tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post8569966860074303481..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: We should not send people to prison for being offensiveJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-89457584524026027612012-10-13T01:36:07.438+01:002012-10-13T01:36:07.438+01:00It's an appalling judgement and the sentence i...It's an appalling judgement and the sentence is utterly unjustifiable. The case makes stupidity a crime - a dangerous precedent indeed. But it is entirely consistent with the modern justice system in post-1980s Britain, where policing and courts are largely politicised, and where government repression is given a free hand, no matter which party is in power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-57686058451511080552012-10-11T22:45:40.506+01:002012-10-11T22:45:40.506+01:00And in Manchester....
http://menmedia.co.uk/manche...And in Manchester....<br />http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1590965_jailed-man-who-wore-anti-police-t-shirt-on-day-pcs-fiona-bone-and-nicola-hughes-were-shot<br /><br />The local paper is too scared to allow readers comments or to say what the offensive T shirt said. The BBC at least pictures it.<br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-19911943<br /><br />Go back nearly 30 years and the "joke" after the Brighton bomb "what do you call 4 dead Tories...A start" was offensive but no one was arrested. <br /><br />Not exactly a free country is it<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-77757005421040915592012-10-10T11:46:02.647+01:002012-10-10T11:46:02.647+01:00Yes prison is wrong for this case.
I have asked L...Yes prison is wrong for this case.<br /><br />I have asked Leicestershire police to send the person who is responsible for sending me vile letters and producing a blog to support that activity to hospital.<br /><br />Yesterday I witnessed a woman filming another woman describing the woman and her child at Oakham Station in a very explicit and indecent way. <br /><br />I spoke to the woman filming and an American married to a Rutland man and she aired her right to freedom of speech. <br /><br />When does freedom of speech stop being just that.<br /><br />Yo add to my problems the victim reported the matter to the police say a woman and man were harassing her. <br /><br />Its times like this I am grateful to big brother, Oakham has a new CCTV system that records images and sound.<br /><br />The victim is the partner of one of Oakham's murder suspects, she has also reported me for once photographing the block of flats her and partner live in, what a crazy world we enjoy...Martin Brookes @oakhamukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08453661497127009763noreply@blogger.com