Wishart needs to get off his soapbox
Hardly a week goes by without Pete Wishart being on his soapbox mouthing of his latest wheeze.
It seems ridiculous, for instance, to claim the SNP walkout stunt at Westminster was a historic and “defining moment” in the separatist campaign when most people deplored the manner and method of this particular infantile protest.
It may be unpalatable to Mr Wishart but Albert Einstein once said: “Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” Peter Stuart Kenmore Road Aberfeldy
Crimeinchurch wasunforgivable
I found it rather interesting to read in the PA (June 15, 2018), that following the theft of money from the historic St John’s Kirk in Perth, the minister of that Kirk states the perpetrators perhaps require emotional and spiritual help.
Well perhaps the good reverent will know that a church is open to trust.
And why spiritual help? What good will that do? Prayers of forgiveness?
Anytime I went to church, many moons ago, during prayers the minister prayed for our forgiveness, but alas once outside in the big wide world it Pete Wishart
means nothing.
Yes indeed, “let he without sin cast the first stone,” but it is a two edged sword.
“Thou shall not steal,” contradictory of course. It is a crime, and in my book a crime committed in a church, a place of trust and respect, well that scrapes the bottom of the barrel. Thomas Brown Garry Place Bankfoot
Weshouldbe toldiscannabis safeornot
For years I have believed the statements of successive UK governments that cannabis is a dangerous and addictive drug that leads inexorably to the destruction of the health and morals of those using it and of society as we know it.
The recent decision by the home secretary to hand it out to children can only allow of two conclusions:
Either the substance is safe and we have been lied to - or it is not.
In which case, even if it has medicinal properties, it should continue to be banned in the wider interests of society. John Douglas Address supplied Cannabis