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Man who shared New Zealand massacre video gets 21 months in prison
NY Post ^ | June 17, 2019 | 11:08pm | Associated Press

Posted on 06/18/2019 2:48:32 AM PDT by conservative98

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A Christchurch businessman who shared a video of worshippers being slaughtered at a New Zealand mosque was sentenced on Tuesday to 21 months in prison.

Philip Arps had earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing the video, which was livestreamed on Facebook by a gunman on March 15 as he began killing 51 people at two mosques.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; christchurch; democraticsocialism; facebook; markzuckerberg; newzealand; video; viralvideo
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1 posted on 06/18/2019 2:48:32 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

why?


2 posted on 06/18/2019 2:53:07 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

It was just a video. What difference does it make?

3 posted on 06/18/2019 2:56:41 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

And you thought the Soviet Union was dead..


4 posted on 06/18/2019 3:01:35 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Chickensoup
Because a first responder had fruit juice on his scrubs

Looks like the guy with white beard is holding an almost empty bottle of juice in his right hand.....just sayin.

5 posted on 06/18/2019 3:04:16 AM PDT by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: Chickensoup

Copyright violation?


6 posted on 06/18/2019 3:12:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: conservative98

Hillary locked up the youtube filmmaker and threatened a Florida pastor who planned to barbecue a koran. Dinesh D’Souza was also sent to prison for his films.

Al Capone’s big crime wasn’t tax evasion but it was the charge they could use to lock him up.

But we are constantly told that Donald Trump is the anti-media despot who threatens freedom of the press.


7 posted on 06/18/2019 3:15:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: conservative98

Michael Moore and others forced the release of the footage of the Columbine massacre.


8 posted on 06/18/2019 3:16:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: a fool in paradise

Lock him up.


9 posted on 06/18/2019 3:20:28 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Craziness. Sharing information should never be a crime. Every “liberal democracy” needs a Bill of Rights like ours... I hope we can keep ours. New Zealand needs one.


10 posted on 06/18/2019 3:21:56 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: a fool in paradise

Well technically Dinesh went to prison for campaign finance violations. But of course, show me the man I’ll find you the crime. Politicians who break campaign finance laws just have to return the money, but the citizens who give them the money get a federal charge. Go figure - it’s the politicians who write the laws right?


11 posted on 06/18/2019 3:24:20 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine

Technically Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, not gangsterism.


12 posted on 06/18/2019 3:27:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Chickensoup

They’ve decided doing something even if its completely stupid is better or at least looks better than doing nothing.


13 posted on 06/18/2019 3:31:04 AM PDT by jarwulf
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To: monkeyshine

Photos of dead bodies from 9-11 are rarely seen. Dying people yes but the bodies after they hit the pavement etc (impaled on lightposts, killing a priest giving someone last rites...) were not seen.

I haven’t looked lately but recall seeing a bodybag shot in a French photo magazine on an anniversary of 911 and maybe a photo of a murder victim’s hand in rubble.

Did any Islamic kiwis participate in the celebratory posts of the Notre Dame fire?


14 posted on 06/18/2019 3:31:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: conservative98
I have the video in question downloaded on one of my computers. News like this make me want to start resharing it.
15 posted on 06/18/2019 3:46:54 AM PDT by MrNJ
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To: conservative98

No jail if the guy was Muslim


16 posted on 06/18/2019 4:18:42 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Socialism is great, 300 million dead Socialists can't be wrong)
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To: MrNJ
I saw it...or part of it at least...soon after it happened. Assuming that the people who died weren't jihadis,or jihadi sympathizers (an assumption I'm prepared to make), it was unbelievably despicable...like many other church and synagogue shootings.

If this guy *simply* transmitted the video there's no way he should have been put in prison.But if,perhaps,he transmitted it *and* encouraged others commit such an act I can see prison time being appropriate.

The problem is that New Zealand is unbelievably leftist...no friend of the West and *certainly* no friend of the US.

17 posted on 06/18/2019 4:24:32 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: conservative98
If it was Christians being slaughtered, no law banning distribution of video evidence would have been implemented.

He is in jail because Sharia Law demands it, and he will be killed for his blasphemy.

18 posted on 06/18/2019 4:41:53 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: spokeshave

I wonder if they used the film crew that shot the “Lord of the Rings” stuff in that country.


19 posted on 06/18/2019 4:53:18 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: conservative98

Yes let’s model our society based on the other English speaking countries that have no first or second amendment rights. /s


20 posted on 06/18/2019 5:01:51 AM PDT by fruser1
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