Word Up
The U.K.’s High Court has upheld the ruling of a court in Leicestershire, England, that OKs racial abuse — sort of. The case stems from messages that Leslie Collins of Leicester left on the answering machine of his MP. Judges ruled that while the messages were clearly offensive since epithets such as “wog”, “pakis” and “black bastard” were included, no one from the identified minorities were likely to hear the words, and thus could not be offended by them. Office workers who played the recordings said they were upset at hearing them, but both courts ruled that no crime was committed because those workers were not minorities. (London Telegraph) ...In a later development, several London newspapers were charged with crimes for reporting the story.
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