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		<title>Love, hate and the threat to internet free speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Richard Carvath is standing as an independent candidate for Salford and Eccles in the upcoming general election, and he has upset a few people by sharing his views on homosexuality. On Monday, he <a href="http://richardcarvath.blogspot.com/2009/12/tories-select-homosexual-pervert-for.html">wrote a blog entry</a> called, &#8220;Tories select homosexual pervert for Salford and Eccles.&#8221;</p>
<p>Woof! No messing. He continues,</p>
<blockquote><p>The Conservative Party has just selected homosexual Matthew Sephton as their candidate for Salford and Eccles.</p>
<p>As a rival [and pro-heterosexual!] candidate I welcome Matthew to the contest for Salford and Eccles.</p>
<p>Matthew&#8217;s own blog is heavy with pro homosexual pervert content: see here, here and here&#8230;.</p>
<p>I very much doubt that the vast majority of the Salford and Eccles electorate will want to be represented by a prominent homosexual activist &#8211; and one who neither lives nor works in the constituency.</p></blockquote>
<p>The following day, he received a letter from the local constabulary,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Richard Carvath</em></p>
<p><em>We have received a complaint today regarding concerns over the content of your blog article dated Monday 7th December 2009.</em></p>
<p><em>A reader of your article has made a complaint that the content is offensive and feels strongly enough to report this matter to the police. He wishes for you to be advised over the potential alarm and distress caused by your article. Whilst not taking this at face value and understanding the meaning of language and how it can be misinterpreted, it could be argued that the context of the comments made could be construed to be borderline criminal.</em></p>
<p><em>At this stage I feel it would be advisable for you to remove this from your blog thereby preventing misinterpretation.</em></p>
<p><em>Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>Regards</em></p>
<p><em>PC2401 Jacky Thompson.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>So, the police are now &#8216;advising&#8217; people to take down blog posts if someone doesn&#8217;t like them. Thankfully, Mr. Carvath told them a few home truths.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dear PC Thompson,</p>
<p>Thank you for your email.</p>
<p>There is nothing criminal about my blog article and so I have no intention of removing it for the foreseeable future.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well exactly, but in a dictatorship, truth gets censored.</p>
<blockquote><p>Homosexuality is a perversion: that is both moral truth and medical fact. Therefore it is quite reasonable for me to refer to a person in whom the perversion of homosexuality is manifest as a homosexual pervert. Let me make it clear that I do not use the term &#8216;homosexual pervert&#8217; as a pejorative term &#8211; derogation is not my motive in using the term; I use the term simply to convey the true nature of what homosexuality is because I believe that the truth matters.</p></blockquote>
<p>He explains a very important distinction here, and one which seems to escape many people.</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m aware that you are employed by an organisation [GMP] which is politically in favour of homosexual perversion. I&#8217;m aware that GMP celebrates its association with the militant perverts&#8217; organisation Stonewall. I&#8217;m aware of the secular humanist socio-political orthodoxy of &#8216;equality&#8217; and &#8216;diversity&#8217; which GMP panders to.</p></blockquote>
<p>Can&#8217;t argue with any of that.</p>
<blockquote><p>My advice to you is to stop being a social engineer trying to suppress free speech and get on with genuine police work.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hear, hear!</p>
<blockquote><p>It is not a crime to criticise homosexuality and nor is it a crime to refer to a public gay political activist as a homosexual pervert.</p>
<p>Even if it were a crime I&#8217;m a British evangelical Christian so nothing and nobody is going to tell me what I can and can&#8217;t say in my own country. As a Christian I speak and act out of love &#8211; not hate &#8211; so my motive for referring to homosexuality as a perversion is love.</p>
<p>My advice to you is to get on with dealing with real crime like robbery, rape and murder and stop trying to suppress free speech.</p>
<p>Never has there been clearer proof of the vital importance of the Waddington free speech safeguard!</p></blockquote>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p>Most of the replies left on his blog seem to be from angry heterosexuals. Perhaps Mr Carvath&#8217;s strength and honesty of language has made folks&#8217; brains go into meltdown. I left this comment myself,</p>
<p><em>These comments from heterosexuals go to show how well they have been trained by the media.</em></p>
<p><em>How has this been achieved? Read <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/_docs/resources/8142838.pdf">the blueprint</a> from the USA.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;The first order of business is desensitization of the American public concerning gays and gay rights.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as possible. The principle behind this advice is simple: almost any behavior begins to look normal if you are exposed to enough of it at close quarters and among your acquaintances.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers. In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims <strong>in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to assume the role of protector.</strong></em> <em>If gays are presented, instead, as a strong and prideful tribe promoting a rigidly nonconformist and </em>deviant<em> lifestyle, they are more likely to be seem as a public menace that justifies resistance and oppression.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Homosexuals don&#8217;t want their lifestyle criticised. Fair enough, I suppose. None of us likes being disagreed with, especially while we are entrenched in sin, but nobody is infallible and beyond criticism. Furthermore, everyone has the right to call a spade a spade. Just like the messages left on Mr Carvath&#8217;s blog and the <a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/12/10/would-be-mp-calls-tory-candidate-a-homosexual-pervert/">Pink News website</a>, where personal criticism of him and his faith are rife.</p>
<p>But then, over the past few years we have come to expect some people to believe they are more equal than others.</p>
<p>Someone called Jeff Duncan even reported Mr Carvath to the police again via a police website and urged others to follow, saying,</p>
<p><em>Hiss [sic] vile homophobic hate remarks have STILL not been removed.</em></p>
<p>What these people should realise, and be very thankful for, is that we live in a society that <em>does</em> tolerate differences of opinion. Those who claimed to be persecuted are now the persecutors. They have become that <em>strong and prideful tribe.</em></p>
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		<title>NEW BLOG UP AT LAST!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 17:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><a href="http://www.realstreet.co.uk/" target="_self">YES!</a><div id="attachment_416" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.realstreet.co.uk/"><img src="http://stewartcowan.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/realstreet1.jpg?w=500&#038;h=141" alt="Real Street Logo" title="realstreet1" width="500" height="141" class="size-full wp-image-416" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Take A Walk Down Real Street</p></div></p>
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		<title>Coming Soon&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in the process of starting a new blog. Once I work out how to incorporate WordPress into my own domain I will post the link here and you can continue to read my thoughts on New Labour and what Gordon Brown&#8217;s vision of a &#8216;New World Order&#8217; will actually entail for us proles.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I am in the process of starting a new blog. Once I work out how to incorporate WordPress into my own domain I will post the link here and you can continue to read my thoughts on New Labour and what Gordon Brown&#8217;s vision of a &#8216;New World Order&#8217; will actually entail for us proles.</p>
<p>I may also post items about my many other interests and try to lighten up a bit, although I make to promises.</p>
<p>If anyone can offer advice on how to add WordPress to my site and allow me to add my own advertising banners (for my own websites), then please get in touch.</p>
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		<title>Pond Life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my first post for a couple of weeks; there                            have been some teething problems with my new business         [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stewartcowan.wordpress.com&blog=4224708&post=400&subd=stewartcowan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>This is my first post for a couple of weeks; there                            have been some teething problems with my new business                            venture, but that&#8217;s to be expected.</p>
<p>I am considering starting a new blog so I can write                            on any subject that interests me on the day. I am getting                            a bit fed up concentrating on New Labour. It is pretty                            tedious and a bit depressing. The other mainstream parties                            need exposing too, especially on the run up to elections.</p>
<p>I also want to comment on other things                            like the <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5870376.ece">pond                            life</a> who murdered two soldiers in N. Ireland. They                            call themselves the &#8216;Real IRA&#8217;. They are like many people                            these days &#8211; a tiny band who think they know better                            than and speak for everyone else. Fortunately, most                            people know how to use words to try and convince. It                            is also much more effective. What to do but send in                            the big boys and make an example of these totally selfish                            parasites?</p>
<p>Perhaps a Creationist like me shouldn&#8217;t refer                            to fellow human beings as &#8216;pond life&#8217;, and they are                            fellow human beings, like it or not.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve filed this under &#8216;Heroes and Cowards&#8217;. Guess which category you skulk among, &#8216;dissidents&#8217;?</p>
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		<title>Bryan Gould disowns New Labour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to Tom                            Harris for pointing out Bryan Gould&#8217;s article, I                 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stewartcowan.wordpress.com&blog=4224708&post=397&subd=stewartcowan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Hat tip to <a href="http://www.tomharris.org.uk/2009/02/23/fools-gould/" target="_blank">Tom                            Harris</a> for pointing out Bryan Gould&#8217;s article, <em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/20/labour-foreign-policy" target="_blank">I                            disown this government</a></em>, in the Guardian&#8217;s Comment                            is Free.</p>
<p>I remember Mr Gould, former Labour MP and member of                            the shadow cabinet, as a seemingly decent sort of bloke                            &#8211; far too decent for New Labour, as it transpires.</p>
<p>He returned to his native New Zealand in the mid-Nineties                            to work in a university, but disowns his former Party                            with these words.</p>
<p>The floor is all yours, Mr Gould&#8230;</p>
<p>Those, like me (and almost everyone I know in the Labour                            party), who have been critical over the years of New                            Labour and its record in government, might have expected                            that the passage of time would bring with it a kinder                            judgment. And in my case, in particular, it might have                            been thought that – 12,000 miles away in New Zealand                            – distance would lend enchantment.</p>
<p>How, then, to explain that the more we take the long                            view of the Blair and now the Brown government, the                            sharper seem the contours of its failures and betrayals?                            How is it that the features of its landscape that grow                            – as our perspective lengthens – in shocking, anger-making                            prominence are those shameful episodes at home and abroad                            which cumulatively are a complete denial of what a Labour                            government (or any British government) should have been                            about?</p>
<p>There have been of course many good and decent day-by-day                            achievements of this government. Across the whole range                            of political issues, I do not say that Britain did not                            do better under Labour than it would have done under                            most alternatives. But these achievements have been                            molehills, judged against the towering peaks scaled                            by New Labour in its rejection not only of Labour, but                            of any decent and civilised values.</p>
<p>The first – and for that reason perhaps most unexpected                            – contravention of civilised norms was the Iraq war.                            The damning judgment of that doomed enterprise has been                            repeatedly rehearsed, but to read the charge sheet again                            is still a shocking experience. A British prime minister,                            claiming the right to moral leadership and an almost                            religious duty to confront evil, sucked up to a soon-to-be                            discredited US president and helped to launch an invasion                            of a distant country – an invasion based upon a lie,                            and one that flew in the face of international law,                            undermined the United Nations, alienated the whole of                            the Muslim world, seemed to validate the claims of terrorists                            and those who recruited them, destroyed the country                            that was invaded and killed hundreds of thousands of                            its citizens, took many young soldiers to their unnecessary                            deaths, and rightly reduced Britain&#8217;s standing in the                            world.</p>
<p>The New Labour government still refuses to acknowledge                            that any of this was wrong. It will not even countenance                            an independent inquiry into how such a fatal mistake                            was made.</p>
<p>It may seem improbable that the scale of the Iraq calamity                            could be matched in any other area of government. Yet,                            as the reasons for and scale of the global recession                            become clear, it is also increasingly apparent that                            another global (as well as British) disaster can be                            laid – substantially, if only partly – at the door of                            the New Labour government.</p>
<p>It was, after all, that government which enthusiastically                            endorsed the virtues of the &#8220;free&#8221; market, which turned                            its back on the need for regulation, which celebrated                            the excesses of the City, which proclaimed that it was                            &#8220;intensely relaxed about people becoming filthy rich&#8221;.                            The government that should have protected the interests                            of ordinary people was dazzled by the super-rich; unsuspecting                            Labour supporters found themselves thrown on the tender                            mercies of a marketplace that was cleared of any limits                            that might have restricted the rich and powerful. There                            have been no more enthusiastic cheerleaders for the                            culture of greed and excess than New Labour ministers.</p>
<p>On the central issue of politics – the willingness                            of government to use its democratic legitimacy to intervene                            in the market in order to restrain its excesses – the                            New Labour government ensured that the dice lay where                            they fell and applauded as they did. It was Tony Blair                            who, standing shoulder to shoulder with Rupert Murdoch,                            proclaimed that the future lay with the &#8220;globalisers&#8221;                            and that those who wanted to reclaim some control over                            their lives were &#8220;isolationists, nationalists and nativists&#8221;.                            It was Gordon Brown who removed the major economic decisions                            from democratic control and handed them over to unaccountable                            bankers.</p>
<p>That betrayal of those who looked to a Labour government                            to help them has seen a rapid widening of inequality                            and a sharp intensification of social disintegration.                            It is the jobs, homes and lives of ordinary people that                            have borne the brunt. The country is a weaker and poorer                            place as a result.</p>
<p>But even that failure pales by comparison with the                            latest revelations about the abandonment by New Labour                            of any pretence to civilised standards. We now know                            that this government connived with the Bush administration                            to hold people illegally, to kidnap them in secret,                            and to torture them while in custody – all in the name                            of a war against the forces of darkness. The perpetrators                            of these outrages seem to believe that they can be washed                            clean by simply declaring their superior morality.</p>
<p>Nothing more clearly distinguishes those beyond the                            pale than their willingness to use the secret, illegal                            and cowardly infliction of pain to terrify, cow and                            bend to their will helpless people being held without                            charge or trial or legal redress. It beggars belief                            that any British government could, in a supposed democracy,                            do so, and not even bother to respond to its critics.                            It is simply incredible that a Labour government claiming                            to represent the values of the Labour movement could                            believe in these circumstances that it has any right                            to remain in office.</p>
<p>For me, this is too much. I am sick to the stomach.                            I disown this so-called Labour government. I protest.</p>
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		<title>The Nation Speaks &#8211; Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A big thank you to Paddy Connaughton from Bolton who                            emailed me recently:
Hello Stewart,
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>A big thank you to Paddy Connaughton from Bolton who                            emailed me recently:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hello Stewart,</p>
<p>The reason i&#8217;m writing this is the fact i have just stumbled upon your website. Thank God someone is out there telling the truth about this government and the state of our country. I have read some of your articles and have found that my wife and i agree with all of them.</p>
<p>After 22 years of working hard in the building industry, paying my taxes and trying to be a good citizen, I was made redundant in 2007, found two more jobs only to be laid off due to this economic depression. For all the talk by Gordon about public works and getting us back into work, i find nothing is being done. I now believe the government just don&#8217;t care about mine or anybody else&#8217;s situation.</p>
<p>I am beginning to think this is all a plan by the new fascist state of New Labour to keep the majority of manual workers on minimum wages. For too long these people have hacked into every aspect of our lives and eroded our freedoms of expression in order to control us. So thanks Stewart for having the guts to openly stand up to them, even with the threat of the the Police spying on you. I just wish the people of England could show a bit more of a backbone and publicly show their contempt for this government by openly defying them as the brave French and Icelandic people so often have.</p>
<p>Keep the faith, Paddy</p></blockquote>
<p>Thank you for those kind words. I have to say though,                            that it doesn&#8217;t take much guts to stand against a government                            that has shown itself to be so completely reprobate.                            In my case, Labour&#8217;s failure to honour their manifesto                            promise to hold a referendum on Europe, was the straw                            that broke the camel&#8217;s back. It is now a matter of standing                            up for our country and our freedom or losing everything                            to the whore that sits in Brussels.</p>
<p>The way the government has betrayed the young people,                            especially, makes me sick. No, the time came when I                            realised I had nothing left to lose by speaking out                            and I wished I had started years ago, but better late                            than never. Hopefully.</p>
<p>I will keep the faith. There is no fear in love and                            there is no strength like God&#8217;s.</p>
<p><em>Feel free to <a href="mailto:stewartcowan@hotmail.co.uk">email                            me</a> with your own views. I only publish names after                            gaining the permission of the writer.</em></p>
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		<title>New Poster Series &#8211; Part 2: Brown&#8217;s Betrayal is Labour&#8217;s Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I am grateful to a reader for emailing me about this                            poster. He says this is a really great leaflet to get                            round the houses in labour estates &#8211; also looks good                            for fly posting and notice boards or just left lying                            about where it will be picked up.</p>
<p><a title="Brown's Betrayal is Labour's Shame" href="http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=1061407&amp;da=y" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thelabourparty.org/images/poster-browns-betrayal.JPG" border="0" alt="" width="331" height="453" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>WANTED &#8211; More posters that                            advertise the truth about our scandalous, traitorous,                            seedy little band of terrorists that call themselves                            our Government!</strong></span></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><em>Warning: the distressing photo at the bottom of                            this article might open your eyes to the reality of abortion.</em></p>
<p>It is unsurprising that all Labour seem to be capable                            of in terms of political debate is to slag off anyone                            who disagrees with them.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s very easy these days. For example, if you think that foster                            children would be better off living in a normal family                            environment than with cohabitees (of any gender combination),                            then you can be labelled a homophobe. No discussion.                            Game over.</p>
<p>If you think that deporting people who came here illegally,                            preach hatred in order to stir up others to violence                            against us and cost us a fortune to keep, both when                            they are free (on benefits) and when in prison, then                            you are racist (even if the person is of the same &#8216;race&#8217;                            as you).</p>
<p>Anyway, yesterday I designed <a href="http://www.thelabourparty.org/dying-to-vote-labour.htm" target="_blank">this                            poster</a> for a Labour supporter called &#8220;Andrew                            F&#8221; after his <a href="http://www.tomharris.org.uk/2009/02/19/are-the-tories-truly-progressive/#comment-10658" target="_blank">request</a> on Tom Harris MP&#8217;s blog for a sign he could put up to                            promote Labour&#8217;s &#8220;progressive policies&#8221;.</p>
<p>After seeing my artwork, he said this on Tom&#8217;s blog:</p>
<p><em>Stewart &#8211; Well yes, the two million abortions is                            progressive actually. Allowing women control over what                            goes on inside their uterus is a liberal value. Thank                            you!</em></p>
<p>Can you see what he is doing? He is using soundbites,                            clichés and New Labourspeak &#8211; &#8220;progressive,&#8221;                            &#8220;allowing women control,&#8221; &#8220;liberal value&#8221;.                            He is not using his brain to make up his own mind &#8211;                            it has clearly been made up for him and so he feels                            comfortable to scoff at such an idea that human life                            is sacred.</p>
<p>I replied on Tom&#8217;s blog with a few comments, but he                            didn&#8217;t approve them. I don&#8217;t know why, but here they                            are:</p>
<p><strong>Andrew F &#8211; you have the government you deserve. </strong></p>
<p><strong>The first family planning clinic was opened by Marie                            Stopes &#8211; a <a href="http://www.thelabourparty.org/royal-mail-celebrates-eugenicist-marie-stopes.htm" target="_blank">Nazi                            sympathiser and eugenicist</a> who sent Hitler some                            of her poems and was otherwise also quite mentally unhinged. </strong></p>
<p><strong>First they came for the unborn, then they carried                            out fatal experiments on the military, then they came                            for the geriatrics and one day they will come for you,                            Andrew. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Learn about training the public to accept eugenics.                            The Government/UN/big corporation-backed environmental                            movement has blinded you into thinking &#8217;save the planet&#8217;                            means it would be better if people DIED. </strong></p>
<p><strong>An unborn human being should not have the death                            sentenced imposed because the mother thinks she has                            a right not to have to be &#8216;inconvenienced&#8217; by the fruit                            of her moral decisions. </strong></p>
<p><strong>And what about the father&#8217;s rights? We never hear                            about these, do we? No, because you, Andrew, like most                            people, have been breast-fed Feminism all your life.                            A particularly nasty tipple &#8211; ostensibly from the paps                            of women, but in fact from the evil brains of Nazi eugenicist                            types who hate humanity and all we are capable of achieving. </strong></p>
<p><strong>I suggest you read <a href="http://www.tomharris.org.uk/2009/02/19/are-the-tories-truly-progressive/#comment-10641" target="_blank">my                            comments</a> above about the definition of “progressive”. </strong></p>
<p>Andrew F left his most disturbing comment till last.                            After thanking him for helping me understand what a                            Labour supporter thinks ‘progressive’ means and hoping                            God has mercy on his soul for his attitude towards humanity,                            he replied:</p>
<p><em>Suffice to say that any God who thinks women should                            be forced to carry a life-threatening parasite for three                            quarters of a year can take his mercy and shove it where                            his sun doesn’t shine.</em></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how old this person is, but I suspect                            he is a fairly recent graduate of the British &#8216;education&#8217;                            system, where he has been conditioned to be a mindless                            drone, where scoffing and mocking are cool and civility                            and debate are &#8216;passé&#8217; .</p>
<p>Andrew F is a symptom of a truly sick society. One                            that is dying; perhaps almost dead. A country that is                            so far gone that it is ripe for a takeover by enemies,                            foreign or domestic.</p>
<p>To describe this poor unwanted child (below), aborted                            at 22 weeks, as <em>a life-threatening parasite</em> is                            shocking indeed. Anyone who thinks similarly should                            escape the clichés and newspeak that override their                            own cognitive functions and see the truth that God&#8217;s                            creation is not to be so mistreated and mocked.</p>
<p>It makes me wonder if the schools and media have even                            managed to suck the conscience out from the feeble among                            us.</p>
<p>Do you remember the <a href="http://www.thelabourparty.org/abortion-n-ireland-listening.htm">group                            of MPs</a> trying to force a change of law in Northern                            Ireland where abortion is still illegal? Despite opposition                            from all religions and all political parties in the                            province, Labour MP, Diane Abbott, and a small band                            of cohorts decided to make it their business to overrule                            the current law and ignore the wishes of most of the                            people.</p>
<p>Thankfully they failed, but abortion and its promotion                            are immensely important to New Labour, which is the                            reason some of them want very young primary school children                            to be brainwashed into believing that abortion is a                            good thing.</p>
<p>I cannot look at this picture for more than a second                            or two before the tears start welling up. I thank the                            Almighty God that I still have humanity and normal feelings.</p>
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		<title>New Poster Series &#8211; Part 1: Dying to vote Labour?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Following a <a href="http://www.tomharris.org.uk/2009/02/19/are-the-tories-truly-progressive/#comment-10658">request                            from a Labour supporter</a> for &#8220;something to get                            fired up about&#8221; for a sign, I designed this:</p>
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		<title>Geert Wilders and the Fight for Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[National                            Review
By Bat Yeor
February 16, 2009
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGVhOWZlNjk4N2E0NDk1NDgwYWRhNzlhMTdmNWZlNjI=" target="_blank">National                            Review</a><br />
By Bat Yeor<br />
February 16, 2009</p>
<p><strong>Does defending Western values constitute “inciting                            hatred”?</strong></p>
<p>Britain has just witnessed the spectacle of a duly                            elected parliamentarian from another EU country, Geert                            Wilders of the Netherlands, being denied entry to the                            country because he constituted “a threat to public policy.”                            Wilders, after being detained briefly at Heathrow, was                            sent back to Holland — where he has further legal troubles.                            Three weeks earlier, a Dutch appeals court had ordered                            prosecutors to begin criminal proceedings against Wilders                            for “inciting hatred and discrimination” and “insulting                            Muslim worshippers” through his public statements and                            his 2008 film, Fitna. The order to proceed with the                            criminal prosecution resulted from pressure put on European                            states and on the UN Human Rights Council by the Organization                            of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The OIC’s aim is to                            punish and suppress any alleged Islamophobia, around                            the world but particularly in Europe, and it has been                            a leader in creating the conditions that made the U.K.’s                            Wilders ban possible.</p>
<p>The OIC is one of the largest intergovernmental organizations                            in the world. It encompasses 56 Muslim states plus the                            Palestinian Authority. Spread over four continents,                            it claims to speak in the name of the ummah (the universal                            Muslim community), which numbers about 1.3 billion.                            The OIC’s mission is to unite all Muslims worldwide                            by rooting them in the Koran and the Sunnah — the core                            of traditional Islamic civilization and values. It aims                            at strengthening solidarity and cooperation among all                            its members, in order to protect the interests of Muslims                            everywhere and to galvanize the ummah into a unified                            body.</p>
<p>The OIC is a unique organization — one that has no                            equivalent in the world. It unites the religious, economic,                            military, and political strength of 56 states. By contrast,                            the European Union represents half as many states and                            is a secular body only, and the Vatican — which speaks                            for the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics — is devoid of                            any political power. Many Muslims in the West resist                            the OIC’s tutelage and oppose its efforts to supplant                            Western law with sharia. But the OIC’s resources are                            formidable.</p>
<p>The organization has numerous subsidiary institutions                            collaborating at the highest levels with international                            organizations in order to implement its political objectives                            worldwide. Its main working bodies are the Islamic Educational,                            Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), which                            seeks to impose on the West the Islamic perception of                            history and civilization; the Observatory of Islamophobia,                            which puts pressure on Western governments and international                            bodies to adopt laws punishing “Islamophobia” and blasphemy;                            and the newly created Islamic International Court of                            Justice. As stated in its 1990 Cairo Declaration on                            Human Rights in Islam, the OIC is strictly tied to the                            principles of the Koran, the Sunnah, and the sharia.                            In a word, the OIC seeks to become the reincarnation                            of the Caliphate.</p>
<p>The OIC regularly reiterates its commitments to protecting                            the political, historical, religious, and human rights                            of Muslims in non-OIC states, especially Muslims who                            form the majority in specific regions of non-Muslim                            countries — such as the southern Philippines, southern                            Thailand, and western Thrace in Greece — as well as                            Muslims in places like the Balkans, the Caucasus, Myanmar,                            India, and China. The OIC supports Hamas and the Palestinians                            in their struggle to destroy Israel, as well as the                            Muslim fight for “legitimate self-determination” in                            “Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.” It has condemned                            the “continual Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan,”                            and it expresses its full solidarity with “the just                            cause of the Muslim Turkish people of Cyprus” and with                            Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, whom many                            hold responsible for encouraging the massacres in Darfur.                            The seat of the OIC is in Jeddah, but the organization                            regards that location as temporary: Its headquarters                            will be transferred to al-Kods (Islamized Jerusalem)                            when that city has been “liberated” from Israeli control.</p>
<p>In its efforts to defend the “true image” of Islam                            and combat its defamation, the organization has requested                            the UN and the Western countries to punish “Islamophobia”                            and blasphemy. Among the manifestations of Islamophobia,                            in the OIC’s view, are European opposition to illegal                            immigration, anti-terrorist measures, criticism of multiculturalism,                            and indeed any efforts to defend Western cultural and                            national identities. The OIC has massive funding from                            oil sources, which it lavishly spends on the Western                            media and academia and in countless “dialogues.” It                            influences Western policy, laws, and even textbooks                            through pressures brought by Muslim immigrants and by                            the Western nations’ own leftist parties. Hence, we                            have seen Kristallnacht-like incitements of hate and                            murder against European Jews and Israel conducted with                            impunity in the cities of Europe — where respect for                            human rights is supposed to be one of the highest values.</p>
<p>Geert Wilders is the latest victim of this enormous                            world machinery. His crime is maintaining that Europe’s                            civilization is rooted in the values of Jerusalem, Athens,                            Rome, and the Enlightenment — and not in Mecca, Baghdad,                            Andalusia, and al-Kods. He fights for Europe’s independence                            from the Caliphate and for its endangered freedoms.                            He had received serious death threats even before Fitna                            was released.</p>
<p>Many Muslims in the West support him, but Geert Wilders’s                            principal weapons are his courage and his willingness                            to resist even his own government, which is slowly submitting                            to the OIC’s pressures. Wilders’s enemies pretend that                            he is an insignificant personality who makes “provocative”                            statements only in search of fame. In fact, if his motivation                            were self-interest, he could do far better by courting                            the OIC’s favors — as so many Europeans are doing, consciously                            or unconsciously — rather than risking his freedom and                            indeed his life.</p>
<p><em>— Bat Yeor is the author of studies on the conditions                            of Jews and Christians in the context of the jihad ideology                            and the sharia law. Recent books include: Islam and                            Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide and Eurabia:                            The Euro-Arab Axis, both from Fairleigh Dickinson University                            Press.</em></p>
<p>From <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGVhOWZlNjk4N2E0NDk1NDgwYWRhNzlhMTdmNWZlNjI=" target="_blank">National                            Review</a></p>
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