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Re: Is this close to the line for incitement? Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:36:05 +0100

Les Invalides wrote:
> 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.

He looked later on as if he was inciting a riot... The police were out of
their depth, it looked very close to somebody getting hurt and all turning
very nasty, fortunately it doesnt look like anyone did get injured.


>> 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.

Would it be enough to get yourself nicked and taken to the station though?

Gaz

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