Brickbat: Never Mind

A school in England reported an 11-year-old boy to a government counter-radicalization program after the boy said he would "give alms to the oppressed" when asked what he would do if he inherited a large amount of money. The teacher mistook the word "alms" for "arms." Police quickly dismissed the complaint. But an attorney for the boy's family says they fear the report generated paperwork that will continue to follow the boy and the family for years.
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In England, an 11 year old boy just learned who the oppressor is and who it's cohorts are.
In lokiland, someone hasnt learned the proper use of apostrophe's.
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Some's going to need to be extremely careful with the grammar and spelling in their posts going forward.
Grammar Nazis get flagged.
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Uh-oh.
And apparently speaks better english than the English.
If only he had said “tuppence,” this whole mess could have been avoided.
This is very nice..
Where did it say that? Is there another article to cite?
Sorry, just saw it in the referenced article
The first clue that this case is like the clock boy: Muslim.
The second clue is that the lawyer is Muslim, too.
The third: no reporting of the school or “Prevent” in the article.
It’s fake. It’s phony. It DID NOT HAPPEN.
Clock boy.
Alms for the love of Allah. Legs for the love of Allah.
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says they fear the report generated paperwork that will continue to follow the boy and the family for years.
Family is spot on, same thing happened to this carpenter from Galilee and the results would shock you.
Blessed are the cheesemakers...
What's so special about the cheesemakers?
Well, obviously, this is not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.
Blessed is the Greek.
Did anyone catch his name?
Jimmy the Greek?
Zorba the Greek?
WTF is a government counter-radicalization program? And where is George Orwell?
Well, we can't have the oppressed defending themselves, that's for damned sure!
Pre-crime?
I'd give arms to the oppressed.
Yes, sort of. Alms to able-bodied adults do harm in the long run. They lock the recipients into dependency, and then starvation when officials learn to steal more from the program. Arms _might_ let them throw off their oppressors, although most likely they'll just choose other oppressors...
Even the Brits can't understand that limey accent...
This would not have happened in America. Long live the American "r"!
Clock boy!
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