 URL loo rolls of honour and the invisible man paper clips a round up of the weekly press by steven mccaffery the powers that be tell us that crime does not pay and they found an ally in the ulster herald this week which carries a cautionary tale for anyone thinking of embarking on a criminal career the omagh based paper s as the man says column brings a story which originated in the middle east a gent recently attempted to rob a bank in tehran the columnist reports he was unarmed and began seizing bank notes from customers hands it is then explained he had paid NUMBER to a local sorcerer and believed that he was invisible in the lurgan mail there was also news of a dramatic robbery a lurgan newsagent has told how thieves drilled their way through three walls to steal NUMBER NUMBER worth of cigarettes recently in an attack which was well planned and professional the paper reports the thieves broke through the back wall of a religious gifts shop next door to the newsagents and then drilled through the partition between the back hallway and the front shop moving statues of religious icons out of the way the gang then drilled into the back of the newsagent s cigarette stand removing the contents the owner of the paper chase shop is pictured next to the gaping hole left in his store and is quoted as saying on monday morning when my wife was opening everything looked normal but when she opened the shutters she found herself looking into the shop next door the paper reports that the shop was the target of another well organised crime NUMBER weeks ago when thieves escaped with a safe the shop s owner says the closer it gets to christmas the more people are going to be open to this the issues of crime and punishment are tackled by a columnist in the down democrat writing in the downpatrick based newspaper john coulter calls on the authorities to birch the vandals plaguing the local community he is shocked at reports of the wanton destruction by vandals and issues a call for action the time has come to fight fire with fire he writes before unemployed paramilitaries decide to impose vigilante rule and start using so called kangaroo courts to dish out their own brand of sentences on those found guilty of anti social behaviour as an alternative to such reckless violence he recommends controlled violence it was a sorry day that the manx authorities banned the use of the birch as a weapon in dealing with unruly elements of the isle of man getting his defence in early he immediately rounds on any woolly liberal who may oppose his plan in many islamic countries public flogging of convicted criminals is the order of the day you might laugh and say there is little chance of such measures being introduced in the united kingdom or ireland given that corporal punishment was abolished in the vast majority of northern schools in the late NUMBERs however people seem to forget that islam is the fastest growing faith on the british mainland and it s only a matter of time before it numerically passes christianity joe mcnally flaneur at large URL i am the centre which exists only because the geometry of the abyss demands it fernando pessoa currently playing nothing to unsubscribe from this group send an email to forteana unsubscribe URL your use of yahoo groups is subject to URL 