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Glad I don't live in that country.
He is an idiot, and what he said was ugly, but it doesn't deserve jail time. There is a push to have him kicked out of college as well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121003/Liam-Stacey-sent-prison-offensive-tweet-Fabrice-Muamba.html?ITO=1490
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Jail time for that? wow lol
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Sansfear posted:
Glad I don't live in that country. I'd be in jail for a lot longer than two months! 
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AHAHAHA
are you fucking kidding me? this country is the shitstain always saying others are authoritarian?
fucking nuke them.
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Oh man, I'd be in jail for life after about 15 minutes.
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UK lol
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Yukishiro1 posted:
dae_trist posted:
Oh man, I'd be in jail for life after about 15 minutes.
I know where I can't visit now
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dae_trist posted:
Yukishiro1 posted:
dae_trist posted:
Oh man, I'd be in jail for life after about 15 minutes.
I know where I can't visit now
That is going to be a long list.
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Mastara posted:
Jail time for that? wow lol
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Sansfear posted:
dae_trist posted:
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[quote=dae_trist]Oh man, I'd be in jail for life after about 15 minutes.
I know where I can't visit now
That is going to be a long list.[/quote]
i lol'd
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article posted:
‘LOL [laugh out loud]. **** Muamba. He’s dead!!!’
I don't even see how that's racist. Horrible sure but think about the things we say about athletes from opposing teams all the time here.
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The other story I saw didn't print what he said but said it was definitely racist. You probably arn't seeing the actual tweet he got into trouble for.
edit: This story said his tweets "started" with that comment.
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He was drunk and his twitter feed was full of profanity and racist attacks on people who took offense at his initial comment.
He also quickly realized he'd gone over the line and backtracked trying to say his account had been hacked and these weren't his views.
I agree, though, that you hear nearly as bad comments at pretty much every sporting event.
Someone saved his twitter feed.
NSFW!!!
http://chirpstory.com/li/5261
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Regardless of what he posted, it doesn't merit jail time.
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Sansfear posted:
He was drunk and his twitter feed was full of profanity and racist attacks on people who took offense at his initial comment.
He also quickly realized he'd gone over the line and backtracked trying to say his account had been hacked and these weren't his views.
I agree, though, that you hear nearly as bad comments at pretty much every sporting event.
Someone saved his twitter feed.
NSFW!!!
http://chirpstory.com/li/5261
I've read much worse. Prison for this?
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That is what the justice system in England has become.
Also, he was an idiot and plead guilty.
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Uh why wouldn't he? It is pretty clear from his tweets he was publically racially abusing Muamba. If that's a crime he's guilty. No two ways about it.
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Free speech is a basic human right. Yuki even hates human rights.
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I'm not saying the law is a good law. I was just responding to Rakhir saying it was stupid to plead guilty.
Presumably this has all already been litigated. Saying it violates his rights is going to be a dead end if the courts have already determined it doesn't violate his rights. Better to plead guilty and act contrite and hope the judge is more lenient on you because you show you feel sorry about it.
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Why do you hate free speech, Yuki?
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I hate you, not your speech. 
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I think he was stupid to plead guilty because the publicity guaranteed that he was going to be nailed to the wall regardless.
I guarantee that millions of others in the UK say things every day that could get them jailed under these laws, but nothing is done about it.
Just goes to show you how limited free speech is in the UK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_ethnic_or_racial_hatred#United_Kingdom
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He would have got nailed to the wall harder if he hadn't plead guilty. The statute authorizes prison terms of up to seven years.
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Yeah... the presence of these laws have surely helped to abolish racism - nothing like placing people under arbitrary and subjective laws and then capriciously prosecute them based on a day-to-day ever changing interpretation of that same law. Definitely that won't make people bitter over race or propagate negative feelings about it one little but... noper, not a chance...
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some sissy posted:
The messages were forwarded to the police by several members of the social network, including former England striker Stan Collymore, himself a victim of abuse on Twitter.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121003/Liam-Stacey-sent-prison-offensive-tweet-Fabrice-Muamba.html#ixzz1qMPg59vE
lol
what a pussy
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Im all for free speech. IN this country you can even threaten public figures. Of course the FBI will interview you but most cases unless you are really dangerous they will let you go
Free speech!  
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it doesn't surprise me. i've come to expect this level of stupidity out of England after they arrested a guy for possession of a illegal firearm when he tried to turn in a sawed off shotgun that someone had dumped in his back yard at a police station.
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Here is how fucked English law is with this stuff:
Noted Science Author of "Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial" Simon Singh writes in a column for the Guardian -
"You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact they still possess some quite wacky ideas. The fundamentalists argue that they can cure anything. And even the more moderate chiropractors have ideas above their station. The British Chiropractic Association claims that their members can help treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding problems, frequent ear infections, asthma and prolonged crying, even though there is not a jot of evidence. This organisation is the respectable face of the chiropractic profession and yet it happily promotes bogus treatments."
For this he was charged and found guilty of Libel of the BCA - potentially leaving him impoverished.
(Gratefully he did win his appeal after some of the worlds most notable scientists voiced their outrage)
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Stupid law. Crazy place.
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