tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post3094002391497190543..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: The Twitter joke trial: Judge Jacqueline Davies hands a victory to the terroristsJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-18958695148192083462010-11-12T22:50:58.228+00:002010-11-12T22:50:58.228+00:00If we are going to start arresting people up for m...If we are going to start arresting people up for making bad taste jokes then where you do you draw the line? Half the country will be in gaol before we are done. Why are the CPS (and the government via the AG) being so divisive?adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05494504317134793308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-36225622990863389722010-11-12T16:30:07.016+00:002010-11-12T16:30:07.016+00:00Brilliant! I love it! England is a communist count...Brilliant! I love it! England is a communist country - the sooner everyone faces it the quicker we can break it down and start again.<br />The state controls more here than Communist China. At the end of the day this Judge and all her cronies knew exactly waht they were doing, they knew it was a massive waste of time and money but still felt they needed to make an example out of someone just to flex their power.<br /><br />Hands up if you think this country is democratic and forward thinking!! hahahaha aaaaaaahhhh hahahahaha - Muggs!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-11753599515459216162010-11-12T11:51:31.906+00:002010-11-12T11:51:31.906+00:00As ever, the Daily Mash shows the po-faced Left up...As ever, the Daily Mash shows the po-faced Left up for what they are:<br /><br />http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/twitter-trial-judge-issues-arrest-warrant-for-wile-e.-coyote-201011123246/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-70793198824391463232010-11-12T09:03:34.388+00:002010-11-12T09:03:34.388+00:00The problem is that a single tweet may be adjudged...The problem is that a single tweet may be adjudged to be 'Improper use of public electronic communications network' in accordance with the Communications Act 2003. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127<br /><br />The context of Paul Chamber's tweet has been ignored. The CPS brought a prosecution under the Communications Act 2003 because they knew the tweet was not a credible terrorist threat.davidgilrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07378929472670844528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-61458359812388946902010-11-12T07:44:45.895+00:002010-11-12T07:44:45.895+00:00No one's yet provided any evidence that Yasmin...No one's yet provided any evidence that Yasmin Alibhai-Brown said what Gareth Compton claims she said. He's now deleted his twitterfeed but the tweet about having her stoned to death was in the middle of an argument he was having about the Demo2010 riots - in which, ironically enough, he was claiming he couldn't condone violence.<br /><br />It's a perfect situation for half-listening to the radio and misunderstanding (or taking completely out of context) something that was said by someone whom Gareth Compton already disliked, as a woman and as a Muslim and as a left-wing journalist - his twitterfeed suggested a young Tory of the thoroughly closed-minded arrogant sort.<br /><br />Defense of free speech should not require justification of Gareth Compton's "joke" as acceptable to anyone but his own little coterie of right-wing racists who think it's hideously funny to joke about killing horribly a woman they don't like. Just that he has a right to make such jokes without being arrested.Yonmeihttp://twitter.com/yonmeinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-62177801772966118872010-11-11T22:44:46.696+00:002010-11-11T22:44:46.696+00:00I once said that the only moral value still recogn...I once said that the only moral value still recognised on the left was Not Being Racist. It seems I was right.Jonathan Calderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-6847507307988403662010-11-11T20:32:17.816+00:002010-11-11T20:32:17.816+00:00@Mark, it is the nature of satire to be offensive....@Mark, it is the nature of satire to be offensive. If it isn't offending somebody then it's not doing its job. To paraphrase Wilde, it is a category error to talk of moral or immoral satire; it should rather be considered only in artistic terms.<br /><br />Personally, I thought Compton's comments were crass in the extreme. But to live in a world that forbids the making of such comments is an affront to liberty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-24257969630326555012010-11-11T19:27:54.201+00:002010-11-11T19:27:54.201+00:00It doesn't matter how controversial her statem...It doesn't matter how controversial her statement was.<br /><br />If a Jewish commentator said that politicians don't have the right to comment on human rights, even the gassing of Jews in Nazi Germany, it would be ok to tweet<br />'Someone should put him in a gas oven'?<br /><br />Likewise if Gary Younge said that politicians don't have the right to comment on human rights, even the lynching of black people in the USA it would be ok to tweet 'Someone should hang Gary Younge from a tree'?<br /><br />It wasn't an off-the-cuff comment. It was deliberately offensive and downright racist. Yet the best Jonathan can manage is 'tinged'.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-28998960352561824022010-11-11T18:58:48.785+00:002010-11-11T18:58:48.785+00:00@Mark Hang on, Alibhai-Brown raised the subject of...@Mark Hang on, Alibhai-Brown raised the subject of stoning. It wasn't used by Compton as a generic racist characterisation. He was making a joke directly satirising her own remarks, which, as @Anonymous points out, were themselves highly controversial.<br /><br />Do you really think everyone who makes an off-the-cuff joke at this level of offensiveness should be arrested and charged with a criminal offence? Seriously? That's enlightened?@adambanksdotcomhttp://www.twitter.com/adambanksdotcomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-6120430916909691122010-11-11T18:53:04.417+00:002010-11-11T18:53:04.417+00:00While Compton indeed sounds like a rather unpleasa...While Compton indeed sounds like a rather unpleasant individual, please do not forgot what prompted his comment. It was the decidedly illiberal claim from Yasmin Alibhai-Brown that politicians do not have the right to comment on human rights abuses, even the stoning of women in Iran. Context is all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-62347550386470951462010-11-11T18:43:27.539+00:002010-11-11T18:43:27.539+00:00A 'tinge' of racism? A 'tinge'???...A 'tinge' of racism? A 'tinge'???<br /><br />40 years ago, Compton's type would have probably freely bandied around the 'N' word and thought 'Love Thy Neighbour' was perfectly acceptable TV entertainment.<br /><br />Luckily we live in more enlightened times now.<br /><br />The police are right to arrest him.Marknoreply@blogger.com