Upside-down and inside-out

Things just go from crazy to completely off their rocker around here. Poor Casey had a rough time with the bomb threats yesterday (see her blog). Today's shooting, in my humble and unimportant opinion, completely nuts. How do you justify holding a gun to a man's head and firing FIVE shots into it? Suicide bomber or not, how the hell is he going to detonate anything with one bullet in his head, let alone five?! And how can you prosecute someone for a crime they've yet to commit? Just a little bit excessive.

Yes, yes, a lot of people say we should shoot all terrorists and people who are going to do these horrible things should be dead. I see their point, especially after our recent atrocities. But really! You can't get information out of a dead man.

This is Mel's pro-democracy, anti-war, pacifist political mode.

Other subjects I'm passionate about include the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, women's rights, child abuse, I think all prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay prison should be given fair trials (and should have been given them FOUR YEARS AGO), our mandatory detention laws are crap due to a ridiculously under-staffed federal bureaucracy, and I really don't like John Howard or his eyebrows. Free Tibet, rid the world of poverty, work on cures for AIDS and cancer, burn all Maccas and KFC franchises, make children exercise every day at school, free-range eggs only, 'life' imprisonments should actually mean 'life', not 25 years, sexual predators (rapists, stalkers etc all included) should be jailed for life not given piddly little sentences because they're "remorseful" (as I read of one such case in the Courier-Mail online the other day) and abolish the death penalty.

Oh and there should be a lot more cartoons on TV.

Mmmm..that's about it. For now *shakes fist*. Not that what I think about any of these things means anything in the big scheme of things, but meh.

And now, it's time for chicken.