Scotland: Police Arrest Six for Facebook Hate Speech
We read:
"On Wednesday, The BBC reported that police in Glasgow had arrested and charged six Facebook users for “breach of the peace with religious and racial aggravations.” These charges were based on the fact that the users had, allegedly, created a Facebook page called “Welcome to Israel, only kidding you’re in Giffnock,” upon which several posters mocked and insulted members of the Giffnock Jewish community. According to Jennifer Lipman of The Jewish Chronicle, messages left on the page included statements including “F*** the Jewish Zionist” and “Jewish scum.”
The arrests came after Stewart Maxwell, Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for West Scotland asked the chief of the Strathclyde police to investigate those responsible for creating the page.
Police responded by sending nearly 50 police officers to raid at least seven different locations in the Glasgow area. During the raid, police confiscated what members of the local media described as “a significant quantity” of computer equipment. Police officials said that they hoped their actions demonstrated that Scotland would not tolerate hate crimes.
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Speech that would be protected free speech in the USA is a "crime" in Scotland
There is a substantial body of opinion among Jewish writers which says that antisemitic speech should not be suppressed. Suppressing it probably leads to heightened antagoniusm towards Jews and in fact feeds the myth that the Jews control the government.
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Another case of the police (and politicians) finding easy "crimes" to "solve" and get corresponding positive statistics in their favor, rather than dealing with actual and more serious crimes!
The problem is that considering how Jews are being treated all over the world (and keeping in mind Britain's large muslim population), it would be stupid of the police to ignore it. The posts shouldn't be a crime, but a reasonable person would conclude that these people might be planning something violent.
Libs at it again.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/n-c-teacher-tells-student-he-could-be-arrested-for-talking-badly-about-obama/
Anon 5:15, a stroke of clarity, thank you.
In what way did the posts 'breach the peace'?
Let's assume that there was some peace in Giffnock or Glasgow. In what way did the Facebook posts disturb it?
I doubt there is any and so the charge must fail.
I say let them speak. I WANT to know where the idiots are.
Makes it easier to point and laugh!
Apparently the SOVIET UNION isnt as dead as we were told
Yeah right Bird - Scotland = Soviet Union!? Just how well read up are you on current Scottish politics?
pretty sad when words are a crime
This sort of thing has been going on for centuries in the UK. Probably one of the reasons for the 1st amendment in the US, since most of the authors of the US Constitution were British subjects at one point and saw the problems that a lack of such protection can cause.
Thats the way it is under socialism annon 4:48
no wonder we ran from england and formed the best country in the world
6:56 PM Just how many of your ancestors actually ran or came from England? And at what point in history? Please be specific if your statement has any merit at all.
Oh and btw. on what basis can you say your country is the "best" in the world? That sounds so pathetically and childishly chauvinistic!
Just think annon 6:56 if it were not for our FOUNDING FATHERS and those MINUTE MEN as well as all those colonial solders and such we would still be a british subject run by the islamic radicals
No Kee Bird, you could have had a fairly peaceful independence like Canada or Australia or New Zealand, etc. A violent revolution wasn't necessary to become an independent country! And it still didn't avoid a very bloody Civil War in the US, and indeed that was the worst conflict ever in world history until WWI !
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