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March 22, 2007
Thursday
 
 
Samizdata quote of the day
Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)  Slogans/quotations • UK affairs

Make Ken Livingston carbon neutral... stop him breathing

- Overheard at a Samizdata party the other day

Comments

Do it to the entire government and you're laughing.


Posted by mandrill at March 22, 2007 09:16 PM

We australians don't see him much, but I've never seen him breathing whenever he is shown on TV! Do you think he could already be an undead? With England's notorious weather, he need never fear direct sunlight!
And if you did give him some eternal accommodation, wouldn't that be a waste of space? A perfectly good grave, ruined!
Mandrill, that would still leave the bureaucracy, already brain-dead, to carry on their pointless tasks. And wouldn't Brussels find an excuse to rule directly, then? Eurocracy is a joke for which there is no punchline.
And it's not as though you need Europe- I read recently that London is becoming the financial center for the world, so Europe really needs you!


Posted by nick g. at March 23, 2007 03:50 AM

Careful. This kind of talk caused a stir once before when it got out of hand.

Making comments about stopping HM PC Government officials breathing (just like "tyrannicide") doesn't seem wise. Cheering perhaps, but not wise.

The NNG (Nulab Net Gestapo) will see this kind of talk and call it Hate Speech and Sedition. Then some goons will go to Perry's place in the middle of the night, put a bag over his head, and ship him off to an unpleasant place to make little rocks from big ones.

Then we won't have Samizdata any more. Bummer.

Remember - even paranoids have enemies.


Posted by CFM at March 23, 2007 04:58 AM

If Ken's demise is being proposed as a green measure (and pretty much anything these days is) thereby rendering what otherwise would be generally considered unacceptable, acceptable, the question of the most appropriate means of disposal arises. Landfill, incineration, compost heap or the fishes?


Posted by DocBud at March 23, 2007 05:18 AM

Why not put all the rubbish in one spot- give Ken a oneway ticket to the People's Paradise of Cuba!


Posted by nick g. at March 23, 2007 06:17 AM

CFM: but isn't Ken a White Christian Male, and does it not make him a fair game?


Posted by Alisa at March 23, 2007 09:43 AM

"White Christian Male"

Male ??


Posted by Jacob at March 23, 2007 11:59 AM

Given Ken's long-standing passion for the creatures he should be fed to newts They seem to enjoy the sort of slime you get atop ponds.


Posted by Nick M at March 23, 2007 12:23 PM

Jacob: who knows?


Posted by Alisa at March 23, 2007 12:51 PM

Alisa:
"White Christian Male" ? No. No. No.

Red Marxist Gay.


Posted by Jacob at March 23, 2007 02:21 PM

Jacob,
Why be needlessly offensive to male homosexuals? I know a few and not a single one of them would touch Ken's sorry ass with a 10ft pole.


Posted by Nick M at March 23, 2007 03:20 PM

He would have to finish decomposing to stop emitting harmful gases, but planting him under a tree should offset that problem.


Posted by Aristophanes Wasp at March 23, 2007 06:18 PM

"Why be needlessly offensive to male homosexuals?"

How have I been offensive ? Stating facts well known and publicized by the man himself is offensive ?

I think Ken would be more offended by being called "White Christian Male".


Posted by Jacob at March 24, 2007 12:04 AM

Nick M: A 10-foot WHAT?!


Posted by CFM at March 24, 2007 02:34 AM
I think Ken would be more offended by being called "White Christian Male".
Then my work here is done.
Posted by Alisa at March 24, 2007 12:52 PM
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