Thursday 7 July 2016

What The F*ck Is Happening?

Inequality is not a word I like to use, especially in 21st Century.

Today Andrea Leadsome has said she was against gay marriage because it "hurt Christians."

Speaking as a Christian, it hasn't hurt me, in fact, I doubt that God would would be that upset either.

Firstly, there are bigger problems than two people of the same sex getting married going on the world.

One of them being racism, and in America, racism against black people is rife, and it's angering me beyond belief.

Now I am not one for going along with a hashtag, but #BlackLivesMatter is something people around the world should take notice of, especially when it comes to the treatment of black people in the USA.

In two days US cops have gunned down and killed two black men, for no apparent reason, and their horrific deaths have been filmed.

Firstly Alton Stirling, who was shot and killed for what looks like nothing. I have watched the video of his death, there was no need for the gun to be pulled, let alone for the police officer to pull the trigger at point blank range.

Now Philando Castile. A man who was shot by other police officers whilst his girlfriend sat next him, and she filmed the whole thing.

What was he shot for? Again, nothing.

Last year we saw the deaths of Sandra Bland, who was pulled over for a minor traffic offence, the police officer pulled a gun on her, and took her in to be questioned, not sure why as wasn't acting defensively, not until she had a gun in her face at least.

Sandra Bland, according to the official reports, "committed suicide", a strong headed, seemingly rather wise lady killed herself in custody.... doesn't add up to me.

Then there was Walter Scott, who was pulled over because his brake light wasn't working, the police officer shot him five times fatally, Scott was unarmed, and only 50 years old.

Eric Garner, 43 years old, who may or may not have been selling cigarettes illegally, was strangled to death, in the video you can hear him say "I can't breathe", the police officer choked Garner until he died, what for? Again, nothing.

Freddie Gray, who's death sparked the Baltimore riots last year, was 25 year old, who died in police custody, he was initially arrested for illegally carrying a switchblade.

Now by all means, arrest him, but why is he now dead? He was apparently, this is eye witness testiments, beaten with "batons" and his leg pulled backwards as well as one officer kneeling on Gray's neck with his knee.

Michael Brown was only 18 when a police officer shot and killed him. Seven shots. All to do with petty theft.

These sorts of things I believe God would take an issue, with, not two people in love saying I do.

The level of inequality I see growing again bothers me, especially with the rise of politicians like Donald Trump who is an out and open racist, and proud of it.



Sunday 3 July 2016

Why I Am Backing May

I like Theresa May, and here's why:

Firstly she managed to deport Abu Qatada, an extremist Islamist hate preacher, who Labour would have kept.

She didn't deport Gary McKinnon, an autistic hacker, who Labour would have deported to the USA, only to see him commit suicide.

For those saying she has failed on immigration figures, anyone would, the last Labour government set everyone else up for fools.

They were given seven years by the EU to set a quota on how many EU migrants the UK would except, they didn't set any, so when immigrants from Arabic or Asian countries come over, and get the EU membership at France, Romania, Germany, Belgium, of course we had/ have to accept them.

So anyone who would have won in the 2010 general election would have been set up for a fool.

She didn't allow the use of water cannons, and lets be honest, in Britain majority of protests, strikes that take place are pretty peaceful, very rare nowadays do we see violence, because the people using these protests as ways of letting the government know we are angry, don't want to be branded as vandals.

She stopped two extreme American Islamaphobes from entering the UK in 2013 saying that they would not be "conductive to the public good."

She has been a brilliant Home Secretary, she has more balls than all the men in the front Tory bench put together, and she is a woman of principal.

One more thing, I don't care how she voted in the referendum, I don't care if she changed her mind along the way, all I care about is the person best fit for the job, and in my opinion, Theresa May is the best.

She's tough but fair, open yet stubborn, this is something we need right now.