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Carter
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posted 31 May 2005 11:00 PM      Profile for Carter        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
From the Globe and Mail:

quote:
[...] Hoods, no longer just an adolescent fashion statement, lie at the centre of a debate over what many people, including Prime Minister Tony Blair, see as an alarming rise in bad behaviour.

Mr. Blair says rowdy public drunkenness, noisy neighbours, petty street crime, even graffiti and vandalism — are top concerns. He is enthusiastically backing an English shopping mall's ban on hoods, baseball caps and other headgear that obscure the face.

“It is time to reclaim the streets for the decent majority,” Mr. Blair told the House of Commons.

“People are rightly fed up with street-corner and shopping-centre thugs....”

[...]

Mr. Blair has been highlighting the issue of boorish behaviour for years. In 1998, he pushed through legislation empowering courts to ban any number of anti-social activities, including shouting, swearing, spray-painting, playing loud music or simply associating with the wrong people.

Freshly elected to a third term, he is renewing the effort.

Mr. Blair is “in touch with a core middle England anxiety,” said Paul Skidmore, of the London think tank Demos. His support for the hood ban “has clearly resonated with people.”

[...]



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guy cybershy
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posted 31 May 2005 11:13 PM      Profile for guy cybershy     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wasn't Blair's son arrested for public drunkeness?
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Anchoress
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posted 31 May 2005 11:20 PM      Profile for Anchoress     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
More on the topic HERE.

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posted 03 June 2005 05:03 PM      Profile for NDP Newbie     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The wrong people?

Lablair must be referring to Muslims.

Gonna punish them for growing brain cells (unlike most other people in the UK) and voting LibDem.

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swallow
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posted 04 June 2005 01:17 AM      Profile for swallow     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wow. Fundamentalism is alive and well in the Labour Party.
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siren
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posted 04 June 2005 03:25 AM      Profile for siren     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Mr. Blair has been highlighting the issue of boorish behaviour for years. In 1998, he pushed through legislation empowering courts to ban any number of anti-social activities, including shouting, swearing, spray-painting, playing loud music or simply associating with the wrong people.

Although it is probably hard for courts to enforce, I whole heartedly agree with banning people from associating with "the wrong people". I think we all know what kind of wrong people we are talking about here, but I especially abhor liars. Especially highly placed political liars who dissemble the truth and mobilize military force which results in the killing of hundreds of thousands. They are not only liars but also murderers. For shame.

So, I support Mr. Bliar on this initiative.


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Amy
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posted 04 June 2005 03:36 PM      Profile for Amy   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
"It is time to reclaim the streets for the decent majority,” Mr. Blair told the House of Commons.
Well, now, doesn't this sound familiar?

quote:
The Association of Chief Police Officers cautions against demonizing any element of youth culture, saying it doesn't know whether hooded teens are committing more crimes than other groups.

Mr. Skidmore said it's hard to know whether the boorishness Mr. Blair talks about is becoming more common. He said one police officer told him he gets the same number of calls about rowdiness as he did 20 years ago.


It'd be interesting to know whether Blair would actually listen to statistics on this, rather than mimicking the USs 'moral majority's tactics of ignoring reason and lobbying on paranoid public perception.

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Rufus Polson
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posted 04 June 2005 09:08 PM      Profile for Rufus Polson     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So, why do they bother to still have a Conservative party in England, again?
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Michelle
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posted 04 June 2005 09:12 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
No kidding, Rufus.

quote:
It is time to reclaim the streets for the decent majority,” Mr. Blair told the House of Commons.

Wow. That could be supplemented with "Are you thinking what we're thinking?"


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