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Statue of Mahatma Gandhi to stand in Parliment Square

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    #21
    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Don't mind genuinely great men like Ghandi or Mandela. Trouble is, in our crazy multicultural Britain, I'm afraid we will soon get demands for a lot of obscure people most have never heard of just to satisfy the PC mind set.
    Be not afraid.
    The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

    George Frederic Watts

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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      #22
      But once they are there they are no longer obscure
      But by that logic SE they could do a statue of you or me. Or zeity. A giant lizard statue would be good.
      bloggoth

      If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
      John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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        #23
        Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
        But by that logic SE they could do a statue of you or me. Or zeity. A giant lizard statue would be good.
        "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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          #24
          Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
          Don't mind genuinely great men like Ghandi or Mandela.
          You on crack?

          That aside, I'm not sure Ghandi would feel happy about occupying a place next to Mandela

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            #25
            Originally posted by speling bee View Post
            Seeing as Gandhi used to sleep naked with is teenage nieces to test his purity, it's all very zeitgeist-ey.
            He should have declared himself a prophet, then it would have been perfectly acceptable in PC western eyes
            Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

            No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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              #26
              Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View Post
              He should have declared himself a prophet, then it would have been perfectly acceptable in PC western eyes
              No it wouldn't.

              Nieces are to closely blood related.

              If they were his first cousins not a problem......
              "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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