Great Britain: Anti-gay comments could cost you seven years in jail

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | October 8, 2007

[andy58-in-nh]

I suppose the thought process is that if you are homophobic, exposure to prison life will be akin to a total immersion course.

All kidding aside: this is a dangerous development in the extreme. The concept of "thought crime" - the criminalization of motive rather than actual wrongdoing - is tyrannical.

[Tennessee Nana]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

It was Jack Straw who suggested that the moslem women not cover their faces when they had a meeting with him...

What came of that?

[snarks_when_bored]

There is no group, however small, that would not welcome—and nowadays will not agitate for—immunity from criticism and ridicule. Jack Straw and his speech-freezing lackeys ought to go whole hog and mandate that muzzles be used by all Britishers when walking about in public.

[darkangel82]

I don’t find it “funny” at all.

[Stoat]

So a Brit would have to think twice before he said, “I’m going out to smoke some fags”.

[darkangel82]

Don’t say “whole hog”, you’ll offend the Muslims.

[Tully Pettigrew 1]

There’s nothing “Great” about Britain anymore.

[snarks_when_bored]

I’m glad you noticed that since I said it on purpose!

[Regulator]

So, that's the end of the once proud British.

That place is dead.

The Muslims will pick the corpse.

[Centurion2000]

Doesn’t the queen have the power to dissolve Parliament for this kind of idiocy?

[Argus]

Evidently things on Airstrip One have gone from bad to doubleplusungood.

[weegee]

Old episodes of The Benny Hills Show and Monty Python’s Flying Circus are now on the State’s ‘forbidden’ list I guess.

[weegee]

Orwell would still find plenty to write about Stalinism in the UK.

[Glenn]

I’m speechless.

[Stoat]

Doesn’t the queen have the power to dissolve Parliament for this kind of idiocy?

The Monarchy Today Queen and State Queen and Government Queen in Parliament

"In addition to opening Parliament, only The Queen can summon Parliament, and prorogue (discontinue without dissolving it) or dissolve it.

When a Prime Minister wishes to dissolve Parliament and call a general election, he or she is obliged to seek the permission of the Sovereign to do so. For this purpose, the Prime Minister usually travels to Buckingham Palace before announcing a general election.

Since the Parliament Act of 1911, the life of the United Kingdom Parliament extends to five years, unless dissolved sooner by the Sovereign at the request of the Prime Minister.

In practice, except during the two World Wars when the life of Parliament was extended annually to avoid a wartime general election, every modern Parliament has been dissolved before its term has expired. 

Parliament has not been dissolved by the Sovereign in person since 1818 (the Prince Regent was acting for George III), and is now invariably dissolved by Royal proclamation.

This proclamation includes an order to summon the next Parliament and therefore sets in motion the machinery for holding a general election.

The Prime Minister of the day may request the Sovereign to grant a dissolution at any time. In normal circumstances, when a single-party government enjoys a majority in the House of Commons, the Sovereign would not refuse, for the government would then resign and the Sovereign would be unable to find an alternative government capable of commanding the confidence of the Commons."

 

[Richard from IL]

ping

[BJClinton]

That is double plus ungood.

[andy58-in-nh]

What is truly sobering (downright frightening, I think) about what is happening in Western Europe is the pincer movement advance of Stalinism on one side and radical Islam on the other. Where they meet will redefine the word “cataclysm”.

[TrebleRebel]

I think gays are........... gay. There, I said it.

[Robert357]

So when will they be locking up the President of Iran?

Inquiring minds want to know......