Small Dead Animals reports on the following story, saying:
David Cameron’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and Monty Python is the new Nostradamus;
Hundreds of pom-poms and knitted items have been strung from trees and lampposts to help reduce the fear of crime in an area of Leicester.
Don’t ever let them take your guns.
She links to this disturbing, modern day medieval totem-strewing madness:
Hundreds of pom-poms and knitted items have been strung from trees and lampposts to help reduce the fear of crime in an area of Leicester.
Leicestershire Police hope the “guerilla knitting” or “yarn bombing” will encourage more people to use Bede Park and Great Central Way.
Some of the park’s users told BBC Radio Leicester the items – including tree warmers – do not make them feel safer.
But criminologist Charlotte Bilby said they could have a positive effect.
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Ms Bilby, a senior lecturer in criminology at Northumbria University, said: “I think that making an area look cosier certainly makes an area feel safer.”
Ms. Bilby, senior lecturer though she may be, is a First Class Twit. If anything approaching normalcy still existed amongst government lackeys in Britain, she’d be undergoing an enforced ‘rest’ in the nearest lunatic asylum.
She natters on, stepping on her sentences as soon as they leave her mouth:
“If you see something that makes you smile, that makes you think that other people have enjoyed being in that space and have done something funny, something silly in that place, then that’s going to change your perception about what it is to be in Bede Park.”
Bless her heart. And you’d best bless it quick before some thug stomps her to death.
In this madhouse, the police aren’t any more functional or in touch with reality than is the theorist:
Sgt Simon Barnes said: “I am really hopeful that the actions will reduce the fear of becoming a victim of crime, as the perception really is much different to the actual reported levels of crime.”
No, I have no idea what he’s attempting to say. Re-reading it won’t help, either since the point of this utterance seems to have as its goal keeping Mr. Barnes out of trouble with his superiors. Lift that bale, tote that talking point.
However, there’s another gem from the uni ‘criminologist’:
Ms Bilby added: “As we all know more officers on the beat doesn’t actually have a massive impact on crime rates in [an] area.
Since when did that bit of blarney become criminology theory? What we really “all know” via empirical testing in places like New York City is that the presence of more police officers on the streets, on foot, sent personal crime levels plummeting. Mayor Giuliani became a national hero implementing those practical, common-sense ideas about “criminology”. And New York City became livable again…
Meanwhile, in the sane areas of the U.S., people arm themselves and criminals find other things to do with their time.
I weep for Britain. Instead of growing balls, they are reduced to knitting them and hanging their pompoms on trees to scare away the bad guys.
This story is actually true? It’s not a made-up story?
It really is true! How scary. How frightening.
Britain has been colonized with millions of immigrants-mostly hostile Muslims whose Koran and mosques command Muslims to wage violent jihad against hated infidels, destroying the comforting safety and lovely peace that was once Britain. The authorities respond to the terrifying high crime rate by hanging:
Hundreds of pom-poms and knitted items have been strung from trees and lampposts to help reduce the fear of crime in an area of Leicester.
Ms Bilby added: “As we all know more officers on the beat doesn’t actually have a massive impact on crime rates in [an] area.
What immediately came to my mind was that the police would WATCH robbers and violent criminals attack innocents, and the police would — do NOTHING.
In David Cameron’s Britain, it’s criminal paradise for immigrants who are consumed with rabid hate for Brits and it’s where indigenous Brits live in fear.
“What immediately came to my mind was that the police would WATCH robbers and violent criminals attack innocents, and the police would — do NOTHING.”
Not quite. They’d busy themselves arresting people who might have jokingly asked if a horse was gay, or maybe stopping kids on their way to school to ensure their lunch boxes were suitably politically correct –
Anarcho-tyrrany, google it.
GOBSMACKED am I …oh yes….
I have been abject about our cousins for several years now. It seems the insanity is growing exponentially. Because at one time they had a simblance of freedom vs. Europe’s entrenched socialism, they have been taken totally unawares and been overrun by the combination of multiculturalism and jihad. We seem to be heading down the same path about fifty years behind in some ways, and ahead in others. [Redacted]
Sounds like the grosest sort of symbolic self emasculation, 100% no pun intended.
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All I can say about this is that we are very fortunate that Adolph Hitler is not at his peak of power today, because “The Late Great” Britain would be stringing up knitted booties to repel his aggression instead of building Spitfires. I hate to say this, but The European Union is overpopulated by PU$$i3$. My ancestral bloodlines wouldn’t let me type the actual word, but it refers to kittens, not lions!
God save Europe because they are unwilling to save themselves!
PH
My 87 year old father served in Europe during WWII. He wonders whether Europe could possibly be worse than it is now had Germany ‘won’.
Most certainly for the Jews.
AGAIN???
Well this time they are on their own because we Americans got our little tin anti-christ riding into Jerusalem on the same day as Jesus did long ago…and he is the leader of the DONKEY party…
And on the International Day of the FROG( Biblical symbol of SATAN) ….. MARCH 20th…..
Yeah. I know I know this is a stretch( ha ha yeah yeah…) … but an ODD one at that.
All I can say about this is that we are very fortunate that Adolph Hitler is not at the peak of his power today, because “The Late Great” Britain would be stringing up knitted booties to repel his aggression instead of building Spitfires. I hate to say this, but The European Union is overpopulated by PU$$i3$. My ancestral bloodlines wouldn’t let me type the actual word, but it refers to kittens, not lions!
God save Europe because they are unwilling to save themselves!
PH
Leicester? That used to be an English city, didn’t it? I understand that some English people actually still live there… for the time being.
Sgt Simon Barnes said: “I am really hopeful that the actions will reduce the fear of becoming a victim of crime, as the perception really is much different to the actual reported levels of crime.”
Isn’t he saying, like so many dopes before him, that it’s not crime that’s the problem, but the fear of crime.
OH YEAH!! I always find being AFRAID of being cut up into hamburger MUCH less frigtening than FEAR itself….
What’s sad is that this doesn’t surprise me.
The elite can only handle symbolism, they don’t do hard anymore.
History doesn’t care, sooner or later reality will slap a summons on their posterior sentence to be delivered without apeal.
That’s not a threat, just an observation from previous historical events.
Nature doesn’t like a vacuum, and that’s what we have no one cares at the top, no one takes responsibility and leadership is a dirty word.
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Hundreds of pom-poms and knitted items have been strung from trees and lampposts to help reduce the fear of crime in an area of Leicester.
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A genuine reduction in crime will make people “feel safer” because they will, in fact, be safer.
But where there are Muslims, there is no safety for non-Muslims.
The demand is out there- submit or endure endless harassment, dispossession, and death.
Do the English have the courage to fight for a humanist society?
Because they only way they’ll produce one is to expel every Muslim from their country and forbid the religion outright.
Again, the English oppressed and cruelly drove Catholics into a second-class status on account of a religion that threatens no one.
They welcome Muslims into their country, do not oppress them at all, and look what happens!
Are Catholics really your enemies, Englishmen?
Really?
GET REAL!
No expulsion, but dhimmitude, combined with reverse Shari’a. Pakistanis have Saudi privilege, that is, they can visit Saudi financed mosques without beards. Therefore it is just and lawful to cut off the hand of Pakistanis who steal from non-Pakistanis.
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Ms Bilby, a senior lecturer in criminology at Northumbria University, said: “I think that making an area look cosier certainly makes an area feel safer.”
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How dare you deny that blood has been spilled!
Why not put up some charming cottage dainty floral wallpaper all about the tree trunks, get a roaring fire in the firplace, some comfy overstuffed chairs and the teakettle on…. cozy instead. GOOD freaking grief…. COZY makes you feel safe in a crime riddled area???? news to me AND the CRIMINALS.
David Cameron doesn’t do what David Cameron does for David Cameron.
David Cameron does what David Cameron does because David Cameron is David Cameron.
(apologies to Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
Meanwhile, in the sane areas of the U.S., people arm themselves and criminals find other things to do with their time.
Strange, then, that the murder rate is more than three times that of the UK. Americans must have some killer-cushions.
60% of those gun deaths are suicides. And how about that violent crime stat?
@ Mary Jackson
While that may be so, the violent crime rate; stabbings, beatings, etc, is 5X that of the US in the UK.
No doubt about the fact that the urban ghettoes in the US are cesspools of casual violence, with guns or without. No one who has a choice lives there on purpose. His Honor, Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, wouldn’t dare go to southside Chicago for an official visit, not even in daylight hours. All his bluster and foul language wouldn’t serve him at all against the angry and deeply alienated black underclass there.
However, such urban sinkholes – Chicago, East St. Louis, Detroit, etc – do not take away from the tragedy of today’s Leicester. Nor will touting the violence here cure the soviet-style double speak & chilling surveillance over there, Ms. Jackson.
If your visceral dislike of the US would but cure what deeply ails England, I’d join you in your misanthropy in a New York minute. But it won’t. Not ever. This kind of news is deeply saddening; it has a Russian quality of black humor – which ought to be a clue where your country is headed, as should the increased alcohol intake.
Meanwhile, attacking the US for its many & quite real problems won’t make Leicester enter the realms of reality again anytime soon. Probably not in our lifetimes…
Ms Bilby is obviously as touchy feely as her woolly pompoms. Britain and most of Europe now is ruled by touchy feely women, hence the problem; yes the only spheroids in evidence now are knitted ones. This is Leicester whose council in the 1970s put advertisements in the papers begging no more Asians to come until they had coped with the first arrivals – from Kenya or Uganda which India refused to have back. I cannot ever imagine the English refusing to take back their own, although our governments have been vile regarding our kith and kin from Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. All these entreaties fell on deaf ears and Leicester now has an indigenous minority. Since David Cameron has told India that thousands more Indian students can come and settle here the remaining English will eventually be forced out. Leicester was a Roman city and later one of the five towns that were the stronghold of the Danish Viking Danelaw. It will soon be the stronghold of the people in nightshirts, turbans, saris and burkhas until they start fighting amongst one another as they do back home.
Keith Vaz, Leicester mp born in Aden of Goan extraction has vowed to make Leicester an Asian colony. Well he is nearly there. This is the same Keith Vaz who is on the Commons Select Committee on immigration. It is a bit like putting a compulsive eater in a bakery.
No, we English are not stupid but thanks to the Normans we are terrified of opposing an authoritarian government like the ones we have had for the last 60 years. We are ruled by the stupid and the greedy who have given our country away to the whole world for reasons of warped political ideology or political or financial gain. Witness the stabbing on the bus in Birmingham through its cultural enrichment which Enoch Powell tried to prevent by reversing mass immigration. With his indigenous compatriots soon to be in a minority in his native city even he would never have imagined that the whole city would be taken off us in about 50 to 60 years.
We are ruled by the stupid and the greedy who have given our country away to the whole world for reasons of warped political ideology or political or financial gain.
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I would ventute that it is the last two that motivate the political class there, just as it does here. Our apple didn’t fall so far from the tree after all. The only difference being that your politicians admitted it, if only after it was an accomplished fact. No doubt our politcal class will follow suit as soon as it becomes irreversible here, too.
Not a one of them believes they’ll ever have to bear the burdens they’ve placed on the electorate. Via mutual exchanges, they’ll retire far from the madding crowd and live safely while the standard of living for the rest of us goes slowly down the drain.
Or then again, some singularity may change the whole equation beyond what we could ever have expected. However, I wouldn’t count on it.
And you’re right in another regard: opposing an authoritarian government has become increasingly dangerous. They know well how to use the mechanisms of bureaucracy to marginalize those who get out of line.
Dymphna, although fellow bloggers may bridle at a certain anti-Israel stance on Russia Today – but neither are they in favour of the Arab Spring (whoever stirred them all up) – we learn more there in Britain about what is happening here and in the US than we do through the MSM. Recently they carried an article about the fact that with the almost-victory in the Eastleigh by-election of the United Kingdom Independence Party the loonies are in danger of taking over the asylum. This is a reference to David Cameron’s description of UKIP as fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists. The only racism he and his colleagues in the other three parties openly indulge in is against the indigenous people of these islands. However, the article is an indication that the English – who always only turn at the very last moment as they are frightened of being judged paranoid and alarmist – may be about to turn, dump the three parties who have lead us to our doom and vote for nationalist alternatives. Jack Straw mp has said that England and the English are not worth saving faced with the noble aim of one world government and if his party, Marxist New Labour, are returned to power in 2015 then the English will be history. Like the Democrats they are changing the people. I hope our cousins over there will miss us. The future for England and the US is, as I see it, something like the Venezuela that is much in the news, predominantly one of third world people of non-European extraction who do not possess the qualities of North Europeans. So Dymphna, you and I must pray. You as a woman are meant to save England from Marxism by praying – or so runs the Zagorsk prophecy – and Holy Russia will lead us back to Christ and freedom.
As regards totalitarianism, at least David Cameron, unlike Barack Obama, has no plans to target us with drones if we resist, although he may let Barack do it for him. Here in Britain we are seeing the setting up of secret courts to try those who step out of line in true Marxist/Stalinist fashion. We already have our gulags where Tommy Robinson and the girl on the Croydon tram, Emma West, who told her non-English fellow travellers, she being the only Englishwoman there, to go back where they came from, is still lingering. Theresa May our home secretary has just vowed to take Britain out of the orbit of the European Court of Human Rights if her party win in 2015. Like Cameron and the referendum on the EU – post election – it is a desperate bid to keep them in power. I wonder whether the lunacy of some of the decisions of that court regarding foreign criminals and terrorists here has been deliberate so as to turn us against it so that we would agree to a parting of the ways. However, as somebody has pointed out, as Britain drifts further and further into a police state engineered through the twin pillars of ensuring adherence to multiculturalism and political correctness then we would have no redress faced with summary imprisonment through a secret court for resisting the one world state. We would no longer have the option of going to a court of human rights. 1984 in 2024 would be here.
Hey, for the little minds who think gun laws will reduce the incidence of shooting sprees with “assault weapons” (whatever the heck that means – and in Newspeak it can mean anything) that actually makes a lot of sense. Maybe the Police will enlist the help of Pixies and Fairies to tackle crime. But if it was up to me, I’d start hiring Dragons and Chimaeras to scare away the criminals. One must be tough on crime, after all…
We may yet live to see prisons for the innocent. Apparently everybody has rights, unless you’re a victim (I mean a real victim of the non-PC variety) and white/ethnic european. Or both.
I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone when I first read this! I wish I had been because then Rod Serling would come and make it all right! The absolutely mind boggling stupidity of this is …well… mind boggling!
Knitted dollies are probably more effective than the police anyway. What a load of old cobblers! The country’s gone mad,
I can’t help thinking that Cameron and the rest of the ruling elites are laughing at the British. They have disarmed Brits; flooded the country with millions of hostile Muslims and the disarmed Brits have been given knitted pom-poms instead of guns for their defense against deadly enemies.
Ruling elites must surely be laughing at their victory over the British people.