The wisdom of the Drivel List (2)*

It has been widely reported that during a recent riot at Lincoln prison Blunkett was in favour of sending in the army to end the problem with machine guns. Has the man been reading the Drivel List? After publication of the learned article "God is on our side (4)" Andy Osborne, the List's crime correspondent, suggested filling our prisons with muslims. If they managed to kill 100 of themselves and other vermin each day, as they are doing in Iraq, we soon wouldn't have a prison over-crowding crisis, there would be fewer criminals, because the muslims would have killed them, and society would be a much nicer place.
Good point well made, I reckon. When the prisons are full, especially, they could do far worse than execute everyone who is locked up and then start all over again. Next time the prisons started getting nearly full the criminal classes might begin to wonder whether they wanted to be in clink the next time they were full. Could work wonders for the crime figures.
*See, Percy, "The wisdom of the Drivel List (1)" was not 1 in a series of 1. The Drivel List - Intellect in Depth.

Respect

More wonderful stuff on the Sunday programme this morning. Apparently the church of england is encouraging its schools to accept 25% of pupils who are not members of the church, and as a result of this the government is considering making it compulsory for all 'faith' schools to do likewise. Good news indeed - I am sure there must be thousands of parents queueing up to send their kids to a muslim school where, sharia law being what it is, they are likely to get stoned to death for forgetting their nine-times table.
The principal of a muslim school was interviewed. During the course of the interview she stressed islam was all about respect. I wondered how they square respect for women with being happy to have them walking around with bin-liners over their heads. To be fair, respect for women is not the strong point of many religions. The c of e has only just got around to agreeing to the ordination of women and the pope's lot still seem several centuries away. During a visit to Poland I was taken to a pub in the Jewish quarter of Krakow and was bought a 'kosher' beer. "What makes it kosher?" I enquired, in my innocence thinking it was something to do with the ingredients. "It is made in a brewery where no women are employed," was the answer. Presumably this is because women, like some animals, are 'unclean'. How bloody daft can you get? As my missus says, who, in general, is cleaner, men or women? How often do you hear of women in dirty macks flashing at fellas? Hardly ever. Unfortunately.

God is on our side (4)

According to the news this morning approximately one hundred people are being tortured then killed every day in Iraq for being the wrong sort of muslim. Not long ago the same sort of thing was happening to folk in Northern Ireland, but for being the wrong sort of christian. There, however, the daily body count rarely reached double figures and not all of them were tortured. Clearly christianity still has much to learn from islam.
Not that I'm suggesting for one minute, of course, that islam is a violent religion.

More vermin

Today's news - a major breakthrough in DNA analysis which will enable identification of the sources of DNA present in mixed samples. This will, apparently, enable 'thousands' of crimes to be solved. Magic. We identify countless rapists, murderers, muggers, paedophiles, and unexploded muslims and lock them up (if we can find a gaol which is not already full). Then, after a couple of weeks, we let them out so they are free to go raping, murdering, mugging, paedophiling, and exploding at will. And that's progress.
There have been quite a few stories recently of criminals being released and being able to carry on where they left off because of 'lack of communication among the prison service, the social services, the probation service, and the police'. But hang on a minute. If there had been perfect communication what would have happened? Would PC plod have been positioned outside the residence of vermin no. 1 ready to follow him to the scene of his next crime and arrest him just before he did anything naughty? Yeah. Right.
Sometimes I wonder whether the rapists, murderers, muggers, paedophiles, and unexploded muslims are any more of a threat to the country than the prison service, social services, probation service, and police.