Holy shit....England = 1984?

[Krilons Resa]

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/5412/Teenager_Fined_For_Using_F_Word


WTF is this shit about? Any of our UK mates have any input?

 

[Jim LotFP]

About the only places not turning into 1984 are run by murdering dictators or raving mad Muslims.

Freedom is so fucked.

 

[Erik]

lolmao

 

[JayKeeley]

That's just ridiculous. The Brits probably swear more than anyone else on the planet, in day to day conversation.

And I quote:

"One of my mates said, 'What have you been up to', and I swore when I replied," he said.

I can tell you that he answered with "Fuck all, mate" -- which means "I haven't been up to anything, my good friend".

This is an extreme one-off and I put it down to a bored policeman with nothing better to do. The judge will throw this out immediately.

 

[NAD]

Anybody catch this last week?

VIENNA, Austria - Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust — a crime in the country where Hitler was born.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060220/ap_on_re_eu/austria_holocaust_denial

Beautiful days.

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Yep, we're on a downwards spiral, my friends...

 

[lizard]

what a chump.

I smoked a bowl of hash with two friends before walking into Dachau. I sobered up pretty quick.

 

[JayKeeley]

Were you wearing a pink triangle?

 

[lizard]

haha no...don't ask me what I was thinking, "gee, we're about to enter the most grym place evar...let's fire up a bowl!"

 

[cthulufhtagn]

Anybody catch this last week? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060220/ap_on_re_eu/austria_holocaust_denial

Beautiful days.

that's pretty wack, yo

 

[lizard]

that's pretty wack, yo

Tully, what have you done with cthulufhtagn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cthulufhtagn]

Tully, what have you done with cthulufhtagn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha, well i don't have a hell of a lot of sympathy for the guy but 3 years? that's a little extreme, don't you think? a simple caning would suffice

 

[JayKeeley]

3 years is extreme for denying the holocaust? Ernst Rohm got killed just for denying he was a homo.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

They leave an entire country "Free" while it denies a whole genocide, how does that sound?

 

[lizard]

Haha ernst roehm

 

[SonOfNun]

About the only places not turning into 1984 are run by murdering dictators or raving mad Muslims.

Freedom is so fucked.

Well this was prescient.

England has gone full dystopian and arrests people for making "transphobic" comments on social media. I think a couple of recent rulings have been in favor of free speech so maybe the madness is peaking. But I doubt it.

 

[einride]

itt: an american calling out other countries for "going full dystopian"

 

[SonOfNun]

That would be a misreading. The United States is running with the herd. Probably slightly behind England but on the same course.

 

[Ellestin]

People just need to chill

ffs

 

[NAD]

I used to defend freedom of speech at any cost but these days it sure makes for strange bedfellows.