Reply to: She should have been locked up!

[Lucifer Box]

It gets even better

She's been signed off on the sick. Due to stress no doubt.

[DaveB]

Problem solved.

They've changed the judge...

They have also replaced her.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/6142520.stm

[Joe Black]

Erm we live in a soceity that preaches freedom of expression and freedom of speech.

We have people who do all sorts in this country. Just because wearing a veil has a religious connotation shouldn't make it any different.

If we let people wear what they want, believe in a right to express freely, then that extends to people who want to cover up as much as it extends to people who want to show more flesh or dress in questionable styles.

Are you saying then that you will equally defend my right to teach children wearing nothing at all, because, just perhaps, my own little group of believers consider only the first few paragraphs of the bible to be true, and therefore we should all be naked before God?

[Troll]

Erm we live in a soceity that preaches freedom of expression and freedom of speech.

Yeah.. freedom of speech and expression ... great innit!!.... who would have thought a few cartoons would have caused such a stir....did you join the protest?

[JaredM]

Erm we live in a soceity that preaches freedom of expression and freedom of speech.

We have people who do all sorts in this country. Just because wearing a veil has a religious connotation shouldn't make it any different.

If we let people wear what they want, believe in a right to express freely, then that extends to people who want to cover up as much as it extends to people who want to show more flesh or dress in questionable styles.

[zathras]

From BBC:

Legal advisers and solicitors may wear the Islamic veil in court unless it interferes with the "interests of justice", judges have been told.

Oh FFS!

How many Muslim advocates have operated without a veil in the approx 800 years of the religion.

Are we going to get a spate of appeals on the grounds of an unfair trail 'exuse me M'lud I did n't get a fair trial - I could n't understand a word my lawyer said'

It is not a requirement of the Muslim religion - it is a requirement of a small fringe that has it's roots in Saudi Arabia.

[Emperor Dalek]

Stop acting like a knob

That could be a major problem for Mailman.

[snaw]

Sorry, I should have used to technically correct name of ***!

Mailman

You know, you had a perfectly valid point, screwed up by your not so latent racism. It added nothing to your post beyond making you look like the bigot you probably are.

There's a line that seems easy for some people to cross when they hide behind the anonymity of a computer screen that in real life they wouldn't do, because in civilised society it's rightly considered offensive. Stop acting like a knob and cut out the offensive crap, it's not needed.

[Joe Black]

I can just see all the criminals adopting this & standing in the dock wearing a veil...

Prosecution to the witness: "do you see the accused standing before you in this court"

err no

Would make police line-ups fun as well...

[Mailman]

Care to watch how you phrase things - calling people fuzzy wuzzies is overstepping the line big time, no matter how much you meant it in jest, or how valid your actual point may be.

Sorry, I should have used to technically correct name of ***!

Mailman

[wobbegong]

At least it'll make the courtroom artists' job easier.

[Troll]

I can just see all the criminals adopting this & standing in the dock wearing a veil...

Prosecution to the witness: "do you see the accused standing before you in this court"

err no

[SandyDown]

Why can't we have freedom of what to wear ?? I don't wear a mask but I do like my batwoman mask !!!

[Troll]

...and Gibson's dog in Dam Busters,will never be the same again

[stackpole]

I guess the BBC are going to be busy sanitising all those Dads Army episodes then

And threaded is going back in time to introduce a head-shaving culture in Africa.