John Reid has said that any parent who knows their child has anti establishment or radical ideas or thoughts must report it to the police my 10 year old is passionatly into animal rights should i dob her in ?
2006-09-20 22:08:22 · 16 answers · asked by keny 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
yes sleepwalk i know i am. but what way are we heading when a thougt is a crime and wouldn`t it just makke them hide their feelings so youve no chance of getting them to see things from both sides
2006-09-20 22:23:13 · update #1
David S if i thought my child was going to do something really bad of course id try to stop him/her but theres aworld of a difference in thinking about something or believing in a cause and going out and commiting some horrible crime i detest tony Blair but i`m not likely to try to assasinate him
2006-09-21 00:05:20 · update #2
Absolutely! Then they can take her away to a secret location and Mind wipe her, or replace her with a robot that would be guaranteed to toe the establishment line!!!
2006-09-20 22:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by libbyft 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps John Reid had a swig or two before saying anything so absurd,
he is known for having a reputation for his loose whipping tongue and
has offended quite a few of his peers over the years. He is a Scot and so am I, which I mention only to take any blame off the English
since there seems to be a love/hate relationship going on in Yahoo
answers! Forget John Reid, he likes horses (used to be a jockey)
and, as for reporting your son, I have very rarely heard of such
rubbish. Go in peace and take good care of your own family and
do not worry about John Reid, unless he shows up, at your front door, personally, in which case do not let him in.
2006-09-21 05:38:31 · answer #2 · answered by Ricky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intentions and conspiracies can be crimes, so in a way thoughts can be crimes.
Don't know what I think about John Reid. New Labour are pretty nasty and authoritarian. However I'd be concerned if my child had fundamentalist religious beliefs and if you had a loved one that was going to start killing people for their beliefs I hope you would try and stop them.
2006-09-21 05:16:48 · answer #3 · answered by DS 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"What will a ‘hate crimes' law add? Despite its name, it is not ‘hatred' as such that the proposed law targets," said Robert W. Tracinski. "The real target is the criminal's ideas. The proposed law declares that criminals motivated by a government-designated set of intolerable ideas -- racism, sexism, religious sectarianism, anti-homosexuality -- deserve special prosecution and additional punishment."
"A ‘hate crimes' law would expand the law's concern from criminal action to ‘criminal thought,'" argued Tracinski. "It would institute the premise that the purpose of our legal system is not to defend the rights of the victim, but to punish socially unacceptable ideas. This is a premise that should be abhorrent to a free society."
2006-09-21 05:44:21 · answer #4 · answered by kymanosteel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thoughts are not a crime, however...expression of certain thoughts may establish the intent to commit crime which can be prosecutable.
2006-09-21 05:17:18 · answer #5 · answered by synchronicity915 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler required reporting of anti german attitudes, this is how fascists work. Children reported parents, and parents reported children under the fascists. and everybody reported everybody else. this was also how stalin worked, mussolini and franco followed the same policy. sorry to see that england has succumbed to this. it is very hard to stop.
2006-09-21 05:19:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who is John Reid? And what country are you referring to? In USA kids can say what ever they want, so can adults. I'm confused.
2006-09-21 05:18:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not yet, but supporting animal rights as a young child has led to the illegal protests outside labs and the illegal stalking and criminal damage to farms and people involved in the animal industry.
2006-09-21 05:14:50 · answer #8 · answered by thebigtombs 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It shows you how this desperate use of fear of terrorism by unpopular gouvernments will turn our democracies into faschist regimes if we are not very careful.
2006-09-21 05:19:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If thoughts were a crime then I would be doing life.As I have often contemplated murder
2006-09-21 05:12:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋