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Kent Police Arrest Man for Being Offensive..
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Link: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/aylesham-mans-arrest-for-posting-image-of-burning-poppy--sparks-fury-8305966.html
What are your thoughts?
Just a bit excessive. His actions are distasteful and offensive but being offensive isn't an arrestable offence surely?
And kind of ironic that we are supposed to be remembering the war veterans who lost their lives in order to protect our right to freedom and freedom of speech and this man is arrested for burning a poppy.
What are your thoughts?
Just a bit excessive. His actions are distasteful and offensive but being offensive isn't an arrestable offence surely?
And kind of ironic that we are supposed to be remembering the war veterans who lost their lives in order to protect our right to freedom and freedom of speech and this man is arrested for burning a poppy.
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Unfortunately for the majority of us, I'm not sure we're quite at that stage yet.
What frustrates me is having to saddle up and mount the Freedom of Speech horse for such bell-ends. I'll do it, with piss and vinegar if necessary, but I do rather wish there was something more righteous to get behind.
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It's also inconsistently applied. Nick Griffin wasn't arrested for threatening a couple and posting their home address on a public medium...
It's an be abusive to someone in public (sec 5.) and it's an offence to be abusive on the public communications network (sec 123.)
The only difference is, if you say something it's a lot harder to prove than if you write it down and send it to them in an email/IM. It takes a special kind of idiot to leave proof like that.
I deal with malicious comms offences on a regular basis unfortunately, a lot of the time it is just drivel and both parties are advised accordingly. A few times now the comments/messages have been particularly venemous/obscene so I've prosecuted those people.
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I know what you mean. There was a woman over here in the States the other day who got in trouble for some racist facebook posts about our president. But look at it this way; at least we're at the point where questions of free speech are being addressed at the fringes of exceptable behaviour rather than fighting for the ablitity to voice unpopular opinions. Lot of folks aren't so furtunate.
In the same vein, TheSite.org journalist, Holly, wrote a blog about how tweeting/facebooking certain things may well come back to bite you in the backside, which some of you might find interesting!