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Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter
An anonymous reader writes "A British man was arrested under anti-terrorism legislation for making a bomb joke on Twitter. Paul Chambers, 26, was arrested under the provisions of the Terrorism Act (2006). His crime? Frustrated at grounded flights over inclement weather, he made a joke bomb threat on the social networking site Twitter."
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Here is a recent article from a well-known British journalist.
Well if you cannot be "arsed" to look up the facts before spouting your mouth off maybe you should keep your comments to yourself. Understanding another country's legal system from a different country's simplified view of its legal system is just moronic.
Of course, in the Netherlands, all of your police officers are trained CSI investigators who collect and analyse all the evidence and find the killer with little help from detectives. I know this because I have seen CSI!
Human rights are for everyone, including the people who took this guy's "joke" seriously. I don't think freedom of speech gives one the right to make bomb threats or (more classically) shout "fire" in a theater, both of those acts may lead either to injury and/or financial loss. Even if it was a joke you will still have to convince a judge that a resonable person would not take your words seriously in the context they were given.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
I'm not sure where you get the idea "lazy pigs" were "fishing for leads on twitter" but you're example is what cops would term being a smart arse. There is an unofficial procedure cops have for dealing with smart arses. I have no doubt that one day you will find out what that procedure is.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Don't trust the Chinese, always whispering their secrets to each other.
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Twitter may be a relatively new technology, but from the perspective of the police this is no different from phoning up a TV or radio station and saying that you're going to blow up the airport.
Then the police are fucking idiots who shouldn't be allowed to be involved any time the alleged crime involves a computer. Anyway, that's pure bullshit. Plenty of cops must be twats (twits are the messages; twats are the users) so they must know what Twitter is like; small, irrelevant messages from people too uninteresting to post long comments.
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I know your just an ugly troll full of pre-judice and hate because you need someone to blame for a worthless life spent masterbating to underwear catalogs in your parents basement, but I'll bite anyway.
Nah just a joking, I'm not going to bite.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
1. Your ad-hominem attack has no relevance to the conclusive argument presented in the article, as it does nothing to undermine the facts reported.
2. Things can be written in the Daily Mail, or as in this case, in a blog operated by The Mail on Sunday, and still be true.
3. The author left the Daily Express in protest about the change of management that you're objecting to.
He's a sock-puppet.
I will presume next time your house is on fire, that it is just a crank call. Hope you make it out alone and can convince the insurance company you did call for help.
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Just to pick nits, he never said he was going to kill anyone. He could just as easily have rented a Ryder truck, loaded it up with explosives, gotten somebody to drive a getaway car, pulled it up to the front door of the airport at three in the morning (assuming that the airport shuts down at night), gotten in the car, and triggered it with a phone call once at a safe distance. It would completely shut down the airport with no real chance of killing anybody.
Further, it would not qualify as terrorism because:
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