Re: [recoznet2] Re: SMH - F-word has lost its power to offend, magistrate rules

1999-09-03 Thread Don Clark
: Thursday, 2 September 1999 5:44 Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Re: SMH - F-word has lost its power to offend, magistrate rules Don, You forgot the 'assault' charge for wrenching away too hard or any other reason the cop can come up with. I remember seeing an amateur video on TV that showed two

Re: [recoznet2] Re: SMH - F-word has lost its power to offend, magistrate rules

1999-09-02 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
Don, You forgot the 'assault' charge for wrenching away too hard or any other reason the cop can come up with. I remember seeing an amateur video on TV that showed two policemen beating up several Aboriginal people with their truncheons and yet the Indigenous people were charged with the triple

[recoznet2] Re: SMH - F-word has lost its power to offend, magistrate rules

1999-09-01 Thread Don Clark
One thing the police have been doing for years by utilising the offensive language laws is the 'trifecta', well known to Aboriginal people. It works like this. A patrol van may hear an alert of, say, a break and enter in the district. while cruising along they stop and pull up an Aboriginal