Oh….Sorry wrong thread…………I was looking for Skinning forums……my bad

I don't believe anyone should ever be jailed for speaking a particular idea of ethos, however disgusting. Granted, no one should be allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater, but that isn't what happened here. All this is doing is setting up a state when certain ideas are illegal to express, and that is a dangerous road to start down.

It's already in Canada, and if you listen to some folks in San Fransisco it's there, too. At least expressing ideas they deem hateful makes you too unsavory to hold your conventions, etc., there.

Shows how back to front this country has gotten. He should have got ten years for the child porn and a telling off for his bad attitude. This is all the fault of the do-gooders and their obsession with political correctness.

Sadly the crime of 'inciting racial hatred' only goes one way here. It was perfectly ok for muslims to hold a mass demonstration, burn the national flag, and carry 'behead the white pigs' slogans. But if ever a white person says one word about someone from an ethnic group...well...

We now have a national manhunt for someone who snatched the veil off a muslim woman. A very serious crime indeed! This follows comments by politician Jack Straw who said he preferred women to remove their veils when meeting him so he could see their faces. Seems like a fair request to me. It may be their custom, but our custom is to not deliberatly try to hide your identity.

All this makes me start to wonder just whose country this is   

This is simple.......the uk loves liberalism and political correctness, The man clearly was not behaving correctly. Liberals love free speech so long as it is politically correct speech. The fact that he had child porn on his computer meant nothing to a liberal.......he was being incorrect with his hurtful speech. No matter how ignorant or crude it may have been, in a socialist environment his political incorrectness was much more criminal. The same thing has begun here in America, the retarded example set by the idiots in the uk goes on each day throughout the world and I fear it will scratch a hole deeper in America. We just won't stop voting for liberals. Socialism and politically correctness are worthless, utterly useless. I'm glad the uk put forth another fine example of just how closed minded they truly are. Stop voting for liberals, stop encouraging liberals, we'll deal with ignorant racists remarks on our own terms certainly not yours. Liberals want nicely paved roads with good intentions. Ever hear the term the road filled with good intentions leads to hell? Think about it.


Be safe.

I dislike racial prejudice, but 3 years jail is overkill, particularly when he had child porn which should have attracted a much stiffer penalty. To have ignored the child porn while pursuing him for racial comments is totally arse-backwards and betrays the victims (and their families) of child exploitation/abuse.

so next time you 'say' "fuck Bush" .....yer breaking a 'law'.

It's not that no-one cares, it's just impossible to arrest 46 billion people...

So the new definition of freedom of speech is "you can say whatever you want as long as the goverment thinks it's fine"... yeah... I'm not the paranoid type but certain trends are taking place in US and UK that if are not stopped we are seriously looking at a "big brother" situtation.

Reply #16 So the new definition of freedom of speech is "you can say whatever you want as long as the goverment thinks it's fine"... yeah... I'm not the paranoid type but certain trends are taking place in US and UK that if are not stopped we are seriously looking at a "big brother" situtation.

Sadly it isn't just those two. I've read of fairly recent cases where ministers in Canada have been charged for hate speech crimes for preaching that homosexuality is wrong.

A person has the right to say whatever they damn well please regardless of how stupid it may be.