Listed below are comments made by shaunpilkington (U13661094) between Wednesday, 29th October 2008 and Thursday, 21st May 2009

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• Disability Bitch hates Cola

  4:40pm on 21 May 2009

  And a fresh Millswatch spot, from a gaming website:
  
  http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/heather-mills-was-nearly-in-bionic-commando
  
  I think the link says it all. And guess what? It fell through because she was a bit greedy!

• Death by nonsense

  9:31pm on 17 Mar 2009

  I have Relapsing Remitting MS and am told that this form has a 60% chance of developing into a Progressive form of the disease. It is rare for MS to kill people, although it does happen as in the case of JK Rowling's mother and the prognosis for Debbie Purdy where the disease challenges respiration.
  
  My argument is with tying the right to commit suicide (under the 1961 Act) to the physical capacity to do it. If I jump of a cliff and kill myself, no crime is committed. But if, instead, I ask someone to push my wheelchair off a cliff, several crimes are committed. I have incited someone to commit either murder or manslaughter and murder or manslaughter has occurred. All because I couldn't get my own chair over the cliff! That, sirs, is discrimination.

• What's all this about stem cells?

  09:17am on 10 Feb 2009

  I have MS and while I do consider Disablism wrong,I do point out that once I did not have MS symptoms and my life was materially better for it.
  
  I want a cure, I don't feel that society is discriminating against me when the disease is affecting my own capacity to walk (which I enjoy - wheelchairs and bionics are a different issue), to need the loo and to see. Stem Cell research provides me with an opportunity to be *healthy* again and no irate lefty banging on about disabled rights will make me feel guilty for wanting to restore my physical capacity.

• What's all this about stem cells?

  09:16am on 10 Feb 2009

  I have MS and while I do consider Disablism wrong. I do point out that once I did not have MS symptoms and my life was materially better for it. I want a cure, I don't feel that society is discriminating against me when the disease is affecting my own capacity to walk (which I enjoy - wheelchairs and bionics are a different issue), to need the loo and to see. Stem Cell research provides me with an opportunity to be *healthy* again and no irate lefty banging on about disabled rights will make me feel guilty for wanting to restore my physical capacity.

• The third name on the Christmas card

  3:05pm on 19 Jan 2009

  I have MS but was diagnosed a month before I got married. I've not lived at home for 12 year, more if you count University, so maybe that's why parents don't get such cards and I get my own in my own right (well to me and the missus) since we *send* our own cards to these relatives and friends.
  
  The true test won't be your brother, Liz, it will be your unmarried female friends who have lived at home beyond the age of 20!

• Disability Bitch vs Davina McCall

  4:55pm on 08 Jan 2009

  I've got MS and find medicinal cannabis useful on a number of levels. Medicinal heavy drinking also lifts my spirits and I am always bouyed by the memory of a chap ahead of me in a nightclub queue who, when caught with a columbian white powder in his pocket claimed that *that* was medicinal. Accordingly, I was deeply cheered that a well known sex-monkey party boy cripple who's footsteps I can only aspire to shamble in was in CBN this year. Hurrah for him! He's the disabled dude I'd most like to be. Hell. Playboy mansion? Lucky wee sod! (now don't tell me wife about this, bless her!)

• Disabled Fat Nation

  4:47pm on 08 Jan 2009

  Be like me - get MS then get a dog that will ensure you have to twitch and spasm your way around the streets come rain or shine. The weight falls off, I can tell you!

• 2008: The Brown rollercoaster

  7:21pm on 19 Dec 2008

  Just for those who haven’t been paying attention. Mandy is back. Campbell is ‘advising’. So under those circumstances, its hardly surprising that there’s a media narrative of ‘Brown’s having a good recession’ and ‘Labour more trusted on the economy’. However, as reality departs from the land of spin, as people lose their jobs and have a sh*t recession, that’s going to be both sickening and terribly hard to believe…
  
  Who isn't repulsed by seeing him grinning in every photo while we, the people, fight for our jobs, salaries and homes?

• The Glass Box.

  5:34pm on 29 Oct 2008

  I am listening to the talking head from the BMA discuss Debbie Purdy's case and he's arguing the toss about an interpretation of the law. This, of course, is nonsense. What we need, and should prosecutions ocurr what we will get, is the Courts setting out precisely what is 'assistance'. Would it be assisting someone if you got them a cup of tea on the plane to Switzerland? If you held a door open for someone? If you drove a taxi to take them to the airport? What would be 'de minimas' assistance?
  
  The law settles these kinds of issues all the time with both statute and caselaw defining what is and isn't murder, for example (abortion? manslaughter? infanticide? murder? You see my point). IF prosecutions are brought against people who accompany the suicidal people who go to Switzerland then we will get a body of caselaw on precisely this point. By not bringing prosecutions, the main thing the DPP does (aside from sparing those who travel with someone using this process) is stop this certainty solidifying. The court's decision today endorses that uncertainty, something which, if I remember my law degree correctly is incompatible with what we consider the rule of law. English law requires certainty - if it rules on property, that must be specific property, a crime must be a specific crime comitted with a specific mental state. All must be known as laws and decisions can't stand in the presence of such uncertainty and I can't for the life of me see why this is any different.
  
  And yes, in addition to a law degree obtained in 1995, I also have relapsing remitting MS, obtained last year so this is a subject close to my heart.

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