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August 12, 2004
Almost enough to make one weep ....
On the same day that a senior Judge has created uproar in the Civil Liberties (The "it's OK to be a terrorist and kill people; the justice system can't do the same to you" crowd) coterie by decreeing that evidence of terrorist activity obtained by means of "torture" at Guantanamo Bay is acceptable in court, we have that Islington lefty who presided over, and covered up, a failing Social Services Department in Islington, seeking to launch through a Green Paper, compulsory training for parents on - you guessed it - how to raise (ie: ruin any hope of their being useful and responsible) children. And we have the Bishop of Hulme proposing to ban the singing of "I vow to thee my country" - just about the only patriotic hymn the majority of non-churchgoers know and certainly one of the most popular!
· The good Bishop feels it is too Right Wing and expresses sentiments "more in keeping with 1930's Germany"! Well, Bishop, I will continue singing it. It was written in 1918 as a tribute to the brave men and women who fell in WW1 defending the right of the complete morons who now make the sort of statements today's papars are full of. Enough said!
· The Judge is now under fire for his very sensible view that the evidence could probably not have been obtained any other way, and that there is sufficient hard evidence to make the case anyway. He has upset the likes of Anmesty International and their ilk by refusing to declare that the case should be dismissed because of the "torture". Do these cretins deny that the people involved shot and killed others? Do they deny the fact that they received training in making bombs? No, they make excuses for it. It's all the fault of us nasty developed world capitalists, of course. It's us who should be on trial; being a terrorist doesn't make you a bad person apparently, just another "victim of Western Injustice and torture".
· Then there is Mrs Hodge (sorry that should be Ms, I gather her marriage doesn't count) and her belief that parents who go out to work, make careers, and do their damndest to raise their children decently need to be re-educated to show them how badly they are failing in this. Pretty rich coming from the person who headed the Islington Child Protection units which failed miserably, then investigated themselves and covered it up, finally attempting to whitewash themselves when it was exposed. Now she wants to extend an already existing system of compulsory (that is; by order of the court) programme for parents of truants and persistent young offenders to include middle class parents. Why? Because apparently some moron in Whitehall has pointed out that there aren't many children or parents in this category attending these courses! Well there's a surprise!
So now Nanny Blair and his army of interfering half-baked cronies and their equally inadequate Civil Service hangers on are going to give themselves powers to re-educate every parent in the land on how to be a "good" parent. Of course, their definition of "good" parent is someone who provides designer label trainers and clothes, indulges the childs every whim, never administers any sort of discipline, and turns up to bail the little oiks out of trouble whenever necessary. Oh, and teaches the kids to vote Labour. Don't forget that now, will you.
Posted by The Gray Monk at August 12, 2004 11:58 AM