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A little victory

London’s New Year parade, watched by a crowd of more than 500,000, was the unlikely setting for a small victory of normal civic virtue over the craven risk averse culture so beloved by the post-modern political classes of the western world.

An American marching band and cheerleaders from Fort Myers High School in Florida flew to London and participated in the parade in spite of being initially banned from doing so by school officials nervous about terrorism in London. A revolt by the parents of the students reversed this bizarre ban. It might not seem like much but any time someone makes a common sense refusal to allow the minuscule risk posed by Islamic terrorism to alter one’s behaviour, it is an event worthy of praise, just as the reverse is worthy of scorn.

4 comments to A little victory

  • ResidentAlien

    This is how it was reported over here (scroll to the end of the article.) Freed from bureaucrats, individuals make sensible decisions.

  • rob

    Thanks ResidentAlien, spot on! Contrast this with all the nonsense in the English papers when the USA hosted the World Cup:

    Papers – “Our horrid football hooligans will beat up the nice Americans!”

    Anybody with a modicum of common sense – “No they won’t. The nice Americans have guns.”

  • Ryan Waxx

    Well, banning americans is certainly easier than banning terrorists… though one might question its effectiveness and propriety.

  • Mary Ayn Rand

    …refusal to allow the minuscule risk posed by terrorism to alter one’s behaviour…

    Fixed your typo.