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Date: 11 July 2008 12:37:35
My favourite news story today came from BBC Wales. It highlights the idiots who are in control of our local government these days.
A mother from Aberfan, near Merthyr, has been accompanying her severly epileptic son on his council funded taxi ride to school every day. She is worried that he may suffer a seizure while in transit. This has never been a problem until now.
She has been advised by her council that she can no longer accompany her son as she has not had a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check. These checks are made in order to discover if people working with children have any criminal convictions related to sexual crimes on children or adults. People who have are then stopped from working with children and vulnerable adults.
Now I'm not saying that these checks aren't necessary but wouldn't the child have been removed if his mother was an abuser? The council point out that any adult acting as an escort for a child needs to have a CRB check done in order to travel in council funded transport.
What makes the story a little more absurd is that the son suffers from Cerebral Palsey and that his mother is also his full time carer. In addition she does not come into contact with other children on this service.
Have we really got that to the stage where this is how we act? I know that the council will say that they have a duty to protect the vulnerable, and to prevent themselves being sued, but is there common sense allowed in modern society.
Evidently not!!
History Today:
1274 : Robert The Bruce was born, future King of Scotland and turncoat. Had a fetish for spiders.
1804 : US Vice President, Aaron Burr, kills the former Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel. All political disagreements should be dealt with in this way.
1899 : E. B. White was born today. Anyone know the connection with Robert The Bruce? If you need to Google then you've failed.
1935 : Alfred Dreyfus dies today. A victim of French anti-semitism.
1940 : Marshal Henri Petain, French hero of World War One, becomes head of the Vichy government in France. Le Collaberateur helps in handing over Jewish residents to the Germans later. Never trust the French.
1975 : Chinese archaeologists discover the Terracota Army near the ancient capital Xian. These pesky Chinese will hide anywhere, for any length of time.
1989 : The death of the "greatest actor" of his generation - Lord Laurence Olivier. He was very good in the Boys From Brazil with Gregory Peck and The Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman. Altogether now:
Sound of dentist drill and screaming. (Is it safe? Tell me, is it safe?"
Who hasn't wanted to torture Dustin Hoffman?
1995 : The UN "safe haven" of Srebrenica is overrun by the Bosnian Serbs who go onto slaughter 7000 Bosnian Muslim men. Not a good day for the UN or the Dutch army, who were the peacekeepers who stood to one side. Maybe if the Dutch had done their job of protecting the Muslims things would have been different. Like Rawanda, the UN have not been very good at protecting the vulnerable.