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Armed bullies harrass and verbally abuse a young girl. The good burghers of Croydon, young and old alike, come to the girl’s aid. Bullies retreat to hospital. Hurrah!

Update: on the other hand, some policemen are fucking hardcore. More ‘throwing themselves at men on fire’ and fewer ‘bullying teenage girls’ rozzers, please…

1) thieving doesn’t matter in the slightest. at worst, it is mildly annoying. if you think that thieving is worse than ‘mildly annoying’, you are a deranged halfwit.

2) killing people by dangerous driving is a very bad thing, as is killing people in general.

3) if an idiot has stolen a thing, then sending out a bunch of tools in squad cars to do Bruce Willis heroics at him is not a very good idea.

Therefore, the Bystander is right, and the people disagreeing with him are tools. They’re also tools for failing to understand that you can simultanously believe the cunt driving the stolen car should go to jail for a very long time, and that the rozzers chasing him were inept cunts who should be at least fired and probably jailed (for less time) too…

America is the most unjustifiably arrogant shithole on the planet (I mean, for fuck’s sake – US immigration is hilarious. “No, of course I’m not fucking coming here to work without a visa – what, d’you think I couldn’t get one if I wanted? Do you think I’d choose your poxy country if I was going to fucking emigrate? Cuntards.”)

But it’s always worth remembering that – much as we love to hate the current President – that actually the whole country is based on barbaric, shitheaded arsery. See the latest fiasco: the International Court of Justice suggests that murdering Mexicans based on comedy fake trials would be wrong; the Texas Supreme Court tells the UN to fuck right off; the President suggests that actually, the UN might have a point; the US Supreme Court tells the President to fuck right off; the International Court of Justice says “err, guys, are you like Iran and Saudi, or are you some kind of approximation towards a civilised country?”; and we await the outcome.

(clue: in Iran and Saudi, they top people for fun; in civilised countries they don’t.)

Dicks vs assholes. Except that Dicks is clearly also an asshole. Oh, sometimes these things are so confusing…

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“Mad” Nick Cohen has a strange Grauniad piece on Tory isolationism, including an excellent anecdote about Scots Tory (remember them?) Malcolm Rifkind during the Yugoslavian comedy of the early 1990s:

Aides to Dole and McCain told him that Rifkind, whose experience of combat was limited to the backstabbing of the Scottish Conservative party, cried: ‘You Americans know nothing about the horrors of war.’ Dole, who had been blown up by a Nazi shell in the Second World War, walked out. McCain, who had been tortured for five years in a communist PoW camp, was so enraged by Rifkind that ‘a member of his staff feared he was about to hit him’.

For one, enraging a loony like McCain is worthwhile in and of itself. For two, as a Brit and a European, Rifkind had the absolute right to make the point he did, just as a well-educated middle class black man has the absolute right to talk about the plight of black people in general.

(for three, Rifkind’s policy was probably the right one. Recent experience suggests that the least-worst approach in a state which has turned into the kind of ethnic poison-fest that Yugoslavia reached after Tito’s death is to let populations segregate from each other as fast as possible, then send in peacekeepers once the dispute is one of territorial skirmishes over borders rather than neighbour-kills-neighbour…)

Update: Rifkind denies this is true – see comments. Pity…

If you’re a proper Christian, you shouldn’t carry out civil marriages, because you’re condoning fornication in the eyes of God.

If you’re happy to carry out civil marriages but not gay ones, then you’re not a proper Christian, you’re merely a disgusting homophobic hypocrite. Not only should you be sacked; you should be buggered to death by a rhinocerous.

That is all.

Alan ‘not the minister’ Johnson writes a puffed-up pompous piece on Iran (summary: “they’re mad bastards and they’re going to kill us all! Time to invade!) using a laboured analogy to Camus’s La Peste.

First comment:

I’ve just remembered that Camus’s most famous novel tells of a man who killed an Arab because of ‘the glare of the sun’, and then shot more bullets into his corpse.

(yes, I know Persians aren’t Arab. Fuck off…)

I don’t always agree with DK, but this is spot on. Read, oppose, stone the policemen of Redruth to death, etc.

If you think the admittedly unusual event of five people being stabbed to death in a particular 24-hour period means anything at all in terms of Society, Oh My God, Society, We’re All Going To Die, It’s So Broken, Yoof Of Today bullshit, then you’re a fucking idiot who doesn’t understand statistics.

Five stabbings doesn’t matter in the slightest in a country of sixty million people – it’s roughly equivalent to a third of the number of people who died of alcoholic liver disease on Friday. Even in terms of rate-of-change, the fact that it happened in one day is a statistical anomaly, combined with the general propensity of murders to take place at the end of the week and during the summer; the rate over the year is the important figure, and there’s little evidence that it’s rising significantly.

If you knew any of the men who died, that’s sad and you have the right to be upset. If you didn’t, you don’t have the right to give a shit, and you certainly don’t have the right to use the random happenings of their death to go off on some ridiculous rant about bringing back hanging / reducing social inequality / whatever the fuck half-arsed measure you think will stop a few young men from (as they always have everywhere) killing each other in stupid fights.

The fact is, shit happens; people die; if you’re not an idiot who starts knife fights then your chances of being injured or killed in one are near-zero; and if you are then why the hell should anyone care whethey you life or die…?

Murder? Fuck off…