War on drugs.

    Apparently, there has been a war on drugs. Well, it doesn't seem to be very effective does it? Are there any winners? No. Losers? Yes.

    Our 'leaders' have no idea what 'recreational' pharmaceuticals do to the average (sub human, easily led) person. They, our 'leaders' can afford the finest snort and the finest medical care that our money can provide. Every one else is stuck with an NHS overloaded with druggies, self inflicted wounds, and alcoholics. Try taking your youngest daughter to A&E on a Monday evening. (fortunately it was just a sprain). The good news was the waiting fuckwit family all smoked, so they were outside, even the youngest, about 13, was tabbing away. The oldest, who looked to be in her 80's, though I suspect she was only in her 50's, was off her head on some drug or other. She appeared to be the reason they were all there.

Anyway, back to the main thread.
     Drugs. Well, I have to admit to a tad of hypocrisy at this juncture, I suspect I am a borderline alcoholic. I like to drink alcohol, and I used to smoke tobacco. Since I stopped smoking, I have developed a hatred for the stench of tobacco. On the other hand, I have never used any other drugs. Nor would I be tempted. The thought of loosing control permanently, has no appeal to me. It's bad enough having incompetent politicians without a rebellious brain.
    To me, there seems to be a 'black and white' (other skin tones are available) with drugs. Ok, there is a bit of a grey when it comes to a medical matters, but when it comes to 'recreational' matters, it seems to be clear. Don't. Fucking your brain up is, of course, your prerogative, until such time as you damage someone else, either by your action, or worse inaction. Remember, whoever you are, there are people who care for you, there are people who depend on you. You are responsible to those persons.
   There are parasites out there that care naught for you or yours. They want your bodies, or money, preferably the latter, as it is more easily negotiable. Users are losers.

   So, what to do? As far as I can see, there are two courses:
   Legalise all 'recreational' drugs. Make them available from Boots, Newmark, Loyds, etc. Tax them the same as fuel, tobacco, alcohol. Regulate until their eyes water. Ensure that all supplies are pure and sold at prices that any person can afford. Remove the 'special' cachet, and make them naff and boring.
   Make any illegal drug dealing/use a capital offence with immediate execution. No appeal.

   Both methods would take huge political bravery. Either will work in the long term, neither will be cheaper than the other, but either will be cheaper in monetary, and in humanitarian, terms than the current lack of method.

Either method would  remove the power from many criminals. Ok, we will still be stuck with the elected ones, but I didn't expect perfection. Just some protection for the terminally thick and gullible.

Disgusted. Again.

I took the liberty of cutting and pasting this from the Forces Reunited Newsletter:




"After the lacklustre coverage of the Diamond Jubilee, the BBC has now insulted the Veteran's of WW2 Bomber Command, their Families and the Fundraisers who raised over 6 Million Pounds, by not showing the unveiling of the long awaited Memorial.


Instead "Auntie" will be showing repeats or Tennis, great if your a Sports fan, but surely the loss of 55,573 killed out of a total of 125,000 aircrew, and commemorating them and all who served in Bomber Command should be higher on the TV Listings, a further 8,403 were wounded in action and 9,838 became prisoners of war.


Perhaps not paying our TV Licence fees might just give them a Jolt, after all can they really jail a Non Fee payer when they can't even jail hardened criminals!


Or we can do something British, we can write to Auntie and let them know exactly how we feel.

You can email those in the know at the BBC and share your thoughts:

Mark Thompson, BBC director-general
Email: mark.thompson@bbc.co.uk

Helen Boaden, head of BBC news
Email: helenboaden.complaints@bbc.co.uk

Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman, BBC Trust
Email: michael.lyons@bbc.co.uk "



I am steadily getting more and more fed up with all of the 'mainstream' meeja. By reading various blogs, then watching/listening to the 'news' I appear to be living in at least two different worlds. One a fairly depressing reality, the other an even more depressing  work of, well, propaganda.

Competence

I was intrigued by an editorial in EPE (http://www.epemag3.com/) . He states that; none of our current bunch of 'leaders' have any technological skills. No scientists , no physicists, chemists, in fact no one that would have any appreciation of the practical world we now live in. Not it's pitfalls, nor  it's true potential... On an other blog, last year, it was noted than at  the memorial service at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day, not one of our 'leaders' had any medals. None. Zip. Not even a Blue Peter badge.

And you wonder why we appear to be led by clueless lackwits?

Numbties

It's a funny old world, and no mistake.

I like to fill out on line surveys. I don't do them so much because I think my input is vital to the owners of certain cosmetics companies, but more in the questions they ask. Today, I did a survey for YouGov. They asked some very interesting questions, mainly to do with Human Rights. One of the questions was pertaining to 'free' speech. Ie: Do you think that without the Human Rights act I would not have free speech? Well. Fuck me. Free speech eh? Well, Mr YouGov, we do NOT have free speech. As an atheist British White, I have considerably less free speech than say, a Coloured Godbotherer. Funny old thing, their precious religious beleifs in a none existent sky pixie, trumps any rational thought what so ever. To the point that it appears to be acceptable for them to murder anyone who disagrees with them, and yet they become all defensive and, well, precious, if you point out to them that they are basing their lives on a pack of complete and utter cobblers. Sorry, when you die, that's it. Nothing. No one has ever come back irrespective of that bollocks that is the bible. I don't trust what was published in the tabloids yesterday, even though the authors were writing in their own language, supposedly first hand. Let alone something that was passed down word-of-mouth through numerous iterations, language changes and not alone, different perceptions.(Most intentional, I am certain FFS, if I were re translating the bible, it would be more believable and have less sex in it. Oh? You haven't read it then?)

Responsibility

As an adult, I like to think that I am big enough, and ugly enough to make decisions that affect my own life without interference from people who have no idea. For example, as a lone worker, I have to make decisions about what is reasonable to carry out my job, if I slavishly follow the 'elfin safety' rules, I could end up in a situation where I could actually be killed by the safety equipment I am meant to wear. I know this sounds bizarre, but a fall harness will kill you (rather unpleasantly) if you are left to hang in it for more than 15 min. A straight fall may also kill, almost certainly injure, but in either case I will not be left hanging to die slowly. This is MY choice. I would cheerfully sign a 'blood' chit and absolve anyone else from responsibility. In day to day life, we all make decisions that affect ourselves and others around us. Some are even life or death; driving, for instance. If you cause an incident, you may actually be held responsible, even forced to accept responsibility. Except, of course you won't. Unless you do something spectacular, like falling asleep at the wheel and causing multiple deaths on a railway, any old nonsense can be offered up in mitigation. A drug addict who steals, uses their addiction as the excuse for, not the cause of, their crimes. Religious nutters can immolate themselves and many around them, but it's not their fault, they are only doing god's will. Only, of course they are not, I mean, if god is so all powerful, surely a bit of smiting is not beyond it's power. Obvious really, no god, no smiting. And our 'leaders' cheerfully abet this, even enforce it. More and more, our individual responsibility is being eroded and we see it as a good thing. However, it isn't. More and more our personal honour  is being devalued. We are incapable of making correct decisions, apparently.

Perceptions

I have often wondered why people are drawn to certain professions. For instance, a Veterinary practitioner has a long and very difficult  training course to pass before they are let loose on poorly animals. Doctors and Nurses do too. Not on poorly animals, but then again, have you seen a casualty department on a Saturday night? Now I know the financial rewards may be quite substantial in some cases, but I bet that isn't the main reason (initially anyway) that one would choose that sort of profession. I wanted to be a vet, well sort of. I knew our local vet quite well, his practise was well thought of . I even helped (well, I like to think that I did) on a couple of occasions. From this I realised that I am squeamish. I found this out by sitting on a cow, holding her rumen in during a 'C' section. It wasn't something I was prepared to do on a day to day basis, and the cow didn't like the idea either. I can understand why you may like to join the Armed forces. The training is the best in the world. The Esprit-de-Corps is something no other profession can provide. The down side is that people try to get you killed. Which brings me to today's point. Politicians. Why would a competent person ever consider being a politician? If you like the job you trained for, and are capable of carrying it out well and, I suppose, be suitably remunerated for it, you would stick with it. Which make me think that most politicians must have been incompetent in their original chosen fields.
    When I was younger, I used to think that our 'leaders' must have either some special ability, or be so much cleverer than the average person. They must be able to do all that I can do, plus more. But now I realise that this cannot be true. Many people I know are extremely good at their jobs, Conscientious  to a fault, and yet their futures are in the hands of an elected numbty who's only concern is being re-elected onto the gravy train. He has no idea of the value of anything. But he knows the cost of all. In as much as it affects his salary. The council needs to save X pounds. If he sacked himself, the savings would; a, be met, and b; be immediate. But he is too indispensable for that. And yet he takes his full holiday quota with no problems, and the place doesn't stop without him. The section that I deal with, on the other hand, is supposed to be manned 24/7, even a few minutes missed due to a fire alarm, say, can be a disaster for some poor member of the public. Even and up to the loss of life. But that's ok if you are a politician.

Annoyed

There's been another stabbing. The victim has died. Foreigners killing each other again. They come here to avoid 'persecution', usually 'persecution' from their own country's police force, (apparently, it's illegal to sell drugs, run prostitution rings in their own countries, but ok here), so to avoid 'persecution' from their own legally appointed officers, they come here. They know if they use the 'persecution' card, they will be able to claim all sorts of things that we, as fully paid up citizens, could never claim. They also can play the 'ethnic' card; 'No speaky inglish' when it suits them. This makes the human rights people immediately take their side.They can do NO wrong. Some how, they have become victims. Except they are not. They are more cynical than our politicians, even more cynical than religious leaders.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why we tolerate a fraction of what we do. I now that we British have always supported the underdog, and been proud of our idea of 'fair play'. But it's time that we defended these actions by not tolerating the abuse of them.