Tag Archive for 'Dear Leader'

Unquenchable fires and Blair

It seems that some things burn eternally and cannot be extinguished by the efforts of mere man: the underground coal fire that rages in Pennsylvania that has burnt for 46 years and is still going strong; or the obsession of Geeklawyer’s growing band of female stalkers (and the odd male one we’ll gloss over quickly).

All of these pale beside the ambition of the ex-Dear Leader. Having buggered up the country nicely by creating new breeding grounds for hatred of the West, and gifted an entire generation of angry young English Muslim men to radicalism; having launched us into a supporting role in retarded George’s democracy tour of the Middle East — critically panned by Rolling Stone magazine; having eradicated at a stroke vast swathes of the civil liberties he said were the reason we were a great liberal democracy superior to the terrorist values; having trashed the Health service into a semi-privatised profit centre for health companies and which employs reams of highly paid middle-managers whose function is to churn out empty statistics about the great improvements and, well, you get the point. Blair is a oily sleazy little runt; a failed barrister with a chip on his shoulder that would save the Amazon.

But of course all that was supposed to be over with his exit from power. Oh blessed day when the clouds parted and the rain retreated to be replaced by the mild drizzle of the chubby, absolutely heterosexual, thingy … Gordon Brown, Google informs Geeklawyer.

We have been conned. Bliar has not had enough. With his obscenely lucrative rewards for doing a bad job, you’d think he’d be happy rolling around on £50 notes on his king sized bed with that fat arsed minger Cherie (embarrassingly, a member of Geeklawyer’s Inn). £250,000 a pop US speaking gigs, £1Mil a year for a part time job, £6Mil book deal.

No. Apparently now he wants to bugger up the EU too by becoming PM of the EU. Eeeeek. He’s been caught lunching the almost equally repellent French clothes horse PM Nicolas SadDozy at the Paris restaurant Thiou. A word of warning SadDozy: avoid doing deals with Bliar in restaurants. Ask Gordon.

Thiou are famed for an exotic meat and noodle concoction known as ‘le tigre qui pleure’ (the tiger who cries). In honour of the oily one’s visit can Geeklawyer suggest a new dish? “The Voter Who Weeps”. Geeklawyer’s French is too poor to render that into French — in French he can only say “Get off my ski lift you Nazi-collaborating frog eating Gallic tampon or Geeklawyer will have coprophilic sex with your disgusting wife after he’s bathed her and made her shave her armpits”.

Why oh why oh why oh why can’t the useless rag-head pillocks in Al Queda assassinate him? It would be great PR for them: many of us would revise our low opinion of them if they could do us this one small service. Their ineptness is proof that the terrorism ‘threat’ is laughable.

update: Some idiot is trying get Geeklawyer prosecuted. Hilarious! Please read the blog, please, it is absolutely frigging hysterical. I’ve never seen a political stalker before but I think that that is what this person is. He has no interest in politics and is a right wing loony. From his poor inarticulate writing and weak arguments he is clearly not very bright and is manifestly poorly educated — ideal Neo-Labour fodder. I am assuming, from the tone, that the interest in Tony Bliar is a homosexual one.

DNA everyone?!

Lord Justice Sedley is said to be a judicial activist progressive and a rare judge in that he favours civil liberties. Nonetheless, in what can only be described as an unfortunate temporary simultaneous failure of critical thinking and common sense he has proposed that everyone in the UK be put on a DNA database.

Lifelong member of Liberty since the age of three, Victorian Maiden has chosen to roast dear little Shami for waxing polemical. A response of umbrage articulate sober & measured sophistry. Geeklawyer doesn’t feel able to be quite so mature or inexact.

When a system of universal surveillance is put in place which inevitably has the potential to devastate the interest of citizens & which reverses the assumption of innocence it is not even nearly good enough to say we cannot be certain anything bad will happen & that we must have proof of such damage before not doing it. Sadly the history of police and government databases provides ample evidence of the danger to the public of recording details only of the guilty; adding innocent children and adults is unlikely to improve matters.

Nor is it enough to say “it may be useful — we don’t know”. It is for the government to show that not only is it useful but that the dangers are outweighed by the benefits. That’s a big debate to which the government has contributed merely polemic apocryphal yarns and fear mongering.

Sedley LJ has said, in essence,that blacks are over-represented in DNA samples. Perhaps so, perhaps not. Perhaps they commit more crime than other groups? Or just more crime of the sort the police take an interest in? If it is racism then perhaps the answer is to weed out police racism; or broaden the types of crime they bother themselves with?

Being unfair to everyone is impressively egalitarian but if one group is shown to be more criminal perhaps it is right that they alone be targeted? Perhaps making everyone subject to state surveillance might ferment a sense of injustice and distrust in government/police by the public? is it not better to lead by conviction than to drag by the bollocks?

Attacking attacks on Sedley LJ doesn’t alter that.

But let us get to the core of it: Geeklawyer accepts that dozens, perhaps hundreds, of unsolved cases are solved by DNA. Well that’s nice: it’s great to clear up 35 year old shoplifting cases and a couple of historic murders. But do we really want to live in a society that develops an all-seeing eye in order to do so? One where everyone is watched everywhere at all times just because they may one day be a suspect? That was certainly the dream of the East Germans and Neo-Labour may well accomplish its perfected vision.

Geeklawyer would much rather live in a society with crime, even serious crime, than one where The Dear Leader watches everything he does or says 24/7.

You may have a different view: you are wrong.

It isn’t just about T-shirts — it’s about respect.

The decent folks of Peterborough can rest a little easier tonight. The recent spate of horrifying incidents of people wearing mildly rude t-shirts looks to be being brought under control.

Dave Pratt may be, it is hoped, the last foully attired chap in that poor benighted besieged town. The lethargic Police Community Support Officers seem finally to have been stung into action by the sight of crying children having their eyes covered by terrified cowering parents as the vile Mr Pratt sauntered down the street striking fear into the hearts of all around.

Why oh why could they not have more quickly followed the heroic example of Sussex Police in dealing with ‘T-shirt terrorism’? In 2005, at terrible risk to themselves, brave Sussex bobbies leapt upon an 8o year old ex-World War 2 RAF man, driven insane by his war experiences one imagines; almost certainly he was hell-bent on killing the Cabinet at the Brighton Conference, but he gave himself away by wearing an anti-Blair/Bush t-shirt.

No, the baby boom generation have lived soft lives and don’t know the value of service. But Thames Valley Police have the right idea: young people are the future, so recruit younger police. They have the hunger to serve the people and the obey the party and the Dear Leader.

It’s not about freedom of speech or proportionate policing: it’s about respect and loyalty the party.

Creepy Surveillance state poster

Geeklawyer saw this on the underground. Designed as a recruiting poser for Special Cuntstables. It targets the usual Walter Mitty types who try to get into the territorial SAS or do weekend Rambo survival courses in Wales; chaps who want to either boast down the pub about being heroes, or mitigate their personal inadequacies by pushing their newly acquired weight about.

Or as they would prefer to say: “Giving of my free time to help my community”.

Creepy surveillance state poster …

Presumably the script for this poster is that our selfless vigilant hero wanders around the streets at night keeping us all safe. While doing so he spots something awry and calls in an armed response team on a couple of evil people dealing drugs or planning a terrorist outrage or ‘Something Bad’. So a major incident gets averted, he gets a pat on the back from the Dear Leader & everyone smiles and calls him a wonderful human being, hero & patriot.

Geeklawyer thought the dialogue between the couple was more likely to be:

Right here you go, 20 quid, we’re square on the restaurant bill. Can I borrow a lighter?”

Thank God we live in London were we can talk away from prying eyes. Imagine if it was like East Germany with Stasi informants everywhere.”

The final act of the rogue?

One can at least say that the Dear Leader is consistent. Consistently hypocritical that is: launch a war on terror to defend our freedoms while hitting the civil liberties ‘delete’ button to help the fight. The paradox seems to elude him. Continue reading ‘The final act of the rogue?’

Our heroic boys acquitted — thankfully

It looks like the IPCC have finally acquitted our boys in the thin blue line of the killing of supposedly innocent De Menezes. De Menezes was an illegal immigrant electrician with no public record of supporting the Dear Leader’s War on Terror and that in itself means that there are reasonable grounds for asking “was he really a terrorist? or a fellow traveller? Was he a passive supporter of terror?”.

Our good easy going boys in blue have undertaken extensive investigations into De Menezes but have failed to issue any statement that he was not a terrorist but merely, by luck, innocent on this occasion.

The police do an incredibly difficult job every day, putting their lives on the line for the safety of the people, us. When incidents like this killing of a partially innocent potential terrorist happen it is simply too easy to be critical of these heroes — or indeed our other unsung heroes in senior political office (thanks a lot Tony :) — you’re great!) — striving to make us all safe from a threat they had no part at all, not even a tiny little bit, in creating.

Take that, you liberal do gooding whingers …

Victory in England day

The Dear Leader has announced that June 27th 2007 is the day we will be free of him. I will open a bottle of Bollinger on that day in celebration. And possibly several. The sight of a nearly tearful Blair telling us what a privilege it was for us to serve him, Oh sorry, wrong way round — him us, was repellent. At least when Maggie Thatcher was ejected from office she had the grace to afford us the privilege of laughing and revelling at her weeping sobbing distress.

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Terrorist? why no — merely misunderstood protestor

Geeklawyer is a little dismayed by the over compliant SIAC ruling that Jordan really really would not torture a man they would ordinarily like to torture and murder if only the UK would surrender him to them.
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Why should an English lawyer blog?

Geeklawyer is pleased by the recent modest growth of UK law blogs — we have a long long way to go before we reach the same relative numbers as in the US. But there is something of a contradiction here: while welcoming more bloggers Geeklawyer is concerned …

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Road pricing scam scheme: the next trojan horse for a surveillance society.

Geeklawyer went to a talk in which the pioneering journalist Duncan Campbell disclosed the sudden mysterious unbidden (by the citizens that is) sprouting of a number plate camera in Sussex to a startled local audience. Geeklawyer has been aware of these for some time but now they seem to have hit the mainstream media.

Continue reading ‘Road pricing scam scheme: the next trojan horse for a surveillance society.’