Spontaneous Monotony

I’ve just read that John Reid is to be appointed as the next Chairman of Celtic - despite the controversy surrounding his political career. Celtic was founded to help immigrants and the working class. John Reid based his political career on patronising the working class, brutalising immigrants, and attacking human rights safeguards - in other words, his actions in government go against everything the club is supposed to stand for.

It is difficult to imagine someone less suitable for such an important post. Let’s just hope that he doesn’t stay as long as the excellent Brian Quinn - having Reid as Chairman for seven years would be a travesty.

The gutter tabloids can usually relied upon to spout the now-traditional ‘GAMES CAUSE MURDERS!’ nonsense that occurs any time that someone is murdered by someone who plays computer games (strange how poetry, as another exercise of the right to freedom of expression, never suffers such bile). But it is slightly more worrying when the same rubbish is parroted by the prosecution in a major criminal case

He said the defendant was a “loner and fantasist” who spent much of his time playing computer games and surfing the internet to fuel his interest in serial killers, knives, racism and pornography.

Though it is not my place, nor is it within my expertise, to make any comment about the trial of Stuart Harling, allow me to state one thing: There is no link between computer games and violent behaviour. Computer games do not cause violent behaviour. With that over with, we can move on, and add another entry to the list of ignorants who seem determined to invent a link which does not exist in order to further their demands for censorship.