The Wealth of the Poor
COMMON SENSEJOHN MAXWELL
Sunday, December 21, 2008
It starts, as everything does, in the slums. These are high-class English slums, though, where Mrs Thatcher and her acolytes have been able to prove that when the state abandons its responsibilities, there is indeed, no such thing as "Society".
JOHN MAXWELL
Despite this, judges are still willing to sentence teenagers to jail sentences longer than they have been alive, and to denounce said teenagers for their "brutality and cowardice and lack of discipline, training and honour". In an exquisitely oxymoronic Thatcherism, people deprived of their rights and their dignity by the state are to be punished by the state for their depravity.
Complete Story ...
COMMON SENSEJOHN MAXWELL
Sunday, December 21, 2008
It starts, as everything does, in the slums. These are high-class English slums, though, where Mrs Thatcher and her acolytes have been able to prove that when the state abandons its responsibilities, there is indeed, no such thing as "Society".
JOHN MAXWELL
Despite this, judges are still willing to sentence teenagers to jail sentences longer than they have been alive, and to denounce said teenagers for their "brutality and cowardice and lack of discipline, training and honour". In an exquisitely oxymoronic Thatcherism, people deprived of their rights and their dignity by the state are to be punished by the state for their depravity.
Complete Story ...