Posted on 01/25/2007 10:14:41 PM PST by neverdem
Here is an interesting little slice of contemporary English life.
The police go to a pub in a small town in Devon, looking for a suspect. They see a man there who they think resembles the suspect, and approach him. He becomes abusive and they arrest him and take him down to the station. He is drunk.
After a couple of hours in a jail cell, he says he feels sick and demands a doctor. The police call the police surgeon. When he arrives (he is an Indian), the arrested man says, “I want an English doctor, not a f*cking Paki.”
The police then charge the man with racially aggravated insulting behavior. He elects for a superior court trial, and the prosecution proceeds with the case as though it were a very serious one.
The judge decides that the court should not waste its time on so trivial a matter, especially when burglars and robbers frequently escape charges. The doctor, he says, is a man of some social standing; a single insult from a drunk could not, or should not, have harmed him unduly. He then gives a bit of advice to the accused: “Next time, call him a fat bastard and don’t say anything about his color.”
The judge soon had to explain publicly, in an almost groveling way, that he by no means underestimated the seriousness of racial insult, and that he was not making light of it.
Contained in this story, of course, are many elements of modern social and moral pathology. The judge, surely, was being ironic at the expense of those who thought that a single boorish remark by a man who, after all, had been wrongly identified by the police so threatened the social fabric that it deserved the attention of many highly educated people and a cost to the public of many thousands of dollars. But even mild criticism of the prevailing pieties is becoming intolerable in Britain.
In the very same week, the British Medical Journal published a debate on whether British Muslims should have their own, separate medical services—funded by the state, naturally. Now there’s irony for you.
The inmates running the asylum?
This story shows the natural progression of socialist fascism....
Like France, Britain is an excellent audio-visual aid for viewing the America of the future, as the Democrats would have it - - a Euro-style, secular-socialist welfare state.
Paki Ping.
It is terrifying but it could happen here. Probably will if the lefties have their way. Sad thing is the American people will be responsible for putting these nuts into power. Of course if everyone who ever said anything offensive or insensitive were prosecuted for it, 90% of our population would be in prison now!
TNCMAXQ wrote: "Of course if everyone who ever said anything offensive or insensitive were prosecuted for it, 90% of our population would be in prison now!"
Of course they wouldn't prosecute everyone for racially insensitive remarks. No, they would use it to target ideologically "inferior" folks. And so, it wouldn't tie up the courts.
Land of the free? Home of the brave? Not if our liberal friends have their way.
Britain's thousand year common-law tradition of free speech is fading away right before our eyes.
We are only a little behind them.
The left is going all out to abolish free speech, from Pelosi's effort to fine or jail individuals who speak out during election campaigns, to the Soros-funded push to revive for the Orwellian "fairness doctrine" and pass "hate-speech" legislation. Combine these with the institutional media's near-universal endorsement of the left's standard refrain that leftist rights are violated anytime someone dares to criticize them, and you have the makings of a totalitarian state.
It could be upon us in less than two years.
Thanks for the link.
politically-correct pussies will soon be bowing to mecca
the state treasury and police force has been taken over by muslim-friendly socialists
imagine your money funding the p-c police
welcome to 2008
LOL. I wonder how the judge got away from the fat and illigetimate lobbies!!!
It has already happened here. Try criticizing one of our ruling "minority" pressure groups outside your living room and see what happens. Won't be long before they'll monitor your toilet habits.
Couple this kind of abuse with Hillary's ability to use government organizations to harass her opponents and freedom is indeed in jeopardy. Of course all the dolts who now say Bush is taking away our rights will have no problem with the gestapo tactics a far left, PC president will use.
I suppose they are monitoring us now and taking names... I say that half jokingly but these kinds of threats are real. Pretty scary.
Be sure to check out the link in #8...
That is certifiably a flagrant abuse of the police force. With all the burglary and assault that occurs in London, you'd think they'd have something better to do than sit in a restaurant and listen into patrons' conversations.
Agreed. A nightmare future, one we all thought confined to poor science fiction at one time, could be one election away.
Then that Paki doctor is all you're going to have access to while you're stuck in re-education camp. Maybe we should pick up on some Urdu...
That might expose them to danger.
That is why gun laws only target the law-abiding...Well ALL laws, really.
It is easier to spy on, bully, and otherwise perscute the lambs rather than the wolves.
Maybe someday a few of the busted diners will start following these weenies around to protect other diners.
This is the reason I think the medical profession needs to re-think their charges.
I think that when a person has to pay out of their own pocket, the doctor should lower the fee. I believe they rip-off the insurance companies enough to make up the difference, anyway.
And, if you hear of any doctor crying about "the cost of malpractice insurance" or "having to pay back the loans" consider this: what kind of home are they living in and what kind of car are they driving?
Back in the 50s MDs had nice houses and cars but one could more easily pay out of pocket med bills. Nowadays over and above malpractice insurance, the accounting costs/staff add plenty to private practice costs.
In the end the market sets the price and the best MDs can charge plenty because they have more patients desiring them than they can possibly serve. High prices help weed out the field.
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