Who should be charged over Grenfell?

by Andrew Wastling .

ARTICLE [Public Order & Bad Taste]  raises valid points about freedom of the individual.  The burning of any effigy of another human being could be considered incitement to hate - or alternatively as a collective way of channel anger into a less destructive avenue than real violence.  I have no qualms whatsoever ,for instance , when people in mining communities burnt the effigy of Margaret Thatcher on celebratory bonfires when she died and sang ' ding dong the witches dead' in a perfectly understandable communal response to the damage Her government dealt out to the mining communities.

On the other hand I'd be much more concerned by people burning books on bonfires, conjuring up as the image does obvious Nazi imagery and symbolism.

The swiftness of the State in this incident surely exposes the sheer hypocrisy & double standards of the authorities in choosing when and when not to act as suits their own agenda when we compare the relative speed in which the lowlifes who burnt an effigy of Grenfell were arrested, when compared to the rather posher lowlifes who burnt the real Grenfell.

When will they be arrested on charges of possible corporate manslaughter I wonder?

I know which many people will regard as the greater 'hate crime'; towards people, and which is the more deserving of police action and prosecution for criminality.

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