Gerry Adams arrested

I canny be bothered reading the 17 pages you bams have added to this thread since I last looked in.

 

Lot of ignorance of the actual Act itself.

The Act criminalises behaviour that is hateful (section 1(2)(a)-(c)), threatening(section 1(2)(d)) or otherwise offensive to a reasonable person (section1(2)(e)) and is likely to incite public disorder.

Any questions?

 

I don't disagree with the fact that it's harsh to get a criminal record for singing a song but I still think new legislation was necessary.

The knuckle-dragging hatred and needless political ****e was being perpetuated by a small minority who refused to catch up with the rest of civilisation and they needed specific laws to counter these ****nuts.

I do agree that OBAF was rushed and poorly thought out though.

 

In essence Me, Dan and Venom are right, more or less everyone else is talking cack.

 

That applies to every post on GC

(Except this one )

 

Essentially it's just Dev, Dan and me schooling IRA lovers and attempting to drag them into the 21st Century. .

 

...sounds about right

 

Essentially everybody agrees that you're a **** ... n no a good yin.

 

...sounds about right

 

...sounds about right

 

Been quiet but funny on here this week. Some of the tags have had me in tears.

 

“Religious crimes are down, race crimes are down, crimes in relation to sexuality are down and we’ve seen a decrease in crimes of offensive behaviour at regulated football matches in Scotland. Whilst the legislation we brought in two years ago has had its critics, the latest statistics show a steady decline in offences at stadiums and a YouGov poll shows 80 per cent of Scots support the Offensive Behaviour Act.

“We will not be complacent and will continue to monitor how the Act is working very closely going forward. However, I believe the legislation is working. The evaluations, backed by the latest statistics out today, demonstrate that the Act has had a positive impact and our approach has delivered real improvements in behaviour at football and online. There is clearly still much work to do and we will act upon the recommendations from the independent evaluation, starting today. There was concern within the evaluation around how we can help fans to understand the impact of their behaviour and to divert them from activity that could lead to criminal charges.

“Today, I’m acting on that recommendation by providing additional funding for Sacro to develop their ‘Diversion from Prosecution’ programme on a Scotland-wide programme and, where appropriate, make available an alternative disposal that will allow less serious or first time offenders committing an offence under the Act to avoid being caught up in the criminal justice system while providing a suitable and proportionate response to the offence committed.

http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Offensive-Behaviour-Act-evaluation-published-19ec.aspx

 

I'm not Irish

By the looks of your wife I'd hate to be loved by you

 

Rangers fans were already being arrested in droves before the act

 

No, you are Oirish
You have never seen my wife and you never will you silly person.

 

Droves? You have proof to back that up I take it?

 

You've hit her too hard haven't you

I'm not oirish either

 

Hit who too hard?

Yes you are.

 

No proof then. Just another Mindyfail.

 

You're wife, did she give as good as she got because this is quite easy to follow and you're forgetting already

Ok, what's oirish?