Posted on 04/21/2009 12:34:05 PM PDT by Mount Athos
BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state...
The Government is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years' prison...
Robin Page said at a rally against the Government's anti-hunting laws in Gloucestershire in 2002: "If you are a black vegetarian Muslim asylum-seeking one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you." Page was arrested ...It took him five years to clear his name.
In September 2006, a 14-year-old schoolgirl asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. ...She was arrested and taken to a police station, where she was fingerprinted and photographed. She was placed in a bare cell for 3 1/2 hours.
A 10-year-old child was arrested and brought before a judge, for having allegedly called an 11-year-old boy a "Paki" and "bin Laden" during a playground argument (the other boy had called him a skunk and a Teletubby). When it reached the court the case had cost taxpayers pound stg. 25,000. The accused was so distressed that he had stopped attending school.
A Christian home for retired clergy and religious workers lost a grant because it would not reveal to official snoopers how many of the residents were homosexual. That they had never been asked was taken as evidence of homophobia.
Muslim parents who objected to young children being given books advocating same-sex marriage and adoption at one school last year had their wishes respected and the offending material withdrawn. This year, Muslim and Christian parents at another school objecting to the same material have not only had their objections ignored but have been threatened with prosecution if they withdraw their children.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
Telling the truth can hurt - but it shouldn't cost five years...
"The Trains really do go to places where we will be given work with dignity..."
Sometimes the truth is so horrible masses of people elect not to believe it.
That would be silly.
None of us have guns.
Oh, I admit I have a Lee Pro loader, but I just happen to enjoy loading ammunition, taking it apart, and putting it together again.
You’ve already been dehumanized by the system. Do people like this fight back against totalitarianism? Not if history is a guide.
They guard the camps and run the ovens.
You know your history and not just the 20th century either.
Maybe that is why I have such a miserable disposition of late. I should not read it, really.
Some of History is glorious, but much of it breeds a disgust with humanity.
"People sleep better if they do not know how laws or sausages are made".
Agreed. I’ve been grumpy, too.
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