Sunday 31 August 2008

Pass the beta blockers ...

I can't find the words to convey my amazement:

AN SNP COUNCILLOR CAUGHT ON camera firing an AK-47 assault rifle was yesterday spared expulsion from the party by Nationalist officials.

The SNP disciplinary committee rejected dumping Jahangir Hanif, who also passed the deadly weapon to his children, in favour of a two-month suspension.

In a bizarre turn of events, the hearing nearly collapsed after SNP bosses bungled the initial complaint made to the committee.

Tory MSP Bill Aitken said: "Maybe the SNP think this is an adequate disposal, but frankly most people will think this man should not be holding public office. His conduct is a disgrace to his electorate."

The probe into Hanif's conduct followed footage released earlier this month that showed the 46-year-old Glasgow councillor firing an assault rifle while on holiday in Pakistan in December 2005.

The revelations were made worse after it emerged that Hanif had passed the weapon to several of his children, including a daughter who was five at the time.

Another of his daughters, 17-year-old Noor, said she and her siblings fired the gun.

Hanif was immediately suspended by the party and an investigation was launched by the Nationalists' disciplinary committee, which responded to a complaint by SNP national secretary Duncan Ross.


What?

What?????

Truly: WHAT THE FUCK???

Even more: WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?????????

I've read the article several times now, and I cannot see what it is that this man has done to merit a suspension. He fired a gun. Whoop-de-fucking-doo. So what? He gave it to his kids to show them, including (shock! horror!) a five-year-old. His daughter also shot the gun. And?

Was anyone hurt? Did kittens die? Did little baby Jesus get a cattle prod shoved up his jacksy?

I can't even begin to explain my incomprehension as to how any of this was any fucking business of the SNP or what gives them the right to punish Jahangir Hanif for simply shooting a few rounds with an AK47.

Can somebody please explain it to me?

Oh, and Bill Aitken: you're a fucking pointless twat. Help yourself to a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut, you pathetic excuse for a human being.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

He was 'caught on camera' doing this in Pakistan, not here. He was shooting at cans, not people. He was a dad letting his kid 'hold the big gun' under supervision. He wasn't survival-training them, like they do in the States.

I remember this one. There was much furore that his kids had been 'in a gun shop' there. Big fat hairy deal. We have a gun shop here and this is hardly a metropolis. Kids go in there for fishing gear all the time, and they don't need an adult with them to buy a fishing reel. They can see and even touch the (chained up) guns, although the staff will likely shout at them if they do.

On the other hand, this councillor turned out to own property in a Glasgow slum. No problem with that from any party.

But then, taking advantage of the poor has never been a problem for any of them.

Showing kids a gun though - now that's a big one!

Anonymous said...

When I go over to the US next month, I fully intend to fire an assault rifle, too. I'm also considering buying my American fiance a handgun and a concealed carry permit for her 21st birthday.

It's legal over there in South Carolina, and what I do in America has absolutely fuck all to do with any politician, lawmaker or other interfering busybody over here.

I'm not a terrorist or a criminal. I might disagree with the strict firearms regulations over here, but I'm a law-abiding citizen, which is why I only shoot rifles and handguns while I'm in the US.

I might even post a video on Youtube of me being utterly disgraceful in another country by doing something that's legal over there, but that some puritanical, nanny statist cunts over here might disapprove of.

And then the totalitarian fucknozzles can shove my AK47 up their arses. With the bayonet attached.

Anonymous said...

"The probe into Hanif's conduct..."

Is there anything, anywhere, in a 'councillor's code of conduct' that forbids this, specifically..?

Because if not, they can just sit on it and spin. And if I were him, that's what I'd have told them...

Anonymous said...

Wot no driving ban??? Outrageous.