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Nazi Bonehill gets 3 years inside

They've been trying to carve out their own enclave, provisionally to be called Casapoundland.
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It seems more like an idiot ranting to me than any credible threat of violence.
Who's to say what's "credible", though? He had organised and publicised a fairly nasty demonstration, and was to all intents and purposes planning on it going ahead. I'm not sure the fact that he'd actually botched it up to the extent it didn't happen should necessarily count to his credit.

Even idiots ranting can do harm - let's face it, fash is full enough of gullible idiots for whom this will be fuel to the fire - and there has to come a point where that ranting gets taken seriously. He's got form for this already, too, so it's hardly as if they've caught him in a rare moment of antisemitic racist frenzy...
 
Who's to say what's "credible", though? He had organised and publicised a fairly nasty demonstration, and was to all intents and purposes planning on it going ahead. I'm not sure the fact that he'd actually botched it up to the extent it didn't happen should necessarily count to his credit.

Even idiots ranting can do harm - let's face it, fash is full enough of gullible idiots for whom this will be fuel to the fire - and there has to come a point where that ranting gets taken seriously. He's got form for this already, too, so it's hardly as if they've caught him in a rare moment of antisemitic racist frenzy...

Several anti-capitalist demonstrations have ended in violence as well. So you could equally well say that anyone organising an anti-capitalist demonstration is guilty of inciting violence or activities likely to cause a breach of the peace.
 
Several anti-capitalist demonstrations have ended in violence as well. So you could equally well say that anyone organising an anti-capitalist demonstration is guilty of inciting violence or activities likely to cause a breach of the peace.
No. Because the premise of the anti-capitalist demonstration is not in itself something that is regarded as abhorrent in law. An anti-semitic demonstration is, by definition, targeting a very specific group of people on the basis of their race. And there are very specific laws that criminalise acts which target people by race, and quite rightly so. Many would argue that they are flawed, or that they fail to address the institutional racism which still exists throughout large parts of civil society. But one place where their societal benefit is unequivocally positive is that in which people like Bonehill operate. Whether he's "just having a laugh" (or a "ranting idiot"), what he is doing is an offence. He knows this: he boasts about it. He knew what the consequences were. Perhaps he's a true patriot, a hero prepared to stand up and take his lumps in the pursuit of his noble cause. In which case, having people mealy-mouthing their way around what's happened to him isn't exactly doing his cause any great favours, is it? So what are you? Closet supporter of fascists like Bonehill, or just a regular contrarian?

I strongly suspect that, in a society run by people like Bonehill, those opposing his particular point of view would not be any position to be arguing the niceties of the issue on a website without wondering whether they might be getting the 5am ballistic doorknocker treatment quite soon.
 
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.

No, he should be sentenced to three years of scrubbing off anti Semitic graffiti using a toothbrush, humiliation is what these people need, not incarceration, where they have the chance to be seen as 'martyrs'
 
“You are an intelligent man, and society can only hope that you will mature and start to realise the responsibility that comes with freedom of speech.”[/QUOTE]

Aye, and that's going to happen while banged up?
 
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