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THERE'S NO FUN IN
NEW LABOUR'S PC QUEST TO MAKE US DUMB.
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Prudes, prigs
and the menace of the PC code
by
Andrew Alexander
[Daily Mail,
Friday 16, 2009]
PRINCE HARRY may be third in line to
the throne. But it is hard to see why anyone in his
right mind would want to be a monarch of a country
bursting with such pious, pompous, prudish,
sanctimonious, semi-hysterical, self-righteous,
mealy-mouthed, whining prigs.
The phrase 'our little Paki friend'
-or at least the Paki part of it-has brought them
out in force this week, displaying modern Britain at
its silliest.
Oh, the humbug of it all! the BBC, of
course, was foremost in denouncing the use of the
dreaded word- despite its recent reluctance to
apologise for the obscene language of its
broadcasters.
Then there was Fleet Street. If one
cause unites newspapers up and down the land it is
declared belief that POLITICAL CORRECTNESS has reach
ABSURD PROPORTION. Yet here they were, either
solemnly or hysterically -according to the paper you
bought-denouncing the Prince for his breach of that
NEW and INSIDIOUS CODE.
Another example of PC fashion was on
a recent Radio 3 programme, where one individual
suggested it was wrong to use the term
'FOREIGNER'
No less alarming is the remorseless
decline of the once famous British
SENSE OF HUMOUR.
In the late sixties Spike Milligan
starred in a TV series playing 'Paki-Paddy', a
Pakistan-Irishman.
IT WAS A COMEDY.
Today, showing the series might well
lead to a prosecution. And, of course, denunciation
by politicians. DAVID CAMERON was immediate in
declaring the dreaded phrase 'completely
unacceptable'-
POMPOUS TWIT.
Gordon Brown at least combined his
obedience to PC standards by adding that the Prince
had otherwise been a role model for young people.
As he has been, proving the good soldier and
insisting on serving in AFGHANISTAN.
Imagine you were involved in an
accident or even a terrorist incident. Who would you
expect to dash fastest to your aid -the Prince or
one of those RACE RELATIONS correspondents?
THE QUESTION ANSWERS ITSELF.
And do
you imagine the Prince would show any sort of
discrimination about which fellow soldier tried to
save in a battle?
THAT QUESTION ALSO
ANSWERS ITSELF...
The idiocy
of the row is shown up by 'Sooty', one of the
Prince's fellow polo players, who is happy with his
nickname. He says a nickname means you are
accepted -as has always been the case.
[Anyone who has
been in Australia will particularly get an education
as to what a newcomer from Britain is in for in the
most offensive but endearing offerings from the
local population. ]
In the
Services , as those who have even the slightest
knowledge of life there know, nicknames are normal.
More than just acceptance, they are part of
comradeship.
Well, so far
they are. it may not be long before the racists -I
mean the ones who make a living out of magnifying
anything to do with race - campaign against such
terms as Jock, Paddy and Taffy.
PC
enthusiasts find fault with all the roughness of
political . They would like every sergeant major to
be trained to be exquisitely polite. Perhaps the
curt command
'FIRE'
could be
replaced with
'would you
mind pressing the trigger' ?
There is a
deadly serious political aspect to this whole
business of allowable words, which
GEORGE
ORWELL
would have
understood.
ONCE you lay
siege to people's minds. You seek to CONTROL
not just what people SAY, but WHAT THEY THINK.
The
distortion of history that this can lead to was
exemplified for me when I talked to a young man
about the World War II invasion of Russia. BY THE
NAZI, he parroted.
BY THE
GERMANS IN MILLIONS, I STRESSED
He vaguely
thought only Nazis had been on this mission.
You may
blame this distortion of history on ignorant
journalist - and especially sub-editors, who find
'Nazi' a convenient four-letter word for a headline
and are not even conscious of the distortion. But,
more than this, one suspects the PC motive. We are
not supposed to blame
'THE
GERMANS'
for the
invasion. That would be, well, racist.
THUS
IGNORANCE FLOURISHES AND HISTORY BECOMES
MEANINGLESS.
Those who
press the PC cause are always a
PUBLIC
MENACE
My message to them is that if you are
so hyper-sensitive about the implications of the
word,
YOU SHOULD GO AND LIVE IN A MONASTERY
BETTER STILL
EMIGRATE
THERE is a BETTER way of PUTTING IT.
BUT THIS IS AFTER ALL
A FAMILY
NEWSPAPER.
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[We agree as no
doubt the majority in our country the comments of
Andrew Alexander. However when considers the extent
to which the Nazi doctrine was willingly taken up by
millions of Germans having Hitler voted into
office and the way many Germans as was the
case with the French who became the instruments of
Nazism by turning in their fellow citizens as
enemies of the STATE. From our point of view
when one talks about a Nazi it is synonymous to
being a German and vice versa. But we do agree that
the attempt to use the word Nazi selectively in
order to avoid any connection with the word German
is an attempt to hide the truth of the
complicity of the German people from future
generations of peoples of the German race.
In the year 1944 20,000 German citizens were
executed by the Nazi. No doubt over the ten years
many ten's of thousands were betrayed by their
fellow citizens into the hands of their Nazi
oppressors to be butchered.
'It was on 23rd
March that newly elected members of the
Reichstag met in a Berlin opera house (The Kroll) to
review the passage of the 'Ermachtigungsgesetz'
(Hitler's Enabling Act) , the official title of
which was 'Law for Removing the Distress of the
People and the Reich.' There were many
opponents of the drastic proposed legislation, which
those suspected that Hitler was beyond dangerous,
feared would give him dictatorial powers that he was
lusting after, and would remove necessary
constitutional protections.
The Reichstatg members had to meet in
the Kroll Opera House because their building had
been attacked and set on fire on 28th February 1933
which had resulted in Hitler exerting pressure on
the rapidly aging president Hindenburg to suspend
ARTICLE 48 of the Weimar Constitution - allowing the
suspension of constitutional protections and
liberties during emergency conditions.
The privacy of postal an electronic
communications, the 'states' rights of
self-government, all protections against unlawful
searches and seizures, freedom of the press and
assembly and property rights, were all suspended,
and the so-called 'Enabling Act' was passed shortly
afterwards. the staged putsch was
a part of' a coup d'etat by instalments. and
many concerned observers see exactly the same
pattern unfolding to day in both the United States
and Britain. ' www.worldreports.org
And in 2008 we witnessed the majority
of our so-called representatives (many who are now
pushing a Bill through Parliament in order that
their expenses will not be seen by their TAXPAYING
constituents) the traitorous vote which has enslaved
our people and destroyed our once unique
CONSTITUTION and FREE COUNTRY.
What we find to be incredible is that
with a FREE PRESS over the past 36 years since the
1972 Accessions Act to the EU . The supposed
protection of our Rights and Liberties in many
constitutional documents and with no black shirted
fascists on our streets breaking windows and
assaulting the people
'Never has so much has been taken from us
by so Few'
We must say how sick we feel at the
lack lustre efforts of the once free people to
protect their Way-of Life and their hard fought for
Liberties. If a people deserve their future fate it
is the ENGLISH who have sat on their bottoms and
apart from a few carrying balloons and pieces of
paper and led by weak- hearted and self-interested
individuals without a Central Leadership have by
their own misplaced apathy allowed their
Constitution and once FREE COUNTRY to be sold to a
FOREIGN POWER.
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A Stalin-like
smokescreen...
IT HAS become a
regular feature of this Government to justify its
policies by the claim it has carried out
'PUBLIC
CONSULTATIONS'
BEWARE!
The prime example
must remain the 'consultation' carried out by Health
Secretary Alan Johnson about banning the display of
cigarettes in shops.
HE RECORDED
GRATIFYING SUPPORT.
YET
Only one-third of
this apparently came from private individuals.
THE REST
was from pressure
groups, mostly funded by the Government.
IN SHORT
The Department was
consulting itself.
STALIN WOULD
HAVE APPROVED
The political
vocabulary shown now includes the phrase
'To do a
Johnson'
Perhaps Erskine
May, the Parliamentary bible, will one day record
whether it amounts to
INSULTING
LANGUAGE.
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JANUARY-2009
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