"Isimeli , known as 'Bale' to his friends, is facing deportation from the UK after serving 13 years with the British Armed Forces. Bale is a foreign and commonwealth soldier from Fiji who was recruited by the MOD when he was 18. He has served in 5 operational tours including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. His wife Kim is British and they have two young children a boy of 3 and a girl of 6; both British. Bale voluntarily discharged from the Armed Forces on June 15th 2012 in order to provide stability for his family. He applied for British Citizenship in March while still a serving soldier. This was advised to him by MOD personnel because he had served 13 years and had a British wife and children. This was refused on 28/06/2012 by UKBA, Bale sent an 'appeal for review' but recieved a letter from UKBA on 14/07/2012 stating he had until 9th August 2012 to leave the country. Under changes made to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1973 (ROA) in 2010 disciplinary offences dealt with at the Commanding Officer's discretion can now be equated to a criminal conviction. Bale was fined in 2011 by his Commanding Officer for fighting with another soldier who instigated the fight. There was no police involvement, no trial, no defence and nor was it impartial. Bale did not know he was being charged with a criminal conviction. He believed this was an 'in-house' disciplinary offence only. He has no criminal record, this offence is only on his military record. There was no court martial. He has now appealed the conviction. Under the changes made to ROA in 2010 Bale is now defined as a criminal by the Home Office and of not good character to become a British citizen or apply for indefinite leave to remain. This is devastating for him and his family. It is a breach of Article 6 of the Human Rights Act (1998) and Armed Forces Covenant (2011). It is also inherently racist because the changes made will have no impact on his British Armed Forces colleagues because these military offences are not held on a criminal record. This change only has implications to immigration Law and Policy. The family believe the law and policy is discriminative. The Home Office has been using this 'Law' to deport Foreign and Commonwealth soldiers who have been medically discharged as well. This is a disgrace and immoral!" Please show your support for Bale and his family by contacting your MP, their lives, obviously,

are in turmoil. Bale has been told he has until the 9th August 2012 to leave the Country.

Could British troops lose it during the Olympics?

Could so many thousands of bored, disgruntled, underpaid, demotivated, full of grudge, envy and hate, Army, RAF Regiment and Royal Navy troops compressed in to East London actually result in a mutiny during the Olympic Games, something akin to the Invergordon Mutiny? If a charismatic enough British regimental colonel (remember Gadaffi), or even a lieutenant (remember Rawlings), or even a sergeant (remember Idi Amin) emerged, I can yet see a 'coup' in the UK, with the Houses of Paliament being siezed by between 20 up to 1000 fractious British troops, as in the film "V for Vendetta". I bet you that just like in Northern Ireland, troops with firearms in London have been issued with no more than 5 live rounds each! Or maybe like the Busbeed guards at Buckingham Palace, with just one round each! And that the Leytonstone Rapier batteries have only one live missile! Although I am reminded of the episode of Citizen Smith when Wolfy stormed parliament in a nicked Scimitar only to find it was the summer recess!

I don't like the Bible, it's too long, and too violent, brutal and hateful and misogynistic. But, if people are so insistent on finding guidance from a piece of fiction, can I suggest something more like 1984, Animal Farm or better yet the 'God Delusion, it's just that those books have more in common with reality than this 'Christ' person millions talk about. As for accepting this 'Christ' as your 'Lord', I think they should seek professional psychiatric help, if they feel the need to bow down and force themselves to devote their lives to a non existant entity and an ancient book of fairy tales. Something is deeply wrong with these people considering all the hatred and bigotry spread, look where it has got them

!!!!!!!

I'm an atheist - An Agnostic Atheist to be precises, I do not have any evidence that there is no god, but on the very real evidence I choose to believe that god does not exist. I can state right here and now that the only time I have a problem with Christianity (or any of the Abrahamic faiths) is when the religious try to enforce their own religious morality on my life. I have no interest in the destruction of your faith. Its great that you have it, be proud of it, but keep it out of my government, my school, my bedroom and my life.

*Baldrick: “What I want to know sir, is before there was a euro there
were lots of different types of money that different people used. And now there’s only one type of money that the foreign people use. And what I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs to the other state of affairs?”
*Blackadder:* “Baldrick. Do you mean, how did the euro start?”
*Baldrick:* “Yes, sir.”
*Blackadder:* “Well, you see Baldrick, back in the 1980s there were many different countries all running their own finances and using different types of money. On one side you had the major economies of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany; and on the other, the weaker nations of Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. They got together and decided that it would be much easier for everyone if they could all use the same money, have one Central Bank, and belong to one large club where everyone would be happy. This meant that there could never be a situation whereby financial meltdown would lead to social unrest, wars and crises.”
*Baldrick:* “But this is sort of a crisis, isn’t it sir?”
*Blackadder:* “That’s right Baldrick. You see, there was only one slight
flaw with the plan.”
*Baldrick:* “What was that then, sir?”
*Blackadder:* “It was bollocks.”

After reading the headlines about the US soldier who shot Afghanistan
civilians, I couldn't help noticing an irony. There is all this clamour to try
this bloke quickly and execute him, never mind his having suffered a traumatic
brain injury.

Yet Major Hasan, who went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood while screaming Allah akbar, still hasn't stood trial, and they are still debating whether he was insane, even with the clear evidence regarding his motive: slay as many infidels as possible.

So we have a bloke in a war zone who cracks, and he must be executed immediately.

But this Muslim psychiatrist who was based in the US in a nice safe office all day,
murders 13, wounds 29 of his own guys, and they try to argue the poor lad
suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome, from listening to real soldiers who
had actual battle experience. Two and a half years later, they still haven't
tried the murderer.
Political or what!!!!!!!!