Cause for great concern.
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I have listed below, in no particular order, causes for
concern. Many of them, and the impact of them as a whole, are, I think, a cause
for great concern.
[1] The failure of
many aspects of the NHS in Staffordshire. Other areas may also have failed to
fulfil their expected role. It is alleged that patients have died as a result
of these failures.
[2] Several of the
top UK banks “juggling” with the LIBOR interest rate. Several international
banks have been heavily fined.
[3] Several of the
top UK banks having to make provision to pay back huge amounts of money to
refund PPI charges to their clients. In many cases, I understand, the clients
did not know they were paying for such insurance. The overall amounts set aside
being, according to one source, 9 Billion UK Pounds.
[4] The cover up
for years in relation to the Hillsborough disaster.
[5] The revelations
in regard to Jimmy Savile.
[6] Similar
revelations in regard to other people and locations.
[7] MP’s expenses.
[8] Irish catholic
workhouses for women.
[9] Alleged sexual
abuse of children and adults by clerics, often high ranking officials.
[10] Horse and pig
meat sold as beef.
[11] Teenagers
being encouraged to publish revealing photographs of themselves on line.
[12] Girls in their
early teens being “groomed” for sex.
[13] The need for
the Leveson Inquiry
[14] Whistle
blowers being unable to find employment after exposing wrong doing.
[15] Drivers deliberately
causing a crash with the aim of making money out of it.
[16] The news that
400 or so employees of a UK bank earned over a million £s in one year.
[17] Abuse in care
homes.
[18] Children sent
to Australia from the UK, during and after WW Two.
One of the causes for concern is why such events as listed
above have been allowed to occur?
Another of the causes for concern is the thought that religions, that
have existed for considerably more than 2000 years, have failed in their
attempts to embed morality in their followers.
Surely there is an over riding need for every person to be conscious of
their conscience. If it transpires that because of, religious or other beliefs,
there is an obvious total difference ingrained in various sectors of a population
as to what bothers their conscience then steps should be taken to ensure that
these sectors are separated. Such differences have to be in relation to serious
matters.
F W Gilling Saturday 23 March 2013
