Daft Post On Facebook - That's A Four Month Jail Sentence

[Gromit]

A nutter who posted a stupid message on Facebook after the Lee Rigby murder, has been jailed for four months.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340190/Boxer-threatened-Muslims-insane-violence-posing-gun-day-murder-Lee-Rigby-jailed.html

Anyone agree this is a ridiculous conviction, and a waste of a valuable prison cell.

[friedgreentomato]

It will be interesting to read some replies on this when they appear.

My opinion is the correct course of action has been taken, just the same as if a Muslim had come on ranting I would expect the same course of action to take place.

[murraymints]

Quite right...incitement to riot is unacceptable...this is NOT the wild west !

[RATTER15]

I think they had to knock this kind of stuff on the head pretty quick before it got out of hand and we get vigilantes groups springing up everywhere which could then lead to riots etc, I think they just took a hard line. I approve of it.

[EDDIE51]

Sorry at first I thought this was another case, but this is far more serious , he posed with a gun and threatened violence. The jail term is justified.

[mikey4444]

I agree with everybody on this. Personally I would have put him in the stocks for a few days, somewhere not too far away from where Lee Rigby was murdered.

[sandyRoe]

Has the EDL found its first martyr? Will they consider him a political prisoner?

[Maydup]

No, he's not the first nor the last member to go to jail for 4 month Sandy. I fully agree with the conviction and see nothing ridiculous about it.

[B00]

No, I don't agree Groms, the guy's a loon who threatened violence. He rightly got what he deserved.

[Kromovaracun]

I agree with you, Gromit.

I'm getting increasingly skeptical of having laws against incitement to violence in the first place. Not necessarily because they're a bad idea, but because of what their consequences are.

This guy was using much more inflammatory and aggressive language than that girl who was punished for a tweet a couple weeks ago and on the scale of things was probably more deserving of a conviction, comparatively speaking. But the cost of having these laws at all is that it makes using violent imagery of any kind a risky political activity. In effect, it makes it possible for someone to be arrested for a tweet - or a stupid facebook update.

Is this really worth it? Do laws against 'incitement' *actually* prevent all that much violence in our society? I'm starting to wonder if they are worth it.

[emmie]

perhaps it gives out the message that it won't be tolerated..

[ummmm]

I agree with the sentence.

You're looking at it from an intelligent view point. I bet he has many friends on facebook that are not blessed with the same intelligence as you.

[Snafu03]

Is the jail sentence proportionate with the Muslims that were protesting in Luton with 'Death to British soliders' placards?

[Kromovaracun]

If people go out and commit an act of violence, then they are responsible for it. Nobody else - excluding very extreme circumstances, violence is a choice.

I can see why people might want reduce incitement, but I wonder whether the consequences of these laws are worth it...

[Baldric]

Has taken too many blows to the head by the sound of it!
Right sentence, richly deserved imo.
If he'd got away with it, what next?

[boxtops]

Justified

[daffy654]

He got what he deserved. You can't threaten violence against people because of their religion, it is illegal. It is also very, very stupid to put it in 'print' for the world to read.

As an aside, I can't stand idiots who think it makes them look hard to pose with guns on Facebook.

[AB Editor]

"Perhaps it gives out the message that it won't be tolerated"

What won't be tolerated?

[emmie]

snafu, don't know if those carrying placards with death to British soldiers and baby murderers were jailed...

[boxtops]

Threats, Ed

[emmie]

posting threatening, violent messages, whatever the ethnicity