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UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult"
An anonymous reader writes "A 15-year-old in the UK is facing prosecution for using the word 'cult' to describe the Church of Scientology at an anti-Scientology demonstration in London earlier this month. According to the City of London police at the scene, the teen was violating the Public Order Act, which 'prohibits signs which have representations or words which are threatening, abusive or insulting.' There's a video of the teen receiving the summons from the City of London police at the demonstration (starting about 1 minute in), and now he's asking for advice on how to handle the court case."
Let's protest a "cult" by all wearing strange masks and chanting the same mantras over and over!
I think he was quite well-spoken, really.
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
...to say David Miscavige raped me?
Would it be even more dangerous to say that he needed a small stepladder to do it?
"I meant 'colt' your honor. Scientologists are as cute as pony."
Table-ized A.I.
Not legal advice, not a lawyer, but an audit.
Well, as I worship the flying spaghetti monster, I consider anything else to be a cult. The Christian cult, the Atheist cult, the Agnostic cult, Hindu's, Buddhists. Damn cults. I have to do battle every day.
The Unicode standard is over 20 years old. Why does Slashdot not support it?
Whats the difference between religions and cults? As far as I can tell they really are the same thing.
:-)
If you have any of the following, you are a cult:
* Funny underwear
* Funny hat/cap worn in open
* Weird spiritual machines
* Don't allow your kids to go to "secular" doctors even if dying
(Oh wait, I think Emacs zealots qualify
Table-ized A.I.
I think I have to stop calling Linux users a cult before I get prosecuted.
Yep. The only man to enter parliament with honest intentions.
which is totally what she said
Scientologists have copies of the movie Battlefield Earth.
My money's on the Thetan-freaks...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
The kid should consult a solicitor (Brit-speak for a lawyer) with a background in human rights issues. Liberty should be able to point him in the right direction.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
.. he call it the "fruity little club" instead?
---- "Excuse me. Where's the children's gun section?"
A religion is a large, popular cult.
A cult is a small, unpopular religion.
Is everyone clear now?
"His name was James Damore."
Just don't say that on the streets in London. :)
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I agree. I was totally going to say:
IT'S A TRPA!
I think he's old enough to be legally independent anyway, but thanks for the offer.
Consciousness is a myth. Trust me.
You obviously have never played D&D.
Animate Dead is a 3rd level spell.
Raise Dead is a 5th level spell.
Resurrection is a 7th level spell.
And true res is a 9th level spell
Don't be insulting God by calling him a low level spellcaster, pls. K? Thx.
true res? well he only lasted 40 days, so that's not really very impressive.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Everyone knows that Cthulhu would simply devour the Flying Spaghetti Monster, god and savior or not!
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
I agree. Watching Battlefield Earth is liable to make the suicide bombers go off early.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Yes, but would he follow up with a side of bread-sticks and salad?
best described by emo phillips
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?" He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?" He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off. -- Emo Phillips
So "irony" isn't a synonym of "metallic", then? Hm.
Unless you're marrying a Weatherman.
This is off topic. We are talking about cults here. So would you be arrested for obscenity for shouting "George Bush is a cult"? Or would you be arrested for poor spelling?
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
Irony is the thingy your mommy uses to make your shirtys flat.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
You are receiving this reply because you responded to a /. or usenet post with the pedantic "That's not the proper use of irony" reply, or some variant. *This* reply is to point out that, in your anal retentive zeal to show the world how smart you are, you obviously never even bothered to research the issue (beyond hearing your high school English teacher get all pissy about the issue once). Had you researched the issue, you would know that there is an academic disagreement within the field of modern linguistics between "descriptive linguistics" and "prescriptive linguistics," over this very sort of issue.
To put this in clear and simple terms (for your benefit): There is no "the" definition of irony. It depends on what source you consult.
To put it in even CLEARER terms: Sit down and shut the fuck up, you ignorant smug twat.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Core dumped: stack overflow.
Thank God I live in the U.S. where at least we have free speech zones where we are free to speak our minds. We value our freedom of speech so highly that we protect those in the free speech zones with chain link fencing and barbed wire.
There is a small suburb in Aberdeenshire called "Cults". So if you were to make a roadsign with this word and an arrow on it, you would have a alibi that it was a direction sign and not a political comment.
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If you want to get really technical, one could serve as POTUS indefinitely by continuing to be elected to the office of Vice President and bumping off the latest President-elect before inauguration day.
It's not a very practical loophole...voters might get suspicious after this happened a few times.
...have noodly appendages, so I can see some validity in their fight.
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
Not to troll too much, but incidentally there is a reason Obama does not want Clinton as VP...
You're thinking small. Why miniaturize the laser, when we could instead enlarge the sharks? -John Searle
you obviously never even bothered to research the issue (beyond hearing your high school English teacher get all pissy about the issue once)
Oh, the humanities?!
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Great, our new government's anthem will be "Chocolate Rain".
Rather than that why not a sign reading "cu*t". If the police stop you you could explain that you always find Scientologists somewhat curt but didn't want to hurt their feelings by spelling it out. After all it is not your fault if there are at least two other appropriate letters.