Posted on 02/19/2023 5:50:12 PM PST by Rummyfan
The UK’s Prevent program, which is supposed to be protecting the Sceptered Isle from terrorism, recently came under fire for treating actual Islamic terrorism as if it were a mental illness. But that doesn’t mean that Prevent has been wanting for terrorists: like its counterparts in the FBI, it has kept busy looking for “far-right extremists” and has now published a helpful guide to spotting those dangerous right-wingers. It turns out that they’re people who read Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, 1984, and other great works of English literature.
Gee, you’d almost get the idea that the Leftist culture warriors who control Prevent, Britain as a whole, and the U.S. as well, want to destroy the civilization of which those works and writers are a hallmark. And you’d be right.
Prevent casts a wide net. The UK’s Daily Mail reported Friday that among the “potential signs of far-Right extremism” and “key texts” for “white nationalists/supremacists” that Prevent flagged were the “comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.”
And much more: “A report by Prevent’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) described how far-Right extremists promoted ‘reading lists’ on online bulletin boards.” These include “The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1984 by George Orwell and the poems of GK Chesterton. It also referenced films including The Bridge On The River Kwai, The Great Escape and Zulu.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Interesting times....
The problem in the UK is that with but a few exceptions, their “conservatives” are like an army of Mitt Romneys.
I love ZULU. And I’ve read a good biography on Winston Churchill. I’m sure Winston Churchill will soon be labeled a bad man.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Well, just as long as Finnegan’s Wake doesn’t sneak in there....
Gee… And all this time, I thought we destroyed the Nazis… In reality, they all moved to the UK…
Mr. Hilter did move to Minehead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbp4gSQUVnA
I guess the left wants nothing to interfere with their vision of the future: “a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
I have a good half of those titles or authors on my Kindle. Good thing I don’t live in the U.K.
The authoritarians’ real problem is with people who read and think.
1984 by George Orwell
I think I’ll watch Zulu again tonight. Pretty sure the British will win again.
I think you can watch it on youtube if you have an account.
The Bard’s a white supremacist?
Do they EVER say they want to eliminate something for “encouraging far-LEFT sympathies”?
Of course not!
Because We the PTB have decided left is the way to go!
Just sent this to one of the editors of the official Shakespeare collection. He replied: I hadn’t realized I’d spent so much of my time ‘encouraging far-right sympathies’. I confess that besides reading and teaching suspect literary works, I watched and re-watched every episode of Yes Minister, and of its sequel Yes Prime Minister, in which Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington were brilliant.
bttt
Good grief...how much more of this insanity must we endure?
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