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Richard Littejohns nice take on Suffolk murders

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
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There's no justice in the world, is there?

    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.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I am absolutely staggered by that article, I can't believe people actually think like that. If what he has written wasn't bad enough; I then came across this gem in the following comments:

    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.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    While it is hardly news that Littlejohn is scum, it is worth highlighting the fact from time to time, seeing as this man seems to get a lot of respect from certain quarters.

    A total twat and no mistake.....
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I fucking furious reading that - at least these victims never did anything as disgusting, repulsive or damaging to society as Richard Littlejohn. Prostitutes they may be, speading hate for money they certainly didn't.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    That doesn't make it justifiable homicide, but in the scheme of things the deaths of these five women is no great loss.

    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.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The other day when the first man was arrested, I was in Ipswich visiting my grandparents and as i was driving along a narrow street, i pulled over so another car can pass, the guy in the car rolled down his window and said something along the lines "They caught the bastard, thank christ for that..."... And he doesn't know me and I am sure he doesn't know any of the girls.
    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:
    "It is very likely that all five of these young women would still be alive if they had not chosen to prostitute themselves on the streets. We all make our own choices in life and we live or die with the consequences.

    - Paula, Birmingham, Alabama USA ..."
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Nikki* wrote:
    Either he's a heartless bastard or he's never lost anyone close to him.

    Me thinks both together sums him up perfectly
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    :confused::confused::confused:

    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.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    briggi wrote:
    Eat shit and die Mavis C.

    I'm thinking of hopping on the 21 with a Molotov cocktail and giving Mavis C an nice toastie-warm Christmas "present".

    :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mate, gather yourself....that would be a waste of alcohol. :thumb:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What a cunt...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Still, we're all talking about Richard Littlecock, so he'll be wanking furiously tonight as his wife beats his balls with a cat o'nine.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    For the first few lines i agreed with him.. that is untill he started making out that their lives are worthless and that it's no great loss to society. They may not have found a cure for cancer, but who has?! I certainly haven't, do i deserve to be killed?

    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!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    fucking arsehole. I cant believe they even published that. Fair few people have pretty much called him a cunt in the replies though which is heartening for the daily hatemail, but then again, theres still at least half that have warbled on about him being the "peoples journalist"
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What a nasty little man. The sooner the Daily Mail HQ is burned down the better. God forbid they were real people! Im very tempted just to leave a comment saying "You fucking cunt"
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ... but then again, theres still at least half that have warbled on about him being the "peoples journalist"

    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:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    If I find myself agreeing with a lot of that article, does that mean I'm a bad person?

    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.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    He's right, in the grand scheme of things they aren't a great loss. But then, I wonder if he's looked in the mirror...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    On another thread on this forum someone made remarks which implied a similar sort of take to Littlejohn...not many people picked up on that so surprised everyone is so outraged with Littlejohn. (I mean it's Littlejohn, what do people expect?)

    Tbh with the exception of this line
    That doesn't make it justifiable homicide, but in the scheme of things the deaths of these five women is no great loss.
    I don't particularly object to anything in the article.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Renzo wrote:
    The sooner the Daily Mail HQ is burned down the better.

    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.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    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.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What a nasty and hateful little man.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Not a great loss?? try telling that to the families/friends. Stupid idiot!!!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Renzo wrote:
    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?
    We've heard the well-rehearsed arguments for legalised and regulated prostitution, as if we were living under the Taliban. The fact is, we've already got de facto legal brothels on every High Street.

    They're call saunas or massage parlours.

    As I remarked when the Labour MP Joe Ashton was once caught in a Siamese "sauna" in Northampton, he must have been the only man in Britain ever to go to a massage parlour for a massage. It doesn't get much more glamorous than that.

    These five women were on the streets because even the filthiest, most disreputable back-alley "sauna" above a kebab shop wouldn't give them house room.

    The men who used them were either too mean to fork out whatever a massage parlour charges, or simply weren't fussy. Some men are actually turned on by disgusting, drug-addled street whores.

    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.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Such a shame that Littleprick isn't actually advocating that, isn't it. He's saying that the women are on the streets because they want to be. Maybe they get turned on by being raped and beaten, who knows.

    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?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    To me a society should be judged on how it treats those at the bottom, and if this is his attitude then I dred to think of the sort of society he would like to see.

    Here's a radical idea, they are on the streets because they need money for heroin, why dont we just prescribe them the heroin?
  • **helen****helen** Deactivated Posts: 9,235 Supreme Poster
    budda wrote:

    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
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    **Helen** wrote:

    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.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A question for everyone.

    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 ?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    seeker wrote:
    A question for everyone.

    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.
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