(and leave your email open for the organiser of the petition at the petition site if you want to be contacted about events that will be organised to stop this bill).
http://www.petitiononline.com/1967a/petition.html
Articles written by signatories of the petition against the Offensive Behaviour at Football Bill.
Kevin Rooney No free speech for football fans
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10627/
Stuart Waiton Anti Bigot Bigots
http://www.thefreesociety.org/Issues/Free-Speech/the-anti-bigot-bigots
Tom Miers Censorship enters the terraces
http://www.thefreesociety.org/Columnists/Tom-Miers/censorship-enters-the-terraces
Thursday 23 June 2011
Saturday 18 June 2011
Alex Salmond’s proposed new ‘anti-sectarian’ laws
Take a Liberty ( Scotland ) has launched a campaign against Alex Salmond’s proposed new ‘anti-sectarian’ laws. A statement and petition (see below) is being circulated around the UK to challenge what Stuart Waiton, from Take a Liberty (Scotland), believes is, ‘an almost unbelievably reactionary and authoritarian proposal’, being put forward by the Scottish government.
The statement reads,
We believe that introducing a law to imprison people for up to five years because of offensive sectarian chanting or online comments is extreme and illiberal.
Signatories so far include.
Stuart Baird, Scottish Secondary School Teacher, Rangers fan and Take a Liberty ( Scotland ) supporter.
Dr Carlton Brick, Sociology of Sport, West of Scotland University, co-author Key Concepts in Sports Studies.
Eamonn Butler MA PhD, Director Adam Smith Institute, author of Milton Friedman: A Concise Guide to the ideas and influence of the Free-Market Economist.
Dolan Cummings, cultural commentator and contributing author of It's Rangers for Me?
Stephen Field, author of Prison Law Index: The Definitive A-Z Index of Prison Law.
Dr Chris Gilligan, Senior Lecturer Sociology, University of the West of Scotland, editor, Northern Ireland Ten Years After the Agreement.
Dr Donncha Marron, Sociology Lecturer, Robert Gordon University and Take a Liberty ( Scotland ) supporter.
Tom Miers, Editor Free Society
Brian Monteith; former MSP, political columnist and writer.
Steven Purdie, Principle Teacher Humanities, Calderhead High School, Celtic fan and Take a Liberty ( Scotland ) supporter.
Kevin Rooney, teacher, writer and Celtic season ticket holder.
Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, visiting professor of law, University of Edinburgh, and author of Governing through Crime.
Dr Craig Smith, Scottish based moral philosopher.
Dr Stuart Waiton, FRSA, Sociology and Criminology Lecturer, University of Abertay Dundee , Co-founder of Take a Liberty ( Scotland ).
Graham Walker Professor of Political History, Queen’s University of Belfast .
SIGN THE PETITION AT http://www.petitiononline.com/1967a/petition.html
The statement reads,
We believe that introducing a law to imprison people for up to five years because of offensive sectarian chanting or online comments is extreme and illiberal.
Signatories so far include.
Stuart Baird, Scottish Secondary School Teacher, Rangers fan and Take a Liberty ( Scotland ) supporter.
Dr Carlton Brick, Sociology of Sport, West of Scotland University, co-author Key Concepts in Sports Studies.
Eamonn Butler MA PhD, Director Adam Smith Institute, author of Milton Friedman: A Concise Guide to the ideas and influence of the Free-Market Economist.
Dolan Cummings, cultural commentator and contributing author of It's Rangers for Me?
Stephen Field, author of Prison Law Index: The Definitive A-Z Index of Prison Law.
Dr Chris Gilligan, Senior Lecturer Sociology, University of the West of Scotland, editor, Northern Ireland Ten Years After the Agreement.
Dr Donncha Marron, Sociology Lecturer, Robert Gordon University and Take a Liberty ( Scotland ) supporter.
Tom Miers, Editor Free Society
Brian Monteith; former MSP, political columnist and writer.
Steven Purdie, Principle Teacher Humanities, Calderhead High School, Celtic fan and Take a Liberty ( Scotland ) supporter.
Kevin Rooney, teacher, writer and Celtic season ticket holder.
Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, visiting professor of law, University of Edinburgh, and author of Governing through Crime.
Dr Craig Smith, Scottish based moral philosopher.
Dr Stuart Waiton, FRSA, Sociology and Criminology Lecturer, University of Abertay Dundee , Co-founder of Take a Liberty ( Scotland ).
Graham Walker Professor of Political History, Queen’s University of Belfast .
SIGN THE PETITION AT http://www.petitiononline.com/1967a/petition.html
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