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NSW police arrest 64-year-old osteopath Chris Nelson on the central coast over allegedly making comments on social media directed at outgoing senator
NSW police have charged a central coast man over allegedly posting racist comments on the Facebook page of outgoing Labor senator Nova Peris.
Woy Woy-based chiropractor and osteopath Chris Nelson was arrested on Monday afternoon following an investigation by detectives from Brisbane Water local area command.
He was taken to Gosford police station and charged with using a carriage service to cause offence.
Peris shared the offensive post through her social media accounts, part of which said: “You were only endorsed by Juliar because you were black. Go back to the bush and suck on witchety grubs and yams.”
The post also criticised Peris, Australia’s first Indigenous female senator, for wearing white ochre on her face during her 2013 maiden speech.
He was taken to Gosford police station and charged with using a carriage service to cause offence.
originally posted by: CynConcepts
Wow! Talk about overreach! Sure his rant is extremely offensive but has no threat of violence. How can one be arrested for speech? I find this unbelievable to have happened in Australia! If it was China, North Korea, or even the middle East, it would make more sense politically. Is this really true or a hoax?
I am not familiar with the laws in Australia, but I'm assuming there are laws that deal with this type of incident, or the authorities would not have charged him. If you live in a country, it would behoove you to be familiar with its laws. If you are dumb enough to break one of those laws, then you deserve what you get. Don't like the laws? Work through your political representatives to get them changed -- or move to a country whose laws you like better.
originally posted by: thinline
What is a racist statement?
That's the rub
Example
_______ is an amazing sport, ________ people have been hiding this.
A black man live tweeted after watching his first hockey game. He thought it was an amazing sport and tweeted some form of white people was hiding this from black people. Not only did most hockey fans laugh at this, St. Louis Blues even brought him to a game
originally posted by: ChesterJohn
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
that is how it started in Germany in the 1930's and look what happened just a few years later, WWII!
Well, I'm almost 56 years old, and I've never been charged or arrested for anything yet, so I think I've done a pretty good job so far. I sure as hell know what I can and can't say on public media.
that is how it started in Germany in the 1930's and look what happened just a few years later, WWII!