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For the past few years, I and many other ppl have been feeling like we have been living in a increasing Communist Country. Our various freedoms and the right to do the most basic things has become illegal or taxed the hell out of. Did our Founding Fathers NOT start this country to get away from gov't rule and stupid assinine lack of common sense?
But US Citizens do not dispare! We are NOT alone in how our gov't is becoming a Communist Rule and telling us what we can do, how to do what they tell us we can do, and all that jive! The Britions are no better off then we are! Only difference is their anal retintive gov't calls their taxes and stupid ass laws "Sin Taxes".
The UK not only went after smoking but now they are going after drinking. And cars! Hey at least they are being fair if you ask my opinon on that! Not only are they making it illegal to kill oneself with smoke by making it almost unattinable to smoke anywhere but your house, now the UK is hiking their already HIGH booze tax up another 6%. They are now trying to do away with the "pub" scene. The car issue is along the lines of SUVs and bigger vechiles. For many US Citizens they have no clue exactly how expensive it is over in the UK.
Case in point when us US Citizens were bitching about paying 1.70 plus a gallon on gas the UK Citizens were already paying about 3-4 bucks a gallon for gas. So just imagine what they are paying now with US Citizens paying about 3-4 bucks a gallon for gas. They are looking at almost a 10 dollar a gallon gas fill.
Many British Citizens are speaking out on these "Sin" Taxes. Baisc enjoyment for many ppl of drinking, smoking, and driving vechiles they already paid otu the ass on are now "SINS" and they will be taxed for it. Citizens over in the UK have pointed out that their ecomony is just as shitty as the US's and the gov't is stupid ass hell for hiking these taxes because it will NOT stop ppl from drinking or smoking. If a person wants to drink and smoke they are going to. It won't stop them from driving their vechiles anymore than US Citizens have stopped driving big vechiles. All it is going to do is cost the Gov't money by loss of revenue.
And once our lovely gov'ts tax basic enjoyments to death and cause the majority of citizens in their country to stop doing what they enjoy, and cost the gov't revenue they will start taxing to death basic everyday living items even more than they already do. Because we all know that it isn't the gov't that keeps our countries running. It is the citizens and how they are taxed to death and then told we have no say in anything. We are told how to live our lives, what we can and can't do.
Saying this to anyone in our gov'ts can consitute a treason act if we act against it. Even when the US Consitution says the US Citizens have the right to rise up and clean out our own gov't. If we should do this we are committing a treasonist act even though we have a consitutional right to do so. In otherwords, if the Citizens of the US finally wise up and stop their bitching and act, we are dayumed. If we continue our bitching and do nothing we are dayumed. At least the US Citizens have a small recourse with our Consititution. I am not sure what the British Citizens have for recourse.
Got to love our Communist Gov'ts that use the guise of democrocy to beat down their citizens.
02-13-2008
Daily Mail
Police have been given the go-ahead to use Taser stun guns against children.
The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons comes despite warnings that they could trigger a heart attack in youngsters.
Until now, Tasers - which emit a 50,000-volt electric shock - have been used only by specialist officers as a "non lethal" alternative to firearms.
However, they can now be used against all potentially violent offenders even if they are unarmed.
It is the decision not to ban their use against minors that is likely to raise serious concerns.
Home Office Police Minister Tony McNulty said medical assessments had confirmed the risk of death or serious injury from Tasers was "low".
But he failed to mention Government advisers had also warned of a potential risk to children.
The Defence Scientific Advisory Council medical committee told the Home Office that not enough was known about the health risks of using the weapons against children.
Tasers work by firing metal barbs into the skin which then discharge an electrical charge which is designed to disable someone long enough to allow police to detain them safely.
The committee, which is made up of independent scientists and doctors, said that limited research suggested there was a risk children could suffer "a serious cardiac event".
It recommended that officers should be "particularly vigilant" for any Taser-induced adverse response and said guidance should be amended to "identify children and adults of small stature" as being at potentially greater risk from the cardiac effects of Tasers.
The Government scientists were also asked to test whether the weapons could cause a miscarriage if used on a pregnant woman.
While not saying whether police would be allowed to Taser an expectant mother, the Home Office said the DSAC committee had "specifically asked" for computer simulations to be carried out to analyse the effect on "a pregnant female".
Amnesty International claims Tasers have been responsible for 220 deaths in America since 2001. Many cities and police forces there have banned their use against minors.
Two years ago in Chicago a 14-year-old boy went into cardiac arrest after being shot with one. Medics had to use a defibrillator four times to resuscitate him.
Taser International, the American firm that makes the device, said tests on pigs suggested the weapons were safe.
The Association of Chief Police Officers, which issues guidance to forces on the use of weapons, said Tasers would be made "readily available" for "conflict management" at incidents of "violence and threats of violence of such severity that they will need force".
Non-firearms officers in ten forces will be trained to use the weapons. Every incident they are involved in will be assessed over a 12-month trial period.
I've taken the ride (yes, I actually volunteered to be tasered) and I can tell you they are safer, but not 100% safe. "Safer" meaning less likely the person hit will bleed out. HOWEVER.
If you have asthma, heart problems, etc., you cannot convince me they are safe. I felt my lungs contract and I know my heart reacted weird, too (it tenses all your muscles and people forget the heart is also a muscle. I'm not sure whey people think their organs will be uneffected by tasers). I always remind people that they are not NON-lethal, only LESS-lethal. It also insights an instant panic which can effect the heart. On a less lethal note, they also left scars. I was not hit with the harpoon like projectiles they spit, I was actually tasered via two clamps, one on the should of my shirt and one on my pants at the hip. The clamps never touched skin and I was tasered by my clothes, pretty much. But I have scars. It somehow tore open my skin and made me bleed without contact to my skin (the other guy who was tasered reported this did not happen to him, though).
The reaction of a child's body to a taser cannot be good. I am a full grown adult and I felt like I was being crushed to death by my own muscles, like every bone in my body would break if he didn't let off that trigger. So allowing children to be tasered, in my mind, is a horrible choice. The people who made that decision should take the ride for themselves. You don't fall to the ground harmlessly with no threat of death. Heck, the blow to the head from hitting the ground alone could kill you!
So while it is safer, I believe it is false advertising to say they are non-lethal, because they are not. And there are records showing people have been killed by tasers. So telling cops and civilians alike that they are non-lethal and completely safe is BS.
Something that is not getting a lot of play on the media is the Free Speech persecution of a British Blogger known as Lionheart.
The last I heard he was flying back to Britain knowing that he was to be arrested as he stepped off the plane. Why the arrest? Lionheart is an ex-miscreant who turned his life around by becoming a Christian. Stories of turning one’s life around by becoming a Christian are rare stories in Europe these days.
I am unaware what Lionheart does to pay the bills; however his trouble with the British law is over his Blog’s writing about the threat of Islamism to Western society. Evidently a Mohammedan complained to the authorities in Britain that Lionheart’s blogs were incitement to hate-speech. You see there is no First Amendment right of freedom of speech in Britain as it is protected in America. In Britain a simple act of Parliament can redefine the parameters of Freedom of Speech.
This is what Lionheart is a victim of. Britain has a hate crimes law that if publications or speech is offensive to a race, creed, religion, gender etc.; then it is an equivalent of an American felony. That means if you point out acts of hatred as part of a religion, an offended member of that religion can press charges for hate speech.
Not being from Britain this may not be the precise definition; however it is the essence of Lionheart’s legal problems. Lionheart is anti-jihadi and anti-Islamist. Lionheart’s exposés of the jihad-Islamist mentality of much of the British Muslim population is criminal in Britain.
I have not run into any news about what has happened to Lionheart after he stepped off that plane; however I have ran into some information about what Lionheart is doing that the British law enforcement has determined enough to warrant an arrest.
This information comes from the Jillosophy blog. I will post her information with a few formatting changes at this blog.
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