Directory of Lost Causes

Justin Isis writes:

In the future, everyone will be a robot.

Also, if the girl robots don't get enough chocolate, they might stop functioning, as detailed in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxOtZCVwr1k

Peter A Leonard writes:

"Well, fuck you, Britain! I don't know how much longer I'll stay here. I think, when I get the opportunity, I'm going to get out. Why mince words? Britain is full of boring and despicable people. There are no words for the extent of the cosmic perversion that is Britishness."

Britian? Britishness? What the hell is this Britishness?

Because of our membership of that rather crass and authoritarian European club, and because successive governments - wishing to ensure they have an economy which will support expensive weapons systems, an aggressive armed forces, and a nuclear strike capability so they can strut to G8 meetings full of piss and their own importance, bully the Icelandic government and people, and create turmoil around the world in the name of democracy - have encouraged mass migration to these shores, it has been necessary to scrap the concept of: ENGLISH, SCOTISH, WELSH.

Instead on every official form, on every internet payment form, on every delivery address, we have UK or Britain, but predominantly UK.

People filling this in are declaring themselves an “Ukster”.

I wasn’t born in the UK – I was born in England. I’m not British, I’m English. I’m pissed off to the back teeth with all this “newspeak” on the one hand for the sake of “political correctness”, but in reality as a first faltering step in the creation of a European nationality classification, with a single passport system, a single tax system and a single governmental bureaucracy – which could well be the greatest this world will ever have seen.

Here in recent years we have seen the erosion of basic civil liberties, the destruction of individuality (as all ready mentioned, filling out an employment form a Welshman has to declare himself a “Ukster”, and is thus alienated from his history and the history of his people and his national heritage), with fundamental attempts to control thought, behavior, etc, which, frankly, has be the ultimate outcome of any concept of the “Nanny State” where people sit back and wait for the government “to do something” about every little problem they may face.

Despite police statistics that show a steady fall in violent crime, the government are to arm every police officer with a “stun gun” – arm them via the backdoor, at huge expense and for what reason? Do they see the riots to come? The terrible disaffection across whole sections of the society?

Between December 2007 and March 2008, 25,300 additional winter deaths were recorded within England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, predominantly old people and predominantly linked to hyperthermia and poor diet. Gordon Lishman, director general of Age Concern, called this a scandal. It’s certainly far higher than countries like Finland and Denmark which generally have colder winters. In fact it’s one of the highest in Europe – so at least we’re beating those buggers at something, eh? The department of health have admitted “most winter deaths are preventable” but Age Concern reported to the government that they expect to see yet another significant hike in the additional winter deaths this year – perhaps to as much as 40,000.

I seem to remember the government were going to do something about these terrible additional winter death figures back in 2001. Since then, surprise, surprise, they’ve steadily risen. It would take a great deal of money to reduce these deaths – money, it seems, that is much better spent on “stun guns” or CCTVs or an “Identity Card System”. These cards, of course, will be unique, and will combine the cardholder’s biometric data with their checked and confirmed identity details - a ‘biographical footprint’. These identity details and the biometrics will be stored on the national identity register. Basic identity information will also be held in a chip on the ID card itself.

Obviously the loss of 25 million personal details by HM Revenue and Customs has led the government to delay ID cards by a year or so (you can fool some of the people some of the time etc), but the fact remains that the total cost of these cards, if the money were to be used elsewhere, would not only eradicate additional winter deaths among the elderly, it might also help with the “3.9 million children - one in three - currently living in poverty in the UK, one of the highest rates in the industrialised world.”

But instead of addressing any of these key questions we have a government comprised of individuals who seem much happier involved in a major pissing contest with thousands of fundamentalist Afghan tribesmen in the back of beyond – who says the spirit of Empire is dead? Back in 1838 and again in 1878 the Empire invaded Afghanistan from India. The 1838 invasion was a disaster, and that in 1878 was only slightly better, though we should remember, shouldn’t we, that when the Anglo-Indian army pulled out an uprising in Kabul put paid to the Imperial residency there in a series of bloody massacres. Might there be a lesson here for us all?

Regards

jester: