Respect the *snip*
Respect, respect, respect. Where does it come from? Where does it go? If you give it, do you get it? If respect had a smell, what would that smell be? Who gets to decide just what respect is?
We do.
Sign the petition and the pledge (courtesy of Tim Ireland).
You can also tell New Labour “one thing that you will aim to do to help build a culture of respect in your community“. They probably won’t print mine. It was a holier-than-thou little number about teaching children the value of truth.
Then download and read the Government’s Respect Action Plan (PDF). It’s a weighty tome so if you don’t manage to get through it at least it’ll come in handy for defending yourself against happy slappers.
More on this (hopefully) later…
Posted on January 10th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
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A lot of people reckon that Blair must have read Machiavelli’s “The Prince.� If he did, I reckon today shows he missed out this bit.
“The Prince must therefore make himself feared in such as way that, if he is not loved, at least he escapes being hated. For fear is quite compatible with an absence of hatred; and the prince can always avoid hatred if he abstains from the property of his subjects and from their women. If, even so, it proves necessary to execute someone, this is to be done only when there is proper and manifest reason for it. But above all a prince must abstain from the property of others; because men sooner forget the death of their father to the loss of their patrimony. It is always possible to find pretexts for confiscating someone’s property; and a prince who starts to live by rapine always finds pretexts for seizing what belongs to others.�