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Why treat other criminals differently to kiddie fiddlers?

It is a general rule of societies in the ‘civilised’ world to despise and ostracise paedophiles. We want them castrated, branded, not living among us, and really, I suppose, we want them dead. If we can’t have them dead, we at least want them locked up and the key thrown away.

To me, this is perfectly acceptable treatment for somebody who has ruined another human’s life. The bit I don’t understand is why our desire to treat offenders against humanity in this way stops with those into child pornography and child abuse. Why aren’t we doing this with everybody?

I don’t mean to distract from the living hell that an abused child carries with them into adulthood and for the rest of their life, but surely a person who holds another captive and tortures and punches them about in order to get to hand over their old age pension, or those who have murdered, should equally be cast out from our society. Some might argue that taking a life is a far worse sentence for a victim than sexually abusing them. Yet we don’t want to inflict the castration, branding, exclusion from living among us, or death on anybody but the paedophile.

Am I alone in not getting this?

I’m all for an ‘offenders’ register, and ‘offenders’ who have comitted crimes in which there were victims being treated the same as the paedophiles. This is what all offenders deserve instead of almost gaining kudos and notoriety as if they’d effectively done nothing but a cool thing.

Only when we treat all criminals with the same disdain and disgust that we treat paedophiles with will we actually start to make our homes and daily lives safer and cast this evil from us.

Your child abuse must stop!

As if with one voice we condemn child abuse.  But, we think of acts of cruelty against children as being the more obvious acts that cause physical pain or discomfort, or the awful starving or torturing to death we hear stories of from time to time. Most ‘ordinary’ parents don’t think of themselves as committing acts of cruelty against their children.

However, these are the parents who are probably quite happy to commit acts of physical as well as mental abuse against their own children without even realising what they are doing.  They’ll probably abuse their child because their parents abused them.

On the physical side, without consultation or the permission of the child, parents will arrange for a circumcision. This means, for reasons that have no basis in medicine or science, the parents decide to remove a part of the penis.  Jews and Muslims will do this because an ancient religion they never question tells them to.  It’s crossed over to other religions as a ‘trendy’ modern form of abuse against a baby.  

Far less dramatic, yet still a physical abuse is the habit of piercing the ears of a baby.  This abuse is because the parents have decided that their child will wear jewellery.  Again, the baby is far too young to be consulted.  Instead, the parents have imposed their view on the innocent child.  Indeed, before the child even understands what they are, it will have had studs stapled through the wounds imposed into its ears.

The greater form of child abuse practised by parents is the mental one.

A child gives its parents unconditional love.  It knows nothing else, and it looks to its parents to be its guardians and to guide its understanding of all this newness that surrounds it.  Making sense of things is so difficult.  Yet rather than really help, the first thing a lot of parents will do is subject their child to the ritual abuse handed down over the years; the abuse of distorting reality.

The first abusive distortion of reality is the lie about Father Christmas.  Instead of putting across the fun of Father Christmas as they would with any other childhood fun, parents will indoctrinate the child into believing that Santa is real.  They don’t do this with Disney characters or cartoons, but they do it about Father Christmas.  How can this be anything but the abuse of an innocent and trusting child?

As the child gets older they are told lies about the tooth fairy.  It’s the parents’ fun little joke and the child is again the victim of the abuse.  They trust unconditionally and know no better.  They aren’t able to understand that their parents find this cruelty hilarious.

There are other lies the parents like to torture their children with, ranging from the bogeyman living in the wardrobe to the monster under the bed.  Then, of course the biggest lie of all will be forcing the innocent child to believe that there is a god, and, depending on the religious choice of the parents, all the peripheral characters of the religion they have chosen.

A child never chooses to believe in a god, its parents force it upon them, along with all the other lies that seem obligatory for childhood.

As a child gets older and starts to work things out for itself, it soon realises with quite an awful sadness that Santa doesn’t really exist.  Sadly, the parents usually laugh and are high with glee when the child has the revelation.  It’s a revelation that usually accompanies what should be the happy and innocent time of Christmas and the Holiday season, but mars it and scars the child for life.  The child gets shouted at for being so soft and for not appreciating the hilarity of the wind-up they have been the victim of.

As the child progresses, other abusive lies are revealed, and it’s not long before the tooth fairy can be dismissed as another bit of parental cruelty. 

However, long into adulthood the fear of the dark and the monster under the bed that the parents indoctrinated the child with remains, such is the victory of the cruelty.

Likewise the religious mumbo-jumbo that parents have fed their children.  That is very hard for a child to break free from.  Although more and more are breaking free as humanity progresses, there are still adults with a belief in a god and the surrounding structure of the particular religion their parents forced on them from birth.  Like with the fear of the dark, religion is quite a hard one to grow out of because it’s designed to not allow the mind to break free.

It can be a lot easier to submit to and not question the religion that parents forced upon a child than to break free from it.  Indeed, part of the ritual structure of the religion is designed to re-self-hypnotise and to keep the mind from free thinking or questioning the logic.  The same mind that questioned and worked out the lie about Santa and the lie about the Tooth Fairy is not allowed to question the lie of the religion.  Anybody questioning is of course going to be subject to terrible punishment later in life, or, in death.  It’s very hard to break free when surrounded by the constant reinforcement of the abuse, and so quite often a child will develop Stockholm syndrome with regard to the religion being practised around them.  It takes a strong mind to break away from this constant and ritual mental abuse. 

I don’t believe children should be abused in the way they are.  I don’t believe they should have bits cut off of holes punched in them, or their minds filled with any of the ritual lies I’ve described.  

It’s about time that parents found committing any of these acts of abuse were prosecuted and punished.

Sigh. Oh for prisons like this over here.

Over here in the UK, we allow the criminals to rule. There is plenty of posturing, but actually no deterrent to any violent crime. Murderers get fined or let off, and those that do make it to prison find Play Stations and Sky TV waiting for them. They get rewarded for whatever it is they did outside.

Bleeping Mc-bleeping-Donald’s

What the fuck is it with McDonald’s? Bleep bleep bleep. All the bleeping time. It’s bad enough that some of their ‘restaurants’ have the ‘tone’ of the in-store music so shrill it’s distorted and deafening instead of being properly ‘background’ or ‘wallpaper’, but in addition there are bloody alarms constantly going off.

The alarms appear to be connected to fryers or other cooking devices obviously letting the staff know that this food or that food is now ready. However, with an alarm attached to every single cooking device, and most of the staff not bothering to reset them, every 30 seconds yet another alarm is bleeping away. Often three or four alarms are overlapping each other and going at the same time.

When trying to give the server an order a customer has to shout over the top of the distorted music and the server competes with the bleeps trying to be heard in return.

What McMental McFucker designed this concept?

It must be at its worst in one of the planet’s slowest and most dis-organised McDonald’s ever - on the East Lancashire Road (the A580) next to the Travelodge on the approach to Liverpool. Bleep bloody bleep bloody bleep as you wait for 30 minutes for your ‘fast food’ order!  Shut the fuck up!

PS to McDonalds:

…and don’t think I haven’t noticed your prices zooming up and portion sizes zooming down. McNumpties.

Jamie could have been ordinary and anonymous

Once upon a time there was a cute little toddler called Jamie.  

He was just an anonymous little boy, and would have probably grown to be just ordinary at school, and with luck, would have had a fairly ordinary job, married and had ordinary children, and just chugged along being anonymous as most of us are, as he enjoyed his uneventful life and grew older and then eventually died.  

Yes, it’s possible that he might have not remained anonymous and ordinary, and he may have had something important to contribute to society and mankind.  Some of us may well have ended up having heard of him, or using the advance in science he’d contributed to, or voted for him to allow him to represent us and make this country a better place.  But, there would be no shame if Jamie had lived his anonymous life as an ordinary bloke.

However, Jamie never got a chance to be anonymous or ordinary.  Instead, he was taken from his mother, and bewildered and unable to comprehend what was happening to him, Jamie was subjected to a few hours of a catalogue of absolutely awful and unforgivable torture.  He was methodically and disgustingly tortured to an eventual death.  The cold and extensive details of Jamie’s slaughter were so awful that grown men like me openly wept.

Poor Jamie’s lot in his short life was not to be anonymous and ordinary, but to become famous and immortalised as a murder victim.  A victim of such terrible acts of brutality that the details were often not fully reported by the media of the day.  To confound and compound the horror, poor Jamie’s torturers were two ten year old boys.

As people on the outside looking in we asked how on earth should we deal with this?  We were not the family or connected with Jamie or his murderers, yet we knew it was not right, felt the confusion and the revulsion and got caught up in the truly terrible emotions of the moment.

We suffer our own bewilderment to this day because Jamie was ritually killed by children.  Reactions range from the liberal-minded wets blaming society and trying to intellectualise about it, through to the lynch-mob wanting to string the murderers up there and then.

What we did end up doing was sentencing the murderers to ‘life’.  Jamie’s sentence, of course, was death.  His sentence was passed down to him by the two murderers who decided to be judge, jury and executioner.  Jamie, of course, had done nothing wrong to be sentenced to death for.  The brutal torture before his death is not something any civilised society hands down as part of a death sentence, and yet that’s what his executioners performed on him.  In exchange for Jamie’s death we gave his murderers ‘life’.

To a lot of the more naive of us, since we are no longer allowed to execute murderers, ‘life’ means putting the murderers away from society forever, and our eye-for-an-eye blood lust has to be satisfied with that.

However, what we don’t realise is that the custodial system doesn’t actually work like that. A judge may well pass down a sentence, but the custodial system ignores it and makes up its own rules regardless of what the judge and the law may have said.  The ‘life’ that the murderers were given was a ‘life’ of one-on-one education and special attention and training for 8 years, followed by a clean slate, a brand new identity, and a guiding hand to leave the custodial system completely and go out and become ordinary and anonymous like Jamie would probably have loved to have been.

A society that feels it needs to reward murderers with all this advantage over Jamie has got to be sick, surely?  Are we really ok with telling ten year olds that capturing and slowly torturing to death a toddler is ok, and as a reward we’ll give them special schooling and opportunities that they wouldn’t have had if they’d not murdered and had instead just tried to be ordinary and anonymous?

It’s no wonder then that when one of the now advantaged murderers does something to abuse his extra special opportunity to become ordinary and anonymous, that we react in a haze of anger and confusion.  We are confused and feel betrayed after all we’ve done to give him the opportunities he removed forever from Jamie.

Ok, the lynch-mob restart their call for instant blood-lust gratification, but more worryingly the clucking ruling classes and liberal elite start their inane excuses and, to my horror, “feeling sorry for” the murderer who has failed to be ordinary and anonymous.

Feeling sorry for him?  What a sick and perverse society we live in, when we feel sorry for murderers who have failed to take advantage of everything extra they’ve been given.

Whether this ‘feeling sorry’ comes from priests from within the Catholic church - an organisation that has only in recent months started to admit that extensive sexual abuse of children might be a bit wrong - or from the ruling liberal elite and middle classes, it has got to be very very wrong.

Surely, the murderer was given his golden opportunity, his wonderful once in a lifetime advantage to be everything he’d not allowed Jamie to be, but he blew it.  It doesn’t matter why or how he blew it, but that’s got to be it.  The Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds the society wasted on ‘rewarding’ Jamie’s murderers has been money thrown away for nothing.  It could have been used to help those who more properly deserved it and had demonstrated they were the ones who deserved it by not torturing toddlers to death.

Sadly, we are obsessed with giving criminals advantages over the victims, and this has to stop.  If there is another victim of one of Jamie’s murderers (we are not allowed to be told), then society and the custodial system certainly will be to blame.  We must learn that ‘life’ has to mean a ‘life’ behind bars for life, if not for Jamie’s sake then for the sake of the latest victim of one of Jamie’s muderers.

We, and I mean ‘we’, could have prevented that.

Facebook is the real big brother

It’s interesting watching the paranoid display their paranoia.  I love their conspiracy theories and listening to them rattling on about how terrible it is that the Government are doing this or the Government are doing that, and their references to it being a ‘big brother’ state.  Fools.  They’ll hold court about cctv or id cards or about paperwork or about photos on id cards or dna records or police stops or anything but the one single thing they should be being wary of: The internet, especially Facebook.

For some reason the paranoia stops at the internet.  They think it’s their friend, even an ally against their fears of ‘big brother’.  They will happily use free web-based mail services or search engines or social networks and media without even seeing what’s really going on.  Information and statistics about them isn’t being collected by the Government or the police, but by the providers of the ‘free’ internet services they are using.  It’s available to anybody who wishes to pay for it, and it’s freely available for those who don’t want to pay for it, even me.

Not only do places like Facebook collect and store all sorts of information about the users, including their entire life story, but Facebook regiments its users in a way that Communist China could have only dreamed of.

Everything about a Facebook user’s life is carefully and obligingly written-up by the user him or herself.  Their life story, their profile, who they are, what they are.  Pictures of their indiscretions, comments on where they’ve worked.  Their families, their holidays, everything. Nothing is missed out. And, as with everything on the internet, it never really goes away. The info is there forever even after it’s currently ‘deleted’.

Nothing on the internet is every truly deleted, once it’s out there it’s out there.

Via Facebook anybody, not just the feared Government or police, can watch as people change from single to in a relationship, get married (complete with all the photos conveniently labelled with who’s who) and then become single again. Everything about the user is available forever.  Now that’s just got to be far superior to any database or surveillance that any Government could have wished for!

Facebook also regiments and controls people.  Just as in Communist China everybody had to look the same and wear the same, so they have to within Facebook.  There is no place for an individual to express themselves outside of the framework and structure they are forced to accept from Facebook.  They have no control over the colours, the content, the fonts, the style or layout of Facebook.  They have to pick the nearest ‘location’ and ‘network’ they are allowed to belong to, they can’t invent a new one.  Those who deviate from the norm and maybe actually belong to more than one ‘network’ are not allowed to.  Those who live in places Facebook hasn’t heard of are not allowed to live there.  Those who are in relationships that can’t be categorised by the options available have to either not mention it, or lie and pick the nearest in order to conform as they are profiled and catalogued.  Everything about Facebook is regimented and fits inside pre-determined little boxes or it doesn’t exist.

This, of course, is because Facebook is really just a huge gigantic database of information and surveillance and an agent of conformity.  It is designed to reduce the independence of the users and to make them passively accept and comply.  It is the ultimate mind control.

Why won’t Facebook users reject any or all of this and make a bid for freedom?  Peer pressure.  They want to be part of what everybody else is part of, and they fear that if they aren’t they’ll somehow miss out.  Truthfully, of course, the only thing they’ll miss out on is voluntarily putting even more intimate details about themselves into the massive database they can never delete anything from.  Fear of missing out on Facebook is so strong that when the occasional account is ‘frozen’ because the user has been ‘out of line’, fear of the loss of all their photos, their online life and friends, drives the user to be completely compliant when their account is reinstated.  Such is the complete level of mind control Facebook has over its users.

To keep Facebook users even more compliant and to start to empty their wallets, low grade ‘games’ are available.  These are far more expensive to use than ‘proper’ multiplayer or interactive games, but Facebook users bow to the carefully designed peer pressure to see what their ‘friends’ are up to when playing these games, and the only way they can do this is to pay to play themselves.  Like a virus it multiplies and takes control of the Facebook user, and it’s also stored as evidence forever.

Would I want to employ somebody whose data I can easily see from Facebook tells me that they spend all day playing games?  Would the pictures of them puking during their latest night out (And why the feck are all the photos people put on Facebook of them hideously drunk?) tell me more about them than I’d get at interview?  Oh look, they can’t seem to hold down a relationship.  Hmmm. That’s not nice, they said they’d kill somebody.  Whoops, is that a hint of racism in that joke on their wall?

Of course, the paranoid conversations we first mentioned about the Government and the police and all that surveillance will even go on via Facebook, yet they are far too conditioned to appreciate the complete irony.  Somewhere the real ‘big brother’ is laughing at just how compliant they are as it’s watching and controlling them.

The price of ‘Gas’ (Petrol)

Don’t Americans (well, the Americans from the United States of) just piss you off with their whinging and whining when the cost of petrol goes up a few cents?

Yes of course they do.

You point out that although they are now paying $4.00 a US gallon, we here in the UK are paying $10:00 a US gallon and they ignore you as if only their pain has any value.

This is typical of the arrogance of this warmongering nation who certainly know how to forcefully step into other countries and take their petrol. It’s all me me me me.

We can only hope that as the US slips further and further into recession that we are watching the slow demise of these tossers who never think of anybody else in the world but themselves. Empires rise. Empires fall. Goodnight America, your time is up..