In December last year, students here in the UK staged a protest in London about tuition fees. The protest turned violent as was widely expected and it seems one high profile youngster, Charlie Gilmour, who is the cut off from the real money and probably quite posh son of the writer Heathcote Williams, is bearing the brunt of it. Or so the papers would have us believe. To set the scene even further, this kid is also a student at Cambridge Uni - which is an esteemed and probably expensive choice of institutions and probably quite steep in tradition and values.
I make no claim at all about being an expert on their - the students - woes at all. I am not in tune but I do remember watching this on Sky news back in SA and wondering why the plod weren't a little more robust in their reaction. That students, educated people the majority of which were probably bought up right were allowed to carry on like savages, ransacking shopfronts and attacking the police lines. This particular youngster, Charlie, was one of probably many who got caught committing these acts and later it turned out was filmed swinging on the Union flag which was attached to the Cenotaph, which as you know commemorates Britain's war dead.Charlie was jailed, not for desecrating this monument (he should have been)- he should have been made to join up and see just what it means to be put in harms way - but for other stuff he did in the protest. All is good so far?
Right. Poor old posh Charlie is wallowing in Wandsworth and according to his mum, spends 23 hours a day in his cell. Shame. She has started a campaign to have him released early and of course all the tree and bunny huggers lament with her this travesty of justice. How unfair that this face of the protest should be given a custodial sentence when, and I quote, 'only one side get to wear armour'!! Of course only one side should be wearing body armour - you're lucky they weren't carrying weapons. She also goes on, it is reported, to encourage future protesters to wear a balaclava so as not to be recognised. Its no friggin wonder your son is social misfit you stupid woman. If this is your attitude to your sons total disregard for the law and his total disrespect for those who died so that you wouldn't have to speak German, then you should be locked up next to him! Whining now that he was high on drugs and alcohol hardly paints you and your rock star husband as good parents. You should be ashamed of yourself for fucking this up so bad and of him and make him do his time. Hopefully when he comes out the other side he'll be a better person and still young enough to make right his wrongs.
My personal view. Don't release him one minute earlier than his full sentence. Hopefully others will get the message and may think twice. Hopefully the next time a protester wears a balaclava he gets shot. Just a suggestion. What will probably happen, a soft government under pressure to appease the student vote will release him early. Another halfwit will continue on his quest to spend his mum's money.
And finally, on about Day 24 or 25 of this blog I wrote that eventually someone from Seal Team 6 - the guys who clocked Osama with one in the head - would start claiming some glory points. Remember? Well its started. Watch the press.
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