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The Sun Readers Heartfelt Prayer


Outline: The 'Mail' readers would be more accurate but it just doesn't roll off the tongue as well...
Why: fun
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THE SUN READERS HEARTFELT PRAYER.



Dear God
Please bring back laws to protect the people
summary justice, people's courts.
Cut the fingers off all shoplifters
Castrate rapists when they're caught.
Blind perverts with red hot irons
Let us backshoot muggers when they flee,
please make a start to make things better,
hang vandals from the nearest tree.
Exterminate illegal immigrants,
Beat to death those who'd kill or maim
then hold public executions
of those who'd falsify benefit claims.
Cut the arms off all known burglars,
the feet from those who'd steal your car,
garrotte the life from trendy liberals...
(and don't we all know who they are).
Burn to death religious maniacs,
flog schoolgirl mothers through the street,
tear the tongues from lying politicians
to save us from their unctious bleat.
Then make a start on social workers
the apologists for all this crime
send them off to camps and gas the bastards...
Make sure the job's done right this time.
Then declare an open season
on all lowlife aggravating scum
for it's only when they all lie bleeding
will people know the job's been done.
Amen.

Author Explanation: Written with my tongue firmly in cheek... Maybe ?

Logicus tracticus

[Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:47 pm]

just read the once...so not sorted out rhythmic method re rolling of the tongue..
public courts, summary justice,
would/could give double meanings, that its the will of the people for such justice...using public also easier to pronouce..

Hope the "public executions of those who'd falsify benefit claims. " Includes the staff who make/cover up mistakes thus in a way falsifying benefit claims.


"social workers, the apologists"Not those I've come in contact with, well the paid ones that is...

About the tax and vat man, boiled in oil perhaps....
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carrieann

[Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:30 am]

Ah well now, as a piece of satire this works. But is it any wonder the majority (how many people read The Sun and The Mail and/or agree with views expressed?) do want to see a crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour? Naturally, not in such extreme measures but punishment to fit, nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with the journalists drawing attention to it either, better than stalking celebrities any day.
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carrieann

[Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:02 am]

Me again, just thinking, this is a prayer. Why is it a prayer? For entertainment value or something more? Are prayers ever answered? An atheist would say no, how could they be? So if written (or read) from an athiest pov, it follows that no matter what one prays for, how hard or how extreme, nothing will ever change, because there's no one out there to listen. A point to be considered, or THE point?
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scarletdancer

[Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:15 am]

I don't think anyone would have a prayer like this, it mocks prayer. And thank God that in most country's these barbaric rituals don't occur anymore. We've come along way in our judicial system to make the punishment suit the crime. The law can't live in a world of the Old Testament, 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' However, it is a good write. cheers, scarlet Smile
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metman

[Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:45 pm]

You're just an old softie! very amusing send up of a lot of people I know.
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arthurian

[Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:37 pm]

Obviously this is deliberately provocative as only a rabbid little englander would take it seriously - sad bastards that they are.
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[Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:28 pm] Watto Chris

Somewhere between the position set out here and the opposite view where Hoodies only need to be hugged etc there must be a happy medium?

A women clips a 16 year old around the ear for defacing a war memorial and she is taken to court! We can all fill in with examples of a similar nature. Violent Death and Serious Assualt is a far more prevalent phenomena than when I was young.

I come from one of the roughest areas of North London so I've no rose tinted glasses to romanticise my retrospective view.

Finally why pick on Little Englanders, Little Scotlanders, Little Tafflanders, etc etc are just as bad. All tribalism is pathetic.

Brian

The reviewer would appreciate your comments on: Is this my beloved?
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Logicus tracticus

[Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:33 pm] Re: Watto Chris

BrianRobertNeal wrote:
All tribalism is pathetic.

Brian

That includes "conservatism liberalism,ect" as well I presume.
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[Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:44 pm] Watto Logi Re-Re Watto Chris.

Yes-Utilitarian Pragmatism should be king. However Karl Popper believed that mankind's most dangerous invention was Metaphysics.

(Sorry about this Chris)

Brian
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Chris Ripple

[Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:14 am]

What a load of tripe ! Thank you Carrieann for recognising satire when you see it, arthurian for recognising that it is/was 'deliberately provocative' and metman and Scarlet for the praise.
How many times have you walked into the office/pub/surgery/dole office and heard the residents saying My God ! If it were up to me/them then they'd cut their b******s off ?
Logi', I used to have a t-shirt with the slogan 'Make the world a happier place... Hang your social worker' until a mate borrowed it to close an oil leak on his car. (we had another twenty miles to go). Shame, I liked that T-shirt and I've had so many run in's with social workers that unless I KNOW their work, in general terms they will get no praise from me. A more arrogant and ignorant profession of apologists I have never come across. We have to take as we find I'm afraid.
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