Dale Cregan - Legend

[mushroom25]

http://www.facebook.c...leCreganLegend?ref=nf
(deleted - but here's a news article related - http://www.mirror.co....trolls-create-1331858 )

Sick Internet Trolls?

or

fair comment in a climate of free speech?

[sp1814]

em10

I don't know whether you have a Facebook account. But if you do, have a wander over to the EDL page, and you'll see that there are plenty of people expressing 'certain views' about Islam, and specifically what they would like to do with Muslims.

This, to a certain extent shows that there is still a healthy degree of free speech where it comes to those who want to express their need to kill Muslims based solely on their religion.

Incidentally, if you don't like bad language - avoid the page like the plague!

[Duncer]

I didn't have you down as a member of the EDL sp?

[sp1814]

Duncer

It's fun to have a look every now and again. There's a great game you can play where you have to take a shot of whiskey every time a poster spells something wrong.

Yes...as you can imagine...

[emmie]

no i don't, and wouldn't ever open one.

[Snafu03]

sp1814 also regularly checks 'The Nation of Islam', 'The Black Panthers' and 'NAACP (National Association ofr the Advancement of Coloured People) for kicks and s**t as well.....

[sp1814]

Snafu03

Nope - never been to any of those sites.

I quite like Harry's Place though. Very thought-provoking piece on homophobia in the BNP I saw recently.

[ichkeria]

Yes I think the EDL may get away with it as it counts as illiterate chitchat between likeminded neanderthals whereas things like Dale Cregan are deliberate provocations

[emmie]

infun, so you don't think that the moron you linked to was inciting hatred, it was simply a viewpoint, great that he has the freedom to express this, all the while living here, isn't that rather ironic.

[ichkeria]

I have to say that I think that the case cited by infundibulum would have been better dealt with by having the remarks deleted. "Incitement to hatred" is all very well, but the problem with it is that it will inevitably be used very selectively. (It was the charge brought against Pussy Riot in Russia, for example, which many saw as a political expedient).
There may be other charges that apply, but that seems a strange one. The "hatred" exists in the mind of the perpetrator and probably no one else. I'd have thought it was more a case of causing gross offence, but maybe that isn't illegal, I don't know.
As I said before, where do you draw the line?

[bibblebub]

A man has now been arrested for posting an offensive FB page; could be this one.

[emmie]

Infun
so you think it's ok to write what he did, freedom of speech is that it. perhaps you didn't read his over long diatribe. I hope he goes to jail, just another waste of space.