The C word

[ciphergoth]

Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'

So next week I guess we can expect to see the banners amended to read "Scientology: it's a total c**t"

Comments

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

There's Police, and there's Police. The Met have always been scrupulously fair in their management of antiscientology demonstrations, but the force responsible for this arrest is City of London... Who have been taking freebies from the cult.

City are not all that well-respected - look up their abysmal incompetence during the May Day protests a few years ago - and they have just stepped boots-first into a beartrap.

It's possible that they targeted a minor so that the case wouldn't end with a working adult getting a criminal conviction. Possible, but unlikely: they simply aren't bright enough.

[battlekitty.livejournal.com]

It's also possible that the minor involved was conscious of the fact that he was the ideal person (to some extent) to be the one who didn't stop - I believe others did put signs away.

I hope for the sake of the officer who confronted him that she did it as a form of protest of her own - as I posted, I think it could have some very interesting outcomes!