Moral ignorance on a staggering scale
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fpbDavid Davis MP appears to have been so disgusted by the notion of extending preventive jail from 28 to 42 days (an extra two weeks) that he resigns to fight a by-election over it.
He apparently did not consider that the law, or rather "law", that allows the hybridization of human and animal cells was not so serious. He made no such fuss then, when the immorality of Gordon Brown compassed most of those who heard of it with a shudder.
I hope this man is a posturing mountebank. Because if he is serious and means what he says, then his complete inability to distinguish moral issues is horrifying in a politician who claims to be Conservative. Not, of course, in the least surprising, but horrifying nevertheless.
He apparently did not consider that the law, or rather "law", that allows the hybridization of human and animal cells was not so serious. He made no such fuss then, when the immorality of Gordon Brown compassed most of those who heard of it with a shudder.
I hope this man is a posturing mountebank. Because if he is serious and means what he says, then his complete inability to distinguish moral issues is horrifying in a politician who claims to be Conservative. Not, of course, in the least surprising, but horrifying nevertheless.
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Date: 2008-06-15 02:57 pm (UTC)The girl who was abducted was placed in the boot (trunk) of a car and was able to make such a noise when the car was stopped in traffic that the kidnappers ran away when approached. I believe a retrial was required but it was a very long time ago - before Diplock courts, probably very early seventies.