56 days in prison for racist tweets?

[highlandsflyer]

Exposure to the very things that one fears often changes attitudes and future behaviour. Win win situation.

Community sentences are undertaken with monitoring, it is not as though he would be left to berate people.

 

[dyna-ti]

I think that online bullies much like real life ones suddenly fold when outed in public.
I bet this guy was a real keyboard warrior All mouth.Well lets see how his mouth deals with a couple of hard nuts.

Is it right a cyber bully gets a harder sentence than a burgler?
No but I don't think the internet moron got the wrong sentence.

Some burglars can get 3 ,4 or even 5 years,some do get small sentences but without knowing the full details of every case id avoid generalising. :?

 

[NAILTRAIL96]

The OP asked if it was right that this sentence was stiffer than some given to burglers.
I merely addressed that question.

 

[cornholio's RC200]

So why was this case over within a week but a certain Mr J Terry's case has dragged on for months now with the court hearing now in July?? :?

 

[highlandsflyer]

I am guessing the practicality was an issue in the Terry case, getting all the witnesses together, etc. and allowing the defence time to prepare.

Should imagine this idiot pleaded guilty.

 

[93hero]

I read things like this and simply wonder what would have happened if the footballer was white, and the guy throwing the abuse was black.

In a week where schoolchildren are killed in coach crashes and US marines kill innocent children apparently for shits and giggles, the UK gets outraged because someone drunkenly tweeted insults about a ******* footballer.

Pray for Muamba? He's well down my list.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Is there ever a week where more serious events do not occur?

On that basis I should forget about the chap who reversed into my car yesterday because someone was run over in the village?

If the footballer happened to be 'white' the situation would have been the same, and most likely the 'tweeter' would have been prosecuted similarly.

 

[greenstiles]

Think we should ignore comments like those, just as you would ignore a child that is saying silly things to sound big and impressive. I hate racial hatred and see it as grossly infantile and should be treated as such.

If you say or write something non face to face I think it should be ignored and certainly not be put in prison, worse things are said down the pub.

But on the other hand if you say things like that directly to someone in person then i think it should be classed more seriously.

I guess with the modern social media that exists now, that it somewhat blurs what is modern reality and what is freedom of casual speech.

Seems social media is not turning out to be the happy casual free conversation tool we all thought it was going to be.

 

[93hero]

Is there ever a week where more serious events do not occur?

On that basis I should forget about the chap who reversed into my car yesterday because someone was run over in the village?

If the footballer happened to be 'white' the situation would have been the same, and most likely the 'tweeter' would have been prosecuted similarly.

I just think that a sense of perspective is in order, and something that the public at large seems to have lost.

There was nothing racist in the guys initial comment, but it so enraged people that he was then drawn into a row which culminated in him making racist remarks. He is an idiot, nothing more.

I merely question the state of a people who are more outraged by a drunken prat making glib comments about a sick footballer than they are by a US Marine playing shoot em up with innocent women and children.

On a personal level, sure you should be annoyed about your car, but to me, as an observer, I couldn't give a monkeys if you now have to visit the bodyshop, but if someone died in your village as a result of being run over, then I do genuinely feel sad for their family.

And you know that your last paragraph isn't true, because if the reverse was the case, there simply wouldnt have been the public backlash or judicial will to follow it through... Diane Abbot doing time for her racist jibe is she?

 

[highlandsflyer]

I don't follow the reasoning.

Were the boot on the other foot, and remarks were reported, I am sure they would be considered seriously. I am aware of a number of prosecutions for anti English remarks in my home county.

For what it is worth, I think it is generally ridiculous to hold people to account for their behaviour whilst drunk. People are being added to the sex offenders register for mooning for goodness sake!

Where the behaviour is criminal, and has a victim who can be shown to have suffered, that is a different matter.

It is in the nature of sporting rivalries for the misfortune of opposing teams to be exploited.

I am certain the daft boy would not have made that initial remark if it was clear the footballer had actually died.

It also seems likely to me, that he then made any further remarks in a reactionary way, as he was offended by being labelled as a racist, and wished to wind up those taking such a cheap shot.

His mistake was to react in that way, and then to 'publish' his remarks.

Were I accused of being violent, it would probably not be best to hit the accuser in ironic counterpoint to what I would wish to assert was the truth. I may be a serial killer, but I am not violent.

He has owned up, shown remorse and should be allowed to get on with his life. The idea he might be ousted from his university is truly disgusting, and I hope he can challenge that legally.

This is not really the best use of prison, I only hope he is not forced to mix with real criminals.