Unheralded among the media frenzy and the resonant echoes of righteous indignation, buried away at the foot of a page on the BBC News website is the following quote from Hertfordshire Police:

“Officers spoke to reassure the home owner, talked through security and gave advice in relation to the importance of reporting suspicious activity immediately to allow officers to act appropriately.

For clarification, at no point were any official warnings or words of advice given to the home owner in relation to the use of a knife or offensive weapon in their home.”

So there you go……

Yep a nice bottle of CELLIER DES DAUPHINS Chardonnay-Grenache.

Had they run out of White Lightning, then? :p

I think the only positive discrimination should be shown to those who can offer a modicum of common sense.

Regards,

kev35

Well said, that man! 😀

No need to Lance. He was a citizen of a Country which even now fails to recognise properly the horror they instigated. Successive Prime Ministers have apologised and then gone back on that. Japan as a Nation believes to this day that the atomic bombings of Japan were carried out for no reason. They still believe they are the victims

That is all a given, Kev. A Maths teacher of mine was a prisoner of the Japanese and the trauma of his sufferings was a daily reality to him even almost thirty years after his liberation.

But I still do not see how it disqualifies this individual, who had no hand in the atrocities that you mention, or in shaping post-war Japanese official policy, from voicing his opinions on human dignity.

Bataan, Changi, the Maru’s, the Phillipines, the railways and countless other places. What gives him the right to talk about the dignity of human beings?

Presumably you’ll be providing evidence of Mr Yamaguchi’s personal resonsibility for, or participation in, those atrocities, Kev?

I guess we can omit you and old shape from the organ donor registry then :rolleyes:

You can if you like.

I’ll keep on carrying my donor card though. 😉

Try it or you’ll never know.

Marmalade and cheese sarnies for supper tonight. Fantastic.

Heathen!

Wensleydale cheese and blackcurrant jam on home-made bread is a supper fit for a king.

I don’t think it should be a taboo subject.

Perhaps the forum would like to hear your remarks about “people who come from abroad and choose to live in the UK” and then we are all free to continue the debate rather than hear about peoples reactions to those remarks.

Anyone who wants to rant on about ‘people who come from abroad and choose to live in the UK’ had better be planning to do so in Welsh. 😎

Bloody Romans……. :diablo: