Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Patricia Howe
Pauline Howe, 67, wrote a letter to Norwich Council objecting to a local gay pride march. She used the word “sodomites” and objected to “perverted sexual practices”. That is something Guido at least would perhaps be embarrassed by if his aunt blurted it out at Christmas. Subsequently two police officers turned up on her doorstep to warn her that she had committed a “hate crime”.
IMO: At least the lady was not given a beating by 'gay' police officers, in the traditonal Gilbert and Sullivan manner. In fact the incident reminds of the 'Neasden Police' regularly featured in 'Private Eye'. We have to hope that Mr. Paddick, a hopefully quite suitable potential replacement for Boris Johnson (who appears himself to have some strange background on that matter), has got it a bit more accurate. Current comments suggest that Paddick has, and to promote a long standing realistic and indeed sensitive view is a good deal different to - say - bashing of a so-called gay police trainee, as we so recently had in Liverpool and which Paddick commented on. Such violence is not the way forward and culprits undoubtedly should be dealt with. Basically reasoned disagreement, as seems to have been the case with Patricia Howe, is a valued part of the democratic process. If the situation is made too different to that, people will not tolerate it.
IMO: At least the lady was not given a beating by 'gay' police officers, in the traditonal Gilbert and Sullivan manner. In fact the incident reminds of the 'Neasden Police' regularly featured in 'Private Eye'. We have to hope that Mr. Paddick, a hopefully quite suitable potential replacement for Boris Johnson (who appears himself to have some strange background on that matter), has got it a bit more accurate. Current comments suggest that Paddick has, and to promote a long standing realistic and indeed sensitive view is a good deal different to - say - bashing of a so-called gay police trainee, as we so recently had in Liverpool and which Paddick commented on. Such violence is not the way forward and culprits undoubtedly should be dealt with. Basically reasoned disagreement, as seems to have been the case with Patricia Howe, is a valued part of the democratic process. If the situation is made too different to that, people will not tolerate it.
# posted by uv : 7:28 PM
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