Britain Worlds first PC totalitarian State?

[featheredfish]

Originally Posted by arcyclus

"Is Britain becoming the world's first "soft totalitarian" state? That's the question posed by Hal G P Colebatch in The Australian newspaper.

He writes: "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."

Colebatch gives several examples, including a 14-year-old girl arrested for "racism" because she wanted to sit with fellow English-speakers in class, a 10-year-old arrested for calling a schoolmate by a racist word, and the hate crime investigation against Basil Brush for making a joke about Gypsies."

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ed...itarian_state/

Can anyone tell me;
Which legislation this 3 year old article, (April 22nd, 2009), allegedly refers to?
If it was actually passed?
Why half this forum is not doing time?

[psketti]

Originally Posted by featheredfish

Why half this forum is not doing time?

Good question

[arcyclus]

Originally Posted by psketti

Good question

Yes, it is, and thus far I have not seen anyone else ask it in the 82 responses in the original article.

[mikey mikey]

Originally Posted by featheredfish

Why half this forum is not doing time?

Actually the place I feel most scrutinised is here.



And I'm not the only one.

[arcyclus]

Originally Posted by lizzyking

Not sure what you mean by that? Sexual minority, or, ethnic? Regardless, only in your dreams, honey.

Probably makes more sense than your charge of bigotry and racism where none existed.

AS you say,

"you can try to dress turds up with high falootin' pseudo-intellectualism, but in the final analysis, it's still a steaming pile of bigot shit.