I was just listening to a chap in my office who was telling someone how they should get a Kindle as they're brilliant and he has over 1000 books on his (not paid for). This is a well paid man with a respectable job and family who in one breath supports chastising thuigs and rioters but encourages piracy.
It got me thinking, aren't we all the same and in fact enery one in the country is corrupt?
- We are waiting on every word Cameron says as to what will happen to the victims/"criminals" - He is corrupt and lies as all our MP's do!
- The media is in a frenzy about this - The same organisations that condone tapping a grieving mothers phone
- We put up with a cut in lifestyle luxuries because bankers have not taken necessary precautions with our money, but they get away with it
- Police - only recently proven to be corrupt and now very high and mighty due to the "handling" of London
- Law abiding citizens (the fun bit)
Can you answer no to all of the following?:-
Illegally download music/films/ebooks?
Get into football or any event for student prices?
Lied about your childrens age to save a few quid on entrance fees?
Dodged a train fair because you didn't see the conductor?
Taken anything from a hotel?
Watched a live football stream on the internet which was not intended to be shown in the UK?
Copied a DVD or VHS that you didn't own?
Copied a CD that you didn't own?
Stolen anything from work?
Sold somebody something knowing that it was faulty?
Not paid somebody money back as they never mentioned it again?
Driven without Tax/Insurance or whilst over the drink drive limit?
Watched any films or clips on the internet that the copyright owner hadn't given permission for? (You know what sites I mean :jerkit
Broken or smashed any public/private property and not owned up?
Broken or entered any private property wthout the owners permission?
Done anything that you know is illegal in law or by your own moral compass and not confessed?
Personally I've done loads of these things but for some reason people see me as upstanding and intelligent. That's because I know how to get hold of films without having to smash a window.
That's what it comes down to for me. The people who are doing this are of a working class but it is no different to the time I stood in a queue of a cash machine that I knew was giving double bubble (it ran out as I got to it
). I wouldn't have regretted that if I got a £250 bonus, I would have loved it.
So, I'm guilty of a stream of "civilised" crimes but no-one is listening to my stories and frog marching me to the police station.
I think the problem is that we are all corrupt and because no-one has a clear concience. That is why we all jump on these "hoodies" to make an example because it makes us feel better. When the hoodies are gone we'll jump on the next level but still have a tinge of something in our heads. We'll do this again and again until the bankers and politicians are gone. Keep going until there is no-one left but you!
Now you have to deal with this tinge. The tinge is the fact that you are corrupt but you don't consider yourself corrupt because you know someone worse.
The way to solve this is to clean yourself out first and the byproduct is that reform will spread.
Just wondered your thoughts?
I know there wil be a few people who can read this and give a big grin because they have a clean and unchequered past.
To those peolple I throw a salute and hope to become more like you by the day!
