A Futile Attempt

Concise journalism - here we go!

Cameron has done a U-Turn on environmental issues and is selling off the nations forests. Just like Cilla Black said, "Surprise, surprise!"

The Middle East is, once again, in a state of instability. This time American has kept their nose out of it. No oil wells were harmed.

Turns out the Tory plan of 'Big Society' was to drop financial responsibility of redistributing wealth into community schemes and have local people do it themselves. Appropriately overlooking the problem of no one at the lower end of the pay packet having any money from the top of their ivory towers.

Manchester responded like Mancunians and took the money and ran with it, Liverpool responded like Scousers and spat in the eye of authority.

Lesbians are to be deported to Uganda! Oh wait- that’s ‘a’ lesbian whom sought asylum here is being deported back to Uganda . . . le boo!

Actually this news story has captivated my attention is a very deep and personal way. I’d like to say that I can sympathize, or even empathize with the women, but I cant. No, that's a lie. I just don't want to. The idea of knowing what she will go through doesn't bare knowing about for me because I know how I will react. I don’t want to imagine what it would be like to go back to this:

Especially as the authorities will know why you have been sent back

It's worse then being thrown to the lions. At least the lions are hungry and do it out of necessity. These people are malicious and blood thirsty. They will hang you if lucky and beat you to death with hammers if your not.

R.I.P.

The very idea of going where she is going makes me anxious, my temperature run cold with horror and my gut do somersaults. This, for me, is a very scary place to be.

I see these things and I remember why I got into politics in the first place. Because the world doesn't match my moral understanding on general human decency and how we interact with our environment, there is too much hate and self interest in the world and they are winning the push against our better judgment. I got into politics to educate myself then change the world. 

I wonder when I lost sight of all that . . . when I got too scared to act? Too pinned down by the shackles of work and capital?

It doesn't matter. But what does matter is that knowing this kind of thing goes on some where in the world makes me want to cry.

I read some place and generally have gathered that a lot of people, predominantly straight people, think that this country is now 'safe' for homosexuals. I'd like to retort with these two links and leave it at that for today. My mood is sombre and I need some breakfast.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/26/equality.gayrights

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/28/gay-hate-crime-pair-charged-derby-first-prosecution