[Igor Antunov]

YouTube comedian Count Dankula convicted over 'grossly offensive' Nazi salute dog video

A man who posted a video of his girlfriend’s dog doing a Nazi salute on YouTube has been been convicted over the “grossly offensive” footage.

Mark Meechan, 29, who goes by the name Count Dankula, was arrested in April 2017 after footage of his girlfriend’s pug appearing to respond to Nazi slogans such as ‘gas the Jews’ went viral.

In a case that attracted widespread attention, Meechan was found guilty on Tuesday at Airdrie Sheriff Court of a charge under the Communications Act 2003.

Sheriff Derek O’Carroll dubbed the video “grossly offensive” and said he did not believe Meechan’s defence that he had made it only to annoy his girlfriend.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/youtube-comed ... 20581.html

The 'offended' girlfriend.

Reminds me of the good old days: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-12139150

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"

[skinster]

[Albert]

The funny thing is, he looks like a typical guy in antifa enthusiastically beating on the racist nazis at a rally.

[Igor Antunov]

Also in Scotland:

[Albert]

I thought that was a joke at first, but apparently it is true.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1312 ... ght_track/

But I think the law originally is meant to penalize provocations between Protestants and Catholics. I guess under this act the guy was charged.

https://stv.tv/news/west-central/140969 ... an-murals/

[Heisenberg]

In fairness, this is a ridiculous verdict. I'd be surprised if he ends up being sent to prison though.

[Igor Antunov]

For the conviction he got, he can get up to 12 months prison. He's already under house arrest, and wearing a police tracker.

[Crantag]

This is sick and disgusting (by the authorities I of course mean). Comically, I read a badly written news article about it a little bit ago, where they had some crackpot representative of some Jewish organization (who apparently the court saw fit to provide testimony), say she felt sorry for the dog.

[Seeker8]

At least there's a point to the anti sectarian laws, as it's something that needs to be stamped out, but this is completely pointless.

Why even give the guy all this attention for making a sick unfunny joke ("Gas the jews" ), just ignore the idiot.

[Igor Antunov]

ATTENTION CITIZEN

[blackjack21]

This guy should be made Prime Minister. He should become the UK's Donald Trump. He's got a communist tattoo, and the UK is so utterly stupid they can't even figure out that he was joking. There aren't too many pro-Nazi communists out there. The "gas the Jews" part didn't really do anything for me, but the "sieg heil" bit had me laughing hysterically.

It's amazing that the UK used to control so much of the world. Now it's just a nation of pathetic bed wetters.

[layman]

This when the police officially don’t investigate stolen cars anymore unless the thief is caught in the act.

[SolarCross]

This when the police officially don’t investigate stolen cars anymore unless the thief is caught in the act.

It makes perfect sense, real policing is like hard work! and it can be very dangerous too! Throwing jokers into the slammer is much safer and easier.

[Sivad]

pc nazis are grossly offensive.

[Igor Antunov]

Update, he can get up to 5 years in prison.

[blackjack21]

This when the police officially don’t investigate stolen cars anymore unless the thief is caught in the act.

That isn't the half of it. They let Muslim men run sex slave rings and rape young girls, because they don't want to be called racist or Islamophobic. At the same time, they are terrified of a Canadian Christian girl like Lauren Southern. How the mighty have fallen. I never thought I'd see Britain become this pathetic.

Throwing jokers into the slammer is much safer and easier.

Apparently so. It's also advertising your country's impotence and pointlessness.

[Decky]

It makes perfect sense, real policing is like hard work! and it can be very dangerous too! Throwing jokers into the slammer is much safer and easier.

This is pretty much it. Catching criminals is hard and sometimes dangerous work. Going after people for something they typed/ uploaded on the internet is easy as all the evidence is already there. The police in the UK must be some of the laziest in the world. They devote so much more effort to this kind of thing than they do to actual crimes.

[Albert]

No, that is not just in UK Decky. It is pretty much universal these days.

[Political Interest]

The man was obviously joking and did not intend to provoke racial hatred.

Although there are obviously real Neo-Nazis on the internet who post racist content, this individual is completely innocuous.

[demima]

Jonathan Pie nails it in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti2bVS40cz0