Peter Marton
11/12/06
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24-Nov-2009 10:12
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Roadside cameras were advocated by the police for monitoring traffic, not for spying on drivers. Income tax was a temporary measure to pay for the Napoleonic Wars, not for general funding of governments. There are many other examples of government extensions of application. DNA sampling was to convict/clear suspects, not for establishing a national DNA database. Where will this measure end - taking DNA at birth, fingerprints and DNA for driving licences, ID cards, passports, health care?
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24-Nov-2009 02:36
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Vast quantities of CO2 will be caused by the leaders & their hangers-on getting to & from the taxpayer funded jolly in Copenhagen, hours of hot air will be expended achieving little or nothing, countless trees will be processed to provide meaningless reports, thousands of tonnes of coal will be used to power the facilities & electronic equipment, tens of thousands of hours of police and security overtime will be worked and will have to be paid for. Has none of them heard of teleconferencing?
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23-Nov-2009 20:18
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Disraeli's famous aphorism comes to mind Lies, Dammed Lies and Statistics Lies that we actually had good intelligence Dammed Lies that Saddam had weapons of Mass Destruction Statistics that showed Saddam could launch them in 45 minutes. We could solve Britain's energy crisis and reduce our Global Warming CO2 emissions by connecting our generators to the Governments political spin. Thought for the day - did the new EU Presidency position have immunity from prosecution?
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23-Nov-2009 19:06
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There are three possible outcomes:- 1 - In all probability, the inquiry will aim low - and fail to reach its targets. 2 - If anything at all is found of significance, it will be printed in white ink on white paper after being heavily abridged. 3 - Expecting MP's to be open and honest on expenses is like turkeys voting for Christmas. No prizes are are on offer by HYS for the choosing the eventual outcome.
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23-Nov-2009 16:13
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23-Nov-2009 10:14
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Some Anglicans may be unhappy about the creation of women bishops, but who are they to say that women have no place in the church? Let them remember that God - according to Genesis - created man AND woman, society cannot function as a male only domain, and if it suits some Anglicans to join the Catholic church with its sexist policy that is the loss of those Anglicans. Society and the Anglican Church can move on without them.
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23-Nov-2009 08:57
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Having worked in Iran and been in Tehran for some time, pre the revolution, I found Tehran and the surrounding mountains and the Caspian Littoral well worth the time spent sightseeing. Given the bellicose nature of its leadership, its determination to become the leading power of the Gulf, and its desire to control the Middles East's oil and gas reserves, at least I will have the memories of what Tehran was before a retaliatory Israeli nuclear strike takes out the city and its autocracy.
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22-Nov-2009 13:21
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There are measures that could instantly reduce crime - mobile service providers providing tracking of stolen phones instead of (maybe) disconnecting them, cars, computers and other electronic goods to be fitted with hard wired trackers to enable them to be traced. But will it be done? Dream on. Not if each of the industries concerned have anything to do in the decision making, how nice for them to simply sell a replacement, they make more money, the shops make some money, we get screwed.
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22-Nov-2009 11:03
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If a crime is not worthy of police investigative time, then remove that law from the statutes, police are not accused of selectivity, the magistrates will not waste time sentencing for irrelevant crimes, gaol space will be freed up for those crimes which are worth police time, and NuLabour will not get political flak for indifference. A win-win situation for everyone ------------- except the victim. In target driven policing the victim is the one who is irrelevant.
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22-Nov-2009 10:57
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A realistic verifiable deal must be reached, the alternative is the production by Iran of nuclear devices by a fundamentalist dictatorial religious regime whose avowed aims are the destruction of Israel and the establishment of the Iranian hegemony over the whole of the Middle East and its oil. It is not too far a step from training and funding terrorists in Iraq to supplying a nuke to attack Israel or the USA, the consequences of that may be smoking radioactive hole where Tehran once stood.
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21-Nov-2009 18:11
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To paraphrase David Cameron, seeing a policeman on foot patrol is as unlikely as seeing Osama Bin Ladin riding Shergar along Borough Road. I have to wonder if political correctness, NuLabour's target driving policing and Health & Safety laws have decreed that it is risking an action for damages for flat feet to take the policemans bottom off the seat of a patrol car.
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20-Nov-2009 20:31
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So what would be new about elected police commissioners? Today the appointment is made from politically selected appointees, the only difference between todays politically selected appointees and an elected police commissioner would be that the public would be making a choice from the politically selected candidates. If some of the current crop of sitting politically selected appointees resign in protest, I am sure there would be a long queue of potential candidates willing to stand.
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19-Nov-2009 02:30
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Where are the parents? Watching the television? Out at a pub? If parents are so irresponsible as to allow their children to roam the web totally without control or overview, then the parents are idiots, they have no right to make any complaint if their child goes onto an unsafe site. The intrernet is generally free of totalitarian control, if parents cannot or will not exercise due care and control they are the ones at fault. Firewatch not firefighting.
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18-Nov-2009 14:14
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Was it the Queen's Speech? I thought it sounded like the last desperate vote grabbing gasp of an outgoing unpopular government.
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18-Nov-2009 14:11
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China and India have not the slightest real interest in cutting back their CO2 or SO2 emissions, any more than they have in stopping the manufacture and export of cheap pirated goods. Both their governments are riddled with corruption and nepotism - come to think of it, that sounds very much like the US and EU governments, looking after their own, jobs for the boys, trade deals for their political supporters, cash bailouts for their friends .... the list goes on. NO chance of any real deal
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