Thursday, October 1, 2009

A Progressive Conservative?

C. S. Lewis once wrote; “If you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

At some point in our past, our elected leaders have veered from the path that our founders started us on in 1787. It is clear that the road that we are now traveling on is not sustainable. We must return to our conservative roots. We must return to the days of individual choice and individual responsibility if we are to return to the road of prosperity.

This involves changing the way that our elected officials think and act. This involves replacing them with people who will stand firm on the principles that made this country great. This involves electing true leaders.

I am prepared to lead, to stand firm against all opponents and with your support we can return to the days of liberty that our founders envisioned.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Harriet Harman,What was she thinking?

Gordon Browns speech yesterday afternoon at Brighton was a farce as far as I am concerned, it was a speech of desperation and self interest, getting his poor wife to stand up and list all his qualities to the audience both in the hall and on TV was a sign of man who is trying everything he can to stay in the job that he was not elected to do.

A very dangerous person, would you let her baby sit for your kid's?? I think not

Thanking  Harriet Harman was a bad idea, What has she done for this country other than to introduce  politically correct diversity and equality laws, she has introduced laws that will for the first time mean employers can discriminate against white people when there is a choice between black and white, this woman is mad, she does not understand anything about the people of this country nor where they are coming from politically, she hates men and the traditional family, she say’s that men are not important when it comes to raising children, and the government wonder why we have so many feral children running about causing havoc.

The article below taken from the Telegraph Newspaper shows what a sick and twisted creature she really is, please read it and pass it along to your friends-

The Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality, who also sits on a Cabinet committee on young people’s welfare, is being touted as a possible successor to Gordon Brown, .

But she faces fresh criticism from Opposition MPs and campaign groups after The Daily Telegraph obtained documents showing that she called on ministers to make sexually explicit photographs or films of children legal unless there was evidence that the subject had been harmed.

At the time she made the official submission, she was a senior figure in a civil liberties organisation that wanted the age of consent to be lowered to 14 and incest decriminalised. It also defended self-confessed paedophiles in the press and allowed them to attend its meetings.

Last night Tim Loughton, the Shadow Children’s Minister, said: “Clearly there is a serious conflict of interest with the committees she sits on, who might want urgently to clarify her position on the exploitation of children for the sexual gratification of adults.

“It’s a shame that Miss Harman’s zeal for positive discrimination and all things politically correct among adults does not extend to the exploitation of children. Any child who is used for the sexual gratification of adults counts as an abused child and needs protecting.”

Miss Harman, 58, was a newly qualified solicitor when she became legal officer for the National Council for Civil Liberties, now known as Liberty, in 1978. At the time its general secretary was Patricia Hewitt, who went on to become health secretary under Tony Blair.

Among the groups affiliated to NCCL were the Paedophile Information Exchange and Paedophile Action for Liberation, whose members argued openly for the abolition of the age of consent. NCCL complained to the press watchdog about their treatment by tabloid newspapers and said in one article: “We support any organisation that seeks to campaign for anything it wants within the law. They have that right.”

In NCCL’s official response to the Government’s plans to reform sex laws, dubbed a “Lolita’s Charter”, it suggested reducing the age of consent and argued that “childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in, with an adult result in no identifiable damage”. It claimed that children can suffer more from having to retell their experiences in court or the press.

Amid growing public concern about adults preying on children, the Protection of Children Bill was put before Parliament in order to tighten the laws on child pornography by banning indecent images of under-16s.

NCCL’s official response, signed by Miss Harman and submitted in April 1978, claimed that the new law could lead to “damaging and absurd prosecutions” and “increase censorship”.

She suggested that a pornographic photo or film of a child should not be considered indecent unless it could be shown that the subject had suffered, and that prosecutors would have to prove harm rather than defendants having to justify themselves.

Her submission states: “Although this harm may be of a somewhat speculative nature, where participation falls short of physical assault, it is none-the-less justifiable to restrain activities by photographer which involve placing children under the age of 14 (or, arguably, 16) in sexual situations.

“We suggest that the term ‘indecent’ be qualified as follows: – A photograph or film shall not for this purpose be considered indecent (a) by reason only that the model is in a state of undress (whether complete or partial); (b) unless it is proved or is to be inferred from the photograph or film that the making of the photograph or film might reasonably be expected to have caused the model physical harm or pronounced psychological or emotional disorder.”

It adds: “Our amendment places the onus of proof on the prosecution to show that the child was actually harmed.”

Miss Harman left NCCL in 1982 when she was elected MP for Camberwell and Peckham, by which time several members of PIE had been jailed for conspiracy to corrupt public morals.

A spokesman for Miss Harman said: “She has always opposed child pornography and has never supported PIE and to suggest that she did is untrue and misleading.

“NCCL’s approach to the protection of children’s bill was to argue for clear definitions in the bill to make sure the law was precise so that it was about child protection and not about censorship.”

The spokesman added: “PIE had been excluded from the NCCL before she became legal officer.”

However press cuttings from 1983 make it clear that it was still considered an “affiliate group”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/4949555/Harriet-Harman-under-attack-over-bid-to-water-down-child-pornography-law.html

Old Media--Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Silent, Irrelevant and Fading Fast

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New media in particular blogs are growing.

Old media is in decline:

 

“…While old media is still on top, the trends in the survey, which has been conducted each of the last three years, point to a familiar story: media consumption habits are quickly changing. That said, some forms of new media are performing much better than others. For example:

- Blogs are now used by 24% of Internet users, up from 13% in 2006

- Social networks are now used by 26% of Internet users, up from 17% in 2006

- Videocasts are now used by 11% of Internet users, up from 6% in 2006

 http://mashable.com/2009/01/29/stats-old-media-decline/

Background Articles and Videos Old Media

“… The old media or legacy media are traditional means of communication and expression that have existed since before the advent of the new medium of the Internet. Industries that are generally considered part of the old media are broadcast and cable television, radio, movie and music studios, newspapers, magazines, books and most print publications. Many of those industries are now less profitable than they used to be and this is has been attributed to the growth of the new media.

Old media, also known as traditional media, comprise art forms like music, dance, puppetry, street plays, theatres, fine art, folk-art and tribal art. Traditional media are used to spread awareness about social messages, social evils, bad practices that need to be stopped. In West Bengal, India, puppetry was used to create awareness about HIV and AIDS. …”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfPoLtnXLr8&feature=channel_page

 

Making Old Media New Again

“….It’s make-or-break time for many newspapers. Denver and Seattle recently lost dailies, the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times are both in bankruptcy, and owners of the Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle threaten closure. One reader mourned the loss of her local newspaper in Connecticut by lamenting that she had gone from living in a city to living off just another exit on Interstate 95. As comedian Stephen Colbert put it last week, “The impending death of the newspaper industry: Where will they print the obituary?” …”

“…The recession is accelerating these trends, with advertising so soft even Web-only news operations, which don’t have the legacy costs of print, are now struggling to support journalism. …”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123958338833312319.html

 

 

 

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Policing the public gaze

The assaults on citizen photography continue

This one almost got away from me, I’ve had it hanging around in my bookmarks for a while but I’ve been so busy lately that this blog has had to take a bit of a back seat.

The Manifesto Club’s publication of Pauline Hadaway’s report reveals nothing particularly new but does highlight the need to keep the issue out in the open and in front of our politicians. About 18 months ago, for instance, I was assured by an officer of South Tyneside District Council that small notices were going to be erected at certain venues along South Shields sea front (the South Marine Park, Bents Park, and the covered Promenade and Amphitheatre) advising people that photographers were operating in the area, that it was lawful, and nothing to be wary of. This followed a spate of complaints from some parents that their children had been photographed in public, or that photographers were being denied lawful access to public events in public places by officials who thought they were looking after our safety and well being. Those notices never appeared!

So little joy for citizen photographers, although it is fair to say that I for one have seen less of a threat from council officials, police, PCSOs, or security stewards over the past twelve months in South Shields. The wider problem still exists throughout the UK, and as Pauline’s report illustrates there is a pervasive and sinister attempt to have the cameras put away, the irrational fear is that anyone seen with a large camera in a public place must be viewed as either a child molester or a terrorist. Yet if if you are seen to be taking pictures with a mobile phone nobody will suspect anything out of the ordinary – it really is a quite extraordinary state of affairs when public paranoia spreads to the innocent recording of life which we have done since the invention of the pin hole camera.

Hadaway argues that it is important that people are able to take spontaneous photographs of public life, whether of children or any other contemporary touchy subjects: ‘We need to stop this self-censorship.’

You can download her report (.pdf) – here.

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Clever things from other people

Amusing things from around the internet, because I have a desperate need to procrastinate but no energy with which to do so:

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First of all, we find that Bastiat est de retour in the form of Bryan Caplan’s muse:

  • Basic economics is intuitive (Library of Economics and Liberty)

Dr. Caplan presents four reformulations of “counterintuitive” propositions in more intuitive form, usually by going to one extreme and stepping back slightly.  Consider:

Counterintuitive claim: Free trade makes countries richer, even if the other countries have big advantages like cheaper labor or more advanced technology.

Intuitive version:  We’d be better off if other countries gave us stuff for free.  Isn’t “really cheap” the next-best thing?

He solicits requests in the comments.

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Next we visit an evil right-wing gun blog.  See, it’s got guns in it, so it must be evil and right-wing.

  • Yeah, that’s my fear (SayUncle)

Being evil and right-wing and stuff (you can tell ’cause of the guns), SayUncle… tears a strip off of Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who apparently believes that gay marriage is ‘part of a socialist agenda to undermine “the foundations of individual rights and liberties”’ and isn’t ashamed to say it in public:

Yeah, they’re the ones doing that. It was totally the gays who passed roving wiretaps; mandated two flush toilets; made it a felony to import lobsters in bags and not boxes; eliminated my right to choose which light bulbs I can use; mandated that all my banking transactions be monitored; and said I needed a proctological exam to board an airplane. That was the gays alright and not boneheads whose names start with Rep.

But wait, it gets better!  In the comments we discover this gem:

When a Republican starts talking about individual rights and liberties, they’re basically just making a gang sign. The only purpose is to say specific phrases that identify them to other Republicans as a member of the tribe.

Republican gang signs.  I love it.

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Via Offsetting Behaviour, we next discover that the Scottish BrewDog brewery have released… well, I’ll just link and quote:

  • Brewery launches low-alcohol beer, calls it Nanny State (Brad Taylor’s Blog)

A brewery has launched a low alcohol beer called Nanny State after being branded irresponsible for creating the UK’s “strongest beer”.

Scottish brewer BrewDog, of Fraserburgh, was criticised for Tokyo* which has an alcohol content of 18.2%

…sorry, I sorta glazed over for a minute there. 18.2% beer, eh?  Someone tell Stone.  But if you thought that was funny, enjoy this:

Jack Law, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, said of the new Nanny State beer: “This is a positive move which proves that low strength doesn’t compromise quality.”

(”Jack Law”?  Really?)

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Next, skippystalin enjoins tourists in Canada to experience this country’s subtle and complex social narrative:

If there’s one thing I’d invite my foreign readership to do, it would be to hitch-hike across the country and ask every local they see, “Why isn’t there someone from Toronto here telling you what to do?” Oh, the friends you’ll make that way! Nothing is more popular in Canada than Toronto.

That last sentence is patently true: most of us would seize upon the option of replacing Toronto with nothing.

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Finally, how about some anarchocapitalist agitprop?

  • The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel (L. Neil Smith & Scott Beiser / Big Head Press)
  • Alongside Night (J. Neil Schulman / pulpless.com)

Sex, violence, and elemental gold as a medium of exchange.  What’s not to like?

(Rumors that my middle name is “Neil” and that my last starts with “S” are largely unsubstantiated.)

Monday, September 28, 2009

CDC Drafts Isolation Order for H1N1

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
September 28, 2009

The following draft of an “isolation order” was discovered on the  CDC’s website. It is a template for state and local officials to impose quarantines and what would effectively be martial law.

“Your illness [as determined by state and local officials] requires that you be isolated and requires further public health investigation and monitoring.”

Failure to obey will result in imprisonment without bail prior to trial and the possiblity of a two year prison term.

In other words, according to this document, officials can impose quarantine without evidence that somebody is actually infected with a virus that is now negligible at best. It may also be used to quarantine potentially millions of people suffering from any number of illnesses — or not suffering from any disease at the discretion of the state — that have nothing to do with H1N1. It is basically a carte blanche for martial law under the cover of protecting the public from a communicable disease that is demonstrably a manufactured and weaponized threat.

American Police State

According to the United State Constitution, American Citizens HAVE the right to “peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”  When did that right disappear?  As you can see below American’s no longer have Constitutional rights.  We are in a Police State run by both political parties for the sake of maintaining power.  No longer to our officials respect or obey the Constitution.  No longer to our officials care for the people.  It’s all about power an money!!  No longer do our police officials protect us.  They protect their fascist leaders!!  Revolution is here and it’s time to fight back to restore our great land to it’s Constitutional foundations!!

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.