The fact that Bampton lies in the Witney Constituency is, I suspect, the reason for confiscation of the starting pistol - which can be converted into a lethal weapon - and may well have something to do with the incumbent MP - one some people believe deserves rather more than a kick up the rear!
It would appear that my view of politicians and their rightful place being adorning lamp posts is now shared by one American. From the comments:
"dcwusmc, Vallejo, California says...
6:39pm Fri 27 May 11
What I cannot BEGIN to fathom is why the British people do not have the imbeciles who pass and enforce such anti-liberty legislation as this dangling from lamp posts. YOU are the people who once had an empire on which the sun never set? YOU are who gave us the Magna Carta? YOU are the people I must consider my ancestors?
I am truly appalled that I read such as this and then DON'T read about how you are rising up to TAKE BACK your individual rights from these usurpers. What ever happened to the formerly-renowned SPINE of the British people?
D.C. Wright
United States Marine Corps Retired"
12 comments:
Our friend, late of USMC, has hit the nail on the head.
A friend of British descent, brought up in South Africa, said "I think the British people have been TAMED"
In the 2005 election when I was knocking on doors, I lost count of the times people checked themselves when speaking and said " AM I ALLOWED TO SAY THAT?"
Fear of the Thought Police now runs very deep and people have accepted the advance of Political Correctness which can extend its new and changing prohibitions all the time. The quite natural preference which most people have for associating with their own kind has been stigmatised as "racism" and equivalent to throwing people into gas chambers.
Now, in Infants' Schools (4 -7 year old) children are being indoctrinated that homosexuality is a desirable relationship. (in one fairy story ""King and King" the two princes live together happily ever after). "Climate Change/Global Warming" is taught as another aspect of this new religion.
Some parents do speak out but not enough and there is a feeling that unspecified consequences will afflict those who do - and their children.
Having accepted the Welfare state as universal provider, people accept it almost as a substitute father/mother figure.
We have just seen an official report which shows that somewhere between a quarter and a third of hospitals are mistreating patients (especially the elderly)- leaving them without water, in their own faeces, putting out meals for them but not making sure they can eat them etc. In the East Staffordshire Hospital near us, as many as 1200 may have died from neglect in a few years.
Yet that hospital was ticking all the bureaucratic boxes and on target for "foundation" status with extra powers to run its own affairs. Doctors and nurses were afraid for their jobs to speak out. The NHS (National Health Service) is often good and frequently excellent but, when it's not, you are stuck. It is a monopoly - hence the fear of staff of being branded as troublemakers and hence unemployable anywhere.
Now, some of the nursing staff have been accused of malpractice but the senior managers, presiding over mass manslaughter through neglect, will have moved on to new, promoted positions.
Brilliant comment, ES and one to which I have linked in a recent post.
I have just read your post about the British people having been "tamed" and have never read it put so well. What is the matter with us. I cannot believe the majority just lie down and let this evil political elite walk all over them. I do not recognise my country - my England.
A: you're not alone my friend in not recognising your country.
He's nailed the problem hasn't he!
W42: Yup, sure has!
You may not see anything on the surface, but underground it's already on fire...
Indonesian writer Y.B. Mangunwijaya,
Things ARE happening - believe me.
A: If you say so - all I see is supine acceptance/obedience......
Almost all the resistant people Ive encountered have been former servicemen. May be a throwback to the stupidities of harsh discipline of young enlistment. I was 15.
Almost like inoculation.
SHM: Re first comment: possibly. but may also be due to upbringing at the time which included 'harsh upbringing', or what was called discipline?
Re 2nd comment: Agreed!
WfW
Your comment - distinctly possible. Who can move into a 32-bed barrack room and consider he has moved up a bit?
I still think there is a military discipline connection though.
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