Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: https://cjstrachan.substack.com/p/2-tier-public-order-offenses-and So if the Koran ...
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So if the Koran burning was a public order offense which could incite a reaction then what was the desecration of our national flags in a political protest? Why wasn’t that a Public Order offense? It offended millions and it creates a very real risk of violent reaction or reaction in kind.
This is the heart of the problem. You either have Freedom of Speech or you don’t. You either have Blasphemy Laws or you don’t. What’s happening here is that senior plod at GMP are subjectively deciding, off their own back, what is acceptable and what is not. […]
There’s clearly double standards in the application of public order offenses here and this matters because Labour are using the public order offense to deny that they have brought in a blasphemy law by the back door. By denying that the Koran burnings are enforcement of blasphemy laws Reynolds etc. have just once again highlighted the two tier justice system in the application of public order offenses.
So if the Koran burning was a public order offense which could incite a reaction then what was the desecration of our national flags in a political protest? Why wasn’t that a Public Order offense? It offended millions and it creates a very real risk of violent reaction or reaction in kind.
This is the heart of the problem. You either have Freedom of Speech or you don’t. You either have Blasphemy Laws or you don’t. What’s happening here is that senior plod at GMP are subjectively deciding, off their own back, what is acceptable and what is not. […]
There’s clearly double standards in the application of public order offenses here and this matters because Labour are using the public order offense to deny that they have brought in a blasphemy law by the back door. By denying that the Koran burnings are enforcement of blasphemy laws Reynolds etc. have just once again highlighted the two tier justice system in the application of public order offenses.