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[Guthlac]

http://hitchensblog....ir-richard.html

Heroin in the supermarket... why ever not, Sir Richard?



Sir Richard Branson says he doesn’t want to see drugs sold in supermarkets. Why not? That is the logic of his opinions, and I can’t see why he won’t just say so. Is it he is afraid it will damage his funky brand? If you don’t believe these substances are immoral, disgusting and dangerous then why not just let rip?

But ‘Sir’ Richard doesn’t seem to disapprove. He freely confesses to having taken several of them, though curiously he only ‘suspects’ he has sampled cocaine.

I have no respect at all for this absurd, overrated person, who in my opinion knows almost nothing about anything, except perhaps getting people to part with their money. Even then the record is patchy.

Hands up who remembers his gormless support for Britain joining the euro on the BBC’s Question Time. He could hardly get the words out, he had so little grasp of the subject. Yet he unerringly knew which was the stupid side on any major question, and equally unerringly supported it. And – which is much worse – people listened with respect.

And so last week he was taken seriously by Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee which is, yet again, investigating the Government’s drug policy.

I have suggested that they ask me along to explain it to them, as I do actually understand it. But so far I haven’t heard back. Somehow I think they’d rather take the advice of the genius behind Virgin Trains. It gets them on TV.

Here's the problem the decriminalisation campaigners face. They claim that a supposed ‘war on drugs’ is causing all kinds of misery. But there is no such war. If there  is, how can the alleged singer Pete Doherty walk into court with his pockets actually full of heroin, drop some of it on the floor and walk out again  a free man? And why are most cannabis users let off with a meaningless warning, if the police bother them at all?

True, there’s plenty of misery. Think of the poor deluded  teenagers risking their sanity because they think cannabis is ‘soft’ and safe when in fact it’s  a terrifying, unpredictable brain poison that can make you go mad for life.

But the non-existent ‘war on drugs’ can’t be the cause of it.

For instance, did you notice that as ‘Sir’ Richard was gabbling his modish opinions, the Sentencing Council (and who chooses its members, exactly?) was busy yet again reducing the penalties for drug offences, which have been fading into nothing since 1971?

Cocaine and heroin dealers can be let off if they are ‘immature’ or show ‘remorse’, which as we know means if they are good actors in the dock.

And cannabis dealers can  be caught with 13lb of dope – almost a stone – and stay out of jail. So much, by the way, for the stupid, repeated claim that leaving the minnows alone ‘frees up’ police to chase the big sharks. All that happens is that the minnows get bigger and the sharks remain uncaught.

How long before the groovy guys and girls of the Sentencing Council rule that anyone with a van-load of weed or a ten-acre cannabis farm isn’t worth prosecuting? Not long, according to my old adversary Peter Reynolds, the leader of the cannabis legalisation party CLEAR. He wrote to his supporters last week to say: ‘Effectively, growing your own [cannabis] has been decriminalised. We are free.’

He explained: ‘The important point about these sentencing guidelines is that penalties have been reduced to such a level that I doubt whether the CPS will be interested in pursuing such cases.’
For once, I agree with him.

[Woden's Child]

Didn't he also have something to do with the running of an abortion clinic in his early days?

[osgar]

A female friend of mine once worked for branson at one of his childrens birthday parties as a temporary waitress, She told me he had a fun fair there, a macdonalds and a pizza hut, so that the guests could just dig in, her job was dishing out the bubbly.
Anyway as the evening wore on branson accosted her and her friend, groping at the friend with his face covered in charlie, they gave him short shrift and he jumped up on the stage, announced something or other over the speaker system and went crowd surfing.
My friend wouldnt have just said this for nothing to me, but it certainly made me see branson 'the golden boy' in a realistic light.  Drug addled freak.

[Aengifu]

I've avoided buying anything from Virgin from the day they began - I decided a man who wanted to call his business by that name was probably a sleazebag out to shock, and his tactics since have done nothing to disprove it.

[Eassex cempa]

I just done a job 4 months back for his best mate. Nice bloke on the surface but underneath there was the them and us attitude. Kind of confusing as he claimed to be the son of a bricklayer. Birds of a feather, as they say
Come to think about it, every bugger that turned up at his home looked down their noses at us. How fucked are the uber-snobs gonna be when the shite hits and how much am I gonna enjoy making them sorry.

E C

[Grendel in Esseax]

Peter Hitchens you are a prick ! the snub by parliment you have suffered has obviously cut deep to your ego, why would you want to impress a house full of takers & monkeys known as parlinment? the place is full of mumbling chancers and you couldnt make the grade?. How degrading more bile from the gutter press. I notice he forgot to mention the multi million pounds Branson annually give to charitys and good causes? jealousy, jealousy will destroy you from within mate. War on drugs? The british empire has been into Afghanny on more then one occassion all because of the lucritive asset of heroin, without heroin the NHS would cease to be able to undertake all operations, dentists, pharmacy companys would all cease to make medicines for the global illnesses.
If you are a druggy then heroin is a curse! if your a cancer sufferer heroin is a pain relief blessing. Al Queada in Afghanny is another conspiracy theory thats fed to the sheep all time,they accept  all that is gushed out  by the commie press.