Born In An Orgy Of Violence

Tax Avoiding Celebrities.

Several well-known stars have been named amongst 33,000 people, including doctors, lawyers and dentists, in tax avoidance schemes which have deprived the Treasury of £5billion.
The average UK wage is around £27,000, or with tax deducted, £21,315.
That does not stretch very far.

George Michael tried to shelter £6.2million, a fraction of his total wealth, in the Liberty tax avoidance scheme.
If he’d paid the tax due on that, it would have left him with around £3.3million.
George Michael is worth over £100million.
If he paid full tax on his total wealth, he’d still have £55million.

How many houses does he want?
How many cars can he afford to crash?
How much money does he need for goodness sake?
After all, as he and his fellow mega-rich tax-avoiders will already know, money doesn’t always make you happy.
( Fiona Phillips, 12.07.2014 )

Ricky Gervais has told American TV that he didn’t have any kids because “basically they’re spongers. They don’t give you anything”.
They do serve one purpose though, Ricky.
They’re the first to tell you when you’re the only one laughing hysterically at your own unfunny gags.
( Brian Reade, 26.07.2014 )

In The Name Of Security.
In the name of security, the Government is fast-tracking legislation through Parliament that will allow it to collect huge quantities of our personal data.
We would do well to remember the advice of Ben Franklin.
“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety’”.
The Government has engineered a ‘theatrical emergency’ – in this case terrorism and hidden pedophile rings – to ram the Data Retention and Investigatory Bill through Parliament without proper debate.
It is an insult to the supremacy of Parliament, to democracy and to the trust of the public.
( David Davis, Conservative MP, 13.07.2014 )

My 82-year-old neighbour Dorothy knocked on my door and asked me to fix her telephone.
I checked her phone and told her nothing was wrong with it.
She said, “How come my son doesn’t call me anymore then?”
( Rose Winfold )

Hell Is The Place For Me.
When your people came to our land, it was not with open arms, but with bibles and guns and disease.
You took our land.
You killed us with your guns and disease, then you had the arrogance to call us godless savages.
If there is a Heaven and it is filled with Christians, then Hell is the place for me.
( Native American )
By the end of the 19th century, native Americans had suffered the worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed.

We can’t do what we like with this country.
We inherited it from our parents and grandparents and we have a duty to hand it on to our children and grandchildren, preferably improved and certainly undamaged.
( Wilfred Soon )

Citizens Need Protection.
We have come to learn that a majority of citizens need protection against loss of income due to unemployment, old age, disability, and illness in the interest of our national welfare.
If we want to maintain a healthy economy, we need to maintain the standard of living of the lower income groups in our population who constitute 90% of purchasing power.
( Francis Perkins, 1880 – 1965 )

Passport Office staff walked out for a day over job losses, and the Home Office accused them of spoiling people’s holidays.
That’s rich, coming from government bosses who cut 400 posts and caused a backlog of half a million passport applications to build up over three years.
( Paul Routledge, 01.08.2014 )

Born In An Orgy Of Violence.

The state of Israel arose from the laudable Zionist dream of a homeland for the Jewish people.
It was born in an orgy of violence, led by terrorists such as the Stern gang and Irgun Zvai Leumi, against not just Palestinians but British servicemen upholding an international mandate.

Increasingly, it has become a terror state, occupying land, besieging Gaza, attacking its neighbours at will, and interning or assassinating its presumed enemies.
It has an undeclared nuclear arsenal, and an undisputed military supremacy bankrolled by American taxpayers.

Israel will never willingly accept the ‘two state’ solution giving Palestinians statehood.
Every time the so-called peace process looks like making progress, Tel Aviv cynically builds more settlements on occupied land to abort the talks.

Only a realistic U.S. threat to turn off the money tap would change this pitiless reality, and American politicians are too gutless for that.
Meanwhile, innocent women and children, including Israelis, will die.
( Paul Routledge, 01.08.2014 )

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.
Organised religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.
( Christopher Hitchens, 1949 – 2011 )

In 1924, Tory politicians forged the Zinoviev Letter, falsely claiming Russian support for militant British workers and Labour lost the ensuing general election.
Fast forward to 2014 and the Tories are exposed as recipients of £160,000 cash backing from a Russian oligarch.
Not a lie this time.
( Paul Routledge, 25.07.2014 )