Those damn Nicaraguans coming over and stealing our jobs

So I was thinking about what I could write for my next blog, what motivates me, where do my interests lie?


Last night on the news I heard about a woman who had been prosecuted for a racist rant she had on the London Underground. Some guy recorded it and handed it to the police and charges were brought against the woman.


It reminded me of a similar case of a woman also making a racist rant on the tram in Croydon. You must remember this? She sat with her child on her lap as she slated ethic minorities and blamed them for her own down fall, when in actual fact what her downfall was really down to was copious amounts of illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, sex with random strangers and a failure to take responsibility for her actions.


I remember this night well, Facebook went viral. Everyone was all over this. Some people wanted to smash her head in, some thought it was hilarious, others took a passing interest, I thought the whole thing was fascinating. Not just what she did but also the reaction from everyone.


The general consensus was that she should have been arrested and have her children taken away, this is what interests me.


First things first. How many of you reading this blog have complained about the immigrants in this country? I’ve done this and it is wrong. I’ll still do it, probably, knowing it’s wrong. How anyone can determine who is an immigrant and who isn’t just by looking at them is a little extreme, an immigrant is a person who does not have British nationality, they are from another country, they’re not criminals. I’ve even heard immigrants complaining about the number of immigrants in this country.


The “shouty tram woman”, as she came to be known, was just repeating what a lot of others were thinking or will say in close circles. The shock and awe, I think came from the swearing and the fact that she was saying it so vociferously in public.


A lot of other people thinking it does not make it right, it just means that if a lot of others disagree then they need to take a look at what they really believe in.


Taking a look at should the woman be hung, drawn and quartered I think this is a little far fetched. I think she should have been allowed to say what she liked to whom and however loud.


Shocked!? The reason is because we live in a democracy. In a democracy people are allowed to hold whatever opinion they wish to. If we all have a referendum in this country to ban immigrants then so be it, that would be democracy. It would be voted on and the people that live here can control what decisions are made by those in power. How many of you would love that? To boot out certain elements of society because they don’t look right? Imagine if you could get rid of the wheelchair ones, the black ones and the ones whole ones who don’t use English as their first language?


One of the Facebook comments said "My Grandfather fought to shut up idiots like her". What I'm thinking is that this person's grandfather would have fought in World War Two in which case I'll lightly brush over the ironic thought of someone fighting on one half for people's free speech but on the other to shut some people up.


The grandfather in question, if he did fight in WW2, fought against the tyranny of a dictator who threatened to take over all of Europe and bring it under his dictatorship. Thankfully the grandfather was on the winning side and because of that people of the ilk of Adolf Hitler have the right to air their views. It's only after it has been debated can we decide on what is better for everyone.


In some areas of the world the woman from Croydon would have been applauded for her views, some countries don’t allow any ethnic minorities in at all. Perhaps that is democracy? If a dictator wants to allow everyone in and give them equal rights but most of the people only want people of their own skin colour in then who is right? It would be fascinating if this ever happened.


What I really loved about the video though was the fact that nobody agreed with her, even the teenage mother shouted her down! This means that either the rest of us are cowards or that we don’t hold an undertone of racism within us. Unfortunately I think it is the former. Ignoring the fact that the girl was clearly coked up to her tits at least she had the guts to sit there and tell us what she really thought. .


The debate, as that is what it turned into, is democracy in action. A number of people getting together to decide what is best for the majority. The only rules to democracy is that democracy rules.


To be honest I do love the immigrant debate in this country, firstly because if everyone manged to track their ancestors to back when we were fish we'd really find out where people "should come from".


Secondly is because whenever this debate is played out it is always mentioned in the same breath of St George, an immigrant from Iran who fought for the Roman Catholic Church, not England or Britain, in the crusades. George isn't even a British name.


Quite why he was made the patron saint of England would take a little bit of research, a quick delve into Wikipedia should do the trick. It might have something to do with the fact that he was willing to stand up and say what he believed in, the imbodiement of his spirit to not be one of the flock by following everybody else and a little bit of character to stand out from the crowd, so a bit like "shouty train woman", really.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

So anyway it turns out blogging is more difficult than first thought

I logged in to Blogspot, went to look at my blog, accidently and went into edit the one I posted yesterday.


I obviously didn't want to do this, I was here by mistake. I pushed the back arrow to return to the previous page and it wouldn't allow me to do that. The txt box was blank, for some reason.....


I just wanted to get out of where I was, why can't you just do that?!
So from here I pushed save and then managed to get back to my blog the number of posts published was zero, I panicked, went back to the blog editor to set it to publish and did so, the text box remained empty.


I returned to the blog, saw that it was now published and went into it. The blog was empty!


See, this is problem with it. I didn't edit the text out, it just wasn't there.
I'm a little annoyed with blogspot and the cretin that designed the floor in the website. There is a close button but what happens if I push that? I only pushed a few buttons and my post is gone, what happens if I push close, does it close my account?


I'll be emailing them to see if my blog can be retrieved, they've got servers for this stuff, right? But don't hold your breath. To them retrieving my previously deleted blog would be too difficult! *Angry*


Oh and what is the deal with paragraphs!?

And then he blogged....

So if you read my next post it explains a little about me losing my first post. I did draft something and hear it is below, not the whole post but it is most of it. "Blogging……….. (thinks for about five minutes) It’s a persons perception of what is happening around them. It’s like a diary that you share with the world. You don’t actually say “I got up today and took shower….”, that’s tweeting, but you do try and keep a log of events. Being a football fan the blogs I tend to read are about football, I’m also a fan of American Football and I’m a fan of the Miami Dolphins (waits for laughter to stop). This may appear funny to you who know their Gridiron but at the end of the day you all know that you would love your team to have gone undefeated throughout the season. Every year when a team reaches 10-0 the old footage of the no name defence is shown, along with footage of Don Shula and the rest of the characters of Miami Dolphins folklore. The Blog I read is entitled PhinPhanatic! Good work on the lettering there. It’s a collection of writers, reporting mainly but also giving their opinions on events ongoing within the team and around the club of the Miami Dolphins. This works perfectly for me. It gives a nice little dosage every now and then giving me an update on goings on and then an opinion about it. It’s not too much and not too little. It’s Goldilocks! Before I discovered this blog my knowledge on the Miami Dolphins and American Football as a whole was rather limited, I watched pretty much every game I could, that’s any game being shown on Sky Sports, I’ve attended four out of a possible five NFL Wembley games and been to see the Dolphins once in a home game in Miami against the Patriots, we lost badly! It was actually while in Miami that I started following the blog. I was recently an owner of an iPad and I was looking for apps to download that covered my interests, there are millions out there! NFL apps would have fallen into this category and so the Miami Dolphins PhinPhanatic blog app would have been downloaded. At first I just used to get the occasional notification about the latest edition to the blog. I read it occasionally but my thirst for more and more never seemed quenched and eventually I was finding that I would refresh the app just to see if I could get more info. There is an occasional lull in my interest. At one point I had thirty three unread blog entries, I read most of them eventually. At times I want more and at other times I want less, generally on average it works out fine and if I find that I do want more info, which is often the case, then I can go to other sites. My point is that blogging is about making observations about your surroundings on a particular subject and sharing them with the world. Kind of like journalism without the hacking!"