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[Burney]

Hold on, if said peedofiddler had served the appropriate sentence, surely he is entitled to return to his profession? Isn't prison supposed to be about rehabilitation?

You and your mates round the podiatrist's tonight with the flambeaux, are you?

This isn't about the individual's entitlement, it's about the attitudes that surround the two crimes and the way in which said attitudes would affect the likelihood of his future employment. In the case of a nonce, there is absolutely fùck all chance that any club would re-employ him just because he said he wasn't guilty and was appealing - let alone a chance that thousands of fans would take up his case.

And yet, because it's rape, the attitudes are totally different. That discrepancy worries me not a little, since it speaks of some nasty underlying attitudes.

[TheCurly]

Hold on, if said peedofiddler had served the appropriate sentence, surely he is entitled to return to his profession? Isn't prison supposed to be about rehabilitation?

You and your mates round the podiatrist's tonight with the flambeaux, are you?

The Arsenal's Robin van Persie - stitched up by a lying slaaaaag
Man United's Robin van Persie - he got away with rape thon ****

[Burney]

Virtue Signalling, if that's the correct term, does not need to depend on facts, I think.

Check you out with the hip terms, r!

[redgunamo]

Check you out with the hip terms, r!

I know. I blame the kids.

[Sir C]

The Arsenal's Robin van Persie - stitched up by a lying slaaaaag
Man United's Robin van Persie - he got away with rape thon ****

In fairness, she did say, 'no'.

So I've heard, anyway.

[World's End Stella]

So in other words you're claiming you'd be happy for your club to employ a convicted *****phile and let him run out on the pitch with a Junior Gunners, etc, etc?

Bullshít would you.

No, as I said, I would not want my football club to do anything, including offering him a position, until the appeal process was over. However, I would not feel it was my position to publicly condemn the man in the process.

[Sir C]

This isn't about the individual's entitlement, it's about the attitudes that surround the two crimes and the way in which said attitudes would affect the likelihood of his future employment. In the case of a nonce, there is absolutely fùck all chance that any club would re-employ him just because he said he wasn't guilty and was appealing - let alone a chance that thousands of fans would take up his case.

And yet, because it's rape, the attitudes are totally different. That discrepancy worries me not a little, since it speaks of some nasty underlying attitudes.

What if the charge had been shoplifting? Would you allow for a two-tiered attitude then?

Either you have some respect for the justice system, or you don't, in which case it's pitchforks at dusk all the way to the castle gates.

[Burney]

What if the charge had been shoplifting? Would you allow for a two-tiered attitude then?

Either you have some respect for the justice system, or you don't, in which case it's pitchforks at dusk all the way to the castle gates.

Yes. There is a clear moral difference between a crime of violence and a crime against property.

[Burney]

No, as I said, I would not want my football club to do anything, including offering him a position, until the appeal process was over. However, I would not feel it was my position to publicly condemn the man in the process.

So in effect you would agree with those people who didn't want him re-employed by Sheffield United or another club, then?

[redgunamo]

it speaks of some nasty underlying attitudes.

Yes, principally envy, I reckon. Nobody wants consequences anymore and professional footballers etc. would appear to have cracked it.

What sick ridiculous puppets we are and what gross little stage we dance on. What fun we have dancing and ****ing. Not a care in the world. As the man said.