Posted: Jan 17, 2011 9:11 am
paceetrate wrote:Ubjon wrote:james1v wrote:The policeman should be sacked and the priest should be prosecuted.
Why?
The only thing that may have been done wrong is that the Reverend didn't appear to have notified the lady that she wasn't to come on private property before she attempted to attend mass. It doesn't really matter what reason the Reverend gave for not wanting her on the private property and the police were apparantly just carrying out their duties by giving her the tresspass warning.
You don't sack police officers for apparantly carrying out their duties and I fail to see what on what grounds you could prosecute the Reverend.
Oh PLEASE. She was not trespassing. How the fuck can you be trespassing by going to a church you've been going to without problems for so long and with no prior warning that you weren't welcome anymore? You know damn well the priest was just being a vindictive fuckwad and the cop was his cronie. Fuck 'em both sideways.
As I said he should have told her beforehand that she wasn't to come to the church. By now I would hope that you'd have learned that what is just nonsense to the non-religious is very real to the religious and so I don't doubt that the reverend was genuinly unhappy with the daughers actions so to call his actions vindictive isn't appropriate.
We also don't know the full story. Perhaps the woman made a fuss was she was told that she wasn't wanted there and the police pulled her over to reinforce the point that she isn't to return? Again you should know by now that new articles often have a bias and omit details that spoil a good story.
I accept that the police may have gone to far but without knowing all the details its hard to judge.