Offensive Tweet About Sir Tom Moore

[saintpeter48]

Why are some people so vile?
A man has been charged for tweeting 'The only good Brit soldier is a dead one, burn old fella burn', just what was he thinking by saying something so wicked, if it wasn't for servicemen like Sir Tom then this fool would likely be under German rule!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9273781/Pictured-Celtic-fan-35-charged-offensive-tweet-Captain-Tom-Moore.html

[ToraToraTora]

JTT: "They generally start to flex their Fenian muscles when it comes to sport (Liverpool/Glasgow Celtic)" - err, I think you mean Everton/Celtic.

[ummmm]

I'm guilty of calling people Tans :-)

[ToraToraTora]

in what situation would you call people "tans" ummmm?

[Karolina82]

He should forcible have "Up the Rangers" tattooed across his chest.

[ToraToraTora]

....and a Union Jack on his forehead?

[Ellipsis]

This may be the first one charged, it may be the only one charged, but it certainly wasn't the only one trolling ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-56085814

[jackthehat]

///....err, I think you mean Everton/Celtic. ///

Yes, I do. Mrs JtH follows Liverpool & Celtic and I had my keboard set to Auto-pilot....:o)

But you don't count, ummmm ;o)

[Baldric]

Union Flag if it's on his forehead,Union Jack if it's on the Jack Spar of a ship.

[ToraToraTora]

not true since 1908 balders:
https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags-2/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/
" In 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that either name could be used officially. And in 1908 the UK Parliament approved this verdict, stating that ‘the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag’."

[ummmm]

TTT...I can't explain it but they're different to us.

[Mamyalynne]

Ummmm, I think it's a throwback that lingers on regarding the reputation of The Black and Tans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tans#Legacy

[ToraToraTora]

ummm: "TTT...I can't explain it but they're different to us. " - yes but I asked why YOU would call someone "tan"?

[Deskdiary]

This clown is very clearly a mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging cockwomble - of this there is no doubt.

But...

Being arrested for insulting a dead man? Really?

I'd have thought the police had better things to do with their time than arrest somebody who had posted a comment on social media, probably while under the influence (he's from Scotland so that's probably a given).

[Deskdiary]

Is the good Captain now deified to such an extent that an insult is now blasphemous?

[pixie374]

I agree, DD. The problem is, where are the lines, if it's a crime? Within hours of his death, there were "jokes" flying around. What price do you put on which posts? Mild criticism, huge criticism, jokes, comments like this... is it different fines for different levels of being an imbecile?
I think he is a disgusting specimen, but let him drop himself in it, to all future employers etc. How do you objectively measure "offence"?

[Bobbisox1]

It's called 'respect' DD , something clearly lacking in 'Celtic man's ' makeup ,he and people like him should be shown for what they are, total imbeciles!!

[Prudie]

It doesn't really shock me, that's just the sort of thing my Marxist boyfriend would have said (actually did say), along with many other students I was at Uni with back in the day.

[Bobbisox1]

It doesn't shock me, it saddens me that people like him walk this green and pleasant land

[ToraToraTora]

surprised you'd go out with such a nasty piece of work prudie.

[Deskdiary]

Yes but lack of respect is not a crime Bobbisox.

Tasteless, in this instance, most definitely, but I'm really struggling to understand why twaterring (or whatever the verb is) a tasteless comment about a dead man warrants arrest.