Here’s an interesting little snippet: about nine people a day are being arrested by British officials for the crime of posting “offensive messages online.”
Such “offense” is seldom actually defined (vagueness being the root of all tyranny), unless we include the qualifier “it hurt some ultra-sensitive asswipe’s feeewings” in the casus praehendum.
It’s a good thing I don’t live in the U.K., or else I’d no doubt get visited by the rozzers just for expressing my reaction to, for example, the South Yorkshire Police, who posted this bullshit:
Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it.
Here’s my response:
And that goes for all you little PC scolds, tattletales and snowflakes out there as well.
Hate, you assholes? I’ll show you hate. A pox on all of you.
I have a somewhat more drastic reaction. It makes we want to start canceling security, trade and travel agreements with the UK until they stop this shit. A couple of good warning shots would be canceling the Five Eyes deal since they (and Australia) apparently used the access to try to manipulate the 2016 election. Then we should start requiring visas for UK travelers and exclude politicians and police and any academics associated with BDS. PNGing the UK ambassador would be a good idea too. If that doesn’t work, we can do more. If it does work we can back off. Except for the Five Eyes thing. They owe us explanations on that and it has to be public. We are way too sentimental about past alliances. Our values and interests are diverging and we need to face reality.
Mark Steyn: “In Britain, everything is policed except crime.”
My 7.62×51 doesn’t HATE, but it sure do shoot straight!