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By: Britain Officially Orwellian State « Thoughts on Freedom

Britain Officially Orwellian State « Thoughts on Freedom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:45:58 +0000

[...] Officially Orwellian State I have previously commented on the descent of Britain into a soft totalitarian state, so I suppose I should have been prepared [...]

By: Mark Hill

Mark Hill — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:21:02 +0000

FFS. You need to read the WHOLE thing…

“Using an interpreter, Hana Saad, 23, said he had degraded them “maybe because we are Muslim”.

You can get charged for a “hate crime” on a maybe?

“You might be racist. Perhaps I should take you to court”

WTF?

“But off-duty Chief Inspector Eoin Jenkins thought he was targeting Muslim Isam Maigel and his wife Hana Saad.

And when Jenkins, now retired, confronted Ronnie he was told to “f*** off”.”

Pretty bloody normal. Considering the circumstances, perhaps the off duty officer should be investigated for harassment.

By: Jaz

Jaz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:55:00 +0000

Another strange tale coming out of the UK http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid%3D17762264%26method%3Dfull%26siteid%3D64736%26headline%3Dracist-rev-row–name_page.html

FTA: A DRIVER spent two nights in jail after being accused of “revving his car in a racist manner”.

By: nicholas gray

nicholas gray — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:21:20 +0000

Why not ASBO a campaign van, in an election? They’re clearly very anti-social! And stop all that electioneering stuff- very noisy! It might frighten the petunias!

By: Angry Exile

Angry Exile — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:53:57 +0000

Why doesn’t someone take out an ASBO on those perfidious beings called Parliamentarians? Or are they immune?

Probably. They exempted themselves from being taxed on benefits in kind like everyone else in the UK, so why not?

By: nicholas gray

nicholas gray — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:22:35 +0000

Why doesn’t someone take out an ASBO on those perfidious beings called Parliamentarians? Or are they immune?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:11:47 +0000

The more the years pass, the more I am reminded of the profound insights into the political class offered by the likes of “Yes Minister” and the even earlier Peter Cook cult film – ‘The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer’, which in hindsight appears to have been the text book for the likes of Blair, Rudd and BHO.

A precis:

‘With chicanery, manipulation, and relentless abuse of opinion polls, the Machiavellian Rimmer becomes MP for Budleigh Moor (an obvious pun) and acquires a trophy wife before rapidly working his way up, with charismatic deception, to murder and the even greater heights of a newly-created presidency.’

What the mind of insightful Anglophone comedic writers can conceive, the mind of relentless political animals can achieve.

Be afraid.

By: Mark Hill

Mark Hill — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:43:57 +0000

No. I like a good rant! Please go on…

By: Angry Exile

Angry Exile — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:49:12 +0000

ASBOs were another New Labour invention to appeal to the large number of Britons who see anything they don’t like and think that there should be a law against it. Picture a Monty Python drag character repeating “it shouldn’t be allowed, it shouldn’t, they should put a stop to it” – I believe there’s something like that inside every Briton, though in those of us with Libertarian leanings it’s buried very deep inside with a shovel in its head. Anyway, ASBOs were a sop to such people for when the police either couldn’t find enough evidence to charge someone with a real offence or knew damn well that no real laws had been broken. The expectation was that ASBOs would be used to deal with teenage troublemakers etc., but like many laws introduced over the past decade or so there’s been a bit of legislative mission creep and all sorts of people are getting ASBOs now. All very Niemöller-like I’m afraid, except of course for the troublemakers that ASBOs were supposed to deal with in the first place. Anecdotal evidence suggests that getting an ASBO is actually desirable because it’s good for their street cred.

Don’t even get me started on Harriet bloody Harperson’s Equality Bill.

By: papachango

papachango — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:16:22 +0000

Here you go fellas I'm not a great fan of most organised religions, but these laws are utterly ridiculous.