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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."
I think he was quite well-spoken, really.
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
Not legal advice, not a lawyer, but an audit.
I think I have to stop calling Linux users a cult before I get prosecuted.
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!
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!
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
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
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.
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.