Denormalisation - The goal of every bansturbator, to make perfectly legal activities an anathema to the General Public and make pariahs of those who engage in those legal activities and by so doing bring in their banning legislation without anyone noticing the chipping away of individual liberty.
The Filthy Smoker, The Devil and Dick Puddlecoat have expounded at length as to how this was done by the Anti-smoking lobby, so I'm not going to repeat it here ( go read their archives, you won't be disappointed). The excellent book Velvet Glove, Iron Fist outlines the whole campaign.
The campaign against alcohol has been bubbling away for a while now, but now that smoking is out of the way, The Righteous can turn their full force against the demon drink. From arbitrary unit's plucked from Liam Donaldson's arse as to what is safe/ not safe , exclusion zones, campaigns against happy hours and so on.
They then move on to the Denormalisation, drinking is destroying the NHS, anybody who drinks is sucking life from the NHS and is therefore a 'bad' person. All drinkers are violent, new laws must be made to tackle this evil, even when all drink related crime is covered by existing legislation, but it causes Joe Public to think there must be a serious problem or why would they need new laws, so lets ban the booze for 'these people' it doesn't affect me ( but wait).
The 2005 Licensing Scotland Act comes into effect
So when you've done your weeks shopping at Sainsbury's and there's a couple of bottles of Chardonnay and a 4 x John Smiths in your trolley, you won't be able to join any queue. No, you'll have to go to the 'Booze Till' where Charmaine has been on 'The Course' and join all the other Chavs and Alkies that you so despise. How does it feel? all those eyes on you, judging you, condemning you, despising you, not nice is it? (Just ask the smokers.) Well you've just been Denormalised
Think it can't happen here? Well Scotland has been the test bed for The Righteous and their Temperance legislation for years now, where they lead we follow.
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The Filthy Smoker, The Devil and Dick Puddlecoat have expounded at length as to how this was done by the Anti-smoking lobby, so I'm not going to repeat it here ( go read their archives, you won't be disappointed). The excellent book Velvet Glove, Iron Fist outlines the whole campaign.
The campaign against alcohol has been bubbling away for a while now, but now that smoking is out of the way, The Righteous can turn their full force against the demon drink. From arbitrary unit's plucked from Liam Donaldson's arse as to what is safe/ not safe , exclusion zones, campaigns against happy hours and so on.
They then move on to the Denormalisation, drinking is destroying the NHS, anybody who drinks is sucking life from the NHS and is therefore a 'bad' person. All drinkers are violent, new laws must be made to tackle this evil, even when all drink related crime is covered by existing legislation, but it causes Joe Public to think there must be a serious problem or why would they need new laws, so lets ban the booze for 'these people' it doesn't affect me ( but wait).
The 2005 Licensing Scotland Act comes into effect
The act also requires places selling alcohol to have a licence for the premises and a designated staff member who has received a personal licence to sell drink after completing training on the new legislation.
So when you've done your weeks shopping at Sainsbury's and there's a couple of bottles of Chardonnay and a 4 x John Smiths in your trolley, you won't be able to join any queue. No, you'll have to go to the 'Booze Till' where Charmaine has been on 'The Course' and join all the other Chavs and Alkies that you so despise. How does it feel? all those eyes on you, judging you, condemning you, despising you, not nice is it? (Just ask the smokers.) Well you've just been Denormalised
Think it can't happen here? Well Scotland has been the test bed for The Righteous and their Temperance legislation for years now, where they lead we follow.
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Temperance legislation -- in Scotland? Really?
ReplyDeleteNow there's one for the record books. I lived in Scotland for three years and would never thought people would have stood still for that.
Sadly LL , much like the Greeks are no longer Spartans and Italians are not The Romans, the English and Scots are much diminished from our glorious forebears.
ReplyDeleteI tend to load my basket up prominently with the biggest bottles of white cider I can find and let them gawp.
ReplyDeleteI know that one day when they've joined the Green Shirts they'll hold me prisoner for crimes against marine vertibrates, before the show trial I'll ask them to join me in a last drink, min 9%, the teatottaling GS will keel over after one sip and I'll break for freedom sober as a judge, hick!!! ;-)