The Damien Green affair as filtered through the "satire" programme "Have I Got News For You", according to Samizdata:Ian Hislop: It is amazing, isn't it, that they were were able to get 20 or so policemen to raid Mr Green's offices and search his house. Where are all these guys when you need to catch a burglar or something?
Compere: Ah, yes, that sounds like the sort of drivel you read in the Daily Mail.
Hislop: So let me get this right - are you saying that is perfectly okay for a bunch of anti-terror policemen to arrest, search and hold an MP for asking annoying questions in the House of Commons?
Compere: I am in all in favour of putting Tory MPs in jail.
Good Lord.
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I don't think you're supposed to take every comment seriously in Have I Got News For You. I don't know; I like HIGNFY quite a lot.
Anyway. Being some sort of pinko communist hippy, I rather like this sort of comedy. Marcus Brigstocke is absolutely hilarious, for example.
Something tells me you might not laugh so much at someone saying it's a good idea for the cops to arrest socialists.
Wunderbear, don't you have a censoring button in your brain ? Anyway, I wonder who wrote that second comment up there ? Sometimes God will visit you in form of a beggar...
@Ivan: ...What, you crazy man? Anyway. I do have a sense of self-censorship, but since this is the internet I hardly feel the need to use it.
@Anon: It depends on how it would be delivered; I'm sure that Jeremy Clarkson could put it in a way that would have me choking with laughter.
I also happen to like right-wing comedians as well as left-wing ones (Jeremy Clarkson and Marcus Brigstocke are both hilarious, despite probably being likely to tear each others' heads off if they ever met).
And who said I ever preferred socialists? Sure, in theory it's an interesting concept, but I think people are inherently moronic blinkered organisms (including me!) and would not be able to make a system like that work out of our own unwillingness to co-operate. Plus, I like having stuff. Feck off, people who want to "redistribute" it from me.
Yes, that was a lousy comparison. Never mind. (Gotta use the phrase sparingly, or this "never mind" routine of mine will get wasted).
Human society is like an isolated system in physics: all forces cannot act in a common direction. They always act against each other and sum up to zero.
And since there is no common driving force, society is going NOWHERE.
But, then again, is there any place to go ? Maybe we're not missing a lot.
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