So long and thanks for all the fish

In an effort to streamline the titles and places I publish I will need to admit that this blog is over. I will aim to keep it as an archive but you should no longer look for up dates here. Laity Online and Lord Matt (UK) will continue the story. Laity Online is a site where you can join in and share your views and opinions and Lord Matt will be covering a lot more range including a whole load of technical stuff. So that is it from this infrequesnt title. The book may end but the story continues. The end of this episode of the tale of a goth trying to love God in a world that hates difference (the church).

  2/24/2006 03:43:00 PM 0 comments links to this post -

 
US shown to by hypocrits in "the war on terror"

Flight to the dark side - World - theage.com.au: The revelations and others have provoked a storm of questions across Europe about the role of European governments in the US policy of 'extraordinary rendition' - a term that usually describes the abduction of terrorism suspects and their removal to countries where they can be interrogated outside the protection of US law. It is believed that in the past four years the US has rendered about 150 terrorist suspects, mainly to Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Syria. How many of these men have been tortured is unknown: two who say they were are Canadian Maher Arar and Australian Mamdouh Habib. Professor Paul Wilkinson, of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at Scotland's St Andrew's University, thinks the EU must pursue the allegations, which he describes as unproven but extremely serious. "Respect for the rule of law and human rights is an absolutely essential part of tackling terrorism," Wilkinson says. "It is not a kind of luxury you can duck out of when you wish." He believes opposition to torture and detention without legal process is not just moral but the way to win the war on terror. "If we don't show that we live up to the declarations and conventions that we proclaim we follow, then we are open to the charge of hypocrisy," he said.

  12/07/2005 09:00:00 PM 0 comments links to this post -

 
FOXNews.com - Views - ifeminists - PBS Film Ignites Fathers' Rights Debate

A newly surfacing issue that has (despite protests by politically motivated persons) always existed is now being raised. It is a simple issue. After so many years of protesting that women must be protected from men it seems that the reverse is true - that men must be protected from women.

A resent news story tells of a man that must now sue a documentary maker for airing a film that portrays what some might call the signs of PAS but clearly shows a woman that may very well have abused her children as the victim in a battle that might never end.

FOXNews.com - Views - ifeminists - PBS Film Ignites Fathers' Rights Debate: "The documentary's ultimate credibility may hinge on one question: does it incorrectly portray Amina's mother as an heroic mom instead of a child abuser?"

Even if this man wins and is proven to be right in his claims - he still looses. As PAS (if proven) is not medically recognised there is little chance of him ever having a reasonable relationship with his children. That chance has been raped away from him by the adversarial system he must use.

  12/05/2005 10:03:00 PM 0 comments links to this post -

 
The Future in the UK

In a recent interview for EADT Fathers-4-Justice vet Matt O'Connor has spoken of the hard and personal cost of these past three years.

He points to the shocking use of the Fathers-4-Justice name by splinter groups who have become so fustrated that violence is now thier only option. He also speaks of death threats.

I do not wish to make his pain look small but over two years ago I had started saying that "this issue" (of mens rights) was going to become a hell of a lot more dangerouse if something was not done.

I pointed to the Austrailian Black Shirts movement and said look it is begining. I pointed back in time to the "womens liberation" movement and saw that broken windows, direct action and massive high publicity stunts had failed to get the rights of women addressed. It was esculating and would have continued to the point of IRA / PLO (etc) levels of psudo civil war had not world war two cropped up and proven the point for the ladies.

Matt see's the violence and is shocked. I see the same violence and see that things are going just as one might expect them to. In the next five years expect arson attacks and possibly mild assults and even small scale riots as things continue to esculate.

WHY: because when ever the civil rights of a group are oppressed rebellion of increasing violence is the result.

  11/28/2005 10:14:00 AM 0 comments links to this post -

 
TDC Exposed: Update of Events TDC Exposed: Update of Events - Cricky! This bloke is getting kicked out of his home for speaking the truth to his local council.

They call the UK civilised but we are the worst abusers of human rights ON THE PLANET. I am ashamed to be british.  10/10/2005 05:29:00 PM 0 comments links to this post -

 
NO WHITES! -=- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) - Creating Sustainable Communities: "A £3 million Ethnic Minorities Innovation Fund (EMIF) has been announced by Housing Minister Yvette Cooper. The EMIF will help local authorities develop innovative projects that will reduce levels of homelessness within ethnic minority groups."

I can just here it now: "Sorry, we can't house you becuase you are white."

But the govenment is doing it so its not racist.

  9/22/2005 02:33:00 PM 0 comments links to this post -

 
Adrian Plass: Claustrophobia Adrian Plass: Claustrophobia: "Not a hint of religion, nor a trace of narrowness, and as C.S. Lewis so famously said, there'll be a lot of surprises."  9/03/2005 06:25:00 PM 0 comments links to this post -