Citizenship

I never thought I'd hear myself utter the words I am about to! The American's have got it right! there's been some fuss on the BBC website about a suggestion that's correct a suggestion not a law) saying

Pupils should be encouraged to swear allegiance to the Queen, a review of British citizenship suggests. Thanks to http://news.bbc.co.uk

As usual there is a have your say article and as usual I was stupid enough to read it!

Whatever you views on America I have seen first hand just how strong there allegiance to there country is. Okay so they don't have a monarch but isn't the monarch simply a symbol of the country they represent? In effect aren't they simply like the American flag?

Some of the arguments centered around America's attitude that they are more important and there supposed arrogance towards other cultures. One post even went so far as to say that we should not do anything like them as they don't even known the other country's in the world! i.e. there knowledge of Geography leaves a lot to be desired.

However, that is a simplistic view of the problem. In the UK we have a country of approx. 50,346 sq mi which makes studying it quite straight forwards and can leave allot of time for other country's as we are, as country's go, in the middle of the road size wise. However, the USA is approx. 3,794,066 sq mi the USA is 75 times larger than the UK!

If you were to test a school leave in America and one in UK my bet would be that there knowledge (measured according to land mass) would be better in America than the UK.

I've drifted off topic I know but it something that always annoys me, I hear people talking about Americans like there somehow inferior to the British and how "there all the same" to those of you who do that think of it this way, would you say a Scot and an Englishman were the same? Thought not! In only 50,000 sq miles we have massive differences in our population so imagine what a land with over 3,000,000 sq miles is like!

Going back to my original point, the America I have seen truly are proud of there country and there pledge of allegiance helps them to stay together even with the massive distances of there country! If it works for them, why on earth can't it work for us, oh yeah I forgot the Middle Classes want everyone to think Americas bad .....


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War Part 3

Here's my final example from the HYS forum,

Barely a day goes by without these 'heroes' moaning about one thing or another.

Are they really saying that these men, at the peak of physical fitness, can't handle a few lads shouting some nasty words, and that they need a law to protect their feelings?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Yes, because quite simply the litigation society we have at present caused by people concerned with the "Human Rights" of the accused means that if they did react and deal with "the lads" they would be sued and put into prison.

Unfortunately the European Declaration of Human rights has meant that although these trained protectors of our freedom (and they are deployed in more places than just Afghanistan and Iraq please note!) are unable to help us normal citisens to regain the Britain that has respect!

That's it for now I am off to do work ....

War Part 2

This is another of the posts from Have your say but I really got angry with it!

While I don't condone the abuse of people, the armed services should realise that the invasion of Iraq was illegal and that the invaders were fighting for the USA, not the UK. Don't people remember the anti-war marches?
Http://news.bbc.co.uk

Obviously this person doesn't realise that it was the POLITICIANS who decided to go to war not the army. They didn't have a choice to go or not, the Army asked for confirmation that the Iraq war was legal and they got this confirmation!!!!

Okay at the end of the day that information may or may not have been correct however once they had been given an answer they COULD NOT say no to going into action.

If they did they leave themselves open for loosing there job and possibly being imprisoned!

Yes I do have family out there at the moment so have a vested interest in the War. Regardless of your feelings towards the legality of the war you must realise that these members of our military our doing there job and are trying to make Iraq a better place. The beginning of the war may have been a bad choice but hopefully .... in the end life will be somehow better and we'll get our troops back.

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Have your Say ... Again

Okay so I was silly enough to read the news when I got up this morning, there's a heck of a lot of people discussing whether it is correct for Soldiers to ware there Uniforms in public ....

I've got one or two posts from the BBC website that I would like to talk about .. however the one I have Copied and Pasted here I think stands by itself and I don't need to make any more comments!

What sort of message are we giving to our Service people?

This is the only country where such nonsense exists, imagine the USA or France or Israel thinking in this way?

In these countries service people who are the youth are praised in Israel you don't even pay for a bus if your in uniform people want to give you respect and are proud of you.

I remember the days when the sight of Sailors and soldiers were a common site at railway stations in the UK.
Courtesy of http://news.bbc.co.uk