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10 Jun 15
23:40
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when there are nude bike rides all over the UK and nobody gets arrested?
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He's like that serial streaker guy, mentally unhinged.
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fink hes got a bike in his cell.................
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Naked rambler: why have we spent £300,000 imprisoning this harmless eccentric?
Stephen Gough has spent nine years in prison for refusing to wear clothes. But nobody else in the country is subject to the same conditions as him http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11664860/Naked-rambler-why-have-we-spent-300000-imprisoning-this-harmless-eccentric.html An insight into the upside down justice system we have in this country. Where causing possible offence is a far more serious business than causing physical injury. |
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Has anybody actually complained to the police about his behaviour?
I understand the Scottish barbarians jailed him for six years. He wouldn't have spent so long in prison if he'd murdered someone. I think he's owed an awful lot in compensation for wrongful imprisonment. |
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He only gets jailed when he goes past schools etc
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they let him go about the woods and but hes not allowed near nurserys and schools
I seen a documenary he tried to go to the dentist but they wouldnt have it  |
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Because the stupid, selfish old tw@t only thinks of himself and not others. If he repeatedly breaks the law, he should be punished.
Since the existing punishment is not working, they should up the ante. imo the punishment for crimes should significantly exceed the crime to act as a deterrent. If the punishment for burglary were a good old birching, say 50 lashes, and each additional transgression added 50 more, Which way do you think the burglary stats would go? I have no desire to see criminals that aren't a danger to society locked up at the taxpayer's expense, let's get some significant deterrents in place. |
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Because the stupid, selfish old tw@t
Perhaps we could also have some meaningful punishments while we're at it, for those who come on here calling others very rude names? |
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can people not close their eyes when he is going past.
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no peeping!
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If someone spends nine years in prison for minor offences like his are.
Then what do you do to someone who commits a serious crime? The law has made nudity as heinous a crime as rape or murder. Do some convicted terrorists in the UK actually serve that many years in jail? |
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Dr, its not the single offence he has spent nine years in jail for it's a cumulation of offences - if he continually breaks the law every time he is released then what is the alternative?
As with most things, a balanced view is needed here. I watched the documentary on this guy and had some sympathy with him in that I think he is harmless and truly believes in his right to keep doing it but ultimately he is breaking the law and it has to be viewed from the police’s perspective. If they stop prosecuting people from being naked in public (and from my understanding, they only arrested him when near schools or likely to be seen by children) then before you know it you will have all sorts of perverts walking around in the nude and hanging around schools claiming their right to do it. Is that really what we want? It doesn’t take much of a stretch of the imagination to see that we would then start having naked adverts on billboards etc. (If people are allowed to be seen walking around naked then what difference does it make if they are on a billboard?). Where would it all end? would people really want to get on the bus with their 11 year old daughter and sit opposite some fat 40 year old with his wanger hanging over the edge of the seat? And don't even get me started on the hygiene implications on public transport!  |
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he's a clown all he has to do is wear some clothes and problem solved - it's not as if we even have the weather in this country for this sort of thing
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Send him in first on the 'rights of way' campaign, that should make the farmers take notice .
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Gin, you're trying to justify sending someone to jail for nine years for committing a string of minor offences.
If they had started to let him off after sending him to jail for a couple of short stays, it would still deter others from going around naked. If they stop prosecuting people from being naked in public No one has proposed that. All that's been said it that they should have made an exception in his case before it ever got this far. |
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He should be arrested tried and sentenced only for taking his clothes off in public.
Obviously he's being sentenced for contempt of court as well. Do repeat burglars and other serial offenders get sentenced for contempt of court along with their crimes? So why should he? It's barbaric what they're doing to him. |
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"If they had started to let him off after sending him to jail for a couple of short stays, it would still deter others from going around naked."
What on earth is wrong with people going around naked ? It's only a human body.What's wrong with that ? I think there should be a "naked day" every week,when it would be illegal to cover up one's body !. |
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Daft,attention seeking tw*t,couldnt careless about other peoples feelings.
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animals are naked
we are animals only those who are repressed/narrow minded or perhaps religious inconsiderate nutters could really be offended by the sight of a body or parts thereof hes doing nothing wrong nothing at all And I truly believe this |
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How is it possible for someone to spend nine years of their life in jail, when all they have done is take their clothes off in public?
He hasn't stolen anything, he hasn't harmed anyone, he hasn't even insulted anyone, yet he's spent nine years of his life behind bars and most of those in solitary confinement. What kind of monsters are the judges who keep sentencing him to that? |
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We need a black or asian naked rambler so we can compare justice.
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In answer to the OP's question: Because he's a bollox!
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brilliant thread
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Woman do not like it(although they do really)...it reminds them of what they have not got
I do not think he has done anything wrong I would have thought permanent psychiatric care the best solution....I am not entirely sure he is sane |
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As adults we should not be offended in seeing a naked human being.
However as a parent you wouldn`t want a naked man walking near your children. How would any parent react if there was a naked man in the swimming pool with their children? Anyone who is a repeat offender, no matter how harmless the crime seems can tally up as many years in prison as a more dangerous convict. The naked rambler is doing it to himself. |
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I can see the black naked rambler just having the spear confiscated.............
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^^^
Just to add Stephen Gough is forfeiting time with his own children to pursue is principle. I think that he needs to accept that he is messing up his life. If he can`t accept that then perhaps he needs psychiatric care as Gery mentions. |
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then he shouldent be banged up!
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Psychiatrists must have assessed him mange.
The conclusion must be that he is just a stubborn bugger who is making poor decisions. |
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He dont recon the "strip search" when he goes in..............
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The guys a totala55hole and deserves no sympathy.
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Whether he's a head case or not, this treatment of Gough is turning into a national embarrassment.
I'm surprised that the branch of the United Nations that deals with humanitarian issues hasn't commented on it. |
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TMM he should be locked up until he gives an undertaking to obey the law of the land.
He wants to walk nude wherever he goes and in front of whoever he passes whether they be children or not. He has scared children in the past with his behaviour and again I say I have absolutely no sympathy for him. |
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BTW DrC I would give the politics forum a miss and just ignore the snidish quips being made.
I doubt anyone would give them any credibility. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gough
dont know what to make of this ...perplexing really ,he has made a point and needs to move on ,now wasting his life imo ,he needs advised he cannot win but sounds like he has dug his heels in ,only one loser and his head must be fried now . |
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I see he was involved with The Freedom to be Yourself movement.
Great in principle but there must be laws that mean at times you can't and this is one of them. + |