UK student facing trial for spreading pro-liberty propaganda

Started by Syt, November 12, 2012, 08:21:38 AM

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Gups

#15
November 12, 2012, 09:29:46 AM
a) It is illegal to write on the public highway.

b) It's got nothing to do with being a lawyer. It's just common sense that if a cop tells you to stop doing something you stop. Take his badge number and complain later if you like but don't just carry on regardless and expect nothing to happen.

garbon

#16
November 12, 2012, 09:32:02 AM
Quote from: Gups on November 12, 2012, 09:29:46 AM
b) It's got nothing to do with being a lawyer. It's just common sense that if a cop tells you to stop doing something you stop. Take his badge number and complain later if you like but don't just carry on regardless and expect nothing to happen.

Which again just reinforces what the man was writing. I don't like the idea that the police can as us to stop doing anything they feel like.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

mongers

#17
November 12, 2012, 09:58:39 AM
Quote from: Gups on November 12, 2012, 08:58:56 AM
"Now"?

Anyone sensible does what they are told by the cops except in extremis. In the old days you'd get a kicking, these days you get arrested and suffer a small fine.

And, of course, this is all his side of the story. I bet he called them fascist pigs or similar.

Gups, thanks for that thoroughly unbiased post.


"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

#18
November 12, 2012, 10:04:48 AM
Quote from: Brazen on November 12, 2012, 08:41:27 AM
When was the last time you saw children playing hopscotch or found a friendly stationers where you could purchase ordinary playground chalk?

When was the last time you saw someone standing on a street corner handing out political pamphlets ? 
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

#19
November 12, 2012, 10:07:01 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 12, 2012, 09:32:02 AM
Quote from: Gups on November 12, 2012, 09:29:46 AM
b) It's got nothing to do with being a lawyer. It's just common sense that if a cop tells you to stop doing something you stop. Take his badge number and complain later if you like but don't just carry on regardless and expect nothing to happen.

Which again just reinforces what the man was writing. I don't like the idea that the police can as us to stop doing anything they feel like.

Garbon, this is England; timid people get a vicarious satisfaction in seeing others slap down if they step out of line.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Valmy

#20
November 12, 2012, 10:13:46 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on November 12, 2012, 08:59:29 AM
It seems a shame that the police themselves can not be charged with wasting police time  :hmm:

Right?  'OH MY CHALK ON OUR SIDEWALKS!!!111'
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Gups

#21
November 12, 2012, 10:29:43 AM
Anyway, a quick google search reveals that this story is from March 2009 and the charges were all dropped. According to Saville he was awarded compensation as well. He was later arrested for stroking a horse.  :ph34r:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/26/student-protester-stroked-police-horse

Syt

#22
November 12, 2012, 10:35:16 AM
I only reported the latest headlines from EUOT.  :blush:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#23
November 12, 2012, 10:36:46 AM
Quote from: Syt on November 12, 2012, 10:35:16 AM
I only reported the latest headlines from EUOT.  :blush:

Thanks Euro-Tim :P
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Richard Hakluyt

#24
November 12, 2012, 10:42:14 AM
Apparently it cost about £5k to investigate this "crime" and then the Crown Prosecution service dismissed the case due to "lack of evidence" :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168813/Police-chalk-5-000-failed-case-student-civil-liberties-graffiti.html


I guess it rained  :P



mongers

#25
November 12, 2012, 10:44:43 AM
Quote from: Gups on November 12, 2012, 10:29:43 AM
Anyway, a quick google search reveals that this story is from March 2009 and the charges were all dropped. According to Saville he was awarded compensation as well. He was later arrested for stroking a horse.  :ph34r:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/26/student-protester-stroked-police-horse

But it's still illegal to chalk on the highway right ?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

garbon

#26
November 12, 2012, 11:24:25 AM
Quote from: mongers on November 12, 2012, 10:04:48 AM
Quote from: Brazen on November 12, 2012, 08:41:27 AM
When was the last time you saw children playing hopscotch or found a friendly stationers where you could purchase ordinary playground chalk?

When was the last time you saw someone standing on a street corner handing out political pamphlets ? 

Thankfully not often here in New York. Happened daily in SF. <_<
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Valmy

#27
November 12, 2012, 11:26:09 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 12, 2012, 11:24:25 AM
Thankfully not often here in New York. Happened daily in SF. <_<

'Fight against the evils of Capitalism!  Join the Marxist revolution today!'

Yes...I got this once in Austin, Texas.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

garbon

#28
November 12, 2012, 11:27:15 AM
Quote from: Valmy on November 12, 2012, 11:26:09 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 12, 2012, 11:24:25 AM
Thankfully not often here in New York. Happened daily in SF. <_<

'Fight against the evils of Capitalism!  Join the Marxist revolution today!'

Yes...I got this once in Austin, Texas.

Most common for me was look at this photo of sad Palestinian children. Stop their evil Zionist oppressors!
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Malthus

#29
November 12, 2012, 11:42:14 AM
Quote from: Gups on November 12, 2012, 10:29:43 AM
Anyway, a quick google search reveals that this story is from March 2009 and the charges were all dropped. According to Saville he was awarded compensation as well. He was later arrested for stroking a horse.  :ph34r:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/26/student-protester-stroked-police-horse

Is "stroking a horse" some sort of wacky British euphemism?  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius
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