So, Jeremy Clarkson then – or Jimmy Carr Redux. In that thread below quite a few of you fair-minded folk came to the supposedly sensible conclusion that Carr should be allowed to make
his jokes and the lobbyists castigate him for it. Well, yes, but that’s to miss the point. If it were simple castigation, that’s fine. But it’s not. Always attached to the
castigation, somewhere along the line, is firstly the demand for the miscreant to lose their job and secondly the involvement of the police. In the case of Clarkson it was an idiot union leader who
said they were considering notifying the police. This isn’t simple castigation, its fascism. So too, to only a slightly lesser degree, is that they should be deprived of their occupations.
Remember, it does happen – Keys, Gray, Ross plus a host of, um, lesser mortals, threatened with prosecution for making a joke, or forced to resign for having said something with which someone
else fervently disagreed.
Incidentally, I’m no fan of Clarkson and believe those public sector workers are justified in striking over their pensions (but that’s another argument for another day).
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