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The Fascist Left have turned the Nanny State into the Bully State
26th January 2007
Daily Mail
This week's sermon from the bully pulpit is adoption and gay 'rights'. Last week it was Jade Goody and 'racism'. The week before it was 'climate change'. Next week it will be something else.
Choice of weapon isn't important. It's the bullying which matters. Any excuse will do.
Maybe the reason so many members of our political and media class worked themselves into such a lather over Big Brother is that they stared into the plasma screen and saw a mirror image of themselves reflected back.
Jade Goody's pig-ignorant ranting towards the Indian Shilpa Shetty was straight out of the 'liberal' songbook - except that they reserve their hatred and intimidation not for anyone who looks or talks differently, but for those who have the audacity to THINK differently.
Take the current controversy over adoption. This has got nothing much to do with the rights of homosexuals, or children, or even the freedom of devout Catholics to follow their consciences and their religious beliefs.
It is, like everything else, about showing us who's boss.
As the Cabinet's resident wide boy Alan Johnson put it yesterday in respect of gay adoption, there must be no 'exemption' to the rules. That would be 'plain, simple discrimination'.
Yet they have no problems with adoption agencies refusing to place black and mixed-race children with white couples.
Plenty of prospective adoptive parents are rejected for being too middle class, too affluent, too old, living in the wrong postcode, or having the wrong political opinions.
What's that if not 'plain, simple discrimination'?
I knew Johnson when he ran the London region of the postmen's union. He was always considered to be on the democratic, moderate wing of the Labour Party.
I can't imagine many of his former members at the Mount Pleasant sorting office marching on Parliament in support of forcing adoption agencies to hand over Catholic orphans to homosexuals.
What do we want?
Gay adoption!
When do we want it?
Now!
So what turned Johnson into an intolerant totalitarian? Ambition, plain and simple. There's no place for sentient dissent in New Labour's Neo-Communist state.
Blind, unthinking obeisance towards every single one of the pious tenets of 'diversity' is an absolute requirement for advancement.
If a political chancer like Johnson - who fancies himself as Deputy Prime Minister - has designs on high office, he has to get with the programme. There can be no 'exemption'.
I shouldn't have thought most homosexuals - apart from the usual Tatchellite headbangers - give a damn one way or the other whether the Catholic Church is allowed to opt out over adoption.
If Mandy and Reinaldo want a bay-bee, their first port of call is unlikely to be Father O'Reilly.
All they have to do is turn up at Haringey Town Hall and Millie Tant will be only too happy to offer them an exciting selection of children in a wide range of shapes, genders, creeds and colours.
But no, anyone who has reservations about the wisdom of placing vulnerable children with homosexuals or lesbians is damned as a swivel-eyed 'homophobe' - even if they have no problem with much of the 'gay rights' agenda, such as civil partnerships.
Just look at the way the bishops have been beaten up on BBC and Channel 4 News.
The only religion the 'liberals' subscribe to is 'diversity' and 'multiculturalism' - with a smattering of 'green' thrown in for good measure.
But what they really enjoy is handing out a good kicking, in the same way the Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins of the 17th Century cloaked himself in Christianity to justify his inquisitions. He was only in it because he liked burning people.
As I've long argued, these people aren't liberals, they're fascists. And what gets their rocks off is demonis-ing and punishing all those who dare to resist their putsch.
The Fascist Left have turned the Nanny State into the Bully State. There is no limit to their intolerance in the name of tolerance.
Our entire system of government and social policy is now based on bullying, from the Elf 'n' Safety Nazis to the Traffic Taliban and the Garbage Gestapo.
Their spiteful use of character assassination against dissenters - everyone from little old ladies in hospital to rail crash survivors - is legendary. Dr Kelly was bullied to death, as was Steve Thoburn, the greengrocer who held out against metrication.
At least no one has died in the Big Brother house. Yet.
Oppose them on European integration, multi-culturalism or illegal immigration and you are damned as a racist/xenophobe/Little Englander/ BNP/blah, blah, blah.
Sticks and stones and all that. But the Fascist Left have moved the game on by bringing in hundreds of new laws to control behaviour and stifle free speech, all backed with draconian penalties.
Soon, Catholic adoption workers who refuse to hand over children to homosexuals will either have to close their agencies or go to jail. Who voted for that?
Politicians use the 'green' smokescreen to restrict freedom of choice and movement, put up taxes and introduce swingeing fines for piffling 'offences'.
In the name of saving the planet, you can now be fined £1,000 for putting the wrong kind of rubbish in the wrong kind of sack. I don't remember that in the 1997 manifesto.
New Labour has created a climate in which it has become acceptable - nay, almost de rigueur - to offer spite and violence to heretics.
Smashing the windscreen of a BMW X5 to steal the stereo may not be acceptable. But anyone who trashes a 4x4 in the name of the 'environment' is striking a blow for the planet and is to be admired.
The Fascist Left don't believe in genuine 'diversity'. Theirs is a very narrow church. They don't believe in friendly persuasion, they believe in coercion and compulsion. When they call for a 'debate' they mean: Do as you are told - or else.
Jade Goody was merely doing to Shilpa Shetty what the Fascist Left have been doing to Middle England for the past ten years.
Welcome to the Bully State.
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... and while on the subject of bullying
You may be wondering why the Channel 4 Dispatches expose of extremism inside some of Britain's leading mosques - which I wrote about last week - hasn't had wider coverage or resulted in any arrests.
A number of mad mullahs were filmed over a period of four months preaching hatred against 'kuffaars' (unbelievers) and calling for 'jihad' (holy war).
The reason may be because of a campaign by 'moderate' Muslim organisations to discredit the programme and close down all debate.
A summary can be found on the website UK Daily Pundit, based on correspondence and press releases published by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).
On January 7, a week before transmission, Shouaib Ahmed, Secretary General of the Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith organisation, wrote to the producer, Andrew Smith, in menacing terms: "I must remind you that if I or any member of my staff or anyone who worships at the Green Lane Mosque or the Mosque itself are subjected to any form of physical attack as a result of your programme then you will all be liable to prosecution for incitement to commit a criminal act."
So no intimidation there, then. The next day, the Federation of Student Islamic Societies called on its website for a protest in these terms: "We must unite in order to defend ourselves from this onslaught, any debate regarding Islam, should be had by the Muslim community and not by those who seek to divide the Muslims..."
On January 10, the Muslim Public Affairs Committee urged supporters to contact Channel 4.
"A documentary like this could have damaging effects on community relations and cohesion.
"There is fear of potential backlash and attacks on Mosques with heightened Islamophobia."
The same day, the UK Islamic Mission called the programme 'highly reprehensible'.
And on January 12, the MCB itself accused Dispatches of attempting to 'forment (sic) divisions' among Muslims.
None of them, remember, had seen the documentary. Channel 4 is to be commended for not bowing to this outrageous pressure.
Shouaib Ahmed even defended the use of the word 'kuffaar'.
"This is a neutral term which is used to describe someone who rejects Allah."
Or, in the case of some of the preachers caught on camera, someone who is 'filthy' and should be killed.
Dispatches is not guilty of fomenting division or stirring up 'Islamophobia' - a catch-all smear.
It was a brave and valuable piece of journalism, which 'moderate' Muslims didn't want anyone to see.
I couldn't helping thinking of that placard during the Danish cartoons demo, which read: "Freedom: Go To Hell."
Islamic leaders claim to deplore the hate-mongers, but whenever someone produces evidence of the bloodthirsty maniacs within, they pretend absurdly that it is an attack on all Muslims - which it isn't.
But you can't deny the effectiveness of the 'moderate' Muslim lobby. No mention of the show in Left-wing papers - or even on Channel 4 News. Not a squeak from any of our elected representatives about the preachers of hate.
No sign of any serious police investigation, either.
Our pusillanimous politicians, police chiefs and our 'liberal' media should be ashamed of their cowardice.
dailymail.co.uk
The Fascist Left have turned the Nanny State into the Bully State
26th January 2007
Daily Mail
This week's sermon from the bully pulpit is adoption and gay 'rights'. Last week it was Jade Goody and 'racism'. The week before it was 'climate change'. Next week it will be something else.
Choice of weapon isn't important. It's the bullying which matters. Any excuse will do.
Maybe the reason so many members of our political and media class worked themselves into such a lather over Big Brother is that they stared into the plasma screen and saw a mirror image of themselves reflected back.
Jade Goody's pig-ignorant ranting towards the Indian Shilpa Shetty was straight out of the 'liberal' songbook - except that they reserve their hatred and intimidation not for anyone who looks or talks differently, but for those who have the audacity to THINK differently.
Take the current controversy over adoption. This has got nothing much to do with the rights of homosexuals, or children, or even the freedom of devout Catholics to follow their consciences and their religious beliefs.
It is, like everything else, about showing us who's boss.
As the Cabinet's resident wide boy Alan Johnson put it yesterday in respect of gay adoption, there must be no 'exemption' to the rules. That would be 'plain, simple discrimination'.
Yet they have no problems with adoption agencies refusing to place black and mixed-race children with white couples.
Plenty of prospective adoptive parents are rejected for being too middle class, too affluent, too old, living in the wrong postcode, or having the wrong political opinions.
What's that if not 'plain, simple discrimination'?
I knew Johnson when he ran the London region of the postmen's union. He was always considered to be on the democratic, moderate wing of the Labour Party.
I can't imagine many of his former members at the Mount Pleasant sorting office marching on Parliament in support of forcing adoption agencies to hand over Catholic orphans to homosexuals.
What do we want?
Gay adoption!
When do we want it?
Now!
So what turned Johnson into an intolerant totalitarian? Ambition, plain and simple. There's no place for sentient dissent in New Labour's Neo-Communist state.
Blind, unthinking obeisance towards every single one of the pious tenets of 'diversity' is an absolute requirement for advancement.
If a political chancer like Johnson - who fancies himself as Deputy Prime Minister - has designs on high office, he has to get with the programme. There can be no 'exemption'.
I shouldn't have thought most homosexuals - apart from the usual Tatchellite headbangers - give a damn one way or the other whether the Catholic Church is allowed to opt out over adoption.
If Mandy and Reinaldo want a bay-bee, their first port of call is unlikely to be Father O'Reilly.
All they have to do is turn up at Haringey Town Hall and Millie Tant will be only too happy to offer them an exciting selection of children in a wide range of shapes, genders, creeds and colours.
But no, anyone who has reservations about the wisdom of placing vulnerable children with homosexuals or lesbians is damned as a swivel-eyed 'homophobe' - even if they have no problem with much of the 'gay rights' agenda, such as civil partnerships.
Just look at the way the bishops have been beaten up on BBC and Channel 4 News.
The only religion the 'liberals' subscribe to is 'diversity' and 'multiculturalism' - with a smattering of 'green' thrown in for good measure.
But what they really enjoy is handing out a good kicking, in the same way the Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins of the 17th Century cloaked himself in Christianity to justify his inquisitions. He was only in it because he liked burning people.
As I've long argued, these people aren't liberals, they're fascists. And what gets their rocks off is demonis-ing and punishing all those who dare to resist their putsch.
The Fascist Left have turned the Nanny State into the Bully State. There is no limit to their intolerance in the name of tolerance.
Our entire system of government and social policy is now based on bullying, from the Elf 'n' Safety Nazis to the Traffic Taliban and the Garbage Gestapo.
Their spiteful use of character assassination against dissenters - everyone from little old ladies in hospital to rail crash survivors - is legendary. Dr Kelly was bullied to death, as was Steve Thoburn, the greengrocer who held out against metrication.
At least no one has died in the Big Brother house. Yet.
Oppose them on European integration, multi-culturalism or illegal immigration and you are damned as a racist/xenophobe/Little Englander/ BNP/blah, blah, blah.
Sticks and stones and all that. But the Fascist Left have moved the game on by bringing in hundreds of new laws to control behaviour and stifle free speech, all backed with draconian penalties.
Soon, Catholic adoption workers who refuse to hand over children to homosexuals will either have to close their agencies or go to jail. Who voted for that?
Politicians use the 'green' smokescreen to restrict freedom of choice and movement, put up taxes and introduce swingeing fines for piffling 'offences'.
In the name of saving the planet, you can now be fined £1,000 for putting the wrong kind of rubbish in the wrong kind of sack. I don't remember that in the 1997 manifesto.
New Labour has created a climate in which it has become acceptable - nay, almost de rigueur - to offer spite and violence to heretics.
Smashing the windscreen of a BMW X5 to steal the stereo may not be acceptable. But anyone who trashes a 4x4 in the name of the 'environment' is striking a blow for the planet and is to be admired.
The Fascist Left don't believe in genuine 'diversity'. Theirs is a very narrow church. They don't believe in friendly persuasion, they believe in coercion and compulsion. When they call for a 'debate' they mean: Do as you are told - or else.
Jade Goody was merely doing to Shilpa Shetty what the Fascist Left have been doing to Middle England for the past ten years.
Welcome to the Bully State.
*******************************************************************
... and while on the subject of bullying
You may be wondering why the Channel 4 Dispatches expose of extremism inside some of Britain's leading mosques - which I wrote about last week - hasn't had wider coverage or resulted in any arrests.
A number of mad mullahs were filmed over a period of four months preaching hatred against 'kuffaars' (unbelievers) and calling for 'jihad' (holy war).
The reason may be because of a campaign by 'moderate' Muslim organisations to discredit the programme and close down all debate.
A summary can be found on the website UK Daily Pundit, based on correspondence and press releases published by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).
On January 7, a week before transmission, Shouaib Ahmed, Secretary General of the Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith organisation, wrote to the producer, Andrew Smith, in menacing terms: "I must remind you that if I or any member of my staff or anyone who worships at the Green Lane Mosque or the Mosque itself are subjected to any form of physical attack as a result of your programme then you will all be liable to prosecution for incitement to commit a criminal act."
So no intimidation there, then. The next day, the Federation of Student Islamic Societies called on its website for a protest in these terms: "We must unite in order to defend ourselves from this onslaught, any debate regarding Islam, should be had by the Muslim community and not by those who seek to divide the Muslims..."
On January 10, the Muslim Public Affairs Committee urged supporters to contact Channel 4.
"A documentary like this could have damaging effects on community relations and cohesion.
"There is fear of potential backlash and attacks on Mosques with heightened Islamophobia."
The same day, the UK Islamic Mission called the programme 'highly reprehensible'.
And on January 12, the MCB itself accused Dispatches of attempting to 'forment (sic) divisions' among Muslims.
None of them, remember, had seen the documentary. Channel 4 is to be commended for not bowing to this outrageous pressure.
Shouaib Ahmed even defended the use of the word 'kuffaar'.
"This is a neutral term which is used to describe someone who rejects Allah."
Or, in the case of some of the preachers caught on camera, someone who is 'filthy' and should be killed.
Dispatches is not guilty of fomenting division or stirring up 'Islamophobia' - a catch-all smear.
It was a brave and valuable piece of journalism, which 'moderate' Muslims didn't want anyone to see.
I couldn't helping thinking of that placard during the Danish cartoons demo, which read: "Freedom: Go To Hell."
Islamic leaders claim to deplore the hate-mongers, but whenever someone produces evidence of the bloodthirsty maniacs within, they pretend absurdly that it is an attack on all Muslims - which it isn't.
But you can't deny the effectiveness of the 'moderate' Muslim lobby. No mention of the show in Left-wing papers - or even on Channel 4 News. Not a squeak from any of our elected representatives about the preachers of hate.
No sign of any serious police investigation, either.
Our pusillanimous politicians, police chiefs and our 'liberal' media should be ashamed of their cowardice.
dailymail.co.uk
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