BF2S Forums So, apparently swearing is illegal.

It's illegal to swear at police officers/swear in public over here too.

KILLSWITCH wrote:

Ah, a nice bit of lalochezia there.

mikkel wrote:

Well, it's illegal to swear at police officers, around here, too. The thing is, you may be hauled in overnight for verbally assaulting patrolling officers unprovoked, which I feel is fine, but typically our officers are mature enough to let even the longest string of colourful insults tossed out during an arrest slide. Simply walking around spouting obscenities to people falls under the purview of public indecency, and I think most countries have laws against this in some form.

Some laws may sound scary in theory, but the ones letting officers assert their authority in cases like random verbal assault are important. If everyone could go around shouting whatever at officers without leaving them recourse, the respect for their authority would quickly wane with the wrong people.

You cannot legislate "respect". You cannot force someone to respect you. Perhaps fear you, but what have you achieved but tyranny?

lulz, swearing

It's funny how some people are totally fine with everything going on in the world but they freak out when someone says a word that some dead guy declared a "curse word."

ZombieVampire! wrote:

I disagree.  So long as they're able to enforce their authority when it's required, it doesn't matter.  In fact, having laws that allow them to arrest people who swear at them is practically asking for abuse.

They only warn you if you start swearing directly at you, they will warn you and if you carry on despite disobeying their orders they can arrest you, they don't go around arresting every Tom, Dick and Harry for saying fuck or something.

Except the problem is the majority of people don't want swearing in public, which is exactly what makes this law so dangerous.

The Sheriff wrote:

ZombieVampire! wrote:

I disagree.  So long as they're able to enforce their authority when it's required, it doesn't matter.  In fact, having laws that allow them to arrest people who swear at them is practically asking for abuse.

They only warn you if you start swearing directly at you, they will warn you and if you carry on despite disobeying their orders they can arrest you, they don't go around arresting every Tom, Dick and Harry for saying fuck or something.

But why should they be able to arrest you for swearing at them?

sux2bu

ZombieVampire! wrote:

But why should they be able to arrest you for swearing at them?

Disrespect to an officer perhaps?

I'm sure the company you work for have rules like this in place to stop personal attacks/disrespectful behaviour against their staff.

The Sheriff wrote:

ZombieVampire! wrote:

But why should they be able to arrest you for swearing at them?

Disrespect to an officer perhaps?

I'm sure the company you work for have rules like this in place to stop personal attacks/disrespectful behaviour against their staff.

Respect is earned, Respect is never an entitlement no matter what your position is. Do you respect your politicians? They hold a higher office than a police officer.

Police should respect the citizenry no matter what. They are the ones that should be saying "yes sir" and "no sir". Not the public. No matter how you address a police officer they should always say yes sir and no sir. Arresting some one for swearing because it shows disrespect flies in the face of the public's right to free expression. Should our rights to free expression take a back seat because a cop doesn't like attitude? AS far as I know cops are supposed to uphold the law and most constitutions around the world have provisions for freedom of expression, so that means that cops are sworn to uphold a persons right to freedom of expression. Cops are not sworn to uphold their own sense of empowerment.

Respect is earned, Cops are public servants (they serve all of the public) and freedom of expression is a right. The cops feeling and sense of self worth take a back seat to a citizens inalienable right to express them self. IF a cop doesn't like it they should quit! if they beat down on someone because they felt disrespected, then the cop should go to jail.

Did it every occur to anyone that the reason why cops are allowed to arrest someone for swearing at them is because if the could not arrest the person the cops would become bullies with badges and give these people a beat down? That means that the ability to arrest someone under these circumstances is for the purpose of providing the cop with a non violent avenue to vent, its in effect a beat down using the legal system. Cops like these should be removed from police forces around the world for all our safety. Our politicians should grab a backbone and stand up to these bullies. Arresting people for being disrespectful to a cop is an absurdity.

PS your analogy is not quite right
if you are faced with a cop you have rights. If you are faced with your boss at work you may or may not have rights depending on where you live.

Last edited by Diesel_dyk (2008-06-29 23:21:02)

Vilham wrote:

Just like if you swear at me I can sue you for slander.

Really?  And have an actual chance of winning?

Jeses Fuck, let's hear it for Independence Day.

Fucking Brits.

File on that.

How did you know?

For such a horrible pay I would arrest any moron who curses at me.