Posted on 12/16/2008 10:07:47 AM PST by Sammy67
For 130 years they have been part of Christmas, filling the air in towns across the land with music and carols.
But one thing is missing from the repertoire of Salvation Army bands this year - the percussion of rattling tins.
Members have been forbidden to shake their charity tins - even if it's done in time to the music - in case it harasses or intimidates people. One said she had been told it might also offend other religions.
Tin man: Salvation Army collectors have been told not to rattle their tins as it could be construed as religious harassment Guidelines for branches organising public collections say tinholders should simply keep the tin still.
It means that when the brass bands start up they can rock and roll all they want - but if they shake and rattle, it could put them in conflict with the law.
Councils and police can enforce the no-rattle rule and have powers to prosecute or ban offenders. The restriction was branded 'bonkers' yesterday both by
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
1984 was late by a few decades.
Huh? How can shaking cans offend anyone?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yeah, I bet they still allow the Muslim’s call to prayer.
And what of the street vendors on many corners in NYC with Islamic music blasting from their boom boxes?
Is anyone telling them to turn off the music because it may be offensive to some who lost loved ones in the Islamist attack of 9/11?
Great Britain is toast...
I am offended by some pagans pointing all the butts up in the air in unison and howling at the moon five times a day.
It’s England ... hasn’t hit the US .... yet ....England has become Englandistan ....
I look forward to the UK’s next version of Guy Fawkes day.
The English can’t sell themselves out to the muslim hordes fast enough.
Eric Arthur Blair is constantly gaining my admiration. His life was a great contribution to humanity.
Western society is slowly assuming a fetal position and sucking it’s thumb.
Where’s the tolerance?
Smalltown, crouching in the valley
Woken by the Sally Army
Sunday marchround
Smalltown, coughing in the toilet
Who on earth would spoil it
Would they pull down Smalltown?
- XTC The Everyday Story of Smalltown
Turban Sprawl engulfs the U.K., film at 11:00...
...And boy that really offends me. Amen.
What do you expect from a country with warped views of individual freedom (if Britain even has any at all).
1984, like Soviet rule, was imposed by the state on an oppressed population.
Our growing gulag is welcomed and even enforced through peer pressure on a grass roots level by those who flatter themselves as enlightened and intelligent.
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