Re: UK Teen Arrested for Afghan War Post
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:20 am
Looks abit fishy to me? Fake? Seems like the only source for this story is the site that op linked to..
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http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16187397matthewcradduck wrote:Looks abit fishy to me? Fake? Seems like the only source for this story is the site that op linked to..
When the hell is it EVER acceptable to murder civilians? If you mean caught in a crossfire or something accidental, then ill give you that..but your post makes it sound like intentionally killing a civilian......tyger wrote:soldiers generally don't go to afghanistan with the intention of murdering civilians, but they can end up in situations where they have little choice but to do precisely that.
I think some of them do it for fun though.tyger wrote:soldiers generally don't go to afghanistan with the intention of murdering civilians, but they can end up in situations where they have little choice but to do precisely that.
magma wrote:His post was unpleasant, but since when was being unpleasant illegal?
This will never stand up in court... the Police are clearly being utter fucking idiots.
Atkinson wrote:magma wrote:His post was unpleasant, but since when was being unpleasant illegal?
This will never stand up in court... the Police are clearly being utter fucking idiots.
It's a Public order offence under s.19 of the Public Order Act 1986
It has to be racially offensive to be illegal. It wasn't... it was just offensive. He's a dick, but he's not a criminal.1986 Public Order Act, Section 19 wrote:19 Publishing or distributing written material.E+W+S(1)A person who publishes or distributes written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting is guilty of an offence if—
(a)he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or
(b)having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.
(2)In proceedings for an offence under this section it is a defence for an accused who is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred to prove that he was not aware of the content of the material and did not suspect, and had no reason to suspect, that it was threatening, abusive or insulting.
(3)References in this Part to the publication or distribution of written material are to its publication or distribution to the public or a section of the public.
Yes, essentially there has been no crime committed. I'm not massively surprised it's West Yorkshire police doing it either since I've seen them giving a group of guys absolute hell for refusing a search in the town centre (as they are legally allowed to do so)... The 7/7 bombers also came from Leeds mostly I think too so they like to appear 'hot' on this stuffmagma wrote:Atkinson wrote:magma wrote:His post was unpleasant, but since when was being unpleasant illegal?
This will never stand up in court... the Police are clearly being utter fucking idiots.
It's a Public order offence under s.19 of the Public Order Act 1986It has to be racially offensive to be illegal. It wasn't... it was just offensive. He's a dick, but he's not a criminal.1986 Public Order Act, Section 19 wrote:19 Publishing or distributing written material.E+W+S(1)A person who publishes or distributes written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting is guilty of an offence if—
(a)he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or
(b)having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.
(2)In proceedings for an offence under this section it is a defence for an accused who is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred to prove that he was not aware of the content of the material and did not suspect, and had no reason to suspect, that it was threatening, abusive or insulting.
(3)References in this Part to the publication or distribution of written material are to its publication or distribution to the public or a section of the public.
Only if "soldier" is an ethnic group, but last time I checked soldiers came in all creeds and colours. He didn't even mention race..Atkinson wrote:Look at subsection (b) though, racial hatred is likely to be stirred, which in effect it is?
thismagma wrote:Only if "soldier" is an ethnic group, but last time I checked soldiers came in all creeds and colours. He didn't even mention race..Atkinson wrote:Look at subsection (b) though, racial hatred is likely to be stirred, which in effect it is?
what was the censored word?magma wrote:Only if "soldier" is an ethnic group, but last time I checked soldiers came in all creeds and colours. He didn't even mention race..Atkinson wrote:Look at subsection (b) though, racial hatred is likely to be stirred, which in effect it is?
rayman612 wrote:what was the censored word?magma wrote:Only if "soldier" is an ethnic group, but last time I checked soldiers came in all creeds and colours. He didn't even mention race..Atkinson wrote:Look at subsection (b) though, racial hatred is likely to be stirred, which in effect it is?
cityzen wrote:^^I'm guessing the blanked out bit is 'white'.
oh, it's 'fooking'.... how is that racially aggravated offense?
agreed, imo freddom of speech has to be absolute otherwise it isn't freedomrayman612 wrote:still dumb law, should be able to say what you want, even if its racist

Actually, we do and there's been quite a lot of debate about how far you can go since people have said far worse things than this! Generally, even extremely inflammatory stuff is tolerated to a certain degreeToday wrote:you don't have free speech in England??
i men, if you did, this would be a really easy case to dismiss
if it were even conceived in the first place
which it wouldn't be
People are allowed to say what they want
If we had a law against igniting racial hatred with words in the US, our jails would be spilling over
almost everyone would be in jail
especially politicians and news pundits