Four Years?

[poliphilo]

Two guys get four years apiece for inciting riots that nobody actually turned up for. One of them took down his website after sleeping on it and deciding it was a stupid idea.

Four years- is this appropriate? I know Middle England got a bad scare, but really....

The details are here.

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I am not surprised.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The authorities are in panic mode. It doesn't make them look good (or strong for that matter).

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Which in the long run is a very good thing for our side, isn't it?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Of course it's not appropriate. Likewise the generous use of custodial sentences for first offences. I'll be very surprised if these aren't appealed, and once a little time has passed, I'd expect the appeals to be successful, too.

After all, it's not as if we had enough space in the prisons to lock them all up, anyway.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I thought the British judicial system was better than this...

[trixibelle-net.livejournal.com]

Yes I'm hoping that it what will happen too.

[trixibelle-net.livejournal.com]

I can't believe it. Convicted rapists get less.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

These sentences- and a lot of others that are being handed out in the wake of the riots- are manifestly unjust.

[faunhaert.livejournal.com]

think the guy how took down the site should be commended not punished!


oh dear what would happen if i'd started a FreeLondon.uk campaign over there?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He drank too much, did something stupid, sobered up and tried to undo it.

A fine, a community service order or something like that would have been in order; four years is outrageous.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Totally inappropiate

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There have been far too many of these excessive, vindictive sentences.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Are the authorities worldwide trying to intimidate people from expressing themselves on FB and other blogs? It seems to me that almost every month something is being criticized as inappropriate, non PC, or downright "un-patriotic". What next, I ask?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, the authorities don't like social media. They can feel their control slipping away.

[petercampbell.livejournal.com]

Handing out ludicrously over the top sentences like this isn't going to do anyone any good. Four years for being a drunken twat?

I'm just waiting to see what sort of sentence they're going to hand out to the boy who broke into a shop and emerged carting away a £40 pedal bin "Me mum'll be so pleased when I take this home as a present..."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Charging £40 for a pedal bin- now that's what I call robbery.