Twitter Joke Guy found guilty

Pittens

Paul Chambers: At magistrate's court.

more ( but not much more ) at:

http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/05/paul-chambers-found-guilty.html

Pittens

What a waste of Taxpayer's money, police time. Stupid magistrates. ****.

Slap on the wrist appropriate here. That's it.

funk-you

"Sure...these laws are for your own protection......they'd never be used in a silly or harmful way..."

Me hole.

-Funk

mathie

DE DEATH PENILTY IS TOO GUD 4 DIS GUY!!!!!11111ONEONEONE




Oh no wait I've completely mis-judged public sentiment on this one.

That's an awful injustice! Mooooooooooo!

WindSock

Well, I guess they can use this guy as the stick to beat Muslims with if they ever say they are targetted unfairly over this kind of thing.

orourkeda

I agree that the reaction is excessive. However, a reaction of some description should have been expected. A criminal record does seem OTT though.

Fago!

Pittens wrote: »

What a waste of Taxpayer's money, police time. Stupid magistrates. ****.

Slap on the wrist appropriate here. That's it.

I agree!

recylingbin

I don't get it. Where is the joke?

I don't mean that in a- you can't say things like that - kind of way, I mean - where is the funny?

Pittens

The actual act is not specifically anti-terrorist. It bans "indecent, obscene or menacing" messages - i.e. tweets, or I assume texts.

internet is banned.

Pittens

I don't mean that in a you can't say things like that, I mean - where is the funny?

He wasnt planning to blow up the airport. THe funny was in pretending that his mild mannered self was.

orourkeda

If he had said that he wanted to drill his mickey into the airport would he jailed for rape or indecent exposure?

IvyTheTerrible

He'd want to unfriend some of his connections, seeing as his tweets were only visible to them, and it was one of them that alerted the authorities...

recylingbin

Pittens wrote: »

He wasnt planning to blow up the airport. THe funny was in pretending that his mild mannered self was.

I see.
He should quit his job and tour europe and america as a comedian.
He's high-larious.

Pittens

Right.

Definitely deleting that tweet where I said I could murder a Chinese.

Could be misunderstood.

Pittens

He's high-larious.

Was he arrested for not being funny? Wouldn't that put your - clearly - humourless ass in danger..

Wazdakka

I Wonder if Ireland has internet filters that pick up on key words...


Down with the infidel. America, war, bomb, building, airport, plane, terrorist, jihad, kill, bush, riot, secret, guns, assassinate, kidnap, politician, nuclear weapons, drugs, attack, 9/11, final solution, marshmallows.

My name is URL

What if there had of being a bomb and the post on Twitter was ignored as a joke? There'd be an absolute shitstorm

I agree that it's thought-crime stuff but people should have some degree of cop-on all the same

goat2

what was he on at time of sending that out
he must have known that this kind of behaviour is out of all order
i do not nor would see that as a joke
was he the cause of closing down the airport
if so
passengers were annoyed
business lost out
staff thinking that any minuit a bonb would go off, fearing that they would be killed
that was thick, stupid ,childish, nasty he should be going to jail for such an offence

Pittens

What if there had of being a bomb and the post on Twitter was ignored as a joke? There'd be an absolute ****storm

Oh, nobody's saying the police shouldn't investigate. They should've investigated and let him off. Not wasted taxpayers money on a guy who wasnt going to blow up an airport.

Were he actually trying to blow up an airport, then the court case would've been a lot different and he would have got jail time. ( Conspiracy). This was clearly a law against freedom of speech.

May be thrown out, that said the UK does not really have any laws protecting free speech.

Pittens

was he the cause of closing down the airport
if so
passengers were annoyed
business lost out
staff thinking that any minuit a bonb would go off, fearing that they would be killed
that was thick, stupid ,childish, nasty he should be going to jail for such an offence

Lol. He tweeted to friends. Nobody at the Airport knew anything. Thats because he wasnt conspiring to do anything.

ejmaztec

They'll tell him tomorrow that it was a joke.

Duggy747

Ha ha ha ha, what a numpty! Good thing I don't bother with Twitter, they'd end up hanging me by my balls.

3 things wrong here: He should've had a bit more sense to phrase that better, he shouldn't have trusted some of his followers, and what a crappy way to be made an example of!

The internet knows all, sees all, and convicts all. Some people just don't seem to understand the power of it.

Abrasax

Hoist with his own petard.

Stercus Accidit

Pittens wrote: »

Right.

Definitely deleting that tweet where I said I could murder a Chinese.

Could be misunderstood.

E-mail sent to Beijing, how well maintained are your organs btw?

Pittens

The internet knows all, sees all, and convicts all. Some people just don't seem to understand the power of it.

Bog all to do with the internet which passes no laws that I am aware of. He was arrested under a 2003 law which would see most posters on this site in jail were we not posting pseudonymously.

Always amused how people are happy to surrender freedom. Right, my numptys.

1) There is a campaign to remove pseudonymous blogging, or microblogging ( like commentators on this site).
2) The law he contravened was not specifically a terrorist law. It was a law prhibiting "indecent, obscene or menacing" messages i.e. tweets.

So basically Turkeys voting for Christmas here.

Pittens

E-mail sent to Beijing, how well maintained are your organs btw?

You t-t-tell your chinese friends that I have hepatitis B, smoke crack daily, drink like a fish and smoke like a forest fire.

Run_to_da_hills

No surprise at all with this verdict and looks like it will be the shape of things to come.

Auto search robots trawling internet public forums and blogs seeking out controversial and threatening buzzwords. IP addresses get tracked through ISP's, police get notification and a squad is sent out to kick down doors. :eek:

sponsoredwalk

Anyone else get reminded of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofUsd9hEi8

What's funny is the advertisement for the "Orwell prize", this is definitely a kind of Orwell award for sure...

JustAddWater

He wont be allowed into America now

A criminal record and for 'terrorist' related charges. No way he'll be getting in there anytime soon

recylingbin wrote: »

I see.
He should quit his job and tour europe and america as a comedian.
He's high-larious.

aDeener

Pittens wrote: »

Right.

Definitely deleting that tweet where I said I could murder a Chinese.

Could be misunderstood.

i wouldn't get too concerned, sure didnt nally get off the hook despite saying he could murder a fat frog.........

Run_to_da_hills

JustAddWater wrote: »

He wont be allowed into America now

A criminal record and for 'terrorist' related charges. No way he'll be getting in there anytime soon

He will also be pulled over and interrigated anywhere in the world where he is made swipe his microchipped passport.

If he is ever considering a flight again he better get down to the airport several hours before hand to check in to allow enough time for interrigation so that he won't miss his flight.

abouttobebanned

goat2 wrote: »

what was he on at time of sending that out
he must have known that this kind of behaviour is out of all order
i do not nor would see that as a joke
was he the cause of closing down the airport
if so
passengers were annoyed
business lost out
staff thinking that any minuit a bonb would go off, fearing that they would be killed
that was thick, stupid ,childish, nasty he should be going to jail for such an offence

i bet you wrote that on an iphone didn't you?

dsmythy

Big Brother is watching folks! Possibly listening and reading too.

Liam Byrne

Pittens wrote: »

He was arrested under a 2003 law which would see most posters on this site in jail were we not posting pseudonymously.

That's me fecked so!

Mind you, I don't think even my "jokes" are as unfunny as what that idiot posted!

ejmaztec

I'm already working on my insanity plea.

CrazyRabbit

ejmaztec wrote: »

I'm already working on my insanity plea.

That only works after 10,000 posts on boards.ie. You are not quite there yet and thus legally still sane.

Run_to_da_hills

"Id like to thank the Crown Prosecution Service for their level best efforts in fukcing up the life of an ordinary citizen. I love Britain."

http://twitter.com/pauljchambers/status/13728552859

Pittens

Graham Linehan knocks this one of the park.

Kundera's The Joke quite rightly referenced.

http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/prague-1965/

What all these people [people who say he should be careful what he says] are essentially saying is this: because this country was made less safe by the hasty, reckless, duplicitous way in which Tony Blair took us into war (a war which only yesterday claimed 114 more lives), and because he will never be brought to justice for that, we must live in a state of paranoid readiness, a state of nervous anxiety, a humorless state that cannot tell the difference between a joke and a threat, for the foreseeable future. Because that one, massive crime will go unpunished, we shall all be punished in thousands of interesting ways.

As Robert Harris said, while we stand at airport security with our shoes in our hands, Tony Blair floats unimpeded through another part of the terminal