Posted on 03/02/2024 8:00:13 AM PST by Angelino97
Free speech concerns have been raised after a Leeds man was sentenced two years in prison after being found guilty of inciting racial hatred with a library of stickers.
Sam Melia, 34, was in charge of an online collection of downloadable stickers that contained anti-immigration messages for activists of the “Hundred Handers” group.
At Leeds Crown Court last month, Melia was also found guilty of encouraging racially aggravated criminal damage because his collection was involved in multiple “stickering” incidents.
During the trial, jurors were told that members of the group would access the downloadable stickers that they could download and stick around their communities.
The prosecution argued that the stickers were intended to stir up racial hatred.
The far-right organiser claimed that they were intended to “start a conversation” and that he was unaware that the stickering would count as criminal damage...
Counter Terrorism Policing North East said that many of the stickers were racist and antisemitic in nature.
They reportedly contained slogans such as “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066”, “Mass immigration is white genocide”, “intolerance is a virtue” and “they seek conquest not asylum.”...
Fraser Myers, deputy editor of spiked online, told GB News: “You do not have to agree with a single thing Sam Melia believes to find his two-year sentence utterly chilling. Many violent criminals have been punished with far less ferocity than Melia has been for the ‘crime’ of producing some stickers.
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Post a BLM sticker denouncing whites, no problem. Tear down a statue while you're at it, also no trouble.
Why are we allied with these dictator wannabes in a war against Russia?
They should leave the country and form another with free speech rights
There went The First Amendment.
The UK is a joke I read stories talking about 40 percent voter turnout in Iran and how that sends a message of disgust with ‘the regime’.
Well they had an election in the UK in Rochdale the other day and there was 39.7 percent turnout.
No endorsement of Iran’s system but the Government-Media talk about what’s wrong in other countries perhaps we need to look in the mirror.
In the UK and even the US we have “regimes” to be disgusted with.
There is a 1st Amendment over in Jolly Ol’ Blighty ? or is it the Magna Carta ?
Then they should open up their southern border to every freeloader in the world ;=)
EC
Britain went anti-human a while back.
Only a VforVendetta type character can save it, now.
No, they should sell everything owned by the royal family, since that was acquired largely by conquest through the centuries.
Then they should open up their southern border to every freeloader in the world
Apparently complaining about this now constitutes a hate crime.
...Apparently, there is no such thing as “Centre-Right”, or “Moderate Right” these days.
Apparently, anything located past the skeletal ends of Chairman Mao’s right fingertips, is “Far-Right, actual Nazi”.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3-aAzdubk4/?igsh=aHZ2b3ZzczVxNzVq
child abandoned in the desert
lets see them defend this.
the International Organization for Migration
The U.K. is no longer the U.K. of even just one generation ago.
I think you missed the sly point NWFree was making. This happened in the UK. They do not have free speech rights in the UK. They should leave and start a new country......ala 1776.
EC
The UK is an Islamic caliphate. Muslims can rob, riot, rape, and murder and it is perfectly fine. Post some stickers as a white native and off to prison.
If you have family or want to visit do it now. I am doing one last trip to visit family there. The cities are Islamic s holes. Dublin and Glasgow are the UKs sewer where the turds are dumped and the police are there to enforce sharia for the rapefugees. Very sad to see. The UK is dead so visit now while there are still a few places left without the barbarians
“Free speech concerns have been raised after a Leeds man was sentenced two years in prison after being found guilty of inciting racial hatred with a library of stickers.”
That’s what they jailed Steve Biko for in South Africa. His writings were giving black South Africans hope, which was exacerbating racial tensions, according to the transcript of the trial. Then he died in prison.
The Manson Family were trying to incite racial hatred by committing murder. Keeping a library of stickers, however, is BS.
It’s Leeds, UK. They don’t have that there.
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