Posted on 10/03/2007 11:51:14 AM PDT by Stoat
Damn!
The left is sending them to re-education camps. Unreal.
True, but the article also had a stateement from a supervisor stating that the firemen had no operational need for being where they were, etc.
You forgot the FAGS.
They will have plenty of FAGS.
In the ultra-PC realm of fire service management, this could mean that the apparatus had deviated by a couple of blocks from the very most direct route from points A to B.
If so, it could be that the firemen were aware of illegal activity commonly occurring at that location, and where there is illegal activity there is frequently a need for emergency assistance. Such activity as was occurring also degrades the quality of life for all in that community.
I have trouble faulting the firemen given the information presented in this article (which is admittedly sparse, thanks to the gag order placed upon the firemen). We are talking about an open, public area. Illuminating an open public area has now, apparently, become a crime, and engaging in illegal activity in the dark bushes is now being defended by a Government agency because it's being engaged in by a politically-powerful group.
If it had been a different apparatus which would need to pass by that location in order to traverse A to B in order to travel by the very most direct route, would they now need to alter their route in order to avoid upsetting homosexuals in the bushes? Would they need to divert their attentions when passing by a location known for illegal homosexual activity, and in so doing risk overlooking a half-dead rape victim or another victim of a violent attack?
Good points, and I think that the entire situation is absurd. BUT!!! If the boys went out of their way in the company rig they should get their wrists slapped, very, very lightly, and the buggers should be arrested and prosecuted.
Right - forgot those people ....
Archie Bunker was evidently right about England.
George Orwell (native Brit) would not be shocked. Up is down and down is up
1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984
1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984
1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984
1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984
[cue Benny Hill]
“I ‘ave got a flashlight,
“I ‘ave got a flashlight,
“I ‘ave got a flashlight,
“What shall I do wiv it?”
Please tell us what happened.
Oh they will change and it will be radical. We seem to be heading in that same direction ourselves.
“”The UK is finished unless it undergoes a radical change soon.””
Oh pulease, get real.
The UK is a wonderful place that isn’t remotely finished.
“””And people are leaving England in droves”””
And 1 in 3 of them return when they realise the grass is no greener elsewhere.
People are also leaving the U.S.A in droves.
“”... all the nanny state will have left is street gangs and Islamic terrorists ...””
Yes, because that’s all I see all around me. NOT. Do people like you pontificating on message boards actually travel anywhere to see for yourselves or do you just read newspaper articles?????
“”You forgot the FAGS.
They will have plenty of FAGS.””
Er in England we have NOTHING like San Francisco. LOL.
Touche.
This is going to be happening in this country if homosexual activists and groups like the ACLU have their way.
Sorry for the hyperbole. Pontificating is only a sideline with me.
I recently had the privilege to travel to the U.K. just last summer, and I must say I enjoyed every minute! Thank you for being a gracious host. (vicariously)
My eldest son and DIL and children recently moved to Stamford, Lincolnshire. I know the whole country is not in the dumper and for all I know, everyone is not moving out.
But there are those stories, you know.
Good luck to you, mate.
Yes I have traveled, extensively - I’ve lived in Tokyo, Brisbane, Izmir Turkey, Rome, Paris and London .... I “pontificate” as you say because I’ve seen it, been there and done that ... It was the British newspapers who said people were leaving England at the rate of 100,000 per year, not me. It was the British newspapers who were complaining of the “nanny state” and it was the British newspapers who brought out that the only people left were street gangs, Islamofacists and others .... I also suggest you start reading on-line British papers such as: The Sun, The London Times, The Manchester Guardian, etc.
So before you go off railing at other people, get your own facts straight first .....
Yeah they thought the same in 1938.
They hung on by the skin of their damn teeth then.
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