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Law
Lords have ruled that calling
someone a "bloody foreigner" and saying "get back to your own country"
can amount to racial abuse.
They
upheld a conviction against a
disabled man for racially abusing three Spanish women with the intent
to cause fear.
Lawyers
for Philip Rogers, 54, from
Portsmouth, argued that "mere xenophobia" did not amount to hostility
to a racial group.
But the House of Lords held that
the legal definition of "racial group" went beyond colour, race or
ethnic origin to include nationality, citizenship and national origin -
even if they were not specified in the words used by the offender.
Mr Rogers, who is
incapacitated by
arthritis, had been sentenced to 80 hours community service.
The
Lords heard that Mr Rogers was
on his way home from a pub along the pavement on a motorised mobility
scooter when he tried to get past the three women.
An
altercation took place in the
course of which he abused them by calling them "bloody foreigners" and
telling them to get back to their own country.
He
then pursued them in what was
described as an aggressive manner to a kebab house where they had
apparently taken refuge.
It was
argued on his behalf that
the words he used were not capable in law of demonstrating hostility
based on membership of a racial group because undefined "foreigners" did not
constitute a racial group under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
The
argument failed in the Court of
Appeal and failed again in the House of Lords today.
Baroness
Hale said: "The same
argument would presumably be made about a person who showed hostility
towards all non-whites, irrespective of the particular racial group to
which they belonged. This cannot be right as a matter of language."
The
1998 Act was aimed at racism
and xenophobia - the denial of equal respect and dignity to people who
were seen as "other", she said.
Such
conduct was not only deeply
hurtful, damaging and disrespectful to the victim, but also to the
community as a whole "by denying acceptance to members of certain
groups not for their own sake but for the sake of something they can do
nothing about", Lady Hale said.
Baroness Hale - a
bloody disgrace to her own people!
BPP
Comment: Since when did the 1998 Act mention Xenophobia? It doesn't!
How can a Race Act possibly apply to the word "foreigner" - it could
and DOES mean anybody! Sheer madness and after two appeals Philip
Rogers, a sick man on a
mobility scooter, has to do 80 hours community service! The only
thing is just never to speak to anyone you don't know is British. You
just might say the wrong thing or in the case of our National Political
Advisor when he was arrested in May 2006 - nothing at all - the aliens
(gosh dare we say that?) just lied to the police.....sheer BLOODY
lunacy! The quicker we do away with these laws and get rid of this ZOG
Government the better!
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