Posted on 08/13/2024 7:47:27 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A man who shared racially aggravated online social media posts linked to national civil unrest has been jailed.
Lee Joseph Dunn, of Egremont, Cumbria, pleaded guilty to one offence of sending, by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.
Carlisle Magistrates' Court heard the crime occurred on 30 and 31 July.
The 51-year-old, of Church Street, who was said by his lawyer to have apologised and removed the content, was handed an eight week sentence.
District judge John Temperley told the Sellafield worker his term had been discounted by a third from 12 weeks in view of his guilty plea.
In a separate case, a woman appeared at Workington Magistrates' Court accused of stirring up racial hatred in a reply to a Facebook story about the storming of a hotel housing asylum seekers.
The 26-year-old entered a not guilty plea to a charge of publishing written material that is said to have been threatening, abusive or insulting and intended to stir up racial hatred.
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“...a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.”
That’s what we suffer in spades every single day from Democrats, Biden, Hollywood, the MSM, tech Big Wigs, University presidents, etc. But we can’t get anybody sentenced to jail for it.
There’s a great British lawyer (”barrister”) who posts videos on youtube about British politics.He’s done several videos about the recent riots and the threats to arrest people for things they say or write.He points out that the legal guarantees regarding freedom of speech are much stronger in the US than they are in Britain.
How’s this UK jerks...
“The founder of Islam walks in to a day care center...”
A 12 year old British boy can pick up a cell phone or tablet and in 20 seconds he can watch the most vile, depraved acts of pornography that have ever been created by Satan but if someone posts something mean about blacks, jews or muslims, they will immediately go to jail.
This is our post-Christian world.
Get used to it.
Rowan Akinson posted a scathing video on X against the present government.Even using examples from script of Thin Blue Line. ...and he is a big Labour guy.
No where does it say what the “racially aggravated” post was.
From what I have read, the man basically posted a video of some migrants rioting and said "coming to your neighborhood" or something to that effect. That's it.
What did these two actually say?
I’d like to know how a “post” can be “racially aggravated.”
“Aggravated” means “worsened” or “annoyed,” so if a post can be racially worsened or annoyed, I’m not sure how.
Our language doesn’t accommodate the thought police, so they just smush it in like a square peg jammed in a round hole.
We saved them twice in the last century. Total waste of time.
Yup—the Russians will have to conquer them to give them some freedom of speech.
Lol.
Which, now that I think about it...
LOL...
Britain wants to go after Americans who say things online they find offensive. If Kamala wins, the US Government will probably be more than willing to extradite them to England.
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