Posted on 04/22/2005 7:48:15 PM PDT by Stoat
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and ALEX PEAKE THE Royal Navy has banned 12 warships from flying the English flag to commemorate St George’s Day today in case it upsets the Turks. The order, blasted as “political correctness gone mad”, has enraged men and women of the senior service. |
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(Shakespeare's "Henry V")
Leni
I've loved reading them all, and even though I'm not British (proud American Stoat here) it still brought a tear to my eye, seeing all of the wonderful passion on a largely American web forum on behalf of our dear British Friends and this assault upon their culture and history.
I found another item on this matter that may be of interest:
The Sun Newspaper Online - UK's biggest selling newspaper
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The patron saint of England wasn’t even English, after all. And his dragon-slaying adventure is just a myth. Well, The Sun says YES it is important to mark St George’s Day — not just for the English, but for every citizen of this United Kingdom of ours. Being proud of your country is becoming more and more difficult as political correctness takes over. Those who claim to preach diversity in our multi-cultural times actually want the opposite. Their dream is of a society where every edge is blurred, where no one is allowed to be different, where we all share the same dumbed-down values in a meaningless, offend-no-one hotchpotch. That is bad for those who want to show pride in being English on one special day a year. But it is equally bad for those who want to celebrate anything that is unique to them. If the English can’t be English, how long before the Irish can’t enjoy Paddy’s Day, the Scots can’t mark St Andrew’s Day or the Welsh find St David’s Day is frowned on? What makes Great Britain such a special place in which to live is not just the whole but the many diverse parts of which it is made. Shame on the Navy for banning the Flag of St George from its warships moored alongside Plymouth today. The top brass fear the flag would offend the Turkish Navy, which is visiting the port to mark Turkey’s national day. What balderdash! St George was actually born in what is now Turkey. The idea that Turks would be offended by St George’s Day is ludicrous. They are more likely to be offended by the way our Navy insults their intelligence. |
The Sun must have had some space left in that day's edition and probably made this up to fill in that space.
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