[Shaun]

It's absurd. Obviously they're being made examples of to send some kind of message to other rioters, but what exactly is that message? "Don't ever criticise the government's decisions and state of affairs again otherwise we'll jail you"? I mean even ignoring the entirely facetious nature of this supposed 'crime' (by which I think telling someone to do something is not directly correlatory with the crime itself, especially if it's done online: everyone who participated will have done so of their own accord, not because of these two supposed criminal masterminds), this is just going to play into rioters' hands even more because all of a sudden we've got a ridiculous, out-of-touch and unfair judiciary system to match that lovely old police force.

Well done society.