Gammer police
Posted on 04/01/2022 6:54:40 PM PDT by algore
A Twitter user from the UK named Joseph Kelly has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service for posting a “grossly offensive” tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore, a British Army officer who raised money for the NHS during the pandemic.
Moore became a national figure in the UK after walking 100 laps around his garden before his 100th birthday. He was later knighted by the Queen. The day after his death, Kelly, 36, tweeted “the only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella buuuuurn.”
Kelly was found guilty in February last year and faced possible jail time. His case brought attention to an often-criticized piece of UK legislation that allows social media users to be prosecuted for sending “grossly offensive” messages.
As reported by The National, Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday. His defense argued that Kelly had few followers on Twitter at the time; that he had been drinking before writing the post; and that he deleted the tweet just 20 minutes after sending it.
“His level of criminality was a drunken post, at a time when he was struggling emotionally”
“He accepts he was wrong. He did not anticipate what would happen. He took steps almost immediately to delete the tweet but the genie was out of the bottle by then,” said Kelly’s defence agent Tony Callahan. “His level of criminality was a drunken post, at a time when he was struggling emotionally, which he regretted and almost instantly removed.”
Kelly was sentenced to 18 months of supervision and 150 hours of unpaid work in the form of a Scottish Community Payback Order (CPO).
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well if youre gonna get convicted, at least spell the damned words right!
Ha Ha i beat the gramer police!!
How much time should people receive for hateful tweets about Russia collusion?
One too many?
not a drop... gramer was on purpose.
Never mind. Went back and read the article again.
Gammer police
Grammer (Oy!)
The tweeter.
The tweeter is a big eater.
Me too.
You spelled grammar incorrectly!😂
(Just messin’ around!)
I know, I spelled messing incorrectly “but” .. I did spell messin’ right!
He should spend all 150 hours posting more of the same.
Actually no, I totally disagree with his stupid post.
Makes me want to reactivate my Twitter account and post many more insults about the stuffy old Brit.
Numpty bastids just dinnae ken Scottish humour!
grammar
(slaps forehead) Never mind!
What he said is disgusting. But not as disgusting as a country that criminalizes speech.
When do the violations start in the U.S. for commenting about government sponsored violent open borders, with tens of millions of illegals already in country?
Let me get this in before I’m found in violation here in the U.S.
This is a country where everyone is sniffed, scanned, x-rayed, prodded and searched prior to getting on a flying bus, (airplane) yet government aids, abets, with a wink and a nod, while rolling out the red carpet for tens of millions of illegal aliens to enter out towns and neighborhoods. This seems a bit odd.
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