Thoughts On Protests, And The Dole Pogrom

[patentdragon]

The Student Fees "Protest"... "Demo-lition". Speaks volumes, doesn't it? That's the banner a good deal of these "students" were marching under when they stormed into Conservative Party HQ at Millbank yesterday.

Oh, so it was all down to "anarchists", was it? The University Anarchists Society, perhaps? Let's be honest; this was never going to be a peaceful, civilised protest, and the "rent-a-mob" will be happy for the publicity, as the head of the Students' Union condemns them, then goes home, cracks open a bottle of "Bolly", and toasts them for nearly killing a police officer by throwing a fire extinguisher off the roof of the building.

"Why didn't the police do something?" What, and get pillioried AGAIN 'cause some hippy got a bump on the head, and a police officer happened to be within ten feet of them? If I was working in that building, I'd probably sue both the NUS and the police for the respective action/inaction... and don't anyone give me that "heavy-handed policing" bullsh8 - how heavy-handed can fifteen police officers be when they're pinned against a building by twenty thousand baying "students"?

Don't think for one moment that we've seen the last of this kind of action, 'cause I get the feeling the JobCentres will be next (and that's NOT an incitement to criminal action, MI5 - it's an entirely valid observation)...



The "Dole Pogrom"...

Definition: pogrom: "...a form of violent riot, a mob attack, either approved or condoned by government or military authorities, directed against a particular group..."

That rather sums up Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith's plans for the unemployed, this government's favourite whipping boy (apart from some specialist high-class male prostitute, paid for out of taxpayer's money, I suspect). It's the same old headline-grabbing crap, dressed up as something new, with the added MSG of throwing the "work-shy" off benefits for up to three years.

Already, I can see JobCentres lining the vulnerable up for a fall - in a wheelchair? You didn't apply for that shelf-filler job I presented to you - that's you "fired" for three months. No driving license? You didn't apply for that taxi-driver job - that's no JSA for six months for you, matey. Third time? You may as well commit suicide - oh goody, one less "dole thief" to worry about!

We're told there are going to be "greater incentives to find work"? Is that what "three strikes and you're out" is supposed to be? We don't even have a "three-strikes" policy for CRIMINALS! "Carrot and stick"? Where's the bloody carrot...?

There isn't one. The "dole scroungers" don't deserve one, apparently. Why not just round them up, put them in a concentration camp, and gas them? Yeah, there's a real vote-winner...

Ah, screw all this - I'm starting to hear the Red Lantern oath inside my head...

With blood and rage of crimson red,
Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead,
Together with our hellish hate,
We'll burn you all--That is your fate!

—Atrocitus, Green Lantern (vol. 4) #32 (June 2008)

And finally, this: Mr Nick Clegg, I voted for the Liberal Democrats in May on the basis of what appeared to be an enlightened and positive policy on the unemployment situation - a policy you have ditched for a sniff at power. I will not vote for your gang of scum again.

Rant channel closed.