Then, the Vatican tells us what they think is a really  serious crime….

Women priests.

The Vatican has made plotting to ordain women as among the most serious crimes a catholic can commit:

Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, underscored how the ordination of women is “a crime against sacraments,” while paedophilia should be considered a “crime against morals” and both would fall under the jurisdiction of the CDF.
From The Daily Telegraph 15-07-10

When the Catholic clergy has such repugnance for women, it makes their fondness for underage boys seem almost inevitable.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8290669.stm

This is further evidence that Christian ‘compassion’ and ‘forgiveness’ are in fact the selfish actions of people concerned only with ingratiating themselves with Jehovah and saving themselves from Hell.  In their rush to show themselves to be ‘good Christians’, they showed no concern for the need of  their child to be avenged (no-one asked the child if he forgave his rapist), or for the rest of the community to be protected.  All that mattered to them was their own faith and their own salvation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6145785/Scouts-to-no-longer-bring-penknives-on-camping-trips.html

A spokesperson for the organisation, whose motto is ‘be prepared’ said that: “I think it is safest to assume that knives of any sort should not be carried by anybody to a Scout meeting or camp, unless there is likely to be a specific need for one. In that case, they should be kept by the Scout leaders and handed out as required.”

So, you should only ‘be prepared’ for entirely foreseen circumstances.

Another spokesperson said: “We believe that young people need more places to go after school and at weekends, where they can experience adventure without the threat of violence or bullying and the need to carry weapons.”

The Boy Scout movement is clearly endorsing the common belief that the only reason that anyone would carry a knife is to use it as a weapon. You might have expected them to argue that whether you are in the wilds or in the city, a penknife is a useful tool with a variety of uses other than as a weapon (including a number of first aid uses).

Instead they are bowing to the current zeitgeist of Blair/Brown’s Britain, in which doing anything other than watch trash television is deviant behaviour.

When you have a nation of people whose experience of reality is limited to ‘reality’ TV, and who are increasingly protected from even moderate risk by  ’health and safety’ concerns (Asprin can only be purchased in maximum quantities of 16 in the UK), then the mentality of the chicken-coop takes over.  Someone taking out a pocket knife to alter the length of a shoelace in England runs the risk of arrest and jail:  ’he’s got a knife! he could stab me! why else would he have  a knife?’ and the Scout Movement has been stupid enough to cave in to this kind of thinking. If  you can call this thought.

Against this backdrop of adults living in a state of permanent adolescence , petulant, demanding, but still totally dependent on a parent (the state), being able to look after yourself and take responsibility for your own welfare makes you entirely unpredictable and therefore potentially dangerous.

Although there has not been one incident to my knowledge of a uniformed boy scout abusing his scout knife, children in the UK are killing each other at the rate of about one a week.  It seems that the scouts are an easier target to bully into parting with their knives than the feral teenagers produced by the Blair/Brown experiment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8222689.stm

The Indian Supreme court has decided to overturn a previous court decision to give the girl an abortion, saying: “Nature will take care of the orphan mother and the child”.

When people in this kind of context talk about ‘nature’, what they mean is ‘somone else’.  Let her keep the baby, someone else will take care of it.  Stop the abortion, someone else will feed the baby.

The last thing they want is for nature to take care of things – nature was taking care of the mother when she was found starving on the street.

On August 6, Ronnie Biggs was released from jail.  Biggs was the last of the Great Train Robbers to face justice having spent 30 years on the run after being jailed for his part in a £2.3 million robbery in which a man was seriously injured and later died.

Biggs, who has never shown a flicker of remorse for his crime, only returned to ‘justice’ in 2001 when he became old, sick and needed to avail himself of the UK’s unlimited free healthcare (Sarah Palin just sat up in her chair).

On his release, Biggs showed his contempt for the system that had showed him compassion by issuing a sneering statement.

Later this week, the only person to be convicted of the mass murder of 230 people in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, was also released on ‘compassionate grounds’ to receive a hero’s welcome in Libya.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, had served around two weeks in jail for each person he killed.

The Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has justified his decision against a backdrop  of vigorous handwashing by Gordon Brown, and in essence has said that the Scottish Parliament was right to show compassion.

Salmond, then sneered at the US justice system for not having a ‘compassionate release’ policy, making all too clear the motivation of all of those involved in this decision: the strong desire to appear to be more moral than others.

By being compassionate to the likes of Al Megrahi and Biggs,  Salmond and Justice Secretary Jack Straw feel they have shown  themselves to be better than them.  They also show that they believe themselves to be better people than those that grieve for the victims of  their crimes, and cannot ‘forgive and forget’.

This insidious desire to wear the good guy badge, to show compassion for those that commit crimes and to wag the finger at victims who seek to have their aggressors  punished, is not only repugnant in it sanctimoniousness, it has a deeply corrosive effect on civic life.

There has been an ugly rash of vigilante crimes recently, where alleged  sex offenders have been killed in mob attacks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1725630.stm

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Paedophile-Named-By-The-Sun-As-Andrew-Cunningham-Stabbed-To-Death-In-Caravan-In-South-London/Article/200812215177959

These kinds of incidents happen because the general public no longer trust the police and courts to deliver real justice, and know that sexual offenders often receive light sentences.  The temptation to claim natural justice when people are told  with a straight face that the justice system is ‘not about punishment’ becomes overwhelming.

Justice,  in the real sense of the term, means getting what you deserve, and is supposed to create a system of controlled societal  revenge.  By knowing that criminals are punished, we put faith in the system to punish those that wrong us, instead of picking up a pickaxe handle and settling matters on our own.

When ‘justice’ becomes about ‘compassion’ and ‘rehabilitation’ instead of making criminals make amends for their wrongs, or when criminals are just an  opportunity for politicians to show how progressive and liberal they are,  then the public will lose faith.

Neither can the effect of deterrent be ignored. Violent robbery is rocketing in the UK. Ronnie Biggs was an unrepentant and violent robber, and there was a great deal of public good to be done by showing the young wannabe thugs who idolise Biggs as a hero, that the penalty for a life of crime is dying  in a lonely prison hospital bed.

If  those who pardoned the foul Ronnie Biggs or the mass-murderer Al Megrahi really want to show how strong and unassailable their sense of right and wrong is… a test will be coming soon.  The Moors Murderer Ian Brady is an elderly and sick man… will they deny a child murderer  the same compassion they have so readily given a man convicted of the murder of 270 men, women and children?

1)  Yes, the NHS is socialism in action. People pay taxes so that all can have healthcare.  ALL.  Yes, ALL.  Americans will have to accept that their taxes will go up.  They will have to accept that they are not just paying extra taxes for their own healthcare, they will  be paying for everyone’s healthcare. Illegal immigrants that fetch up at emergency rooms, people working on minimum wage below the tax threshold, the elderly and the children of the feckless, taxpayers will pay for all of it, and the burden will fall hardest on the middle classes.

2) Taxes will go up.  Everyone’s taxes will go up, including the pool boy, the maid and the people who make and bring you food in restaurants.  Higher taxes will push wages up and the US will have to either get used to not having as much cheap labour as it presently does, or paying more for it.

3) Expect the medical profession to get very moral and sanctimonious about how your money is spent.  Those doctors who today won’t give you a bandaid unless you have a credit card, once they are in the pay of the state will suddenly come out with “how dare you tell the medical profession who it can and can’t treat… we’ll treat illegal immigrants if we want… Hypocratic oath….”  The NHS has caused a phenomenon called ‘health tourism’ in the UK.  Because NHS staff refuse to do the work of  ‘immigration officials’.  They won’t check that people who present at hospitals are UK citizens and actually entitled to free treatment.  We have no idea how much this costs us… because the NHS will not measure it.

4)  When my father died of cancer, he received the best possible care imaginable. With all the money in the world, I could not have bought better treatment, and it did not cost me one cent.

5) If my father had had Alzheimer’s, I would have had to fight to get him the care he needed to die with dignity.  Cancer is an emotive disease and attracts a lot of political attention.  Alzheimer’s isn’t.  When the state pays for your health, it will become a political football.

6) Some medical treatment IS rationed in the UK.  There are long waiting lists for many routine treatments such as hip replacements.  Some people lose their sight because of waiting too long for routine treatment for Macular Degeneration.  If you have money you can jump the queue, but remember, you have already paid for your healthcare once through higher taxes, so you’re not going to have as much wealth and savings as you do now.

7) If you have a serious road accident in the UK, you will get extremely high quality treatment extremely fast.  Probably as good as anywhere.  If you tear up your hand with a power tool or have some other mid-ranking accident, you might spend half a day at the emergency room waiting to get it stitched.

8) The NHS  was introduced 60 years ago when antibiotics were still a novelty.  At that time if you got sick, you went to hospital.  You might have an operation… you might not… and you would either get better or you would die.  There simply wasn’t the range of expensive drugs and other interventions that are available now, but the NHS has not been able to change and reflect that because ‘free healthcare’ has become a political sacred cow.

There are other state healthcare systems in the world.  The choice is not between the iniquities of the current US healthcare system and the iniquities of the NHS.  You could have a system like the one in the Netherlands, Sweden, or even Canada.

9)  No system is perfect, and there is no such thing as FREE healthcare.  Someone always pays for it somewhere.

Opus Diaboli endorses the ban on ingesting body fluids at this difficult time.

These black-robed figures used their power and influence to prevent their crimes against children from ever being found out.  If a member fell under suspicion, then the accusing child would be liable to worse abuse, while the perpetrator was moved to a place of safety to continue his work.

The BBC went as far as to name the cults involved:  The Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Mercy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8059826.stm

The report (an executive summary can be found here:
http://www.childabusecommission.ie/rpt/ExecSummary.php)

Here are just a selection of its findings:

“The physical abuse of boys in Daingean was extreme. Floggings which were ritualised beatings should not have been tolerated in any institution and they were inflicted even for minor transgressions. Children who passed through Daingean were brutalised by the experience and some were damaged by it.”

“Sexual abuse was a chronic problem [at Letterfrack]. For two thirds of the relevant period there was at least one sexual abuser in the school, for almost one third of the period there were two abusers in the school and at times there were three abusers working in Letterfrack at the same time. Two abusers were present for periods of 14 years each and the Congregation could offer no explanation as to how these Brothers could have remained in the School for so long undetected and unreported. “

“Sexual abuse by staff was not as persistent a problem in Tralee as in Artane or Letterfrack, although one Brother was cited by complainants and by Brothers who had been on the staff in Tralee as ‘behaving inappropriately’ with the boys. He was on the staff for 20 years and his behaviour was known to at least three Superiors who did not attempt to stop it.”

“The documents revealed that a system of harsh and pervasive punishment existed in Glin during the relevant period. The documents also revealed that Brothers with a known propensity for sexual abuse were transferred to Glin indicating a serious indifference to the safety of children.”

“The documents showed that violent Brothers who were moved around from one school to another continued their violent behaviour. In Salthill, one Brother, who had been described as cruel in Letterfrack, continued his severe treatment of boys in Salthill and another continued his harshness in schools he was assigned to after Salthill. Internal Christian Brothers’ Reports identified a ‘severity in attitude’ towards the boys in the 1950s and the records would indicate a concern with six Brothers who had served in Salthill with regard to physical punishment.”

The catalogue of offences against children carried out systematically, over decades by these Catholic organisations puts the lie to the ‘one rotten apple’ defence. It is Catholicism’s morbid obsession with sex which has set the stage for these crimes, and despite this investigation being carried out over nine years, what has been done other to say sorry? – and the kinds of apologies offered so far have been along the lines of  ‘I’m sorry we got caught’ .

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/index.html

Some redneck grunt trying to trigger Armageddon by distributing the Bible to the unbelievers in Afghanistan, the ‘folks back home’ holding a collection in their church to help him do that…  and the US military having to burn the Bibles to stop every Afghan being turned into a Jihadi.

The sweetest thing about it is that this happened on Bush’s watch and not Obama’s.

Blair about to perform another miracle

Blair at an ethnically diverse photo opportunity

Judging from this recent  photo (left),  Blair’s descent into David Icke/Michael Jackson-like insanity is well under way and it is only a matter of time before we can enjoy the spectacle of him wearing a white robe, and making vaguely connected statements about healing the scar that is Africa, that he is in fact God’s smarter brother and that Gordon Brown is a giant Satanic lizard.