Taser Labour Please

Taser Taser Taser! It's just too bloody easy. Henry Porter - "Once you give a weapon like this to the British police it will be used and abused as a weapon of punishment and torture."

How to set up a community website: are these the right conversations starters? - the typical interfering top-down approach of "progressives". Just leave people alone to do this for themselves.

Entrench Labour policy in Law, says Mike Smith, who, apart from not appearing to understand parliamentary democracy, also doesn't seem to realise that our real masters lie in Brussels:

We must, of course, do everything we can to win the general election, but if we lose there is no limit to what the Tories could do. Parliamentary sovereignty means that the British people have no fundamental rights and there are no laws which parliament cannot change or abolish with a simple majority. Given this, the Tory response to this ‘unprecedented’ crisis could be truly terrifying and hugely damaging.

A rope and a lamppost for Comrade Smith, please.

British Government Endless Excrement

More utter shite emanating from the government of Gordon Brown and his moronic minions:

* Logging details of our travel. Just in case I'm a terrorist (without realising it).
* Thousands Getting Terror Training. The knowledge that this brainless bitch is Home Secretary should be enough to fill anyone with terror.
* Government Databases Crap Or Illegal, according to Rowntree Report (useful comment at Heresy Corner). Our government is incompetent as well as thick and bossy.
* Cops get more tasers. Can I have one?

10,000 Tasers Can't Be Wrong

Jacqui Smith, Home Idiot, has agreed to arming 10,000 coppers with tasers, to fight knife-wielding hoodies, berserkers, hecklers and presumably people who tell her to shove her ID cards up her non-solar fundament.

She believes they are essential to protect the safety of frontline officers and will reduce deaths caused by police shooting suspects with real guns.

I don't want to sound ungrateful, but if I'm in a dangerous situation I'm more concerned about my own health and safety rather than that of 'frontline officers'. And anyway, officers turning up to a scene involving firearms will be toting shooters rather than tasers.

The description of the effect of being shot with a taser makes it sound remarkably reasonable, if inconvenient.

The Taser fires two copper bharbs that send out an electrical shock. It is designed to incapacitate temporarily rather than injure.

The latest version is the X26 which can be effective from 26 feet. It fires a pair of barbs on copper wires that embed themselves in the suspect's clothing and send out an electrical current of 50,00 volts.

The shock can cause temporary loss of muscle control, making the target fall to the ground or freeze on the spot.

The truth is that it is extremely painful and occasionally fatal. Just key in 'taser' on YouTube and see what it's like.

I bet you it's fun using one, though.