For twenty-seven years I was
a member of Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force.
Ask me if I am ashamed of
being a member of the British Military.
No. I am not.
I am, however, ashamed at the
reaction of the British people to members of the British Military.
The latest event seems to
have occurred in a hospital.
It appears that a Sergeant
who was, incidentally, an Aircraft Technician, was the source of embarrassment
to staff in the hospital and had to be hidden away as a result.
Note that there had been a
previous incident involving an ‘altercation’ between another uniformed Military
member and a person in the hospital.
What was that all about? Poor
reporting again.
We need to know what the
other altercation was about? It might have been somebody they owed money to or
an irate relative?
How is the previous incident
relevant to this one?
There appears to be a
necessity to stir up trouble. The media have an ardent desire to promote
discord where, essentially, none exist.
Well, they have discord from
me.
I do not care if that
Military person is a member of the Marines, Navy, Army or the Royal Pay Corp,
that person—male or female, has volunteered to put their life on the line for
Queen and Country. It doesn’t matter where they are sent or what the current
‘cause’ is all about.
They are sent off to do what
they have to do. The politics of the situation is irrelevant to them. They will
do their job.
For someone to treat
them with disregard and disrespect is appalling.
Someone who, moreover, is in
public service, it seems. A hospital worker—someone who also works for ‘Queen
and Country’!
I want to know who these ghostly
figures are who are so easily offended. What are their names?
Surely, if they are so
grossly offended then they should own up and declare themselves.
Not by rioting on the
streets; not by making anonymous demands or by vituperous comments on the
social media or to the press corps. They should own up by telling us their
names or are they afraid of the potential consequences.
So they are offended. These
anonymous and mysterious people.
What about the Royal Air
Force Sergeant? How offended was he to be treated as some sort of stain on
civilised society to the point where he had to be hidden away? How offended was
he to have his name splashed all over the news media as a pariah?
It is fine to offend some
people but not others.
Some time ago there were
complaints from anonymous persons about an old lady who had pigs decorating
her windowsill—inside the house.
Muslims do not have a problem
with seeing pigs. Muslims know pigs exist. Muslims are not permitted to eat
them—or bits of them; they should not touch a pig. Seeing a pig and speaking
it’s name is not a problem.
And yet there were complaints
that led to this old lady having to remove the pigs from ‘public view’.
Nonsense. What were their
names, these brave people who complained so much?
We shall never know. These
people hide.
They tell us to ‘wear your
poppy with pride’.
Sadly, wearing your uniform
with pride is a no-no!
Remembrance is good. Tolerance
is not.
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