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New Zealand man jailed for spreading images of IS violence - media
2016-06-24
[Ynet] A New Zealand man was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
on Thursday for spreading images of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
violence, the first person sentenced to prison for circulating and possessing objectionable material linked to extreme violence, local media reported.

Imran Patel, 26, was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for three years and nine months by an Auckland court after he admitted to making, distributing and possessing videos depicting cruel violence perpetuated by IS, according to news website stuff.co.nz.

The prison sentence was the first for someone on an objectionable material charge related to violence. To date, all such charges in New Zealand had related to indecent child images, said Auckland District Court Judge Russell Collins, according to the news site said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Ditto, TW.

I couldn't tell if he was an ISIS propagandist or someone trying to tell the truth to wake people up.

Turns out to be the former, though I still object to the idea of jailing someone for their speech.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-06-24 13:21  

#4  A useful link. Thank you, Mr. Hagmaier.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-06-24 12:46  

#3  Kind of a "men pushing old women" problem with that article, but another source definitely indicates that this guy was of the "pushing old women into traffic" variety, yelling about Allah and so forth.
Posted by: Charles M. Hagmaier   2016-06-24 11:44  

#2  Bloody sheep shaggers!!
Posted by: Classer   2016-06-24 05:29  

#1  The lesson is: DON'T tell people the Truth. No one will listen or thank you.
AND, some people are too stupid to stay alive.
Posted by: Sheba Tingle2889   2016-06-24 04:15  

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