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    Default Is Britain the world's first "soft totalitarian" state?

    I believe at least incident #2 has received previous international attention. Things are pretty bad on this front over here too, but some of these cases are positively Kafkaesque.

    Thought police muscle up in Britain

    Hal G. P. Colebatch

    BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.

    There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent.


    Nikolai Bukharin claimed one of the Bolshevik Revolution's principal tasks was "to alter people's actual psychology". Britain is not Bolshevik, but a campaign to alter people's psychology and create a new Homo britannicus is under way without even a fig leaf of disguise.

    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. It was Straw who previously called for a redefinition of Englishness and suggested the "global baggage of empire" was linked to soccer violence by "racist and xenophobic white males". He claimed the English "propensity for violence" was used to subjugate Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and that the English as a race were "potentially very aggressive".

    In the past 10 years I have collected reports of many instances of draconian punishments, including the arrest and criminal prosecution of children, for thought-crimes and offences against political correctness.

    Countryside Restoration Trust chairman and columnist Robin Page said at a rally against the Government's anti-hunting laws in Gloucestershire in 2002: "If you are a black vegetarian Muslim asylum-seeking one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you." Page was arrested, and after four months he received a letter saying no charges would be pressed, but that: "If further evidence comes to our attention whereby your involvement is implicated, we will seek to initiate proceedings." It took him five years to clear his name.

    Page was at least an adult. 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. According to her mother, she was placed in a bare cell for 3 1/2 hours. She was questioned on suspicion of committing a racial public order offence and then released without charge. The school was said to be investigating what further action to take, not against the teacher, but against Stott. Headmaster Anthony Edkins reportedly said: "An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark. We aim to ensure a caring and tolerant attitude towards pupils of all ethnic backgrounds and will not stand for racism in any form."

    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). When it reached the court the case had cost taxpayers pound stg. 25,000. The accused was so distressed that he had stopped attending school. The judge, Jonathan Finestein, said: "Have we really got to the stage where we are prosecuting 10-year-old boys because of political correctness? There are major crimes out there and the police don't bother to prosecute. This is nonsense."

    Finestein was fiercely attacked by teaching union leaders, as in those witch-hunt trials where any who spoke in defence of an accused or pointed to defects in the prosecution were immediately targeted as witches and candidates for burning.

    Hate-crime police investigated Basil Brush, a puppet fox on children's television, who had made a joke about Gypsies. The BBC confessed that Brush had behaved inappropriately and assured police that the episode would be banned.

    A bishop was warned by the police for not having done enough to "celebrate diversity", the enforcing of which is now apparently a police function. A Christian home for retired clergy and religious workers lost a grant because it would not reveal to official snoopers how many of the residents were homosexual. That they had never been asked was taken as evidence of homophobia.

    Muslim parents who objected to young children being given books advocating same-sex marriage and adoption at one school last year had their wishes respected and the offending material withdrawn. This year, Muslim and Christian parents at another school objecting to the same material have not only had their objections ignored but have been threatened with prosecution if they withdraw their children.

    There have been innumerable cases in recent months of people in schools, hospitals and other institutions losing their jobs because of various religious scruples, often, as in the East Germany of yore, not shouted fanatically from the rooftops but betrayed in private conversations and reported to authorities. The crime of one nurse was to offer to pray for a patient, who did not complain but merely mentioned the matter to another nurse. A primary school receptionist, Jennie Cain, whose five-year-old daughter was told off for talking about Jesus in class, faces the sack for seeking support from her church. A private email from her to other members of the church asking for prayers fell into the hands of school authorities.

    Permissiveness as well as draconianism can be deployed to destroy socially accepted norms and values. The Royal Navy, for instance, has installed a satanist chapel in a warship to accommodate the proclivities of a satanist crew member. "What would Nelson have said?" is a British newspaper cliche about navy scandals, but in this case seems a legitimate question. Satanist paraphernalia is also supplied to prison inmates who need it.

    This campaign seems to come from unelected or quasi-governmental bodies controlling various institutions, which are more or less unanswerable to electors, more than it does directly from the Government, although the Government helps drive it and condones it in a fudged and deniable manner.

    Any one of these incidents might be dismissed as an aberration, but taken together - and I have only mentioned a tiny sample; more are reported almost every day - they add up to a pretty clear picture.

    Hal G. P. Colebatch's Blair's Britain was chosen as a book of the year by The Spectator in 1999.

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    Goddamnit...I simply have no words.This is enforced and calculated social engineering of the worst kind.They are going to destroy one of the luminaries of the West,in the name of the new religion of multiculturalism.A religion that tries seriously to make everybody believe that barbarians and civilized people can and must live together.

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    Great Britain and Germany are among the most restrictive states in Western world and at the same time force, literally force other states to follow the same Neoliberal-Cultural Marxist path - against the will of most European nations, against the will of their own people go this corrupted politicians on to form exactly that kind of a repressive-exploitative state, full of lies and hypocrisy, the Plutocratic Oligarchy wants.

    This is just disgusting and shows how much of a "Democracy" we have or how much it's worth!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matritensis View Post
    They are going to destroy one of the luminaries of the West,
    Lovely epitaph. Thank you.









    Phoenixes have to die now and then, though.

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    He claimed the English "propensity for violence"
    Huh, say that about Africans or Middle-Easterners or even Scottish and you'll be nicked for racism! Oh, but it doesn't matter about the English though!

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    Don't ever think about repatriating us Antipodeans back to old Blighty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brynhild View Post
    Don't ever think about repatriating us Antipodeans back to old Blighty.
    No, you'll be better off in Aussiland and Kiwiland, we're screwed.

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    The Government is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years' prison.
    This is where Britain's been heading for the past few years. "Watch what you say or it's off to the cells with you".

    The House of Lords tried to insert a free-speech amendment, but Justice Secretary Jack Straw knocked it out.
    Old Jack strikes again. I wish I could be surprised.

    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. According to her mother, she was placed in a bare cell for 3 1/2 hours.
    People don't realise how dangerous this sort of thing is. It's only going to get worse.

    A 10-year-old child was arrested and brought before a judge
    In some countries he would probably be too young even to give evidence in a court of law.

    There are major crimes out there and the police don't bother to prosecute.
    This.

    A bishop was warned by the police for not having done enough to "celebrate diversity"
    The war on religion continues. Well, the war on one religion at least.

    The crime of one nurse was to offer to pray for a patient, who did not complain but merely mentioned the matter to another nurse. A primary school receptionist, Jennie Cain, whose five-year-old daughter was told off for talking about Jesus in class, faces the sack for seeking support from her church.
    There it is again. It's the nurses and primary school receptionists you have to watch out for. I suppose they're only being consistent - any citizen of Britain who chooses not to unquestioningly serve the will of the owners of Britain is a de facto fifth columnist.

    This campaign seems to come from unelected or quasi-governmental bodies controlling various institutions, which are more or less unanswerable to electors, more than it does directly from the Government, although the Government helps drive it and condones it in a fudged and deniable manner.
    Beware the quangocracy.

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    And here I thought the ease with which a person can sue the press in England was going to be brought up...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Osweo View Post
    Lovely epitaph. Thank you.


    Phoenixes have to die now and then, though.
    I request this song is played at the funeral.
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