it's not funny.
in 1994 the criminal justice and public order act was passed due to the british public being too fucking moronic and lazy to do anything about it. it basically made everything you can do illegal. this is obviously so that if the police want to arrest someone, they can easily do it because basically, under the criminal justic and public order act, everybody is doing something illegal most of the time. gathering in a group of nine or more people is illegal, if you don't disperse as soon as a policeman tells you to for instance, and that law says you cannot be present at an event where 'repetitive beats' are being played. Doesn't that include almost all music?
this law has always been largely ignored by police forces who rightly decided that it was bullshit in practise, however it is worrying me if they are beginning to enforce the more silly aspects of this law.
The fact that this law (which is probably illegal itself under european law) has been allowed to fester since 1994 is just going to make it harder to get rid of when they start enforcing it.
apathy wins again. now i hope all those people who think apathy is such a great idea take not here. if people had stood up to this thing when it was still a white paper, it would never have been made an Act in the first place.
