Learn from the mistakes of others

until the baby boomer generation, families and in many cases neighbourhoods were extensively interconnected networks across generations.

the boomers were largely cut off, for various reasons, which has disrupted/destroyed those normal human relationships. in their place our societies put institutions and other dislocated (and money driven/poor) mechanisms.

western societies have the resources and the means to provide flexible, adaptive and adapted care for everyone - but we choose not to.

and blame the economic and social structures we create as our excuse.

the so-called push to return to family values™ is simply a conservative knee-jerk to their self-constructed loss of power.

every family has values, of some sort. the conservatives want everyone to have their values. like i'd want to live in a family where the male gets to abuse whomever he wants, and the female has to do as she's told. and the kids have to be perfect, all the time.

so our society is changing. that's what they do. what they've always done.

no way in hell i want to live in 'an sca/disney kind of world'. [apologies to my sca friends] the dream of 'returning' to some imagined version of the past holds no excitement for me. even if it were my own imagined version. the past is done. we live now. get over it.

until the baby boomer generation, families and in many cases neighbourhoods were extensively interconnected networks across generations.

the boomers were largely cut off, for various reasons, which has disrupted/destroyed those normal human relationships. in their place our societies put institutions and other dislocated (and money driven/poor) mechanisms.

western societies have the resources and the means to provide flexible, adaptive and adapted care for everyone - but we choose not to.

and blame the economic and social structures we create as our excuse.

the so-called push to return to family values™ is simply a conservative knee-jerk to their self-constructed loss of power.

every family has values, of some sort. the conservatives want everyone to have their values. like i'd want to live in a family where the male gets to abuse whomever he wants, and the female has to do as she's told. and the kids have to be perfect, all the time.

so our society is changing. that's what they do. what they've always done.

no way in hell i want to live in 'an sca/disney kind of world'. [apologies to my sca friends] the dream of 'returning' to some imagined version of the past holds no excitement for me. even if it were my own imagined version. the past is done. we live now. get over it.

Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:10 AM ET
Former London police chief says human rights "industry" has stranglehold on UK
Alexandria Samuel

[JURIST] Former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord John Stevens slammed British human rights groups [on] Sunday for their efforts to block the controversial new UK policy of deporting persons preaching violence or hatred or posing a threat to national security. Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the policy changes earlier this month following the July London bombings, and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke subsequently announced plans to deport 10 foreign Islamists arrested last week under the antiterror measures. In an article for the News of the World weekly, the outspoken Stevens wrote:

If the human rights industry hadn't managed to secure its stranglehold on Britain, they would have been kicked out years ago. Now, hand-wringing civil rights lawyers and like-minded judges will go into top gear to keep them here.

Best known for his role in chairing investigations into collusion between security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist paramilitaries, Stevens retired as London Police Commissioner in February 2005. AFP has more.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/08/former-london-police-chief-says-human.php

Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:10 AM ET
Former London police chief says human rights "industry" has stranglehold on UK
Alexandria Samuel

[JURIST] Former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord John Stevens slammed British human rights groups [on] Sunday for their efforts to block the controversial new UK policy of deporting persons preaching violence or hatred or posing a threat to national security. Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the policy changes earlier this month following the July London bombings, and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke subsequently announced plans to deport 10 foreign Islamists arrested last week under the antiterror measures. In an article for the News of the World weekly, the outspoken Stevens wrote:

If the human rights industry hadn't managed to secure its stranglehold on Britain, they would have been kicked out years ago. Now, hand-wringing civil rights lawyers and like-minded judges will go into top gear to keep them here.

Best known for his role in chairing investigations into collusion between security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist paramilitaries, Stevens retired as London Police Commissioner in February 2005. AFP has more.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/08/former-london-police-chief-says-human.php