Man in a Shed: Support for Sandmonkey

Friday, February 23, 2007

Support for Sandmonkey

I'm going to add Sandmonkey to my blog roll. He's just been sentenced to 4 years for "spreading information disruptive of public order and damaging to the country's reputation"; "incitement to hate Islam" and "defaming the President of the Republic".

His father is calling for his execution under Islamic law ( for a Father to call for such a thinkg is just perverted ! ) This is my second post of a man wanting to kill members of his family in succession.

Read the news on his blog (I'm guessing he can't write to it any more - here ). A number of other bloggers have raised this - time for the Free Kareem campaign - boycott Egypt until he's free.

Full report in the Daily Telegraph here - and the BBC report hidden away here...

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The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman