I hadn't heard about these proposed new 'move on' laws that allow police to force people to move from an area if they are slurring their words.
Aside from the fact that these laws are typically designed to be (mis)used against homeless and indigenous people, I'm wondering how long it's going to be until the police humiliate themselves by using these laws to force someone with a disability to move on- a car-accident victim, or someone who has suffered impairment of their speech as a result of stroke, or tongue cancer, say?
Way to go, NSW...
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Steady Eddy would be well fucked! He'd have to wear a piece of flair to establish his slurring creds...
I believe that a law should not be made if it allows the police to legally do something that is immoral or otherwise blatantly wrong.
But so many of those laws have been created recently.
It seems that the state governments create these laws with good intentions, but giving police too much power has never been a good thing in the past.
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