Archive for October, 2008

Footballers feel the heat

// October 12th, 2008 // No Comments » // Random Stuff

I’ve just been listening to news about the football match that took place at Wembley yesterday between the mighty England and diminutive Kazakhstan. Apparently, in the last 15 minutes of the game the England fans took it upon themselves to boo a certain player who had made a mistake and caused England to concede a goal.

Now, forgive me if I’m wrong (I’m not), but if the England players expect to get cheered when they score goals and perform well, should they not expect also to be booed when they miss goals and let them in? Seems to me that these overpaid ball-kickers expect nothing more than to be worshipped, and when the public who support them aren’t happy and show this, then it’s the public that are wrong not the players.

NO to German laws, Yes to free speech

// October 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // Random Stuff

Apparently the UK has found new ways to waste money through our legal system…

Australian citizen Dr Gerald Toben was remanded in custody after his arrest by British Police at Heathrow Airport.

German authorities allege Dr Toben published material online “of an anti-semitic and/or revisionist nature”.

While you’d have to be a complete and utter lunatic to deny that millions of Jews were slaughtered by the nazi regime in WW2, I have to say that I find the fact that the UK is even contemplating an extradition of Doctor Toben a complete and utter farce and an afront to civil liberty. Why should the UK be upholding a “bespoke” knee jerk German law, at a cost to UK taxpayers, which serves no purpose other than to show that the EU can get along and play nice. If the man had killed his wife, if the man had robbed a bank, it the man had downloaded child porn then YES, send him over to Germany - but free speech is one of those things that America got right, every human being should have the right to it - and for the UK to be saying that isn’t the case once again erodes at the feelings I generally have towards loving the country that I call home.