[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by MTVN

This is stupid, whatever the sentence was the police arrested them and nothing happened, the fact that no riots took place in Dundee is completely irrelevant to the severity of their sentence which was only given today

It's far from stupid.

I see you are completely avoiding the "Prevention is better than cure" and the fact that these idiots will be used as an example ....... to avoid nutjobs from trying to pull off a stunt like this in the future - a stunt which may actually cause mayhem as was the intention with these idiots.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Snowball

It's far from stupid.

I see you are completely avoiding the "Prevention is better than cure" and the fact that these idiots will be used as an example ....... to avoid nutjobs from trying to pull off a stunt like this in the future - a stunt which may actually cause mayhem as was the intention with these idiots.

I hate "making an example" of people, with that reasoning you're chucking them under a bus purely to uphold some principle and to make a point. You might consider it effective but that doesn't make it just.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Bethlehem

So MTVN and Omah,would you wait until its to late like the last time the riots happened? I agree with the new approach and that is stopping them before they get to powerful.

Banging up a couple of kids for Facebook entries is not going to stop riot and insurrection - there are other means of communication and organisation .....

Originally Posted by Bethlehem

I also will add that if it was Al Qaeda that had threatened to cause trouble somewhere in this country you would not be saying that was harsh that they got sentenced even though they didnt do it.

Does Al Qaeda use Facebook to arrange meetings ..... ?

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Omah

Banging up a couple of kids for Facebook entries is not going to stop riot and insurrection - there are other means of communication and organisation .....



Does Al Qaeda use Facebook to arrange meetings ..... ?

1. The only way you will get these scum to learn right from wrong is by giving them harsh sentences,although I would give higher if the worser crimes was sentenced higher aswell.

2. I was giving an example (yes a bit of an extreme example) but an example none of the less and I still think if it happened and they got caught you know people would be praising the Governments and the Police.

[Bollo]

There is a guy fairly near to where we are (southampton)going on trial for similar in Feb.
I remember at the time that a lot of people who where working in offices/ shops in southampton went home early and shut up shop because the police took these facebook pages seriuosly, and a lot of people were worried sick.

In my opinion these people deserve all they get

[Niall]

Harsh but I suppose its to set an example for anyone contemplating the same thing.