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Steyn ping!


2 posted on 12/12/2005 3:59:14 PM PST by Pokey78 (‘FREE [INSERT YOUR FETID TOTALITARIAN BASKET-CASE HERE]’)
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To: Pokey78

He hits the nail on the head again.

Thanks for the ping. :)


3 posted on 12/12/2005 4:02:54 PM PST by proud American in Canada
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To: Pokey78
Thanks for the ping, Pokey--

But, on balance, that has the merit of at least being more obviously outrageous than the weaselly "community reassurance" approach of the Met. 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.

Exactly. Steyn hits another one right on the head.

6 posted on 12/12/2005 4:06:33 PM PST by lawgirl ("You can try to wipe the memories aside, but it's you that you erase..." Honestly- Billy Corgan)
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To: Pokey78

Political Correctness onward to it's illogical conclusion!

Steyn on the nail as usual!


12 posted on 12/12/2005 4:26:29 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: Pokey78

BTTT


15 posted on 12/12/2005 4:39:12 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Pokey78

Thanks again Pokey for the ping!


16 posted on 12/12/2005 4:46:25 PM PST by be-baw
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To: Pokey78

Will you add me to your Steyn ping list? Thanks very much.


22 posted on 12/12/2005 5:14:39 PM PST by curtisgardner
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To: Pokey78

BTTT


27 posted on 12/12/2005 6:02:27 PM PST by aculeus
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To: Pokey78

Thanks, Pokey!


28 posted on 12/12/2005 7:04:16 PM PST by alwaysconservative (Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we)
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To: Pokey78
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!

But who needs to knife him when across Europe the authorities are so eager to criminalise him? No society with an eye to long-term survival should make opinion a subversive activity. Here's a thought: we should be able to discuss homosexuality, Islam and pretty much everything else in the same carefree way Guardian columnists damn Bush's America as "neo-fascist".

We should, but the intolerance of political correctness makes the whole argument a bit unrealistic.

29 posted on 12/12/2005 7:11:18 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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we should be able to discuss homosexuality, Islam and pretty much everything else in the same carefree way Guardian columnists damn Bush's America as "neo-fascist".

The money quote that will be resoundingly ignored by the champions of the First Amendment at Yale and Harvard, the New York Times and CNN - to name a couple.

35 posted on 12/12/2005 10:12:38 PM PST by irv
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Steyn bump for the morning crowd.


37 posted on 12/13/2005 2:39:45 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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A goes-without-saying BUMP!
38 posted on 12/13/2005 2:48:56 AM PST by Watery Tart (Babe Ruth is dead. Throw strikes.)
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Thanks Pokey. My reaction to this Styen piece is simply

Un-effing-believable!

40 posted on 12/13/2005 5:59:31 AM PST by Rummyfan
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