My eyes… the goggles… they do nothing…

The video would have been banned by the Hague Convention…

It is always a bit cringe-inducing to watch grey-haired men the wrong side of 50 getting it on down on the dance floor. When the person is dressed in black tie and standing in front of hundreds of journalists, it gets embarrassing. And when the man in question is Karl Rove, George Bush’s beleaguered key adviser, and he is being made to dance to a hip-hop beat, that classifies as ritual humiliation.

(Now I feel I should do some kind of rapper-finger-pointy-thingy-motion…)

Remember religious people have a strange status in society…

‘Privileged wingnuts’, I believe is the correct expression.

On the previous comment, the fact she was a witness wasn’t the lead part of the headline, but I think it is relevant to this. It is part of (I suspect) the reason why there was less social concern about her behaviour. Remember religious people have a strange status in society…

The children’s services agency and the social worker that was responsible for this case should be held legally responsible as. They should be charged with out a doubt and certainly loose their ability to work in child and family welfare along with the fact that they should pay reparations and serve time in jail. The head of the agency as well should immediately to be forced to resign. Where is the accountability?

Correct me if I am wrong, but Spry is accountable and should be punished. Witch hunting every agency is not the solution. Yes the social workers should have spotted it sooner and acted upon it but at the end of the day it was Spry who abused the children.

Who in their right mind would want to be a social worker – talk about a lose/lose job…