Did You Speak?

Yellow Triangle - Christy Moore

Nigel

Designer Anomie

"In a 2004 Criminal Law Bulletin article, William Mitchell College of Law professor Eric Janus argued that “sexual predator laws provide a model for undercutting … constitutional protections.

”The process, Janus said, starts with a universally despised group of people who, like suspected terrorists, attract no public sympathy. He warned that “we are at risk of becoming a ‘preventive state,’ in which the paradigm of governmental social control has shifted from solving and punishing crimes that have been committed to identifying ‘dangerous’ people and depriving them of their liberty before they can do harm.”

To most Americans, I fear, this prospect is not nearly as scary as the possibility that a sex offender lives down the street."

Perverted Justice

"And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?

Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to ..."

V for Vendetta

Nigel

Scapegoats Required

"Members of disliked minority groups are often stereotyped as representing a danger to the majority's most vulnerable members. For example, Jews in the Middle Ages were accused of murdering Christian babies in ritual sacrifices. Black men in the United States were often lynched after being falsely accused of raping White women. In a similar fashion, gay people have often been portrayed as a threat to children."

Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation

Nigel

Why Am I Here?

On Anger ...

"... anger is the common substitute for logic among those who have no evidence for what they desperately want to believe."

Isacc Asimov, The Tyrannosaurus Prescription

Faith & Reason: The wisdom of the streets will fail us on child sex abuse

"Treating paedophiles as we did witches in medieval times is not just bad theology - it is also the strategy least likely to produce change

"There was something in the eyes of the people interviewed in the street where a 73-year-old man was battered to death in Redcar at the weekend. The man was a paedophile who had been jailed for a year for indecent assault in 2001. Police investigators were shocked at the "wall of silence" which met their request for help. But those looks said more even than the silence, looks of indignant satisfaction, half-smiles of gleeful vindication."

 Paul Vallely, The Independent, 6 December 2003

'That's one less on the streets'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/dec/02/ukcrime.childprotection

Man charged with murder of paedophile

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-204178/Man-charged-murder-paedophile.html

Life for killer of peadophile [sic]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2004/07/28/The+North+East+Archive/6983136.Life_for_killer_of_peadophile/

- so, how far have we come, in nearly ten years? (more to the point, what has the establishment done to reduce or stop it?):

Greens protesters to bring town to a halt every week

http://www.scotsman.com/news/greens-protesters-to-bring-town-to-a-halt-every-week-1-2438326

Get Robert Greens out Midlothian

https://www.facebook.com/groups/409489742423495

Robert Greens – Brutal rapist in Midlothian

http://chris-ukorg.org/robert-greens-brutal-rapist-in-midlothian

BNP chief’s terror in clash with protesters

http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4460654/BNP-chiefs-terror-in-clash-with-protesters.html

MBS?

That is why.

Nigel.