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CommonsensePolice find more bobbies on the beat cut crime (from The Daily Mail) For years, the public has been pleading for more bobbies on the beat to put the criminals to flight. One town has now put such a pilot scheme into operation – with predictably successful results. Burglaries, robberies and vandalism have all fallen after a dozen officers were sent out on full-time patrol. After giving out their mobile phone numbers, the officers have even received tip-offs by text message from members of the public. The success of the experiment in Welling, Kent, has been revealed only days after a damning report claimed that Britain's police forces were among the worst in the developed world. The Civitas study alleged that the virtual abandonment of foot patrols had led to a boom in street robberies and made crime a ‘low-risk' career in Britain. The early results of the Welling pilot scheme appear to prove that full-time patrols can cut crime. Over the last six months, burglaries in the town fell by 50 per cent and robberies by 33 per cent. Under the scheme, six officers – a sergeant, two constables and three uniformed community support officers – have been assigned to each of two council wards. As links have increased between officers and the public, warning letters have been sent to 60 families telling them that their children have been spotted in bad company and hundreds of residents have been turning up to police meetings.
Between April and September 2003, there were 137 burglaries, 39 robberies and 94 vehicle crimes in Welling. In the same period last year, burglaries fell to 68 and robberies to 24. Vehicle crimes rose slightly, however, to 99. A similar experiment in South Yorkshire in 2003 – where every available officer was deployed for a short time – also dramatically reduced crime.
P.I. comment: Well now there is a surprise. Who would have guessed that, eh? Home front threat to Blair, Prescott and Blunkett (from The Daily Mail) A property developer fighting to close a travellers' camp near his house yesterday threatened to set up similar sites close to the homes of Tony Blair, John Prescott and David Blunkett. Len Gridley, 45, of Crays Hill, Essex, said: ‘I have options on three pieces of land in Sedgefield, Hull and Sheffield. And if the Government don't keep their promise and close down the site at the bottom of my garden then I will buy those pieces of land and sell them to travellers. ‘I'm not saying exactly where these pieces of land are because I don't want the Government to slap compulsory purchase orders on them and buy them. It's going to cost me around £500,000 but I'm prepared to do it.' After a planning inquiry two years ago, Mr Prescott gave the travellers involved two years to leave. Mr Gridley added: ‘That deadline runs out on May 13 next year. If he doesn't keep his word, Ministers can have a taste of what it's like.' PI comment: What a wonderful idea Mr Gridley but my bet is that they would be moved on immediately! Perhaps they would call in a swift favour from one of the Judges that they have just done the pension deal with! An Englishman's home may become his castle again! The outgoing head of Scotland Yard, Sir John Stevens, belatedly accepts it might be a good idea to allow householders to defend their own property without having to fear arrest. Sir John’s thoughts are welcome. But they are not likely to become Government policy. The PC Brigade still believes crime is a result of deprivation and burglars need sympathy and help more than punishment and deterrence. If householders hit robbers over the head, they can expect to find themselves in the dock for daring to cling to old-fashioned, politically incorrect ideas about property and justice. Well that may be about to end - a private members bill is to be introduced in Parliament (which is likely to secure wide all-party support) which would mean householders facing prosecution only if they use‘grossly excessive’ force. The move will embarrass Labour, which has tried to kick the issue of victims’ rights into the long grass with a review unlikely to report for another 18 months. Even having to discuss the issue in the Commons will be a defeat for Tony Blair, who has been quietly hoping that the popular outcry about the rights of burglary victims would not feature in the run-up to next year’s likely General Election. PI comment: Am I dreaming? Common sense rearing it's ugly head? Unfortunately it has to get through Parliament. Fingers crossed everyone. Farmer ‘right’ to shoot raider (from The Daily Mail) A burglar shot by a terrified farmer was last night behind bars after a judge said his victim ‘could not be criticised’ for blasting the raider. In a case which echoes that of Tony Martin, widower Kenneth Faulkner shot John Rae in the leg when he caught the 22-year-old breaking into his garage. It was the third time in days that Rae had targeted the farm in Ockbrook, Derbyshire, and Mr Faulkner, 73, was scared the thief would use guns he had previously stolen from the property. Derby Crown Court heard prosecutors had considered charging Mr Faulkner, but decided he had acted in self-defence. And as Rae, of Stanton-by-Dale, Derbyshire, was yesterday jailed for seven years after admitting dozens of burglaries, Judge Andrew Hamilton said it was the right decision. ‘Nobody could criticise that man. He was defending his property,’ he said.‘It is only a pity that charges were considered against him, but sensibly the decision was made that that matter would not be pursued.’ Mr Faulkner declined to comment about the case afterwards. But a member of Rae’s family said: ‘Are they saying we can all shoot burglars?’ PI comment: Full marks to Judge Andrew Hamilton for showing some common sense! 100% rejection of political correctness in poll The North West radio station's theme of the day was "Has political correctness gone too far". They asked their listeners what they thought and the radio station's poll showed that an amazing 100% of listeners were fed up with political correctnessl. Many callers phoned the show to share their own personal experiences of political correctness and lots of different topics were covered. PI comment: That poll reflects my own findings. Whoever I talk to always agrees that PC is a menance. Not one person has ever disagreed. So why do we still have it? For once, travellers ordered off illegal site (from The Daily Mail) One of the country’s leading judges struck a rare blow against travellers yesterday by ordering a group to leave an illegal camp. Families began pouring onto the farmland 18 months ago, sparking complaints of fly-tipping and anti-social behaviour. Within six months, 27 caravans had arrived and the occupants were bulldozing the site and selling plots. Master of the Rolls Lord Phillips told the Romany Gypsies yesterday that, based on their past behaviour, allowing them to stay would be an ‘open invitation to lawlessness’. At the Appeal Court in London, he said: ‘They can rightly complain that their plight reflects a failure on the part of some authorities to comply with their statutory duties to provide sites for such travellers.‘That cannot, however, entitle them to stop wherever they choose and contend that their rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights [the right to family and home life] entitle them to remain.’ The Appeal Court judges decided by two-to-one that the travellers had to leave the Green Belt site at Iver in Buckinghamshire by December 22. It is near several houses. Their decision follows recent rulings where, using human rights law, travellers who bought land and developed it illegally have won the right to stay. PI comment: Does the grey matter of old judges sometimes contain a spark of common sense? Research shows old methods are best Educational psychologist Dr Sylvia Steel has discovered through research that chanting times tables is the best
way of learning them.
She says we should return to Victorian classrooms where children go through their tables aloud.
PI comment: I don't suppose this new(?) evidence will change things. Modern teachers hate teaching anything by heart. Apparently it’s ‘authoritarian.’ Judge takes a risk (from The Daily Mail) A senior judge threw out a claim for damages yesterday by a schoolgirl injured in a PE lesson. His decision was seen as blow against a nanny state culture which has left schools increasingly wary of letting children take part in activities where there is even the smallest risk. Lauren Babbings broke her arm at a primary school gym nearly ten years ago. Despite recovering and continuing to excel at women’s football, Lauren, now 17, won legal aid to sue her local authority. The case was rejected in April when a judge ruled that staff at Honley Primary School, in Lauren’s hometown of Huddersfield, had not breached their duty of care towards her. Lord Justice Brooke yesterday refused to allow an appeal against the decision. He said: ‘How boring things would be if there were no risk.’ The hearing at the Appeal Court in London heard that on March 14, 1995, the girl had jumped from a springboard and tried to grab a bar seven feet above the ground, but missed it and landed on a wood floor. Her right arm was badly broken and Lauren still has slightly restricted movement in it. However, she continued to play football and now plays for Huddersfield Ladies. Lauren’s barrister Benjamin Caswell argued the school was responsible because the gym equipment should not have been used by eight-year-olds. He said there was a ‘reasonably foreseeable’ risk of injury, and claimed Lauren – who was suing Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire – should have had help when landing. But Lord Justice Brooke said children should not live in a ‘risk-free’ society and said the teacher who took Lauren’s gym lesson was ‘a man of integrity’. He added that Lauren was an ‘agile and well co-ordinated’ girl who was ‘excited’ at the thought of the exercise and concluded that the dismissal of the case at Huddersfield County Court cannot be appealed. ‘She liked new challenges; she picked this exercise because it was more exciting than the other three on offer,’ he said. Costs for the case – thought to be more than £15,000 – will be paid by the taxpayer. PI comment: More common sense from Judges! Perhaps they read this site as well! Criminals - come on down (from The Daily Mail) They were expecting a cash prize or at the very least, their 15 minutes of fame. But as contestants for a TV game show waited backstage, their luck was about to run out. Called into the studio, they walked along a red carpet, through a cloud of dry ice ... and straight into the hands of two police officers. Police came up with the sting to catch fine-dodgers and those who had failed to answer court warrants. Seventeen were arrested when the Hampshire force teamed up with Channel Five to create a mock game show as a lure. Police wrote to scores of men and women wanted for failing to pay fines or not answering court warrants, inviting them to take part in the show. The letters told them they had the chance to win big cash prizes. Police whittled the list down to 20 who were invited to attend Portsmouth Guildhall on Sunday. As the ‘guests’ arrived, they were frisked by a police officer in a dinner suit and had their identities checked before being greeted by the Hamiltons. Then it was off to make-up. After being prepared for their moment of glory, they waited in a backstage room where they could hear Darren Day’s voice and the sounds of a studio audience. Then their day as celebrities turned into a day of reckoning. The arrests were recorded by Five for a show called The Great Big Giveaway Show which is due to be shown later this year. Out of the 20 guests, nine men and eight women were arrested, police said. Police said another 144 fine dodgers will be brought before magistrates after they were traced by replying to the letters. ‘Everybody who was invited to the game show brought that invitation to their door through bucking the criminal justice system in one way or another,’ said Superintendent Robin Jarman of Hampshire Police. ‘This operation sends a clear message to all those who are wanted that we will use any lawful audacious tactics to bring them to book.’ Barry Hugill, spokesman for civil liberties group Liberty, said: ‘This has the ring of a PR stunt. I find this very distasteful. I clearly have no objection to the police tracking down petty offenders and people who have not paid their fines but not if it becomes part of show business.‘A crime is something that is very serious and it cannot be treated like a game show. Police will at times use covert measures but the way this has become entertainment is distasteful.’ Mr Hugill also questioned the need for the sting if police had the addresses of the suspects. He said the lawyers of those brought to court could question whether there had been an invasion of privacy in the manner of their arrest. PI comment: Well done Superintendent Robin Jarman! Someone in the Police using their intelligence to catch criminals - whatever next! Why can't we have more policemen like you? As for Mr Barry Hugill of Liberty - listen mate - we are all fed up with your wishy washy weasel words. These were all people who had ignored or cleverly evaded the criminal justice system and for them to be caught on camera sends a clear message to others. Remember, justice must not only be done - it must be seen to be done! Farewell to Welfare The welfare state has been written off by the vast majority of voters, a survey said yesterday. They believe it is failing the people who need help most while lavishing money on the undeserving. The damning verdict came in an online survey carried out for the Centre for Social Justice, the new Tory think-tank set up by former party leader Iain Duncan Smith. The YouGov poll also asked 2,000 voters what they would do if they had £200 to give to a good cause and found that not one would use it to help the Government fight poverty. Most people would give it direct to a family in need or to a local charity or church. Such dissatisfaction with the cradle-to-grave welfare state will make grim reading for Tony Blair, who is under fire for failing to deliver on his pre-election pledge to make welfare reform a priority. Some 71 per cent of people agreed with the statement that ‘the welfare state has become too inefficient, with many undeserving people getting too much whilst genuinely needy people struggle to get by’. PI comment: When three quarters of people think like that it restores my faith in the commonsense of my fellow man. Now all they need to do is get out there and vote for a government that will implement their wishes! Michael Howard speaks out against political correctness In a landmark speech made in Middlesbrough, the Conservative leader, Michael Howard said that "the clear distinction between right and wrong has been lost in sociological mumbo-jumbo and politically correct nonsense." Read the full text of the speech here PI comment: Have you been reading this web site Michael? Now take heart from the overwhelming support you have been receiving from ordinary people and go further. Promise to scrap or amend the Human Rights Act, curb the HSE, get the police back to policing, encourage parents and schools to instill discipline in children (yes by smacking if necessary), stop travelers blighting the lives of ordinary people and encourage people to be self reliant by pensioning off Nanny State. Oh and do feel free to drop by this web site again any time you like! Retired Police Inspector lambastes leaderless police (from the Daily Mail) Iain Gordon spent 30yrs in the Met police rising to the rank of Detective Inspector but left disillusioned by the modern approach to policing, which appeared to be driven by procedures and political correctness rather than any desire to tackle crime. He says that the mismanagement of the police is a national scandal. Gimmicks and jargon are now substitutes for action, money is squandered because of mismanagement, bureaucracy, gimmickry and warped priorities. He says that policing should be a relatively simple job, based on providing a visible reassurance to the public, but it has been made unnecessarily complex by a mixture of academic theorising, fashionable ideology and an obsession with new hardware. And the results have been disastrous. The most dramatic change he witnessed during his three decades in the Met was the withdrawal of the police from the streets. He says that even though now we employ more officers than ever before, they are distinguished only by their absence - this is because in the Seventies, the beat went out of fashion. This was partly because of the introduction of the panda car, which was said to be a more effective way of covering a patch. But the reality was that, once they were inside their cars, the police became more remote from the public and less inclined to take instant action to deal with a crime. Another change he witnessed was in the support rank and file officers received from their superiors. When he began on the beat, his senior officers would back him to the hilt, even if he may have made a technical error. That sort of loyalty to the troops has now utterly evaporated. Senior officers, fixated by rules and jargon, refuse to provide
adequate support to the rank and file, especially when anything goes wrong or some lawyer sounds off about ‘human rights’.
But then, in his early days, most of the chiefs were experienced, streetwise men — often with a background in the armed services — who had spent
years on the beat and knew the reality of crime.
Today, forces are run by a new breed of university graduates who have been fast-tracked into senior positions because of their ability to spout
the politically correct jargon about ‘social deprivation’ and ‘community’. So rather than combating burglary, police chiefs organise elaborate ‘victim support’ schemes
and counseling networks.
Propaganda, mission statements and rules have become substitutes for action. Rather than trying to attract the best recruits, they are obsessed
with achieving the correct gender and ethnic balance. PI comment: What a dreadful condemnation of modern policing given by someone that was actually in the thick of it. Compensation claims judged to be 'blackmail' (from the Daily Mail 04/07/04) Compensation seekers are blackmailing councils by launching thousands of legal cases over minor accidents which are cheaper to settle than fight, the Master of the Rolls warned yesterday. Lord Phillips, England’s most senior civil judge, said many pastimes and activities enjoyed by millions were being banned by authorities over-reacting to the threat of being sued. He called for Britons to have a ‘balanced’ approach to potentially risky everyday activity to stop the soaring number of compensation payouts. Insurance analysts estimate the cost has reached £10billion a year – £500 for each family. According to figures from Lord Phillips, the number of low-level compensation claims, involving minor accidents like injuries in falls, soared by 9 per cent in the last year from 101,000 to 110,000. ‘The population should have a reasonably balanced approach to indulging in these pastimes,’ he said. ‘They should not expect that if they have an accident, which is always liable to happen, that there must automatically be somebody else who carries the can. There is almost a blackmail going on here. Local authorities cannot afford to fight a claim. It is cheaper to settle.’ He added: ‘If you are too obsessed about the risk of getting sued, you can take steps which stop people enjoying the kind of pastimes that they always have in this country.’ His remarks, made in an interview with BBC news, come amid increasing concern over the impact of fast-growing numbers of compensation claims on public bodies and voluntary groups. Lord Phillips went on: ‘How about mountain climbing, is that dangerous? How about climbing a tree? Children climb trees. Local authorities have got to cut down any attractive tree they know children are climbing up because the child might fall out of the tree. These are just examples of becoming too obsessed about the risk of being sued and taking steps which stop people enjoying pastimes people always have done in this country.’ Critics want a clampdown on ‘blame and claim’ advertising and limits on the use of ‘no-win no-fee’ payment deals by lawyers. PI comment: Thank you, your Honour for belatedly pointing out the stupidity that the rest of us have been highlighting for years! At least now it is official! Teachers' leader canes political correctness (from the Daily Mail 30/07/04) A teachers' leader yesterday blamed the decline of discipline on the end of corporal punishment in schools. Barry Matthews declared that standards of behaviour were higher when teachers kept unruly children in line with the cane or a clip round the ear. He warned that today’s staff find it increasingly difficult to impose sanctions on pupils for fear of landing in trouble. Mr Matthews, chairman of the Professional Association of Teachers, told the union’s annual conference that children in the 1940s and 1950s faced stricter discipline than youngsters nowadays who, he said, have an ‘extreme degree of freedom’. Parents are contributing to the problem by allowing children to stay out late, drink too much and watch TV for hours, Mr Matthews said. They make matters worse by complaining and calling in lawyers when teachers try to punish their children. Mr Matthews said disciplinary boundaries have been further eroded by ‘lenient’ governors and local authorities who overrule heads’ attempts to tackle troublemakers. PI comment: Keep socking it to them Barry and maybe one day the message will get through! Godfrey makes a bloomer Our thanks to Godfrey Bloom for bringing some common sense to the EEC. The UKIP MEP was appointed to the Women's Rights committee and straight away pointed out that the politically correct ideas that it espouses actually harm women more than it helps them. He caused outrage after he declared that "no small businessman with a brain would give a job to a woman of childbearing age." He warned the cost of EU directives on paid maternity leave was deterring small employers from hiring young women. "The more women’s rights you have, it’s actually a bar to their employment" he said, adding "That isn't politically correct, is it? But it’s a fact of life. I know, because I am a businessman." Outlining his preferred maternity policy, he said: "If you want to have a baby, you hand in your resignation and free up a job for another young lady." Welsh Labour MEP Glenys Kinnock led the condemnation against the comments. PI comment: Thanks Godfrey for stating the obvious. Maternity leave is a nightmare for all employers but small employers in particular. Naturally they protect themselves in this manner. In my experience, women usually don't return at all after maternity leave which makes the problem even worse. Anyway, anything that upsets the PC Kinnocks gets my vote! A tale from two cities (from the Daily Mail) In plain English, using language that comes straight from experience and the heart, Nottinghamshire’s Chief Constable Steve Green points to the terrible price society is paying for being soft on crime. He talks of the armies of vicious young yobs – often the children of feckless, irresponsible parents – who with their obscenities, threats and hair-trigger violence make life a misery for millions. He attacks the way these ‘monsters’ are indulged, arguing that the experiment of tolerance has failed. What sickens so many law-abiding citizens, he says, is ‘the disproportionate focus on the feelings and rights of out of control young people’. And in a passionate plea for the deterrent of sterner jail sentences he declares: ‘We must all be brave enough to be tough’. Such words are miles from the platitudinous sociology-speak we usually hear from senior officers, in their obsession with inclusiveness, ‘institutionalised racism’ and the other politically correct diktats of modern policing. But his no-nonsense approach was instilled in his early years. The son of a mineworker and a Marks & Spencer’s shop assistant, he was raised in a council house in the tough pit village of Bentley, near Doncaster. He attended the local comprehensive school until he was 16, when he became an Army scholar. If he misbehaved at home, he would be smacked. If he did so at school, he could expect the cane. He was never bad enough to be flogged — but if he had been, his parents would not have run to the head teacher to complain.‘There was deprivation, there was hardship, and there was bad behaviour, too. But I think there was a much clearer set of rules. It was very clear that if you were naughty at school, your parents and teacher were at one in dealing with you. There was certainly no sense of the parent going in to school and trying to justify what you had done. It was a very disciplined life, but it was seen as being good for you. After school, he was commissioned in the Royal Signal Corps and completed officer training at Sandhurst. But in 1978, when he had reached the rank of lieutenant, he left the Army, believing he could be more useful as a policeman. He didn’t know how the public would react to his remarks, which were soon picked up by the national media, but says the response was ‘phenomenal’. The Nottinghamshire Police switchboard has fielded callers from all over Britain. Every last one has applauded. ‘We went out on the streets with a TV crew filming and people were waving and saying “Well done”,’ he says, a touch bemused. ‘I didn’t set out to achieve that, honestly. It’s not my job to be populist, but I think it is my job to reassure people.’ Mr Green’s common sense words will strike a resounding chord with a public increasingly disillusioned with police priorities and the way politicians try to gloss over the everyday experience on our lawless streets. Recently, for example, the Home Office published police statistics showing an appalling 12 per cent surge in violence. So how did the Government respond to this embarrassment? Simple. It muddied the waters. On the very same day as those statistics, it conveniently produced another set of figures, the British Crime Survey, which on the basis of 40,000 interviews comes to the conclusion that crime has fallen by a staggering 39 per cent since 1995. Confused? You’re meant to be. In fact, the glaring discrepancy is explained by the different methodology used to compile the two sets of figures. Police statistics record every reported crime. The BCS, by contrast, is essentially a poll, which while useful in its way uses an interview technique that excludes many crimes from its findings, including murder, sex offences and drug dealing. But the Government ism’t interested in pointing up the difference. The aim in all this is not to inform, but to obscure. We are left with the spectacle of two nations: the fearful, threatened Britain so disturbingly portrayed by Chief Constable Green and the Britain of political fantasy and Whitehall manipulation, where everything is getting better and better. Which version, do you suppose, comes closer to the truth? PI comment: Congratulations Mr Green for stating the bleeding obvious - nice to hear it from a top police officer though. Also congratulations on the change of occupation to become a policeman. How about changing your occupation again and becoming a politician? I can guarantee you one vote!! It would make sense for the Chief Constable to be an elected position (like a Sheriff in the USA), where the incumbent gets kicked out if he doesn't do a good job. (Richard Brunstrom, watch this space!) Tony states the blairingly obvious Well yet another conversion on the road - this time on the road to the next general election I think! Tony Blair has conceded that law and order policy has been on the wrong track since he arrived in Downing Street seven years ago. The Prime Minister finally accepted it was time to get tough and to abandon the ‘1960s liberal social consensus on law and order’. It was time to ‘re-balance the system’ in favour of the victim and ensure ‘the guilty know the odds have changed’. In his keynote speech Mr Blair slated the politically-correct ideas which dominated criminal justice from the 1960s onwards. He said governments of both stripes in the 70s and 80s were more concerned with ‘the prevention of miscarriages of justice’ than anything else. With an epidemic of low-level crime and anti-social behaviour sweeping many inner cities, Mr Blair called for ‘rules, order and proper behaviour’. PI comment: I feel light headed - am I hallucinating?. Two conversions in as many days! Is the Government reading my website? Or yet another empty headline grabbing initiative and cynical election ploy? Watch this space! Tessa is a good sport after all (from the Mail) Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell was accused of hypocrisy after she urged head teachers to bring back traditional school sports days. Labour has failed to stop education authorities selling off scores of playing fields, while standing by as politically correct teachers phase out competitive games to spare children the embarrassment of losing. Two years ago Miss Jowell was accused of helping to sound the death knell for competitive events when she supported a move to replace traditions such as egg and spoon races with ‘problem solving’ exercises. Around half of schools have not scheduled a competitive day of events this year. But Miss Jowell, head of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, called on head teachers to return to the cut and thrust of competitive sports to teach youngsters valuable lessons about winning and losing.‘I want to see every child have a competitive sports day every year, so that they have the opportunity of competing and learning what you learn by winning and learning what you learn by not winning,’ she said. PI comment: At last, a conversion on the road to Domestos - perhaps all of Tessa's common sense wasn't removed after all. Better put her on the NHS waiting list to get that checked - maybe she will be back to normal by next sports day (or the one after!) Puppet violence claims knocked on the head PI comment: Punch and Judy has been around in this country since 1662. I watched it myself on the beaches around the UK as a child. Children then and now have the common sense to distinguish between real violence and acted violence - the PC brigade can't because they had their common sense removed when they joined. Thank you Laura, we have been down this road before with the Tom & Jerry cartoons (which my children adored) and we don't want to go down there again! Good luck with the campaign. Jimmy Hill hits PC on the chin Jimmy Hill bravely defended Ron Atkinson by asking why was it any worse to make a remark about a person's colour than it was to make a remark about the size of a person's chin? PI comment: Bravely said, Jimmy!! You may like to discuss the matter further when you meet Ron at the Unemployment Exchange (I hope not!) The Blind see through Political Correctness As I have stated elsewhere in this site, political correctness does more harm than good to the very people the PC brigade pretend they are helping! As long ago as 1993, the National Federation of the Blind in the USA had had enough of the PC euphemisms such as hard of seeing, visually challenged, sightless, visually impaired, and the like! They issued the following statement, basically telling the PC brigade where they could stick their euphemisms! "We believe that it is respectable to be blind, and although we have no particular pride in the fact of our blindness, neither do we have any shame in it. To the extent that euphemisms are used to convey any other concept or image, we deplore such use. We can make our own way in the world on equal terms with others, and we intend to do it." Read the full story here PI comment: I am sure this is the common sense view that most people take.
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