Posted on 02/19/2019 9:31:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There was a story that circulated during the Cold War about a Soviet judge who was seen walking back to his chambers, chuckling heartily. His colleague approached him and asked him what was so funny. Oh, just a hilarious joke I heard, the judge replied. “Well, go ahead and tell me!” his colleague replied. “Oh, I couldn’t do that,” said the Soviet judge. “I just gave someone ten years for it.”
I was reminded of this little anecdote when I spotted a story in the Edinburgh News last week, gravely titled “Edinburgh labourer shouted abuse at transgender woman.” It turns out that one Graham Spiers, a father of two and a construction worker employed at the St. James construction site, was walking past a pub in Bonnington, Edinburgh, with a few buddies, when they passed a transgender woman—a biological male. Although the journalist writing the story goes to great lengths to make it sound as if Spiers was “screaming” at the apparent victim, Spiers and his friends were specifically accused of “pointing and laughing” at the person.
The man being laughed at suspected that he was being mocked for his appearance, as fiscal depute Rosie Cook told the Edinburgh Sheriff Court that the “complainer thought [the laughing and pointing] was in reference to her gender transition.” The transgender person then did what anyone would do if someone laughed at them: He promptly called the police, who take such things very seriously these days. The Edinburgh News, straining to make it sound as if the beery chuckles of a few construction workers really were a big deal, referred to the incident as an “unprovoked verbal assault on her.”
The sheriff informed Spiers that his sense of humor had “no place in today’s society,” and that his laughing and pointing were so unacceptable that he was required to pay the man he had laughed at five hundred pounds “in compensation” for inferring by his laughter that the man did not look like a woman. The Edinburgh News referred to the incident as a “confrontation” despite the fact that the groups simply walked past each other, and Spiers was actually arrested five days later his misplaced mirth. The lawyer for the transgender complainant stated solemnly that Spiers now understands that his actions had been “disturbing for the complainer.”
Sheriff Robert Fife also piled on, informing Spiers that, “Your offensive comments were not funny at the time and are not funny now. Your children should grow up understanding gender differences and would be ashamed at your behavior that comes from a different era has no place in today’s society.” Fife then told Spiers that in addition to the cash he had to pay to the biological man for laughing at him, he also had to pay an additional fine of another five hundred pounds.
Consider this situation for a moment. A construction worker laughs at a biological man attempting to become a woman. Sure, we can agree that laughing at someone is a rude way to deal with any situation, but it was laughing. And Spiers was laughing because the man posing as a woman was very obviously not pulling it off, which happens to be true for most of those who are attempting to force the rest of us to play along with their delusions. And for that—for laughing—he was quite literally arrested, told by law enforcement that he had no right to find such a thing funny, ordered to pay the transgender person an exorbitant amount of money for hurting his feelings, and then pay more on top of that.
It is disgusting enough that law enforcement would arrest and charge someone for this triviality. That alone indicates that freedom in Scotland is truly dead. But the fact that law enforcement then lectured Spiers on being a throwback from a different age (that different era being about a decade ago, for the record) and telling him his children should be ashamed of him? And that Spiers was expected to cower and listen to this tongue-lashing from his betters so he could get re-educated and realize that men could now become women and that laughing at their attempts was forbidden by law? That should absolutely repulse any liberty-loving person and terrify everyone who values freedom.
As I wrote last week, the transgender movement has to impose their ideology on the rest of us with the power of the state because it is not a grassroots movement. Most ordinary people still find the entire phenomenon absurd, and there are even a few construction workers out there with the gall to chuckle at a man attempting to be a woman after they’ve had a few beers. But be careful: Your chuckles might end up putting you in handcuffs.
First thing I do when I see a headline like this is to check to see if it was outside the US. It always is, seeing as we have a first amendment. Our founders had no idea just how important that thing was going to become in an age of insanity.
How did it know what they were laughing at?
the LGBTQXYZ political correctness mental disorder is spreading like the plague. Hollywood types and bureaucrats seem to be very susceptible to this psychological disorder.
Coming to the USA very soon.
You can be laughing at something your friend just said, but if the tranny says you’re laughing at her/shim/it you go to jail.
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Whew, glad they don’t have murderers and rapists to waste their time arresting.
RE: but if the tranny says you’re laughing at her/shim/it you go to jail.
Nope. This is against our First Amendment. it is no surprise that this happened in ANOTHER COUNTRY with no First Amendment in their constitution.
My husband worked the military exercises in Hawaii this month. I went with him to support him 🌴🌈🌞. We stayed the the Hale Koa which is military DOD. We saw several men in tight Hawaiian dresses there as well as in Waikiki. We thought maybe it was a bet they lost but....
Fake news....if it was a transgender, how would you know?
"and that his laughing and pointing were so unacceptable that he was required to pay the man he had laughed at five hundred pounds “in compensation” for inferring by his laughter that the man did not look like a woman."
Which is wrong.
There is no way the guy can "infer" something by laughing. He might "imply" what he is thinking by laughing at him/her/xie whatever, but an "inference" is something all together different.
There’s just something funny about a man in women’s clothing.
RE: if it was a transgender, how would you know?
Well, if it were Bruce Jenner or RuPaul, I’d know.
Gloucester County Virginia tonight is having a school board meeting to discuss transgender bathrooms. They had a case last year or the year before were ONE student demanded... and it went all the way to the Supreme Court. So Gloucester Virginia whose income is like around 30,000 median is going to have to fork out a bunch of money in order to meet some imposed code. Heck, even Obama’s admin didn’t fork over some cash to meet the imposed code of unisex and transgender bathrooms and showers and all that business... Here’s a link you can look up school board members if you wish... I have been to meetings in the past at other counties where I have lived and usually with these meetings the decisions are already made but it’s some kind of rule that they have to have a meeting even though the decision has been already made.
www.gets.gc.k12.va.us
Me thinks our Lord will have something to say about this in due time.
I just saw a picture of John Cleese and Michael Palin dressed in woman’s clothing.
THAT was funny...
I guess it’s a good thing that Milton Berle isn’t around to see this.
Some horrible looking he-she at a recent Target check-out. How they could ever hire such a hideous creature is a sign of the times, but it sure made me think of not going in there again.
Yeeuuk!
This is a joke isn’t it? If not, it’s why police get themselves killed.
Spiers should refuse to pay and take the equivalent time in jail and go on a hunger strike. This is what Jordan Petersen was going to do if the had been incarcerated for refusing to use “made up pronouns.”
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