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Tangle
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Message 18 of 75 (647404)
01-09-2012 3:50 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Jazzns
01-09-2012 1:55 PM


Re: A Cure Worse than the Disease?
jazzns writes:
Someone saying, "I am outraged! We should riot!" should be protected speech.
It is.
Our laws are pretty much the same as yours. I think you guys have the expression "you don't have the freedom to shout fire in a theatre" or some such, which was a similar situation at the time. (Although many people here thought the sentence was extremely harsh.)

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Message 21 of 75 (647430)
01-09-2012 4:46 PM
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01-09-2012 4:38 PM


Re: A Cure Worse than the Disease?
No, it not a crime. Unless it's part of a deliberate campaign to cause a riot.

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Message 25 of 75 (647511)
01-10-2012 5:30 AM


I Predict A Riot lyrics
Songwriters: James Simon Rix;Charles Richard Wilson;Andrew Robert White;Nicholas James David Hodgson;Nicholas Matthew Baines
Watching the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
It's not very sensible either
A friend of a friend he got beaten
He looked the wrong way at a policeman
Would never of happened to Smeaton
An old Leodensian
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I tried to get to my taxi
The man in a tracksuit attacks me
He said that he saw it before me
And wants to get things a bit gory
Girls scrabble round with no clothes on
To borrow a pound for a condom
If it wasn't for chip fat they'd be frozen
They're not very sensible
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
And if there's anybody left in here
Who that doesn't want to be out there
Watching the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
It's not very sensible
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
And if there's anybody left in here
Who that doesn't want to be out there
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
So far no prosecution for incitement.

Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android

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Message 27 of 75 (647515)
01-10-2012 6:19 AM
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01-10-2012 6:11 AM


Panda writes:
Au contraire...
For clarity and for those readers lacking a sense of irony - this article is a spoof :-)
UnNews:Kaiser Chiefs arrested for predicting the future
Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.

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Message 38 of 75 (647577)
01-10-2012 11:44 AM
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01-10-2012 11:06 AM


SC writes:
That being said, it was a bad thing to say and he should retract it and appologize.
Not good enough really is it?
This wasn't an off the cuff remark in the pub, it was the Archbishop's Christmas message to his congregation. That's normally something you think about in advance and even write down. He obviously means what he says. If the Vatican doesn't fire him, they're once again saying that they are not going to conform to the normal rules of decent society.

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Message 43 of 75 (647584)
01-10-2012 12:11 PM
Reply to: Message 39 by Buzsaw
01-10-2012 11:56 AM


Re: Six Jeers & Zero Responses. Go Figure
I didn't bother to reply or jeer but now that you've brought my attention to it again I see that it's well worth a jeer.
(You provide a link to an alleged convent brothel which turned out to actually be an priest talking about legalising prostitution - the jeer was for my disappointment.)

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Message 45 of 75 (647586)
01-10-2012 12:18 PM
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01-10-2012 12:02 PM


CS writes:
Sure, but did he mean what people are interpreting him as saying? Did he mean what he was translated as saying?
No, of course not. But even though what he said was deliberately misinterpreted by the headline, what he actually DID say was bad enough to get him fired from any normal organisation.
..... but when have you ever gotten the sense from the Vatican that they think they should comform to the normal rules of decent society?
Never. It's just disapointing to have it confirmed over and over.

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