Nazi Bonehill gets 3 years inside

[Mr.Bishie]

Because the same argument will be applied to the left as well.

Fair point, sadly

 

[Mr.Bishie]

These laws regarding inciting hatred are no better, and they are never applied consistently anyway. Just look at what Katie Hopkins gets away with.

Privilege innit!

 

[bimble]

Trial sounds kind of entertaining in a bleak sort of way...

"At one point, Bonehill-Paine claimed that he was not an antisemite when asked about a ‘joke’ on his website in which he asked “How do you fit six million Jews in a car? In the ashtray.”

Bonehill-Paine sentenced to three years and four months for “anti-Jewification” incitement

 

[bimble]

Saul Goodman It was you wasn't it.

I dropped in for bits of his trial as I was working at Southwark Crown Court this week and it was fucking hilarious. Worse attempt at a defence ever. I felt really sorry for his defence barrister. Poor bastard.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

 

[Fingers]

Trial sounds kind of entertaining in a bleak sort of way...

"At one point, Bonehill-Paine claimed that he was not an antisemite when asked about a ‘joke’ on his website in which he asked “How do you fit six million Jews in a car? In the ashtray.”

Bonehill-Paine sentenced to three years and four months for “anti-Jewification” incitement

It was very entertaining. Especially when he tried to claim he read out his hate speech video by teleprompter via Skype because Eddie Stampton was typing it out line by line and secretly recorded it, added pictures to it and uploaded it to YouTube. He claimed he did not agree with any of Eddie's views and was a multiculturalist and anti racist. He said he was really pissed off with Eddie for uploading it.

At that point he was not aware that the prosecution had a record of a Skype chat between him and some neo nazi in the US who he had asked to upload the video file.

Thus, the wheels totally fell off his defence and his lawyer did a genuine Facepalm.

 

[Fingers]

Oh and another laugh out loud moment when he produced some 'Muslim and Catholic' prayer beads he had mixed together to make a bracelet and waved them around at the judge (who clearly disliked him with a passion)

 

[bimble]

On a serious note, should we be locking people up for saying things though?

This boy (I think) is a classic internet troll, as in he acted entirely alone from his bedroom posting up stupid hateful shit on the internet and that's all he did. So yes, good question.

 

[Fingers]

This boy (I think) is a classic internet troll, as in he acted entirely alone from his bedroom posting up stupid hateful shit on the internet and that's all he did. So yes, good question.

Ah he has done far more than just trolling but was so slippery the police dropped a load of charges to get him banged up on this one. He is clearly a bit of a danger to the public imo, or would be if he was left to spiral further out of control.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Oh and another laugh out loud moment when he produced some 'Muslim and Catholic' prayer beads he had mixed together to make a bracelet and waved them around at the judge (who clearly disliked him with a passion)

 

[bimble]

Fingers You didn't happen to pop in to that other trial at Southwark this week did you?

 

[Fingers]

Fingers You didn't happen to pop in to that other trial at Southwark this week did you?

I did briefly but there was nowhere to sit down.

 

[bimble]

I did briefly but there was nowhere to sit down.

So the rape trial was packed with public / press ?

 

[likesfish]

First they came for the nazis.
So I offered to make them tea

 

[bimble]

By the way .. there's this thread all about opposition mobilised in answer to this boy's anti-jewification rally / posters.
4th July Golders Green counter-demonstration against anti-semites

 

[Mr.Bishie]

By the way .. there's this thread all about opposition mobilised in answer to this boy's anti-jewification posters.
4th July Golders Green counter-demonstration against anti-semites

Luckily for him, it was a no show!

 

[Fingers]

So the rape trial was packed with public / press ?

Yeah there were a lot of both when I dropped in

 

[bimble]

Luckily for him, it was a no show!

Yep, which is what made me think he was just someone in his bedroom fucking about online, but I don't know.


Here's a very piece on what (I think) actually happened on the day (the anti-jewification day)

'it was more Benny Hill than Leni Riefenstahl.'
Mad ZOGs and Englishmen...

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Yep, which is what made me think he was just someone in his bedroom fucking about online, but I don't know.

In his bedroom inciting racial hatred.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Saul Goodman It was you wasn't it.

Fortunately not. I was busy elsewhere that week, defending the island of Java in a trademark infringement case brought by Sun Java.

 

[Fingers]

Yep, which is what made me think he was just someone in his bedroom fucking about online, but I don't know.


Here's a very piece on what (I think) actually happened on the day (the anti-jewification day)

'it was more Benny Hill than Leni Riefenstahl.'
Mad ZOGs and Englishmen...

I was there. That was funny as well. Drowned out by people shouting abuse at them.

On another note, Bonehill had a demo in Yeovil last year and the only person that bothered to show up was him.

 

[chilango]

Because the same argument will be applied to the left as well.

What? Cops stop policing lefty demos? and lefties think this is a bad thing?

 

[Fingers]

This is the sort of shit he was on trial for. Just to be clear his trial was nothing to do with free speech or banning demos.

 

[Fingers]

He did renounce all of his strongly held beliefs and try and drop Eddie in it front of judge and jury but the silly twat should have changed his plea on Monday, gone guilty, apologised and told the judge that it was an act of stupidity/trolling and would probably have walked out the door with the six months he has already served.

 

[J Ed]

3 years is a long stretch for political speech. How long till the state starts giving leftists three years? It's short sighted to see this as a victory.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

3 years is a long stretch for political speech. How long till the state starts giving leftists three years? It's short sighted to see this as a victory.

Doesn't take an enormous leap of the imagination to see the Class War lot getting banged up.

 

[chilango]

3 years is a long stretch for political speech. How long since the state last gave leftists three years? It's short sighted to see this as a victory.

Ffy.

1997. If you count Green Anarchist.

 

[bimble]

Chances are prison will work a treat in this case though, he'll emerge totally reformed into a really nice bloke.

 

[William of Walworth]

3 years is a long stretch for political speech. How long till the state starts giving leftists three years? It's short sighted to see this as a victory.

It was a 3-year stretch for supremely twazzock-brained idiocy partly, as well as for all the violence-inciting, properly serious stuff though.

Re-read the post by Fingers , immediately above yours.

ETA : and read Fingers' new post immediately below this one, also ....

 

[Fingers]

3 years is a long stretch for political speech. How long till the state starts giving leftists three years? It's short sighted to see this as a victory.

remember all this was done whilst he was already on a suspended sentence. No wonder they threw the book at him.