The local police force recived a tip off that an island drug dealer was transporting drugs on the Skye to Harris route operated by Calmac Ferries.




With the aid of a police sniffer dog they located over £70K of cocaine being transported on the vessel MV Hebrides.




Its rumoured to be a local 41 year old male from Lewis.






Nice to see they caught another vile creature trying to pollute the minds of our children. All I hope is that he receives a decent punishment for his crime!

Labels: Calmac Ferries, Police, Western Isles

I could not believe the email I received from a webmaster....




Hello Paul,
The forum on the Point Online website is intended to be a community-friendly forum where users can discuss issues in a safe environment that does not expose them to material that they may find offensive. We, as moderators of the site must ensure that this environment is maintained and we always endeavour not to censor the forum but, after a number of complaints, about your avatar and post signature, we would like you to remove them from your profile.




We hope that this request does not detract from your use and experience of the forum.




Kind regards




Webmaster
www.pointonline.co.uk

An avatar that says 'British By Birth'

A footer comment of ' I picked up this flag where you left it, in the gutter!

My reply is below

Hi Webmaster,




I would like to answer you comments below...




"British by Birth" is no more offensive then someone displaying "English by Birth", "Scottish by Birth" etc. To state I am British is not at all offensive I am stating my nationality!




I have removed the comment about the flag but I still do not see how this is offensive.

Is this not totally stupid or what? Now you are not allowed to say you are British on the web let alone offer Nationalist badges without someone takig offence to Britishness. Where is this website located in the Western Isles!




UPDATE




Hello again Paul,




We have given considerable thought to your response to our request and to your postings on the ?Expats v Inpats? thread today and have concluded the following:




Thank you for removing the ?Flag in the gutter? reference, however, we also requested that you remove your avatar. We must reiterate that request and, furthermore, we would like you to remove any links or references to your ?Bullseye Badges? business. Failure to comply with these requests will result in us having to terminate your membership of the forum. We are also giving consideration to removing the last four posts from this thread.




Unlike many discussion forums, the Point Online Forum is community-owned. Therefore we, as the moderators, have a duty to ensure that it does not contain or give access to material people in the wider community may find offensive. Whilst there is nothing wrong with stating your nationality, it is indisputable that the combination of images, comments and links you have posted are weighted with wider political connotations and are not merely a case of stating your nationality.




The aim of our forum has always been to provide a platform for community discussion, principally for the people of Point and we feel that it is not the place to discuss extremist political views.




Regards




Webmaster
On behalf of Point Community Council

My Reply

Hi Webmaster,




I am not willing to remove my avatar as it is not racist in the slightest.




As for Bullseye Badges it displays many badges in various sections. it is a viewers choice of what they look at. If they cause offence then so be it. None of them are racist, nationalist maybe.




You seem to find it offensive to state one is proud to be British and that they are of British decent. Either you are not British or are ashamed of your ancestors.




I have not discussed any politics and as a recognised political party they hold the same presence as the rest. Going by your comments you as a moderator are breaching the boundaries of my Human Rights those of Free Speech. My political following has not been discussed on the point forum.




Wether you ban or delete my account rests in your hands for which I expect to be treated fairly with 30 odd posts under my belt to be slated by somebody with 3 posts.




I believe I have made valid contributions to the forum.




If you do ban me I would like to point out that this is another case of the island living in its own fantasy world. You may not have felt the rot the rest of the country has felt. The island has enough of a problem accepting incomers from the mainland.




Also while we are on the subject my site gets about 12000 hits per month so plenty will read the story about how a British forum finds the need to ban someone for being British. Obviously these comments will be removed depending on your outcome.




Kind regards




Paul

Labels: BNP, Britishness, Bullseye Badges, Point Online, Western Isles

I couldn't believe the rubbish that Hugh I'm a preacher from Dorset and Jamie not working class Oliver have spouted over the past few days on the TV. It never ceases to amaze me how these TV stars think they have the right to preach to us.




Lets start with Hugh shall we...




Not only does he kick people off his forum for complaining about the porn on it but he now thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the general public with his latest rant about farmed chicken.




What does he do? Get an old shed and tries to show how farmed chicken is produced in such terrible conditions. Funny Hugh how you totally forgot to show the 3 days filming you made at varios farms owned by Lloyd Maunder. Even Peter Bradnock, chief executive of the British Poultry Council, criticised the documentary as 'seriously flawed'.




So Hugh why is it that you made a biased program? Is it that it makes you out to be the 'White Knight' of farming? Or is it to promote your overgrown organic ego.




Lets put this in a different light shall we. If you can buy 2 chickens for £5 who is making the money? Its not the farmer, paying out for ever increasing feed costs etc. It's the supermarket that is squeezing the producers of this country so they can but it cheap and still make a massive profit. Was it not Tesco that was the first supermarket to make £1 billon profit! How many farmers scraped by or made a tiny profit.




So lets move onto Jamie Oliver the 'Essex Boy' who's lost his lisp!





Good programme about killing chickens. Are people that niave to think there is no distress to an animal that is killed. It's stunned, throat slit and its innards ripped out. This is what happpens to all animals.




Most people do not know anything about the meat industry. I do as I have worked in a Pork abbitoir producing for Tescos and another producing Beef and Lamb for Asdas.




Maybe it is the public that need educating to the fact that animals do not come from little plastic trays. All animals are slaughtered humanely.




Take a pig, stunned, shot in the head, throat slit, and then chopped up. They even take the blood and seperate the plasma from the red blood cells. This is then used by humans. The red blood cells are then pumped into the ground for salad crops to grow in.




A cow is shot in the head with a captive bolt, throat slit, bled, skinned, disembowelled all in the space of 5 minutes from being killed.




So Jamie how do you intend for animals to be slaughtered? There is nothing nice in watching an animal die.




Its not farmers or meat producers that are to blame for cheap meat, but the supermarkets making huge profits and forcing suppliers to sell teir product far to cheap. They are forcing farmers to make little if no profit while they reap the rewards.




Where possible buy your produce from a 'Farmshop' where meat is locally sourced. This way more of the money can be ploughed back into our suffering farming industry.




These TV preachers make me sick!!

Labels: Farming, Meat Industry, Supermarkets

Over the past few days I have been working on new badge designs.


Some of them sell so well tha I have put them into sets to make it easier to purchase.

Labels: Bullseye Badges, Western Isles

It's only the 2nd of 2008 and already this idiot has put his foot in his mouth already. Now this has to be one of the most stupid comments ever made by a member of the police force in the UK 'ecstasy is safer than aspirin'




Add to this that his comment of predicting that all drugs would be legalised within ten years he is not fit for purpose and should be sacked from his position. What sort of message is he trying to send out to youngsters? The facts speak for themselves you idiot.




Campaign groups said that 53-year-old Mr Brunstrom's increasingly controversial public comments on drugs were no longer "compatible with his position" as a police chief.




His comments came during an interview yesterday on Radio 4's Today programme, in which he repeated his calls for the legalisation of outlawed drugs including heroin and cocaine.

Labels: Police, UK