UK Man Jailed for 'Hitler Was Right' Tweet
 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...weet-labour-mp

An internet troll accused of sending an antisemitic message to Labour MP Luciana Berger has been sentenced to four weeks in prison at Merseyside magistrates court.

Garron Helm, 21, from Litherland, north of Liverpool, tweeted a picture of the MP with a Holocaust yellow star superimposed on her forehead, with the hashtag ?Hitler was right?. The tweet, which referred to Berger as a ??communist jewess?, read: ?You can always trust a Jew to show their true colours eventually.?

Helm send the tweet in the early hours of the morning on 7 August and claimed to have sent it in a state of anger and frustration. He pleaded guilty to sending an offensive, indecent or obscene message.

Berger, the MP for Liverpool Wavertree, said she hoped the jail term would deter would-be trolls. ?This sentence sends a clear message that hate crime is not tolerated in our country,? she said. ?I hope this case serves as an encouragement to others to report hate crime whenever it rears its ugly head.?

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instead of tweeting it like a coward, he should have tried saying it in front of a ww2 vet. This story may have been a bit different.

What if it was a nazi ww2 vet? :1orglaugh

Seems a bit excessive.
Having said that, someone was jailed for 18 times as long for stealing water in the riots so perhaps it's one of those 'exemplary sentences'.
Can we have some of those for law-breaking police, child abusing MPs and convicted journalists too?

Why would he do that?

It was meant for a jew, not a vet.

anyone who wrote that may be mentally ill and can be danger for the society, so it is good to have him locked and watch him for a while ... :2 cents:

i find some western european countries being highly hypocritical for being so touchy about nazi symbols and shit, yet harboring numerous east european nazi butchers after the war

Most vets of ww2 could not care less unless you are speaking of the 0.06% jewish people who served in the us military during the war. Say it to a holocaust survivor...that's your story.

The limey's don't screw around.

He's lucky he never got a public flogging as a bonus penalty.

Am I the only one that thinks that being jailed for anti-semetism is complete bullshit? Where's that freedom of speech everyone is always talking about? Why does that not apply?

You can write whatever you want about blacks, muslims, whatever - but if you say a single bad word about jews you go to jail heh

The struggle is now easier since there is no more real nazis to fight...
You know it is so gratifying to be an antinazi, you could think that you have a spirit and a soul.

It is called double standard.

i'm ok with that

Both the UK and the US going the same way.

Freedom lives on in your memory......

Can i be a communist in the 60"s ?

yeah most vets wouldn't care about people saying hitler was right.. how can you be this wrong this often? how is it even possible. the law of averages should at least have you being right a few times here and there even by accident...

Wasn't Hitler from the left??

That depends on the country. Some will jail or fine you for hate mongering regardless of what ethnicity you direct it towards. Some will not give a shit regardless of what ethnicity you direct it towards.

But yeah, that freedom of speech sure as fuck seems to be selective in terms of what it applies to... :(

freedom of speech isn't a get out of jail free card for being a hateful vile cunt.

I'm probably the only one that thinks you shouldn't be jailed for a tweet...EVER. Unless of course you are directly threatening someone's life or threatening some act of violence like a fake bomb threat, etc.

only on paper

You don't often think of Jews as communist do you? Its normally the complete opposite - capitalists.

Not in the UK, even Labour politicians can be racist (yes, you, Dianne) but only if you are racist towards the indigenous population. anything else is a hate crime worse than kiddy fiddling.

Fine....... leave it there. No interference and that's basically how it was from the days of CERN/JANET up until around 2000 (ish).

Freedom of speech is over.
Freedom of privacy is over.

Those were the main ones we had I guess....

Lets face it you look at history with present day glasses. You are in fact, an imbecile. Americans did not want to enter into ww2. We were dragged in by Roosevelt who used the Japanese to pull us in. The history is there, you just don't want to face it so go suck a dick and shut the fuck up.

Maybe start a tube system that is worth more than nothing to affiliates.

A quick Ken Burns fact. More than 25% of American soldiers went into battle in Europe with unloaded weapons.
Americans knew about the camps for 3 years and did...................ZIP.

Many of the Bolshevik leaders were Jewish, and many Germans thought that communism was Jewish.

I'm sure you already know that :)

Nope, third right (reicht?).

Go to jail for talking shit on the internet. Har har welcome to earth.

ahh, jeez, so much lack of history knowledge...

Reich = Reign/Empire ...

yes but it almost sounds like right :)

I completely agree.

Some Internet memes are harder to take than others. But Hitler's recent Internet popularity really makes me nauseous. It's always the same little arrogant punk that clicks away spouting off this shit from the safety of his home. It's about time these punks learn that they shouldn't say anything to someone on the Internet that they wouldn't be willing to say their face.

I vote they give the punks 2 years hard labor in a real jail with dangerous criminals in order to straighten them out.

What if you told an Iraq war vet that Saddam was right? How many would agree? I'll bet most of them now wonder what the point of that war was.

Not many people know the facts behind WW2. The brainwashing in the US and Europe has been pretty strong for decades.

Here is Hitler talking about the war in 1942 (and the only known recording of him using his natural voice). You won't see this material in any US or European history books:

i have seen this like 10 times on german TV and you are still a Nazi

this video is not available in my country ?
There must be something hidden...

If you're in France its because they speak badly about les baguette magiques in the video.

If you're in Germany, well you know why it is not available.

oh, I'm not saying that Jews cannot be communist, just that you don't often think of them that way.

having spoken to many ww2 veterans, I can tell you that the overwhelming majority told me that they thought it was all a waste of time. (talking from a UK perspective) they almost all felt that immigration and the EU/politicians had damaged the country much more than Hitler would have done.

Meh, Glen the average age of a WWII vet is 92. That is, if you can find one alive still.

i'm shocked !