AU Teen Arrested for Playing “Offensive” Music in Public

This has me seriously rethinking about whether or not I want to take a trip to AU or not.

"It's better to be hated for who you are, then be loved for who you are not." - Montgomery Gentry

I don't like loud music (oe offensive either), but that kind of stupidity is deafening too.

I'm starting to wonder if the police heard the music, were offended, and decided that the music being played at any volume is "too loud."

Seriously though, if the kid's gonna get banned for listening to music, arrest the artists who wrote/performed it and the people responsible for producing it. Go the whole 9 yards. Teenagers are paranoid and angsty enough towards adults without cops literally picking on them for being punks.

Cops are f**cking disgusting...They really should go and do some REAL police work like beating an innocent person up.

Never underestimate the power of idiots in large amounts.

sure they didn't arrest him for impersinating a male of the human species?

kid looks worse than a burn victim prior to surgery...

jokes aside, this doesn't surprise me.

first question is how loud was the music to begin with, second, where were they parked, and third is that the ACTUAL reason given for the arrest?

could've been worse though, could've been that one where they just repeat "fu** the police fu** the police!" over and over and over.

THAT would've been a sight :)

I thought this was Game Politics not music politics. This story has nothing to do with games.

Good on the cops for doing their jobs for once.

Can I point out to people that there is a noise law in Australia that prevents volume over certain decibels in a vehicle? All the time you see P platers driving around with their highly distorted doof-doof garbage and their windows down.

This kid supposedly had his music too loud, someone complained about it. Cops pulled him up, found the music and realized that no only was it too loud, but it contained racial and sexual expletives. About time the cops FINALLY got someone for having shitty music playing at high volume. I shouldn't be able to hear some moron swearing every second word to barely syncronized distortion from inside MY car wtih MY volume up high and the window closed!

"Police are expected to play Kid Selzy's latest album, The Creepshow, at the next hearing". So how does this equal noise laws? Sounds like the Aussie version of the PMRC bullshite to me.

  Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.

Thank God! About time we cracked down on this whole "music" thing. Cause I was driving in my car ealier and heard some dude next to me playing Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard! The nerve! Did you know that those lyrics can be interpreted as two gay kids making out!? Oh how I wish there were a couple of police officers right there to arrest that guy's ass. It would be nice to see the police finally using our tax dollars properly!

And now some of you are going to have to buy new sarcasm detectors, sorry for shorting them out like that.

The article can be found here:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/teen-nathan-wilkie-arrested-for-playing-offensive-rap-music-from-car/story-e6frfhk6-1225837535956

These officeers clearly are in violation of Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, by their acts.

The article mentions that his mom posted a note on the rapper's MySpace page which included:

""Unfortunately he saw me (his mum) coming out of the local supermarket with shopping bags and left his car running and music playing to help me with my bags and the local cops pulled in.

"They stuck their head in his half-open window and were very offended by the lyrics of your CD.

"The end result is he has been served a summons for offensive behaviour for playing your CD, which they said was too loud and the lyrics offensive, especially to women.""

First, they had no legal probable cause to have "stuck their head in his half-open window".  These officers are clearly Anti-Human Rights, Anti-Freedom of Expression, and should not only be called out as the fascists violators of Human Rights that they are, but should be terminated from their jobs and arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced for the crime of violation of Human Rights in the performance of their official duties.

Secondly, claims that such lyrics lead listeners to disrespect others, including women, have just been PROVEN false and fraudulent (fraudulent in the sense that such claims have been lies and deceit for the purpose of depriving others of their Human Right to Freedom of Expression) by the very statement in the note his moter posted:  "...he saw me (his mum) coming out of the local supermarket with shopping bags and left his car running and music playing to help me with my bags ...".  Let those who continue to make such false claims be condemned, recognized as liars, deceivers, and morally bankrupt and attempting to mentally molest others, including children, into believing that lies, deciet, dishonor, and a lack of ethics are "moral".

These officers, and any of their supporters, should find their faces and identities spread across the world to be recognized as violators of Human Rights and to be recognized as being without honor, ethics, or morality.

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