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Ahmadinejad is not really in charge of Iran though, that power lies with the religious Ummah in the City of Qom, you might have noticed that all the furore over the Iranian presidential elections was settled in Ahmadinejad’s favour by these people. They are also the ones who vet the lists of presidential candidates so only people they approve of get elected.

So is fundamentalism ending in Iran? No, not yet, but sooner or later yes, probably later though perhaps in another 20 years or so depending on whether Israel or the USA nuke them back to the stone age if they produce and use a nuclear weapon.

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They’re all just part of the 1043 various regulations that allow a statutory right of entry to your home. I don’t know if most have ever been used, most are to do with public health and safety.

Spying on the public seems to be an obsession with public officials these days, what with the RIPA act where councils have used provisions to spy on recycling bin filling or on school catchment area applications. ID cards, cctv even the height of your hedges. Registered snoopers are constantly pushing the boundaries of what is legal and occasionally what isn’t.
It’s reckoned that every council has about 47 people who can simply stroll into your house without your permission (not that they tend too, but if a law exists sooner or later it will be used). 2 years ago Gordon Brown pledged to review the power of councils to enter people’s homes without warrant. Never happened of course, it rarely does with this sort of legislation. The Tories have also made vague promises too, but nothing has been written down yet.

Personally I don’t think we are the ones who need watching, it’s those who think they have a right to watch us who need pruning back and kept an eye on.

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Happy Christmas to all :D

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@woohoo wrote:

Howcome he got past the front desk, with the gun?.. And, yes, why feel the need to ask if he could go see the superintendant?

For all we know, his plan could have been to shoot him?

Yes that’s obviously why he made an appointment. :?

He told them he was coming, not sure why he didn’t tell them that he was bringing a gun in, but I seriously doubt it was to shoot up the police station.

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@pd wrote:

The judge will/should go by the spirit of the law, and not the letter of the law

He’s been arrested and convicted PD, means his DNA will be kept for life, he wont ever pass a CRB check, he has to declare his conviction under the rehabilitation of offenders act for the next 10 years. he wont be able to holiday abroad in the USA and other countries because of Visa restrictions. He wont be able to get a security related job, certain premises will bar him from entry if he’s a tradesman.

Trust me on this he’s been royally fecked by the system.

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Ofgs, The Mayan calendar is just that a bleedin calendar, does the world end on December the 31st? or do we start a new year and a new calendar?

Jeez, get a grip folks.

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I’m not sure I’d care to join any club that would have me as a member :wink:

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@forumhostpb wrote:

@cas wrote:

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@susieq wrote:

@sarah_1 wrote:

@minim wrote:

So, having sold off our gold reserves for a fraction of their worth, Gordon Brown is set to sell off our libraries, our railways, our power supplies and our betting shops.

I think we should perhaps join him, and have garage sales, and car boot sales, and do sponsored cake bakes in order to help bring down our countries collosal debts.

Failing that… lets just blow up parliament.

Now there’s a thought. The last bloke that tried that fell, broke his neck & died trying to escape being hung drawn & quartered for treason in 1606. :lol:

Should have let a woman do it :lol: :lol:

Good God no !!! She’d have ditherd around indecisively, wondering if the gunpowder was placed ‘just right’ and did the barrels match the wallpaper etc.

She’d have been caught by the ‘police’ as she stayed to do her hair and make-up in anticipation of looking her best on the ‘big day’.

Anyway, she’d have forgotten the matches.

She wouldnt need matches, she would have had a lighter :lol: :-

….. even though in 1605, lighters hadn’t been invented. (Pedantry rules OK !!!)

Nor had modern strikeable matches (1826) either

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@pete wrote:

Would any of us manage to run the country any differently… we all want to pay less tax but have a better health service better roads better everything. Which government has actually delivered on election promises once elected. Maybe it just goes with the job

Hardest thing in government is to do nothing, leaving things alone to sort out themselves is often the wisest course, something no politician ever seems to learn.

“People don’t like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don’t run, don’t walk.”
“We’re in their homes and in their heads and we haven’t the right. We’re meddlesome.”

Sums them up entirely

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Good job I’m not human then :mrgreen:

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