Perverse Justice
Strange times indeed. That we're living through, that is. The outcomes of two recent court cases seem to have turned accepted norms on their head. I refer, of course, to the trials of John Terry and that police officer who killed that news vendor during that protest. Except, according to a truly bizarre verdict, the cop didn't kill him. Despite video evidence clearly showing him attacking the man with his baton, even though he wasn't part of the protest and was obviously walking away, this apparently wasn't the cause of the newspaper seller's death. Despite medical evidence to the contrary. What the verdict also implies is that a police officer making an unprovoked attack with a weapon on an innocent bystander, doesn't constitute 'unreasonable force'. The possible consequences of this are quite disturbing. Especially if you are planning to attend a protest - you could be beaten senseless without any recourse in law, it seems.
Turning to John Terry, all we can gather from the outcome of his trial for allegedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, is that the term 'fucking black cunt' doesn't constitute racial abuse. So, knock yourselves out football terrace racists - shout that and you are apparently immune from prosecution. Except maybe the first guy who shouts it, as part of Terry's successful defence was that he was merely repeating what he thought Ferdinand had said, (who, in turn, was repeating what he thought Terry had said in the first place). But so long as everyone else says that they were just repeating the offensive phrase, they should be OK. Which brings us, naturally, to the question of why the police are apparently investigating a claim of racism against someone who tweeted Rio Ferdinand, describing Ashley Cole (who had testified for Terry at the trial) as a 'choc ice', (black on the outside, but white inside, in my day the equivalent term was 'coconut', or sometimes even 'bounty bar')? After all, if 'fucking black cunt' is OK then 'choc ice' surely has to be seen as a term of endearment, doesn't it?
Turning to John Terry, all we can gather from the outcome of his trial for allegedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, is that the term 'fucking black cunt' doesn't constitute racial abuse. So, knock yourselves out football terrace racists - shout that and you are apparently immune from prosecution. Except maybe the first guy who shouts it, as part of Terry's successful defence was that he was merely repeating what he thought Ferdinand had said, (who, in turn, was repeating what he thought Terry had said in the first place). But so long as everyone else says that they were just repeating the offensive phrase, they should be OK. Which brings us, naturally, to the question of why the police are apparently investigating a claim of racism against someone who tweeted Rio Ferdinand, describing Ashley Cole (who had testified for Terry at the trial) as a 'choc ice', (black on the outside, but white inside, in my day the equivalent term was 'coconut', or sometimes even 'bounty bar')? After all, if 'fucking black cunt' is OK then 'choc ice' surely has to be seen as a term of endearment, doesn't it?
posted by Doc Sleaze at
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