I don't think anyone is turning a blind eye
I think you're simply making up facts to suit your argument.

I think that if the gypsies on Park Lane, or the Irish Travellers are found to have commited a crime they will be charged in exactly the same way that someone who lives on your street would be.

I also think that you are proposing that these people should be criminalised by virtue of existing and I think you should be honest about that rather than trying to hide it and saying "oh but you know what I mean don't you, it's those types that are doing it"

I think there is far more of a problem with a blind eye being turned to police officers who abuse people in custody, to people who commit large scale business fraud and to the rights of working people not to be forced into zero hours contracts and I happen to think that these issues are actually a lot more damaging to the country than the actions of a few individual petty criminals, much as I dislike anyone who would rather live a life of crime rather than actually working at a legitamate job.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:53, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

If they existed without spiking local crime rates I woudln't have a problem with them at all.
Despite what you clearly seem to believe, I'm pretty liberal about how people choose to live their lives. My problem is that people shouldn't be able to trample on other peoples' rights in the doing of it.
( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:57, Reply)

But by your argument you are demonstrating that you aren't in fact being that liberal

(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:59, Reply)

I guess I'm not being terribly liberal about people committing crimes, no.

( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:02, Reply)

Stop falling back on that
nobody is arguing that criminals shouldn't be prosecuted, but you are actually arguing that this cultural group are inherently criminal and you apparently can't see how racist a viewpoint that is.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:04, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2041382
( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)

what "rights" are being trampled on, here?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:59, Reply)

Ownership of land, mostly.
Or of property.
( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:01, Reply)

Who "owns" Hyde Park?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:02, Reply)

Me

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:03, Reply)

Then, I agree, Boyce's rights are being infringed

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:03, Reply)

Hyde Park Owner's Corporation.
I'll have a dig through and find their rules on camping, should I?
( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:04, Reply)

please do.
I'm sure they're undergoing a huge number of sleepless nights over this and are grateful for your deep concern about their "rights"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:06, Reply)

Well if they're not bothered about it, then there's no problem, is there?

( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:09, Reply)

I suspect they are a million times less bothered about it than the Metro or the Mail
or apparently a fair number of people here.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:11, Reply)

The right of "really quite liberal" people
to get on their soapboxes about the dirty forrin criminals whilst still retaining their liberal badge.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:01, Reply)