Man Gets 3 Years for Posting Racial Messages on Forums

Published on October 7, 2006 By Island Dog In Internet

While what he did was very stupid and inexcusable, over 2 years in jail for it is ridiculous. The sad thing is he got more time for posting hateful messages than he did for having child porn on his computer.

"A man who posted racist messages on a website in memory of murdered black teenager Anthony Walker was jailed for more than three years today.

Neil Martin, 30, emailed at least six comments to the website - less than a week after Anthony was killed with an ice axe in a racist attack in Huyton, Merseyside, last year."

Comments (Page 2)

whiterabbit007

on Oct 11, 2006

So the new definition of freedom of speech is "you can say whatever you want as long as the goverment thinks it's fine"... yeah... I'm not the paranoid type but certain trends are taking place in US and UK that if are not stopped we are seriously looking at a "big brother" situtation.

WebGizmos

on Oct 11, 2006

Be careful what you say WhiteRabbit...someone might brand you with a tinfoil hat!

MasonM

on Oct 11, 2006

Reply #16
So the new definition of freedom of speech is "you can say whatever you want as long as the goverment thinks it's fine"... yeah... I'm not the paranoid type but certain trends are taking place in US and UK that if are not stopped we are seriously looking at a "big brother" situtation.

Sadly it isn't just those two. I've read of fairly recent cases where ministers in Canada have been charged for hate speech crimes for preaching that homosexuality is wrong.

A person has the right to say whatever they damn well please regardless of how stupid it may be.

yossell

on Oct 19, 2006

Interesting.
Interesting to find so much anger directed towards 'do gooders' (yeah - damned do gooders; if people just stopped trying to do good, it'd be a much better world) and nasty nasty liberals. Interesting how a racist is dismissed as merely 'stupid', 'ignorant', his comments mere 'idiocy'. Interesting to find nobody complaining about the freedoms lost under the prevention of terrorism act 2006, you know - the one that criminalises individuals and organisations that glorify violent acts, including, well, saying certain things about them.

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