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Originally posted by YipMan
at the end of the day its the LAW
Originally posted by YipMan
do you have to like it?no you dont
do you have 2 abide by that law? yes you do
Originally posted by YipMan
i get the feeling the supporters of this "i want to and will say what i want to whoever" have never been faced with blatant racism on a daily basis
Originally posted by something wicked
Originally posted by InfoKartel
Originally posted by judus
reply to post by Rising Against
People Die all the time what makes this case so special ? Why should the MSM hype this as a national tragedy.
Football player. Dropped on live tv watched by millions at the time. Did you really need to ask? What with the godlike status that's given to sport players...
But if a grown skinhead spouts all kinds of racist diatribe to some poor fellow on the street, it's no problem. Fine? What fine? Let alone jail...edit on 27-3-2012 by InfoKartel because: (no reason given)
There's a difference isn't there? If said skinhead (my, talk about stereotyping by the way) makes the same comments this guy did and police are able to apprehend and there are reliable witnesses then he would, or should face the same charges. Twitter provides that witnessing and also effectively a confession by default.
Originally posted by boymonkey74
But I disagree with your attitude that one man/woman can not change anything, it always starts with one then it grows.
One idea can change the world I just wish someone thought of it lol
Originally posted by jimbo1977
Sorry, but WTF!? He stole a car, ran a red light, ran someone down, left the scene of a crime, wasnt insured and wasnt licenced! And to top it off, he was on his way to get his benefit money that my tax pays for (forgive my palpable anger here).
So he injured someone and get a slap on the wrist, someone says something nasty and has the rest of his life ruined.
Can someone please explain how this makes sense?
It was nothing to do with justice and proportion, it was about satisfying a rabid public who were too ignorant and stupid to be able to take a deep breath and look at this case with sensible objectivity.
And what was his crime? He did not steal, he did not defraud anyone, he did not rape or kill, he did not draw blood, he did not bruise, he did not lay a finger on anyone. His only crime was to say things which we are not supposed to say, and which offended those who passionately seek offence.
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There was a time when what we found most frightening about states such as those beneath the totalitarian fist of Soviet Russia or which were tin pot dictatorships, run by brutal despots, was that people could be locked away because of what they said.
We now live under such terror.
More chilling still are the shrill cheers of those who support the prosecution. To merely read the approving comments beneath the news report of the young man's trial is to hear echoes from another darker place we once thought had disappeared long ago.
“Finally the sentence fits the crime!” Snarls brain dead Olivia from Swindon
“hahahahhahahahhahaha i love it..... u vile rascist little pig ” crowed Arshad from Worster – (clearly enjoying seeing a white man brought low)
“Good, scum like this should have the book thrown at them. ….. He made racist comments” squeaked Anthony from London, the sort of person who, in another life would have sold his mother to the Stasi for misspeaking.
As would Denise from Chelmsford who shrieked with the pride of a Khmer Rouge guerrilla with a baby on her bayonet “The racial comments were disgusting. I'm glad that I was one of the many people who reported him to the police.”
How low has out country sunk that the likes of Olivia, Arshad, Denise and Anthony now tell us how to think.
We are told that this is a free country, that is a joke, we are becoming the terrorist state of which others once warned us, and most frightening is the fact that there are many who welcome it.
Originally posted by neformore
I think that anyone who is stupid enough to make racially motivated abohrrent comments on a public forum deserves everything they get.
Freedom of speech is not freedom to hate.