He trained a pug to do a Nazi salute for a YouTube video
Mark Meechan stared at the camera and described the training he Replica Designer Handbags had given to his girlfriend’s pug, Buddha.
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Soon after the video was posted, police knocked on Meechan’s door in Coatbridge, a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, hetold Alex Jones. The officers told him that he was being charged with a hate crime and that replica handbags china the video could be seen as promoting violence against Jews. They told him to change his clothes, took pictures of his aaa replica designer handbags apartment and hauled him off replica handbags online to jail.
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Prosecutors in Meechan’s September trial alleged that he communicated material that would cause fear wholesale replica designer handbags and alarm and stir up hatred on religious grounds by posting a clip on YouTube that was “anti Semitic in nature,”according to the Telegraph.
“I feel in the long run I replica bags didn’t do anything wrong,” he said on Jones’s show. “It was clearly Fake Handbags satire. It was clearly a joke. I wasn’t setting out to cause any offense to any people. If anything, I was wanting people to laugh, and justobviously, it was taken the wrong way.”
Meechan didn’t respond to messages from The Washington Post seeking comment. He said that he could Replica Bags see how people could be offended purse replica handbags by his video but that he doesn’t “think hurting someone’s feelings is a crime.”
Prominent comedians including Ricky https://www.handbagaol.com Gervais and Jewish comedian David Baddiel rallied to Meechan’s defense, saying free speech includes jokes that some may find offensive.
A man has been convicted in a UK court of making a joke that was deemed “grossly offensive”. If you don believe in a person right to say things that you might find “grossly offensive”, then you don believe in Freedom of Speech.
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And Borowski told the court that there were real world consequences: Thecouncil was “bombarded with” 160 pages of anti KnockOff Handbags Semitic messages supporting Meechan and the video.
[An assistant principal wrote a children’s book about alt right mascot Pepe the frog. It cost him his job.]
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