what a diffference a day makes...

I knew those pigs masks would come in handy again

Yesterday, I was out with various political groups ranging from the Freedom Association and UKIP to Class War and Socialist Worker (and everything in between) protesting that no one will be prosecuted for the videoed assault of an innocent man, Iain Tomlinson.

With a bitter irony, a man was sent to prison just this week for throwing an egg (scream!) at one of our Masters, Baroness Warsi.

Then this morning, I awake to read the joyful news that no charges will be pressed against the officers who did this to an innocent man.

Until our Police can be held accountable by us, their employers, there will be no peace. Time for all of us to withdraw our consent and become Freedom Wardens

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Join me at the CPS at Noon

At noon today, I will be at the offices of Mr Creedy himself , Kier Starmer to protest at the disgraceful unaccountability of the Metropolitan Police

Join me if you can.

Criminal Prosecutions Service (unless you are a Policeman)
Rose Court,
2 Southwark Bridge
London SE1 9HS

UPDATE: MPs in court today. Guido has the story

UPDATE 2: Lord Prescott, the mouth of the humber, is at the Chilcott inquiry today. Expect hilarity

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Personal Bullying by the State

I often wondered about the ASBO. To be frank, I never understood them and am more than happy to see the back of them. I don't believe they reduce crime simply because an ASBO is issued for something that isn't actually a crime. If it was, you could charge the "offender" under current laws and they could have their day in court.

Instead, the ASBO was created to be the most unjust "punishment" for behaviour that someone decided you and you alone were not allowed to display and if you ignored them, you went to prison.

Think about that for a moment. You go to prison having commited no crime and with no jury to judge you. Anyone else can display the same behaviour as you and will face no punishment but you and you alone, will go to prison.



Some examples of the state bullying an individual can be found here

We already have laws against anti social behaviour. We don't need the state making up new ones to pick on individuals. Good riddance, Asbo.

A 60-year-old man from Northampton was banned from dressing as a schoolgirl.

Peter Trigger's Asbo stopped him from wearing skirts or showing bare legs on school days between 0830 and 1000 and 1445 and 1600

a bid to ban an 18-year-old from wearing low-slung trousers was dropped earlier this year. Ellis Drummond, 18, from Rushden, Northants, was instead barred from using threatening behaviour and demanding money.

A "militant atheist" who left explicit images in a prayer room at Liverpool John Lennon Airport was given a five-year Asbo in April.

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ASDA shoppers are mutants, says Mayor

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Get ready for Cold Turkey

We all sat back and watched Labour build a client base of the feckless, the idle and the worthless. Thirteen long years of watching the pubs on council estates grow ever more busy at lunchtimes, a rapid rise in the number of amusement arcades and betting shops in the high streets, along with row after row of Dominoes Pizzas and Fried Chicken shops blighting our towns. In a word, shameless

What was financing this destruction of civil society? Where was the money coming from to allow people to simply squander their time and cash on well...nothing?

Readers, I give you incapacity benefit. The pay rise for the useless. £89 a week instead of £64 on the dole. And naturally, Labour were keen to make sure it's core vote were rewarded so at the slightest ache from pulling on one arm bandits all day or the groggy headache from six pints of White Lightning, a visit to Dr Onwonkwe would see a raise of 50% in your benefits.

Naturally, businesses were instructed that we were becoming a nation of cripples and were forced to install ramps and lifts, handicapped bogs and disabled parking so that the kebab bloated unemployable were not in any way inconvenienced by real life.

Guess what. You've been rumbled. That limp you picked up playing five a side soccer is no reason for you not to earn your own wage. That anxiety attack you have every time you realise you might have to get a job is about to get very real for a change.

76% of those claiming incapacity benefit have just been found out as fraudsters and are now looking at a 30% reduction in their beer and fags money. All 1.8 MILLION of them, including the 2,000 who were simply "too fat" to work.

I have no problem with you not working. There are plenty of Poles happy to take your job, pay their taxes and integrate into British society. Where the problem lies, is in me funding your idleness, so that you can vote for the Party that promises to wipe your arse for you. I can hear the screams of outrage from Wales as I type. I can sense the fear in the faces of the tattooed football shirted shaved apes as they drizzle into their Stella.

When we have finished with you, you will have responsibility, an income of your own, some self respect and some money in your pocket. We will break your addiction to free (other peoples) money and hopefully you will value the cash in your pocket because you earned it. It won't slip so easily into the hands of Kebab sellers or scratchcard booths.

You can of course opt out by simply not claiming any benefit. I'd encourage it. You'd be amazed how little you can get by on when you concentrate, and this will focus your minds perfectly

Get ready for cold turkey, then freedom from welfare slavery.

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+++UN inspector Blix says war illegal+++

Developing....

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The difference between a Tory and a Libertarian

Many assume that Libertarianism is the far right of Toryism or indeed, the far left of anarchy. It isn't. It is simply the right to live your life unmolested by the State or others

Well done Dave, more please. Guido disagrees

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the Bonfire

ABOLISHED

ARTS

*UK Film Council
*Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
*Advisory Council on Libraries
*Legal Deposit Advisory Panel
*Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck S ites

HEALTH

*Health Protection Agency (HPA)
*National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
*National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse
*Alcohol Education and Research Council
*Appointments Commission (CQC)
*Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (by end of this Parliament)
*Human Tissue Authority
*Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (to be made a self-funding body by charging a levy on regulators)

*NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

EDUCATION

*General Teaching Council
*Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency
*British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA)

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

p class="font-null"> *All eight regional Government Offices: South-West, South-East, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, North-West, Yorkshire & the Humber and North-East
*Eight out of the nine regional development agencies (the exception being London) and some of their local subsidiaries: Advantage West Midlands, East Midlands Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward, South-West Regional Development Agency, South-East England Development Agency, East of England Development Agency, North-West Regional Development Agency, One North-East
*Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property policy (SABIP)
*SITPRO (Simplifying International Trade)
*Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Advisory Body (WAB)
*British Shipbuilders Corporation
*UfI/Learndirect
*Learning & Skills Improvement Service
*Institute for Learning
*Standards and Verification UK
*IiP UK
*Hearing Aid Council
*Investors in People UK

HOME OFFICE

*National Policing Improvement Agency

ENVIRONMENT

*Sustainable Development Commission (funding withdrawn)
*Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
*Agricultural Wages Board, the 15 Agricultural Wages Committees, the 16 Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committees and the Committee on Agricultural Valuation
*Inland Waterways Advisory Council
*The Commons Commissioners
*Infrastructure Planning Commission
*Commission for Rural Communities

MERGED

ARTS AND SPORT

*UK Sport and Sport England
*National Lottery Commission with the Gambling Commission

UNDER THREAT

ARTS

*Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, English Heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund, National Heritage Memorial Fund – could be merged
*Advisory Committee on National Historic Ships (declassified, functions transferred to another body)
*Theatres Trust (declassified, so can act as an independent statutory advisory body)
*Churches Conservation Trust (could be declassified, pending talks with the Church of England)
*Visit England and Visit Britain (status, role and functions will change)
*Design Council (under review)

BUSINESS

*Local Better Regulation Office
*ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service)
*Local Better Regulation Office
*Ofcom (in the short term it is losing its policy making power)

FOOD

*Food Standards Agency (its responsibilities have been much reduced)

ENVIRONMENT

*Carbon Trust (could be merged into new UK Green Investment Bank)

EDUCATION

*Partnership for Schools (school-building)
*Training and Development Agency (was facing the axe, but may now be spared)

SOCIETY

*Children's Commissioner for England – under review
*Equality and Human Rights Commission – has been accused of wastefulness by Home Secretary and faces further cuts

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Going for gold

Whilst the powerful and the good pat themselves on the back this morning over their "success" at the progress of the Olympic village, it might be worth reminding the people paying for it all what exactly is the price of a British Olympic medal.

• Gold: £19 Million
• Silver £19 Million
• Bronze: £7 Million

And that's without building an Olympic village or Stadiums. That's just what we spend on training athletes to beat other athletes to show the world that the British way of life is the best in the world, rather like the East Germans, the Chinese and the Russians used to during the cold war. Even if they haven't got any legs.

Why are we building a whole new complex? To prove that we can. Even if we can't fucking afford it, there is no way on God's Earth we are going to let the Joneses next door know that we are skint and will be handing our debts on to our grandchildren.

Has anyone been to East London lately? Apart from being the world's largest buidling site, it is also a suburb of Bangladesh. The only local regeneration is the building of Mosques and five a side football pitches so da local yoof have somewhere to stab each other whilst dealing in heroin.

Why couldn't we have done Greece a big favour and said "you have it". You've just built everything needed, you're skint and it seems a shame just to let all that stuff go to waste. Nope. Political ambitions come first. So Boris will take his seat on opening night and beam at the world whilst handing you and I the bill for his place in history.

When the party is over, the canoe courses, the velodrome and numerous other purpose built structures will slowly fall into decay or be converted to halal abbatoirs or Madrasses to cater for "local needs".

What a bag of shite.

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the Devil you know

Call me cynical, but if I wanted to maintain a massive military presence in the Middle East in order to look after the vested interests of oil companies and arms manufacturers, the last thing I would actually want is to catch Osama bin Laden.

From Wikileaks

“These meetings take place once every month, and there are usually about 20 people present. The place for the meeting alternates between Quetta and villages (NFDG) [no further details given] on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The top four people in these meetings are [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar, Osama bin Laden, Mullah Dadullah and Mullah [Baradar].”

What a tangled web we weave....

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