Frontpage Mag By Bruce Bawer
Going toe-to-toe with the thought police in England.
You’ve probably heard the old joke. In Heaven the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the bankers are Swiss, the lovers are Italian, and the police are English. In Hell, by contrast, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the bankers are Italian, the lovers are Swiss, and the police are German. Once upon a time, the joke didn’t have to be explained – at least not the part about English police. Even people who’d never been to England had seen enough old movies to get it. English cops didn’t carry guns. They were decent, civilized professionals, trained to be public servants in accordance with the high principles of policing set down in the 1820s by Sir Robert Peel, in honor of whom they were known as “Bobbies.”
In recent years, alas, the rosy image of English cops has been severely tarnished. It’s now known that for decades, constabularies in many English cities were so scared of being called racists that they ignored the systematic rape of thousands of children by Muslim “grooming gangs.” They’ve also harassed Tommy Robinson, who’s done more than anyone to expose those gangs. And they’ve arrested thousands of ordinary people for expressing politically incorrect opinions online. No fewer than 150,000 law-abiding British citizens now have rap sheets because of their involvement in “non-crime hate incidents.”
One of those citizens is a retired cop named Harry Miller, who between November 2018 and January 2019 composed or shared 31 tweets that were reported to the Humberside Constabulary as “transphobic.” (Example: “Only women have vaginas and only men have penises.”) The post singled out by the cop who visited Miller at work consisted of this re-tweeted bit of verse:
Your breasts are made of silicone,
Your vagina goes nowhere
And we can tell the difference
Even when you’re not there.
Your hormones are synthetic
And let’s just cross this bridge
What you have, you stupid man,
Is male privilege.
