Is that a UK day of rememberence for those who paid the ultimate ?
In my country the whack jobs have and are taking over at the state and local level so anything that is establishment,honors anyone for doing any good or has a connotation to right/wrong instead of the "everything is grey,no right and no wrong" world is a target for their wrath.
Said whackos recent slap was to proclaim Veteren's Day,a day that honors the warriors who actually
survived (unlike memorial day tha honors the fallen of all wars) and who should receive daily thanks among other honors,not important enough to have the day off from school even though a nationally recognised Federal Holiday which means no mail,no banks open,wall street shut down,etc., yet not important enough in my state to even have the day off OR teach why there even is such a holiday !
This lasted for all of a week because when the community of that city heard about the school boards decision to "cancel christmas" (a joke but also in the pipeline ;D ) all hell broke loose and they were forced into a second vote with THAT vote going almost unaminous (lone dissenting vote) to reinstate the holiday.
Our news services being what they are and having an agenda called "make the news not report the news" was not happy with this backtrack from the new PC (attack all present and former soldiers as scumbags with no dignity and hence not worthy of respect OR a day ) proceeeded to ask teenagers what they were going to do on the day off which being teenagers the average answer was "play video games or go to the mall and hang out".
the point they attempted to make was that no one cared enough to do anything special so why bother having the day off but the very act of interviewing teenagers itself was a dishonest attempt to color public opinion.
You do not ask a group that at that particular time in their life is all about THEM (as it should be,young only once folks) questions of importance as if anything they say will be a revelation heard 'round the world.If this "group" was so worldly they would not be porecluded byLAW from driving before a certain age,drinking alcoholic beveredges before a certain age (legally abyway
) or having the ability to either enter into a contract and/or own personal property.
why ? They are not ready is why even though there will be exceptions and why we have laws setting defined age limits on many aspects of society.so to ask the least responsible group to weigh in on an important local issue that means no more than another day off from shool to them is dishonest yet that is the norm on ALL such issues.
maybe they should have asked me what
I thought about the whole deal,but then,it would never had made the cut ! Common sense lucid answers will not do so you have a hard time finding any examples in any news organisation of actual "news" instead of "you need to think this way" (news outlest are better called "Department of Propaganda" more often than not
I have no problem with any view point as long as there is balance so to me telling only one side of every story to form popular opinion in that direction is no different than a total lie and they should be ashamed but then again,there is the "no right,no wrong" area again................................until you piss THEM off then you find there really is a wrong.Not being PC is a death sentence in some states
11 Bravo