Particularly here in Great Britain:
How many citizens who were robbed knew that the police didn't even bother to look for the criminals, didn't even set a case in motion, so as not to spoil their record of completed cases - why should they sweat to catch a thief if he would be given only six months, and then be given three months off for good behaviour? And anyway, it wasn't certain the bandits would even be tried when caught.
Finally, sentences were bound to be reduced, and of course for habitual criminals especially. Watch out there now, witness in the courtroom! They will all be back soon, and it'll be a knife in the back for anyone who gave testimony!
Therefore, if you see someone crawling through a window [...] shut your eyes! Walk by! You didn't see anything!
Three guesses as to who wrote that.
Peter Hitchens? No.
Melanie Phillips? No.
Theodore Dalrymple? No.
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Carrying on from my earlier e-mail conversation with my friend.
He replied, tongue-in-cheek, with two salient points:
you’re saying ignorant bliss is preferable to educated slavery. Both, very poor options, no? The problem with freedom-loving yokels is that you can give them any facts at all and they can’t fight it except on whether it “feels” right or not. The people interviewed mostly seemed switched off in almost all socio-political issues (ask them about sport or entertainment and you might get a different reaction) which is open season for the unethical or even well-intentioned leader with an agenda.
and
I mean Vietnam too! Apart from when you guys stepped in at the end of WWII has the US actually “won” a war it got itself involved in (forget Hollywood please)?
What follows is my reply:
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A very dear English friend of mine who lives in Portugal sent me this link. I'm sure you have probably seen it before. He asked me what I thought of it, and how it made him think that maybe having the voting franchise extended to everyone in the US may not necessarily be a good idea. He wanted my reply because he knew he could count on something out of me...So here it is:
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