Sunday, June 24, 2012



Saying “Crippled” Leads to Arrest

Make sure your Newspeak dictionary is up to date, and study it carefully on a daily basis. Use of previously innocuous words that our rulers have arbitrarily forbidden can lead to arrest:
    A man who says he was charged with disorderly conduct after using the word “crippled” to promote a comedian with muscular dystrophy claims Cincinnati police violated his free speech rights, and the comedian agrees.

    Forest Thomer, of Cold Spring, Ky., is to appear in a Cincinnati courtroom on the charge Wednesday. He was cited by Cincinnati police last month at a park after he and comedian Ally Bruener say he asked people if they wanted to “laugh at the crippled girl.”

    The question was not intended to demean his friend Bruener, but to promote her next comedy show and her allybruener.com website, the two said Monday. Bruener, who is in a wheelchair because of the degenerative muscle disorder, said she would approach people after Thomer asked them the question, tell a joke and talk about her next performance. Thomer also would record some of the public’s responses for use on Bruener’s website, showing people saying: “I laughed at the crippled girl.”

For his thought crime, Thomer could get 30 days in the hoosegow.

As for the crippled— I mean, as for the person of handicappedness,
    “I don’t think words have power until you react negatively to them,” said Bruener.

They don’t, but our PC rulers do, so watch your tongue. By the way, the word Chinaman is also forbidden now, in case you hadn’t heard. No one seems to know why.

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8 comments:

Bird of Paradise said...

Hey whats became of FREE SPEECH dont these PC nin-wit beleive in Free Speech?

Anonymous said...

Pretty soon the word CHRISTIAN will be forbidden.

Brian from Virginia said...

Thought that this kind of 'speech' was punishable with jail time only in the UK.

Anonymous said...

Read the article and you can see that there is more to this than meets the eye.

Thomer, 25, was cited May 23 on a disorderly conduct charge alleging that he walked into people and shouted obscenities at them, according to court records. Thomer was asked to stop his behavior but "persisted in yelling and shouting, causing annoyance and alarm to others," according to the complaint in Hamilton County Municipal Court.

A spokesman for the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, which sponsors the weekly park parties, said Thomer was "disrupting the event and our guests."

"We don't allow anyone to conduct marketing at our events without prior authorization or take video of our guests for commercial purposes without their approval," chamber spokesman Chris Kemper said.

Go Away Bird said...

This is a violation of FREEDOM of SPEECH. He needs to sue over this

Anonymous said...

"the word Chinaman is also forbidden now,"

So I guess if I say "Crippled Chinaman" they would probably give me the death penalty.

Kee Bird said...

Can anyone remember CRIPPLED CHILDRENS FUND? I think thats what it was called

Anonymous said...

Maybe the Americans deserve this for allowing police to have qualified immunity.

Could the cops just claim they did not know that this kind of kidnapping was illegal and get off?