Wednesday, May 28, 2008

English Motorist told English flag was racist



We read:
"A teenage motorist was told to remove an England flag from his car by a police officer because it could be offensive to immigrants. Ben Smith, 18, was driving back home to Ingram Road in Melksham on Thursday evening after filling up with petrol, when the officer stopped him on a routine patrol.

He checked the tax disc and tyres on his Vauxhall Corsa but when he noticed the flag of St George on the parcel shelf he told Mr Smith to take it down. Mr Smith, who works for G Plan Upholsterers on Hampton Park West, said: "He saw the flag and said it was racist towards immigrants and if I refused to take it down I would get a œ30 fine. "I laughed because I thought he was joking, but then I realised he was serious so I had to take it down straight away. I thought it was silly - it's my country and I want to show my support for my country."

PC Dave Cooper, of Chippenham Road Policing Unit, said he had never come across an officer asking someone to remove an England flag from their car because it could be racist. He added: "It all depends on the context of a stop. If they are going past a lot of Polish people, for instance, and abusing them, then we possibly would ask them to take the flag down."

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13 comments:

Anonymous said...

WTF, in GB your not allowed to display the national flag because it might offend someone from outof country? In the US it is only free speech to burn the US flag. What kind of distorted logic are our governments using?

Anonymous said...

Of course if it had been a Hamas or Hezbollah flag there would have been no problem.

Anonymous said...

refuse to take it down, refuse to pay the fine, and let's see how the high court decides...
This is clearly abuse of police powers.

Anonymous said...

Hello Good Gentles All!

I have been trying to determine when exactly Britons became slaves.

It used to be said that England was a country fit for heroes to live in. Now it is merely a cage.

Pax,

InFides

Anonymous said...

This is just ridiculous. Don't breath you may offend someone, somewhere, somehow.

Christ almighty.

oops.

Anonymous said...

It is no doubt a result of some racist orgnizations having "hijacked" the English flag (St George) and UK flag (Union "Jack") so that some dumb police see the flags as racist flags and a potential threat to peace in multi-cultural neighborhoods.
This is an unacceptable insult to the host nation's flags by it's own stupid police!

Anonymous said...

Hello Good Gentles All!

Here are some excerpts from Magna Carta.

Pax,

InFides


Preamble:
Edward by the grace of God King of England, lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine sends greetings to all to whom the present letters come. We have inspected the great charter of the lord Henry, late King of England, our father, concerning the liberties of England in these words:

Henry by the grace of God King of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and count of Anjou sends greetings to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, sheriffs, reeves, ministers and all his bailiffs and faithful men inspecting the present charter. Know that we, at the prompting of God and for the health of our soul and the souls of our ancestors and successors, for the glory of holy Church and the improvement of our realm, freely and out of our good will have given and granted to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons and all of our realm these liberties written below to hold in our realm of England IN PERPETUITY.

1:
In the first place we grant to God and confirm by this our present charter for ourselves and our heirs in perpetuity that the English Church is to be free and to have all its rights fully and its liberties entirely. We furthermore grant and give to all the freemen of our realm for ourselves and our heirs IN PERPETUITY the liberties written below to have and to hold to them and their heirs from us and OUR HEIRS IN PERPETUITY.

9:
The city of London is to have all its ancient liberties and customs. Moreover we wish AND GRANT that ALL OTHER cities and boroughs and vills and the barons of the Cinque Ports and all ports are to have all their liberties and free customs.

29:
No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his free tenement or of HIS LIBERTIES OR FREE CUSTOMS, or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined, nor will we go against such a man or send against him save by lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land. To no-one will we sell or deny of delay right or justice.


Second to last section:
... Moreover we grant to them for us and our heirs that neither we nor our heirs will seek anything by which the liberties contained in this charter might be infringed or damaged, and should anything be obtained from anyone against this it is to count for nothing and to be held as nothing. ...

Final section:
We, holding these aforesaid gifts and grants to be right and welcome, conceed and confirm them for ourselves and our heirs and by the terms of the present (letters) renew them, wishing and granting for ourselves and OUR HEIRS that the aforesaid charter is to be FIRMLY AND INVIABLY OBSERVED in all and each of its articles in perpetuity, including any articles contained in the same charter which by chance have not to date been observed. In testimony of which we have had made these our letters patent. Witnessed by Edward our son, at Westminster on the twelfth day of October in the twenty-fifth year of our reign. (Chancery warranty by John of) Stowe.

(All full word captalizations in the text were added by your humble correspondent.)

Anonymous said...

no racist organisations have done so.
But there is this crazy idea that's taken root that any cross at all is offensive to Muslims and the English flag consists of a red cross on white background.
The London police department even had to change their centuries old shield and badge because of it.

Anonymous said...

So now english cant display the union jack becuase some whinny liberal wussietard might be offended what a bunch of whimps the english parlament has becuase maybe its time to start kicking out the forgeiners

Anonymous said...

Merry Old England is merry no more. It's really hard to believe how far England has sunk in trying to appease every nationality that invades it's shores.

Anonymous said...

Britain could repel all the obvious invaders since 1066, but has lately forgetten about the Trojan Horse tactic.

Anonymous said...

Remember Remember the Fifth of November ...

Anonymous said...

Well I hope there's better security in the HoP now than in 1605!