Mark Steyn: Big Brother caused our hooded youth

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 05/17/05 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[FormerACLUmember]

Banned in The People's Republic of Britain!

[knews_hound]

I aint wearing no Burka.

It makes my butt look fat.

Cheers,

knews hound

[Brian Allen]

The Winner! Thanks for the ping, Pokes.

[FormerACLUmember]

No Boyz in the Hoods, but the PC Nazis will allow these:

[knews_hound]

See what I mean about the bootie?

H U G E


Cheers,

knews hound

[FormerACLUmember]

Honey, does this Burka make my butt look big?

[Amelia]

Yeah, but you'll never have to worry about a bad hair day! ;-)

[Brian Allen]

<< .... the European Parliament was voting to forbid British citizens from working more than 48 hours a week .... >>

Might have saved the Euro-peon Neo-Soviet its 30-hours-week effort drafting and voting on that one!

In decades no-one in laziness-epitomizing once-great Britain -- save a few visiting Australian and New Zealander youth-work-visa visitors and a refugee or two from Once-FRee-British Hong Kong -- has done even eight hours work in a given week, let alone 48 hours!

[Perhaps they meant to draft: "per year?"]

[thegreatbeast]

Lately I've been seeing the youngbloods dressed in gear that rivals Nascar for corporate adornment. I'm talking mainstream BIG business, too: Mobil, Nextel, whatever. The corporate logos are patched all over the jacket or sweatshirt.

Truly weird.

[Darkwolf]

I'm sorry, she can't wear that around my house, she has to remove it when she comes in. :)

[Lurker]

"If you insist on treating free-born citizens as children incapable of taking responsibility for their own lives, it's hardly likely such people will inculcate ancient social norms in their own children."

Bears repeating.

L

[knews_hound]

True, but us balding guys rarely worry about that anyway !

Cheers,

knews hound

[hattend]

Instead, in the absence of a multi-billion-pound overhaul of the CCTV network, the Government is now toying with bans on headgear and hooded garb. Not all hooded garb, of course. Burqas, chadors, hejabs and so forth will be more than welcome. But more provocative clothing, such as baseball caps and Lord Irvine's old full-bottomed wig, will be out.

Perhaps teen clothing will undergo another evolution, and the youth of the nation will be hanging out dressed like John Simpson in that burqa he wore to liberate Kabul.

Yep, if they ban hoodies expect the Iraqi Gap to be doing big business.

Big Brother is so useless.

[wardaddy]

I loathe thugga culture. I hate bobbin burrheads of any hue. I despise baggyass britches and oversized and overpriced Sports team uniforms.

One pants leg pulled up grates me. Ballcap sideways is stupid.

I want to slap silly any surly punk that even looks my way. Teach them what respect really means.

LOL...alas I'm too old now.

(When's Dave Chapelle coming back?)

[FreedomCalls]

Is there a problem?

[Dog Gone]

What I don't understand is why British teenagers mind if they're being taped in public. If you're not doing anything you're embarrassed about, nobody cares. I'm videotaped in many stores and at the ATM. It doesn't occur to me to disguise my identity.

I'm doing boring stuff.

[WireAndWood]

This struck me as the most profound passage here:

"The idea that the national government can legislate respect is a large part of the reason why there isn't any. Almost every act of the social democratic state says: don't worry, you're not responsible, leave it to us, we know best. The social democratic state is, in that sense, profoundly anti-social and ultimately anti-democratic."

A one-two punch for logic.

[KateatRFM]

We had video cameras all over the fortress apartment building we lived in on Lenox Road in Atlanta. The boys thought it was fun to stand in the elevator and make grotesque faces at the camera. They were happy to be recognized -- they were ON TV!

The same sullen brats hiding from the CCTV in Britain would eat their grandmother without salt in order to get on "Survivor" and go nekkid and humiliate themselves in front of an international audience.