[Uncledave]

Simply brilliant

[RKV]

[tet68]

Pretty bad when you have to move to France.

[madprof98]

. . .zeitgeist of the country is now one of sentimental moralizing combined with the utmost cynicism . . .

Sounds much like another country I know.

[OldArmy52]

England is in the grips of Liberalism and this is just one of the results.

Advanced stage would be when a Blair is gone and a Mugabe takes over. Just a case of moving from "moderate" liberalism to the end product.

This is because Liberalism is social AIDS. Once entrenched, it removes a country's ability to resist more serious social diseases such as despotism.

[Rummyfan]

“If there were real justice,” he said, “they would have gone to prison for life.” Could any compassionate person disagree?

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE comes to reality.

Of course if Mr Wareing had been armed and shot his attackers, they would have thrown him in prison - and for a lot longer than nine months!

[45Auto]

"soft and creeping totalitarianism "

Before you realize it, its too damn late to do anything short of revolution to change it.....it's a sad state of affairs - and it may move across the Atlantic.

[SuzyQue]

There is an absence of any kind of idealism that is a necessary precondition of probity, so that bad faith prevails almost everywhere.

Excellent point. Without idealism, without the idea that there is something greater than our individual selves, without ideals to aspire to we sink to the cynicism and hopelessness that is symptomatic of leftism.

[Savage Beast]

“Excuse me,” said the young man to the policeman, “do you realize your horse is gay?”

He was arrested and charged under the Public Order Act for having made a “homophobic remark."

Europe is decadent.

The Islamic imperialists, the Chinese oligarchy, the Marxist and sociopathic leaders of the Western Left, and all other enemies of Western Civilization are well aware of this.

The only people who don't seem to know this are the morons who compose the rank and file of the Left, but these morons are too stupid to comprehend anything. That's why they're Leftists.

[Rummyfan]

One consequence of the liberal intelligentsia’s long march through the institutions is the acceptance of the category of Thoughtcrime. On the other hand, political correctness permits genuine incitement to murder—such as the behead those who insult islam placards carried by Muslim demonstrators in London four months after the publication of cartoons of Mohammed in a Danish newspaper—to go completely unpunished. Other people, other customs.

The result when PC is taken to its (il)logical end.

But one does not feel the defects of a foreign country in quite the same lacerating way as the defects of one’s native land; they are more an object of amused, detached interest than of personal despair.

I don't know, reading this filled me with despair, and I'm not even a Brit. Are they past the point of no return I wonder?

[Cicero]

Brilliant. Beautifully written. There's nothing like a well-educated British writer. Those with the best educations in England have always been well educated indeed.

But perhaps that is no longer true. A sad business.

[OldPossum]

Yep, I last visited Great Britain on vacation in 2000 and everything I've read of that country since has reinforced my determination to never ever go there again. The inmates are firmly in charge of the asylum.

It's a shame too. My wife and I spent our honeymoon there and went several times after that. It's a fascinating and beautiful country, but it ain't worth my life.

[PGalt]

“If there were real justice,” he said, “they would have gone to prison for life.” Could any compassionate person disagree?

Slight disagreement. If there were real justice, the attackers would have been dead.

Otherwise, a great article. Thanks for posting it.

[Nuc1]

I wonder when the English will revolt. Their greatness is in there somewhere.

[Lancey Howard]

We in America should bow our heads every day and thank God for giving our nation's founders the wisdom to write and include the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights. I realize that the Second Amendment was included primarily as a tool for armed revolution against a possible future tyrannical government, but it also comes in mighty handy for dealing with common street thugs as well.

[Drew68]

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[fso301]

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[NutCrackerBoy]

One definition of decadence is the concentration on the gratifyingly imaginary to the disregard of the disconcertingly real. -Theodore Dalrymple

E.G. "I'm protesting Bush trampling on civil liberties" versus ignoring Islamic extremists that blow you up or put you under Sharia law.

[joesnuffy]

Next thing you know they will be issuing warning tickets for
rape...or turning their backs on muslims building giant mosques and planning terror attacks from them...

[alwaysconservative]

You've gotta love anyone who properly uses the term "Pecksniffian" in an article.

But, France? Oh dear. . .

[TalBlack]

"Both received sentences of 18 months, with an automatic nine-month remission, more or less as of right. In other words, they would serve nine months in prison for having destroyed the health and career of a completely innocent man, caused his wife untold suffering, and deprived three young children of a normal father."

Kill or permanently cripple them. Not in revenge but as a preventative measure.