DZJ
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That's the point. The 1997 ban was not supposed to make any difference. That was not the reason behind the legislation. Please understand one thing. My opinions are based on a US point of view. While I do care what happens in the UK to its citezens, the topic is raised to counter gun control (anti second amendment) nuts here in the US. And the point being made is that gun control does NOT lower crime or save lives. Nerver has, never will Does it not strike you as at all absurd to be trying to use UK legislation, drafted and implemented for British reasons and circumstances, to score points in entirely unrelated domestic American debates?
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I think that particular detail is a little speculative at the moment, and to be honest I'm somewhat concerned by it - if a policeman untrained in dealing with explosives is trying to disarm a bomb he runs a risk of simply setting it off, especially if it features any sort of anti-handling device. If that's indeed what happened here, I'd say we were lucky.
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From the BBC: Details at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6255960.stm Always gratifying to read news of these plots being foiled, but disturbing that these two bombs seem to have been discovered by no other method than pure dumb luck. Another demonstration, if one were needed, of the importance of constant vigilance - top marks to the paramedics who noticed the first car.
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So-Called "Religion of Peace" Strikes Again, This Time On the Tennis Court
DZJ replied to a topic in Speakers Corner
I think even that overstates it, it's more like a light shower in a thimble. -
Taking a Chicken on a Skydive -- Animal Cruelty?
DZJ replied to masterblaster72's topic in Speakers Corner
I have no idea, but to ask the obvious question - why on Earth were they taking a chicken on a skydive in the first place?!?!? -
I tend to support abortion, though not with any great enthusiasm, but am absolutely opposed to capital punishment.
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Have a listen to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/moralmaze This is a recent edition of BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze dealing with abortion. My ideas on abortion are not completely clear. I find abortion unpleasant and would rather there were fewer performed, but at the same time know it is vital for abortion to be legal, as the backstreet, underground alternative would be much worse. I would agree a woman has a right to choose, but I don't think that right is absolute. I don't view a cluster of dividing cells as life, but at the same time am not sure when a foetus shoud assume a moral/legal existence. Will be keen to see if anything interesting comes of this discussion.
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25 years ago Argentine forces occupying the Falkland Islands surrendered in the face of advancing British forces. The war saw bitter fighting by land, sea and air, and resulted in hundreds of dead on both sides. Services of remembrance have today been held in the UK and in the Falklands. I look on the Falklands, with its clear moral and legal justification, its decisive use of force, short duration, relatively low butcher's bill and victorious outcome, and feel admiration for the courage of servicemen and politicians alike. I look at events in Iraq, and while the servicemen might be just as brave, I wish the similarities could run deeper.
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Some of that was almost amusing, but mostly that bloke came across to me as a self-indulgent, patronising, pseudo-intellectual wanker who needs to realise that the rabble-rousing vocal minority he's so aggrieved by, are just that.
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So if they kill other nations, or groups of people within their own nations, then we should just stand aside, watch, and do nothing? Wonderful. "In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics. I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up." - Reverend Martin Niemoller, German Lutheran pastor arrested by the Gestapo, 1937, a decorated U-Boat skipper during WWI. Oh, the irony. Remind us again when the US joined the war against Germany....
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That said, a certain poster may simply be called Mr Climber, and have the initials NC....Norman Clarence, perhaps, or Nathaniel Cuthbert, maybe...
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He's Aloysius Fernackerpan, obviously.
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I'm surprised at the high position of the UK and France. Also expected China and Japan to be higher.
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I just had the thought that if the government could become powerful enough to stop people from using their reproductive apparatus (rather than simply punishing people if they do, ala China), maybe they could stop people using their brains as well. Government permission to think, perhaps? It's all deliciously Orwellian.
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I'd be more worried by the civil liberties precedent it would set rather than the charge of eugenics.
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A prosecution seems to be taking a bit far, seeing as he handed over his camera when instructed. I'd have thought this could be dealt with by a simple verbal warning or caution.
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In 1942 the Germans were capable of sailing U-boats to the US eastern seaboard and sinking US vessels with almost total impunity. That doesn't count as an attack on the homeland? Bit puzzled by your reference to the Lusitania. Were you thinking of the First World War?
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Speaking as a Brit, I imagine they'll be some mushy-worded vagueness spouted about climate change, world poverty and peace and security.
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It depresses me enormously that what could have been a respectful date check of a major anniversary, turned rapidly into a tit-for-tat political wankfest. Nice one.
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I've resisted the urge to reply your posts so far, because frankly I find your attitude so repugnant as to not merit a response, but I now feel forced to ask a couple of questions: 1) Do you know what the Victoria Cross is, and what you have to do to win one? Your posts suggest a basic ignorance on this point. 2) If you had commited acts of extraordinary bravery and risked your life in the service of another country (I don't know say, Nepal, for example), how would you want and expect to be treated?
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What, the 'I won this country's highest award for valour in the face of enemy, please can I stay?' ruse? There are only a dozen or so people in the world that can use that one... [and nevermind the fact the NHS is quite happily self-destructing all on its own....]
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England banning smoking in enclosed public place
DZJ replied to SpeedRacer's topic in Speakers Corner
Oh I see, its the fault of the people who aren't in power, gotcha. -
England banning smoking in enclosed public place
DZJ replied to SpeedRacer's topic in Speakers Corner
'Patriot' Act, anyone? -
Is it better to be obsessed with inequality?
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Just what I was thinking. These are obviously a pair of extremely bright kids, but they're still kids. They face a spectacular mental breakdown somewhere down the line if they aren't very careful.