Sunday, October 2, 2011
Pandering to the Jews in Britain
Britain is to get its first hands-free pedestrian crossing – so that devout Jews do not have to break a religious law that prohibits them from using electricity or operating machinery on the Sabbath. The crossing is near a busy synagogue, and pressing a button to operate it is considered a breach of the strict rules that apply to Orthodox Jews. Traffic will be held every 90 seconds from Friday evening until nightfall on Saturday, covering the Jewish Sabbath period. The crossing will be situated on one of London’s busiest roads – the North Circular at the Henlys Corner junction. The system will come into operation in December 2011 when the junction fully reopens after a massive ten-month upgrade costing £8 million. The move follows the controversial formation of an eruv – a boundary recognised by Jewish law within which certain activities are permitted – in the same part of North London. Although observant Jews are allowed to carry household objects such as door keys, and to push prams and wheelchairs within the six-square-mile area, they are still banned from using electricity.
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Instead of paying all that money, why couldn't the synagogue pay a gentile to push the button when the synagogue holds its service?
It would be cheaper, and would not cause unneeded holdups. Instead of stopping once every 90 seconds, traffic would only need to stop when someone wanted to cross the road.
[I realize that religious prescription may also not allow such "indirect" use]
Far too few are aware of the ludicrous extent to which today's Jews carry out their medieval interpretation of God's mandated "rest" on the seventh day. Carrying keys or umbrellas or pushing a stroller is considered "work" by these throwbacks, and they are aided and abetted in their insanity by the pandering of peoples and governments terrified of offending the world's most powerful and perpetually-aggrieved minority. Eight million pounds wasted for a group that doesn't belong in Britain, but in its ethnostate Israel.
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