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Force is strong for Jedi police (pushback against "diversity"? -- let's hope!)
BBC ^ | April 16, 2009

Posted on 04/16/2009 9:03:10 PM PDT by jiggyboy

Eight police officers serving with Scotland's largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: diversity; jedi; sith; starwars
The excerpt is pretty much the story.

I dunno, maybe they really mean it, but I'd rather think it's a more cultured way of saying "shove your damn categories!".

1 posted on 04/16/2009 9:03:11 PM PDT by jiggyboy
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Think I’d rather have them list Jedi instead of Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. FSM might have given them legitimacy in this crazy insane PC world.


2 posted on 04/16/2009 9:08:19 PM PDT by Domandred (Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
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We should all report that on our Census forms....


3 posted on 04/16/2009 9:08:24 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Say NO to the $10 Trillion Ransom to DC)
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And where the census form asks, “Sex,” we should answer yes, or no.


4 posted on 04/16/2009 9:10:52 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: goodnesswins

I am seriously tempted.


5 posted on 04/16/2009 9:11:13 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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Then you are headed for the Dark Side. Put “Sith” in the appropriate box on the form.


6 posted on 04/16/2009 9:14:12 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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I read elsewhere several years ago that so many people in Britain were claiming “Jedi” as their religion on census forms that they had to report it as its own category (as opposed to “Other”).

I like it, might try that myself. I already put my race as “Elven” :p


7 posted on 04/16/2009 9:15:25 PM PDT by Ellendra (Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run...Country folks CAN survive!!! -Hank Jr.)
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This is great.

Diversity is our strength......right?

8 posted on 04/16/2009 9:32:50 PM PDT by blam
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We are Sith

I about died reading this (from laughter), great justification for conservatives to be sithly. Warning... language galore though

9 posted on 04/16/2009 9:39:25 PM PDT by Toki (The cows go moo, the ducks go quack, and Toki slowly goes mad.)
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The Dark and I are old friends.

The Sith do have better toys. :)


10 posted on 04/16/2009 9:41:02 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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I did fill out the Race section in one Census form as “North Sea Islander.”

I wish I had written “Indianapolis 500!”

Simply writing “Human” or would probably get the point across, too.


11 posted on 04/16/2009 10:17:11 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Tagline!


12 posted on 04/16/2009 11:10:22 PM PDT by plsjr (<>< "Diversity" = "accept anything, including the worst" Choose the best on its own merits.)
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As the tee-shirt proclaims: “Come over to the Dark Side. We have cookies!”.


13 posted on 04/17/2009 6:48:47 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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“The Sith do have better toys. :)”

And cooler capes!!!


14 posted on 04/17/2009 8:53:11 PM PDT by Ellendra (Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run...Country folks CAN survive!!! -Hank Jr.)
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Disgusting.

The only religion allowed in the West of Scotland is Rangers or Celtic...lol

(Americans here might not get that...lol)


15 posted on 04/19/2009 1:58:05 PM PDT by the scotsman
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