{"id":1143,"date":"2005-09-14T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2009-04-12T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T13:13:08","slug":"asbo-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2005\/09\/14\/asbo-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Asbo nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asbo\">asbo<\/a>, antisocial behaviour order, is one of the more odious pieces of social control Nu Labour have managed to bring in. As it is a civil procedure, it has none of the safeguards of criminal proceedings, can be brought against people to disallow behaviour that is not criminal in itself, <cite>but carries criminal penalties<\/cite>. You could find yourself in jail for something as innocuous as walking down the wrong street or wearing your underwear where people can see it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe BBC News Magazine has done an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4743357.stm\">occasional series<\/a> on asbos handed out, some of which are plainly ridicolous, some of which are responses to things that are indeed serious nuisances, but all of which are basically NIMBY responses: Not In My Back Yard. Play loud music, attempting to commit suicide, addicted to petrol sniffing? We don&#8217;t care, we just do not want you to do it here. It&#8217;s the institutionalisation of Mrs. Grundy, with the government in the role of social arbiter. It is the ultimate in symbol politics, as it only treats the symptoms of &#8220;antisocial behaviour&#8221; rather than its causes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is also dangerous, as at least <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4533949.stm\">one attempt<\/a> (scroll down) has already been made to penalise free speech&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The asbo, antisocial behaviour order, is one of the more odious pieces of social control Nu Labour have managed to bring in. As it is a civil procedure, it has none of the safeguards of criminal proceedings, can be brought against people to disallow behaviour that is not criminal in itself, but carries criminal penalties. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[578,183,132,292],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-law-in-action","category-policing","category-uk-politics","tag-antisocial-behaviour-orders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}