Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Man arrested for Facebook posts about Syrian refugees in Scotland

Breitbart:  Police have arrested a 40-year old man in Scotland over a number of allegedly “offensive” Facebook posts about refugees. Police in Scotland said that a man had been held under the Communications Act, which bans “grossly offensive” and “menacing” posts on online platforms.

The Facebook posts in question, which were not released to the media, allegedly concerned comments about Syrian refugees from Rothersay, on the Scottish Island of Bute, where several refugee families have settled as part of the UK government’s settlement program.

4 comments:

ricpic said...

Pretty soon we won't have any Constitution left and then watch the Communication Acts proliferate here. Murdering Scalia was a big step in that direction. Won't it be great when all HATE is suppressed?

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

If you look at the suppression as a correction that you deserve...

it won't be so bad. Maybe. I guess you will have to find out. Your safe word used to be Antonin.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

in the beginning was the word!

I thought a lot about that Post ChipA posted the other day.

Link

It ties a lot of loose ends rather nixely, aside from eliciting more questions.

Chip Ahoy said...

Lem, that is fantastic how Wolf related that. You leaned to speak and the first thing you talked about is God.

How God relates to your new farming ways.

Another book that I cannot recommend talked about early man worshipping stones first thing of all. The early land tillers thought special stones were magical. They'd plow their field, or tend their land however they did, clear it of rocks, throw them to the edges and end up making a strong boundary with them, markers, whatever. And the next year, lo, another rock. Come up from the ground. Rocks come up from the ground that they tilled and they imagined them to be magical. Saved them as special. Associated them with success of the field. Appease these magical rocks of the field, I mean these things are just awesome! Look, Wife, this rock was not there last year! The Earth gave it to me.

It blew their minds.

Then they wrote and they wrote in pictures.

I'm still reading introductions of the Yahoo group, look 3 more as I type this, this morning someone from NE England and the same batch another from SW England both for reasons amounting to simple curiosity.

I'll look a these 3.

Ha! Birmingham England. (I understand that's mostly Muslim now) He says:

… aged 61 and I live in Birmingham, England. I've been interested in Egyptology since I was a school kid. At that time I borrowed a grammar (Faulkner?) from the library, but it was much too hard for me to study. When I discovered Collier Manley's book by chance one Christmas a few years back my interest in studying ME was reawakened and I worked through the book with the GlyphStudy group a couple of years ago. Now I'm working through Hoch's ME Grammar with the group that started last year.

Life, prosperity and health to all,

Only one intro.

The other was class stuff and the third answered this Birmingham guy.

Hi, Chris. Perhaps the book you checked out was by Alan Gardiner. It's the first real text on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs but it is tough and he didn't provide any answers to the exercises. Welcome to the course.

The introductions are streaming in daily. I'm pleased to read them. You know why? Because it makes me feel less a crackpot, that's why. I have only curiosity. That's all. And all their reasons boil down to mere curiosity and nothing more. And a few did mention art. Their chief interest is art and this language devolves from that. They're nearly indistinguishable. The text includes art right in it and the art reads as text.

Wolf's essay is excellent. Accept his views or not you must admit the guy sure presents a cogent thesis. Top intellectual right there. I did not realize this about him. I thought he was sort of famed for being top zeitgeist-defining type guy. And there is a lot of Eli atmospherics and puffery and class fixation to his whole way.

Like if he's writing about a guy's shoes then he'll mention the brand so savvy readers will know the cost of the shoes is +$1,500 and he wore them carelessly without socks and traipsed through the wet ground because he cannot care. Touches like that are important to Wolf. I think. A bit annoying.