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| October | 11 |
| 2003 |
Bloody hell. Some things just take the breath away:
Two aides to frontbench Tories have been arrested in connection with a serious homophobic assault on a gay policy adviser outside a Westminster bar, Scotland Yard confirmed last night.Chris Carter, 27, who works for the British Property Federation, was beaten and kicked just yards from the Houses of Parliament and the Conservative Party headquarters.
David Maclean, the Tory Chief Whip, has been informed of the incident.
At the time of the incident Matt Eaton and Charles Ranson both worked at the House of Commons for senior frontbench figures. Mr Eaton, 27, a Colchester councillor, was an assistant in the private office of Bernard Jenkin, the Shadow Defence Secretary and one of Iain Duncan Smith’s closest allies. He has ambitions to become an MP.
Mr Ranson worked for Malcolm Moss, the Conservative MP for Cambridgeshire North East and a Tory spokesman on arts and tourism.
Maybe they thought they were on holiday in Austria.
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Oh for pity's sake: some fricking researchers get into a drunken mell: big deal. If you were with the anti-PC project you'd raise an eyebrow or two at differentialist lunacy like 'homophobic hate crimes' - assault is assault is assault, and it doesn't need another poncified name to make it somehow worse.
Isn't it traditional to have a trial before throwing away the key?
Isn't it traditional to expect that political aides behave like gentlemen? And do not gentlemen refrain from attacking people like hooligans, or more generally avoid getting into fistfights in pubs?
Well, whether or not that occurred is what the trial is supposed to determine, isn't it?
So, "Yeah, Austria," there would be nothing special about a bunch of German skinheads beating up a Turkish person while shouting "Ausländer raus!" or "Deutschland für die Deutschen"? Twentieth-century Europe is chock full of reasons why crime targeted against specific types of people is more heinous to an open society than random violence.
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