Man charged with insulting the queen

Puffin13 · Post by **Puffin13** » Sat 28th Jul 2007 08:56 am

Man charged with insulting the queen

Friday 27 July 2007

A 47-year-old Amsterdam resident has been charged with lèse majesté - or crimes against the monarch - for insulting Queen Beatrix.

The man became involved in a dispute with police officers in early June, saying ‘I hate your queen, she is a whore’, before making sexually explicit comments about what he would like to do to the monarch.

Charges of lèse majesté are very rarely brought in the Netherlands, news agency ANP says.

Source: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2 ... ng_the.php

sh@dy · Post by **sh@dy** » Sat 28th Jul 2007 10:10 am

ridiculous.......i mean, is it a difference if you insult a queen or if you insult someone no one knows? this is a real wierd world

stew1974 · Post by **stew1974** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 08:56 am

SilentlyScreaming · Post by **SilentlyScreaming** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 01:10 pm

stew1974 wrote:In the uk this would be called treason and you can still be sentenced to death for it. .......................

This is why marijuana should not only be legalised but made compulsory for everyone Peace

Slightly OT, apologies, but in case you are interested, this is not the case.
Although it was theoretically possible up until 1998, however, Jack Straw signed up to the European convention formally making it impossible for capital punishment to be handed out in a British Court.

Bit more info...

8th of November 1965. Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act passed which effectively abolished capital punishment but provided for another vote on it "within 5 years." Treason, piracy with violence and arson in Royal Dockyards remained capital crimes.
16th & 18th of December 1969. The House of Commons and House of Lords respectively confirmed abolition of capital punishment for murder.
1971. Arson in Royal Dockyards ceased to be a capital offence, or in fact any specific offence.
10th of July 1992. Anthony Teare became the last person to be sentenced to death in the British Isles for a contract killing in the Isle of Man. The sentence wasn't commuted: the Manx Appeal Court ordered a retrial in 1994, by which time hanging had been removed from the Isle of Man Criminal Code. The new sentence was therefore life in prison.
1994. The last House of Commons vote on the reintroduction of the death penalty was defeated by 403 to 159.
1998. Death penalty abolished for crimes committed under military jurisdiction.
20th of May 1998. On a free vote during a debate on the Human Rights Bill, MP’s decided by 294 to 136, a 158 majority, to adopt provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights outlawing capital punishment for murder except "in times of war or imminent threat of war." The Bill incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.
July 31st, 1998. The Criminal Justice Bill of this year removed High Treason and piracy with violence as capital crimes, thus effectively ending capital punishment.
27th of January 1999. The Home Secretary (Jack Straw) formally signed the 6th protocol of the European Convention of Human Rights in Strasbourg, on behalf of the British government formally abolishing the death penalty in the UK. It had been still theoretically available for treason and piracy up to 1998 but it was extremely unlikely that even if anyone had been convicted of these crimes over the preceding 30 years, that they would have actually been executed. Successive Home Secretaries had always reprieved persons sentenced to death in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man where the death sentence for murder could still be passed and the Royal Prerogative was observed.

(taken from http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.c ... eline.html , see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_pu ... ed_Kingdom )

stew1974 · Post by **stew1974** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 02:08 pm

stew1974 · Post by **stew1974** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 02:12 pm

stew1974 · Post by **stew1974** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 02:16 pm

stew1974 · Post by **stew1974** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 02:25 pm

DrGonzo · Post by **DrGonzo** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 02:44 pm

You really are Bored.

AL · Post by AL » Tue 31st Jul 2007 04:19 pm

wow stew

on a downer bud..........................................peace.............................and skin up

...oh and who,s queen beatrix...

SilentlyScreaming · Post by **SilentlyScreaming** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 04:23 pm

psst - Stew -

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stew1974 · Post by **stew1974** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 06:11 pm

stew1974 · Post by **stew1974** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 06:33 pm

SilentlyScreaming · Post by **SilentlyScreaming** » Tue 31st Jul 2007 06:43 pm

just checking dude, you know my previous comment was typed with a big smile, not an accusing stare?

AL · Post by AL » Thu 2nd Aug 2007 03:50 pm

stew1974 wrote:correct, i am no more thankyou and goodbye to the nice peeps

hey brother as above said with smile on

goin through bad times bud? be cool and stay ONLINE with the family

.......................................peace...............................(be lookin for a reply stew,

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