UK man with Hitler picture in home used sticker campaign to stir racial hatred, court told

The Guardian ^ | January 16, 2024 | Robyn Vinter

[mass55th]

"The goverment is in the wrong. Free speech means the right to say or possess offensive things."

Not if you live in England. They have no law that protects freedom of speech.

[Jane Long]

Coming to a regime near you!

[mass55th]

"You are mouthy for a newbie."

But he didn't call you a moron, did he? You chose to take that route in your first comment to him. There is no reason to call someone a name in order to get your point across. You're saying the guy in England has a right to say what he wants, yet you attack this guy because of what he said. You make no sense. What ever happened to "I might disagree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it"?

[null and void]

PRECISELY!!!!

[cowboyusa]

He has posted many antisemtic posts. I reached my l8mit.

[cowboyusa]

Critiquing Israel is fine. He implies that Israel is running US foriegn policy. You are another one of your little group that talks to each other.

[cowboyusa]

Smart ass.

[sergeantdave]

England’s Gestapo light. Less kerfuffle, more tact. Achtung!

[Eagles6]

Looks that way.

[Winniesboy]

On the contrary, there is plenty of long-established British law to protect freedom of speech. But there are also laws (such as those on libel, defamation, incitement to violence) which impose limits on the extreme exercise of that freedom.

[fuzzylogic]

What I find maddening, that ‘public education’ (a.k.a. GOVERNMENT indoctrination) teaches *their* agenda, which doesn’t have to include, or deliberately excludes, philosophical concepts around the power of government and rights of the individual...and the resulting masses that don’t even realize they should be thinking about them.

Ask almost anyone from the UK or Europe if ‘offensive’ speech should be allowed. Most, especially the young, will so ‘no’. ...sigh.

[mass55th]

"But there are also laws (such as those on libel, defamation, incitement to violence) which impose limits on the extreme exercise of that freedom."

And the problem with that is, who gets to decide what is libel, defamation, incitement to violence."

[Winniesboy]

The courts (civil and criminal) whose duty it is to apply the law. Not the government-separation of powers still lives, and governments are subject to the the courts.

[mass55th]

Our government is subject to the courts too, but then, when the government is run by RATS, they ignore the court decisions against them.