Burn the Heretics!

It seems that some scientists are being castigated by the climate change lobby. It appears the paper hadn't been properly peer reviewed or published in a publication that deals in climate change amongst other things.

Which of course seems rank hypocrisy considering the climate change lobby get up to the same themselves.

It just goes to show the power of money poured into the scientific community and the level that the religion of climate change has risen to, despite the lack of concrete proof.

Global Warming WTF?? Moment

Apparently we now have to limit CO2 emission, not because we're creating global warming, but because it flags up to extraterrestrials that the planet is inhabited. Leg-Iron has a link to the Daily Mail article as part of his post about the need to find a new bogeyman.

I know that man made global warming is a load of bollocks, but this is a whole new level of lunacy.

I mean, one of the scenarios is that eco-friendly aliens are so disgusted with our CO2 emission that they destroy the earth. Now as far fetched as aliens are, lets say a bunch of eco-loons from Andromeda really do arrive here. Would they decide that to save the earth they need to vapourise it? Where's the sense in that?

Just yet more scaremongering from the AGW nut-jobs, except they've really excelled themselves at scraping the barrel for excuses to tax us into oblivion this time.

Policy Undercurrents and Sentencing Madness

Many things are crawling out of the woodwork in the aftermath of last week's riots.

First, lets look at the case of the two guys jailed for four years for inciting a riot. This was a couple of guys who put up messages on facebook supposedly "organising" a riot in Northwich. That no-one unsuprisingly attended. In Northwich of all places. If any of you have been to Northwich, the chances of anything happening there let alone a riot are so slim its ludicrous to suggest that they did it for anything other than a joke.

But they got four years: a custodial sentence that has yet to be matched or served by the majority of the people that actually physically attended a riot, caused criminal damage or looted.

Where is the sense in that?

Why are people using social media being punished so disproportionately?

Do the government want more riots? Because that's what they'll have if the lenient sentencing continues. The rioter and looters will risk-assess the situation and realise that a few hours community service is well worth the price of a 50 inch HD LCD TV.

Those that rioted on the first couple of nights and got away scott free certainly will.

Does the government want more control of the internet and especially social media and blogging sites? By their words over the past few days, absolutely. They want to curtail the rights and freedoms of every one of us  on the internet that speaks out in opposition to them and their political chums, especially those in the EU.

Which neatly brings me onto curfews, which is something else  the political elite are clamouring for. Take the scum off the streets eh? But curfews will not be specific, they can't be. Everyone thinks they're good ideas as long as they don't apply to them. Tough, we'll have to have blanket curfews in certain areas in order to make it work. Everyone will love a curfew right up until they're not allowed out of their front door. But by then the damage will be done, the law will be on the statute books and the Police will have the power to keep you kettled in your own home.

Internet censorship, curfews, political parties so close together you might as well call it a one-party state.

Just how much evidence do the public need before they realise the authoritarian state we are creating? Probably not before its too late, because the sick thing is they're the ones calling for it.