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Re: Is this close to the line for incitement? Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:11:45 +0100

Gaz posted
>Someone posted this on another newsgroup, apologies if it was posted on here
>also.
>
>http://uk.youtube.com:80/watch?v=8ZNx0xHe0p0
>
>It brings up some interesting points, it is a film of a muslim rally, i
>presume, in London, with a person on a loud microphone instructing others
>not to vote for any of the Kafhurs (?), obviously from 2005 (references to
>michael howard).

It isn't a crime to incite people not to vote somebody, whether Kafurs,
Tories or anybody else.

>One issue is the rather tragic way the police dealt with the matter, if you
>watch the video all the way through, they acted like, well, if you think of
>a nature programme, when the lion chases the zebra and brings it down, and
>it has a powerful grip on it by the back of the neck, the animal just lies
>their passively, as if aware of its fate and unable to change it, well, that
>is what the police look like at the end.
>
>More importantly, it seems the whole crowd where whipped into a frenzy by
>the preachings of the person on the microphone, would this today have
>breached any inctiment laws, or at least public order laws?

Everything depends on *exactly* what he said, and what the context was.

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