Richard Littlejohn - another reason to leave the UK
Mar 26th 2013, 7:15 pm
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Mar 26th 2013, 7:25 pm
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Re: Richard Littlejohn - another reason to leave the UK
In December last year The Daily Mail was unequivocal in blaming two Australian radio DJs for the tragic suicide of nurse Jacintha Saldanha.
The Mail accused the pair outright of making "a fatal hoax phone call".
The Mail called Saldanha "A victim of today's culture of casual cruelty". The paper said Saldanha's suicide was a result of "casual, tacky, thoughtless cruelty that has infected popular culture like a plague".
The Mail accused the pair outright of making "a fatal hoax phone call".
The Mail called Saldanha "A victim of today's culture of casual cruelty". The paper said Saldanha's suicide was a result of "casual, tacky, thoughtless cruelty that has infected popular culture like a plague".
Mar 26th 2013, 7:27 pm
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Re: Richard Littlejohn - another reason to leave the UK
In December last year The Daily Mail was unequivocal in blaming two Australian radio DJs for the tragic suicide of nurse Jacintha Saldanha.
The Mail accused the pair outright of making "a fatal hoax phone call".
The Mail called Saldanha "A victim of today's culture of casual cruelty". The paper said Saldanha's suicide was a result of "casual, tacky, thoughtless cruelty that has infected popular culture like a plague".
The Mail accused the pair outright of making "a fatal hoax phone call".
The Mail called Saldanha "A victim of today's culture of casual cruelty". The paper said Saldanha's suicide was a result of "casual, tacky, thoughtless cruelty that has infected popular culture like a plague".
Mar 26th 2013, 7:31 pm
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Re: Richard Littlejohn - another reason to leave the UK
Mar 28th 2013, 12:03 pm
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Re: Richard Littlejohn - another reason to leave the UK
This sums up the Daily Mail pretty well.
Mar 28th 2013, 3:04 pm
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Whole thread reminds me of a movie I watched again last week, here's a quote....
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free"."
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free"."
Mar 28th 2013, 3:08 pm
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Re: Richard Littlejohn - another reason to leave the UK
Whole thread reminds me of a movie I watched again last week, here's a quote....
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free"."
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free"."
Mar 28th 2013, 3:12 pm
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Re: Richard Littlejohn - another reason to leave the UK
I realise that, it was more the principle I was getting at rather that the hypocritical reality of the US.
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Mar 28th 2013, 3:43 pm
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Mar 28th 2013, 6:23 pm
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