Thought police muscle up in Britain

BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.

There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent.

Nikolai Bukharin claimed one of the Bolshevik Revolution's principal tasks was "to alter people's actual psychology". Britain is not Bolshevik, but a campaign to alter people's psychology and create a new Homo britannicus is under way without even a fig leaf of disguise.

The Government is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years' prison. The House of Lords tried to insert a free-speech amendment, but Justice Secretary Jack Straw knocked it out. It was Straw who previously called for a redefinition of Englishness and suggested the "global baggage of empire" was linked to soccer violence by "racist and xenophobic white males". He claimed the English "propensity for violence" was used to subjugate Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and that the English as a race were "potentially very aggressive".

In the past 10 years I have collected reports of many instances of draconian punishments, including the arrest and criminal prosecution of children, for thought-crimes and offences against political correctness.

Countryside Restoration Trust chairman and columnist Robin Page said at a rally against the Government's anti-hunting laws in Gloucestershire in 2002: "If you are a black vegetarian Muslim asylum-seeking one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you." Page was arrested, and after four months he received a letter saying no charges would be pressed, but that: "If further evidence comes to our attention whereby your involvement is implicated, we will seek to initiate proceedings." It took him five years to clear his name.

Page was at least an adult. In September 2006, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Codie Stott, asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. The teacher's first response, according to Stott, was to scream at her: "It's racist, you're going to get done by the police!" Upset and terrified, the schoolgirl went outside to calm down. The teacher called the police and a few days later, presumably after officialdom had thought the matter over, she was arrested and taken to a police station, where she was fingerprinted and photographed. According to her mother, she was placed in a bare cell for 3 1/2 hours. She was questioned on suspicion of committing a racial public order offence and then released without charge. The school was said to be investigating what further action to take, not against the teacher, but against Stott. Headmaster Anthony Edkins reportedly said: "An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark. We aim to ensure a caring and tolerant attitude towards pupils of all ethnic backgrounds and will not stand for racism in any form."

A 10-year-old child was arrested and brought before a judge, for having allegedly called an 11-year-old boya "Paki" and "bin Laden" during a playground argument at a primary school (the other boy had called him a skunk and a Teletubby). When it reached the court the case had cost taxpayers pound stg. 25,000. The accused was so distressed that he had stopped attending school. The judge, Jonathan Finestein, said: "Have we really got to the stage where we are prosecuting 10-year-old boys because of political correctness? There are major crimes out there and the police don't bother to prosecute. This is nonsense."

Finestein was fiercely attacked by teaching union leaders, as in those witch-hunt trials where any who spoke in defence of an accused or pointed to defects in the prosecution were immediately targeted as witches and candidates for burning.

Hate-crime police investigated Basil Brush, a puppet fox on children's television, who had made a joke about Gypsies. The BBC confessed that Brush had behaved inappropriately and assured police that the episode would be banned.

A bishop was warned by the police for not having done enough to "celebrate diversity", the enforcing of which is now apparently a police function. A Christian home for retired clergy and religious workers lost a grant because it would not reveal to official snoopers how many of the residents were homosexual. That they had never been asked was taken as evidence of homophobia.

Muslim parents who objected to young children being given books advocating same-sex marriage and adoption at one school last year had their wishes respected and the offending material withdrawn. This year, Muslim and Christian parents at another school objecting to the same material have not only had their objections ignored but have been threatened with prosecution if they withdraw their children.

There have been innumerable cases in recent months of people in schools, hospitals and other institutions losing their jobs because of various religious scruples, often, as in the East Germany of yore, not shouted fanatically from the rooftops but betrayed in private conversations and reported to authorities. The crime of one nurse was to offer to pray for a patient, who did not complain but merely mentioned the matter to another nurse. A primary school receptionist, Jennie Cain, whose five-year-old daughter was told off for talking about Jesus in class, faces the sack for seeking support from her church. A private email from her to other members of the church asking for prayers fell into the hands of school authorities.

Permissiveness as well as draconianism can be deployed to destroy socially accepted norms and values. The Royal Navy, for instance, has installed a satanist chapel in a warship to accommodate the proclivities of a satanist crew member. "What would Nelson have said?" is a British newspaper cliche about navy scandals, but in this case seems a legitimate question. Satanist paraphernalia is also supplied to prison inmates who need it. continues here

North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news of food crisis

North Korea is clamping down on mobile phones and long distance telephone calls to prevent the spread of news about a worsening food crisis, according to the United Nations investigator on human rights for the isolated communist country. 

In a report to the UN General Assembly, Vitit Muntarbhorn, a Thai law professor who has never been allowed to visit North Korea, said that its government is using public executions as a means of intimidating the population, and using spies to infiltrate and expose religious communities. 

His report came two days after the World Food Programme said that two thirds of North Koreans do not have enough to eat, in the country’s worst crisis since as many as three million people died of famine a decade ago. 

“Sadly, even though the harvest was getting better, we have had devastating floods in 2006 and 2007,” Mr Muntarbhorn said in New York. “Over the past year we have had very worrying information of a very chronic food shortage.” 

He acknowledged that the government of Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s supreme leader, has allowed access by international agencies to areas damaged by floods in 2007, but described the overall human rights situation as “grave”. 

“Particularly disconcerting is the use of public executions to intimidate the public,” he said. “This is despite various law reforms in 2004 and 2005, which claim to have improved the criminal law framework and related sanctions.” 

Available food is disproportionately directed to the political elite, the media is controlled by the state, there is no political participation, and dissidents and those with religious faith are persecuted, as well as those who return to North Korea after illicitly leaving the country across the Chinese border. 

“Over the past year, we have had reports of more severe sanctions against returnees,” he said. “It does not take very much for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea not to punish returnees.” 

He added: “It is reported that security personnel are ever-present among religious congregations to report on their activities and that the authorities use various persons disguised as religious personnel to monitor religious practices.” 

“Some inhabitants watch clandestinely video and TV programs from the south, but in 2008 there were reports of crackdowns on South Korean videos." 

Mr Muntarbhorn decried severe constraints on civil and political rights in North Korea, citing reports of "a clampdown on cellphone and long-distance telephone calls to prevent people from reporting on food shortages". 

Recent visitors to the country report that North Koreans are no longer allowed to use mobile phones at all. The few foreign tourists who travel there are made to surrender their mobiles on arrival; these are then sealed and returned only when departing the country. 

Government officials blame cases of "spying" for the crackdown. There are however reports that a Korean mobile phone service, which would not be able to communicate with the outside world, is being planned for a possible launch early next year. 

On Tuesday, WFP announced that some 2.7 million people on North Korea's west coast will run out of food in October, and that, because of the worsening food situation, it was increasing from 1.9 million to 6.5 million the population which it seeks to help with food aid.  continues here

Children as young as three should be reported for 'racism', Government-funded group claims

Toddlers should be taught about racism and singled out for criticism if they have racist attitudes, a Government-funded advisory group said yesterday. 

It told nursery teachers, playgroup leaders and childminders to record and report every racist incident involving children as young as three. 

These could include saying 'Yuk' about unfamiliar food.

Even babies should not be ignored in the hunt for racism because they can 'recognise different people in their lives', a new guide for nurseries and child care centres said.

The instructions for staff in charge of pre-school children in day care have been produced by the National Children's Bureau, which receives £12million a year, mostly through taxpayer-funded organisations. 

The NCB, which describes itself as 'an umbrella body for the children's sector', has long used its resources to campaign on controversial issues, for example in favour of a legal ban on smacking by parents. 

It also runs the Sex Education Forum, a campaign for more sex education in schools. 

The new 366-page guide, Young Children and Racial Justice, warned that 'racist incidents among children in early years settings-tend to be around name-calling-casual thoughtless comments, and peer group relationships'. 

It said such incidents could include children using words like 'blackie', 'Pakis', 'those people' or 'they smell'. 

Children might also 'react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying "yuk".' 

Nursery staff are told: 'No racist incident should be ignored. When there is a clear racist intent, it is necessary to be specific in condemning the action.' 

If children 'reveal negative attitudes the lack of censure may indicate to the child that there is nothing unacceptable about such attitudes'. 

Nurseries are encouraged to report as many racist incidents as possible to local councils. 

'Some people think that if a large number of racist incidents are reported, this will reflect badly on the institution,' it said. 'In fact, the opposite is the case.' 

The guidance said that anyone who disagrees is racist themselves. continues here

Are you awake yet, do you even care, it doesn’t seem you do, you continue on with your life whilst they destroy us, we are marked for extinction and unless we challenge it now they will win. Our children, or if we last that long, our grandchildren face an appalling future, a future where they are the minority, they the alien in their natural homelands, do you think for one second, that non-whites will exhibit the same degree of empathy, if not sheer capitulation, we have shown, do you think whites will be granted any concessions, the simple answer is no. We can see already the intolerance for the west these new-comers show, all it takes is for you to stand up and say enough, to show the leftists and their reprehensible backers that, they have had their day. To strive for something more than self, to try to heal this country, how in all conscious can you stand idly by, whilst they indoctrinate your own children, whilst they corrupt the innocent.

What ideology is it that requires such draconian enforcement, quite simply a wrong one, if multiculturalism was the benefit they tell you it is, why then the need for thought police, the need for laws, the need for anti-white-discrimination, why the need to besiege the minds of our most precious possession, our children, truly this is an evil ideology. Yet I stand amazed, amazed and appalled because you the people let them do it, you let them ride roughshod over your right to exist and your freedoms, you let them destroy western civilisation without a whimper, without even a cursory glance. You hold within you the power to change this, the power to alter and resist their evil plans, without you all of you who read this we cannot win, we simply cannot put right all the wrongs without a mandate from the people. We can talk a good fight, we can debate the issues but we cannot, simply cannot heal this nation and others, without a united effort, without you.

It should be the ultimate taboo the one thing that forces us to draw a line in the sand and shout no, no more, we simply refuse you, we will no longer bow down to your rubbish, to your garbage, to your filthy lies, leave our children alone. You have broken the family, lowered standards, attacked the unborn, pilloried white males, forced women into the workplace, taxed us for others, lied to us, made our society less caring and more violent, ruined everything but leave our children alone. The left should be running in fear, surrounded by the chaos of rage, harried back to whichever hellhole they came from, they should never again be permitted to preach their vile gospel, their evil philosophy and we, we survivors should begin anew to repair the damage they have caused. We should bring light back in, where once darkness flourished we should above all protect children, the rights of the child should be paramount to all after all they are our future.

Instead you won’t change, you won’t lift as much as a finger, you will remain so caught up with self that, you will sacrifice their future, hand them over on a plate, give their tomorrows, so you can have today. We are no longer what we were, we have been changed, altered, we have become monsters, caring for nothing but ourselves, we have thrown away our greatest strength, our unique altruism, a selflessness that enabled us to build the worlds only lasting society, the worlds foremost civilisation, but no longer. It is over, finished, we have succumb to savagery, we are a mere shadow of what we once were, evolution set in reverse, as the savage we admire shiny objects bedecked in gold, caring more for a label than for a child. We import dissimilar people to make up the numbers, as we kill our own in the womb; we banish our old, out of sight and presumably out of mind, to institutions to whither and simply die. We place minority over majority, lauding stupidity whilst deriding intellect, we admire violence, dishonesty and disrespect and teach our children these traits, and we are so unhappy that, many stagger bleary-eyed through life, high on drugs or alcohol or both. The law of the jungle has returned and all are prey, the flash of a knife and life is over, we creep around fearfully or find safety in a group, the power of the parent lies shattered and broken, a once valued antique. They have destroyed us, altered our very society, look around you for the better, do you prefer this, this incremental extinction, this erosion of good, this perversion, this malevolence.

Is it some sort of mind-numbing madness, some illusionists trick, do you not see, not hear, does anger not fuel your engine and sorrow not set your sail, do you not fence with reason and find yourself wanting. Do you contort as a gymnast avoiding all taboos, striving to comply with all they want, never realising that the exercise is over, the competition run and it is they that were wrong, they that have failed however, they won’t admit it, despotism is forever stubborn. Despotism, tyranny, can never be gently lathered away, never be sedately swept, it must be scrubbed until the flesh of society is red, until every vestige of filth is washed away. Yet although they have failed their lies still hold you true, the glue of madness binds your freedom and the bars of repression steal the future, it is coming, hold on tight, you may live to see the evil you permitted entrance, the demon you refused to contain. You may live to see the fear in your children’s eyes mixed with anger at your inaction; you may live to regret not fighting when chance came calling, when the merest glimmer of hope shone brightly.

If you can stand aside as they take your children, if you can watch unperturbed, perhaps you deserve your fate, perhaps I am wrong and there is nothing left to fight for. Perhaps the struggle is over and evil has the field, perhaps I should succumb as you have, caught in their web of lies, perhaps I should never again look to my fellows or strive for our children’s tomorrow. Perhaps the cow truly jumps over the moon, the yellow brick road truly leads to Oz and there is gold at the end of the rainbow, perhaps we are all equal and leftist philosophy is benign, perhaps tyranny doesn’t augment and money grows on trees, perhaps I can turn about and leave all I love to die, perhaps I am you. 14