Control orders are imposed on people whom the Government says are too dangerous to be at large but who cannot be prosecuted in an open court…
A total of 15 control orders are currently in place. Of the 15 subjects, nine are receiving some sort of welfare payments. Seven of them are receiving Job Seeker’s Allowance, which is worth £60.50 a week to people over 25.
We British - it turns out- are a nation of followers. Sheep, or Lemmings?
“The fact of the matter is we were born to rule and the British were born to follow. Get used to it, cause that’s the way it is and that’s the way it always has been.”
Says it all. This comment was, allegedly, from one Warren Wisman in the good ol’ US of A and a comment in today’s Edinburgh The Scotsman . Worth at least a glance.
The rebuke was provoked by the news US Marines are refusing to take orders from British Commanding Officers in the world’s largest heroin poppy fields of Helmand province in Afghanistan.
Word now filtering out out from Nato HQ includes the rumour the Brits are appeasers and sitting on their hands and fat backsides while not taking decisions or action, as the insurgents get more powerful.
How many British dead in Helmand so far?
Those insurgents are, of course an endangered species…locals.
President Barack Obama pause as he speaks at the close of the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in the Old Executive Office. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
In almost all cases we knew they weren’t the sort of people with whom you might share a convivial weekend, but were implacable Islamists who loathed us even more than the countries from which they fled. But in most cases we couldn’t send them back because those countries might treat them in an uncivilised manner - pulling out their fingernails, shooting them in the back of the head and so on.
The fact that each arriviste yearned for regimes in their native countries even more unpleasant than the ones from which they had escaped, and also to blow us up at the same time, cuts no ice with international law. International law, then, must change. It was constructed in less barbarous times - the times of Hitler, Stalin, people like that.
