The British are a strange people at times. The notion of humor – often mistakenly referred to (by them) as “sarcasm” – is well-known and hardly understood outside Britain. However, if my notion of sarcasm is not completely flawed, the British secretary for home affairs, John Reid said the following and meant it serious:
Sometimes we may have to modify some of our freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their use and abuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms in the long term. (John Reid, about consequences of the revealed “plot”)
Otherwise this was a really good – and very British – joke, of course … or maybe not? 🙄 Continue reading