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British Civil Liberties Double Plus Ungood. Militant Islam Taking Over Anyway: "We Have To Rule The Kaffir". [Videos]

Irony Is Dead

We're way late coming to this, and we can't hope to improve on the Bad Astronomy lede to the story. But it's so gorgeous that we just can't resist:

According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily. Use of spy cameras in modern-day Britain is now a chilling mirror image of Orwell's fictional world, created in the post-war Forties in a fourth-floor flat overlooking Canonbury Square in Islington, North London. On the wall outside his former residence - flat number 27B - where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.

A little something to think about the next time you hear hysterical wails about how American life represents the death-knell of democratic civil liberties. Remember - not all academic leftists are stupid enough to think that China or Cuba represent superior utopias compared to "George Bush's America". Some are merely misguided enough to think that England does.

And yet somehow, they seem helpless to do anything about this:

Or this:

Or this:

Make sure you check out the beginning of the second one, where Britain's multiculturalist liaison participates in a Muslim conference where hatred is preached against gays and followers are told to beat girls who don't wear the hijab.

Pity. It was such a nice country too.

References:
* George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house
* Irony: 1984 - 2007

Previously:
* Wherein We Express Skepticism About Britain's Commitment To Not Recognizing Genocidal Lunatics
* Wow, Britain Is Really, Really Pathologically Anti-Semitic Anti-Zionist
* If Britain Won't Stop Radical Islam, Why Should Radical Islam Stop Being Radical?

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