How do you feel about things?

[LadyOnArooftop]

Hey you, the fab forum few, how do you feel about things?

Just Stop Oil protesters are finally being given long prison sentences, how do you feel about this?
A. Shocked! One of them will now miss her brother's wedding. Free them!
B. It's about bloody time!

The goverment may charge protesters with terrorism... are you
A. in total agreement, life sentences would be too short for them.
B. shocked at the abuse of power.

Is a two-tier policing policy in place?
A. No, Free Palestine'ers and minorities have a right to mask up and shout racist slurs
B. Yes. anyone concerned about unlimited immigration are branded racist thugs

Someone on a forum disagree with you, do you...
A. shout them down, bellitle them and make fun of them
B. Listen to their argument, appreciate their right to say it, but in the end agree to disagree.

Mostly A's - You have radical, left-wing, middle-class values and will be able to claim you're 'one of the adults' in the room!
Mostly B's - Good lad (or girl), you're a decent working-class citizen. Solidarity brother and power to the people!

 

[Kev45]

Watching a rioter burst into tears after being sent to prison, a man in his 40s, after smashing a brick into a policeman's head, was probably the funniest thing I have seen in the past 25 years.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Anyone who attacks the police deserves prison. They're our last line of defence.

 

[Kev45]

Anyone who attacks the police deserves prison. They're our last line of defence.

I totally agree, whoever does it, whatever religion colour or creed and especially since Theresa May slashed the force by 20,000 officers when she was Home Secretary.

As you know I could babble on about what that led to, including here and now, but to give forumers a break I will not.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Those 20, 000 officers were experienced/battle hardened and replaced by... I'm not quite sure.... Did you see the size of some of those police officers on the front line facing the mob...

 

[Kev45]

Those 20, 000 officers were experienced/battle hardened and replaced by... I'm not quite sure.... Did you see the size of some of those police officers on the front line facing the mob...

Indeed. It genuinely shocked me. Skinny little kids (or what seemed like) without any body armour at all and who were visibly shitting themselves (inexperience is not their fault).

Properly policed by the experienced, battle hardened police you talk about and the riots would probably have been nipped in the bud much more quickly.

Some sentences handed out, for “swearing” at the police, were a result of all the above, a deterrent because there simply isn't the police numbers to police our society.

 

[ladymuck]

I don't understand why they are targetting the police, unless they are acting under instructions. The police are not the enemy, it's the government.

 

[Chip_TheViking]

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[Chip_TheViking]

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[LadyOnArooftop]

Indeed. It genuinely shocked me. Skinny little kids (or what seemed like) without any body armour at all and who were visibly shitting themselves (inexperience is not their fault).

One of those police officers looked around 5ft tall! What chance would they have going up against some 6ft brute? There used to be a minimum height requirement to join the police, there's an argument for bringing it back.

I don't understand why they are targetting the police

I've no idea why they're attacking the police other that they're the ones stopping them getting to the migrants and looting shops.


@Chip_TheViking I appreciate your taking of the quiz with your own 'C' answers.

 

[Chip_TheViking]

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[PennyDreadful2]

I had two As and two Bs as my answers, what does that make me?

 

[Chip_TheViking]

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[Kev45]

Two tier sentencing, right?

Peaceful protest v Violent racist thugs with shorter sentences who caused high streets all over the UK to close, right?

Just Stop Oil protesters are finally being given long prison sentences, how do you feel about this?

“Hallam received a five-year sentence on Thursday, while the other four were each sentenced to four years.”

The goverment may charge protestors with terrorism... are you

UK shops shut over fears of more violence as rioter jailed for 3 years.​

“Derek Drummond, 58, who punched a police officer in the face and was part of a crowd that made racist chants outside a Southport mosque last week, was jailed for three years at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday.In the same fast-tracked hearing, two other men — Liam Riley, 40, and Declan Geiran, 29 — received prison terms of 20 months and 30 months, respectively, for their involvement in violence last week in Liverpool.”

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

I had two As and two Bs as my answers, what does that make me?

It makes you very even handed.
I should have created the quiz with an odd number of question to avoid a 2 - 2 situation. It was just a spur of the moment thing designed so I could answer 'B' to every question. Thanks for taking part.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Two tier sentencing, right?

Peaceful protest v Violent racist thugs with shorter sentences who caused high streets all over the UK to close, right?



“Hallam received a five-year sentence on Thursday, while the other four were each sentenced to four years.”

UK shops shut over fears of more violence as rioter jailed for 3 years.​

“Derek Drummond, 58, who punched a police officer in the face and was part of a crowd that made racist chants outside a Southport mosque last week, was jailed for three years at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday.In the same fast-tracked hearing, two other men — Liam Riley, 40, and Declan Geiran, 29 — received prison terms of 20 months and 30 months, respectively, for their involvement in violence last week in Liverpool.”

Those JustStopOil'ers were charged with Conspiracy to..... well I'm quite sure of the exact wording of the charges, but when the word 'Conspiracy' is on the charge sheet, the state/judiciary hammer the accused...

 

[Moriarty]

Hey you, the fab forum few, how do you feel about things?

Just Stop Oil protesters are finally being given long prison sentences, how do you feel about this?
A. Shocked! One of them will now miss her brother's wedding. Free them!
B. It's about bloody time!

The goverment may charge protesters with terrorism... are you
A. in total agreement, life sentences would be too short for them.
B. shocked at the abuse of power.

Is a two-tier policing policy in place?
A. No, Free Palestine'ers and minorities have a right to mask up and shout racist slurs
B. Yes. anyone concerned about unlimited immigration are branded racist thugs

Someone on a forum disagree with you, do you...
A. shout them down, bellitle them and make fun of them
B. Listen to their argument, appreciate their right to say it, but in the end agree to disagree.

Mostly A's - You have radical, left-wing, middle-class values and will be able to claim you're 'one of the adults' in the room!
Mostly B's - Good lad (or girl), you're a decent working-class citizen. Solidarity brother and power to the people!

Just stop oil are politically not environmentally motivated, should they be jailed, is debatable.
I think they actually need mental health help not prison time.
If they prevented ambulances saving peoples lives then yes, but if not no.
They have a right to protest just like any other placard wielding person.

The goverment may charge protesters with terrorism... are you
A. in total agreement, life sentences would be too short for them.
B. shocked at the abuse of power.

Define terrorism, which they can't.
It's demographically, culturally and socialogically based.
There is no real definition of it apart from "What the government does not want to have happeming at the time".

Is a two-tier policing policy in place?
A. No, Free Palestine'ers and minorities have a right to mask up and shout racist slurs
B. Yes. anyone concerned about unlimited immigration are branded racist thugs
Yes and proved so, it is well known that the police in various places where grooming gangs operated did not move on those operations due to political pressure to prevent riots.
Add to that when any police officer makes a political statement, as in taking a knee, they align themselves not with the law but with a narrative.
Which is in direct dispute with the police code that they are, by law, supposed to be apolitical.

 

[PennyDreadful2]

It makes you very even handed.
I should have created the quiz with an odd number of question to avoid a 2 - 2 situation. It was just a spur of the moment thing designed so I could answer 'B' to every question. Thanks for taking part.

You're welcome.