Posts by Andrew Paul Wood
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Could the police or the Children's Comission case be taken to the Supreme Court or the Privvy Council or whatever we have these days? What about a civil case?
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So if I and a bunch of other people dressed the same, with our faces partially hidden so you couldn't identify us, started glaring at you territorially, you wouldn't feel intimidated? I'd call it harrasment.
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And my retort was aimed at the silly analogy drawn with the "ugly" (which is just baiting me) and people who look Muslim - because there is a difference between being an ignorant biggot and feeling intimidated by someone deliberately projecting an aura of menace through their attire.
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I think that if they have their hood up and sunglasses on inside, it's a fair indicator. It's not the sort of thing you do because it's flattering.
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There is no solution, hence the result.
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Sofie, you are being deliberately obtuse. Which part of "__deliberately__ set out to look threatening" do you not understand? Nor is it just about theives, it's about intimidation as well. And stereotypes have a function - they allow complex societies to continue to function.
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The place Malls have as an area of importance in our society and that this space is private and able to exclude people from entering, or modifying dress & behaviour is a bit too powerful for my liking.
Does that extend to airports as well? Surley it's parrt of the social contract not to deliberately set out to look threatening if you are going to fully participate in public life. And why on earth would an innocent person - presumably not a Musim woman in this instance - disguise or cover their face? If you want to go to the mall, you should be prepared to go with the flow.
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Unfortunately these things happen sometimes - but we put up with the flaws in the justice system because the alternative is totalitarianism. There will always be human error and sometimes there is reasonable doubt - as any one of the teeming myriads of TV legal dramas should have hammered home by now.
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Line crossed and the speeding motorcade is heading for the airport. I can't believe she didn't frame it along the lines of "speaking as a private citizen..." and concluded by briefly educating the public in the nature of the sepeartion of government and judiciary, unlike, say, Myanmar.
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Could someone enlighten me as to whether our legal system has anything akin to Double Jeopardy? I don't think so, but I defer to higher authority.