Saturday, August 5, 2006
better watch what you say in the u.k.
"People who in the past would have pursued careers as Inquisition officials, as Gestapo or Stasi informers, or as interrogators in Lubyanka Prison, have new prospects. Thanks to the multicultural society they can snitch on colleagues and neighbours." Thus the final sentence of a piece in the Brussels Journal about speech control in Great Britain (ht Maggie's Farm). What is going on there? There were all those jokes about the "nanny state" but this is ludicrous. How can they, of all people, have lost total sight of there being a difference between polite and legal?
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