Posted on 06/13/2009 5:23:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We used to think that Communism would arrive in this country on the bayonets of Soviet soldiers, if it came at all. We never realised that it would instead materialise amid our freedom and prosperity, step by tiny step, in the form of bureaucratic interference and political correctness.
As one of the few British people who has actually lived in a Communist country (Moscow in the early Nineties, since you ask), I know better than most what such societies feel like, and how they work. And in the past two weeks I have seen several developments in Britain which seem strangely familiar.
The first was a proposal to refuse school places to children who had not been given the MMR injection. I have no idea if the MMR is safe or not. But I know many thoughtful and well-informed people who believe that it damaged their children, or fear that it might do so. A free country would not blackmail individuals in this way.
The next was a sinister report from the 'Department for Children' demanding that prying officials be empowered to force their way into the homes of parents who prefer to educate their sons and daughters at home.
This is our all-powerful State's angry response to a growing rebellion, by mothers and fathers who are sick of seeing their children bullied, neglected and miseducated in the state education system, and rightly think they can do a better job. How can the commissars in charge of the Western world's worst schools be fit to judge how well a parent is teaching her own child? The pretext for this invasion of privacy is a baseless suggestion that home education could be used as a cover for child abuse.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It’s here.
First they came for the smokers,
But I did nothing for I was not a smoker...
Jail terms overturned, LE 20,000 fine upheld in ‘four editors’ case
CAIRO: The Cairo Appeals Court overturned a one-year jail sentence and upheld a LE 20,000 fine for each of the four newspaper editors convicted for insulting President Hosni Mubarak and defaming government officials.The four editors of opposition and independent newspapers received a one-year jail sentences and a LE 20,000 fine in September 2007 after the court found them guilty of “publishing false information likely to disturb public order.” The case was brought by two lawyers affiliated with the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) against...
Read More... http://www.dailystaregypt.com/
NOTE: (ruling National Democratic Party (NDP)
Excerpt: In a separate case, Eissa was sentenced in March to six months in prison for reporting on rumors about the president's health. The sentence was later reduced to two months and then scrapped when he received a pardon directly from President Mubarak in October 2008.
wonder what "false" information and how Mubarak's health was around that time.
A truly free country wouldn’t have a socialized government school system. Then you could have schools that require inoculation and schools that don’t. If it’s important to you, send your kids to the non-inoculation school.
When they came for the vapers, I did nothing because I was not a vaper.
Wait a minute. I thought America had the Western world's worst schools!
Since when did Great Britain ace us out for that honor?
Seems bloody unlikely that they’d dare encroach on the privacy of Muslim homeschoolers. UK authorities tend to fold like a cheap suit when dealing with the children of Allah.
All this and barely a whimper from the clueless and unwashed amongst us. Welcome to Germany 1932.
Nope, in a free society NO schools would require inoculation but would provide it if the parents decided that is was good for their children. For inoculations that truly help, education is the answer, not force.
TINY step? Those steps ain’t so tiny.
This guy is good. I haven’t read him before. At first, when I saw his name, I thought Christopher Hitchens.
His brother, IIRC.
Why are they only concerned about school-aged children?
If they are sooooooo concerned about child abuse, why not take newborns from their mother's arms in the delivery room? Raise them in government school orphanages.
Hey! It's in the child's best interest because some parents might abuse their children. (/sarc)
That’s what the National Socialists (Nazis) or Reds would do.
I say, “OK! Don't immunize your child,..but...be prepared to pay damages if your child infects another child.”
Any parent who does NOT immunize their child should be sued in court for damages if the non-imunized child gets sick and passes around the community.
Even though children are immunized, a certain percentage will not develop antibodies. So...If a non-immunized child gets sick he can infect a child who has been immunized but whose body did not develop the antibodies against the disease.
We prevent epidemics by having large numbers of people immunized, so that when there is an outbreak its spread is limited.
Please read post #18.
yep! In a nanosecond.
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