One law for them…

Quite a poignant fact that Bone (among others) is encouraging people to spread regarding recent events.

Case Study One: Gerald Kaufman MP fradulently claimed £8,750 for a Bang and Olufsen television on his parliamentary expenses.

He was not prosecuted but asked to repay the £8,750.

Case Study Two: A young woman with no previous is alleged to have looted a Bang and Olufsen television, worth £750, from a store in Manchester.

She was remanded in custody to crown court to get a sentence of at least six months.

Nuff said.

The execution that sparked a nationwide riot.

As the riots spread, the danger is that the authorities and media will succeed in focusing attention solely on the actions of the rioters, averting public anger away from, and preventing public discussion of  the incident that sparked it all. Namely the accidental killing or execution (depending on your point of view) of Mark Duggan, a young father of four from Tottenham.

The official claim is that his death was the accidental result of an Operation Trident attempted apprehension, Trident being the ongoing Met operation to combat gun crime, but like any police killing it is shrouded in conflicting statements and poor attempts to validate the actions of police officers, with answers for the victim’s family and community being considered a secondary immediate aim, if considered at all.

Isn’t this all a bit familiar?

The UK and morally bankrupt journalism.

A seemingly standard practice of hacking into the phones of  victims of high-profile child killers, their families and the families of dead squaddies, coppers selling personal information to low-life journos, jobs in the media being offered to the offspring of various high-ranking Met filth in exchange for favours, the sordid and incestuous goings-on of the ‘Chipping Norton Set’, and the backhanders, backscratching and backstabbing that is inherent within the general corruption of the British  law enforcement, mainstream media and political elite communities, are all the cause of much public scandal, shock and disbelieve these days. However the biggest question, relating to all these issues and the whole complex web that connects them has to be…Why the fuck are people surprised?

You mean to say that  journalists, politicians and the good-old British bobby are, at times, less than honest?…Ye gad! Say it isn’t so!

To moderate or not to moderate.

When I started this blog, or the couple of precursors to it, I decided not to moderate it in any way, or make any further comments on articles after I’d published them. The idea being that after I’d concluded a rant I didn’t really have any interest in commenting further, and lacked the patience to engage with serial online shit-stirrers. Although I felt inclined to allow others to comment as they saw fit, partly because I didn’t think many people, if any, would ever read this blog and partly because the insane ramblings of any right-wing commentators only help to prove my point.

While in theory this is all fine and dandy, I’ve found that in practice it’s annoying and a pain in the arse. The source of this annoyance is, perhaps inevitably, the online ‘legions’ of the far-right (a bloke in his forties sitting in his room at his mums house) who have begun casting an eye on this very occasional, semi-politically driven, slice of personal perspective. As an anarchist who firmly believes in the principle of no platform for fascists, I have therefore decide to start moderating this blog.

To conclude, fascist commentary is not welcome, fascist-bashing commentary is, as always, actively encouraged.

Di Canio confirmed as Robins manager.

Unfortunately it has come to pass, Paolo Di Canio has confirmed his return to English football, by his appointment, last Friday, as the new manager of Swindon Town football club. Apparently flying into England to sign the final paperwork on Monday (31st May). Evidently the opportunity to involve a globally known footballer in Swindon Towns revival campaign proved too great a temptation for Swindon Chairman, Jeremy Wray, even if the footballer in question is a well known, and unrepentant, fascist. A desicion that may ultimately prove costly for Wray, as the rumblings of discontent among the Swindon faithful are begining to gain resonance.