HEROIN IS A CRIME, BUT TRY TELLING THESE SMUG TWERPS THAT

People don't become heroin users by accident. They don't catch heroin as if
it were measles or the flu.

They go out and look for it, and having once found a reliable supply, they
carry on taking it again and again until it is part of their lives.

And they cannot really be surprised when it has bad results.

The fact that possessing heroin is against the law is a useful clue for
would-be consumers that maybe it isn't a good idea.

Also, heroin 'addiction' is a myth. Anyone can stop taking this illegal
muck if he wants to.

The problem is that heroin users like their habit so much that they don't
want to stop.

The State, by treating them as poor victims instead of the selfish crooks
they are, encourages this view.

The ludicrous portrayal of 'cold turkey' as a death-defying ordeal in the
film French Connection II has a lot to answer for.

But our criminal justice system is now in the hands of people who see it as
their job to make excuses for wicked behaviour.

And last week, they laughed in the faces of the good and the law-abiding
once again. The Sentencing Guidelines Council ruled that thieves can in
future be let off prison if they can show that they stole to 'feed an
addiction'.

Thus, if some low-life snatches your handbag in the street, or pretends to
be a meter-reader to plunder an old lady's tiny savings, he will not go to
prison if he can show that he did this to pay a criminal dealer for his
illegal drugs.

One crime is now an excuse for another.

This Sentencing Guidelines Council is a collection of highly educated
nitwits, twerps and lawyers (plus, of course, a liberal copper).

It is a representative sample of the British Establishment, the people who
have presided over 50 years of uninterrupted national decline and still
show no signs of realising that they might be mistaken.

Go to their website some time and look at all their silly, smug and
simpering faces, and you will see exactly what is wrong with this country.

There are many good reasons why heroin possession is illegal.

One of them is that those who use it become so single-mindedly selfish in
pursuit of their chemical joy that they will steal callously from their
closest friends and family so as to pay for their unearned pleasure.

We would be doing all involved a great favour if we punished them, hard,
when they started.

That way, they would never get to the stage where they could pretend they
were 'addicts' and could grizzle when told they weren't going to get any more.

The problem is this.

Our governing class have no morals. While millions of us know perfectly
well that some things are wrong and must be punished, our ruling elite
simply refuse to believe this.

They think that those who do bad things need help.

And they then get wellpaid jobs providing that 'help'. Sometimes they sit
on panels that come up with moronic ideas. Sometimes they hand out free
needles to drug abusers, or free drugs (paid for by us) .

I've tried arguing with these people but I am afraid it is useless.

They adopt a superior tone and freeze their faces into masks of superior
contempt.

They regard me (and you) as barbaric throwbacks. I've now reached the stage
where I actively hope that they all personally encounter the evil they have
unleashed, seriously enough to feel its power but lightly enough to survive
the experience.

And I hope that this teaches them what the rest of us all know, and have
always known.

If you don't punish wrongdoing, you will get more of it.

Finally, A Big Movie From Hollywood That Makes Us Think

When so much of Hollywood depends completely on lashings of violence or
sex, it is encouraging to see a major film that is meant to make us think.

Clint Eastwood's Changeling, in which Angelina Jolie plays a woman whose
son is kidnapped, is such a movie.

It explores the terrifying power of authority in free societies when the
law and the media are weak or complacent.

It gives a flesh-creeping portrayal of how psychiatry is sometimes
perverted in bad causes.

And it recreates the recent but buried past with great accuracy (though I'm
not sure anyone used the phrase 'self-esteem' in 1929).

Now Brussels Steals Our Navy

The Euro-Creeps are unleashed again.

They are whispering about dragging us into the euro, as if we would be
safer from financial woes if we had no independence of action.

They have decided to force the Irish to rerun their referendum on the
Constitution ­ which is what would have happened to us if we had voted 'No'.

'No' votes in the EU are always temporary. 'Yes' votes are always for ever.

But what you may have missed is the first deployment of the EU Navy
(including British ships) in the pirate-infested waters off Somalia.

I don't recall any public discussion of placing the Royal Navy under
foreign command, nor can I see why the EU has any business in these
non-European seas.

Thin slice by thin slice, we cease to be a nation and become less
independent of Brussels than California is of Washington. By the time those
two giant aircraft carriers are built and launched, if they ever are, they
will fly the EU flag, and Trafalgar will finally have been avenged ­ and
undone ­ without a fight.

Violence At Muslim Schools Won't Stop As State Fear Islam

Muslim schools - the madrasahs that teach the Koran - are under attack
because the mullahs wallop their pupils.

Nothing will happen about this, of course, as the Establishment are too
terrified of Islam to send in the inspectors.

All right then, if Muslims are allowed to use corporal punishment in
schools, why can't the rest of us share in its undoubted benefits?

Almost all the French I know, plus most of the maths, was taught to me by
teachers who made sure I was reasonably scared of them, their sarcastic
tongues, their long and terrifying warnings on the fates of those who
didn't work, and the occasional deadly accurate board-rubber or piece of chalk.

Contrast the soppy, ineffectual new curriculum for primary schools, and the
impotent teachers charged with spooning this mush out in undisciplined
classrooms.

Thirty years hence we'll have millions of Muslims who know the Koran by
heart (and can read, write and count) while the non-Muslims know nothing
except the Human Rights Act, the address of the local benefits office and
their lawyers' phone numbers.

Obama's Swampy Political Base

Obama worshippers preparing for a Multiple Obasm when The Wonderful One is
inaugurated next month must be shocked - deeply shocked - to find that
their idol's political base, Illinois, is a swamp of corruption where the
Governor is (allegedly) trying to sell Obama's Senate seat to the highest
bidder.

Is it at all possible that Mr Obama (who recently endorsed that same
Governor) could have spent years as a full-time politician in Illinois
without noticing this? Oh, come on.

'Assisted Suicide' Supporters Should Watch Out

What a strange society we are, squeamish about hanging guilty murderers,
increasingly enthusiastic about dispatching the old and innocent.

Supporters of 'assisted suicide', especially if they own their own houses,
should watch out lest one day they find their own suicide being
enthusiastically assisted by people who don't fancy seeing the family
savings squandered on care-home fees.