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Treating a group differently because a similar group was trouble in the past is no way to run a police service! If it's a bunch of people affiliated with a pol
by tehwalrus 13y ago
Treating a group differently because a similar group was trouble in the past is no way to run a police service!
If it's a bunch of people affiliated with a political ideology (e.g. EDL marches, occupy) then you might have a point since they're voluntarily associating - but profiling based on age, race, what type of entertainment they're queuing for, that is unjustifiable! think of the number of false positives....
- gaius 13y agoThe existence of football hooligans would tend to disprove that. Also punks. You can actually very easily correlate "trouble" with "preferred entertainment".
- tehwalrus 13y agoPunk was political, specifically anarchist - argument void. I didn't say you can't correlate it, I said you can't treat them all like criminals by default - only a small fraction of football fans are violent, similarly teenagers. A law that effectively bans people queuing up to watch football is the same level of crazy as banning teenagers from queuing up for goth metal.
- gaius 13y agoPolitical, specifically Fascist I think you mean. There is a big overlap with punks, football hooligans and BNP/Combat 18. Ever heard of Skrewdriver? Where does the law ban people from standing in queues?
- tehwalrus 13y agoYour initial comment referenced the possibility of people being given an order for "clogging up the pavement", whether protesting, queuing for the opera, etc - that is what I've been referencing.
- dreamfactory2 13y agoSkrewdriver had nothing to do with punk. Apart from being long dead by the time the BNP formed, punk was nihilist and situationist, not fascist.
- lmm 13y agoYou can. That doesn't make it right.