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.
Well, I don't think boys should be exposed to "former" men in full female gear in the men's room.
Make them stay home like any transvestite in the past.
Now let’s try that again but this time, Mr Spiers is Mr Moohamad...
When the Brits get sick of the crap they can hire a dozen US Marines to take their country back. If they have time after lunch, they can take Canada on the way home.
Then put Steven Harper in charge of both countries, Canada and the Island.
Anyone remember the days when we didn’t take ourselves so seriously, even if we were in some way different?
Way back when... if someone called me a spaghetti-bending-WOP, I’d laugh and tell him he was drunken Mc. Maybe someone would tell the other they were too short, too tall, bald, hairy, from the South, from the North, whatever... In a weird way we kind of made our differences small, and usually laughed it off.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have a Cannoli to eat.
RE: Then put Steven Harper in charge of both countries, Canada and the Island.
Why Stephen Harper?
He couldn’t even defeat the schmuck, Justin Trudeau.
Hey, the voters must have been drunk that day. I’d bet if the vote was today Harper would win his seat back.
Freedom died a long time ago in Britain. Ask about children trying to leave for medical care, political prisoners and now this. No one is making any effort to change things.
Guess I can’t play “Earache, My Eye” anymore....
My daddy, he disowned me ‘cause I wear my sister’s clothes
He caught me in the bathroom with a pair of pantyhose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJW67QN24SA
“Aren’t you glad you’ve been disarmed, old chap? Feel safe yet? Your tyranny loves you.”
To that I would add, “Enjoy your Muslims, mate!”
;^)
Hahahahahahahaha!
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.
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In theory yes, but we now have hate crime laws. History will prove that passing hate crimes laws led to the destruction of the first amendment. Now all they have to do is declare your offensive speech to be hate and associate some trivial act with it to make it a hate crime, then you’re a criminal and it’s OK to throw the book at you.
It’s coming, just wait.
At least in Free America I can still laugh at anyone for anything. Hahahahahahahaha.
Europe is dead, and it is a case of suicide with a heaping shovel of stupid.
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