A TANGLED WEB

A PRICE FOR PRIEST ABUSE?

£600,000 has been awarded by the High Court to a man who was the victim of an English Roman Catholic paedophile priest. I feel so sorry for the 35 year old man concerned, it is such a shame that as a child an evil man preyed on him. The man suffers from schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. This priest is now dead. It is believed the case could result in further claims totalling millions of pounds against the Church.

Now I don't wish to defend paedophiles in any way, and favour either the death penalty or castration and life in prison for such rogues BUT £600,000 seems an awfully large amount of money to be paid! Won't this just encourage greedy lawyers to find more "victims"? I heard one lawyer saying the reward was far too small. Also, and this is a sensitive question but I'll ask it anyway, is it possible that elevating victim culture like this and then heaping a huge reward on the victim will actually stop such unfortunates getting on with their lives? What do you think?

A WARNING

One of the problems about running open comment threads is that it does leave open the prospect that a site can become overwhelmed by continued ad hominem attacks. ATW rarely censures - until now. But I'm unhappy about the sheer number of comments that have nothing to do with the topic being discussed but everything to do with sticking the knife in another poster.

So - please behave! Passionate argument is great but it has to be in context. If I find that this warning is ignored, I will remove comments and ban individuals. That's step one. Step two would be to remove the threads function. I don't want to do either but trust me, I will if things don't become more civilised round these here parts..

So - I hope you will take time out and please cut out the vitriol directed at each other. What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding :-)

TODAY TEHRAN, TOMORROW THE WORLD!

Interesting to see that the "conservative" (according to the BBC) new President (By Mullah appointment") of Iran new “president,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says his “election victory” marked the start of a new Islamic revolution that will soon conquer the world.

“Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world,” he said. “The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.”

The thought that the US is relying on France, Germany - and the likes of Jack Straw from the UK, to "negotiate" with these medieval mullahs is plain scary. Time to sort out the Mullahs BEFORE they get the bomb! H-T LGF!

THE PAIN IN SPAIN..

Spain's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of allowing gay couples to marry and adopt children. The controversial decision overrules last week's rejection of the bill by the upper house, the Senate. The bill will become law in a month's time, making Spain Europe's third nation after the Netherlands and Belgium to allow same sex marriages. Here's another aspect to Spain.

Spain is dying.

It has one of the lowest birth rates in the world and, with more people dying than being born, the population is declining. By 2015, Spain will have "lost" 300,000 people. But as the birth rate falls — the average Spanish woman has 1.4 children —  the number of elderly people continues to rise apace. By 2050, Spain will have only 30 million people – three quarters of its current population — as well as one of the oldest population profiles in the world.

Still, as long as the sacred institution of marriage can be distorted and made available to militant homosexuals, that's cause for unrestrained joy. Paella eating surrender monkeys seems about right to me!

Descartes in Reverse

Some of the twaddle emanating from Irish American circles scarcely ceases to amaze.  Even so, this rubbish from 'Gormless Golway' in one of the favourite 'Penny for the Provos'-reading American Paddies' sacred texts, truly astounds.  It seems that 'El Tel' has done no research into the historical origins, the purpose, the culture, the worldwide membership, or the raison d'etre of the Loyal Orders.  It's cobblers dressed up as journalism.

Aside from his vitrolic contribution to the ignorant anger of the IRA-loving Irish American algae, I attempted to find something in this article which would explain why Golway has adopted his pre-determined stupidity.  Then I found it:

'I was there as a journalist, but also, frankly, as an Irish-American Catholic.'

It's Descartes in reverse: 'I am therefore I think.'

CLOSING DOWN POLICING!

Of course it's all part of the corrupt choreography between Blair's rotten Government and the IRA. I refer to the announcement today that 17 police stations are to close around Northern Ireland - over HALF of them in County Fermanagh!

Now, whilst one could damn Government for this further example of craven appeasement, I won't.

Oh no - I congratulate them for their supine surrender to terrorism and would advocate that they go ALL the way and close ALL police stations! Yes, then the world will see that "peace" in Northern Ireland has been purchased by humiliating law and order by closing down it's physical manifestation in areas where the gangsters are most active. Ah, but Government is too nuanced for that! All those smart graduates working in the NIO realise the attractiveness of calibrated and graduated surrender to the IRA.

I think we can obtain a clear insight into Government thinking when it arbitrarily closes down Police Stations, makes others only part-time but mananges to run a 24 hour Media Centre. That's what is called getting your priorities right in Northern Ireland. It's not about hard truth but rather how convincingly you can tell lies.

Oh, and in another charming example of how Government manipulates the news agenda, today also just happened to see a poll released that shows just how happy "the community" is with the policing provided by PSNI. 101% of people are satisfied with their gallant efforts. Yeah, and if you believe that you'll probably believe the next IRA statement !

BBC AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Just wondering if any readers saw the BBC2 "Newsnight" special on Climate change last night? Now even I, as an arch-critic of BBC leftism, was still surprised by the sheer VITRIOL shown against what the BBC call "Climate change rejectionists."

Throughout the programme ran the overt suggestion that those "few" people who oppose Kyoto are in thrall to "Big Oil" and are "non-scientific" as well as being the same people who deny a link between smoking and cancer!!! Talk about one sided! So we're all corrupt bought off empty-heads, unlike those noble people working for the UN and various Governments, eh?

Climate change being caused by mankind is now an article of religious faith for some on the left. I don't deny that climate is changing, climate always changes. But like many others, I seriously question both the CAUSE(S) of this change and the appropriate response to this change. I agreed very much with the poor guy being interviewed from Washington last night who tried to make some good points but was sniggered at by the Newsnight cretins.

Don't Know Much Choreography

How touching.  The 'Tea Shop' of the foreign Republic has said he is expecting the laughably disingenuous decision from the IRA on the ending of their murder campaign by August. This is the leader of a party which has just completed a Faustian pact to ensconce a terrorist's daughter as Mayor of Kerry County Council.

Can anyone smell a whiff of nauseating choreography here?  Both governments are up to their filthy necks in the age-old tradition of communicating with the Provos by nods and winks.  It has become of kind of Ulster 'peace process' semaphore.  Both Hain and the Ahern bros. are aware of what the IRA will say; when they will say it; and to which audience these empty words will be designed to placate.  None of which will remotely convince Unionists that the Provisional Movement is any different from what it has always been - namely a fascist, brutalising outfit with the capacity to have more faces than the town hall clock (proverbially speaking).

Lindy McDowell has it dead right.  Not only do Unionists not trust the Provisionals (twas ever thus), they no longer trust those parties who have historically been willing to buy off the IRA at almost any price.  If the governments are not willing to change old habits, why should Unionist people acquiesce in their exhortations to 'give peace a chance'?  I know Lindy's writings seriously irk the IRA concubines on Slugger.  We only have to look at the smorgasbord of ersatz analytical prowess, pomposity, myopia and the subliminal detestation of Unionism regurgitated by the likes of Billy Pilgrim and Middle Class Taig to know that.  Indeed, the latter writes:

'This initiative (the IRA announcement) isn't going to be a striptease for Ian Paisley's delectation.'

Funny that.  I thought the only time MCT's heroes indulged in a 'striptease' was when the wanted to compliment their actions with a covering a tar and feathers.

Different Circles

Although I have worked with disadvantaged people (substance abusers, the disabled etc.) for most of my working life, my main aim was always to be a researcher for a local MP.  Given that West Yorkshire was solidly Labour territory between 1997 and 2005, I held off sending speculative letters.  I would rather have disembowelling tools shoved into my ear canals than work for the Labour Party.

Thus, I was delighted when the Bradford constituency of Shipley re-elected a Conservative MP on May 5th.  Philip Davis was elected with a fairly narrow margin in a seat which is now the fastest growing area of the county - both economically and demographically.  I thought Mr Davis, being a politics graduate himself, would at least bother to acknowledge my CV.  I hold a First Class Honours in politics and a Masters Degree in international relations.  Consequently, my qualifications in the politics field are actually greater than those obtained by the new Member of Parliament.

The application process followed a conventional line.  I enclosed my CV, detailing my qualifications and experience in the field of political research and assistance (I have worked on a voluntary basis for both Bob McCartney and David Curry MP), including a covering letter expressing my interest in adding to Davis's team.  I sent the package by registered post to ensure its arrival.

That was six weeks ago!!  I've heard absolutely nothing.  Ten days ago, I contacted the Shipley office (leaving a message) by phone to check whether they had received my application and I asked them to contact me to let me know of their decision.  Even if they had already recruited I felt they could have sent me an acknowledgment of my interest.  Again, sweet FA.

Now I know pig-ignorance and a lack of common courtesy are the orders of the day in contemporary Britain, but such traits at this level are nothing short of breathtaking.  We now live in a country so sick and twisted in its priorities that prospective employers are falling over themselves to recruit ethnic minorities, homosexuals and the like to demonstrate their egalitarian credentials.  Yet, when a double graduate who is white, Anglo Saxon, male, heterosexual and Protestant takes time to write a speculative letter for a prospective position, he isn't even afforded the basic good manners implicit in a reply.  We don't all have the benefit of genes to catapult us into positions unavailable to the common man.  Maybe next time I'll try the following information:

Name: Winston Ubougu

Nationality: Kenyan

Ethnic background: Black African

Sexual orientation: 4 blokes per night

I have three straightforward points to make here:

1).  Am I a racist or a homophobe? 

Absolutely not.  I have friends who are both black and homosexual.

2). Do I believe many employers in the UK are operating a surreptitious policy of recruiting people who are ethnic and/or homosexual due to the pressures of a Left-wing consensus on 'being seen to respect equality of opportunity'?

Absolutely.

3. Do  believe I would have received a reply (even if it was negative) had I suggested that I was black or homosexual?

Spot on.

DESIRABLE HOMES FOR SALE - TERRORISTS CAN APPLY!

Holocaust denying Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been condemned for inviting terrorist leaders and groups, including Hamas, to move to Gaza after Israel expels 9,000 Jewish men, women and children from their homes, schools, farms and businesses in August.

"Those urged to come to Gaza include Hamas leaders Khaled Mashaal, Musa Abu Marzouk, and Imad al-Alami; other invitees included Nayef Hawatmeh and Khaled Abdel Majid of the Marxist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Struggle Front respectively. The PLO’s Foreign Minister Farouk Kaddoumi, who supports violence and suicide bombings, is also planning to move to Gaza. “We want to see you among us,” Dahlan said"

Now whilst I share the sense of outrage that many friends of Israel around the world will feel at this shocking news, perhaps we should step back a moment, breathe in, and WELCOME it. Why?

Well, if all the terrorist scum of that region are conveniently located in one area, and presuming that they will seek to murder Israeli's as their common aim states, I reckon the IDF and the Israeli Air Force have a big bullseye called Gaza to aim at. They should make sure they don't miss. The only good terrorist, as they say, is a dead one. Don't you agree?