Posted by Ben @ August 31st, 2010 8:48 pm. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants,Commas,Exclamation marks!!!!,I Am A Brain!,I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,I'm Keeping The Whole Class Back,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,It Says So In The Daily Mail,Not actual freedom -- just what I wanted. Which is basically the same thing.,Racism,Sorry, What Was I Talking About?,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts,We're British, Dammit!,Work Around My Delusions Dammit!,Xenophobia,spelin an grammer — Tags: JANET —
cancel human rights law, and get out of this e.u monstrous mistake!!!!!!!Why the contribution is important
To give this country the freedom, and rewards, that the true British deserve. The “so called human rights, seem only to work for illegal immigrants, who are known terrorists, thieves, and gang members. You have only to watch documentaries, or read the national press to see what I mean. All the time, you can see “illegals” given housing, some of them, mansions, that cost thousands of pounds ,in the name of human rights. Benefits should only be paid to people who have paid into this country, i.e. tax, and national insurance . We are a laughing stock. The last government, (and I use the word government, loosly) cut funding to universities, so that HOME students only have very few places, the rest of the places, of which there is many, go to foreign students. Only if you are financially independent, can you get a place in university. Some-one I know of, gained the marks at college, which he was told, that last year, with those very same marks, he would have been able to gain access to university, but now, like the funding,every thing has been changed! The worst thing was, he was told ” It’s a pity you cant go to Africa, for three yearsbecause then, you could have come back to this(his own country of birth) as an overseas university student.
You can’t argue with that. You really can’t. Not because it’s accurate in any way, but because doing so is like volunteering to have your frontal lobe slowly sawn off with a piece of rusty barbed wire.
Posted by Ben @ August 31st, 2010 3:05 am. Filed under: FREEDOM!!,Hadrian's Firewall,I AM TALKING!,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me! — Tags: govt_helper —
Many site users here including myself have had posts removed by the moderators for in our view inadequate reasons, based on other protests I’ve seen here.Moderated forums in general present a problem, because the moderator is constantly asked to take sides – i.e. decide between somebody’s right to post, and the rights of somebody complaining about a post.
The best solution would be SELF-MODERATED forums, such as exist on the BBC 606 site, so that whoever starts a thread can delete abusive comments on it if they please, as the BBC put it “are in control of their space.”
Because otherwise we just have the constant DENIAL OF FREE SPEECH.
To put it simply, I want the right to say what I want on MY idea page without being abused, and I give in return the right to everybody else to do the same, say what they like on THEIR PAGE, and delete any comments they find abusive.
The tag system on this site is for example a major source of ANONYMOUS ABUSE, and once again, should be under the control of whoever starts the page, unless the site administrators are quite happy about the poster being abused, as appears to be the case on this site to date.
Why the contribution is important
Moderation is preventing proper free speech, not only here, but throughout many or most forums and message boards on the Internet.Unless somebody posts defamatory material or abusive language (i.e. 4 letter words, etc) the public should be entitled to express themselves as freely as they please online.
Everybody is offended by SOMETHING, so there is no way that moderators can protect all posters from abuse, so naturally they are going to discriminate against some people in an unfair manner, based on their own personal prejudices.
Thus the only solution is either unmoderated or self-moderated forums.
Because if we don’t get true free speech, we’ll never solve these problems we face, by pretending things are other than they really are, just because somebody’s “feelings” are going to be hurt, because they have a problem facing up to the truth.
Moderation on an internet forum = GOVERNMENT TRAMPLING OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH. See? It’s maths. You can’t argue with that.
Posted by Ben @ August 7th, 2010 3:27 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Free,Can't someone else pay the tax?,I'm Religious So You Have To Do Everything I Say,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,What Would Idiot-Jesus Do? — Tags: frneil —
Some years ago the Inland Revenue created a vast amount of unnecessary work for itself by starting to tax Catholic priests on their “income”. Most of us have very little by way of income (usually just the stipends for the Masses we celebrate) and given our service to people/society status, it seems a little unnecesary to tax us on the little we receive.Why the contribution is important
It’s important to us priests because we have little enough income as it is without then being taxed. Also, to be honest, we may have moral objections to some of the purposes to which our taxes are applied.
Your “society status” has bugger-all to do with it, you pompous git. You’re earning an income and regardless of what it is you’re doing to earn it you should be taxed upon it. If you’re not earning enough of an income, do what rhe rest of us lot in the unwashed masses do and get a second job or something.
Also, a lot of people have “moral objections” to how taxpayers’ money is spent, but oddly enough that argument doesn’t quite stick when the Revenue send someone over to bust your kneecaps.
Oh, and one more thing:
Matthew 5:42: Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Romans 13:7: Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Seems pretty clear where your God stands on the matter, doesn’t it Neil?
Posted by Ben @ August 6th, 2010 7:05 pm. Filed under: My Other Car Is Another Car,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,This Is What We're Outraged At This Week — Tags: masson123 —
Nearly 200,000 motorists have been fined a total of £8m in the past year after being caught on CCTV cameras, according to a new report.The report, from campaign group Big Brother Watch, says that more than 50 CCTV Smart cars are patrolling 31 council areas and raised the equivalent of £322,789 last year for each town hall that uses them.
The cars are used to film motorists who use bus lanes or who are judged to be driving without due care and attention.
The 25 councils that released data said they raised a total of £8,069,715 from 188,000 motorists between April 2009 and March 2010.
Dylan Sharpe, Campaign Director of Big Brother Watch, said, “The CCTVa very dangerous escalation in Britain’s surveillance society.
£8 million is an eye-watering amount to take in fines in just 25 councils.
It is surely only a matter of time before more councils start using these cars. The Coalition Government must act now and prevent that from happening.”
Why the contribution is important
200,000 motorists have been fined by caught on CCTV
This guy sees the total amount of fines and instead of thinking, “Wow, the British public are really bad drivers,” he thinks “These CCTV cars are an outrage, I’ve decided!”
Posted by Ben @ August 5th, 2010 5:06 pm. Filed under: Meta-petitioning,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me! — Tags: ukdaw —
Why the contribution is important
We, the public, have been asked to contribute to the coalition government by suggesting areas for change.It is wholly inappropriate for moderators of this site to repress the views of the people by determining that no further discussion shall take place.
This demonstrates the hypocrisy surrounding Government, and clearly shows that, as usual, we are free to do what we like, unless the government don’t like it.
This is why the coalition government are just as corrupt and controlling as the Zimbabwean government.
Yes, that seems to be an honest, entirely non-hyperbolic comparison.
Posted by Ben @ August 4th, 2010 7:02 pm. Filed under: ...Or Else!,Invading The Animal Kingdom,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,What a Baby — Tags: ctgodderidge —
The last Labour government introduced this act out of spite and perceived class hatred. It is not, and never was, anything to do with protecting animals.Why the contribution is important
This act has been proven to be unworkable.
Posted by Ben @ July 29th, 2010 8:47 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Mandatory,Batshit Mental Rants,FREEDOM!!,I Am A Brain!,I Find That Offensive!,I Must Be Of Something,I'm Religious So You Have To Do Everything I Say,I'm serious!,Not actual freedom -- just what I wanted. Which is basically the same thing.,Really REALLY Bad Ideas,Solve My Imaginary Problems!,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,Unenforceable Laws,Unreasonable Demands,Unworkable Ideas,We Petition The PM To Climb This Wall Of Text,What Would Idiot-Jesus Do?,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: Debra —
Oh dear. Here we have Debra, a precious little dumpling who seems to think that all legislation is trumped by “God’s Law” – y’know, stone the gays, women to be used as a form of currency, that sort of thing. Debra’s brain exists in that special cerebral universe designed specifically for the sort of person who usually lives in America attending Tea Party rallies, only in this instance she (presumably) lives in the UK, and the only Tea Parties she attends are parties where she drinks tea.
Let’s have a look, then: (more…)
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 @ March 29th, 2010 11:26 pm. Filed under: Not Government Business,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me! — Tags: Paul Chillington —
by Paul Chillingtonmany sovereign states within the eu appear not to adhere to basic tenants of human rights/equal opportunities and often abuse their own judicial infrastructures to the benefit of family, friends and associates. This often occurs at the detriment of a third party, often being a british citizen who has relocated to an eu country to reside and pay into that countries economy either through business/taxes,property or skill. When these countries abuse the rights of british citizens blatantly and illegally, by use of a system which is not transparent , accountable or regulated independently, there should be an avenue open for obvious cases of corruption/nepotism to be addressed outside the normal agreed and accepted avenues, such as exhausting the appeals procedure of that country before being eligible to approach the eu court for breach of human rights and other rights. In reality expat victims have not the time/money to follow these procedures resulting in action not being pursued.
Maybe it’s just me (as is occasionally the case with some of the petitions I share) but I don’t really think this is any of the British government’s business.
Posted by Ben @ March 21st, 2010 8:38 pm. Filed under: I'm Religious So You Have To Do Everything I Say,It's Not Gay If Your Balls Don't Touch,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,What Would Idiot-Jesus Do? — Tags: david skinner —
by david skinnnerAs people from all walks of life, political parties, professions and religious faiths, we the undersigned have joined together to commit ourselves to reaffirm the value and necessity of religious and civil liberty and the rights of conscience across the UK today.We believe that religion and civil liberty must include the right to live and speak according to one’s conscience privately and in the public sphere, both individually and collectively, without harassment or the fear of civil or criminal penalty.
The proposed employment provisions set out in Schedule 9, Paragraph 2, subsection 8 of the Equality Bill (the occupational requirements relating to sex, marriage and sexual orientation for the purposes of organised religion) mistakenly seeks to deny integrity and authentic practical religion by separating religious belief and observance from behaviour and denies to religious groups rights that are extended to all other organisations, to employ only those who conform to their beliefs, practices and ethos.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a person representing a religious body asking the government for permission to continue discriminating against homosexuals, women, and whatever other groups the various churches find abhorrent on any given Sunday, because being unable to discriminate against them treads on his “religious and civil liberty”.
Frankly, David and each one of the 35,000+ morons who signed this petition can all go and fuck themselves.
Posted by Ben @ March 9th, 2010 11:15 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Free,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me! — Tags: adrian bonnington —
by adrian bonningtonMany online dating sites are giving women free lifetime membership but charging men monthly fees to join. This is discrimination.
Telephone chat services also offer free services to women but make men pay. Why are men allowed to be discriminated against? When will this stop?
Maybe when you stop being such a pervert.
Posted by Ben @ February 15th, 2010 9:39 pm. Filed under: I Deserve Free Money!,Not actual justice -- just what I wanted. Which is basically the same thing.,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: Ms Susan Corcoran —
by Ms Susan CorcoranIf you receive Working Tax Credits you are not entitled to claim even though your total household income may be less than this. Parents who work are under much greater expense due to travelling to work etc. and are therefore being financially penalised for working.Anyone on any other benefit can claim as long as their income is under £16040. This injustice needs to be put right.
Ah, the inflated sense of self-entitlement that comes of being a parent in the UK with a poor understanding of why exactly the unemployed actually receive benefits.
Also, that’s an oddly specific amount of money.