I don't know if you saw this item on the BBC news website today?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-29446232
The public artist Banksy painted a mural at the town of Clacton on Sea in Essex that was destroyed by the council as it was "Racist and Offensive"
Here is the picture - judge for yourself
It is interesting that the MP for Clacton has defected from the Conservatives (nasty party) to UKIP (very nasty party) (sorry if I'm trivialising politics - but really political parties are a real block to effective democracy)
The other week we had a guest preacher at church (I thought I'd indulge in both religion and politics - how controversial!) the vicar of an inner city church in Bradford in a very poor area.
Among all the grimy buildings and streets there was a flash of colour amid a flock of pigeons - a parrot had escaped and was living wild in Bradford.
No - I don't find the mural offensive, nor do I think that immigration into this country is a bad thing - for me I think immigration brings a huge variety of colours to an otherwise monochrome existence.
If anything I feel sorry for the likes of UKIP and the BNP - had they had thier way think what history would have been lost - Handel would never have written the Messiah, the royal family would have died out generations ago, the great engineering feats of this land would never have been built - the canals and railways were mostly built by immigrant labour.
Are you worried about immigration?
For me treating immigrants badly reflects on our culture very unflatteringly
One of the things I love about my country is the right to freedom of speech and expression, unfortunately that also extends to people that we don't agree with.
What happens when we start to curtail freedom of expression and speech? Why a mural is painted over by a council workman who does not know what he is doing on the grounds that the painting is "racist and offensive"
What has happened to "I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the hilt your right to say it"?
If you notice the right of freedom of speech is not matched by ANY requirement to listen - so if you disagree with me feel free to stick your fingers in your ears, turn around and say "LA LA LA I'm not listening"
Wouldn't it be a great day when enough people did this to the hate preachers that they get the point that their message is abhorrent?
I have a message - Banksy, thanks for making a statement and
Clacton council, you stifle art for fear of offence. It is rare to hear or see a viewpoint that is not in line with the right wing media - there is more than one way to look at any situation and that includes immigration?
Should we be like Gollom "My precioussss country, it's our my precious keep the nasty little immigrantses out"
Or like the statue of liberty "Give me your homeless, your oppressed your huddled masses, yearning to be free"?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-29446232
The public artist Banksy painted a mural at the town of Clacton on Sea in Essex that was destroyed by the council as it was "Racist and Offensive"
Here is the picture - judge for yourself
It is interesting that the MP for Clacton has defected from the Conservatives (nasty party) to UKIP (very nasty party) (sorry if I'm trivialising politics - but really political parties are a real block to effective democracy)
The other week we had a guest preacher at church (I thought I'd indulge in both religion and politics - how controversial!) the vicar of an inner city church in Bradford in a very poor area.
Among all the grimy buildings and streets there was a flash of colour amid a flock of pigeons - a parrot had escaped and was living wild in Bradford.
No - I don't find the mural offensive, nor do I think that immigration into this country is a bad thing - for me I think immigration brings a huge variety of colours to an otherwise monochrome existence.
If anything I feel sorry for the likes of UKIP and the BNP - had they had thier way think what history would have been lost - Handel would never have written the Messiah, the royal family would have died out generations ago, the great engineering feats of this land would never have been built - the canals and railways were mostly built by immigrant labour.
Are you worried about immigration?
For me treating immigrants badly reflects on our culture very unflatteringly
One of the things I love about my country is the right to freedom of speech and expression, unfortunately that also extends to people that we don't agree with.
What happens when we start to curtail freedom of expression and speech? Why a mural is painted over by a council workman who does not know what he is doing on the grounds that the painting is "racist and offensive"
What has happened to "I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the hilt your right to say it"?
If you notice the right of freedom of speech is not matched by ANY requirement to listen - so if you disagree with me feel free to stick your fingers in your ears, turn around and say "LA LA LA I'm not listening"
Wouldn't it be a great day when enough people did this to the hate preachers that they get the point that their message is abhorrent?
I have a message - Banksy, thanks for making a statement and
Clacton council, you stifle art for fear of offence. It is rare to hear or see a viewpoint that is not in line with the right wing media - there is more than one way to look at any situation and that includes immigration?
Should we be like Gollom "My precioussss country, it's our my precious keep the nasty little immigrantses out"
Or like the statue of liberty "Give me your homeless, your oppressed your huddled masses, yearning to be free"?
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