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National Review Contributing Editor John Derbyshire is a Brit living
in NY, and the first few paragraphs of his most recent article are
here: 
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire011503.asp

<<January 15, 2003 8:45 a.m.
You Heard It Here First
I told you so.

It is a melancholy satisfaction to be proved right on matters where I
would rather be proved wrong, but I did tell you so.

Derb, "Unpleasant Truths" (8/2/02): Their morale destroyed by
"brutality" and "profiling" hysteria, police forces will sink into
corruption and paper pushing. Ambitious public prosecutors will
concentrate on framing up law-abiding citizens with "hate crime,"
"corporate corruption," "dangerous product" (guns, fast food) or
"child abuse" charges. Actual crime -- murder, rape, robbery, burglary
and assault -- will skyrocket, but it will be illegal to talk about
it. 

At least 15 detectives were involved in the raid on Pete Townshend's
London house. Townshend, who created the rock group The Who, is
accused of having subscribed to kiddie-porn websites. When a reporter
asked why a raid against an unresisting suspect who is not known to
have harmed anyone's property or person needed 15 detectives, the
police replied: "It's a very big house." Here is a picture of Pete
Townshend's "very big house." 

Other members of the British constabulary are busying themselves with
rounding up people who say rude things about groups they don't like,
or even people who merely draw attention to the favors lavished on
"protected" groups, without expressing an opinion about whether they
like them or not. A correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph (and
refuge from the set of Lord of the Rings, to judge from his
photograph) was arrested and jailed last November for suggesting, at a
public rally in support of fox hunting, that hunters should be
accorded the same rights as blacks, Muslims, and homosexuals. In that
same month, the Crown Prosecution Service, which sets guidelines for
the British police, announced that prosecution of "homophobic and
transphobic" crimes is to be a priority. ("Transphobic"? Don't ask.)
Scores of police fanned out in a sweep of "haters" -- people who have
publicly expressed such opinions as that Muslim Britons are not very
patriotic, that Britain is letting in too many immigrants, or that
homosexuality is unhealthy. Numerous arrests were made.

Meanwhile, in the same country where all this is happening, crime is
rising at nine percent a year, relatives tell me that if you report a
stolen car to the police (and supposing you are lucky enough to
actually get a call through to the station house in between all those
citizens calling in "hate crimes") they shrug and tell you to deal
with it through your insurance company, a friend admiring my wife's
jewelry sighs that there is no use having jewelry in London as it will
only get stolen by burglars, and an absolute, total,
no-exceptions-whatsoever ban on ownership of handguns has had the
perfectly predictable result that every self-respecting criminal now
owns a handgun, and deaths from handgun violence are going through the
roof.

In a different country, Gerald Amirault is in his 17th year of
imprisonment on bogus "child abuse" charges trumped up by an ambitious
DA with the assistance of anti-family cranks, moronic jurors, and
chicken-livered politicians. In this same country, a man who hacked
his wife and her friend to death but was found innocent on grounds of
skin color, prepares himself for another day on the golf course. And
in this same country, the governor of an important state has granted
clemency to 150 murderers, declaring that the justice system is
broken. No poop, Sherlock -- hey, let's break it some more!>>

Leslie


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Every death extinguished a world." -- President George W. Bush, 12/11/2001

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