Submitted 3 weeks ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
Jailed for “inciting hatred”…… Jesus Christ we’re a joke of a country.
The guys a racist fucking moron, but jailing people for voicing their opinions is terrifying and authoritarian. I hope anyone celebrating this remembers they’re reaction when people with opposing views to them are in power throwing people in jail over words.
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Crisafulli in QLD wants up to 2 years in prison for anyone saying ‘from the river to the sea’ as well as ‘globalise the intifada’.
Also: “The ban will also apply to any phrases, spoken or written, decided by the attorney-general of the day”.
decided by the attorney-general of the day
It’s wild that pro-Palestine/anti-israel protestors are being lumped in with neo Nazis. Particularly when Israelis and neo Nazis have so many common opinions …
Bingo. Once you start policing words it’s a slippery slope to full on government authoritarian control.
I heard a rally organiser on the steps of the Melbourne State Library yell From the River to the Sea and people in the crowd yell back, Kill Them. This was on October 8th 2023.
Other instances where freedom of speech does not apply is planning a crime, making plans for a bank robbery is just words, right?
Context is really important.
I agree that the QLD legislation is scary - it’s bullshit that their legislation is going to “proscribe” that specific phrase, so if one utters it then that’s an offense regardless of intent or context.
Paradox of tolerance.
That concept is, pardon my French, complete bullshit.
Remember - you’re being intolerant of people who hold views you don’t like. Think what these laws mean when, not if, people with opposing views to you get in power.
Tolerance is only paradoxical when you go out of your way to not view it as a social contact.
When tolerance is the social contact, then everyone is protected by it except those who go out of their way to not be protected by it.
Being jailed for a year surely will make him change his mind about being a nazi /s
He’ll just move to America, where we’ll probably make him a mayor or some shit.
Guys…it’s bad here.
Why? What’s happening? I never hear anything from over there.
considering australia has neo-nazis that went to US, murdoch, and nick adams.
He cant, he won’t be allowed in with a criminal conviction :)
I year in prison seems excessive to me for a 40 second speech. I could imagine a few hundred hours of community service.
People kill cyclists and get less punishment than this idiot.
As time passed, and History got devalued as a subject in favour of technology subjects, I guess it was always inevitable that people would lose awareness of what Fascism is, and why it should not be allowed to return.
This man was an active member of the NSN and quite literally a Nazi intent on furthering genocide.
Charge him with planning a terrorist act then, if that’s what he was doing.
I think he should be punished for the speech but I don’t think the punishment fits the crime.
Bet it was the antisemitism that got him time.
Yep.
The 34-year-old took the stage at the end of the march and endorsed neo-Nazi views before being immediately arrested by police.
On Wednesday, he was sentenced at Downing Centre local court to 12 months behind bars for intentionally inciting hatred.
The magistrate, Sharon Freund, criticised Koschel’s 40-second speech – in which he twice called Jews the “greatest enemy” – as clearly antisemitic and vilifying a vulnerable community.
good. but not long enough
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Do they just jail those convicted of this, or do they also require undergoing significant therapy during the sentence? Because if they don’t, they’re only going to ensure increased levels of the anger & resentment which led to those extremist views to begin with.