Another Excuse For Lawlessness

[Eve]

Seeing this, albeit in the Daily Mail, and more expected, especially on the day of the funeral, do you think this will be jumped upon as another excuse by some to get out and cause trouble:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306165/Margaret-Thatcher-death-parties-The-Lefts-sick-celebration-Brixtons-streets.html

[naomi24]

sandyRoe, after a quick look at google, I’ve found one reference to miners being prevented from travelling – but that wasn’t a law - it was a guideline for Kent police. This from the Mirror:

//One official guideline said it was “perfectly in order” for miners in Kent to be prevented from travelling to Yorkshire if they were likely to cause disorder – a 300-mile exclusion zone.

It was a form of house arrest and it happened in many places with pickets turned back at county borders.//

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-dead-authoritarian-ruler-1821699

It cannot have been, as the report claims, a form of ‘house arrest’ if people deemed likely to cause affray were turned back at county borders – but that’s biased reporting for you.

[Canary42]

Surely the fact that they weren't born during the Thatcher years doesn't invalidate their right to express displeasure

Would you prevent anyone under the age of 67 protesting against Hitler and his Nazism ?

[naomi24]

//Surely the fact that they weren't born during the Thatcher years doesn't invalidate their right to express displeasure//

They're not expressing displeasure. This, it would appear, is the way they celebrate.

[doctordb]

Typical socialists. Happy to be caught on camera drinking 'special brew' and the 'One-stop' excuse for champagne, I wouldn't water my aubretia's with the dreadful stuff. I think one of them is even downing prosecco (cheapskate) from the bottle! Poor thing, can't she afford a glass? Do they have no idea how to carry themselves in public? Most of them obviously haven't seen a bar of soap in weeks and as for a comb, well? And look at the time, still, I can't imagine they are able to hold a job down so they probably haven't got to get up in the morning.

[ummmm]

Canary - I just think it depends on how informed their opinion is.

I had someone posting on my facebook wall about what a bitch she was. I could only reply 'You can't even spell'

They are the type of people that Eve is talking about.

They know nothing about Thatcher, nothing about her policies, no idea what it was like living under her rule....but because their parents made some negative comments over the years....

[sandyRoe]

Whatever sort of arrest it was, house arrest or County arrest, it prevented people going about their lawful business.

[mikey4444]

I have just watched a news item about the street celebrations in Brixton and Glasgow on the BBC news website. While there was some very minor graffiti,
they would seem to be mostly peaceful. Surely people should be allowed to commemorate this event without hindrance ?

A lot of people simply hated Thatcher and everything she stood for, and they aren't about to change their minds to please the DM !

And before anybody says that she is just an old lady that died, old ladies die all the time but none them get a mention, let alone a state funeral.

[ummmm]

She's not getting a state funeral.

[naomi24]

sandyRoe, //it prevented people going about their lawful business. //

If they were intentionally creating disorder, their business wasn't lawful.

[sandyRoe]

It is in all but name

[boxtops]

Surely the fact that some people are celebrating her death indicates that they felt displeasure in the effect her policies had on the nation, so they are relieved she's gone? That's what i meant.

[sandyRoe]

But who is to say what their intention was? I think then picketing wasn't illegal.

[EDDIE51]

The protests have involved very few people but have been carefully photographed and recorded to give the illusion that there are 100s of protesters. In fact there were less than 30.
DM sh!t stirring again.

[naomi24]

sandyRoe, The guideline doesn't seem to have applied to any other group, so I have to wonder what prompted it.

[mallyh]

i think these protest disgusting doesn't anyone remember the state of britain before maggie all the strikes .shortages etc that labour once again were in charge of . I don't remember street parties when bin laden was killed.hope this all makes sense as i'm not very good at writing my views.

[naomi24]

Eddie, it's not just the Mail and it wasn't less than 30 people.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9981988/Charity-shop-smashed-as-hundreds-celebrated-death-of-Margaret-Thatcher.html

[doctordb]

There has been a lot of erudite debate on AB about this subject but sometimes you just have to look at certain members of society and say it as it is. These 'party-goers' are a bunch of hapless tw@ts.

[mikey4444]

ummmmmmmmmmm...no of course she isn't having a state funeral !

She is just having a mile-long procession through London, accompanied by a troop of horse. The Houses of Parliament is being recalled at great expense, and the funeral is being held in St Pauls, attended by the Queen and Phil the Greek.

But of course, it isn't a state funeral...how silly of me to so confused !

[Gromit]

// sandyRoe, The guideline doesn't seem to have applied to any other group, so I have to wonder what prompted it. //

What prompted it was the desire to smash the NUM once and for all. It has not be applied since, because no other union has been as powerful.

[mallyh]

well said doctorb