[QUOTE]A council's town centre ban on swearing has been labelled a "staggering misuse of power" by a civil liberties group.
Rochdale Council has introduced a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which includes a ban on swearing, skateboarding and begging.
Lara ten Caten, legal officer for human rights group Liberty, accused the council of curbing residents' rights.
But the authority's leader Richard Farnell said the council was trying to stop "drunken and abusive idiots".
Two other councils, Kettering and Salford, currently have swearing bans as part of their PSPOs, which were introduced in 2014 to cut anti-social behaviour in towns and cities.[/QUOTE]
What a load of utter fucking gob shite.
There are so many other worse crimes happening in Rochdale, makes us feel less safe as if this is [I]IMPORTANT [/I]
[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-39208126"]BBC[/URL]
It's as if they [I]want[/I] to be told to fuck off.
Skateboarding is not a crime!
Relevant. I can understand some of the bans but the war on profanity seems a little atrocious...
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOc7ezwcJjI[/media]
thats freaking dumb, what the crud do these frigging dumb dumbs think theyre doing, dumb shoot like this just makes everyone peeved off
[b]Fucking[/b] wonderful.
I wonder how they'd cope with people who've got tourette's. :thinking:
fuck off lol
[quote]But the authority's leader Richard Farnell said the council was trying to stop "drunken and abusive idiots".[/quote]
ok so just ban blatant and public intoxication?
[quote]Mr Farnell, who heads the Labour-led council, said: "With all the horrific human rights abuses happening around the world right now, I would have thought Liberty had bigger things to worry about.[/quote]
God forbid a [B]British[/B] civil liberties advocacy group defend liberties in [B]Britain.[/B]
Isn't this the place that was rife with paedos? Why don't they try sorting that instead...
[QUOTE=El_Jameo;51936796]Relevant. I can understand some of the bans but the war on profanity seems a little atrocious...
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOc7ezwcJjI[/media][/QUOTE]
Strangely enough, MediaCity isn't far away from Rochdale.
If they wanted to cut down on anti social behaviour they should tell the police not to ignore rampant child abuse.
[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;51937076]If they wanted to cut down on anti social behaviour they should tell the police not to ignore rampant child abuse.[/QUOTE]
Fucking racist.
[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;51937076]If they wanted to cut down on anti social behaviour they should tell the police not to ignore rampant child abuse.[/QUOTE]
:godzing:
[QUOTE=Pantz Master;51937080]Fucking racist.[/QUOTE]
I expect someone to say this.
[QUOTE=Th13teen;51936801][b]Fucking[/b] wonderful.
I wonder how they'd cope with people who've got tourette's. :thinking:[/QUOTE]
y'know not everyone with tourettes has a swearing tic
[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;51937101]I expect someone to say this.[/QUOTE]
Why is it racist?
Is this a late 80's/early 90's kids movie?
Why ban skateboarding and swearing?
[QUOTE=Dantz Bolrew;51937248]Why is it racist?[/QUOTE]
It isn't but that doesn't seem to have any bearing on whether the accusation is made nowadays.
[QUOTE=Dantz Bolrew;51937248]Why is it racist?[/QUOTE]
Police didn't report crimes committed by Muslim men because they were afraid of being construed as racists.
[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9253250/Rochdale-grooming-trial-Police-accused-of-failing-to-investigate-paedophile-gang-for-fear-of-appearing-racist.html[/url]
The ban does nothing to alleviate the things it paints out to be a problem. The people skateboarding will just go to the skatepark if nowhere else and just the same thing with swearing, i'd expect the police to be incredibly forgiving perhaps to the point that they're not going to really enforce this PSPO - if they did they'd just be stopping mostly young people from being active exacerbating the obesity problem and causing anti-social behaviour when they clash with the police. The beggars & homeless also aren't about to go away either, they don't get out of the situation if you don't give them any resources to help them out of their situation and besides we're already more often seeing that families need the help from food banks as well which could be construed as "begging" which means that the council doesn't even see fit to move a few coins from their tight arses to help the situation at all. It's all just a feel good ban to stop any discussion about the real problems.
[QUOTE=Pantz Master;51937080]Fucking racist.[/QUOTE]
Is this sarcasm?
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;51937361]Police didn't report crimes committed by Muslim men because they were afraid of being construed as racists.
[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9253250/Rochdale-grooming-trial-Police-accused-of-failing-to-investigate-paedophile-gang-for-fear-of-appearing-racist.html[/url][/QUOTE]
Why does everyone seem to place a higher value on [I]appearing[/I] to be a good person nowadays over actually just fucking [I]being[/I] a good person?
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;51937361]Police didn't report crimes committed by Muslim men because they were afraid of being construed as racists.
[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9253250/Rochdale-grooming-trial-Police-accused-of-failing-to-investigate-paedophile-gang-for-fear-of-appearing-racist.html[/url][/QUOTE]
p. sure it's more because the police force were wholly incompetent and failed at their jobs. Nobody but friend and family of the accused would have called them racist if they made sure they were only arresting those who had actually committed crimes (y'know, doing their job properly).
Unless they were genuinely scared of being called racist by absolutely everybody. In which case, why were they scared? Were they generalising the entire Asian community as a bunch of kiddy fiddlers or something in their "investigations"?
They are members of the police, people calling them racist when their actions aren't actually racist is fucking meaningless and they should just get on with their jobs. If it gets bad enough, take legal action against those trying to paint you as a racist.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;51937978]They are members of the police, people calling them racist when their actions aren't actually racist is fucking meaningless and they should just get on with their jobs.[/QUOTE]
That's pretty much what the consensus was after the fact.
Swearing in public has always [URL="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/5"]been illegal[/URL] so long as it is in the presence of somebody who is likely to be caused harassment / alarm / distress.
They're simply using the PSPO as an extra power to tackle anti-social behaviour.
'harassment', 'alarm', and 'distress'
always very subjective terms, not a very good rule to enforce is it
Why don't they just get rid of swearing as a concept?
Swear words are only swear words because people say they're bad and shouldn't used.
But that only leads to younger people using them more because it's a way for them to rebel against their elders.
If swear words weren't considered bad, they wouldn't be used so much
[QUOTE=Coffee;51939800]Why don't they just get rid of swearing as a concept?
Swear words are only swear words because people say they're bad and shouldn't used.
But that only leads to younger people using them more because it's a way for them to rebel against their elders.
If swear words weren't considered bad, they wouldn't be used so much[/QUOTE]
Language would be a lot less interesting if everything was vanilla, though.
[QUOTE=Coffee;51939800]Why don't they just get rid of swearing as a concept?
Swear words are only swear words because people say they're bad and shouldn't used.
But that only leads to younger people using them more because it's a way for them to rebel against their elders.
If swear words weren't considered bad, they wouldn't be used so much[/QUOTE]
[URL="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-swear/"]But it reduces pain![/URL]
Plus, I don't think I'd endure working on the car as much if I wasn't constantly swearing about the goddamn goatfucker's crappy fuelpump.
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