Stiff Upper Lip?

As I write this, I cant help but think that it will be read as some racial bile, just spewing from an angry person. It isn't. However, you are free to think what you like. That's your privilege. But somebody has to say something at some time. Today, I choose to write this. The comment box is below.

I consider myself, more or less, a "thinker" or at least someone who tries to get a balanced viewpoint. I'm sure any level-headed person is completely astounded by nearly everything that is reported on in the media...

Positive Discrimination?

For example. The Police for the Gloucestershire have been "randomly deselecting" white male applicants in a bid to meet a target set by the UK Government - 7% women and ethnic minorities in each Police force by 2009...

Note for one that the Government set this target. Note also that it is illegal to have "quotas" whereby any ethnicity is selected in favour of another. Don't the two conflict with each other? The Government sets the target, but makes it illegal to set targets!

It is also of note that this commotion takes place in Gloucestershire! Personally I think it is one thing to have proportional representation across the nation, but it is another to expect the same in such a rural area as Gloucestershire.

It astounds me to see on every hand, over-indulgant, self-serving "watchdogs" in place in our precious nation. A place where the law definitely favours the wrong-doer and punishes the law-abider. Pick up a newspaper, and I guarantee that you will see some crazy injustice brought about by either strange, needless bureaucracies or over zealous, spying busy-bodies that are spurred on by those same bureaucracies.

"But it's not British to complain!"

True. What we silly British do is put up with people taking liberties with our nation's inherent kindnesses. Tax dodgers, criminals, con-artists, and many others seem to see that Britain is a free-for-all state with free healthcare and a system that can be bent to the will of the wrong-doer.

How would you like to be burgled only to get prosecuted for using "excessive force" to eject the burglar? I hear you cry, "But the man needed food! he wasn't going to steal anything of significant value! he was desperate!" I just don't care. Right is right, wrong is wrong. It's pretty straightforward.

Seriously people! Open your eyes! See that most of the reporting in the media is fluff just to drown out the real issues. Our nation is being raped right in front of us. But we do nothing. To me that is not British! We were a nation of action and dynamism. The envy of the world. Now we are a nation of louts, in need of instruction. It is now a nation where a flag in a taxi flying for our team at the World Cup was banned because it's "racist" though we have many ethnicities represented in Britain... Can you imagine the uproar that would ensue if this happened in another country? But we roll over and say nothing. Sad indeed. You could be England-born with parents from Jamaica, wearing a Brazil shirt, flying a Welsh flag. Are you racist?

I'm glad to be British, but I am greatly saddened by the state of our nation. Maybe we should be a bit more proud of our heritage, not ashamed of it. Maybe we should say a little more about the injustices that are befalling the good people in our nation. Maybe a little less "stiff upper lip" and a bit more indignation? Just a thought.