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Friday 21 March 2008

Gun Control US Style

Its been little reported but the US is actually going through one of its periodic, but ineffectual attempts at gun control.

The bear in the woods is the US constitution (as well as the various US state constitutions, where 44 states have constitutional provisions that protect the right to individual gun ownership), which gun owners claim, supports their right to own guns. The Second Amendment which was added in 1791, states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

Now to a European, or an non jurist US citizen, this appears to be simply a law to ensure that US states can set up armed militia's i.e. Armies, and not a call to allow individuals to own semi automatic rifles etc. However US lawyers soon ensured that this is exactly what this amendment has come to mean, and this has remained the case ever since.

Now this has been much debated in the world at large, but oddly not in the US, where the Second Amendment has in fact not been debated in the US Supreme Court since since 1939 (and did not directly address whether the amendment protects individual as opposed to collective rights). There is a case, District of Columbia vs Heller, which is due to come to the Supreme Court this year, in which the meaning of the Second Amendment may be determined again.

Now if the DC ban on hand guns is overturned, then there will be no change in the reality of the current situation, (except, black murder rates in Washington may go up a few dozen), but if the Supreme Court upholds the gun ban in DC as not being against the 2nd Amendment, then the way is open for a larger challenge to the individuals rights to bear arms, except as part of a state organised militia.

Only in the US would this ever have arisen, as its quite obvious what the 2nd Amendment is intended to allow, but in such a litigious country, the commas and fullstops of someone in 1791, when English grammar was still not fully made fast (The Samuel Johnson Dictionary of the English Language & Grammar was published in 1755), have been pored over by jurists ever since, and what was plain language, has been distorted to the point, where this sentence has come to support a raft of legislation.

It will be interesting to see if the US love affair with private weapons has weakened even slightly.

Just for the record surveys suggest that there are now 90 guns for every 100 citizens in the US, making it the most heavily-armed nation in the world and according to reports India is the second with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law-enforcement agencies and the military (at four guns per 100 people) and China third, with 40 million privately held guns, (at 3 firearms per 100 people).

On a purely per capita basis, Yemen has the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46 (all males are part of the army), Iraq with 39, and Serbia with at 38 are also high figures.

With 30 guns per 100, France, Canada, Sweden, Austria and Germany are next. Pakistan has 12 per 100 people and Afghanistan is estimated to be about 40 per 100, but Nigeria, which is perceived as a violent country, officially has just one gun per 100 people.

The world is a strange place.

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Thursday 13 March 2008

Genocide and Benefit Handouts

Today came the sad confirmation that the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Iraq had been found dead, after being kidnapped. The story, which is all too common in Shia Iraq, is that his companions were gunned down, and he was bustled off the street, never to be seen alive again. They were targets because they were Christians, which in the ignorant minds that pass themselves off as scholars, are 'crusaders'. In Iraq, the oldest Christian group in the world will be gone inside a decade (much like the genocide of Christians in Turkey in the last century).

This ethnic cleaning of Christians from Muslim lands has always gone on, but has accelerated around the globe in the last two decades, and our governments have turned a blind eye to virtual genocides (how else can you describe the removal of whole groups of people?), when it suits them.

Oddly, the bleating of Western Muslim minorities about their 'human rights', mean we have to use Christian soldiers to 'do something' when its Muslims being threatened (from Bosnia to Kosovo), although they kept rather quiet about Darfur, where it's a racist thing between Black and Arab Muslim groups (No Muslims marching on the streets of London for the Black African Muslims, being killed by Arabs).

I have mentioned this subject before, but it never hurts to discuss this again.

In many parts of the globe, Christians, who have often been there since before their Muslim tormentors arrived, are being forced to convert, or are driven off or killed by Muslims, with the connivance of the local authorities. This includes the practise of kidnap, rape and then forced marriage of Christian girls in Muslim lands. There have been reports of this and similar kidnaps from the Gaza, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Egypt as well as other areas.

We of course, continue to give state and charitable aid, to the very same authorities who allow this violence to continue, and who demand ever more rights for the 'religion of peace' in the West. They only respect strength and we have lost the will to fight back, and "White flight" to the US, Australia and New Zealand from the UK, is being partially driven by our politicians encouraging mass immigration of cheap uneducated labour from African and Muslim lands.

These immigrants are actually just another benefit family in the making, such as the Somalian community who actually apply for asylum in the Netherlands, then come to the UK because the welfare benefits are considerably better (See point 6 on this link although these 'official' reasons don't match that given by the Dutch - which was that after a crackdown on mass benefit fraud, 10,000 Somalis moved from Holland to Leicester.... presumably they had heard about how soft our system is) .

We are actually making the rope that will hang us, and smiling while we do so.

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PC Britain in a Nutshell

Massoud Montazery an Iranian "Refugee" arrived in the UK with no documents, and claimed that he and his wife were "Fleeing for their lives from Iran" .... this was quickly disproved, and his application rejected in 2001 (yes 7 years ago), but by that time he had been given a house, and the start of over £25,000 in state and housing benefits, and was well into the expensive appeal system that passes for border control in the UK, so he had time to have two more children as well.

Massoud Montazery aka 'Mike-Heyside'
Should Be in Prison or Back In Iran

Because of the two children, he is now virtually immune from deportation, despite lying to get here, and what the papers say. But not content with abusing the Asylum laws (no wonder most of us want them cancelled, as just an illegal immigrants charter), he went on to commit various criminal offences.

Sunday 9 March 2008

Feckless Parenting in the UK

A young British girl, 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling, who was found dead on a Goa beach, was likely to have been murdered as a part of a sex attack. Scarlett's body was found on the beach on 18 February, while the rest of her family was travelling in the neighbouring state of Karnataka.

Daughter And Mother
Daughter And Mother

Her mother (and of eight others), Ms MacKeown, and her current partner had taken five of Scarlett's eight siblings to Goa for a six-month holiday in November, and they had left the fifteen year old on her own, while they travelled.

Saturday 8 March 2008

When Chickens Come Home To Roost

I have noticed over the last few weeks, that subjects I have discussed in earlier posts, have been in the news again.

First:
Malthusian predictions - this caused a flurry of comments, mostly on the lines that the world would never run out of food, and if it did we could all become Vegans. Well this week the head of the head of the UN World Food Programme has stated that food prices world wide, 'are rising steeply because of food shortages'. These are caused by land degradation, and the use of "Bio Fuels" (another flaky green idea from the land of the loonies - you grow crops to make oil rather than for food - Duh!).
 
The 300 - Remember When This Caused A Fuss?
Remember When This Caused A Fuss?

The first food shortage riots have taken place in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal, Yemen, Mexico, Guinea and Morocco (Where 34 people were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for participating in riots over food prices).

All ties in nicely with my 2050 predictions! 

Saturday 1 March 2008

Britains Lack Of Free Speech Protection

The recent decision by the Bedfordshire hate crimes unit to arrest a British blogger ... the email apparently reads, ".... the offence that I need to arrest you for is "Stir up Racial Hatred by displaying written material" contrary to sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986. You will be arrested on SUSPICION of the offence." .... highlights the real need for a UK constitution that guarantees real freedom of speech, before what little we have left is eroded under a stream of PC motivated legislation that makes some religions areas, subjects that can't be discussed.

Now I don't know what particular comments from the blogger, known as "Lionheart", caused this apparent promise of arrest, apart from the fact that he apparently takes a hard line against Islam and Muslim immigrants in Britain, and it may well be, that he has in fact transgressed the vague UK laws on inciting 'racial hatred', but, if his 'offence' was merely to state a 'fact', or what he genuinely believed to be fact, then it's a sad comment on the state that the UK is falling into.

I suspect that there are many web sites and blogs, that now tread a thin line when discussing Islam in the UK, but I take the view that expressing an honest opinion is still protected by juries, if not by the police, or PC orientated bodies such as the Bedfordshire hate crimes unit.

The fact that the vast majority of the population probably want to be protected from having our freedoms eroded in this manner, means that as usual, our do nothing politicians are failing us once again.

It is also very telling that this story was not reported on the BBC, or other UK News media, but was reported in the US news, and on blogsites, in much the same manner as the arrest of bloggers in Muslim countries are ignored on the local state media, and passed on to the "free" press via local bloggers ..... coincidence?

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