tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post3648142282990236722..comments2023-11-02T07:30:03.967-07:00Comments on Cassandra Does Tokyo: The People of Great Britain are Better Off Today..."Cassandra"http://www.blogger.com/profile/17412381249313151515noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-45698040504551546022015-07-09T08:07:34.432-07:002015-07-09T08:07:34.432-07:00To see a slave / subject of Great Britain subject ...To see a slave / subject of Great Britain subject someone to a Bill of Attainder is both sickening and sad. Your culture is a walking dead and is currently being replaced by radical Islam with a peppering of Russian Oligarch land/business ownership. Your last rungs of power are the banking cabal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-1774774109830841332009-05-18T22:58:00.000-07:002009-05-18T22:58:00.000-07:00Cassandra, while I can understand the sentiments, ...Cassandra, while I can understand the sentiments, why cheer on this type of nonsense by the UK government? Speech-based litmus tests infringe individual liberty, and their application in this case will almost certainly be counterproductive, as another blogger notes here:<br /><br /><I>"You can see Savage making out like a bandit for the next six months, on his own show, and stomping around the TokyoTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09588387872596983852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-114462405986648912009-05-16T15:27:00.000-07:002009-05-16T15:27:00.000-07:00In the past, journalists would get banned or jaile...In the past, journalists would get banned or jailed for telling the truth. Now the journalists collect paychecks from media moguls more interested in something else than the truth. So now we have to rely on bloggers and independent radio personalities for some version of the truth. In time they too will become subsumed.<br /><br />Enjoy your freedom, Britain. Thank goodness you're too busy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-24915437407843797912009-05-10T20:35:00.000-07:002009-05-10T20:35:00.000-07:00Condolences to the paisano :
http://www.youtube....Condolences to the paisano :<br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYUAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-16666184535416227022009-05-10T19:15:00.000-07:002009-05-10T19:15:00.000-07:00It is difficult to hold up the land of ubiquitous ...It is difficult to hold up the land of ubiquitous CCTV and bans on public dancing (raves) as a haven of freedom.<br /><br />Captcha word: cophistoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-29800778667942508012009-05-10T07:57:00.000-07:002009-05-10T07:57:00.000-07:00Your say that you are Italian; you sound more like...Your say that you are Italian; you sound more like Oriana Fallaci,which in itself explains your post-enlightenment literary downtrend.Yikes ! Go find yourself a Fox News blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-45030548219575889052009-05-10T04:54:00.000-07:002009-05-10T04:54:00.000-07:00Cassandra:
The English were - and still are - rem...Cassandra:<br /><br />The English were - and still are - remarkably good at exposing humbug to ridicule or even to fatal rebuttal. The Waughs, father and son, come to mind.<br /><br />With a few exceptions, they're tolerant in law, but can become rebarbative in fact. This sensitivity as to what one may or may not say suggests tolerant speech may not address intolerant speech - it suppresses one burnsidenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-45041529206603136012009-05-10T00:45:00.000-07:002009-05-10T00:45:00.000-07:00What a harmful reaction to my kind words. I'm a go...What a harmful reaction to my kind words. I'm a good man and so generous that i gifted 500 seconds to your blog. What's wrong with Arkansas or Maine. Are you racist ? If i remeber, the last one has passe gay marriage. Be happy, now you can marry burnside. Anyway i'm not American, i'm Italian. Dr Strane Love is a great film. I agree, but along with the bodysnatchers it is about you, not me. You Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-11725814353309529052009-05-09T10:46:00.000-07:002009-05-09T10:46:00.000-07:00"where milions of nazi muslims do what they w..."where milions of nazi muslims do what they want" & "England? A third world slum? I suppose 'poor' France is similarly afflicted?"<br />---Cassandra,you certainly have invoked (unwittingly) the wrath of a shadow readership that chooses a dormant existence unless given the opportunity to adumbrate whatever resides behind their tongue-tied suasions. Though I do agreeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-88176693883250410812009-05-09T10:03:00.000-07:002009-05-09T10:03:00.000-07:00Arkansas? New Hampshire? The latter, with the mott...Arkansas? New Hampshire? The latter, with the motto: "Live Free or Die" amuingly adjacent to State Liquor Store signage also being the only state to repeal the designation of MLK day as a holiday..."Cassandra"https://www.blogger.com/profile/17412381249313151515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-46593379310596560502009-05-09T06:31:00.000-07:002009-05-09T06:31:00.000-07:00England? A third world slum? I suppose 'poor' Fran...England? A third world slum? I suppose 'poor' France is similarly afflicted?<br /><br />Cass, where <I>do</I> these people come from?burnsidenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-47649271878858672442009-05-09T05:02:00.000-07:002009-05-09T05:02:00.000-07:00Anonymous 4:27am
Oh indeed, isn't it just a trave...Anonymous 4:27am<br /><br />Oh indeed, isn't it just a travesty that our shores and nations are being polluted by <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY" REL="nofollow">foriegn substances introduced into our precious bodily fluids</A>.<br /><br />"Tell me Jack, when did you first develop this ummm errr "theory"??!" <br /><br />"Well, Mandrake....""Cassandra"https://www.blogger.com/profile/17412381249313151515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-23784464249002871912009-05-09T04:27:00.000-07:002009-05-09T04:27:00.000-07:00Poor England. Once a great and proud nation, now a...Poor England. Once a great and proud nation, now a third world slum, where milions of nazi muslims do what they want. Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Sweden are doomed nations, plundered by jihadists and third world migrants. The Michael Savage "affaire" is just another little nail in the coffin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-51859226210896314232009-05-08T12:47:00.000-07:002009-05-08T12:47:00.000-07:00Apologies to the peanut gallery pedants for the Vo...Apologies to the peanut gallery pedants for the Voltaire quote. The quote does, however, aptly capture Voltaire's spirit of individual liberty, freedom of thought, and toleration of different opinions, and it is thus attributed to him. But he did not confront his opponents with reciprocal censorship and intolerance of opinions, but head-on debate and rational counter-argument and logic, whether Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-68035000939651212582009-05-08T09:43:00.000-07:002009-05-08T09:43:00.000-07:00What a lovely mess.
I think the Brits have always...What a lovely mess.<br /><br />I think the Brits have always been madly fond of eccentrics, and of a good tease or the opportunity of visiting one on the unsuspecting.<br /><br />So they must be enjoying the steam arising from this 'omelette' very much.<br /><br />Secretary Smith is to be commended for presenting so broad a target, such an awkward moment, such discomfiture.burnsidenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-42486138824604234012009-05-08T03:35:00.000-07:002009-05-08T03:35:00.000-07:00Cassandra,
What a small and tendentious refutatio...Cassandra,<br /><br />What a small and tendentious refutation. Shall we now pull down Voltaire, lest he be used in defense of Michael Savage?<br /><br />The primary quote from Voltaire seems to have been:<br /><br /><I>What a fuss over an omelette</I>which is mighty ironic considering it fits the present case even better than the "defend to the death" quote.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-51301324742980513632009-05-08T02:36:00.000-07:002009-05-08T02:36:00.000-07:00Quite true JDC. See...
Voltaire: Would he have r...Quite true JDC. See...<br /><br /><A HREF="http://abluteau.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/never-said-it-10-famously-inaccurate-quotes/" REL="nofollow">Voltaire: Would he have really defended your words to the death?</A>.<br /><br />It was written according to wikiquote's account by an english woman <A HREF="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall" REL="nofollow">Evelyn Beatrice Hall</A> who "Cassandra"https://www.blogger.com/profile/17412381249313151515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-78095582850475095012009-05-08T02:11:00.000-07:002009-05-08T02:11:00.000-07:00Anonymous - Voltaire never said that. Not even nea...Anonymous - Voltaire never said that. Not even nearly.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07371197947234412265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-10520910410092896992009-05-08T01:56:00.000-07:002009-05-08T01:56:00.000-07:00There is a sneaking suspicion that these days, the...There is a sneaking suspicion that these days, the "conscience of a liberal", to borrow a phrase, is nothing more than a rationalization of power. <br /><br />Nice to know where you stand on this. <br /><br />There was a time when liberals understood principle.<br /><br />I no longer consider myself one of you; I didn't leave the fold, you all left mine.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-61111021944332449652009-05-07T12:14:00.000-07:002009-05-07T12:14:00.000-07:00"in the interests of national security, territoria..."in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or the rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary."<br /><br />But this doesn't apply to Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-85076115725227058812009-05-07T11:16:00.000-07:002009-05-07T11:16:00.000-07:00Anonymous 9:55am
As to your charges (thanking yo...Anonymous 9:55am <br /><br />As to your charges (thanking you for the compliment), I am guilty as charged...sort of. Cowell and Hoddle were of course tongue-in-cheek light relief, but the mention of Marx is reasonable example of a State that provided refuge and confidently tolerated someone whose ideas and activities were clearly antithetical to the survival of the System and State as it was. As "Cassandra"https://www.blogger.com/profile/17412381249313151515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-60361004607781930082009-05-07T10:30:00.000-07:002009-05-07T10:30:00.000-07:00Savage is an a-hole, but your screed against him (...Savage is an a-hole, but your screed against him (racist, fascist, etc.) makes you little better. While real racists and fascist exist in the world, those terms are usually used by those on the PC left, to marginalize those with whom they disagree, i.e. for those whom the indoctrination didn't take. Savage/Weiner is just a non-PC bigmouth who likes to stir the pot. BFD.<br /><br />Just curiousJames from Marylandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-89266676429894738112009-05-07T09:55:00.000-07:002009-05-07T09:55:00.000-07:00Cassandra,I am a huge fan of yours but it's disapp...Cassandra,I am a huge fan of yours but it's disappointing to read your mention of Karl Marx in the company of such an idiotic mix. In pursuit of becoming blindly centrist you have pushed a non-event to attract an ilk of people who defend that Weiner guy to justify all nonsense and keep spewing their blabber.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-71014445972173186152009-05-07T06:09:00.000-07:002009-05-07T06:09:00.000-07:00Anonymous 4:11
You make good points. And it would...Anonymous 4:11<br /><br />You make good points. And it would be more worrying (to me) were they mis-directed. I would point out again (eschewing the cheek of Simon Cowell) that Britain's track record is one of tolerance. They tolerated Mullah Hook until the level of hateful vitriol (sic) exceeded reasonable limits. To their credit, they are somewhat symmetrical in chopping BOTH tails. Britain, "Cassandra"https://www.blogger.com/profile/17412381249313151515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18079728.post-31337066556464395832009-05-07T04:11:00.000-07:002009-05-07T04:11:00.000-07:00I really don't understand the whole situation. Co...I really don't understand the whole situation. Correct me if I am wrong, but Savage is not even on the air in GB. I also read he had not been to GB in 20 years and did not have any immediate plans to visit GB. <br />So how did Savage pop up on the radar of Jacqui Smith? Did someone from her office visit the US, turn on the radio, and decide we must ban him? <br /><br />I guess not.<br />FromAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com