Five men have been arrested for burning a cardboard model of a 'tower block', videoing the event and broadcasting the video on the internet. Apparently, what they did is considered to be a 'public order offence'.
It's reported that the tower block was meant to be a representation of Grenfell Tower and that the men could be heard laughing and joking as the model burned, but a criminal offence ? Really ??
This act may have been stupid, pathetic, puerile, moronic, offensive, uncaring, etc., etc,. etc., but have we really reached such a dictatorial stage in our affairs that being a moron is criminal ? If so, when are the police going to start rounding up the many other morons who surround us ? I have only to drive around for half and hour to find morons in cars, driving dangerously, carelessly and without regard for others - how many of these are ever arrested ? Their offences are almost always far more 'criminal' than is the burning of a cardboard model.
Theresa May has called the video "utterly unacceptable". What on earth has something so pathetic got to do with the Prime Minister ? Why does she feel the need to express an opinion of any sort on the matter ? Is this not another measure of the depths to which our society has sunk, when our political leader becomes involved in trivia and the minutiae of daily life ? In fact, by issuing a comment, she may even have damaged the prospects of these morons getting a fair trial, should things ever get that far.
Arresting people for stupid so-called offences is a waste of police resources that might well lead to a waste of yet more public resources. This stupid act should have been ignored by all and sundry, after all, it seems likely that publicity is what the idiots wanted so deny it to them. Instead, they have been awarded all of the publicity they craved and will be able to dine out on it for a long time to come, once they've had their wrists slapped.
We really are becoming a pathetic laughing stock of a country.
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