23rd December 2007
Doctor Who fined by Commission for Specieal Equality
The Doctor in an incident he claims justified his remarks |
Describing it as "the most blatant and deeply ingrained" case of discrimination it had ever come across, the CSE said that the Timelord had "a cavalier attitude" in his views to non-human species and was "a corrupting influence" on the minds of young viewers.
Institutional
Tribunal chairbeing Snarflefax Mustard said: "In all my years as with the CSE, I have never come across a person, alien or gestalt blob that was not only such an ingrained specieist, but encouraged others to do so with such reckless abandon.
"We hope that the size of the fine will make the Doctor think twice the next time he labels an entire species as 'evil' or encourages a protégé to plot the destruction of individual beings merely because they are part of a species that the Doctor has a personal war with."
Crazy
Hearing evidence from Daleks, Cybermen and the Slitheen, the commission heard that the Gallifreyan new age traveller had on no less than 100 occasions plotted the destruction of the entire species.
Worse, Mr Mustard said, the Doctor encouraged a range of human companions to join him in his quest for destruction and passed on his discriminatory view of non-human life to them.
One Cyberman, #1235654/Q, said: "Although Cybermen cannot cry, when the Doctor labelled me and my collective as 'evil, just pure evil', it made me weep."
Loony Tunes
The commission said it was "shocked" at the results of this corruption and found him guilty of seven separate offences, four since 2004 and the others from October 2874, January 78,900 and Groombridge 1,001,233.
The tenth, fifth and third doctors were all unavailable to comment, but a recorded message in the blue police box's telephone said that the Doctor "believes with both his hearts that some species are evil" and that the fine would not change his outlook on life.
A spokesbeing for the Daleks welcomed the ruling with a cry of "exterminate! Exterminate!"
The Doctor is due to appear before the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) next week. The CRE states that while the Doctor seemed to accept that there were non-white humans, he had to "do more" to counter this by including Asian, Indian and Native American minorities, amongst others, in the documentaries of his life.
