Things that inspire Schadenfreude, no. 207
On the one hand, it’s really not kosher to give out people’s phone numbers and the names and ages of their kids on the web. Whoever did this should — rightly — go to prison for it.
On the other…
…it inspires Schadenfreude.
1. it’s not like they haven’t beeen doing this to people themselves for years. How many people have been threatened, beaten and forced into hiding when far right groups, including the BNP, have posted their personal details on the net?*
2. I find it hilariously hypocritical that they’re invoking the Human Rights act, too, given they’ve been trying to get it repealed.
3. And isn’t it weird and creepy that they have family memberships?
This part right at the end of the report is pretty funny, by the way:
Strangely, some of the members’ hobbies are also listed. One gives her occupation as “holistic therapist” and her pastimes as “metaphysics, cartoon drawing”. Another lists his hobbies as “fantail doves, koi carp, gardening”.
There are also one or two insights into reasons that people have left the party. Against the name of one lapsed member from Gillingham, Kent, is the note: “Objects to being told he shouldn’t wear a bomber jacket.”
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*It’s a rhetorical question, but for those of you who wonder, the answer is of course “shitloads”.