stomper16 wrote:
disclosing a persons private and personal information on a public forumis is wrong.
any inforamatoin about any rig owner or partygoer must remain confidential. assuming that because of anyones age or health it will exclude them from going to jail is stupid . it suggests that they are doing somehing bad enough to be locked up. take more care of what you disclose .youve got nothing to lose others have.
On this forum, we actually protected the man involved for all the time leading up to his Court case – editing posts, removing others with bait info about him that would prejudice his case (many other forums did not and even put his full name and picture about at several points prior to his case).
Now he has had his day in court – and the info about him is now in the public domain having been published by local and national media. His name is is no longer private, due to his own actions. That said I felt as an individual he handled it very well all considered. I notice he didn’t exactly shy away from the publicity either (other people in court often try to avoid being photographed).
If I were to go and rob somewhere or serve up a load of drugs and get caught, my name would be in the papers. People would be able to put it on blogs and forums far and wide or even email it to my mum (who now lives hundreds of miles away in another country) and there would be nothing I could do about it. Loads of my mates have ended up in the papers in various times and their cases have been discussed on forums. This isn’t the only forum around, there are lots of normal peoples ones and anti-rave places.
I once found a blog from some Indian chap who was anti drugs and he had put the names up of everyone the police busted at a rave in India. (out there they send everyones name to the media!) Now it was all in some Indian script so I couldn’t read them, but it meant the whole world could see it.
Even if we don’t agree with laws, in a democratic nation with a free press we still have to accept some of the consequences until or unless we can change them by the proper channels.
I know that old and unwell people can go to jail as I work in the elderly care industry – this is why I mentioned HMP Norwich as it is specially adapted for older prisoners and has the same facilities as in a old peoples home – However considering a lot of OAPs are going in for far more serious crimes including violence and murder and he hasn’t actually breached his asbo by being at this rave in a different region I don’t think there is much of a risk. After all with so many cops there they would have hauled the old chap away if they were able to..
What he has done – even by accident – is contributed to an entire region being unable to host parties though – due to rubbish being left behind etc. Friends of mine had to go and clear up after one of his parties. That said, In some respects I do actually think its quite cool a man who would be my Dads age is prepared to put on free parties – I just wish (for his own sake as well) that they could have been better organised.
