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UK: Police send four police officers to tackle boy, 11, who called schoolmate 'gay'
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 4/3/07 | LIZ HULL

Posted on 04/03/2007 10:49:18 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim

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To: TheBattman

Hey take it easy with those shove it down our throats comments, it provides visuals I’d rather not think about.


41 posted on 04/03/2007 11:18:06 AM PDT by marlon
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To: -YYZ-

Strict homosexual practice is a powerful weapon in the arsenal against overpopulation.


42 posted on 04/03/2007 11:19:58 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Meanwhile the Mad Mullahs in the mosques call for all Gays to be crucified.


43 posted on 04/03/2007 11:20:31 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Pyro7480
Not necessarily. The Indians there are also "Asian" in the British sense.

Yes. This is how they avoid saying the word, "muslim" -- by lumping Indians, Chinese, Pakistanis, etal into the same overly broad category -- sort of like Clinton firing all US attorneys when all he really wanted to do was fire the ones investigating him in Arkansas. I'd bet the farm that the group the writer refers to are all muslim.

44 posted on 04/03/2007 11:20:53 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: kiriath_jearim

The English have gotten so silly that perhaps the muslims can straighten them out.


45 posted on 04/03/2007 11:23:08 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
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To: kiriath_jearim
I know this is not the first such incident, but I just wanted to say,
"Congratulations UK, you've arrived!"
46 posted on 04/03/2007 11:23:23 AM PDT by AreaMan
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To: kiriath_jearim
The parents of the boy believed it was more sinister that just a schoolyard prank

Yeah, the prankster is a real menace to society. < /s >
47 posted on 04/03/2007 11:24:13 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: -YYZ-

” I did learn something that day, though - calling the wrong person the wrong thing can have immediate consequences.”

None for me, I was big enough to be intimidating, I was 6’ tall when I was 11.


48 posted on 04/03/2007 11:24:24 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: kiriath_jearim

Whoa! Bad hair day.


49 posted on 04/03/2007 11:24:44 AM PDT by brotherWesUpNorth
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To: Pyro7480
The Indians there are also "Asian" in the British sense.

But don't they usually know how to speak English?

50 posted on 04/03/2007 11:25:19 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Sig Sauer P220
Yeah, it does sound like a Magnum dose of Force for something so trivial. The kid was probably only correct in his reference. What's that? Only gays are now allowed to use that word? Kinda like the N-word? Oh, now I get it! This is all about destroying normalcy? That explains a lot.

Just like the Community of Christ no longer allowing itself to discriminate between saint, sinner or abomination.

HF

51 posted on 04/03/2007 11:26:30 AM PDT by holden
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To: MissEdie
This coming from a country who can't even be bothered to defend itself.

Could you elaborate on that please.

52 posted on 04/03/2007 11:27:58 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Long Island Pete
At least he didnt say faggot. Excuse me, there’s a knock at my door.

Funny, I was just going to say "Gutless Faggots" about Police who will not confront Muslims for publicaly advocating murder, but will film law abiding subjects, and send four cops to bully a little kid.

53 posted on 04/03/2007 11:29:01 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

The 4 officer arrest is clearly over the top, but I find it a bit suspicious that we’re not being treated to the full text of the e-mail, or at least relevant excerpts beyond a single 3 letter word. If there were also threats of physical violence, then it’s a serious matter, regardless of what names the sender did or didn’t call the recipient. I’d also like to know a bit more about this kid’s disciplinary history at school. If he’s an established playground bully who makes a habit of beating up the weak and unpopular kids, aggressive intervention is warranted, though not the way it was done here.

The arrest of the kid who didn’t want to sit next to Asian classmates was also over the top. But I fail to see what the arrest and fine for throwing a snowball at a (presumably moving) car, has to do with either of the other incidents. Throwing snowballs at passing cars is calculated to startle the driver, and can very easily cause an accident involving property damage, injuries, or worse — there’s nothing “politically correct” about dealing with this as criminal activity, when the perpetrator is certainly old enough to understand the potential for harm. An arrest, followed by an approximately $200 fine and apparently no prison or other detention sentence is quite appropriate — even a tiny fender bender with a car parked on the side of the road would incur much costlier damage than the amount of the fine. And most likely the kid had “priors”.


54 posted on 04/03/2007 11:29:39 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Pyro7480
Go here and do a page search for the word, "Codie." The group of students in question were reportedly speaking only in Urdu, a language found where there are muslim populations. Another interesting thing is that Codie Scott's teacher instructed her to "discuss" a class topic with the group, even though only one of them could speak English. That one student translated to the rest and they had the discussion in Urdu, totally excluding Scott who understandably requested that she be transferred to another discussion group. That, reportedly, is why she was called "racist" and tossed in the jug.
55 posted on 04/03/2007 11:30:45 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Bonaparte

I remember that story. PC is in the process of killing Britain.


56 posted on 04/03/2007 11:31:53 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Hasn’t everyone been called one name or another. I know that I have been called names and have called others names too. I called this one girl when I was 11 “Lucewhale” because she was so big. She scratched underneath my eye with her fingernail and that was the end of that. I was 11!!! Why can’t kids be kids and learn from stupidity? I would never do such a thing now, but at 11? I guess I would be behind bars in today’s world.


57 posted on 04/03/2007 11:32:44 AM PDT by napscoordinator (.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

see 55


58 posted on 04/03/2007 11:32:53 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: sageb1

Hopefully at age 10, he’s undecided on that point, and is concerning himself with more age-appropriate issues, like how to persuade his parents to buy him the new bike he wants.


59 posted on 04/03/2007 11:32:57 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Mr. Mojo

As a matter of fact, Orwell had a lot of trouble finding a publisher for Animal Farm. Among others, he sent the MS to T. S. Eliot in 1944. Eliot is not exactly famed as a leftist, but he turned it down, I suppose because Uncle Joe Stalin was England’s beloved ally at that time.


60 posted on 04/03/2007 11:33:24 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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