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Richard Littejohns nice take on Suffolk murders
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Just in case you missed this lovely commentary on the murders of five young women in the Daily Mail the first time I thought I would share. It really sums up the Mail nicely I think;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=423549&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=322&expand=true#StartComments
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=423549&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=322&expand=true#StartComments
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Why can't someone rape it, torture it and then beat it to death? I'd buy whoever does it a pint and a pork pie.
I wonder how many men would buy sex if they were not out on the streets tempting them?
- Mavis C, Chester-le-Street
Eat shit and die Mavis C.
A total twat and no mistake.....
What a sweetheart :yeees: Remind me to send him a Christmas card.
Some people piss me off. People have lost their daughters, granddaughters, nieces, mum, sisters, aunties, best friends, girlfriends etcetc, and he's trying to say that it isn't a great loss? Yes people grieve, as he goes on to say, because of their huge loss. And why? Because some person decided to take their lives into his own hands. These familes have had someone close to them ripped away with no explanation, and he's telling them to blame themselves. Either he's a heartless bastard or he's never lost anyone close to him.
Ipswich is not small but when i lieved there, it felt like i knew everyone and it's a tight community, so Mr Daily Mail doesn't know what he is talking about. He fails to recognize that normal (and i use that word with caution) people live around the red light district and that other women who are not prostitutes use that route to go home and/or into town during the night.
Anyway, what can you expect from a tabloid!!
Briggi, I thought this comment was better:
Me thinks both together sums him up perfectly
Isn`t he just countering the articles over the last week that ARE claiming "we"/ "society" are/is to blame for 5 murders ?
The usual collective guilt bullshit.
I'm thinking of hopping on the 21 with a Molotov cocktail and giving Mavis C an nice toastie-warm Christmas "present".
I do agree that the tired old excuses of drugs turning women into prostitutes is getting a little bit same old, but no they didn't deserve to die so horrifically whether they were drug taking sex workers or pious nuns ffs, these are human beings man, have some respect!
Oh ya, he speaks for the "silent majority" (silent my aunt fanny!) dontcha know!?
Kermit I would join you on that bus journey in a heartbeat, what a stupid, hateful old bat she must be. Mavis and the point are obviously very much estranged. God damn those temptresses eh? Spending all that time to make their hair shiny and moisturise their coochie all the better to tempt Mavis's bloke... he's the real victim :yeees:
If it weren't for the fact that it was the Daily Mail, I'm going to buck the trend there and say that it was a good article. There's a lot of common sense in there at least, as Satehan has pointed out, in the first bit about these women being nothing more than victims of 'evil' pimps and drugs.
Tbh with the exception of this line I don't particularly object to anything in the article.
Ever heard of a free press? Free speech? Fascists/communists/other authoritarians who advocate the shutting down of newspapers they don't like make Littlejohn seem moderate.
Yes i have, but the amount of hate pedeled by that rag is unreal. Of course he is allowed to write this stuff but i just feel sorry for the people his nasty views are influencing. The Daily Mail has never been the most tolerant "newspaper" in the world. Countless anti-foreigner/gay/certain religions articles. They love this 'fear' in the country at the moment as they will grab any opportunity they can to push their nasty little agenda.
I am not a fascist/communist/authoritarian. I just think Littlejohn is a nasty piece of work and i hope someday he gets what he deserves for pushing so much lies and shit.
"Frankly, I'm tired of the lame excuses about how they all fell victim to ruthless pimps who plied them with drugs. These women were on the streets because they wanted to be"
Maybe he should be hooked up on drugs to see what he'd do in the situation. This whole thing just goes to show how sex workers in this country need more protection, ala Holland and how making drugs so criminal is just making things worse.
What about Holland? Have you ever been? Amsterdam has problems too! And anyway, the hard drugs these prostitutes were addicted to are also illegal in Holland. Prostitutes in Holland in an equivalent position to these women, i.e. addicted to hard drugs wouldn't be working in the legal brothels anyway.
Did you read Littlejohn's article?
I think he's right. Escorts, massage parlours, etc all operate pretty openly already. The solution is surely not to legitimise the filthy and unacceptable practice that prostitution is but rather to try and get people out of it.
I'm all for free rights, and I'd hate to see his paper closed down, but if someone raped and murdered him and his wife and children well, it'd be no great loss, would it?
Here's a radical idea, they are on the streets because they need money for heroin, why dont we just prescribe them the heroin?
Clicky
Of course, and people have been calling for it for years, but it would be 'soft' on crime and Labour cant possibly be seen to be that. Plus there would be the usual backlash from the tabloids about the NHS taking money away from hard working pensioners and giving it to single mother drug addicts.
If I was to start a collection in order to purchase some heroin for addicted "sex workers", would you offer a contribution,and how much ?
I personally wouldn't. Why? Well, I'd rather not have to fund some sex workers heroin habit.