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

[Gandalf]

Anti-police T-shirt man jailed - Yahoo! News UK

I think the man was probably not very nice, his t-shirt was in poor taste, but to be put in prison for wearing it is just ludicrous. It follows a trend in the UK of people being arrested for Twitter postings or just expressing themselves in a politically incorrect way. If you want to wear a t-shirt saying freely and honestly why you loathe the monarchy, the police, the Tories, any such power structure then you should be free to do so.

You shouldn't go going to prison for poor taste in rhetoric.

[Andre]

Fuck him Miles, lock him up.

Less than three-and-a-half hours earlier, Pc Nicola Hughes, 23, and Fiona Bone, 32, were shot dead in a gun and grenade attack as they responded to a reported burglary on the Hattersley estate in Mottram, Greater Manchester.


How can you allow your civil activism to out weigh his inhumanity in this act?

[Mark TKO]

I agree with Miles on this one - although the guy doesnt deserve to be alive he shouldn't be locked up for wearing a t shirt no matter what it said.

But the moment he put it on all his rights as a protected citizen (though he didnt deserve to be) should have been waived and anyone should have been able to give him a good beating, tortured him, even killed him - without fear of punishment by the authorities.


Hope he gets buggered senseless in prison

[Andre]

Bit like a funeral though isnt it, turn up to one with a shirt that bags the deceased or what he did for a job equals lose your civil rights. Its either one way or the other.
I say fuck him and dont care who does it.

[Saddo]

I personally think its a good thing to lock this loser up.... the respect in this country has gone with people thinking they can just do whatever the fuck they like in this kids having kids generation.

I would like the see this type of low tolerance adapted to everything... it would be a far more civilised environment to live in if it was IMHO

[Mark TKO]

I'd like to see the stocks brought back. Seriously

[mattboxingfan]

This guy is a right wanker. Making a mockery of the deaths of two female police officers who were just trying to do there job. I'd rather he got stoned than 4 months in jail.

[Gandalf]

Don't get me wrong, I think he is a twat for wearing a shirt like that, but I don't think you should lock people up for being twats. I believe in ones right to free speech, you cannot force people to be nice to one another and erase all negative platitudes.

When you start to accept limitations on ones right to say what one feels, no matter how much you disagree with it, then you are heading down a slippery slope.

[Mark TKO]

yep or you'd be locked up straight away

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

[El Kabong]

Fuck him Miles, lock him up.

Less than three-and-a-half hours earlier, Pc Nicola Hughes, 23, and Fiona Bone, 32, were shot dead in a gun and grenade attack as they responded to a reported burglary on the Hattersley estate in Mottram, Greater Manchester.


How can you allow your civil activism to out weigh his inhumanity in this act?

That can't be, guns are ILLEGAL in England!

[TitoFan]

I think the guy deserved getting jailed. You can express yourself against the police without being so callow and insensitive. Think of the victims' families.

On another note..... Reebok must be mortified.

[Gandalf]

Sure it was insensitive, but so are most of you. People have a right to be so. I don't like restrictions on speech and I particularly hate the way the UK is going. Twitter arrests, an obsession with being PC, and now 4 months for a tshirt?

If we are to arrest everyone for being hateful and insensitive then we would be arresting everyone including me and many of you.

[brocktonblockbust]

freedom of speech. no exceptions to the rule. No laws agaınst hurtıng someone's feelıngs. THATS WHAT THE MUSLIMS WANT TO DO WITH THOSE ANTI-MUHAMMAD VIDEOS. KILL OR ARREST THE MAN WHO DISRESPECTED THEM BY INSULTING SOMETHING DEAR TO THEM. IF WE GO THAT ROUTE---WE ARE HEADING DOWN THE WRONG ROAD---WHERE THEN DO YOU DRAW THE FUCKING LINE? KILL EVERYONE WHO INSULTS OR DISRESPECTS SOMEBODY OR OTHER THEN WE ARE NO BETTER THAN THE RETARDED MUSLIMS WHO ARE KILLING DUE TO A VIDEO ON YOUTUBE THEY DONT CARE FOR.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

[Gandalf]

And no, you can't even express yourself in public as those same police will kettle you and potentially commit acts of violence against you. I have little sympathy for all too many of their kind.

[Mark TKO]

is this video still available ??

never even saw it