Everyone's A Winner?
The national lottery has no rules against prisoners playing their games. There are no prison rules that stop prisoners taking part in the lottery. Their only restriction is that they are in prison so it would be difficult to pop down the shop to buy a ticket. Anyway for those of you that haven’t heard (where have you been?) or don’t live in the UK let me tell you that a prisoner, who is due for parole very shortly, who was in a low security prison, who has, as far as I can ascertain, been a good prisoner and was following a regime of weekend releases in order to help assimilate himself back into society happened to buy a lottery ticket during one of his releases and has won the Lottery Extra draw. About £7 million. Should pay for a good weekend out I reckon.
There has been an outcry about it from all the usual loud-mouthed pompous asses who always “believe” they “know better” than the rest of us. (I think it must be some kind of religion.) The press hasn’t exactly been quiet about it either. Which brings up the first point. What happened to anonymity? I was under the impression that you had a right to anonymity if you won unless you waived it. Anyhow that’s a minor point because since his win this guy has been treated like s**t. His weekend releases have been stopped and he’s been transferred to a high security prison. Why? Because they think he’s going to run off. Ha ha ha ha. At least that’s the excuse being given for what I believe to be pure persecution. Are they stupid or what? The guy is due for parole. He’s not going to run off anywhere cuz he’ll be out soon anyway. I’ll guarantee he’s not as stupid as they are.
The really nasty thing about this though is that he’s won this money fair and square. He has broken no rules whatsoever. As far as I’m concerned “good luck” to him. (I may be in a minority on that but do I sound like I give a damn?) Now Herr Blunkett and his office are searching for any reason they can find to take his winnings off him. There’s nothing obvious for them use so they’re going to have to dig very deep to find anything. To my way of thinking if the Home Office want to stop prisoners being able to take part in the lottery then so be it. They can come up with some new rules and implement them for the future. But there are no rules at the moment so this chap should get his money without further ado. Not that he can use it while he’s in prison. That is an existing rule and should be adhered to but I don’t think the chap will have a problem with that. As I said he’s due out soon. Having said that, if Herr Blunkett can’t find a way of getting the money off him I can see the bas***d blocking the guy’s release. Herr Blunkett is starting to make Hitler look tame. He plays on his disability to gain the sympathy vote then, if you happen to disagree with him, he stabs you in the back, kicks you while you’re down and gets the dog to piss all over you. He doesn’t give a damn about the law cuz he makes it up as he goes along.
Do I give the impression that I don’t like him? Good. But he is just one bad apple in a whole barrel of bad apples. This government has become so right-wing they make Thatcher look like a communist. They wouldn’t be out of place in the Israeli parliament. In fact they’d probably like that cuz they could just go out and shoot people if they didn’t like the look of them. I’m just not getting into the fact that the UK, USA, Israel and many other “so-called” democracies have become very right-wing of late. I’ll leave that for another day, but if you do happen to be a socialist you’d be better off voting for the Conservatives next time around. The sooner this bunch of immoral, vicious and victimising cretins are retired the better.
The guy won the money fair and square. It’s his. Leave it that way!!
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" Boy....you are here becuase the State put you here, you have being tried and convicted in the Court of our Lords, ...Boy, you will stand where I tell you to stand, you will talk when I tell you to talk, you will go where ever I tell you to go, I am your family, I am your mother, I am what you will hear every night before you go to bed...."
Do you have a links for this story? Remember, I am a Criminologist. :dance:
I was left speachless when I first saw it! This movie was Criminology 101 all wrapped up in a nutshell. The story line is where Canada is right now: looking for that "pill" that will cure crime,....of the lower classes, of course. :roll: I was amist when I found out how old the movie was, which proves just how far a head of his time Kubrick was. :dance:
Thanks for the links Stuart...:notworthy:
Oh on a lighter note. When we saw the movie in CRIM class, a freind of mind was madddddly in love with another student: he propossed to her during the orgy sene!!!!:clap: I guess he figured no else was looking? :think: She said yes by the way.
You have to remember that cinemas operated in a different way back then. When I say I saw the film 2 days running I actually watched it about 4 or 5 times so I pretty much new the film backwards. Lucky really as I had to rely on my memories of it for the next 30 years. Back then cinemas just ran a "rolling program" of films so once you paid in you could sit there all day if you wanted and watch the film time after time. A lot of the criticism came from the older people, pensioners etc. who used to be able to go to the afternnoon showings for a reduced price. Quite frankly it really isn't a suitable film for pensioners to pass away their afternoons in front of and many of them complained about it.
Quite silly really when you look at the violence in films today but it was a Kubrick film and, whilst the violence is maybe a little tame by todays standards, the way it was portrayed is quite stark and creepy and scary. And then to come to the conclusion that the cure is worse than the violence? I think it plain shocked everyone back then, not least the establishment who kind of came off worst in the film.
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