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YouTuber ‘Count Dankula’ Found Guilty in ‘Sh**posting’ Case by British Court
Breitbart ^ | 3-20-2018 | OLIVER JJ LANE

Posted on 03/20/2018 6:57:03 AM PDT by servo1969

Scottish YouTube personality Count Dankula — real name Mark Meechan — was found guilty at Glasgow Sherrif Court Tuesday of a hate crime, and potentially faces two months in prison after recording a video of his girlfriend’s dog doing Nazi salutes.

Reporting from inside the courtroom, journalist and street organiser Tommy Robinson said Meechan had been found guilty of being “Grossly Offensive” under the Communications Act of 2003 and will be sentenced this afternoon.

The case is over a 2016 YouTube video made by Meechan and published on his comedy Count Dankula page of his girlfriend’s dog Buddha raising its paw in return for a treat, having been trained to respond to phrases.

Buddha’s owner Suzanne Kelly had previously said “He (Buddha) will lift his paw to virtually anything if he gets a treat for it. We have taught him to lift his paw to food, like ham or cheese,” and that her boyfriend had “never expressed anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic” views and has “always been very supportive towards minority groups”, reported Herald Scotland before the trial.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: dankula; meechan
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The judge rejected the idea that his video of a dog raising its paw when it heard "Heil Hitler" was simply a joke to annoy his girlfriend and found that he purposely intended to cause mass offence.

His joke was “Grossly Offensive” and now in the UK that's enough to get you time in the slammer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_MxAXaKzOU

1 posted on 03/20/2018 6:57:03 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

Wow, they would love me over there. I’m a little right of Ghenghis Khan


2 posted on 03/20/2018 6:58:46 AM PDT by goldendelicious
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To: servo1969

I found the Monty Python skit, “Every Sperm is Sacred” to be grossly offensive. I never imagined that Monty Python could go to jail for it, though.


3 posted on 03/20/2018 7:00:10 AM PDT by dangus (.)
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To: servo1969

Remember folks, when you travel outside the US, you don’t take the U.S. Constitution with you...............No 1st Amendment Free Speech anywhere but here, and it’s not very safe even here...................


4 posted on 03/20/2018 7:00:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: servo1969

Bookmark


5 posted on 03/20/2018 7:00:35 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: servo1969

Throw a child rapist out of jail to make room for this desperado.


6 posted on 03/20/2018 7:00:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: dangus

This ‘law’ is the epitome of Political Correctness and it’s what the Left has in store for ALL of us, eventually...........


7 posted on 03/20/2018 7:01:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: servo1969

Dog should have said “Black Power”...


8 posted on 03/20/2018 7:02:22 AM PDT by rhc2000 (If liberals didnÂ’t have double standards, theyÂ’d have no standards at all.)
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To: servo1969
I'm surprised that they didn't put the dog in jail too.
 
9 posted on 03/20/2018 7:04:18 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: servo1969

Repressive “thought crime” punishment. This is a government does when there’s no second amendment.


10 posted on 03/20/2018 7:10:17 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: servo1969

As I have previously opined:
Britain has fallen.


11 posted on 03/20/2018 7:11:32 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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Dog should have said “Black Power”... <

Or “Heil Islam”.


12 posted on 03/20/2018 7:13:25 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: dangus

Monty Python, Benny Hill, and Faulty Towers likely are all banned from TVs there.

Heck, even recent shows like “That Mitchell and Webb look” would get the entire cast arrested if they made anymore episodes.


13 posted on 03/20/2018 7:18:42 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: servo1969

Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.


14 posted on 03/20/2018 7:19:39 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: servo1969

So, what are they going to do about Prince Harry?

And do they think this dog could start a world war or Holocaust? The human race is getting so stupid.


15 posted on 03/20/2018 7:27:20 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: servo1969

Maybe if he was just raping little girls he would have gotten off...
Britten has fallen.


16 posted on 03/20/2018 7:27:52 AM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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Q: What sort of people will be most attracted to the new post of deciding what is “Grossly Offensive?”

A: The very last people you would want.


17 posted on 03/20/2018 7:33:03 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

This kind of thing will spread to the U.S. We cannot bury our heads in the sand and just hope that the idea of the First Amendment will protect us. This is just another symptom of the cultural cancer that is eating at all of our modern societies.


18 posted on 03/20/2018 7:33:27 AM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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We need to tell the UK if it heads down this path our alliance is over.


19 posted on 03/20/2018 7:40:32 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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This kind of thing will spread to the U.S.

We already have the big tech companies and the major social media sites going after people who violate "community standards", i.e., the standards of Silicon Valley leftists, or are accused of "hate speech", i.e., speech of which Communists and socialists hate. YouTube and others are demonetizing conservative and patriotic posters to deprive them of income. If Trump is defeated in 2020 or is otherwise removed from office, and if the Democrats retake Congress, look for some type of "hate speech" law.

20 posted on 03/20/2018 7:42:53 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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