Forget The War On Drugs

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Forget The War On Drugs As in Helmand, in Afghanistan, many inner-city estates have created an alternative social order where the economics of the hugely profitable drug trade are far more attractive than any other choice. Anatole Kaletsky

In my view, at least soft drugs such as cannabis should quickly be decriminalised - though I think that, perhaps, the heavy-duty versions such as skunk ought to remain illegal - given the current research into it possibly being an instigator of various psychoses.

This does not mean that there should not be a 'war on drugs' - but, in my view, it should be a war waged by education, information and caring - not punishment, prosecution and prison.

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Moustached Men Of America Fight Back

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Moustached Men Of America Fight Back America's biggest cultural battles normally rage around the notorious trinity of guns, gays and God. But where pressure groups debating abortion and the right to bear arms have gone before, a new campaign is following - fighting for every American's right to bear hair on their upper lip.

Go to it, Boys!
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Women Sexually Harassed By Monkeys

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Women Sexually Harassed By Monkeys Mr Muite caused laughter when he told parliament that the monkeys had taken to harassing and mocking women in a village.

In addition to stealing their crops, the monkeys also make sexually explicit gestures at the women, they claim.

"The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts."

Ah yes.

Activism!

LOL

Well. I supposes it's not that funny, given that these monkeys are damaging people's crops. But, there we are. I'm in a wicked mood today.


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11 Months Jail And $400,000 For Killing Husband

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11 Months Jail And $400,000 For Killing Husband Turner-Schaefer gets to collect $400,000 in life insurance for killing her husband. Hans Bader

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The Dishonest BBC - Melanie Phillips

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The Dishonest BBC In recent months, concern has steadily mounted that our public service broadcaster is abusing its position by systematically presenting events through a distorting ideological prism. Melanie Phillips

Over a vast range of issues - big business, Conservatism, family values, America, Europe, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, climate change, abortion, multiculturalism - the BBC fails to be dispassionate, objective or truthful.

Both present and former BBC names have spoken about the Left-wing groupthink that saturates its coverage.

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Boys Are Lost - Harriet Sergeant

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Boys Are Lost When my son was about nine he became resentful of his young female teachers. He had no respect for them. He then moved to his middle school where most of his teachers were male. The change was dramatic. Suddenly it was all, “Sir says this and sir says that.” In state primary schools 80% of teachers are female. Harriet Sergeant

The Home Office admits that young men aged 16-24 are most at risk of being a victim of violent crime.

... At 14, one in five boys has a reading ability of a pupil half his age and at 16, a quarter of boys — almost 90,000 — do not gain a single GCSE at grade C or above.



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Father Left In Coma For Tackling Underage Drinkers

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A young father was left in a coma after being savagely beaten by a gang of teenagers for refusing to buy alcohol for their underage friends.

Yesterday two members of the mob, Jamie Taylor, 18, and Shaun Armstrong, 17, both of Gateshead, were sentenced to 12 months in a young offenders institute after admitting causing grievous bodily harm.

They could be free in just six months.

A third teenager, Paul Naylor, 17, of Heworth, Gateshead, who prosecutors said did not play an active role in the attack, was given 100 hours' community service after pleading guilty to affray.

Does anyone out there seriously believe that these sentences would have been so light if it was a woman who had been beaten to a coma?

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Czech Fathers Win Damages

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Czech Fathers Win Damages Last year alone, the Czech government was ordered by Strasbourg to pay out more than 50 million CZK (2.5 million USD) in damages to fathers who, it deemed, had been subject to discrimination at the hands of a Czech judge. Is there anything that can be done to prevent further waves of dissatisfied fathers going all the way to Strasbourg?

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Assn Formed To Protect Men's Rights In India

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Assn Formed To Protect Men's Rights In India

Chennai, Aug 4 : A physician, who had served as the Director of Medical Education, Tamil Nadu Government and some of his friends have formed 'Association for the Protection of Men's Rights,' a first of its kind initiative in the state to protect the interests of men.
Giving details to newspersons here, Mr T Murugaiyan, President of the Association said much had been written about violence, abuse and injustice against women, but in the recent times there had been a disturbing trend, an increase in the abuse of men.
As some women started rampantly misusing the laws enacted for the protection of women, by filing false cases or using them to terrorise their husbands, ''we thought it is time to start the Association.'' ''We have not started the association to wage a war against women, but with the sole aim of protecting the interests of men,'' he said.
As the existing legislations were biased in favour of women, once a dowry harassment case was lodged in a police station, the entire family was taken to the police station and made to face social humiliation, Mr Murugaiyan said.
The Association would lend its hand to support men who become victims of abuse at the hands of their wives, when the anti-dowry laws were misused by some women to force their husbands to bow to their demandsor extract money from them, he said.
The Association had chalked out plans to open branches in every district headquarters and conduct periodic programmes to create awareness about men's rights and help them, who were suffering for long in silence, he said.