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Jailed For Joining A Banned Far-Right Group.

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anotheoldgit | 10:55 Wed 18th Jul 2018 | News
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44873178

I have change the description of the group, since Neo-Nazi is just another scary label the media likes to use.

But 8 years and 6 years is a little harsh, for not committing any serious crime.
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AOG, normally I am right behind you, but on this one it's quite clear there is more to it than just belonging to a group. That would not be a Court case lasting 5 weeks.
///Hankinson claimed: 'A war is brewing, it is inevitable.
'We are not the ones responsible for instigating it but we will be the ones fighting it.
'We must be ruthless, if innocent people are cut down in the process then so be it.
'If we don't cut out the cancer eating away at the body of our nation, Britain will die.
'We must abandon this idea of so-called respectability.///

'Its supporters applauded the murder of 41-year-old Mrs Cox in June last year.

The group has previously hosted a 'Miss Hitler' contest and posted pictures online of supporters performing Nazi salutes at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where 50,000 prisoners perished during the Second World War.

The organisation 'seeks to divide society by implicitly endorsing violence against ethnic minorities and race traitors'. Its website also carried images celebrating the terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando in which 49 revellers were murdered and another depicting a policeman's throat being slit.

I don't know about you, AOG, but I wouldn't want any of them living next door to me....

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Well judging by your answers and some not belonging to the Liberal Left, then I hold my hands up in surrender.

I just thought that 6 & 8 years was a trifle harsh, when we have seen more serious criminals get away with much less.
Do you have a theory anotheoldgit as to why these men got such a harsh time if it is not to do with belonging to a banned neo nazi group?
Surrender because you're fighting a losing battle or surrender because you have had a change of heart?
"Hankinson, from Newton Le Willows, Merseyside, was thought to be Lythgoe's second-in-command, and called for "race traitors" to be hanged from lampposts

He gave a speech at a demonstration in Liverpool known as the White Man March, in in which he claimed: "A war is brewing, it is inevitable. We are not the ones responsible for instigating it but we will be the ones fighting it.

"We must be ruthless, if innocent people are cut down in the process then so be it. If we don't cut out the cancer eating away at the body of our nation, Britain will die. We must abandon this idea of so-called respectability."

Nothing at all wrong with those views, eh?

I do see your point on the apparently harsh sentences but these 'people' are evil scum and like I said there has to be a lot more to it simply by looking at the case time.

To make a fair call I think you would have to go through the Court transcripts as I think the media are just headlining it how they want it to be seen.
CORBYLOON, the words as you have printed are not really a problem. Is there more to it than that?
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youngmafbog

/// That would not be a Court case lasting 5 weeks. ///

Agreed but it wasn't just these two on trial there were 6 men on trial one of them Jack Renshaw the real villain of the piece.
Still a long time and Renshaw put his hands up so not a great deal to argue there.
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-Talbot-

/// Surrender because you're fighting a losing battle or surrender because you have had a change of heart? ///

No, unlike some I will listen to the other side of an argument and when I am sure that it is being voiced by all sides, then I reason that they obviously disagree with (in this case) that the sentences were not too harsh.

I think that I am becoming too liberal thinking in my old age. :0)
/// The case went on for 5 weeks it was not simply a matter of belonging to a banned group. ..///

The farce went on for 3 days, the rest of the time, the judge suspended the farce + 1 week for the jury to retire.
It's good we are purging Nazis, when are they going to start on the Labour party?
I have to agree with AOG (partially). Their sentences do seem incredibly harsh if they have only been convicted of belonging to the group.

If the conviction were for belonging to the group AND preparing an act of terrorism, then the sentence would make more sense to me.

But as it stands - 6 years and 8 years seems very harsh indeed.
aog, //I think that I am becoming too liberal thinking in my old age.//

I think you're under the impression that these people are some sort of Tommy Robinsons speaking out for this country. They're not. They're twisted and they're evil.

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