Thread: The Whole LGBT Thing

Originally Posted by eodmatt

Me too. I will try to find the time to investigate the matter and see if it is doable. After all Private Eye magazine gets away with blue murder at times and have some flash lawyers on call for when they dont.

You've got two routes for this one: The first being a charity, such as the one you mention. Not only will it protect the freedoms won at the cost of many, many thousands of lives, but also other basic rights that allow us to be a free society - it would for example fight state intrusion into our private lives. That would ensure plenty of funding from private individuals from around the country, and maybe even a political party or two. It would also counter things like enforced 'positive' descrimination of all kinds and the BS being touted by the likes of Stonewall. It could even be called 'Freedom' for example.

The other is to make it a business, indeed like Private Eye, and use the exact same insurance or funding for high-flying lawyers that PI does. It could tout for work legal representation work from the 'oppressed', claiming legal aid through the courts. Being a small business, it could get the full protection and backing of the Federation of Small Businesses, with their army of lawyers on hand - the first army of lawyers to provide the services for clients who's freedoms are being trampled upon.

There's no end to the causes, or freedoms that our company or charitee could protect, from basic civil rights, to privacy, to freedom of speech.

It could run an investiagtion service that looks into abuses of power, abuses of charity status. Fcuk it, we could even have Chakribati on the books

As a point of note - there's a new government coming in, and they like freedoms and civil liberty from what I hear, and they don't like the ongoing abuses of our democratic system. They might even back it, with funding from the DTi, Home Office - we might even wind up with a fighting fund of say, £1,500,000 like another organisation I could think of.

We are not powerless. Like others, ex-forces personnel inhabit ALL walks of life, in all manner of jobs throughout the country, from MPs to civil servants, to security professionals, to advertising execs, to people who work with the poor and disposessed. If we need to bring weight to bear to an important issue, then I'm sure we could do as others do.

Edited to add: This needn't just be about protecting our rights to free speech in forums, and protecting those forums from censure. It could be about doing it for the entire country.

Right, unless I hear otherwise from BCO or GCO, I am locking this thread.

I don't feel that any new is being said here anymore.

The last 5 or 6 pages are now nothing much than rehashing of arguments already presented.