Interesting lesson for everyone on the Halloween party

From England comes an interesting lesson for all those who persist in considering Halloween an innocent little party for masked children. These are the facts of the story that involved Tom Wilson, the former mayor of Nuneaton, a charming town located in the heart of England, and known for being the birthplace of the famous Victorian writer Mary Anne Evans, better known by the male pseudonym of George Eliot. In October 2009 Tom Wilson declined the invitation, in his institutional capacity, to formally participate in a celebratory event of the well-known Halloween party. So far nothing wrong. The problems for Wilson began when he had the misfortune of declaring, in an interview with the British newspaper Telegraph, that the reasons for the refusal lay in his religious convictions. Since it was a "pagan celebration", Wilson said that he did not intend to have anything to do with it, nor did he intend to ... ... officially associate it with the community he represented. The unwary mayor went further by declaring that that party actually hides dark sides, derives from the ancient cult of the god Samhain, Lord of Death, and that it does not seem healthy at all to let children participate in such an anniversary without having the exact awareness what is behind you.
Inevitably, the fury and protest of the pagans, who even went so far as to present a formal complaint to the Municipal Council of Nuneaton, on the assumption that Wilson's statements, in addition to appearing "inappropriate and offensive", also integrated a real discrimination against them. heathens. The Council's standard sub-committee, a sort of municipal commission of inquiry into the conduct of directors, after more than two years of careful investigation, has now issued its verdict. There are three "charges" for which former mayor Tom Wilson has been found guilty. The first is that of "not treating others with respect".
The second relates to the fact that he "behaved in such a way as to place the municipal administration in the unpleasant situation of being accused of discriminatory attitudes and violation of the equality legislation". Finally, the third is that of "having acted in such a way as to compromise the prestige of a public office". Poor written censorship and the obligation to write a public letter of apology have therefore been attached to poor Wilson.
After the hearing of the Commission, the former mayor regretted the particular severity of the punishment inflicted on him, specifying, however, that since October 2009, or since the incident contested by the pagans happened, he has never received personally a single complaint, neither verbal nor written by anyone. He then vented by criticizing the taxpayers' waste of time and money for the two-year and five-month investigation into a similar affair.
This surreal story of Tom Wilson reveals some interesting aspects. Once again confirms, for example, how pagans in Great Britain have officially joined the categories "protected" by politically correctness, together with women, homosexuals, blacks, disabled people, trans, Muslims, et similia .
I remember, among other things, that on 10 May 2010 the British Ministry of the Interior officially recognized the Pagan Police Association, an organization of pagan police (there are over 500 agents and officers, including druids, witches and shamans), authorizing the members to take time off from work during their religious holidays. Today, in fact, police officers give pagan celebrations the same consideration held for the Christmas of Christians, the Ramadan of Muslims and the Passover of the Jews. Halloween is one of the eight pagan holidays officially recognized by the Ministry of the Interior.
Andy Pardy, chief of police of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, who is co-founder of the Pagan Police Association and worshiper of ancient Viking deities, including the destroyer hammer god Thor and the cyclopean eye Odin, when he made the official announcement of the recognition on the part of the Ministry of the Interior, he specified the importance for pagan policemen to "finally celebrate their religious holidays and work on other days, such as Christmas, which have no relevance for them". Three pagan spiritual assistants have also been appointed for the police force, and the new regulatory provisions today also allow the pagans themselves to swear an oath in court on what "they consider sacred."
As you can see, the episode of the former mayor of Nuneaton reveals illuminating background on the real nature of the Halloween party. Naive Catholics who still persist in not considering it a pagan holiday are served. Lawyer Gianfranco Amato
Article also published on Correspondence in Rome