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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."
Gotta love it! It is disheartening that it seems every European country, and Canada too, seems to have some kind of idiotic anti-speech law(s). The scientology thing just serves to unmask this rather gigantic lapse in liberty.
Whenever I get down thinking of waterboarding, wars, wiretapping, and habeas corpus suspension going on with the US; these kinds of things remind me that every country has its own stupid shit. And hopefully Americans will fix waterboarding etc. soon.
Table-ized A.I.
What's a munite? And what's it in?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I chose between Slashdot and 4chan - you should do. Until then fuck off.
This is way too broad a definition, IMO. A former prosecutor known for busting prostitution rings getting busted for hiring a prostitute -- that's irony. But me getting wet because I didn't expect it to rain -- not irony.