[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Alia]

Hollywood stars are forever complaining about the "crushing of dissent" in Bush's America, by which they mean Tim Robbins having a photo-op at the Baseball Hall of Fame cancelled because he's become an anti-war bore. But, thanks to the First Amendment, he can say anything he likes without the forces of the state coming round to grill him. It's in Britain and Europe where dissent is being crushed. Following the murder of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands, film directors and museum curators and all the other "brave" "transgressive" artists usually so eager to "challenge" society are voting for self-censorship: "I don't want a knife in my chest," explained Albert Ter Heerdt, announcing his decision to "postpone" a sequel to his hit multicultural comedy Shouf Shouf Habibi!

Think about that. This is truly well put and perfectly describes something which few Americans, yet, comprehend.

[knews_hound]

I thank my lucky stars this guy is on our side.

Cheers,

knews hound

http://knewshound.blogspot.com/

[blackie]

Good stuff ~ Bump!

[1066AD]

Oh, to be sure, the vicious homophobe wasn't dragged off to re-education camp

Not yet; give it another five or ten years and then see what happens.

[decal]

"What is a crime? It's a matter of opinion..."

And if you were foolish enough to give up your right to own a firearm, your opinion no longer counts - the State and the criminal element are your masters now.

[appleharvey]

Bar none, Steyn is without a doubt the best op-ed writer in this day and age. Witty, funny and right on the mark. No lib comes within the time zone of this guy for telling it like it is!

[randog]

Indeed, it's the defining act of a police state: the arbitrary criminalisation of dissent from state orthodoxy.

Why is Europe so oddly fascinated with totalitarianism? Why does that continent always gravitate that way, even when a generation that suffered from it still exists?

[RobFromGa]

bump for the Master

[AmishDude]

Following the murder of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands, film directors and museum curators and all the other "brave" "transgressive" artists usually so eager to "challenge" society are voting for self-censorship: "I don't want a knife in my chest," explained Albert Ter Heerdt, announcing his decision to "postpone" a sequel to his hit multicultural comedy Shouf Shouf Habibi!

I think this ought to be bookmarked for when Oscar time comes around.

[Tax-chick]

bttt

[Salman]

bump

[FreedomPoster]

This is the sort of policing that has led to the boilover in Sydney. Multiculturalism uber-alles, with no time to deal with real crimes by real hooligans.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=sydneyriots

[SC Swamp Fox]

I don't suppose the Tories will be eager to take to the ramparts for Mrs B, either. Every time I hear a Conservative heavyweight these days, they're droning on about how "the public sees us as too white, male, middle-class and heterosexual". Actually, they don't seem terribly heterosexual to me.

Badda-bing!

[prairiebreeze]

As it is, Lynette Burrows has been investigated by police merely for expressing an opinion. Which is the sort of thing we used to associate with police states. Indeed, it's the defining act of a police state: the arbitrary criminalisation of dissent from state orthodoxy.

Bump!

[EGPWS]

"the public sees us as too white, male, middle-class and heterosexual"

Speaking of crimes...

[Brian Allen]

<< Lynette Burrows has been investigated by police merely for expressing an opinion. Which is the sort of thing we used to associate with police states. Indeed, it's the defining act of a police state: the arbitrary criminalisation of dissent from state orthodoxy. >>

And so goes the the sad spiralling into decline and final fall of the once-great British empire.

The barbarians' Trojan Horse long emptied, made redundant and discarded, their abjectly-hostile colonies, comprised of rapidly-breeding unassimilable third world savages, well established and rapidly metasticizing, the final battle in of and for once-great Britain is over. And the barbarians have won.

All that remains is that the hapless hopeless natives sit about in morbid denial, degenerating into increasingly epidemic alcoholism, their thoughts policed, their impotent frustrations occasionally stirring them to quixotic episodes of bovver-booted thuggery and soccer-stadium heroics, until it finally registers with them that they are, as Enoch Powell prophesized and Snatcher Thatcher confirmed, swamped. And that their very identity has been sacrificed to delusional elitist fantasies, sick socialism and to the duel tyrannies of multiculturalism and political correctness.

Vale, Britain.

[jordan8]

As it is, Lynette Burrows has been investigated by police merely for expressing an opinion. Which is the sort of thing we used to associate with police states. Indeed, it's the defining act of a police state: the arbitrary criminalisation of dissent from state orthodoxy.

Just so.

The trouble is the British police are a lazy lot and, if it's a choice between acting against intimidating thugs who've made the shopping centre a no-go area or investigating the non-crime of a BBC radio interview, they'll take the latter.

Anarcho-Tyranny

Following the murder of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands, film directors and museum curators and all the other "brave" "transgressive" artists usually so eager to "challenge" society are voting for self-censorship: "I don't want a knife in my chest,"

We also engage in PC self-censorship, afraid of the figurative knife in the chest.

[King Prout]

ASBO???

gad

[Ruth A.]

Steyn is trying to resuscitate common sense.