Judge refuse to toss the charges over a t-shirt

[divea]

@Dr. McCoy

My 7-year-old apparently has learned how to make the one-finger salute. I guess at school somewhere. I told him he will get hit if he uses it, not by me, but because it makes people mad.

Does he know what it means? Or is he just aping older kids? I hope its the latter. Did you get upset? how do you handle it?

(scared paranoid mom who doesn’t want the kids to learn anything except please and Thankyous )

[TwoTongues]

@sandman

[quote]what people say in their own homes around their kids has nothing on this t-shirt.

Skanky douchebags, perhaps. I sure as fucking HELL don’t talk shite like that in front of my kid, and if YOU do in my home, you’ll be out on your ear before you can whine “aggrieved chavtastic.”
Its FUCKING rude. Its FUCKING inappropriate. Its FUCKING typical of braindead addleheaded fucking MOUTHBREATHING HICKS. Good on the judge. [/quote]
Yeah but that’s your home. Lotta bad shit happens outside. My guess is you don’t go around “throwin’ people out on their ears” when your out with your kids and you hear someone yell Fuckety Fuck (my guess is based on the fact that you’re still breathing apparently - if it was the US, you’d look like swiss cheese (that’s not a positive thing about the US however)). Because it’s public, people can say stuff you don’t like. In the church, it’s private property, they can require decorum (like an expensive restaurant requiring a jacket, or no shorts and shoes). But in court it’s public. It’s like protesters outside the white house. But making a huge deal over a t-shirt? Take it off or leave the courtroom, the bailiffs will escort you. Come on.

@sandman

[quote]hair all over their heads,

Damn! I remember those days.[/quote]
Heheheh you’ve got a better memory than me or else you’re quite a bit younger, I can’t remember shit, and the pictures of me from long ago look like a totally different person

[Dr_McCoy]

@divea

[quote=“Dr. McCoy”]My 7-year-old apparently has learned how to make the one-finger salute. I guess at school somewhere. I told him he will get hit if he uses it, not by me, but because it makes people mad.

Does he know what it means? Or is he just aping older kids? I hope its the latter. Did you get upset? how do you handle it?

(scared paranoid mom who doesn’t want the kids to learn anything except please and Thankyous )[/quote]
I think he knows that it’s some kind of insult. I didn’t get mad, I just told him not to do it. I think I knew that one when I was in first grade, but I had two older brothers.

[sandman]

It was Namahottie who made the reference to what people say in their homes, not me. And yeah, of course you can hear bad words outside – there are a lot of ignorant mouthbreathing skanky douchebags around.
And yeah, too, if they start in on that stuff in front of the kid, they get my angry scary face and a swift admonishment. People tend not to react aggressively when I do it. Maybe they can sense what would happen to them? I don’t give a flying fuck about being made into swiss cheese in Yankland, as its unlikely I’ll ever be forced to go there, thank god!

[Charlie_Jack]

@TwoTongues

In the church, it’s private property, they can require decorum (like an expensive restaurant requiring a jacket, or no shorts and shoes). But in court it’s public. It’s like protesters outside the white house.

Yikes. But it’s a court.

Maybe I’m just an old fuddy-duddy.

[Charlie_Jack]

@Namahottie

I’m apt to support her if she goes to appeals.

It looks like she might win, depending on how the judge rendered her contempt judgment:

[quote]This single isolated usage of street vernacular chicken-s***, my note], not directed at the judge or any officer of the court, cannot constitutionally support the conviction of criminal contempt.[/quote]–U.S. Supreme Court, Eaton v. City of Tulsa (1974)

Here’s the rest of the case: supreme.justia.com/us/415/697/case.html

Case law changes, though, and I haven’t checked this out to see if it’s still good. But I’m guessing it is.

[TwoTongues]

@Charlie Jack

[quote=“TwoTongues”]In the church, it’s private property, they can require decorum (like an expensive restaurant requiring a jacket, or no shorts and shoes). But in court it’s public. It’s like protesters outside the white house.

Yikes. But it’s a court.

Maybe I’m just an old fuddy-duddy.[/quote]
I’m in agreement it’s inappropriate, but maybe not illegal, and certainly could have been taken care of in another way. And I aint no goddamn fuddy duddy. Well maybe I am