Sussex Police arrest man for anti-gypsy poem he didn't write

I have no respect for gypsies what so ever. A group of them set up camp right next to the primary school fence down the road from my parents house. The police did naff all about it as it was public land. Dogs barking, faeces everywhere, burning crap on the field. Was Disgusting. Fortunately I am from Barry (What's occurring!?!) and the locals took it upon themselves to drive them away within 3 days ;).
 
Utterly pathetic and totally ridiculous. There was a time when the police were able to use their powers of discretion, if I use the word '*****' as part of a sensible conversation between myself and another person it doesn't mean I am anti the gypsy community. I've said before and I'll say it again, the law seeks to take away peoples' powers of discretion and erode their freedoms.

Does it surprise any of us though.

My mate's dad is a magistrate and he finds some the law changes ridiculous. He feels that in some cases ' if it ain't broke why fix it ' would be better.
 
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Mushroom mushroom?
 
Unless Guy Ritchie is going to be arrested, and the film "Snatch" banned, every single member of the filth who had anything remotely to do with this should be sacked.
 
The world has gone mad. You get arrested because of another word which rhymes with it?

On that basis me writing an email saying "worth a punt" might mean I get arrested cause I called him a ****?
 
Soviet said:
Throw me all the sources you want. At the end of the day I can see just by looking at the article(s) that there's an important point missing, as there ALWAYS is, and that the key point has been deliberately excluded, or maybe not reported by Mr. Osmond.

As a serving police officer I'd never arrest anyone on face value of that email alone. One because CPS would laugh in my face and two, more importantly, it's a tremendous waste of time, especially as there is no real victim here.

As I said, there's always more to these stories than meets the eye.
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No smoke without fire is it? Is this how a police state starts, we can't possibly believe police would arrest a man for a simple comment the government don't like, so we assume there's something else, what happens when it's you they come for though?

Don't worry - I'll assume you did something they aren't telling us too, because you know, they wouldn't just arrest somebody for saying something they didn't like, would they?
 
dmpoole said:
I don't understand - have the Daily Mail got the story wrong?
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As with most news sources, the question generally is not: "What have they lied about?", but: "What important bits of the story have they omitted to make the point the editor wants to make?"




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Im sure it was over the top but this sounds more offensive then what the mail claim it was because It referred to an appeal by gipsy Linda Smith, who wants to keep a mobile home in an area of outstanding beauty overlooking the Battle of Hastings site.

The email also read: ‘Get a job, get planning permission but more to the point get out of the neighbourhood.’
 
Telescopi said:
No smoke without fire is it? Is this how a police state starts, we can't possibly believe police would arrest a man for a simple comment the government don't like, so we assume there's something else, what happens when it's you they come for though?
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Well we would need a gargantuan increase in police cells and prisons to house those that bad mouth the government wouldn't we ?

I side with Soviet in that I have a feeling there is more to this than has been released to the public.

Given the information available, I could not justify an arrest let alone trying to get it past the custody sergeant for detention to be authorised. I wouldn't even get a CPS appointment.

Police state is just a media buzzword. We are mired in politics and red tape and clipped discression thanks to the current government but any suggestion that the UK is a police state is simply not true.
 
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