I’m currently loving the new Google Chrome extensions. Today I’d particularly like to plug Furigana Injector. This great little plugin adds furigana to kanji on websites.
It can be downloaded within Chrome at this address. With an increasing number of top quality extensions now available, the battle between Firefox is going to get interesting. With Chrome’s superior speed and seemingly faster development we will see people switching left right and centre.
Rarely do I write my opinions on such subjects, but today I want to vent my anger at the Alan Johnson. Apparently, Islam4UK have been banned under terrorism laws and membership in the UK now carries up to a 10 year jail sentence.
Now I do not support their activities and I strongly believe what they do is highly insulting to the bereaved families of servicemen is wrong, but should you make membership of a group who has an unpopular opinion illegal? Is this not an affront to our civil liberties. Could you criminalise amnesty international for criticising the government? I understand that actions could be deemed illegal and even seeking to cause distress to the families by verbally abusing them criminal, however membership of a political group alone? Shocking.
What is needed is common sense. Separation should be made over the nature of the illegal act and the group of which some members have performed. What about people who chose to join but would not commit acts of terrorism? They are not criminals simply by membership. Many people consider the policies of the Labour party offensive. This is a slippery slope to the erosion of our freedom of democracy.
