Officer Dibble wrote:
>
> Maybe people like Glitter do need finding, just to keep an
> eye on them, just in case. But let's not forget that Glitter,
> as I understand it, didn?t actually do anything, he just
> looked.
Erm ... Mr Gadd has just been deported from Cambodia (having already been chased from Vietnam I understand). A country not exactly famous for it child protection laws!
Looking promotes the publication of this material, after all if noone looked then there would be no income for the those who produce such material (unless I'm wrong, and child abusers are an extremely charitable bunch who are happy to give away their wares to all and sundry)
> This is getting dangerously close to the world of 'Minority
> Report' and Orwell's '1984' where you can be cast into jail
> for just thinking the wrong thoughts as proscribed by the
> State. This is why we must not be complacent and take this
> issue very seriously. Because what is an innocent acceptable
> activity today may become a federal offence in future -
> witness how the middleclass media and public sector are now
> turning on smokers using their newspapers and TV programs to
> slowly create a general feeling that ciggis are unacceptable,
> that smokers are unacceptable. They already have to stand out
> in the rain to smoke at work. What next, will each smoker be
> forced to wear the shameful badge of 'Benson & Hedges' so the
> rest of the populace will know who they are? Will a socialist
> government introduce a 'Three Snouts And You're Out' policy?
> Will smoker?s families be deported to 'Tobacco Victims
> Refuges' where they can be forcibly counselled by Guardian
> reading social workers? Makes you think doesn?t it?
>
> Officer Dibble.
Speaking as a fully fledged card carrying Guardian reader I wouldn't bother counselling recalcitrant smokers, I'd just shoot the bastards and be done with it
Comrade Onan - The Peoples Revolutionary Librarian