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Madman in the ruins.
11:47 / 29.09.05
Well we've got 82 year old Walter (anarchist) Wolfgang,bundled out of the Labor Parety confrence for his seditions shouting. and a 73 year old hardned jailbird. in the news recnetly.

Have we a new public enemy number 1?
Has the war on drugs gone up in smoke?
Has the war on terror taked a ceasfire?

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you "The War on Penshioners."

Now this I'm behind 100% as soon as the pack's of OAP's are removed from our shop doorways the better. Commerce will run smoothly thus benefiting the economy.
As soon as the flat cap wearing Motorists are hounded off the roads and Nissan Micras crushed intheir thousnads, Our traffic congestion will cease.

I cant wait for out Logans run inspired society to begin.
 
 
Jub
12:01 / 29.09.05
I'm all for that!! They're a drain on the economy.

Seriously though - I'm a bit miffed about the whole tax and pension thing. My parent's generation retire at 60 - and have a fairly cushty pension which I'm paying for, and in years to come I'll be paying social tax which the younger generation will enjoy. By the time I get to retirement age (which will probably be 70+) they'll be less benefit.

Gah - just come back form the pub and spouting half baked ideas. . . might emigrate though as I'm gutted the social welfare contract has been broken. Curses! Curses I tell you!
 
 
Quantum
12:17 / 29.09.05
Thank goodness they jailed that old lady and that vicar for non-payment of Poll-I-mean-Council tax. I feel safer already.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:35 / 29.09.05
Well it's not like they were going to pay a fine...
 
 
Char Aina
12:43 / 29.09.05
so who paid her tax for her?
was it, as she likes to say, a strategic wind-from-sails gesture by one of her enemies?
or was it someone who, living in glasgow and paying about twice what she does in her lovely little devon flat with the views, thought she was monaing over fuck all?

or do you, like me, think she got one of her pals to pay it so she could retain the moral high ground without too much of that unpleasant jail time?

(that last one has variations; assistance from a max-clifford-alike being one of them)
 
 
Smoothly
12:58 / 29.09.05
so who paid her tax for her?

A 'Mr. Brown' apparently. Enough said (ie. your first answer)
 
 
Axolotl
13:04 / 29.09.05
While the government's response in both cases have been over the top and unnecessary has anyone else been slightly annoyed at the media's reponse? I mean when it was protesters against G8 being arrested under the P.O.T act, there wasn't nearly this much outcry.
As for the council tax "protesters" you can't get away with not paying your tax on the grounds that you think it's unfair, otherwise I'd pay less tax on the grounds that I don't want to support the occupation of Iraq or similar.
What I'm trying to say is how come it's only when nice mainstream people are the victim of the government's stupidity/ draconian legislation that the media starts kicking up a fuss?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
13:54 / 29.09.05
Because the media aims to please people who believe themselves to be nice and normal.
 
 
Quantum
14:00 / 29.09.05
'I'd pay less tax on the grounds that I don't want to support the occupation of Iraq or similar'

that'd be sweeet...
 
 
Jub
14:18 / 29.09.05
I vaguely remember some Quakers getting into trouble not so long ago for exactly that.
 
 
Quantum
16:28 / 29.09.05
Wolfgang lauded as hero and rightly so.

Emperors new clothes, anyone?
'Nonsense!'
'shit, someone noticed- bundle them out before everyone catches on!'
 
 
Quantum
17:05 / 29.09.05
The picture of veteran peace campaigner Walter Wolfgang - "Wolfie" as he is now universally known

NOT universally, I intend to propogate the description of Walter as Mr Wolf.



If I'm curt with you, it's because
time is a factor. I think fast, I
talk fast, and I need you guys to
act fast if you want to get out of
this. So pretty please, with sugar
on top, pull out of fuckin' Iraq.



He has his own wikipedia entry already. I heart Mr Wolf.
 
  
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