Right idea, wrong solution

The Home Secretary has gone on record saying that the tyrant's charter known as the Human Rights Act should be scrapped.

Even if it's just party conference blather, which I suspect it is, at least the idea is out there and like an ember the breath of liberty can be blown on it.  Unfortunately, the Telegraph story has this fly in the ointment:

The Coalition has set up a commission of human rights experts to report on the possibility of bringing in a British Bill of Rights to replace the Act by the end of next year.

Will someone please remind those fatheads in government that we've already had a Bill of Rights since 1689?  We don't need more idiot tinkering by a load of post-modern mental midgets with the souls of dried-out prunes.  We need to get back the liberties are our birthright as free-born Englishmen.  Our American cousins understood this in 1776.  We need to learn this lesson in 2011.

A breath of sanity

EU's Days Numbered?

Is the credit crunch the hammer that will deal the death blow to the Franco-German Empire European Union? Probably not, but it will certainly leave some heavy cracks that make it easier to rip apart when the time comes.

As for Britain, all it would take is the political will and an afternoon's work and the nation could be free by dinnertime tomorrow.

Shadow Home Secretary Resigns

Mr. David Davis, the shadow home secretary, has resigned from the House of Commons in order to force a by-election on the issue of the government's proposed 42 day detention bill.

As regular readers know, I'm a firm believer in taking the war to the Jihadists fast, hard & often, but I'm with Mr. Davis in opposing the 42 day detention idea–not because I think it's too harsh or unjust, but because New Labour refuses to recognise that we are, in fact, at war and this detention power would be used against anyone who comes under the heading of "terrorism", which is a tactic and not an enemy. The difference between Mr. Davis and myself is that if the detention was explicitly aimed at Jihadists and their supporters I'd have no qualms with it.

Pâté de Liberté

In a burst of common sense, Chicago made a small bow to liberty and lifted its ban on foie gras.

My compliments to the chef.

Chicken Poo Defence

Mr. Joe Weston-Webb of Soar Bottom, Nottinghamshire has found the perfect answer to his rural vandalism problem: a 30 ft Roman catapult loaded with Grade-A chicken poo. That is not, of course, taking into account the cannon that fires railway sleepers or the exploding coffin.

I am particularly impressed with Mr. Weston-Webb's response to officialdom's frowning on his defending what is his. It is both reasonable and suitably insolent.

Nottinghamshire Police said yesterday that they would send an officer to offer advice on “conventional security techniques” and on the use of “reasonable force”. Mr Weston-Webb promises to be reasonable. “We are putting a rubber block on the end of the railway sleeper,” he said. “It should just knock an intruder down.”

And you can't say fairer than that.

The Ban Works

Since the ban on fox hunting went into effect, the numbers of supporters have dwindled.

That's supporters of the ban, that is. The hunts are doing just fine, thank you.

Take Your Time

The introduction of identity cards in Britain has been put off until 2012.

Keep delaying all you like, lads. How about a nice, round number like "forever".

Half a Loaf

The political re-education camp programme at the University of Delaware that we reported earlier has been disbanded.

However, as predicted, nobody is losing his job over this nasty little totalitarian experiment.

As If It Was Any Of Their Businees To Start With

The Eurocrats have announced that they've given up trying to force the metric system down the throats of the British people.

One word:

RESULT!

Flag Waving

Proving that a stopped clock is right twice a day, Mr. Gordon Brown has seen sense and is actually allowing freeborn Englishmen to fly the flag of their country.

Mr. Brown has been advised that he shouldn't let this sort of thing go to their head, otherwise the proles and Outer Party members will start thinking that things like patriotism and liberty are their birthright rather than a sufference from the Party.