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September 16, 2004

Disaster to left, Emergencies to the right, and stupidity straight ahead?

I don't know, I go away for seven days, and it seems the world falls apart! As Hurricane Ivan mauls its way across the Caribbean and into the Gulf Coast one does have to wonder at the weather patterns that have produced three such violent hurricanes in one season and on more or less the same track. Global climatic change may well be a factor, but interestingly, this is not as unusual as it may appear. It appears that these super storms (and indeed the apparently unusually wet August in the UK!) are not as unique as first thought.

Admittedly, records pre-20th Century are a bit unreliable, but there are accounts of equally devastating "seasons" dating back to the Spanish Dominion of the 16th Century. These storms do rampage through the area regularly, but many simply glance past most of the main inhabited areas. That said, Florida really has taken a hammering (is still getting hammered!) and we can only extend our sympathy and our aid where possible to the victims. Our prayers are also helpful at this time.

Then there is the ongoing drama of hostage taking and murder by Islamic "Heroes"

Of course, in a few months I will probably get prosecuted for saying this - it will be "inciting religious hatred" under Mr Blunkett's new anti-Christian and anti-Jewish law. Following on from the horror of Beslan, the latest kidnapping of a Briton and two Americans in Bagdad will no doubt end in more murder. One more "triumph" for the appeasers and for the men of violence who now reign with impunity while the lawyers drag out with endless technicalities the pitifully few trials (maximising profits!) and the liberal left continue to turn loose murderous psychopaths convicted of bombing and shooting those who dared to stand up to them. Add one more victim to the pile - the Briton shot dead in the street in broad daylight in that model of democracy and tolerance - Saudi Arabia.

One more thing: Blunkett's new law masks is the fact that Islam is now aggressively proselytising in the UK and whole areas are now proclaimed to be under Sharia Law and not British Law by the fundamentalists who have been promoted and encouraged by the "Multi-cultural" claptrap brigade. The media don't publish it, the politicians don't talk about it, and anyone who dares is marked for attention by the bully boys from the likes of Al Hamza's disciples. Attacks on Jewish Synagogues and cemetaries are up, attacks on churches are up, Muslim propaganda against Christianity is increasingly offensive - but Mr Blunkett thinks that Islam needs to be given even greater power to permanently change our society to yet another third world sinkhole of fundamentalism. Pretty good record so far? You ain't seen nothing yet!

In the midst of all this disaster and emergency what does our overstuffed and arrogant political elite do? Why, ban the hunting of foxes!

In scenes yesterday that must cause even the most cynical of us to quake in our shoes, parliament rammed through a law which eats at the very heart of democracy. Simply because it can, this obscene government of class warriors (all themselves from the class they despise the most!), filled with their spiteful envy of anyone who has managed to rise above their level of filth, have finally shown their true colours and emerged covered in disgrace. The anti-hunting lobby so ably represented by that self-made obnoxious little tyrant Dennis Skinner, the equally obnoxious Alun Michael with his complete paucity of reason, the equally obnoxious Tony Banks, and the oily Gerald Kauffman and other idiotic supporters of this ban, have nothing to be proud of. The motion passed only because they have an overlarge majority, and will only get through to being law by invoking an Act intended for use in National Emergency - not for when some tyranical minority wish to impose their will.

After yesterday, democracy is dead; it remains now only to dispose of the stinking corpse. The countryside will not take this lying down, and Blair will live to regret his cynical surrender to this ignorant, arrogant, and totally anti-democratic pressure group within his party - a move designed only to save his own political hide. As the truth about this cynical and power hungry little worm of a man becomes daily more apparent, I wonder that the populace of these isles does not rise up with the huntsmen and their supporters and throw the entire House of Commons into the Thames.

Mind you, think of the pollution that would cause!

Posted by The Gray Monk at September 16, 2004 01:22 PM

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Posted by: Ozguru at September 17, 2004 01:08 PM