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Atomic bomb test veterans win right to sue MoD

5/06/2009

This article concerned with the nuclear consequences in Britain in the 1950s. In the 1950s there were many nuclear tests and now 1000 servicemen blame the Ministry of Defense for their health problems. All these servicemen now want to open a case against the Ministry of Defense. Britain’s atomic test veterans gave their permission to sue for compensation. In the 1950s there were programmes in Australian Mainland, Monte Bello Islands and Christmas Islands. Since the hearing at London’s High Court in January seven people have died. Evidence shows that the men who took part in these programmes are now very ill and most of them have teminally illnesses such as cancer or skin defects, etcetera.

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I think it is very good of these veterans to open a case against the Ministry of Defense and to sue them. Why did they not gave those men extra protection during these tests. Everybody knows that everything that has got to do with nuclear energy is just too dangerous. Well, and these men are the living proof of it. Now we can hear that all of them have got serious diseases and most of them are terminally ill. They have cancer, skin defects or other bad diseases. I feel sorry for them. So it is good for the government to be sued and to take responsibility. I think they owe that to these people. This is not the way how to treat people. They are people, human beings, they are not guinea pigs.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/06/05/atomic-bomb-test-veterans-win-right-to-sue-mod-115875-21417260/

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Koen10 juni 2009 om 09:00
Hi Melisa,

Your blog looks good - everything seems to be as it should be. Therefore, the only criticism I have is about the writing itself. I'll comment on 2 posts in detail, with my commentary. This one: choice of words & verb forms! See the corrections in [brackets] below.

This article [is concerned with] the nuclear consequences in Britain in the 1950s. In the 1950s there were [many] nuclear tests and now 1000 servicemen blame the Ministry of Defense for their health problems. All these servicemen now want to open a case against the Ministry of Defense. Britain’s atomic test veterans gave their permission to sue for compensation. In the [1950s] there were programmes in Australian Mainland, Monte Bello Islands and Christmas Islands. Since the hearing at London’s High Court in January seven people [have] died. Evidence shows that the men who took part in these programmes are now very ill and most of them [have terminal illnesses such as] cancer or skin defects, etcetera.

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I think it is very good of these veterans to open a case against the Ministry of Defense and to sue them. Why did they not gave those men extra protection during these tests[?] Everybody knows that everything that has got to do with nuclear [energy] is just too dangerous. [T]hese men are [the] living [proof] of it. Now we can hear that all of them have got serious diseases and most of them are terminally ill. They have cancer, skin defects or other bad diseases. I feel sorry for them. So it is good for the government to be sued and to take responsibility. I think they owe that to these people. This is not the way how to treat people. They are [human beings] not guinea pigs.
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Last February there was a news article published in The Sun which caused a lot of fuss. This article was about Alfie Patten, a twelve -year -old boy, who according to his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Chantelle Stedman, is the father of her child. Baby Maisie was born at Eastbourne District General Hospital on February 9 this year. Nearly immediately serious questions were raised about whether Alfie, could in fact be the child's real father. Although Chantelle Stedman has insisted all the time that Alfie is the father of her child, six other young boys said that they had also slept with Chantelle. After a court judgment DNA tests have shown that not Alfie Patten is the father of Chantelle Stedman’s baby but the fifteen-year-old Tayler Barker is. Tyler Banker has admitted having unprotected sex with the girl after spending the night drinking at her home, but he never thought it was going to be such a big problem, because Chantelle said she would take the morning after pill. Even her mother knew the kids were going to have sex.

Debate: kids are having kids

Arguments in favor:
- Nowadays it is not a big problem when young children become a parent because there are a lot of professional provisions for financial and psychological support for this target group.
- Children who become parent have more Sense of responsibility.
- Having a child on that age would be better than having an abortion. An abortion would be against faith.

Arguments against:
- No chance to study.
- You can lose your family by hurting their feelings.
- Raising a child is just too expensive so they will face financial difficulties.
- Face an insecure future.
- Your youth slips through your fingers.
- We should offer young children more and better sex education.
- The parents are educators; it is their responsibility to correct their children.
- Sex on this age is not good for the development of young children.

My conclusion:
Today’s children are psychically more mature, but kids having kids is in my opinion extremely worrying. It has become a vexed question in society. We can blame the parents or another kind of sort educator, but I think we must blame the authorities and institutes like Children’s Help Lines and Child Welfare Councils. I think that authorities have too much voice in social questions under which upbringing. We all know the procedures and methods of working of these authorities. They always stand up for the rights of the children what makes that parent have less to say. Even when you spank your child correctively this could cause difficulties for you as a parent. Because of the fact that parents have less to say children have more room to move, with all its consequences.

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