Tag Archive for 'religion'

Cops:

Because his brother serves in the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police Geeklawyer is rarely shocked by UK police behav­iour: he sees them from the inside. There are far far too may idiots in the filth. It is these idiots that seem to be in charge of polic­ing the G20 protests. Appar­ently (via CharonQC) they are, they have said, “up for it” if vio­lence breaks out at the protests.

Yes­ter­day, the Met­ro­pol­i­tan police was under­stood to have con­tacted a num­ber of protest groups warn­ing that the main day of protest, Wednes­day, 1 April would be “very vio­lent”, and senior com­man­ders have insisted that they are “up for it, and up to it”, should there be any trouble.

Quite how, in the absence of a crys­tal ball, they know that Wednes­day will be ‘very vio­lent’, unless they plan to make it so, is unclear. The inevitable sus­pi­cion is that this is one pre­dic­tion that will become self-fulfilling. Geeklawyer is too young to remem­ber the Min­ers strikes of the 1980s but recalls the sto­ries of taunt­ing & provoca­tive police wav­ing their pay pack­ets in front of wage-less strik­ing min­ers. The ‘up for it’ lan­guage from police com­man­ders will cer­tainly have reached the well armed police grunts fac­ing pro­test­ers. This makes aggres­sion and provo­ca­tion against pro­test­ers almost inevitable. The Met for their part will then claim to have reacted ‘appro­pri­ately and pro­por­tion­ately’. Geeklawyer is bet­ting on how often the hyper con­tro­ver­sial Sec­tion 44 anti-terrorism pow­ers will be abused to crush peace­ful protest and harass those rude enough to want politi­cians to really really lis­ten to them.

Reli­gion:

Geeklawyer is no Islam­o­phobe, pre­fer­ring to despise all reli­gion equally, save Zen Bud­dhism and the Church of the Fly­ing Spaghetti Mon­ster. The news that the UN has passed a non-binding res­o­lu­tion mak­ing defama­tion of reli­gion a breach of Human Rights is truly appalling. Pak­istan was the spon­sor and the text says:

“Defama­tion of reli­gious is a seri­ous affront to human dig­nity lead­ing
to a restric­tion on the free­dom of their adher­ents and incite­ment to
reli­gious vio­lence,” the adopted text read, adding that “Islam is
fre­quently and wrongly asso­ci­ated with human rights vio­la­tions and
terrorism.”

But as The Ottawa rep­re­sen­ta­tive said: “It is indi­vid­u­als who have rights, not reli­gions,” which is man­i­festly right. Islamic loonies are their own worst ene­mies and this stuff plays into the hands of racists and US neo-con psychos.

Comic pr0n:

Neo-Labour’s obses­sion with leg­is­lat­ing about any­thing to with sex­ual moral­ity con­tin­ues apace. Fail­ure to under­stand the issues is not an imped­i­ment, of course, and if one can tag on the pedopanic label, well, how can one lose? The lat­est issue is that in a desire to leg­is­late against car­toon kiddy pr0n it may be that they will kill off mer­i­to­ri­ous art such as Manga or Alan Moore nov­els and derived films. Under this leg­is­la­tion it doesn’t even mat­ter if the rep­re­sen­ta­tion is of an adult if it also looks childlike.

Inter­nal travel pass­ports:

NO2ID are point­ing out that the gov­ern­ment will soon require you to have ID cards to travel within the UK if travel involves air or boats. How long before this is needed for train tick­ets an petrol pur­chases? All to com­bat ter­ror­ism of course.

Griev­ous insults:

Finally Geeklawyer has been hurt­fully described by Jeremy at the IPKat blog as the Jade Goody of the law blog­ging world. Prof Phillips was once a friend, but he is now dead to Geeklawyer. A law­suit for defama­tion is cur­rently being pre­pared by feared defama­tion ambu­lance chasers Messrs Carter Fuck.