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Old 27-10-2009, 15:02   #1 (permalink)

 
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I've found myself shaking my head more and more whenever I hear/see the news lately. Here's a couple of stories that have really shocked me/pissed me off recently...

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Merseyside | Boys bailed over anti-gay attack

Young lad minding his own business outside a club in Liverpool set upon by up to 20 thugs and hospitalised because he's gay. Fucking unbelievable.

The Big Question: Why are pupils making so many false allegations against teachers? - Education News, Education - The Independent

The story about pupils making false claims against teachers really pissed me off. At what point did we start taking the word of these little shitbags over that of teachers? I remember when I was a kid, if I got in trouble from a teacher and so much as breathed a word of it to my parents I'd have got in more trouble. If I tried to protest my innocence, or say the teacher was being in anyway unfair, my parents would always believe the teacher cos, well, they were the teacher and I was a fucking kid. These little bastards (and more so the parents who believe their every word) are ruining careers of teachers, and scaring so many people off of that career choice in the first place, it's ridiculous. An inherent lack of discipline in our country is evident, and something needs to be done. My wife is a teacher, but I'm so glad she's in primary schools, rather than in the Academy with these little conniving bastards.


What is the bloody world coming to...
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At what point did we start taking the word of these little shitbags over that of teachers?
At the same point teachers started becoming paedophiles, ie in the last ten years.
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I don't understand, with regard to the first story, why they have to treat this as a "homophobic hate crime" where I believe it's simply Grievous Bodily Harm. Homophobia was just the motive and people are thugs for any number of retarded reasons.

And while I can't condone police brutality it would be only mildly unfortunate if they received a brisk beating around the kidneys with some rubber piping for this.
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I don't understand, with regard to the first story, why they have to treat this as a "homophobic hate crime" where I believe it's simply Grievous Bodily Harm. Homophobia was just the motive and people are thugs for any number of retarded reasons.

And while I can't condone police brutality it would be only mildly unfortunate if they received a brisk beating around the kidneys with some rubber piping for this.
I think, though not entirely sure, that if you add a homophobic/racist slant to attacks, that it's deemed more serious and the punishments can be harsher.

But I agree with what you're saying in that if you beat someone up, it shouldn't really matter why you did it. There are no laws that make the crime worse for beating someone up because of hair colour, or weight, or the way they dress, but some idiots might give someone a bashing for any number of reasons.

A 20 on 1 kicking for any reason is just mindless thuggery, and they're lucky they didn't kill the poor lad.
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At the same point paedophile teachers started getting reported, ie in the last ten years.
Fixed that for you sir...
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Yes, because it was entirely serious and therefore needed to be fixed.
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Yes, because it was entirely serious and therefore needed to be fixed.
You wrote something on the internet and wasn't serious??

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Probably when they realised that the media had made it unacceptable to treat children as anything other than fragile angelic beings that must be protected at all costs.

Once they realised that, and were able to exploit it...
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Once they realised that, and were able to exploit it...
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BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Jailed Baby P lodger wins appeal

and this....

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | War hero soldier stabbed to death

and seriously... fish suppers?!?!

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Fat dog 'could not scratch ears'
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