Conspiracy theorist grandad jailed over disorder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8x5x51l3vo

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20 Comments

  1. JimJonesdrinkkoolaid on

    >He had “a general conspiracy theory against anyone and any form of authority”, and his placard referenced the “deep state” and space agency Nasa.

    🤔

  2. Careless_Main3 on

    He’s been jailed for calling the police “scum” in Rotherham… The same police force which institutionally abetted the mass racialised and systematic rape of an estimated 2,000 girls…

    > He was filmed calling the police “scum”.
    His sign and protest was not unlawful, but his verbal abuse towards police officers during the “racist incident” crossed the line, the judge added.

    **2 years and 8 months prison sentence for this.**

    Can’t even label a bunch of pedo-enablers “scum” in this country without the Keirstapo coming after you.

  3. Worldly_Table_5092 on

    Wait it’s a crime to be a conspiracy theorist? I knew they were out to get me…

  4. EatShitRedditAdmin on

    Loony contributing nothing but division in our society belongs in jail to be fair

  5. Why rioters and this grandad are not getting public works sentence but idiotic jail time?? Whilst we hear jails are overcrowded.

  6. Going-undergroundjam on

    I’ve a friend in firearms, and he can’t believe the length of the sentences given out to this low IQ individuals…..for the recent riots. It’s the no bail that he can’t get his head round 👍

  7. friendlyfernando on

    Why are these guys all pleading guilty, the charges seem so flimsy any decent lawyer should be able to take them apart in court

  8. Nice.

    [This](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13767131/amp/Moment-undercover-Met-Police-officers-arrest-brazen-phone-snatcher-Soho.html) phone snatcher just got 30 weeks after being caught dead to rights.

    A quarter of the time.

    People keep harping on about the fact that there’s no spaces in the prisons. This is a zero sum game. Sending him there means one less space for scum like this thief, for when he’s out and yet, inexplicably, this grandad is still in.

    When will those in charge understand that actually being violently, personally, robbed is a worse crime – a worse infringement on my rights, than being called an offensive word?

  9. People on Reddit simultaneously believe these people are human scum who deserve the book thrown at them. If we had the death penalty, they’d be call for it.

    And they also believe that in any other circumstance when criminals (actual violent criminals who’ve actually hurt people) get hit with prison time you have to ask? What was their home life like? Why did they feel like they had to do this act? Will prison just harden them as criminals?

    The difference in sympathy is shocking. Talk about double standards.

  10. JackasaurusYTG on

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the UK attempts to make peaceful protesting illegal in the future.

  11. zebrahorse159 on

    Amazing how during the election prison overcrowding was a huge issue Labour swore they’d solve, and since being in power for under 2 months, they’ve now found enough space in prisons for multi-year sentences for people that said rude things to police …

  12. IntrovertedArcher on

    Just waiting for my former colleague to pop up in the news like this one day. He was checking people who’d been vaccinated with magnets because he’d heard it makes you magnetic.

  13. MercedesOfMercia on

    “[…] law on insulting speech should be applied in a manner that is more protective of speech, in line with the approach espoused by the U.S. Supreme Court under the First Amendment. **Intent to incite hatred, hostility or discrimination should be insufficient to justify criminal sanctions.**” – Amal Clooney and Philippa Webb, British international human rights barristers.

  14. Its strange when ive been out in my town on a weekend when its kicking out time loads of people shout abuse to the police and have to be pushed away and told to go home. They are never arrested. Was only the other weekend a drunk reveller was shouting pig, oink and swearing at the police they didn’t seem to bother

  15. Lonely_Sherbert69 on

    No conspiracy to be had, it’s clear as day, rich get richer, resources and power rule the world.