4 months in prison for wearing a hateful t-shirt....yay for free speech Britain!

[Gandalf]

yep or you'd be locked up straight away

off to harrogate for another session in an hour or so by the way.

Watch out with one of those comedy t-shirts. I wouldn't want to see you being picked up by a boob head. Sorry, I mean enforcer of the law. I wouldn't want to be upsetting those sensitive cunts would I now? Ooh your colleague is dead! Boo fricking hoo.

I'm a British police officer.

[Fenster]

I think that's ludicrous too.

And what's the difference between this silly cunt and all the muslim extremists that express similar views in public?

[El Kabong]

You've got to love the hypocrisy of the muslim extremists....they call America "The Great Satan" and call out for "Death to America" but you can't say 1 thing where they could even infer that you were making a dig at Islam or Prophet Muhammad or their culture or they will burn up a fucking city or overrun an embassy.....take a fucking chill pill, they are SOOOOOO uptight about things.

[brocktonblockbust]

AS ı SAID---IF WE PASS LAWS AGAINST IDIOTS WITH STUPID TEE SHIRTS THEN WE CANNOT THEN CALL THE mUSLIMS IDIOTS FOR WANTING LAWS PASSED AGAINST CARTOONS OR VIDEOS. THEN YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN THOSE IMBECILES YOU LOVE TO MAKE FUN OF. tHE wEST IS A REAL PRO AT DOUBLE STANDARDS ISNT IT?

[Fenster]

"Soldiers returning from Iraq - and marching through Luton as part of a homecoming parade - were greeted with banners branding them as "butchers, war criminals, murderers, terrorists and baby killers" by Islamic extremists.

The police had to form a protective cordon around the Islamic fanatics when local people turned against them."

What's the difference between this idiot and those idiots? They both "offended" people in public by displaying a slogan. The police protected one lot yet arrested the other.

What am I missing here?

[ono]

They protected one lot because there would have been a riot which would have endangered public safety. When there is a planned protest, there will always be a police presence. It's not because the police force are pro Islamic extremist.

As for the guy with the Tshirt, he's an attention seeking idiot but I'm not sure it warrants jail.

[Fenster]

They protected one lot because there would have been a riot which would have endangered public safety. When there is a planned protest, there will always be a police presence. It's not because the police force are pro Islamic extremist.

As for the guy with the Tshirt, he's an attention seeking idiot but I'm not sure it warrants jail.

So the difference is - one lot informed the police of their intention to offend the public beforehand and the other didn't. Makes sense.

[Kirkland Laing]

Somebody sent to prison for an anti-police t shirt. Some Muslim gets sent to prison for posting something about British soldiers on the internet. This is just fucking wrong. It doesn't matter how reprehensible somebody's stated opinion is, they should be free to express it.

Voltaire quotes

That said should we have tougher sentences for the scumbags in the population? Oh yes. I don't think we should lock them up though, just end their access to benefits and throw them in work houses. Rather than pay fortunes to lock them up make them work to earn their keep and force them into work when they're let out of the work house by not allowing them much in the way of benefits.

[Saddo]

Well I personally feel we should get all the chav's, the t-shirt guy and anyone who has ever been a guest on Jeremy Kyle, round them up... put them in a field and...

[0james0]

The punishment system in our country is broken. Too harsh sentences at times, too generous mostly. I see some things and it really doesn't make sense.

People are getting sent to prison now for writing a message on twitter or making a Facebook group. Happening a lot.

Yet steal something, beat someone up, you'll get some community service and a small fine. No fine if you have no job.

[Xwetie]

Well I kind of feel him, I've been in the same situation!

When you feel for wearing your favorite T-shirt and you're are not allowed too you obviously shoulnd't get locked up! Even if it said something like his t-shirt did! Just take it away and rip it apart, dont make a huge deal out of it.

My situation was that I had a shirt that said; smile if you take it in the ass, And I understand why they took it away from me nowdays, It was stupid of me to even have it on to school, I thought it was fun at the time... Young and stupid!

But the guy who's on the news is just redicilous, one of thoose guys who didnt grew up.

-Xweetie

[Andre]

What do all of you pro free speech at all costs advocates, think we should do about those who use words to mentally torture others?

When young adolescents are being targeted via social media and bullied into killing themselves by their peers? We lose hundreds per country thousands of young kids per year world wide. Some people are doing it hard enough for any number of reasons at home then they are publicly blamed and shamed for all kinds of differences; they are very sensitive people already in depressive states and are being mentally tortured and pushed over the edge by free speech.

Do you think the relatives and children who read that guys tee shirt after loosing their mum, wife, sister, or own children, are being mentally tortured by him wearing it?

What should happen?

[Andre]

The punishment system in our country is broken. Too harsh sentences at times, too generous mostly. I see some things and it really doesn't make sense.

People are getting sent to prison now for writing a message on twitter or making a Facebook group. Happening a lot.

Yet steal something, beat someone up, you'll get some community service and a small fine. No fine if you have no job.

And in some cases no fine if you have a top job and declare bankruptcy after manipulating millions off to your relatives.


I think its a mess also due to the known cost of changing or rewriting written law. They all charge a fortune and would bankrupt each state if every law were to be even reevaluated, aside from actually changed.

[Andre]

Yeah Greenbeenz I know James is from England, I was talking on world wide bases we have states here in Oz that have their own laws, Same in the United states.

It is a world problem.

[Gandalf]

I think you have to be able to say what you want no matter what the cost. I have been abused a lot on here, but it is my choice to stay and ride it out. I complain about it and thankfully the good side in people realize it is just a cuntish thing to do. But at the end of the day you do have a choice. Stay or walk away.

In terms of tshirt man, when he gauges the reaction of the public, just maybe he will adjust his stance or maybe just ignore them. People can call him a dick for it, but it is only wrong when somebody then uses violence towards him. Nobody has to be his friend or pretend to smile.

In terms of social media. Again, I think your own idiocy should be punished by the verbal reaction alone. Governments should keep away. Only when you are threatening violence or murder upon someone is the government needed. If you cannot handle the site you are using then just stop. Suicide is a choice one makes, but there are typically alternatives to that.

I don't believe in governments trying to make us PC and controlled. Once you cut a tongue you have done something serious. You can barely protest freely anymore and when you can't even say that the Queen is a hideous dictator and that her offspring are all inbred, then the establishment have everything again.