• [OT] British parents arrested for questioning a hiring decision madeat their daughter's school on What's App

    From Rhino@no_offline_contact@example.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Nov 29 10:30:51 2025
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner
    said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that
    SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station.

    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain
    does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that
    because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest
    whatever in preserving free speech.
    --
    Rhino

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  • From shawn@nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Nov 29 11:08:28 2025
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    On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:30:51 -0500, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner
    said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that
    SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station.

    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain
    does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that >because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest
    whatever in preserving free speech.

    I fail to see why the police felt it was necessary to arrest the
    couple to do an investigation. It feels like they never did any
    investigation even when the school had been complaining for months,
    until they had arrested the couple. They just took the school's word
    as gospel. That or there's some connection between the school and
    someone in the local police force that might explain the behavior.
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  • From moviePig@nobody@nowhere.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Nov 29 11:45:47 2025
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    On 11/29/2025 11:08 AM, shawn wrote:
    On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:30:51 -0500, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner
    said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that
    SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station. >>
    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain
    does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that
    because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest
    whatever in preserving free speech.

    I fail to see why the police felt it was necessary to arrest the
    couple to do an investigation. It feels like they never did any
    investigation even when the school had been complaining for months,
    until they had arrested the couple. They just took the school's word
    as gospel. That or there's some connection between the school and
    someone in the local police force that might explain the behavior.

    Although "harassment" may not be automatically negligible, the Brits do
    seem to have an impractically low threshold for what constitutes it.


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  • From BTR1701@atropos@mac.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Nov 29 19:39:35 2025
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    On Nov 29, 2025 at 7:30:51 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner
    said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that
    SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station.

    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain
    does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest
    whatever in preserving free speech.

    It really is turning into a Stasi-like environment in the UK. Now they're keeping track of the social media posts of foreigners who say no-no words and put them in a database, so if those foreigners every come to the UK, e.g., for vacation and tourism, they can be arrested at the airport upon arrival and charged with hate crimes.

    I guess I've made my last visit to England because I've certainly said a lot
    of stuff here and on the exTwitters about the UK that would have landed me in prison if I'd said it in the UK.

    Meanwhile, MI5 and MI6 are introducing racist youth internship programs for everyone except white people. The internship criteria specifically disallows white Britons from applying for the positions.


    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/


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  • From moviePig@nobody@nowhere.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Nov 29 15:49:00 2025
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    On 11/29/2025 2:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 7:30:51 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner
    said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that
    SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station. >>
    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain
    does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that
    because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest
    whatever in preserving free speech.

    It really is turning into a Stasi-like environment in the UK. Now they're keeping track of the social media posts of foreigners who say no-no words and put them in a database, so if those foreigners every come to the UK, e.g., for
    vacation and tourism, they can be arrested at the airport upon arrival and charged with hate crimes.

    I guess I've made my last visit to England because I've certainly said a lot of stuff here and on the exTwitters about the UK that would have landed me in prison if I'd said it in the UK.

    Meanwhile, MI5 and MI6 are introducing racist youth internship programs for everyone except white people. The internship criteria specifically disallows white Britons from applying for the positions.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/

    Why, that'd be like hiring only females to counsel pregnant teens!!!


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  • From BTR1701@atropos@mac.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Nov 29 21:46:00 2025
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    On Nov 29, 2025 at 12:49:00 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 11/29/2025 2:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 7:30:51 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >> wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner
    said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that >>> SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station. >>>
    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain
    does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that
    because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest
    whatever in preserving free speech.

    It really is turning into a Stasi-like environment in the UK. Now they're >> keeping track of the social media posts of foreigners who say no-no words >> and
    put them in a database, so if those foreigners every come to the UK, e.g., >> for
    vacation and tourism, they can be arrested at the airport upon arrival and >> charged with hate crimes.

    I guess I've made my last visit to England because I've certainly said a lot
    of stuff here and on the exTwitters about the UK that would have landed me >> in
    prison if I'd said it in the UK.

    Meanwhile, MI5 and MI6 are introducing racist youth internship programs for >> everyone except white people. The internship criteria specifically disallows
    white Britons from applying for the positions.


    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/

    Why, that'd be like hiring only females to counsel pregnant teens!!!

    Why exactly would it be like that, especially now that we're being firmly advised that men can get pregnant?


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  • From moviePig@nobody@nowhere.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Nov 29 18:57:09 2025
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    On 11/29/2025 4:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 12:49:00 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 11/29/2025 2:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 7:30:51 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
    wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner >>>> said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that >>>> SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station.

    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain >>>> does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that >>>> because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest
    whatever in preserving free speech.

    It really is turning into a Stasi-like environment in the UK. Now they're >>> keeping track of the social media posts of foreigners who say no-no words >>> and
    put them in a database, so if those foreigners every come to the UK, e.g.,
    for
    vacation and tourism, they can be arrested at the airport upon arrival and
    charged with hate crimes.

    I guess I've made my last visit to England because I've certainly said a lot
    of stuff here and on the exTwitters about the UK that would have landed me
    in
    prison if I'd said it in the UK.

    Meanwhile, MI5 and MI6 are introducing racist youth internship programs for
    everyone except white people. The internship criteria specifically disallows
    white Britons from applying for the positions.


    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/

    Why, that'd be like hiring only females to counsel pregnant teens!!!

    Why exactly would it be like that, especially now that we're being firmly advised that men can get pregnant?

    Do you really see no analogy, or just want to mention "pregnant men"?


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  • From BTR1701@atropos@mac.com to rec.arts.tv on Sun Nov 30 00:34:41 2025
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    On Nov 29, 2025 at 3:57:09 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 11/29/2025 4:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 12:49:00 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 11/29/2025 2:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 7:30:51 AM PST, "Rhino"
    <no_offline_contact@example.com>
    wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner >>>>> said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that
    SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station.

    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain >>>>> does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that >>>>> because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest >>>>> whatever in preserving free speech.

    It really is turning into a Stasi-like environment in the UK. Now they're
    keeping track of the social media posts of foreigners who say no-no words
    and
    put them in a database, so if those foreigners every come to the UK, e.g.,
    for
    vacation and tourism, they can be arrested at the airport upon arrival and
    charged with hate crimes.

    I guess I've made my last visit to England because I've certainly said >>>> a lot
    of stuff here and on the exTwitters about the UK that would have landed me
    in
    prison if I'd said it in the UK.

    Meanwhile, MI5 and MI6 are introducing racist youth internship programs >>>> for
    everyone except white people. The internship criteria specifically
    disallows
    white Britons from applying for the positions.



    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/

    Why, that'd be like hiring only females to counsel pregnant teens!!!

    Why exactly would it be like that, especially now that we're being firmly >> advised that men can get pregnant?

    Do you really see no analogy, or just want to mention "pregnant men"?

    No, because "MI5 intern" isn't a job that can only be done by minorities.

    As for male pregnancy, is that something we only have to pretend is real when it furthers the Agenda?


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  • From Pluted Pup@plutedpup@outlook.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Nov 29 19:06:40 2025
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    On 11/29/25 11:39 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 7:30:51 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner
    said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that
    SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station. >>
    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain
    does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that
    because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest
    whatever in preserving free speech.

    It really is turning into a Stasi-like environment in the UK. Now they're keeping track of the social media posts of foreigners who say no-no words and put them in a database, so if those foreigners every come to the UK, e.g., for
    vacation and tourism, they can be arrested at the airport upon arrival and charged with hate crimes.

    I guess I've made my last visit to England because I've certainly said a lot of stuff here and on the exTwitters about the UK that would have landed me in prison if I'd said it in the UK.

    Meanwhile, MI5 and MI6 are introducing racist youth internship programs for everyone except white people. The internship criteria specifically disallows white Britons from applying for the positions.


    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/

    here is that article:

    Spy agencies repeat internship white British applicants cannot
    apply for

    Spy agencies reopen ‘racist’ internship that bans white Britons

    MI5, MI6 and GCHQ offer scheme exclusively to ‘ethnic minority’
    and ‘disadvantaged’ candidates for third time

    Britain’s intelligence services have re-opened a summer
    internship scheme to which white participants cannot apply.

    Started in 2023, the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ Summer Intelligence
    Internship attracted criticism last year, when it was labelled
    “racist”.

    It was offered only to young people from a “Black, Asian, mixed
    heritage or ethnic minority background and from a socially or
    economically disadvantaged background”.

    When the scheme was first advertised for this summer, Chris
    Philp, the shadow home secretary, described it as “racist” and
    called for it to be axed.

    He said: “I understand the need to encourage applications from a
    wide range of backgrounds, including under-represented
    minorities.

    “But this is an overtly racist policy and it should be
    immediately discontinued. It implies it’s impossible for any
    white person to be deprived or deserving of assistance.” Mr Philp
    leans on a wall on the terrace of the Houses of Parliament for a
    portrait shot, with the Thames behind him Chris Philp, the shadow
    home secretary, labelled the programme ‘racist’ Credit: Nikki
    Powell

    Claire Coutinho, the shadow energy secretary, said: “Deciding who
    can do a summer internship scheme based on the colour of their
    skin is bad enough. To bar patriotic white Britons who want to
    serve their country, but allow white Irish people, is utterly
    mad.”

    The scheme states that people from an Irish Traveller background
    may apply.

    Ms Coutinho continued: “To make matters worse, the security
    services will also shut you out if you’re a child of a nurse, a
    cabbie or your dad ran a corner shop, while the child of an
    £80,000-a-year train driver is eligible.

    “This is state-sponsored discrimination. We should just choose
    the best people for the job. The Conservatives will defend
    fairness and stand firmly against ideology replacing competence.”

    However, despite widespread criticism, the scheme will go ahead.

    It will run for 10 or more weeks, depending on the intelligence
    service, to “increase diversity within our organisations”.

    The advert states that applicants must also be “from a socially
    or economically disadvantaged background”, which is “currently under-represented in the UK’s Intelligence Services”.

    One former senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer previously said
    he believed the decision not to allow poor white students to
    apply was “blatant discrimination”.

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    Tim Davies, who was a squadron leader, said: “Opportunities are
    being denied to white children, that’s just a fact. They cannot
    apply just because they are white.”

    He said that the RAF had made a similar mistake when pursuing a
    recruitment policy, which led to accusations that it had
    discriminated against white men in its effort to meet
    “aspirational diversity targets”.

    In 2022, the Ministry of Defence admitted that “despite the best
    of intentions, some mistakes were made” after reports of an RAF
    recruitment drive which appeared to favour women and ethnic
    minority candidates.

    The inquiry followed the resignation of the RAF’s head of
    recruitment, after she reportedly refused an order to hire more
    diverse candidates because she believed it was “unlawful”. The
    large post-modernist building sits on the bank of the Thames MI6
    is one of the intelligence service organisations pushing to hire
    non-white interns Credit: Mike Kemp/Corbis News

    Earlier this year, The Telegraph reported that an intern hired by
    GCHQ had stolen secret data in what was described as a national
    security breach.

    Hasaan Arshad, 25, took his work mobile to a top secret area of
    the GCHQ building, connected it to a workstation, and was then
    allowed to take the device home unchallenged.

    He transferred sensitive information to a hard drive linked to
    his personal computer, and was arrested one month later.

    It is understood that Arshad was not admitted as an intern
    through the diversity scheme.

    The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, which is
    responsible for the Security Services, was contacted for comment.


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  • From moviePig@nobody@nowhere.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Nov 29 22:33:10 2025
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    On 11/29/2025 7:34 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 3:57:09 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 11/29/2025 4:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 12:49:00 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 11/29/2025 2:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Nov 29, 2025 at 7:30:51 AM PST, "Rhino"
    <no_offline_contact@example.com>
    wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zfz5rjjifM [6 minutes]

    One of the parents who was arrested describes what he and his partner
    said and the Kafkaesque result, which included an arrest by no less that
    SIX police officers and 12 hours of detention at the local police station.

    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain >>>>>> does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that
    because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest >>>>>> whatever in preserving free speech.

    It really is turning into a Stasi-like environment in the UK. Now they're
    keeping track of the social media posts of foreigners who say no-no words
    and
    put them in a database, so if those foreigners every come to the UK, e.g.,
    for
    vacation and tourism, they can be arrested at the airport upon arrival and
    charged with hate crimes.

    I guess I've made my last visit to England because I've certainly said
    a lot
    of stuff here and on the exTwitters about the UK that would have landed me
    in
    prison if I'd said it in the UK.

    Meanwhile, MI5 and MI6 are introducing racist youth internship programs
    for
    everyone except white people. The internship criteria specifically >>>>> disallows
    white Britons from applying for the positions.



    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/

    Why, that'd be like hiring only females to counsel pregnant teens!!!

    Why exactly would it be like that, especially now that we're being firmly >>> advised that men can get pregnant?

    Do you really see no analogy, or just want to mention "pregnant men"?

    No, because "MI5 intern" isn't a job that can only be done by minorities.

    As for male pregnancy, is that something we only have to pretend is real when it furthers the Agenda?

    Ah, I read "racist youth...programs" as addressing racism.


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  • From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to rec.arts.tv on Sun Nov 30 11:44:20 2025
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    On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:30:51 -0500, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    If ever a country needed something like the First Amendment, Britain
    does! Here's hoping the next government will enact something like that >because neither the Tories nor Labour apparently have any interest
    whatever in preserving free speech.

    Don't expect anything too soon - Labour has a comfortable majority
    (though not in the opinion polls!) only a year after an election so
    another 3 or 4 years to go to late 2028/early 2029.

    My main concern is that my daughter lives over there in a town on the
    south coast (of about 1/4 million people) where a large migrant
    processing center (e.g. mostly illegals since those are the only ones
    in places like this) who are free to go into town whenever they wish
    and while 90% of the migrants behave themselves (other than working
    without the required permits) the other 10% should be deported
    yesterday if not sooner.
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  • From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to rec.arts.tv on Sun Nov 30 11:48:53 2025
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    On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:39:35 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    I guess I've made my last visit to England because I've certainly said a lot >of stuff here and on the exTwitters about the UK that would have landed me in >prison if I'd said it in the UK.

    I'd have no hesitation but would definitely have reservations about
    visiting Hong Kong (which I've done many times most recently in 2003)
    given some of the things I've said online under my own name.

    If I visited now I might have to change my name to Michael!

    (This is a reference Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who were
    detained in China in December 2018 on espionage charges and released
    in September 2021. Their detention is widely seen as retaliation for
    the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada. Meng got to
    stay in Canada in her own 10 million $ house with only an ankle
    monitor while the Michaels got Chinese dungeon conditions)
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  • From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to rec.arts.tv on Sun Nov 30 11:56:01 2025
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    On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:34:41 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    Meanwhile, MI5 and MI6 are introducing racist youth internship programs for
    everyone except white people. The internship criteria specifically disallows
    white Britons from applying for the positions.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/

    Why, that'd be like hiring only females to counsel pregnant teens!!!

    Why exactly would it be like that, especially now that we're being firmly >>> advised that men can get pregnant?

    Do you really see no analogy, or just want to mention "pregnant men"?

    No, because "MI5 intern" isn't a job that can only be done by minorities.

    I would have no problem with that >IF< they changed it from specific ethnicities to specific language skills (which of course are
    predominantly had by those of a specific ethnicity)

    As for male pregnancy, is that something we only have to pretend is real when >it furthers the Agenda?

    That's something calculated to make mainstream people "woof their
    cookies" (or if you prefer 'heave')

    As far as I'm concerned, if you have XY chromosomes and you're in a
    ladies restroom you had BETTER have the surgery to back up your new
    status "as a woman". And my government had BETTER respond quickly to a
    911 call by a woman trapped inside that restroom.

    This is all about destroying feminism to a lot of trans folks.
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