Don’t trust others? Report them…

We’ve been having a met(Metropolitian Police) Anti terrorism campaign in the UK for the past few weeks, here’s one of the adds:

There are a few others. Is it just me or is this fear mongering on a grand scale? There’s a lot of invasion of privacy going on at the moment, all in the name of crime prevention/anti terrorism, Dna databases, Registering your foreign travel details, stop and search, arrest for just taking pictures, CCTV cameras etc.

Anyway heres another take on the above add:

And another:

And another:

And finally:

And on another subject:

And finally for good measure:

More pictures can be found at the rather excellent BoingBoing site.

The Mary Whitehouse Experience.

A man who uses his home near Bristol as a studio for adult films has been confronted by neighbours protesting outside his property.

“James Edwards, 42, operates a legal pornographic film studio from his four-bedroom home in Bradley Stoke. People who live in the same cul-de-sac demonstrated outside Mr Edwards’ house with placards claiming his business is affecting the prices of their property.”

“Police said they only have evidence of legal activity and can take no action.”

I did think that setting up that kind of business in a residential are would be a bit unusual, it must happen elsewhere, however when I saw this quote, I realised who’s side I was on:

“If you’ve got pornography here now, you’re going to have prostitution next, you’re going to have drugs. In a residential area?”

You mean that prostitution and drug dealing doesn’t happen in other residential areas? It’s quite a leap to suggest that because someone has a legitimate business albeit a little more unusual than the norm, means that the neighbourhood is going to go to hell.

Moral Outrage, don’t you just love it?

The pound is falling, but God doesn’t care, Apparently.

I thought I’d take a look at the Have your say section of the BBC news website. One of the topics up for discussion was the drop in Sterling. Having glanced through the usual right-wing nutter claptrap you get in these sort of discussion forums (Please see my earlier post regarding the A to Z of right wing on-line commentating), I came across a totally new class of nutter.

And this is what he had to say:

“It is my view that this so-called global economic crisis has been contrived by the Iluminati and those involved in the New World Order in order to create the conditions for the introduction of a universal cashless society and one world government. Shortly will be the emergence of the new world leader that the Bible describes as the anti-Christ. As a Christian I am not worried about the pound because my trust is not in the failing humanistic and material values of this world.”

Erm, right.

So how does someone like this come to the conclusion that a world leader is the Anti-Christ? I am aware of certain evangelical Christians who genuinely believe that Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ, I can only presume this is what this fellow is alluding to.

What kind of brainwashing have these gullible people been through to believe this? And more importantly should they ever bee allowed to access the Internet?

Is Melanie Phillips as mad as a badger?

Someone drew attention towards this posting on the Spectator website, a place I don’t visit and a person I haven’t heard of. But What she wrote…

The perception of which is all very interesting. There was me, sat there watching an election campaign conducted between two intelligent and reasonably sympathetic social and economic conservatives, one old and white, one young and black. Meanwhile Melanie seemed to have been watching a black power communist jew-hater storming the barricades of decency…

I don’t know what was more scary, the article or the comments from the readers.

Apologies to any Badgers out there who may be offended by the association with Melanie Philips.

Have I told you how much I despise this man?

The man in question is Rupert Murdoch. Alot of American’s will know him by his ownership of the Fox news network, while in the UK he owns Sky and a number of newspapers, including the Sun.

This clip, demonstates how much I dislike this man who uses his media to promote his own right-wing politics. Free trade Mr Murdoch? You mean the free trade that has crippled the World’s economies? Whats that? Freetrade is the only way to lift billions out of poverty? Do you honestly beleive that?

You think that Europe wants to have protectionist laws? Or is it because they don’t share your political views? The sooner we rid ourselves of this Odious runt from his influence over UK politics, the better the UK will be.

Preaching to the converted.

I don’t know whether the fellow holding the placard is of limited intelligence, but If I was to go around protesting and holding placard’s, I’d make sure I corroborate the “facts” spray painted on it first and not rely on what is preached to me from the pulpit on a Sunday Morning.

I’m sure there are a lot of Christians out there that must despair at this kind of ignorance.