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2007-11-23 Britain

Disabled veterans jeered at swimming pool

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Posted by Angique Gonque2974 2007-11-23 07:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 It was also reported that others complained that limbless servicemen were scaring children at the centre

Of course, it's always in the name of the Children[tm].

Societies and governments are organized for and by the adults. We value the children, but they can not be the final arbiters of civilization. Once again the infantilization of our society by the usual suspects.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-23 09:04|| 2007-11-23 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 The last of England.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-11-23 09:19|| 2007-11-23 09:19|| Front Page Top

#3 The men, injured during tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, were taking part in a rehabilitation session at a leisure centre, when two women demanded they be removed from the pool. They claimed that the soldiers "hadn't paid" and might scare the children.

The soldiers paid plenty to enable these idiots to enjoy freedoms. These "whiners" making the complaint should have been thrown out of the pool for being morons. Shouldn't be allowed to play in the gene pool.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-11-23 10:00|| 2007-11-23 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Normally, I am virulently opposed to all violence against women. In this case I'm willing to make an exception. This hag needs a beat down so severe that when it's over, only her hair doesn't hurt.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-23 10:06|| 2007-11-23 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 The answer is simple. Close the pool -- possibly the building -- to all others when the soldiers arrive, reopen it to the public after they leave. And post on the doors, the phone message, and the web site that it is because of these named women that this was done. A single naming in a newspaper report isn't nearly enough for such vile behaviour, especially in such an upscale community as Surrey, where they only read the Guardian and the Times anyway. Let there long be clucking at dinner parties over the inconvenience these women have caused everyone else by saying such things.

Posted by trailing wife in Buffalo for Thanksgiving 2007-11-23 10:51|| 2007-11-23 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I second #5. The Brits have lost their wits.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-11-23 11:11|| 2007-11-23 11:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Sadly, the flagship nation of what is left of the Old World Western Civilization, is going down the toilet at breakneck speed. Hardly a whimper left in them. Sad to see, really sad to watch the decline in my lifetime. A cautionary tail not even noted in the last best hope of mankind.... we are too absorded in finding out what the mopes did to Natalie Holloway!

Posted by NoMoreBS">NoMoreBS 2007-11-23 12:43|| 2007-11-23 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 This rather turns one of Scott Beauchump's favorite tales of the left on it's head. What's next? Rosie running over stray dogs for sport?

Posted by Angung Bourbon9497 2007-11-23 12:59|| 2007-11-23 12:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah, that is the UK! This escaped me when I read it at first; I must say this somehow surprized me, because I thought this was in the USA, adn this clashed with the good welcomes made to soldiers in airplanes and the likes. Sadly, this doesn't really surprize me for the UK, and I'm not an anti-britons type, it's just there's been many examples already of the PC/societal decay in which that once-proud country is mirred into.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-23 13:00|| 2007-11-23 13:00|| Front Page Top

#10 We all need a strong social sanction, of the kind that used to exist in society.

What would the response from the public have been if when these women were whining, if another woman had left the crowd, walked up to them, and slapped them across the face until their noses bled?

Well, in Britain, who knows. But in America, in most of the country, the public would support it.

And this is important. We all should ask ourselves and others the question: If we are out in public, and some scumball starts not only ranting against our soldiers, but tries to oppress them, individually or collectively, what should we do?

Now soldiers are disciplined. Very few will DO anything if they are spit on by some worthless hunk of shit. There is a strong feeling among most of them, that to beat the snot of the dirtbag would somehow dishonor the uniform.

Which means it is up to us, the public, to do it on their behalf. This is because it is OUR fight, too. The creep isn't attacking the soldier as a person. They are attacking their uniform, as a symbol of our nation. No different at all than burning a US flag in contempt and hatred.

It is open season on such people.

In their puny little minds, were the soldier to fight back, then they, the creep, could play victim, and pretend that the soldier represents "the government oppressing the people."

But if someone in the crowd, a civilian, beats him until he bleeds, it is the social sanction. It is the public telling the shitbird that he is wrong. That he is the oppressor, and that they, the public, won't stand for it.

That the public supports the uniform, and the people who wears them. And the turdball can go to hell.

And any time, and any place in the future, when the worthless hunk of stool does it again, he can expect more of the same, from "WE, the people".

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-11-23 13:04|| 2007-11-23 13:04|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL smellz like BS

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-11-23 13:13|| 2007-11-23 13:13|| Front Page Top

#12 I have an idea that will both help America and allow the oh-so-precious Brits to cleanse themselves of the undesired presence of military personnel. Some of our smarter presidential candidates are talking about a long overdue expansion of the armed forces, especially the Army and Marine Corps. We can add to the available manpower pool by granting immediate Green Card eligibility to any serving or recently-discharged British military personnel, quotas depending on our forces' manpower needs (I imagine higher numbers for ex-Army or Royal Marines, lower for RAF/RN types). Serve a hitch in our Armed Forces, get front-of-the-line eligibility for US Citizenship and the sincere thanks of a grateful adoptive nation.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-11-23 16:44|| 2007-11-23 16:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Now soldiers are disciplined. Very few will DO anything if they are spit on by some worthless hunk of shit. There is a strong feeling among most of them, that to beat the snot of the dirtbag would somehow dishonor the uniform.

Plus they probably would rather avoid having their careers end precipitously.

Posted by lotp 2007-11-23 17:22|| 2007-11-23 17:22|| Front Page Top

#14 This differs from bull-shit like Scott Beauchamp's tales in that the Telegraph gives specific data that are subject to verfication. It is also a reputable publication, not a lefty bullshit rag, and its intended audience is not composed of glue-sniffing trustafarians and Che-buttboys.
The Leatherhead rec center is a real place and some of the eyewitnesses are pushing hard to have the perps named in public.
If that smells like BS, it's because all that MSM bong water has corrupted your olfactory lobes.

Posted by Angique Gonque2974 2007-11-23 20:04|| 2007-11-23 20:04|| Front Page Top

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