Posted by Ben @ July 14th, 2010 8:58 pm. Filed under: Abolish This!,Anything I Want Is A Human Right,Batshit Mental Rants,Clearly You've Thought This Through,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Duplicate Petitions,Hanging's Too Good For 'Em!,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,Please State The Nature of the Medical Emergency,Sexism,Stand Back! I'm Going To Try SCIENCE!,Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand.,Unreasonable Demands,What A Dick,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?,You Know - We Haven't Banned Anything Lately. — Tags: AndyCC, ngreer —
Abortion. Touchy subject. Touchy enough for at least two petitions on YourFreedom.
Someone decides to have sex, they should live with the concequences. Abortion should be banned for all social economic reasons.Life is a sacred thing, whether you believe it is from God or not, people these days think that you just pop-out of the womb on the day you are born, but it starts before that within the womb.
If people disagree with banning Abortion for social economic reasons, could they please explain why it is differnt to killing a 5 year old because they are not an Adult yet?
Abortion is just legalised mass murder, wrapped up to make everyone feel good about it.
Why the contribution is important
Why should an innocent unborn child be murdered simply because of a “bad” choice to have sex?Why should the taxpayer pay for this? And for the clumsy decisions of others not to use protection?
Why the contribution is important
The right to life is a fundamental human right. The unborn are human. At the moment of conception they become, by any reasonable definition, human. They are genetically members of the species homo sapiens, and between that moment and birth, there is no clear dividing line when a change occurs. If there is no clear dividing line, then no change occurs (if it is illegal to kill at some precise moment and not before, that must be because a significant change occurs at that moment).It follows that to kill the unborn is murder, and the clear denial of that unborn child’s right to life. We will not execute murderers and rapists because of this principle, but we will inflict a particularly brutal killing on defenceless, innocent children. This is unnacceptable in any society that aspires to be civilised.
let’s ignore all of the bollocks pseudo-science and half-arsed presumptions in these petitions and jump to the crux of the matter: making abortion illegal.
What about where protection is used? What about rape? What about incest rape? What about instances where the baby won’t survive childbirth? What about instances where the mother won’t survive childbirth? What about where the baby will be born without a brain? Or, rather simply, what if the woman simply isn’t ready to be a mother? It’s her body, her choice, and she shouldn’t be forced into motherhood against her will, be it because she was attacked in the park or because she just doesn’t want to have kids.
Even taking all of these variables out of the picture, making abortion illegal isn’t going to help. The women that want abortions are still going to find ways of getting them, being it going abroad to somewhere else in Europe where it’s still legal. Or, if that’s not an option, they’ll seek out a “back alley abortion” where statistics show they will, in fact, wind up dead.
So, long story short, it seems AndyCC and ngreer hate women, they don’t think a woman is entitled to ownership of her own uterus.
Posted by Ben @ July 8th, 2010 8:01 pm. Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Invading The Animal Kingdom,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me! — Tags: sophiesheldon —
Why the contribution is important
This law emerged in an attempt to restrict the activities of an imagined group of a particular social class while it has affected a wide range of people across the country. A restriction of civil liberties under the excuse of animal welfare despite the negative impact on animal welfare that the law can lead to.One of the ultimate examples of bad laws made with a motive other than the benefit of the British public.
Well obviously it doesn’t benefit the British public, because the British public aren’t being mercilessly chased by a pack of slathering dogs. I bet the foxes are pretty damned happy about it, though.
Posted by Ben @ May 1st, 2010 8:14 am. Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want,I Find That Offensive!,It's Not Gay If Your Balls Don't Touch,Rejected Petitions,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,Unintentional Irony,Unreasonable Demands,We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts,What A Dick — Tags: david skinner —
by David skinner (rejected)Though in no way wishing to take away the liberty of homosexuals to access homosexual friendly guest houses, of which there are many, we believe that to force Mr and Mrs Wilkinson to conform to the tastes and lifestyle of homosexuals is discriminatory and is a blatant contradiction of the Equality Bill. Our British inheritance to be able to live and speak, according to our conscience, privately and in the public sphere, without harassment or the fear of civil or criminal penalty, is a freedom that once distinguished us from all other nations. This liberty did not come cheaply but cost the lives of our forebears and ancestors. Sadly today it is treated with such contempt by a government that continues to bind us in an ever growing cancerous growth of legislation.As people from all walks of life, political parties, religious faiths and none , but still broadly speaking, citizens of a Christian country, we the undersigned have joined together to stand foursquare with Mr and Mrs Wilkinson in defence of their beliefs and civil liberties.
There’s a sort-of wonderful, ignorant irony in David bringing up the Equality Bill when Mr and Mrs Wilkinson are sort-of contravening the Equality Bill themselves by forbidding homosexuals from using their establishment.
He obviously feels very strongly about this, considering he submitted this and two other near-identical petitions about this very subject. He seems to think that the ideals of people who believe in a magical space wizard are more important than the ideals of people who happen to be in love, irrespective of what their genders may be. In fact, looking at a previous petition of his we featured some time ago, he seems to think that religious ideals (specifically his ideals, which happen to be Christian) trump all other ideals, beliefs and lifestyles. For that reason, he is a cunt.
That’s not a word I use often. It’s not a word I even like using. I have a particular disdain for that word, but then I also have a disdain for people who think that their imaginary friend is more important than… well, than anything else. That makes him a cunt. He is a cunt. David Skinner, who is a cunt, is a cunt.
I honestly can’t understand how someone can think that their God, whom they believe in despite the lack of any evidence, is more important than the love between two people of the same gender, which they refuse to believe in despite the overwhelming evidence presented.
Posted by Andrew @ April 1st, 2010 7:55 pm. Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want,I Deserve Free Money! — Tags: Mr Ed Harris —
by Mr Ed HarrisWomen take up more nhs resources than men, live longer and draw more pension than men; therefore they should pay higher national insurance than men.
This seems fair.
If they didn’t want the extra expense they should have just been men like me and Mr Ed did, although in his case it’s technically called a stallion.
Posted by Ben @ March 24th, 2010 9:46 pm. Filed under: Democracy? Isn't That The One Where You Do Everything I Say?,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,It Says So In The Daily Mail,Join the Fight Against Nebulous Bad-Sounding Things!,Racism,We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts,What A Dick,Xenophobia — Tags: Mr Garry Smith —
Garry Smith is a forward thinker. And by that I mean he looks at the future of the EU and thinks to himself, “It’s full of foreigners!”
And the notion of adding more foreigners to the ever-growing throng does not fill him with the warm fuzzies.
by Mr Garry SmithBlock Turkey entering into the EU. 1) Human rights in Turkey are not up to recognised EU standards and may never be despite any promises. Turkey has reluctantly agreed to end its death penalty in a bid to join the EU, but only in peacetime, and this is a country that has had to be forced to outlaw people smuggling to join the EU, it has had to be forced to outlaw this despicable act, it wouldn’t have outlawed it on its own. Turkey is not part of Europe, it is in the Middle East, and has its borders with Iraq, Iran & Syria, who next to join, Iraq or Iran or Syria or all 3? 2) The EU club is big enough and not one British citizen (except the PM) has ever been given the vote for this to happen 3) This will cause an influx of Turkish people to the UK as happened with Poland 4) The majority of British people do not want the EU any larger or Turkey to join it. 5) Its about time the PM went with the majority in his own country and not because it makes him look popular in Europe.
Ah, the “slippery slope” argument. “If Turkey get in, that means Iraq, Iran and Syria will all want to get in! At the same time! They’ll all get stuck in the door as they try to come through! It’ll be anarchy!”
Did Turkey have to be forced to stop capital punishment and bring in tougher laws against human trafficking? Maybe. Sometimes people need to have their arms twisted to do what is ultimately best for them. But to dismiss their entire worth as a nation because of it? To say that they may never reach EU standards? That’s an impressive piece of dickery, Mr. Smith.
Also, I hate the arrogance of assuming that every bloody thing that happens in Parliament or in the EU needs to be voted for by the British public. Personally, I’m overjoyed that “not one British citizen (except the PM) has ever been given the vote for this to happen”, or indeed for any other manner of thing to happen. If the British public were able to vote on every major thing to happen to the UK then they wouldn’t be part of the EU in the first place, nor would gay couples be able to have civil partnerships. Women probably wouldn’t be able to vote, either. And you know why? Because people like things the way they are. Oh yes, there are individuals and groups who rally for social change, but the masses are quite content to plod along in their uneventful little lives, going to their uninteresting jobs, eating their decidedly dull meals and watching their wholly bland but remarkably high-definition televisions.
But of course, this doesn’t have anything to do with any of those points, does it? It’s more to do with the fact that if Turkey gets into the EU Turkish citizens will be able to come and go from the UK as they please. They’ll be able to move here, seek employment, start businesses, own property, just like the Polish. And you don’t like the Polish, do you Mr. Smith? Oh no, of course not. They’re not local. They talk funny, and have strangely uniform haircuts, and eat pastries with odd names spelt with bizarre letters that look like they might be good, sturdy, British letters. But they’re not! And the worst thing about the Polish? They’re white. You can’t even identify them by sight. Anyone you know could be Polish. You could be living next door to a Pole right now and have absolutely no idea!
What this boils down to, Mr. Smith, is your deeply-rooted racism and distrust of anyone who isn’t from a town you can pinpoint on a map of the Great British Isles.
I’m just speculating, obviously.
Posted by Andrew @ March 7th, 2010 6:14 pm. Filed under: ...Or Else!,Anything I Want Is A Human Right,Anything I Want Should Be Free,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Just Like That!,Lord Knows I Ask Not For Myself,Not Government Business,Reject Rednesday — Tags: george bryans, graham giles, Miss Bethany Gough, Mr Harry Jackson, Mr Nicholas Evanns, Mr Paul Mcilavey of UK Independence Party, Mr Philip Wailing, Mr Tommy Grimshaw —
by graham giles (rejected)We are fed up with politicians not answering a simple yes or no to a petition.
This petition has been rejected.
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Posted by Ben @ January 18th, 2010 11:35 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Mandatory,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,George Orwell Had The Right Idea,I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,I'm serious!,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,Unreasonable Demands — Tags: Robin Rawlings —
I’ll leave the discussion of this charming little petition in your capable hands, folks:
by Robin RawlingsAs a tax payer I fed up seeing my neighbours who don’t work watching their 40″ plasma tv’s, I can’t afford one and I work and pay tax so why should lazy people contributing nothing to the country get more than hard working people. We should force them to work if they don’t work, by building workhouses and then sending them to workhouses.
Posted by Ben @ January 6th, 2010 8:58 pm. Filed under: ...Or Else!,Democracy? Isn't That The One Where You Do Everything I Say?,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,I Have A Sense Of Perspective: Problems That Are Far Away Appear Small To Me.,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,This was Yesterday's News Ages Ago — Tags: Simon Haigh —
by Simon HaighIceland must repay the £2.3bn owed to British taxpayers which was loaned to the country by HMG following the failure of its banking system. Until the loan is repaid, the UK and Dutch governments must veto Iceland’s application to join the EU.
If every country with debts owed to another wasn’t allowed to get involved then the EU wouldn’t get anything done.
…Oh.
Posted by Ben @ December 23rd, 2009 6:41 pm. Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Join the Fight Against Nebulous Bad-Sounding Things!,Just Crazy Enough To Work,Nanny Knows Best,This was Yesterday's News Ages Ago,Unintentional Irony,What A Dick — Tags: Trevor Kenneth Croucher of None —
by Trevor Kenneth Croucher of NoneAirline fuel use and therefore costs are largely determined by weight. Charging passengers by total weight is an obvious extension of what already applies to freight and would remove unfair anomalies. It would also be a big step in making passengers aware of and pay for their carbon use directly.
Hmm, where have I read this before? Oh yes:
Posted by Ben @ December 21st, 2009 4:44 pm. Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Exclamation marks!!!!,I Have A Sense Of Perspective: Problems That Are Far Away Appear Small To Me.,It Says So In The Daily Mail,Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand.,Work Around My Delusions Dammit! — Tags: Colin Moss —
by Colin MossThe UK is in dire financial straights & the Prime Minister has the audacity to pledge 1.5 Billion pounds of the UK’s tax payer money to fund poorer countries climate change policies. The population of the UK is suffering enough & will continue to suffer for many years to come because of the bankrupt state that the government has got this country into, & the UK cannot afford to donate any more funds to countries outside the UK. The priority of this government should be to get the UK economy back on track before pledging funds that we do not have. Any rational & sensible government would control this irresponsible expenditure & ensure that UK takes priority. You cannot spend your way out of debt in this manner otherwise we will be in the mire even further than we are now. You, Your children, Your Grand Children & probably Great Grand Children will be paying the countries debt off due to the insane decisions like this donation made in your name by this government. Stop them now. Oh & just by coincidence the government has stripped 1.5 Billion Pounds from the defence budget !!!!!
Yeah! Fuck the climate! What did it ever do for us?
Posted by Ben @ December 18th, 2009 7:51 am. Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want,It Says So In The Daily Mail,Please State The Nature of the Medical Emergency,What A Dick,What Have Other People Ever Done For Me? — Tags: Mr D Harvey —
by Mr D HarveyPregant NHS staff are able to heavily boost their maternity pay by doing excessive overtime in the weeks and months leading up to taking Maternity leave. Their Maternity pay is based on their average earnings, including overtime in the months leading up to them taking Maternity Leave. Surely this is wrong as I know of people who just take all the overtime they can get the hands on to just boost their Maternity pay. Surely, Maternity Pay should be based on their average earnings over the previous year prior to becoming pregnant so they cannot gain unfairly.
How are they gaining unfairly? They’re putting the extra effort, time and work in, and it’s only fair they should be paid extra for that. I think you’re just being a dick.
Posted by Ben @ December 18th, 2009 7:46 am. Filed under: Can't someone else pay the tax?,Clearly You've Thought This Through,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Duplicate Petitions — Tags: Leigh Favell, Miss Jade Tipping —
by Miss Jade Tippingits a fair tax, 10 pound a year for cyclists to use public roads as any other form of transport requires tax, insurance, m.o.t, whereas cyclists dont need any of these to use our roads and with the governments new policy to keep the planet green they are forcing more and more people to use cycles for work etc, so there are more cyclists on the roads than ever before, i think most cyclists would not mind paying 10 pound a year to use public roads which would generate a very large annual income for the government to use where it is needed.
It’d be hypocritical of me to point out the people complaining about the 50p broadband tax and then turn around and say this idea here is ridiculous. That being said, cyclists account for a virtually negligible amount of wear and tear on city streets. £10 seems disproportionate to the amount of damage we’re doing, especially when you consider that one car alone pumps out twelvety-thousand billion billion yards of greenhouse gases a day. Possibly I am exaggerating.
And while I’m on the subject of the broadband tax…
by Leigh FavellWhy should we have to pay another tax to improve broadband speeds when we already pay tax on broadband.
BT have said the money raised wouldn’t come near to their estimates of the cost to get broadband to all homes.
Well that’s just because BT like to grab money, which explains those Direct Debit fees you also like to complain about.