Freedom of speech issues?

England gone absolutely whack for sure. Monty Python couldn't be made anymore nowadays. That hidious fear to offend anyone, mamma duck obviously doesn't have the faith in humanity she preaches but wants all ducklings to march in perfect sync regardless.

edit; http://www.dailymail.co.uk:80/news/a...#ixzz10Rhlm9z0

Multiculturalism truly is the most fundamentalist religion of them all, at least the catholic priests only fiddle their lower regions and sometimes shove the wrong thing in these mouths instead of :daisy:'n their skulls

What happened to Britain? For so long we were such a well balanced society, we never had major revolutions, no radical ideologies ever took power.

And all of a sudden, this...

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Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr

What happened to Britain? For so long we were such a well balanced society, we never had major revolutions, no radical ideologies ever took power.

And all of a sudden, this...

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Load of cobblers Rhy let me see the

Roman/Saxon/Viking/Franco-Norman/ invasion or migration take your pick
Magna Carta
Reformation
English civil war (now there is a misnomer if ever I heard one civil war no such thing)
Glorious Revolution
The Agricultural and Industrial Revolution's

Then most importantly we had the sixties and all the music
oh and there was the devil from the grocery shop who broke the unions

I think I could go on for another hour but you get the point.

by the way the story Frag reprinted has this important word in it claimed hmm wonder why thats there


Hmm now that I think on it your prob being sacrcastic Rhy

I'll get me coat

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Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr

In 2010, you go to jail for burning the Koran.

I'm almost speechless, but not quite. What the...

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Technically your going to jail cos your not allowed burn anything what with backyard burning being illegal an all that.

Magic word or not, it would be unthinkable 20 years ago, but nowadays it simply can be true, and because it's england it probably is. England is it's own Monty Python sketch really, imagine a toddler saying yuck when he eats a spoon of curry, he doesn't like curry, and an army of thoushalnots rush in to intervene and paint a big R on his head. Sketch? Nah it's england, that actually happened. Without the painting of course.

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Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy

Load of cobblers Rhy let me see the

Roman/Saxon/Viking/Franco-Norman/ invasion or migration take your pick
Magna Carta
Reformation
English civil war (now there is a misnomer if ever I heard one civil war no such thing)
Glorious Revolution
The Agricultural and Industrial Revolution's

Then most importantly we had the sixties and all the music
oh and there was the devil from the grocery shop who broke the unions

I think I could go on for another hour but you get the point.

by the way the story Frag reprinted has this important word in it claimed hmm wonder why thats there


Hmm now that I think on it your prob being sacrcastic Rhy

I'll get me coat

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I was joking and not joking at the same time, it makes sense to me. :shrug:

Anyway, your examples don't prove your point. I never argued that change never took place, I just said it was never as dramatic and violent as elswehere.

The Saxon/Norman invasions etc precede any concept of the British/home nations anyway, the Magna Carta is one of the docuements that allowed for such stability, the Reformation was relatively peaceful compared to what took place on the continent. As for the English Civil War, I put that down as a bit of a fluke due to the unusual situation with the three kingdoms, and even then it was nothing compared to, say, the Thirty Years War and things going on elsewhere. The Glorious Revolution is aka the Bloodless Revolution, quite unique compared in its lack of violence with similar events on the continent. As for the industrial revolution etc, the fact that such dramatic social change did not lead to serious political violence/revolutions is also testament to British stability. How many European countries can say they never devolved into fascist or communist regimes?

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Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy

Technically your going to jail cos your not allowed burn anything what with backyard burning being illegal an all that.

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I thought people might raise that point, but the article itself said the arrest was purely on the grounds of inciting racial hatred.

How can you even incite racial hatred by insulting a religious book? *facepalm*