crackerjack
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And if so, how much would they pay? (Home office offical's eyes light up)
Max Mosley
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And if so, how much would they pay? (Home office offical's eyes light up)
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
You jest, but prisoners in this country used to have to pay for their lodgings. Which seems a bit odd: what are they gonna do if you don't cough up - send you to prison? Although what would probably happen is, you'd get moved to the very shittiest part of the prison, I guess.
crackerjack
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Especially since half of them were probably inside for bankruptcy...
Apparently prison warders used to bid large sums for the contracts - that much hasn't changed at least http://www.jacksonprogressive.com/issues/lawenforcement/prisonindustry.html
STN
sou'wester
a hard what? etc etc
matt b
Indexing all opinion
fees for board and lodgings are now taken out of any damages an individual gets for wrongful imprisonment, iirc
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Did anyone buy today's (well, yesterday's, by the time you read this) Guardian? The G2 supplement's cover feature was about Mosley, and the image on the front was of a 'gimped' letter 'g' and number '2'.
Firefox spellchecker recognises the word 'gimped'. This pleases me far more than it should.
Firefox spellchecker recognises the word 'gimped'. This pleases me far more than it should.
viktorvaughn
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Surely its illegal to film someone having sex. It's hardly in the public interest is it? What is the paper's defence?
IdleRich
IdleRich
I think that they are trying to rely on the crazy fact that s&m which draws blood is apparently illegal - although I don't know how you can film someone having sex on the off chance that they do something illegal while they're at it. They're also saying it's in the public interest because he is a public figure and presumably they think it becomes of greater public interest if they can demonstrate that he is a nazi. I reckon that they are in trouble to be honest - from the court report in the papers today it sounded as though they were very much on the defensive.
crackerjack
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Are they in double trouble because they actually filmed him in the act, or because it's not a matter of public interest (as in, 'the public good' rather than 'things which interest the public', swhich this certainly does)?
And if he wins on the public interest argument, where does this leave the Jude cheated on Sadie with the babysitter school of journalism?
And if he wins on the public interest argument, where does this leave the Jude cheated on Sadie with the babysitter school of journalism?
fokse vektaire xeven
Arab Nazi
This is an interesting point- usually when you hear such things reported the wording is "in the public interest". but as far as i'm aware, the current precedent-setting case in Europe was brought by Princess Caroline and if you look at that case as reported the wording is "A public interest", which as crackerjack says is a very different matter, and that's the interpretative direction we seem to be slipping in. clearly there is A public interest here but like many others its a prurient one. that's why the whole thing hangs on the nazi angle- Mosely is a public figure of sorts and that can be seen to have political implications. personally i think whoever he is the law should not be discriminatory and he has a right to his own private sex life. it wouldn't be a big surprise (to Freud) if he DID have a nazi fetish given his parenting and anyone whose hung around with these kinda people knows that corny nazi bullshit is just a standard part of the S&M "toolkit"...i wouldn't have thought there's much more behind it than standard issue "transgression", and either way i don't see why it's anyone's business but his and those involved. I've heard some interesting stories from hookers hereabouts concerning "visits" when the labour party conference is in town...
IdleRich
IdleRich
Basically, that's the nub of the matter isn't it? As far as I can see, the newspaper has paid someone to film someone getting their rocks off and printed it for the world to see (possibly exaggerating it to make is seem nastier) and are desperately using some spurious idea of public interest as a fig leaf.
Go on then - please tell me Gordon Brown loves to have his testicles stamped on by a woman dressed as Margaret Thatcher.
fokse vektaire xeven
Arab Nazi
well, that wouldn't be in the public interest
all i can allow myself to say is:
<a href="http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u133/exeryad/?action=view¤t=bodgerandbadger_1_396x222.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u133/exeryad/bodgerandbadger_1_396x222.jpg" border="0"></a>
disappointingly he doesn't bring the puppet.
all i can allow myself to say is:
<a href="http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u133/exeryad/?action=view¤t=bodgerandbadger_1_396x222.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u133/exeryad/bodgerandbadger_1_396x222.jpg" border="0"></a>
disappointingly he doesn't bring the puppet.
viktorvaughn
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I hope the paper get utterly fucked, It's nobodies business what crazy shizzle adults get up to behind closed doors. All this Nazi stuff is a smoke screen - so what even if he did have one? They are blatantly smearing his character and relying upon the fact his dad was a fascist to cloud peoples opinions regarding a gross invasion of privacy.
crackerjack
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Can't they both lose?
viktorvaughn
Well-known member
Guardian - 'Myler said the story was in the public interest because of Mosley's position as an elected official in the motor sport industry and the fact that he is the son of British 1930s Fascist leader Oswald Mosley.'
Total rubbish.
mos dan
fact music
i did. 'what does the max mosley case say about the british attitude to sex?' was the strapline i think. i didn't really have much interest in the answer to this question so i didn't read it. should i bother retrieving it from the recycling?
now oswald mosley, now there's an interesting 'character'.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I read it but it wasn't very interesting. Just a few bits and bobs about how mild s&m is a common and harmless part of the spectrum of human sexuality, some stuff saying that people who are into it aren't necessarily fucked up (apparently this is surprisingly to a lot of people) and how a lot of the guys and gals on the scene are really nice normal people. Think that's about it to be honest.