Girls accused of killing gay man in attack like Clockwork Orange
Posted on 05/03/2010 11:58:17 PM PDT by JLS
Many years ago, I asked the late Alan Jay Lerner, author of Camelot, Gigi, My Fair Lady and much else, why, as a Broadway colossus, he chose to live in London. And he replied that, in his opinion, Britain was the most eminently civilized society on earth.
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Steyn ping opportunity.
And, tragically, *this* is "the money quote of this piece. Indeed, as you said, This one is one of Steyns best and most frightening colums.
the infowarrior
Remove Scotland from Britain, and what's left has rather average statistics.
This is similar to the way that homicide rates in the US are heavily influenced by 10% of its population.
Girls accused of killing gay man in attack like Clockwork Orange
Yes and partly because we see a similar, creaping debasement right here at home. This IS frightening but read his LITTLE STASI-ON-AVON which was the 'next' click: excerpt:
LITTLE STASI-ON-AVON
[Droll, and very British—or it used to be. But in Little Stasi-on-Avon, where you can’t make a joke in private conversation or say “Yuk!” in the nursery school lunch hour, the words of the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut seem more pertinent: “The lofty idea of ‘the war on racism’ is gradually turning into a hideously false ideology,” he said in 2005. “And this anti-racism will be for the 21st century what Communism was for the 20th century: a source of violence.”]
Frightening and depressing, just considering our three biggest enemies/threats to our civilization - and our well-being as part of it: creeping, leaping totalitarianism as manifested and imposed by our radical Left and radical Islamism - and ourselves - as we buy into it; piece by politically-correct piece.
A Clockwork Orange comes to reality.
In the United Kingdom, “civilized society” cedes turf remorselessly: The highest drug use in Europe, highest incidence of sexually transmitted disease, highest number of single mothers. Marriage is all but defunct, except for toffs, upscale gays, and Muslims.
Is the United Kingdom finished?
Whether the UK is finished is a choice, not a fact. It depends on whether real Brits who still hold their traditional values cry, 'Hold, enough!' or are content to 'go gentle into that good night'. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, and I suspect the American people are ready to follow a leader who serves God too. In that leader's words, 'Don't retreat - reload'. If the Brits won't save themselves on their own initiative, perhaps they will follow us, and that may be part of the reason why the forces of totalitarianism are so anxious to stop Palin and others who stand for freedom.
They are going to have to pull themselves out of the gutter. There is no Professor Higgens to do it for them. If they don’t do it quick enough Imam Higgens will just stone them while they are down there.
I agree but so many British are so polite and don’t want to make a scene. Their politeness might be their undoing. Even the ones that see it don’t necessarily think it is their responsibility to do anything about it. They blame the government - as if it’s the government’s responsibility to determine what is good behaviour or not!
Mel
There is a certain madness on the Isle. Sooner or later...a Monty Python crew will arrive and take on modern day topics. At that point...the seriousness scale will drop ten pounds pretty quickly.
Their “STATE” Church was built on immorality and continues to this day.....although there is no one even attending these churches......
I'm no one, then.
good freaking grief......you KNOW that your church is not well-attended....I think you can see with your own eyes.....or can’t you??
Just like in Paris....there was a HANDFUL of people on EASTER years and years ago when I attended Mass. That’s when I KNEW something was wrong with France!!
The Anglican Church could have been much more than it is had the present agnostic Royal Family taken an interest in its direction. For centuries it has abrogated all responsibility for the role the royals played before the entry of the German Lutherans. There was one exception, Queen Victoria, but that demands comparison with the present Queen who has lasted about as long, and that silly doofus should have decamped long ago. Unfortunately and sadly for the Christian community, had she done so, she would only have passed the scepter to one of the feckless brood she has fostered.
Egads. What a depressing column.
Really? I’d like to see the stats for that. Not that I don’t believe you, but I understand things better when I crunch the numbers myself ;-).
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