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Brickbat: Don't Say That

Charles Oliver | 12.18.2014 6:00 AM

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Police in Cambridge, England, have charged Damon Kelly with suspicion of a religious/racial public order offense after he distributed leaflets comparing homosexuals to vampires.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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  1. Libertarian   11 years ago

    Well dammit, don't leave us in suspense! Was it the homosexuals or the vampires that were offended?

    1. invisible furry hand   11 years ago

      It was the gay vampires who complained

      1. Libertarian   11 years ago

        So.........all of them then?

      2. Rasilio   11 years ago

        The sparkly ones?

  2. ColonelEngineer   11 years ago

    I feel there's a True Blood joke to be made but I can't put my finger on it...

    1. Ska   11 years ago

      Jessica in lingerie makes up for all the gay vampires and then some.

  3. Old Man With Candy   11 years ago

    All my friends were vampires
    I didn't know they were vampires
    Turns out I was a vampire myself
    in Devil Town.

    1. Old Man With Candy   11 years ago

      No homo.

  4. db   11 years ago

    One thing about living in Cambridge I never could stomach...all the damn vampires.

  5. PM   11 years ago

    I guess the Arctic Monkeys are lucky they're from Sheffield.

  6. Monty Crisco   11 years ago

    Good medicine for anyone that thinks places like Great Britain or Canada have anything APPROACHING the concept of "freedom of speech"...

  7. Monty Crisco   11 years ago

    OT: Shepherd Smith really doesn't like capitalism:
    http://hotair.com/archives/201.....ruin-cuba/

    What a dick. Are we just about to ruin Cuba?

    BECAUSE CASTRO HAS KEPT IT PRISTINE!!!!!!!
    This is Tony-level derp...
    Where are we going to go to watch people riding around in 60-year-old Studebakers now?!?!?!

    1. Libertarian   11 years ago

      It took Obama 6 years to take a tiny step in the right direction, and the jerks at National Review are giving him hell for it. Krauthammer, too.

    2. ColonelEngineer   11 years ago

      The most beautiful irony of this is how much money classic car collecting Americans will drop for those Studebakers. Almost over night, they will lift the former owners out of poverty.

      I'm a gear head, though, so that was the first thing I noticed.

      1. db   11 years ago

        Right, presuming the Cuban government won't tax such sales at prohibitive rates, which progs will claim is only the natural right of dictators kings society as described in your personally signed copy of the social contract.

        1. ColonelEngineer   11 years ago

          *wipes a napkin*

          Sorry... My optimism is showing again. You're absolutely right. The progs will do everything in their power to perpetuate the communist utopian myth.

        2. Catatafish   11 years ago

          It will be under the rubric of a carbon tax. Those Studebakers have been dodging the EPA for five decades.

      2. R C Dean   11 years ago

        I dunno that the Cubans are going to make bank on all those classic cars. The real money goes to cars in good condition, and I imagine most of those in Cuba are not, having been used constantly for decades.

    3. Libertarian   11 years ago

      Shepard Smith. He lost absolutely all credibility in the wake of Katrina. Remember how the press -- eventually -- caught hell for just passing on crazy rumors, such as cannibalism, instead of actually doing investigative reporting? It was mere weeks afterward that Smith strolled down Bourbon street and was looking straight at the camera and saying that "some" bars there were offering $2000 hiring bonuses because business was good and there were no employees around after the storm. No evidence, just rumor reported as news.

    4. JeremyR   11 years ago

      He kinda has a point though.

      All these people are just waiting to swoop in and exploit Cuba. And no, dealing with a communist regime under strict rules is not capitalism. Capitalism would the people of Cuba owning the land and benefiting from the sale of it and/or items they produce.

      It's hilarious - basically Cuba will end up going back to the way it was before the revolution. Only this time a Castro will be in charge, not a Bautista.

  8. Swiss Servator, Winter kommt!   11 years ago

    Y'all let me down like the Browns... WHERE ARE THE SPARKLE JOKES???

    1. ColonelEngineer   11 years ago

      Well, glitter is the herpes of the craft world...

      1. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

        You have a sick mind. I like that in a person

  9. fche   11 years ago

    Hope this guy will be independently wealthy after a civil rights suit he's sure to win.

    1. WTF   11 years ago

      England doesn't have guaranteed freedom of speech.

  10. userve32   11 years ago

    Sounds like a pretty good plan to me dude.

    http://www.TheAnonBay.tk

  11. Libertarian   11 years ago

    Here's one guy who is ..........not..... .....quite..........ready..... ........for..............Hillary..........

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/353794.php

    1. WTF   11 years ago

      From the comments:
      "You can catch an old dog with new tits."

  12. Ted S.   11 years ago

    [Bela Lugosi accent]

    I vant to suck your dick!

    [/Bela Lugosi accent]

  13. Terr   11 years ago

    Cryyyyyy little sister!

  14. Robert   11 years ago

    And at the same time, they have a law against blasphemy. So you can neither legally acknowledge nor criticize the fact that they have a God who has something against gays & lesbians.

  15. Rasilio   11 years ago

    Well they both want to drink your vital fluids

  16. GILMORE   11 years ago

    The choice of that picture deserves a round of applause.

    Charles Oliver wins the internet for a day.

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