It's funny because rapists only get 7 years :D

[friezaess]

HEY AUSFAGS, HOW ARE YOU ENJOYING THAT IMPLIED FREEDOM OF SPEECH?

tl;dr- Perth guy is facing 14 years jail for posting a video on YouTube that featured him ragging on Jews. The charges? "Inciting racial hatred."

I actually read an excellent article on Crikey.com about this written by a real live Jew that essentially said freedom of speech > people whining about their feelings being hurt. Neil Gaiman agrees. (This entry from his blog was very popular around the time people were raging about the proposed internet filter.) If a person thinks we should send Jews to ze camps, or start a bloody revolution against whitey, or do a reinactment of what the settlers did to Tasmanian aboriginees, who gives a fuck? So long as they're not out there acting on those impulses (with, say, a bowie knife) people are entitled to their opinions no matter how fucked up they may be. It's called living in a free society.

*sigh* Are we Britain yet?

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[buttonss.livejournal.com]

Your kidding... Wtf.
That makes me so angry, thats a huge amount of years for something so little.

[friezaess.livejournal.com]

I know, it's really scary. Sif people say anything that contradicts another person -_-

[damasquerade.livejournal.com]

If I want free speech (or guns!) I can take a plane to America. Enjoy your AIDS, non-American citizen!

Rapists get even less than 7 years if they've got a 'mental illness'. Try 1 year in the ACT for an abbo who repeatedly broke into women's houses and raped them.

[friezaess.livejournal.com]

America has freedom of speech, but that speech is listened to carefully by CIA agents.

PARTY VAN TIME YO

[bakames.livejournal.com]

He won't get 14 years hopefully :x
But that's gay because police could just go knock on peoples doors and arrest like every third person here for being racist, anyone that says it aloud could be inciting racial hatred

[friezaess.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. And where do you even draw the line for this shit? I'm not going to jail for saying that Nigerian guy looks shifty >_>

[captbooyah.livejournal.com]

eh.. racial hatred is one the major causes of escalating violence. Stopping it is akin to preventing riots, racially charged assaults and wars.

No such thing a free speech or a free society. Rules exist everywhere for everything and generally they're there for damn good reasons.