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Previously on "The Sun: 150 paedos in your school"
Well come on, 150 paedos, yes....
Well, what's their names and addresses?
This was the Sun wasn't it? And thye didn't print pictures, names and addresses?
They're slipping a bit, aren't they?.
Never let common sense get in the way of a good lunching, that's what I say. Just make sure you don't air your views in public less a brick comes flying through your window.
"Child protection must override all other considerations"
That includes common sense.
You're absolutely right, Bob. A couple of days ago there was a similar thread on here and some posters here were saying "child safety first", "best to be safe than sorry", "no smoke without fire", etc., etc. The media have whipped people up into such a state of hysteria about it that is has acquired a sort "Diana, The People's Princes Effect", i.e. unless you publically proclaim that paedophiles are everywhere and anyone who looks cross-eyes at a child should be hung from a lampost, you're probably a bit suspect yourself.
At the end of the day, if you are a child, who are you most likely to be injured, killed or seriously abused by:
1. Your own parents
2. A motor car
3. Your teacher
All children to be reared in state-run orphanages and a complete ban on cars then. After all, "child protection must override all other considerations".
Children, of course, are cunning and deceitful little feckers by their nature. They pick up very quickly that adults as a societal whole are now, in essence, afraid of them and that they have the whip hand. Expect to see a surge in malicious accusations against teachers, except of course we will never know that they are malicious accusations as "there's no smoke without fire and it's best to be safe than sorry".
I was absolutely furious when I read about this in the Daily Mail and took my camera to my son's school play all ready for a fight if anyone tried to stop me taking pictures.
Of course, all the other parents had cameras too and there was no mention of not taking pictures.
It's not enforced anymore I don't think this will stop the papers from pretending it is though.
I don't have kids yet but I only recently heard when speaking to my sister that you are not allowed to video your kids on stage during the school plays. A sweeping rule to avoid the chance of a pedo filming young kids apparantly.
I was absolutely furious when I read about this in the Daily Mail and took my camera to my son's school play all ready for a fight if anyone tried to stop me taking pictures.
Of course, all the other parents had cameras too and there was no mention of not taking pictures.
Ruth Kelly has sewn the seeds for a looming shambles. I listened to her speech in the Commons and she came out with exactly the same phrase that I highlighed a few days back.
"Child protection must override all other considerations"
That includes common sense.
Many teachers IMO are likely to fall foul of this paranoia and many others choosing not to enter such a high risk profession.
Kids education is likely to suffer and the system will have no choice but to rely on many more teachers from overseas - where next to no checks at all can be done.
And people don't see this coming.
I don't have kids yet but I only recently heard when speaking to my sister that you are not allowed to video your kids on stage during the school plays. A sweeping rule to avoid the chance of a pedo filming young kids apparantly.
Also, you can't video/photograph your kids in the public swimming pool for the same reason.
This is madness... the very same people that were lampooned in The Simpsons ("will someone please think about the children") have reduced the very freedoms that were enjoyed by us as children ourselves. It is these people that are ruining it for the rest of us - ministers, media and public sector workers.
It's a fucking sad state of affairs in this country. At least in Hungary you can still do this (as I saw a father videoing in the pool last month).
Ah the delicious irony of it all. Better hope the editor of The Sun hasn't got any back copies in his desk with pictures of a 16/17 year old Sam Fox in them. Under current laws that is "possession of child pornography" which should be a nice little 10 years on the sex offenders' register. In fact, I think I might call the old bill right now, as a rightly concerned citizen...
How about this for a headline courtesy of Brass Eye.
Quite correct, Oh Great One... they are rather tasty when spit roasted though... oh, that crackling...
You think that's funny do you ? We are talking about innocent children here, not a couple of piglets. It's disgusting to talk about children like this. Disgusting. You sad miserable little w*nker. Me and a few of my JabberMates are going to come round to your house and give you a good pasting, you sad little mutha fu*ka. Come on, who's up for a bit of justice, Jabber style ?
This is crazy. There are people are being cautioned for the most stupid things. It makes people paranoid to being anywhere near kids, in case some twisted do-gooder reports them for some imagined "abuse" (whatever that means).
Exactly Wendigo.
Ruth Kelly has sewn the seeds for a looming shambles. I listened to her speech in the Commons and she came out with exactly the same phrase that I highlighed a few days back.
"Child protection must override all other considerations"
That includes common sense.
Many teachers IMO are likely to fall foul of this paranoia and many others choosing not to enter such a high risk profession.
Kids education is likely to suffer and the system will have no choice but to rely on many more teachers from overseas - where next to no checks at all can be done.
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