Perhaps encourage people to 'let go' of their Facebook addiction would be another 'appropriate' response?

But the omni-towering, all-integrating EM babel-fizz of cyberspace is your new home. Don't you "like" it?

Azhar's defense in court should be that he is a peace junkie.. He should go down the hippie route. Should say that "the all soldiers should die" comment was because he doesn't like the idea of war or violence and he equates it to the existance of the military and that as far as his logic goes, no military equals no war therefore all soldiers should die and then go to say he is very sorry for his naivety and the pain he caused the parents of those soldiers.. He should just leave out the injustice of the whole affair... Basically play dumb and hope for a slap on the wrist if these people are that serious(hysterical)..

He also said, soldiers, didn't say British soldiers... He didn't even mention the incident explicitly..

I mean I could easily say, all over-paid footballers should die and by the logic of this case, I will be arrested for hate crimes??? No allusion to any race, nationality, religion, just an occupation and that is all it takes?

The fact he's being charged under race-hate laws is pretty weird. His comments are the kind of thing you might hear in any English pub up and down the country, and as far as I know, that kind of thing isn't illegal yet. It's notable that muslims, Pakistanis and Arabs don't tend to drink in English pubs much.

People gassin about the laziness of mediterraneans for European Economic meltdown! What about the fact that they have been ripped off by the structure of the EU - that they have no choice but to incur endless debt.. The countries that are now getting raped by banksters.. The children who have had there childhood sliced up! Your enemy's were the inefficient distribution of resources and macro/micro economic stagnation, not economic and social stability. All banksters should DIE & go to HELL! THE LOWLIFE FOKKIN SCUM! gotta problem go cry at the loss of your country's triple A rating & kiss it goodbye because you'll never see it again...

NOTE TO ANY AUTHORITY FIGURE/FOLLOWER: Banksters are unicorns responsible for the economic meltdown, not to be confused with bankers, the human beings who ensure proper functioning of the financial system. I love bankers, I hate banksters, no good fictional unicorns causing havoc. :)

Can't shake the feeling that there is something really quite 'off' about this whole thing. Almost like a set up.

The sort of scenario where the 'Powers That Be' go round pushing some buttons to see how certain people react. I'm not sure what to make of it or whether the British teenager is going to get compromised in the process. Something not very pleasant is at work here and it may be deliberate.

Though he was right about many other things he wrote about, one cannot just say that "All soldiers should DIE and go to HELL!". He's just giving PTB an excuse to punish him and point a finger at him saying that he is a messanger of hate and all that stuff.
And as far as Facebook is concerned, the Onion News Network has put it quite nicely by saying that Facebook reduces CIA's costs... [Link]

On the "Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan" article, it seems that ACTA or no ACTA, our internet providers will become snitches and my information, and your information will be available to psychopaths and they will do with it whatever they please.

my small sister showed me a youtube video that was doing the rounds in her school... (it caused abit of a sensation on the inter-webs)

Clearly under these new draconian laws, this girl if she was living in the UK should expect a knock on the door from the men in blue for clearly inciting genocide/hate crimes against a whole race of people...

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Point being, if the PTB are planning on being serious about this arrest people for what they say on social networking sites, a lot of people should be expecting knocks on there doors in the not-to-distant future.

I didn't mean that being emotional is a crime, it does happen, especially when one thinks of or discusses the results of psychopathy on our world. The guy is generally right to express his emotions and there is no doubt that there's no free speech, especially on Facebook. I gave it a little bit of thought and I think that even if he had avoided what I quoted earlier, he would have still received some attacks for stating that same opinion as it seems to go against what the PTB want. Excuse my English, please.

Here I thought Nazi Germany fell the US/UK,but lo & behold,it appears it was the other way around.

"Can't shake the feeling that there is something really quite 'off' about this whole thing."

It seems unlikely to me that Dewsbury police have got time to sit around scanning Facebook all day for inflamatory posts, otherwise they would have nicked all the respondents who filled Ahmed's Facebook wall with phrases like "p*ki c*nt" etc, which is illegal under British law. Also, the content of some of those posts could quite easily be construed as death-threats.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell

...that you will all jump on me for saying this, but the arrest of Azhar Ahmed might possibly be another in the long line of 'leading by the nose' scenarios that TPTB are so good at devising? In other words, don't use 'social media, because we know who you are and where you are, and if you cross the line, we will come and arrest you' type of thing?

This whole story has the theme of 'putting the frighteners on'.

Panic the populus, in other words, MAKE THEM FEAR US!

"Slowly I turned, and step by step..." and so on etc etc!

as long as I've lived in the 'Islamic' world, I've never yet come across the first name of 'Azhar'.

El Azhar University I've heard of,

but never the first name of 'Azhar'.

Maybe I don't get out enough...

Well, in my opinion, expressing what you think and feel should in no way be a crime but what I think to be right is one thing and what the PTB decide is another, after all, with the PTB almost everything you do is a crime (remember also the terrorist checklist) unless one is their pet zombie. For me personally, saying that someone should DIE (and go to HELL) is NOT OK, not really a crime, but most definately something I would avoid and even when emotional, I personally wouldn't go that far. Come to think of it, I do not wish anyone's death, do not celebrate it, etc.