Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "the arrests of instigators begins" video.
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Absolutely with you on this call to action, sir. Anyone who tells you that writing to your MP is a waste of time is either wholly misguided or speaking in bad faith. And any MP who does not hold surgeries is not an MP, but rather someone exploiting the title and privileges of an MP for their own nefarious means.
As to freedom of speech, I’d put it even more simply: There is a simple difference between expressing your beliefs and opinions, and incitement. And, if you are inciting along with other inciters, you are taking part in a conspiracy. And conspiracies that lead to criminal harm are criminal conspiracies. As these people are beginning to discover, we already have multiple laws on the statute books which cover such instances.
People on the far right, whilst using social media, love to use expressions like, “educate yourself,” and, “echo chamber,” when dealing with anybody who disagrees with their egregious take on the world. Well, now they are having it proved to them that they should have practiced what they preached.
These are the lessons that will have a far greater impact on the far right, and will go further toward remedying the hate speech so rampant in modern discourse. It’s not just rounding up a few well photographed, well documented thugs, 70% of whom turned out to have previous convictions for violence and football hooliganism. But getting at the puppeteers and cutting their strings. I applaud the sentencing of this woman, and hope to God she will learn something from her experience.
And I bet there are multiple other online, “activists,” urgently seeking legal advice as we speak. I do hope we jail at least double digits more of them?
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