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2008
Periodical Political Post *1
Posted by: Josh in Fight, tags: Austria, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, UK, USA
- Obama shows his real face and supports wiretapping, guns for everyone and the death penalty.
- UK runs “anti-paedophile" test with more than 11 million people. Oh. My. Fucking. Goodness!
- How to blame a printer for copyright infringement - The inexact science behind D.M.C.A. takedown notices.
- Dennis Kucinich introduces Bush impeachment resolution - of course nothing will happen *sigh*
- Atemstillstand dank RFID - Wie der Überwachungswahn auf ganz unvermutete Weise Leben kosten kann.
- Warum die Iren “Nein” sagten - Eine statistisch-individuelle Betrachtung zu den Reformplänen der EU.
- Unser täglich Brötchen - Wo Arbeit richtig weh tut. Bericht von Günter Wallraff über Lidl-Zulieferer.
- Östereich nutzt neue Stasigesetzte massiv aus - alle 45 Minuten wird die Identität eines Internetnutzers festgestellt.
June 27th, 2008 at 20:14
the world is crazy, let’s try being the few sane people in it.
June 27th, 2008 at 20:44
Obama: After voting in nine Presidential elections here in the U.S. (yes I’m old), and only having three of my choices win, I will allow for some sins by Obama. The alternative is frightening. You have to understand the makeup of the U.S. electorate, most of them are lazy and do not research the candidates. They mostly base their vote upon who looks good, and what the late night comedy shows say about the candidates. In other words, most Americans are idiots.
UK paedophile test: Sounds like ‘Minority Report’ the movie, punishing people for what you think they are thinking.
Kucinich: I would have voted for him but he dropped out of the presidential race early.
June 27th, 2008 at 23:09
I think the Supreme Court was on target with its firearm ruling. I have owned handguns in the past (for protection) and think it is wrong to ban law abiding citizens to own a firearm. I am probably in the minority in this blog, but I was upset they overturned the death penalty for the child rapist. I think they should face the ultimate penalty when they rape a small child.
June 27th, 2008 at 23:17
Kill, Kill, Kill, it’s the American way.
June 28th, 2008 at 08:46
I really don’t understand who can possibly be AGAINST law-abiding citizens owning guns. Having them TAKEN AWAY is just as bad as wire-tapping. It’s against our constitutional rights. That being said, I really dislike Obama on all sides, always have.
*Write in Ron Paul ‘08*
June 28th, 2008 at 11:07
Hey… what happened to Uncle Sidney’s Inkplum?
I am sure he passed the paedophile test so let us know when he may be up and running! OK?
June 29th, 2008 at 00:29
“It’s against our constitutional rights.”
Maybe your constitution should be abolished then? Or at least “amended”. Last time I checked it wasn’t written by God, so perhaps some things in the constitution could be bad?
June 29th, 2008 at 01:09
The sad truth, I suppose, is that nobody seriously seeking power in modern America can sustain progressive views for long, if ever they held them in the first place (Obama seems as close as it gets). The polis is too deep in the thrall of bigoted Abrahamites (the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells, painting Islam as the antichrist and San Francisco as a latter-day Sodom), and too raptly in love with resilient myths of the Frontier, with their spirit of laissez-faire subjugation of the infinitely resourceful prairie. To say the least, the American political climate is none too conducive to rational thought, whether on the complexities of social systems or on morality, so the vacuity of Obama’s supposed leftism is hardly surprising.
As for the UK CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) checks, there is really no reason to get so excited: they are investigations into whether those hoping to work with children have any pertinent criminal convictions, not assessments of their sexual tendencies. The term “paedophile test” is therefore a misnomer: paedophilia is a sexual predisposition, not a synonym for previous convictions for sexual relations with children. For the same reason, comparisons with Minority Report are also misguided.
June 29th, 2008 at 04:50
Kucinich: impeach Bush? Why do you care you are in Germany? Bush was given the go ahead by the Dimwit Dems.
June 29th, 2008 at 05:13
I care because US politicians tend to fuck up not only their country but the whole world.
June 29th, 2008 at 16:25
You write Obama supports “guns for everyone”, as though this is a bad thing. IT’S NOT! We Americans are under attack, under attack from our own government. For those of you reading this who DO NOT watch the corporate new media outlets, and study the alternative news media, you know what is going on.
Americans need all the help we can get, and part of that help is for us to own our guns, for our own protection. As our economy collapses, and the police state increases, our only protection may be our guns.
This is time for all of us to unite, NOT DIVIDE! The controllers are masters of “Divide and Conquer”, we need to UNITE and accept other views, and fight for our rights. We may need our guns to protect ourselves from a criminal government.
WE MUST UNITE AND FIGHT THESE CRIMINALS WHO ARE TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY AND THE WORLD!
June 30th, 2008 at 00:06
@Lucian
No, it’s not only about people who want to work with children:
“In one example, a woman could not kiss her daughter goodbye on a school trip because she had not been vetted.”
Her daughter!
July 1st, 2008 at 00:18
Josh,
My point was that the CRB checks are focussed purely on past criminal convictions; that they are not assessments of whether individuals have paedophile tendencies. I mentioned this because an earlier commentator (Alan) drew parallels with the film Minority Report, which is about presumptions of guilt before a crime has been committed; this suggested that he (and perhaps others) were labouring under the misconception that the tests determined something more than criminal convictions. I didn’t mean to stake out any particular position on the scope of the checks or on whether they had “gone too far”; there could well be cases such as the one you cite.
While I’m at it, though, I will say that the anecdotes mentioned in the Telegraph’s report could easily have been taken out of context, that there is no evidence that cases such as these are at all widespread, and that, as a UK resident, I know for a fact that there is no concerted effort on the part of the government to vet parents before they can kiss their own children. To reiterate, though, I remain open to the idea that the “risk culture” in Britain is based on paranoia, and is a pernicious influence on the lives of prospective volunteers and children alike.
July 1st, 2008 at 00:31
UK has more than 11 million past criminal convictions!? I mean… what counts as a crime? Getting a parking ticket? And even offenders should have the same rights as anyone else.
July 1st, 2008 at 02:47
I supports wiretapping, guns for everyone and the death penalty. Wiretapping is a good thing! and I need more guns (cheap guns)! And Germany has got a ton of guns I want. And the death penalty. Hell yea America prisons are over crowded. On top of that prisons in the USA are income for the private companies that run them. Americas prisons are a revolving door for people that don’t give a fuck!! Don’t care about thing!!
When was the last time someone of the chair in the USA??? Death penalty is the great use of USA tax payer dollar!! Look at Iraq!! I not talking about parking tickets in the UK. Talking about killing murders that get life in prison. I have to pay out of my pocket to let some guy that is not worth shit. Get 3 meals a day and get a education? Kill them it is cheaper!!! feed them!?!?! Put a cow in the court yard, ok!! And what ever happens, happens!
July 1st, 2008 at 23:43
Josh,
The article says that around eleven million people have undergone the CRB checks, not that eleven million have failed them; most will have been declared safe to work with vulnerable people, having no past criminal convictions. I don’t suppose, incidentally, that parking or traffic-related offences will be considered at all pertinent.
When it comes to most of the human rights covered by the Universal Declaration, such as the right to life, I agree with you that offenders have the same rights as anyone else. The right to work with children, however, is surely one that can be forfeited if a person is demonstrably at risk of abusing their position of trust. It is perfectly justified to prevent a convicted child rapist – not one as falsely defined by age-of-consent laws, but one who has, beyond a shadow of a doubt, sexually assaulted a child - from gaining unfettered access to children; indeed, it is part of society’s duty to its most vulnerable members to actively restrict that access. This need not be vindictive, and it need not run counter to efforts to rehabilitate past offenders into the community; it is justifiable purely out of concern for children. The support networks that have been set up to help previous child sex abusers provide a vivid real-life example of this humane approach working in practise: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/19/socialcare