Idiot wind (I fought the law and the law won)
As they say, know your Shakespeare: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
Or, as Charles Dickens also knew, The law is an ass - and here’s just a short collection of stories to prove it:
Two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran - what some kids later said was a common form of greeting.
Now, Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, face the prospect of 10 years in juvenile detention and a lifetime on the sex offender registry.
And no, not it’s not a case of ‘only in America’, alas. You thought Australia was all cool and surfing and barbies (and only the occasional shark & poisonous spider)? Well, think again:
Australian courts have begun ordering parents to refrain from making offensive remarks, claiming that constant carping between couples can damage young minds.
England, in the meantime, is completely lost – and conquered by the insanity brigade. Hitler and his bombs couldn’t do it, but Great Britain has, without as much as a whimper, completely fallen to the health and safety clowns’ army – as always aided and abetted by the political correctness imbeciles:
That’s why dustmen can’t even wear a bandana anymore:
A black dustman has been banned from wearing a St George’s Cross bandana because council officials say it could be regarded as racist.
and children can’t go swimming with plastic or rubber armbands & rings:
Bournemouth’s leisure centres have been banned from lending armbands and rubber rings to swimmers because it’s against professional guidelines.
Staying for just a little bit longer in England, here’s another gem from the insanity text book:
Old soldiers in Horwich will have to be content with watching the national Remembrance Service at the Cenotaph on TV after their own parade had to be scrapped because of an £18,000 ‘health and safety’ bill
These costs could bring the final bill to £18,000 - making the November 11 parade too expensive to hold.
Usually it would cost only a couple of thousand pounds.
Greater Manchester Police said the extra security is necessary because another force in the West Midlands was successfully sued when Brownies participating in a parade were injured by a car which drove into them while they were marching.
However, in terms of absolute insanity, the US of A is hard to beat:
MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on its website, more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago.
North Carolina is pushing for a state law that would require children to receive parental permission before creating social networking profiles, and require the websites to verify the parents’ identity and age.
A Virginia man pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and soliciting a 14-year old girl he met on MySpace.
Advocates for internet companies and privacy issues testified against the proposed restrictions, saying the broad parental verification standards would be found unconstitutional because they prohibit free speech or impede interstate commerce.
Yes, God forbid a paedophile’s progress would be hampered by silly interstate commerce laws.
And free speech is also very important, of course. You wouldn’t want to stop children from having the right or the occasion to tell their abusers ‘Please don’t hurt me.’
Still, the ‘total waste of space’ price must go to the lawyer who defended a woman who admitted to have waited until her partner fell asleep, before she,
glued his penis to his stomach, glued his testicle to his leg and glued the cheeks of his buttocks together.
The lawyer claimed,
this was part of routine sexual activity between the couple — acts that he agreed to — incidents that should have stayed in the bedroom.
Yes, and some people - Hitler, Stalin, the inventors of Big Brother and most lawyers - should have stayed in the womb, no doubt.
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