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Melanie Phillips
Hysteria and ignorance PDF Print E-mail
Written by Uponnothing   
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 17:58

MELANIE PHILLIPS: Yes, Big Brother Britain is a menace. The irony is, it's the civil liberties lobby who are to blame.

 

Like all bandwagons, however, this one needs a beady eye cast over it, not least because of its occasional note of hysteria.

 

Its claim that Britain is turning into a police state is clearly over the top (and reveals no small ignorance of what terrors a true police state inflicts)

 

Hysteria and ignorance Melanie? Like, for example, claiming that the BBC's decision to sack Carol Thatcher for her racist remark was:

 

a chilling insight into the totalitarian universe of the closed BBC mind... If the BBC had intended to convince the public that it had departed altogether from reality and common sense and resided instead in some alternative Stalinist universe, it could hardly have done a better job

 

Or, for example, claiming that a 13 year old father:

 

vividly reveals how our children are being abandoned and betrayed... And we all know why this is. A sexual free-for-all legitimated by the mantra of ‘lifestyle choice’, promoted from the top by narcissistic liberals and funded at the bottom by welfare benefits, has caused a catastrophic rate of family breakdown and fragmentation which is now repeating itself in an endless generational cycle

 

Or, for example, claiming that the increased deposits in sharia banking in the UK means that those banks accepting deposits are:

 

effectively endors[ing] the extremist ideology behind it of conquering the west for Islam


Or, for example, claiming that recent teenage pregnancy figures are evidence that:

 

Labour is doing nothing less than trying to reshape the sexual and moral behaviour of an entire society

 

Or, for example, equating a nurse being suspended for praying at work and a 'private remark' (what, it never left the confines of her head?) made by Carol Thatcher being reported with the UK:

 

sliding inexorably into a culture of control which would have been very familiar to the Stasi or the KGB

 

Or, for example, how turning away a slightly batty Dutch MP was a sign that Britain is:

 

sleepwalking towards cultural suicide... If anyone had doubted the extent to which Britain has capitulated to Islamic terror, the banning of Geert Wilders should surely open their eyes

 

 When pointing out hysteria and ignorance Melanie, it would probably be wise to remember that you suffer severe bouts of ignorance and hysteria each time you start foaming at your keyboard. People would also pay more attention to your 'arguments' if they were not so absolutely, staggeringly, mind-numbingly, batshit insane.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:20
 


 
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