Tuesday, April 21, 2009

“Homo britannicus” - Thoroughly Thought Policed or “Soft Totalitarianism”

Who, other than draconian proponents of policing thoughts, would’ve have thought that in Britain 10 year old boys would be charged and brought before a judge for calling a school mate a “Paki” and a “bin Laden,” or that a 14 year old girl would be labeled as a racist, fingerprinted and photographed, for asking to join a group of girls who spoke English to complete a project, rather than a group of girls who spoke only Urdu whom she could not understand, or, that a British warship would install a satanist chapel to accomodate one (1) Satan worshipping crew member, or, that Britain would pass a law which could land an individual in prison for seven (7) years for telling a politically incorrect joke?

If you would have asked me this question, say in 2001, I would have chuckled, thinking, nah, this could never happen, but it has, and it is.

The Government is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years’ prison. The House of Lords tried to insert a free-speech amendment, but Justice Secretary Jack Straw knocked it out…In September 2006, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Codie Stott, asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. The teacher’s first response, according to Stott, was to scream at her: “It’s racist, you’re going to get done by the police!” Upset and terrified, the schoolgirl went outside to calm down. The teacher called the police and a few days later, presumably after officialdom had thought the matter over, she was arrested and taken to a police station, where she was fingerprinted and photographed…A 10-year-old child was arrested and brought before a judge, for having allegedly called an 11-year-old boya “Paki” and “bin Laden” during a playground argument at a primary school (the other boy had called him a skunk and a Teletubby)...The Royal Navy, for instance, has installed a satanist chapel in a warship to accommodate the proclivities of a satanist crew member…

Thought police muscle up in Britain

Via Mark Steyn at The Corner.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/21 at 03:17 PM
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