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Cromwell
With Expensesgate ploughing on and on, a friend tipped me off to this quote by Oliver Cromwell, addressing the Rump Parliament, expressing his anger at their failure to consolidate the new England after the second civil war:
“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt for all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage… Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your god; which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes?… Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; ye were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, and are yourselves gone… In the name of God, go!”
Now, true, he may have had some strange ideas… but it’s eerie how topical this quote might be considered given today’s circumstances. That said, though, that doesn’t mean I want the deluded cretins of Christian Voice or the bastards in the BNP running this country.
It’s rare that I post on this site to grovel for things or to promote another cause, but as two have come today, I might as well.
Firstly, the London Marathon started on Sunday. I was alerted by a friend to the presence of Phil Packer, an injured, paraplegic ex-serviceman who is attempting to walk the 26-mile course over two weeks. He’s hoping to raise a million pounds for Help for Heroes, a charity that deals with soldiers wounded in battle.
I don’t suppose I need say more. Give ‘im your money. Now. If you’re shy, you can even stay anonymous.
Now for the next item. You know those crazy creationists, the sort who quote-mine from Darwin’s books and like to claim evolutionists think that nothing plus time equals something? Well, one of them’s running a promotion to win an iPod Touch loaded with creation videos.
Now, wiping this vacuous content and loading some decent, watchable stuff on there (The Life of Brian and one of Richard Dawkins’s DVDs should make a good start) would be quite a trivial task, but who am I? An insignificant little fly in the blogging world, with a bad back a minor obsession with a better Linux file heirarchy.
Instead, I advise you to rally under PZ “IT’S A FRACKIN’ CRACKER!” Myers. It’s easy. Follow the link, once a day, and hopefully, Eric Hovind will be embarrassed into having to send the iPod Touch to him. Mwahahahahahahaha!
And finally…
The 15th of June this year has been designated CC All Your Emails To Jacqui Smith Day. What’s this, I hear you cry? CC all outgoing e-mails to the Home Secretary just to piss her off?
Well, to be fair, it’s in protest at the ridiculous data retention scheme the government plans on introducing which would require records of the sender and receiver of every e-mail in the country, and record visits to every single web site in the UK. They appeared to back down yesterday, but in reality, it’s only outsourcing the dirty work to other people. (We all know they’ll just get it lost in the post.)
This is the United Kingdom, not Soviet Russia. No matter how much they try and dress it up, this is an invasion of privacy. It must be stopped.
With this in mind, the protest is currently scheduled for June the 15th, and involves CCing every e-mail you send to the Home Office. However, for legal reasons, you can’t start it of your own accord: therefore, it’s best to sign up at the protest site to be told if and when the protest is going ahead.
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