawn of Harwood, he is a man who tends to see red. Who has an aggressive streak and can not help himself. Yet because someone can not help themselves it doesn't mean they be allowed to walk away from their actions with no punitive justice. In this high profile case there indeed has been none.
A fund should be started up by the relatives of Tomlinson. A war chest to which the public can donate monies so further legal action and prosecution can take place. This has now become an event of the people versus the judiciary. Harwood can not be allowed to get away with murder.
This now leaves it up to the family of Tomlinson to decide whether to take Harwood through the civil court process. Even to use the phrase of Health and Safety, because under such law Harwood again becomes personally liable for what he did. In full reality this is what he should be accepting, full personal responsibility. Instead listening to the news a character sketch is drawn of Harwood, he is a man who tends to see red. Who has an aggressive streak and can not help himself. Yet because someone can not help themselves it doesn't mean they be allowed to walk away from their actions with no punitive justice. In this high profile case there indeed has been none.
A fund should be started up by the relatives of Tomlinson. A war chest to which the public can donate monies so further legal action and prosecution can take place. This has now become an event of the people versus the judiciary. Harwood can not be allowed to get away with murder.
Monday, 16 July 2012
11 Days to the Olympics
Well it's only 11 days to the Olympics kicks off for real. Like it's actually happening here in London. What the rest of the world don't know is the farcical nature of the whole thing. The 9.3 billion pounds spent on an event which barely any real Londoner can view in person. Yet will be expected to carry on paying for the Olympic legacy over many years to come. We all know London should not of won the event, lets face it 9.3 billion pounds could of been spent on something a hell of a lot more beneficial for the entire country. For example half a dozen top quality hospitals spread up and down and all over the UK. Hospitals with new standards and additional finance to support them. Hospitals which would help take the country into the standard of NHS care it should have but will actually not have as it is continuously eroded by the present government. 9.3 billion pounds could of paid quite a bit towards a lot of surgery as well.
In the mean time it has come out in the wash the main security firm G4S is not up to the job. This company employs the cheapest labour it can to make the most profit it can. The security contract it has taken out is worth half a billion pounds. Yet it pays minimum pay to it's officers. I heard on the radio how a regular contractor to the Olympic venue walked through security with no problems, not just because he was a regular but because it seemed they didn't care two hoots about doing their job. Young men in their late teens were larking about, they wore the uniforms but they didn't know or understand the full duties of their job. The consequences, this is serious, very serious. Theresa May looks like an idiot. The government had a report on the capabilities of G4S about ten months ago. It stressed concerns they were not up to the job. And they definitely are not. Nobody wants to consider what may happen at the event, nobody wants to consider the inevitable question which MI5 must be thinking about. Has something already happened? I think back to when the IRA bombed the conservative conference hotel some twenty plus years ago.
The road network in London will be gridlocked. This is an inevitable event, there is not a single Londoner who does not know and believe this will happen. The Olympic lanes are ordinary roads in a city which is close to maximum capacity. The fear of not having Olympic lanes is that athletes would not be able to get to events. Well I got news for you, this little topic will raise it's ugly head during the event and some emergency travel arrangements will have to be put into place. Even if it means using a helicopter to ferry them from one place to another. It makes me wonder if the rest of the world knows the concerns Londoners have, whether they are privvy to the same radio shows, discussions or news items in papers as we see and read here. Traffic is likely to be blocked up for hours and I am taking a guess but some events could even be postponed. Then again I'm a pessimist on this matter. But as the saying goes, hope for the best and plan for the worst. I recon some worse planning scenarios need to be thought about pretty quickly.
In the mean time it has come out in the wash the main security firm G4S is not up to the job. This company employs the cheapest labour it can to make the most profit it can. The security contract it has taken out is worth half a billion pounds. Yet it pays minimum pay to it's officers. I heard on the radio how a regular contractor to the Olympic venue walked through security with no problems, not just because he was a regular but because it seemed they didn't care two hoots about doing their job. Young men in their late teens were larking about, they wore the uniforms but they didn't know or understand the full duties of their job. The consequences, this is serious, very serious. Theresa May looks like an idiot. The government had a report on the capabilities of G4S about ten months ago. It stressed concerns they were not up to the job. And they definitely are not. Nobody wants to consider what may happen at the event, nobody wants to consider the inevitable question which MI5 must be thinking about. Has something already happened? I think back to when the IRA bombed the conservative conference hotel some twenty plus years ago.
The road network in London will be gridlocked. This is an inevitable event, there is not a single Londoner who does not know and believe this will happen. The Olympic lanes are ordinary roads in a city which is close to maximum capacity. The fear of not having Olympic lanes is that athletes would not be able to get to events. Well I got news for you, this little topic will raise it's ugly head during the event and some emergency travel arrangements will have to be put into place. Even if it means using a helicopter to ferry them from one place to another. It makes me wonder if the rest of the world knows the concerns Londoners have, whether they are privvy to the same radio shows, discussions or news items in papers as we see and read here. Traffic is likely to be blocked up for hours and I am taking a guess but some events could even be postponed. Then again I'm a pessimist on this matter. But as the saying goes, hope for the best and plan for the worst. I recon some worse planning scenarios need to be thought about pretty quickly.
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