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Topic History of: BNP leader cleared of race hate
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Grandpa Harley |
To know them is to love them... or else...
and @ MikeMacca
Caveat, old bean.. they'll change to law to stop you being able to share that opinion... |
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In The Know |
<<< I do like the BNP Party Political Broadcasts, you know the ones where the muslims carry the banners threatening to blow the world up.. OH... hold on, that's the news! >>>
Yep - it's a nice counter-balance to the governments that DO constantly threaten anyone who does not support them ... the only real difference is that these governments DO blow up the world !!!! |
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mikemacca |
I do like the BNP Party Political Broadcasts, you know the ones where the muslims carry the banners threatening to blow the world up.. OH... hold on, that's the news! |
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Grandpa Harley |
When you have to legislate against a single group, you are restricting freedom of speech for all...
[quote] Tougher race hate laws considered
Ministers are considering whether race hate laws should be revised after BNP leader Nick Griffin was cleared of charges relating to speeches he made.
A jury decided speeches by Mr Griffin and party activist Mark Collett in 2004 had not incited racial hatred.
Home Secretary John Reid said he would consult ministers after Gordon Brown said current laws may need reviewing.
Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said Muslims were offended and must be sure that the law would protect them.
But Lib Dem MP Evan Harris said tighter laws could create "extremist martyrs".
Mr Griffin, 46 and from Powys, had denied at a retrial two charges of using words or behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred .
Secret filming
Mr Collett, 26 and from Leicestershire, was cleared of four similar charges.
The pair were charged in 2005 in the wake of the secretly filmed BBC documentary The Secret Agent, which had been broadcast a year earlier.
The Leeds Crown Court jury heard extracts from a speech Mr Griffin made in the Reservoir Tavern in Keighley, West Yorkshire, on 19 January 2004, in which he described Islam as a "wicked, vicious faith" and said Muslims were turning Britain into a "multi-racial hell hole".
Mr Collett addressed the audience by saying: "Let's show these ethnics the door in 2004."
A Home Office spokesman said Mr Reid would "think carefully and take time to study and reflect on this [court] judgement and its implications, including taking soundings from his ministerial colleagues".
But the minister believed the "poisonous politics of race" could be defeated only by argument, politics and community engagement, the spokesman added.
Legislation banning the use of threatening words to incite religious hatred came into force earlier this week.
"Parliament has only recently discussed and decided on new laws in this area," the spokesman said.
"But obviously we want to make sure legislation is effective and even-handed."
In the wake of the BNP pair's acquittals, Chancellor Mr Brown said: "Any preaching of religious or racial hatred will offend mainstream opinion in this country.
"We have got to do whatever we can to root it out from whatever quarter it comes.
"And if that means we have got to look at the laws again, we will have to do so."
Lord Falconer later told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions? that the government had to show young Muslims that Britain was not anti-Islamic.
"We should look at them in the light of what's happened here because what is being said to young Muslim people in this country is that we as a country are anti-Islam, and we have got to demonstrate without compromising freedom that we are not," he said.
He said there should be "consequences" from saying Islam is "wicked and evil".
Story from BBC NEWS:
news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk_politics/6137722.stm
Published: 2006/11/11 12:39:46 GMT
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Grandpa Harley |
Ah right...
From a mate of mine in one of the larger police forces, they could have got a load of people on conspiracy to commit GBH and attempted murder if the BBC had given them the tapes before broadcast... so the BBC actually screwed an investigation. |
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