Musings of a free mind...

No more mistakes!

So I'm just about to go to bed and I read a story on Yahoo (UK) news about a government official who is due to be charged after losing top secret files allegedly relating to al Qaeda, and also a report on the Iraqi armed forces.

The files were found in an envelope on a train and apparently this anonymous government figure will be charged under the Official Secrets Act.

Unfortunately the article didn't specify what exactly the person is going to be charged with.  This is important to me as I wonder to how inhumane we've become when we start filing criminal charges against a person who has made a mistake.

That's all it is, a mistake.  There has never been even an allegation that this person mislaid the files deliberately or had any ulterior motives for losing the files.

This is a mistake.  People are human.  Humans make mistakes.

How you can punish someone so severely for a genuine mistake is beyond me.

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The fundamental problem.

Fundamental Christian America strikes again with another instance of logic and reason-defying stupidity.

'Gospel Today' magazine has been pulled from public display from more than 100 Lifeway Christian bookstores in the USA.  "Why?"  You might ask.  Well, it turns out that this month's issue has a picture of 5 female pastors on the front cover.  Obviously this is unacceptable.

The Southern Baptist Convention owns the bookstores and has pulled the magazine from display because female pators are "contrary to what we believe."

I despair at the USA every time religious stories like these rear their ugly head.  It just serves as a reminder of how backwards, judgemental and discriminatory the worlds largest superpower is.

I was under the impression that God loved all as equal?  If that's the case, I'm sure it wouldn't mind a few female preachers.  In fact, I KNOW it wouldn't.  Because, if God exists, it would be very SANE and LOGICAL.  Don't you see?

It's another case of a few male chauvinists at the top who are scared of losing their position of power to women.  This is a man-made issue, not an issue of the divine.

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Freedom of sp-

Yahoo (UK) news reports today that a third MP has been sacked, since Friday.  This MP, Barry Gardiner, also happens to be one of the many MP's who have spoken out in saying that there should be a leadership contest in order to determine a new leader of the Labour party and, therefore, of the current British government.

Don't get me wrong here, I don't think we're exactly approaching dictatorship rule, but when you're being sacked just for voicing your opinion against the current leader, I'm pretty sure we're heading in the wrong direction as a 'democratic' nation.

I mean, bless Mr Brown, he wanted to be Prime Minister for so long, through all the Blair years, and now he finally is.......... and no-one wants him.  It's gotta be tough.

But, Gordon, the people have a right to say they don't want you.

Maybe if you stopped silencing people and listened instead, people would be willing to give you a little more time to try and fix the mess that Blair left behind.

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Terrorisn't.

Ansyaad Mbai, Indonesia's head of counter-terrorism, has today claimed that the West has taken the wrong approach in 'the war against terror' and that it, in fact, makes the fight more difficult.

He says that the all out aggressive approach (that'll be invading Middle-Eastern countries) makes it harder for morderate Muslims to tackle terror in their own countries.  He says that this imperial approach by the U.S has left Muslims feel like the whole thing is an attack against Islam.

Don't get me wrong here, I agree with him entirely.  But he's missing the point.  He's assumed that the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is actually part of a 'war against terrorism'.

Of course it isn't.  It's a front for America to further its economic interests and put a financial strangehold on the rather lucrative, oil-rich Middle-East.

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Get over it, homophobe.

I just read a news story on 9news that was so ridiculous it made me laugh.

An Ohio church displayed on its public message board, a message that read:  "I kissed a girl and I liked it, then I went to Hell."

The message was a reference to the pop song 'I Kissed A Girl' by Katy Perry and, according to Pastor David Allison, it was a loving way to remind young people that the Bible denounces homosexuality.

What about the things that the Bible advocates?  Like genocide, infanticide and slavery.  Why do the higher clergy always get up in arms about homosexuality which is, let's not forget, a personal choice that affects no-one else but the consenting indivduals involved?

Pastor Allison also said the music video for the song was so suggestive that it borders pornography.

So?

At what point did sexual thinking become a bad thing?  Without it none of us would be here today.  That's right, there's nothing wrong with sexual thinking, it's just the Church with it's head so far up it's own arse (as usual) that it's getting all morally confused again.

I bet the Church could do something good and productive in this world if it focused on things that actually mattered.

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Come on America. Open your eyes, but more importantly, open your mind.

First things first, people.  I'm BACK!  Yes, that's right, finally got my new cable internet today so I should be back up and running with regular posts from now on!

I've been sitting back and watching the American presidential race run it's course, just as everyone else has, and I can't believe what I'm seeing.  That's right, the same thing that happens every time a presidential election is on; Americans getting overly patriotic and forgetting to think about what really matters.

All I've read, from pretty much everywhere on the internet, is the usual talk of; left Vs right, democrats Vs republicans, elephants Vs donkeys and liberals Vs conservatives.  Being liberal or conservative isn't really an issue when it doesn't matter who gets into power anyway.  It's all a screen for what goes on behind closed doors:  The few, financial elite who control (almost literally) everything and dictate their will regardless of what the people think.

Bill Hicks' analogy sums it up perfectly:

"I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs."
"I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking."
"Hey, wait a minute!  There's one guy holding up both puppets!!"
"Go back to bed, America, your government is in control."

The problem is that the 'people', in this case, 'America', accepts this façade.

Read, listen, think and, finally, see through it all.  As the world's largest terrorist state (a deliberately provocative use of words, I'll admit, but it's all relative, just think for a moment about how America affects the rest of the world), America has more influence and power than any other nation in existence.

Americans need to wake up and PROVE they have 'freedom' and 'democracy'.  They need to free the rest of the world from planet Earth's largest and most terrifying bully.

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