Hate Crimes Gone Mad

Manchester Police have become the first police force in the country to class attacks on goths and emos as a "hate crime".

Isn't this just another sign that the country has gone mad? Surely being a goth is just dressing a different way. Some people like to dress in black, some with their oversized jeans around their arse, and some wear tracksuits.

And what of Emos? How is liking a Sesame Street character a type of person? I like Jack Bauer from 24, if someone bashes me over the head is that a hate crime against fans of Kiefer Sutherland?

Seriously, this is mental. Before long there will be a hate crime for every little difference between people. A hate crime against ginger people, bald people, fat people, skinny people, smelly people, Amos people, people with big feet or small willys.

Is a crime any worse just because it's against a so-called minority?

But people are threatened, attack and sometimes killed because they wear black, or have a unique hairstyle.

I think we need to be looking at the psychology of the people (almost certainly chavs) who think it's a good idea to kill someone because they don't look like what they see in the mirror.

This bollocks is all part of the new world order.

David Icke and 10% of the world know what they are up to.

Its all about control , the illuminate and underground worship.

What the hell is an 'emo'
Do we have any at the Reebok?

Rod Hull used to fist one.

Is leaving an Emo alone in a room with a razor blade a hate crime?
Agree with the fact that society is increasingly guessing what the motives are behind crime without any substantiable evidence in order to reclassify it as something else. Burglars for example. If you rob somebody's house, do you do it because you want their material goods and money or do you do it because the owner is of a particular ethnicity, gender, creed, social group? I don't think burglars are particularly arsed about who they rob as long as they have something worth robbing.
As for Emos, Goths and Jack Bauer fans- well perhaps they do need a slap, but people slap each other for all sorts of reasons and I think it's wrong to attach a "presumption of motive" to a particular type of crime. It would make prosecution a lot easier if motive is presumed and therefore not in question. But where does the labelling stop?
Divorce cases? I'd like to divorce the missus because a) she's shagging the milkman b) she gets on my tits or c) her great grandad was Jewish?

What if i go out dressed up as Eminem with a gold medallion on listening to his music " with a big ghetto blaster on my shoulder" smoking then. Somebody twats me one.

Is this hate crime ?

Ryan Herbter, left, and Brendan Harris, right, led a gang of teenagers who beat 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster to death because she was dressed as a goth

Chav scum.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:Chav scum.

That's a hate crime.

scottjames30 wrote:What if i go out dressed up as Eminem with a gold medallion on listening to his music " with a big ghetto blaster on my shoulder" smoking then. Somebody twats me one.

Is this hate crime ?

Against you, against Eminem, against bad dress sense or against noisy attention seekers?
There are a few tracks of his that I don't like, and I'm not keen on people imposing their shit music on everyone else. Does that give me reason to twat you? Possibly, but I don't think the police should try to guess my motive and try have it embedded in the law.

wanderlust wrote:

scottjames30 wrote:What if i go out dressed up as Eminem with a gold medallion on listening to his music " with a big ghetto blaster on my shoulder" smoking then. Somebody twats me one.

Is this hate crime ?

Against you, against Eminem, against bad dress sense or against noisy attention seekers?
There are a few tracks of his that I don't like, and I'm not keen on people imposing their shit music on everyone else. Does that give me reason to twat you? Possibly, but I don't think the police should try to guess my motive and try have it embedded in the law.

I'm against wankers who use shit tradesmen, because there nice.

Bernard Dennis Park wrote:

Hipster_Nebula wrote:Chav scum.

That's a hate crime.

nah it's not i didn't kill them because of the way they dress or look.

Anyone who would consider that probably should be in jail anyhow, or certainly in care.

I do wonder sometimes.

scottjames30 wrote:

wanderlust wrote:

scottjames30 wrote:What if i go out dressed up as Eminem with a gold medallion on listening to his music " with a big ghetto blaster on my shoulder" smoking then. Somebody twats me one.

Is this hate crime ?

Against you, against Eminem, against bad dress sense or against noisy attention seekers?
There are a few tracks of his that I don't like, and I'm not keen on people imposing their shit music on everyone else. Does that give me reason to twat you? Possibly, but I don't think the police should try to guess my motive and try have it embedded in the law.

I'm against wankers who use shit tradesmen, because there nice.

Fair enough amigo.

wanderlust wrote:

scottjames30 wrote:

wanderlust wrote:

scottjames30 wrote:What if i go out dressed up as Eminem with a gold medallion on listening to his music " with a big ghetto blaster on my shoulder" smoking then. Somebody twats me one.

Is this hate crime ?

Against you, against Eminem, against bad dress sense or against noisy attention seekers?
There are a few tracks of his that I don't like, and I'm not keen on people imposing their shit music on everyone else. Does that give me reason to twat you? Possibly, but I don't think the police should try to guess my motive and try have it embedded in the law.

I'm against wankers who use shit tradesmen, because there nice.

Fair enough amigo.

I'm off out now dressed up as Eminem "slap my bitch up" is going to be my first one.

I'm going imposing it on people.

Just watched the local news, amazingly Vampires do exist as they're on the same hate crime list as goths and emos.

I've watched 'True Blood', how are vampires victims of anything?

Do Aliens come under the same category ?

I've got one trapped in my garden shed you see.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Manchester Police have become the first police force in the country to class attacks on goths and emos as a "hate crime".
Seriously, this is mental. Before long there will be a hate crime for every little difference between people. A hate crime against ginger people, bald people, fat people, skinny people, smelly people, Amos people, people with big feet or small willys.

Is a crime any worse just because it's against a so-called minority?

Or even happy people?