Incitment to Murder

Last week saw the conviction of three people who were charged with soliciting murder. A fourth man was convicted of inciting racial hatred. This all stemmed from the unlawful protests outside the Danish embassy last year - the protests, in response to the cartoon of Mohammed as a terrorist, included such lovely chants as "Bomb bomb bom the UK" and other such poison. Now I'm all for freedom of speech and it is something I believe we have in this country - but all freedoms must have limits and these chaps breached those limits with irresponsible abandon - maybe they took leave of the their senses, but that is not a reasonable defence I fear in this case.

Quite frankly I'd see the lot of them defenestrated. However the main point was to offer further short shrift to the chap featured on Radio 4 during my drive home yesterday evening who accused everyone involved in the case to be guilty of something - except those found guilty in court yesterday they "Hadn't done anything unacceptable in Sharia law" well quite simply I don't see how that is relevant - we don't live under Sharia law... we live under the laws as defined by our legislative branch (some of which I don't agree with, but this position doesn't give me carte blanch to go around ignoring them) and people living here, indeed some who are protected from unkindness in their original countries of origin would do well to remember that at the moment.