Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
I hope the story doing the rounds that the poor man's family found out about his death on Twitter is just a story.
So it seems there wasn't even a racial motive behind it, thin motivation though that would be. Just wrong place, wrong time. Seems Gunchester remains the place to avoid I remember it being.
I hope the story doing the rounds that the poor man's family found out about his death on Twitter is just a story.
So it seems there wasn't even a racial motive behind it, thin motivation though that would be. Just wrong place, wrong time. Seems Gunchester remains the place to avoid I remember it being.
It was Facebook, not Twitter, but yes, it's true (clicky).
The article doesn't state who put the post on Facebook (a friend of the victim, a witness, or the police - I suspect the first). I think it was unfortunately a matter of "official police channels" not being fast enough for a globally networked world.
As for motivation, I think we need to wait to see if the court can get any sense out of the accused. If he turns out to be some sort of EDL nutter then it was probably racially motivated. Or he could just be a nutter and it wasn't racially motivated.
I don't understand this arbitrary category of "hate-crime". Surely, if you wander up to someone at random and shoot their face off, it's a hateful thing to do whatever the racial aspects of the case?
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
markfiend wrote:I don't understand this arbitrary category of "hate-crime". Surely, if you wander up to someone at random and shoot their face off, it's a hateful thing to do whatever the racial aspects of the case?
I always assumed it was a PR thing for the police. Show how seriously they take crime against minority groups these days after many years of taking a rather less than concerned approach. It has led to some jaw-dropping statements though, like the time that poor woman immolated herself and her family after years of abuse from the neighbours. The police responded that they would have prevented it had they known the woman had a disabled daughter, because the abuse would have counted as a "hate crime".
Ah, yes, of course. My natural instinct is to try to use language to communicate, rather than to obfuscate. It's a pity that PR seems to work the other way round.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell