What’s more racist than telling people to obey your country’s laws? I certainly can’t think of anything worse.
A Newport shopkeeper has been forced by police to remove a T-shirt from his shop window because they felt it “could be seen to be inciting racial hatred.”
Matthew Taylor, 35, the owner of Taylor’s clothes store on Emlyn Walk in the city, printed up and displayed the T-shirt with the slogan: “Obey our laws, respect our beliefs or get out of our country” after Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, was killed in near Woolwich barracks in London last week.
But following a complaint from a member of the public, police came to his store and threatened to arrest him unless he removed the Tshirt from sight.
A “member of the public” complained. Wonder who? Who would be more offended by a t-shirt with words printed on it than by a man getting beheaded in the middle of a London street by jihadis who specifically told onlookers they did it in the name of Allah?
Here’s the t-shirt:
So in Wales, if you publicly declare that everyone should obey your country’s laws and respect other people’s beliefs — not share those beliefs, but merely respect them — the cops will threaten to arrest you.
I wonder what would happen if everybody in Wales who believes in rule of law and religious freedom printed up their own t-shirts with that slogan and wore them in public? Would the police arrest them all?
Well, I can’t think of any reason I’d ever want to visit Wales anyway. They film Doctor Who there, but other than that. If you can get hassled by their cops for this, their tourism industry doesn’t need my money.
(Hat tip: Arthur Kimes)
P.S. I almost forgot the best part, right at the end of the story:
Newport city councillor, Majid Rahman said: “I believe in freedom of speech and defend his rights to say what he wants, but once it starts offending people then it’s a police matter and it’s up to them whether they think it’s broken any laws.”
If you have to put the word “but” in that sentence, everything before the “but” is a lie.
P.P.S. In case you missed it, here’s English Defence League spokesman Tommy Robinson addressing the jihadist beheading in London, the response by police and the media, and the implications for the UK. The British press has labeled Robinson a racist and a bigot and a hatemonger and who knows what else, but I challenge you to rebut him on the facts he presents and his method of presenting them.
