A good old-fashioned rant about the police in Britain today
I was appalled to hear from my mum yesterday that my dear old soldier dad, who couldn’t walk with the other veterans in this year’s Remembrance Sunday parade because of his infirmity, had to sit and watch a march without any bands allowed to play music because the police had demanded payment from the British Legion to supervise the event, and the organisation rightly refused to pay.
The police in Chorley, Lancashire wouldn’t allow bands to play because, they allegedly said, it was too costly to police the event without additional financing coming from someone, somewhere. They informed organisers that if they wanted bands to play, the British Legion would have to cough up a huge amount of cash to fund the policing. The response was that the money the British Legion has goes to the welfare of old soldiers, and never into the coffers of the police authorities who get funded by central and local government to do their job.
tags: authority, crime, justice, policeUnjust verdict serves no-one, especially the music companies
A court in the US has ordered a woman to pay $222,000 (£109,000) in damages for illegally file-sharing music. The jury ordered Jammie Thomas, 32, from Minnesota, to pay for offering to share 24 specific songs online–a cost of $9,250 per song.
Her lawyer, Brian Toder, said Ms Thomas was reduced to tears by the verdict. “This is a girl that lives from paycheque to paycheque, and now all of a sudden she could get a quarter of her paycheque garnished for the rest of her life,” he said.
The US music industry said people would understand the verdict.
Er. No. At least I certainly don’t see how huge corporations financially crucifying people for their entire lives can ever be understood by all but the hardest and coldest of hearts.
tags: choons, criminality, file-sharing, justice
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