Pigdogfucker

Four years in jail for using a mobile at the wrong moment. Longer than, y’know, an actual robber or violent thug who chose to harm people would have got.

There is no moral difference between the poor girl who’s just had her life ruined, and every other driver who has driven without paying full attention to the road, which includes every single fucking driver.

I hate the way too many dickheads, and our justice system, are too fucking brain-dead to understand this.

And since you ask, if one of my loved ones were killed by a texting driver, I’d be very sad and I’d think that they were very unlucky – but I’d speak at the trial of the poor sod who crashed into them begging the judge not to ruin someone else’s life as well in a miserable, medieval quest for vengeance.

I seem to recall, about 18 months ago, the “we’re libertarian, err, except when it comes to Muslims, who should probably all be sent home or killed or something” branch of blogland getting very excised about the reaction to some puerile cartoons of an old religious geezer.

“We live in a dhimmi state”, was the cry. “People who publish these cartoons get censored and harrassed, while the fanatics who protest about them get away with it.”

Now the judicial process has run its course, let’s see the final statistics: number of people prosecuted for disseminating said cartoons: 0; number of people jailed for several years for protesting about them: 4.

Mysteriously, the dhimmibollocks brigade has been silent about this. It’s almost as if it didn’t fit their paranoid conspiracist agenda…

A disturbing number of people have been endorsing Boris’s hilarious decision to run for Mayor of London.

Fine, if you’re endorsing him because you want buses to be abolished, subsidies for your 4×4 and don’t give a fuck about the poor. Or if you’re so right-wing that you think shaking hands with Hugo Chavez makes someone inherently eeeeeeeeevil.

But if the reason you’re endorsing Boris is because you think Ken Livingstone is antisemitic, then you’re a fucking eejit and should be gassed [*]. He isn’t. There is no evidence that he is: only the ravings of paranoid nutjobs.

[*] with apologies to certain ex-bloggers

Consider a business which – despite repeated complaints from its landlord renders the area around it unsafe. Through its lack of proper procedures, it causes someone to suffer serious injury, in precisely the same way envisaged by its landlord.

I’m not a huge fan of lawsuits in contexts such as libel, but this seems like a situation where the victim is entirely reasonable to sue – and where the dodgy business that kept up dangerous practices despite fair warning frankly deserves to be put out of business.

Unsurprisingly, the Daily Mail disagrees with me.

The BBC showed an invited audience a slightly misleading trailer for a documentary about an old lady being photographed. Another branch of the BBC picked a child from the studio audience to enter a quiz competion after its phone system went down (and also, 30 years ago, pretended a tortoise hadn’t died).
If you think that these utterly trivial accusations prove anything beyond the fact that BBC’s critics will clutch at any straw in their paranoia, you are silly.
If you think this throws into question whether the BBC should exist, you are bonkers.

I would rather die in another 7/7 style attack committed by someone who’d previously been released because of a lack of evidence of their guilt, than live in a society locked people up indefinitely without evidence on the off-chance that they might do bad things.

If you disagree, you don’t deserve to live.

From the comments at Commentisfree:

Can you please explain how almost every Muslim family in the west is willing to murder, yes murder their daughters if they marry outside their faith?

I can: they aren’t. And you’re a loony.

Mmm, tattooing your own eyeballs…

On reading the ‘young girls shagged ‘n’ bribed into smuggling coke for dodgy Africans, now facing ten years’ third-world hard labour’ story, I thought it would be hard to find anyone who thought this was a sane, fair or proportionate outcome.

I mean (sensible point) they’re only kids who barely know what they’re doing and (slightly less sensible, but still more accurate than most prohibitionist commentary) cocaine is a consensual and mostly-harmless-to-third-parties way of making rich wankers slightly less rich and more wankerish for a few years, until they get over it or die of heart attacks.

Digression: and if anyone’s got a ‘my [relative/friend/person I saw on TV/dog] died of DRUGS and they’re EVIL and must be STOPPED’ sob story, then fuck off. Whoever you know that died of coke-related illness undoubtedly had a fuck of a lot more fun than you ever have or will in between their first line and their demise…

Unwisely, I turned to the Daily Mail messageboard:

Withdraw their citizenship, do we really want them back after their sentence is complete?

- Andy, Bradford, England

If only our lilly-livered government could take such strong action!

I hope our media will ensure this is given as much publicity as possible to deter other potential smugglers.

- John, East Sussex, UK

They deserve everything that is meted out to them for this!

- Terence, Hereford, UK

What fucking planet are these mad cunts on? How can anyone greet the ruining of a child’s life for a trivial non-crime with a ‘mmm, yeah, good, more of that please’?

Sometimes I actually, rather than merely for satirical effect, despair at the utter mindless idiocy and sheer evil of the scum we’re forced to share this planet with…

The failed bomb attacks on London and Glasgow have damaged public perceptions of Islam, a survey has suggested.