No, it’s not sane, it’s the polar opposite.
The judge is obviously a media whore, he told Stacey that:
“It was racist abuse via a social networking site instigated as a result of a vile and abhorrent comment about a young footballer who was fighting for his life. At the moment not just the footballer’s family, not just the footballing world but the whole world were literally praying for his life, your comments aggravated this situation. I have no choice but to impose an immediate custodial sentence to reflect the public outrage at what you have done.”
For starters, I wasn’t praying for the footballer, I couldn’t give a toss, nor could any of my friends or immediate family, so he was wrong there. Secondly, he said that this lad’s insults “aggravated this situation”. Really? Did the doctors working on the footballer find the comments affected their work? Were the footballer’s family, sitting at his bedside, affected by his Tweets? Of course not. They may have found them unpleasant, but then life’s like that, not everyone loves everyone else, and sometimes you will come across people who positively revel in your misfortune.
As for calling someone a wog etc, is that “racist”? I don’t think so. Not nice, not clever if theres any coloureds, sorry “blacks” about, but it’s a word you don’t hear much these days. I had to explain it to my niece the other day, sheeeesh, the youth of today! Try gettin’ down with your friendly neighbourhood black men by asking them “How’s it going niggers?” and see what happens. Again, not the cleverest thing to say, but it doesn’t incite anyone to HATE another racial group. Bad words, that’s all, but apart from getting your own head stoved in, certainly won’t incite “hatred”. Some people hate blacks/whites/Asians/Gingers, whatever you call them…
If he’d said " Go and kill all wogs", then that would possibly count as incitement to racial hatred in my book, but name-calling…fucking hell, we are on a slippery slope to hell here. I sincerely hope that Twitter will be reporting to the police anyone, black or white, who uses the term “nigger/nigga”, or honky, cracker, snowflake etc etc. In fact, they shouldn’t let anyone mention their race, because that might encourage others to hate them - “Incitement to racial hatred”.
In this country, there are so many right-on people who are terrified of offending any minority, they have started to infect twats like the judge in this case. We need some sanity. Hopefully an Appeal court will restore some, and give this ex-student (he’s been kicked off his course, so he can’t return once his debt to society has been paid) a slap on the wrist and make him do some gardening at weekends. Maybe they’d like to take one or two of the scrote burglars who are currently enjoying Community Service and bang them up instead - like the vast majority of the public have been demanding here for many years (yet ignored by the judiciary).
