Please State (2)... By TITVS-ADVXAS

Direct from todays BBC News website under the headline "Force is strong for Jedi police " is the following absurd report on religious diversity:

Force is strong for Jedi police

(FORCE FOR JEDI POLICE STRONG IS)

Eight police officers serving with Scotland's largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged. Strathclyde Police said the officers and two of its civilian staff claimed to follow the faith, which features in the Star Wars movies. The details were obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Jane's Police Review. Strathclyde was the only force in the UK to admit it had Jedi officers. In the Star Wars films, Jedi Knights such as Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda use the Force to battle the evil Darth Vader, who has strayed to the dark side. Jane's Police Review editor Chris Herbert, who requested the information, said: "The Force appears to be strong in Strathclyde Police with their Jedi police officers and staff. "Far from living a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, some members of the noble Jedi order have now chosen Glasgow and its surrounding streets as their home."

Provided voluntarily

A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police confirmed: "At the time of the request, 10 (eight police officers and two police staff) had recorded their religion as Jedi." She added that the force monitored "six strands of diversity" - age, disability, gender, race religion and belief, and sexual orientation. The force said the information was provided voluntarily and securely stored. About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000. The Office for National Statistics did not recognise it as a separate category, and incorporated followers of Jedi with atheists. Last year, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones founded the UK Church of the Jedi - which offered sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques. Strathclyde Police employs 8,200 police officers and 2,800 civilian staff.

This is another example of political correctness and absurdity meeting head on. Why do “they” need to monitor these "six strands of diversity" usually in the name of customer service and especially by Police and Government departments?
Firstly, TITVS asks himself those questions:

Question: Answer:
· What is your age? Why do you need to know?
· Do you have a disability? Why do you need to know?
· What is your gender? Why do you need to know?
· What is your race? Why do you need to know?
· What is your religion or belief? Why do you need to know?
· What is your sexual orientation? Why do you need to know?

Okay that was the obvious way to respond to such an invasion of a person’s right to privacy (under The Human Rights Act).

These are the real answer TITVS gives on forms:

Question: Answer:
· What is your age? But why do you need to know?
· Do you have a disability? Yes. I used to work for Birmingham City Council
· What is your gender/sex? Male to Gender? Yes to Sex?
· What is your race? English**/White Anglo-Saxon *
· What is your religion or belief? CofE/Agnostic
· What is your sexual orientation? MYOFB ***

So why then do we always get asked these questions, Surely nothing to do with the government's paranoia on the multicultural society, or keeping up quotas to remain politically correct for areas of age, disability, gender, race religion and belief, and sexual orientation?

Are they absolutely not just making sure that the number of ethnic "imports" are still going to vote for them, after all they've totally alienated any indigenous born voters?

[*If ever I am given a form about ethnic background. I always write White Anglo-Saxon.

**If I am pressed about my nationality, I never put BRITISH I always write ENGLISH. That is no way disrespectful to my Scottish, Welsh and Irish cousins, who I expect would be as equally proud of their own nation of origin.
***MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS! ]

As Published