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In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail
concealment writes with this excerpt from an Associated Press story, as carried by the Houston Chronicle:"In Britain, hundreds of people are prosecuted each year for posts, tweets, texts and emails deemed menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene, and the number is growing as our online lives expand. 'Fifty years ago someone would have made a really offensive comment in a public space and it would have been heard by relatively few people,' said Mike Harris of free-speech group Index on Censorship. People take it upon themselves to report this offensive material to police, and suddenly you've got the criminalization of offensive speech. Figures obtained by The Associated Press through a freedom of information request show a steadily rising tally of prosecutions in Britain for electronic communications — phone calls, emails and social media posts — that are grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character — from 1,263 in 2009 to 1,843 in 2011. Justice Igor Judge said in his judgment that the law should not prevent 'satirical or iconoclastic or rude comment, the expression of unpopular or unfashionable opinion about serious or trivial matters, banter or humor, even if distasteful to some or painful to those subjected to it.'"
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
So Saul leaned on his "spear" *snicker* and the the horsemen followed "hard" after him - WTF is this?!? Some homosexual orgy story in the Bible?!?
No, you are the perv. You missed the part where Saul was dead. Do you have a learning disability? Saul was slumped over dead on a spear. The chariots were chasing the runner fleeing the scene to provide an account of the battle to David.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Then kill her.
You cannot use logic to argue with a religious nut, they would not be a religious nut job if they could manage logic.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.