A crimes occur in private residences as well as public places. We should install CCTV cameras in houses as well but to make them unobtrusive we should put them inside television sets.

Cheers,

Tony

Dear Tony Lavis,

Indeed. However as the horrendous crime of incest occurs mainly in bedrooms and almost exclusively within private residences I feel the bedrooms require 24 hour monitoring as well.

You have also perhaps forgotten Churches where child abuse is demonstrably rife. Full monitoring is the only course of action unless you are one of those who condone the sexual abuse of our innocents.

Also the toilets in our shopping centres have been often targeted by molesters so a camera above each cubicle surely should be a must.

Anybody who protests are doing so because they are PC gone mad! Don't they know this is exactly what the community is calling for?

'You have also perhaps forgotten Churches where child abuse is demonstrably rife '

and of course csteele those grubby lefty éntertainers' with the national broadcasters would need a few extra camera's.

Just thought I'd include an excerpt from Tom Hodgkinson's "How To Be Free".

"When it comes to anxiety, I'm here to say: 'It's not your fault.' Shed the burden; that dreadful gnawing, stomach-churning sense that things are awry mixed with a chronic sense of powerlessness is the simple result of living in an anxious age, oppressed by Puritans, imprisoned by career humiliated by bosses attacked by banks, seduced by celebrity, bored by TV, forever hoping, fearing or regretting. It - the Thing the Man, the System, the Combine, the Construct, whatever you want to call the structure of power - wants you to be anxious. Anxiety suits the status quo well. Anxious people make good consumers and good workers....Anxiety will drive us back into our comfort blankets of credit-card shopping and bad food, so the system deliberately produces anxiety while simultaneously promising to take it away....According to the brilliant anxiety analyst Brian Dean, the truth is that crime rates have remained fairly constant for the last 150 years [Britain]. Dean maintains that our fear of crime is vastly out of proportion to the reality. The truth is that we face far more danger from car accidents and heart disease than from crime...The whole panoply of modern state control, also, is surely designed to make us feel nervous. The very institutions and devices that are sold to us as comforts and security measures create insecurity by constantly reminding us of the dangers. Police, speed cameras; CCTV cameras; burglar alarms... Nineteen Eighty-Four is fast becoming a reality. At the time of writing, the US government is trying to subpoena the records of Google, the search engine which can record everything we have searched for, thus gaining an insight to the innermost workings of our mind."

I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind...

(Alan Parsons Project)

Dear runner,

What on earth are you on about?

Jimmy Savile was a staunch Roman Catholic who was a great personal friend of Maggie Thatcher, indeed he spent 11 consecutive New Years Eves with her and her family at Chequers.

He also won an award in 1977 from that old battle axe morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse's crowd the National Viewers and Listeners' Association.

When he was seeking to join the prestigious Athenaeum club in England his sponsor was none other than Cardinal Basil Hume, at the time the Archbishop of Westminster.

He is very much one of your lot mate and you can keep him. Don't try and pan him off on to anyone else.

Csteele>> However if you do get tired of them and felt homesick for reasoned and logical positions on issues such as this we would welcome you back.<<

Well many thanks Cs, god I thought I was on the outer for a second.

You ask why I don’t throw my hands up to this error in info transfer, perhaps it is the gracious manner that the old gang addressed my previous “hands up” stance…..I aint going back to that.

I posted a link so there was no factual malice or decit, I simply misread the paragraph…just to remind ourselves:

"BOCSAR director Don Weatherburn says it proved impossible to compile comprehensive figures because the arresting police often didn't ask the question and many detainees refused to answer it. However, data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that Lebanese make up the fifth largest ethnic group in Australian prisons….”

Cs, I actually picked up on the mistake just after posting, but decided to keep my mouth shut and wait it out, Wm got it first, followed briskly by Poirot and sadly you are a distant third…lol just kidding.

Cs, do you recall I said this to you:

“Thank you doctor, I will take a Bex and have a good lie down and see if the first news report I hear tomorrow has a shooting in a Middle Eastern enclave, or whether the assailants are describes as “of Middle Eastern appearance.”<

There were two on the morning news the next day….nothing this morning though.