Really?
"Aardvark" <
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On Wed, 30 May 2012 11:28:42 -0500, G. Morgan wrote:
> To me it would appear to be going backwards, trending towards barbarism.
Huh?
> First they take your guns,
No one took any guns, mate. Advances in civilised behaviour rendered them
unnecessary. GB civilians don't *need* firearms.
> then your privacy,
Huh?
> then your voice,
My voice is in my vote, mate. I haven't lost that.
> then your
> national identity.
Huh?
> Britannia will be unrecognizable in 20 years at this
> pace.
>
Huh?
> What the hell happened over there?
Nothing, mate. It's still accepted that with every individual right comes
an equal duty to one's fellow members of society. This case of the loud-
mouthed bigoted bitch on the tube is a perfect example of this. She
deserved what she got.
> The very notion of getting a
> criminal charge for something you say (hateful or not), is nothing short
> of the "thought police" enforcing someone else's agenda.
>
Wrong. The silly bitch was behaving in a manner which might have caused a
breach of the peace, a public order offence. Of course she was exercising
her right to free speech, but she was unaware of, or didn't give a shit
about, her responsibilities to society which go along with this right.
She was drunk and disorderly, a crime under the Criminal Justice act. She
used 'threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly
behaviour', a crime under the Public Order Act. Nothing at all to do with
exercising her right to free speech, mate. It was criminal behaviour,
pure and simple.
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http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/public_order_offences/#a01>
> Many men and women have given their lives so that we (in the US at
> least)
> can be free to speak about anything we choose without fear of reprisal
> by the government.
The government took no reprisal, mate. The mouthy, drunken, bigoted bitch
broke our society's rules and paid the price.
We all have rights, but we have responsibilities to match. The public
order laws we have are designed to deal with those who forget or ignore
these responsibilities.
In this case, the system worked as it was designed to do, and I'm pleased
by that.
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