I am the very model of a postmodern government minister

The entertainment guide This is London reports:

In her first Commons statement since her appointment on Thursday, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: “Terrorism is a serious threat to us all. We must ensure our resources, capability and legislation support our common endeavour to defend the shared values of this country from terror.”

Isn’t that perfect? Liberals, I always say, don’t believe in their actual people, country, and civilization, they believe in liberalism, or, as the British like to put it, their “shared values.” So this Jacqui Smith (the spelling of whose name produces in me a feeling of great confidence that she is really on top of her job of enforcing Britain’s laws) speaks of the government’s intent to defend from terror, no, not the British people, no, not Great Britain itself, no, not the economy and the material functioning of Great Britain, but the “shared values” of Great Britain, meaning liberalism, meaning tolerance, meaning tolerance of Muslims, meaning that what the government is going to defend from terrorism is the Muslims in the UK—defend them from any possible intolerance or suspicion that the British people may direct at them as a result of the terrorism.

What a country!

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 03, 2007 12:50 AM | Send