{"id":12183,"date":"2011-11-23T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12183"},"modified":"2011-11-23T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:09:43","slug":"sing-a-song-go-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/sing-a-song-go-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing a song, go to jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php\/site\/article\/11647\" target=\"_blank\">rather disturbing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Imagine the scene. A dawn raid. A vanload of police officers batter down a front door. A 17-year-old boy is dragged from his home and driven away. He is charged with a crime and appears in court. His lawyers apply for bail, but the court decides his crime is too serious for that. So he is taken to a prison cell and remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p>What was his crime? Terrorism? Rape? No, this 17-year-old was imprisoned for singing a song. Where did this take place? Iran? China? Saudi Arabia? No &mdash; it was in Glasgow, Scotland, where the 17-year-old had sung songs that are now deemed by the authorities to be criminal. The youth was charged with carrying out a \u2018religiously aggravated\u2019 breach of the peace and evading arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Why haven\u2019t you heard about this case? Why aren\u2019t civil liberties groups tweeting like mad about this affront to freedom? Because the young man in question is a football fan. Even worse, he\u2019s a fan of one of the \u2018Old Firm\u2019 teams (Celtic and Rangers), which are renowned for their historic rivalry, and the songs he sang were football ditties that aren\u2019t everyone\u2019s cup of tea. Draconian new laws are being pushed through the Scottish parliament to imprison fans for up to five years for singing sectarian or offensive songs at football games, or for posting offensive comments on the internet, and this 17-year-old fell foul of these proposed laws.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is rather disturbing: Imagine the scene. A dawn raid. A vanload of police officers batter down a front door. A 17-year-old boy is dragged from his home and driven away. He is charged with a crime and appears in court. His lawyers apply for bail, but the court decides his crime is too serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,10,20],"tags":[52,186,763,322,338],"class_list":["post-12183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","category-liberty","category-soccer","tag-absurd","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-glasgow","tag-nannystate","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3av","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12184,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions\/12184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}