Mar 14 2012
Stupid Application of Stupid Law
I read Teen charged over Facebook post this evening, and frankly I am amazed at the stupidity of this charge! (It is a very short article, so I will include it here.)
A teenager has been charged after making comments on Facebook about the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan last week.
Azhar Ahmed (19), posted the comments on his profile page and has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence, according to West Yorkshire Police.
A police spokesman said Mr Ahmed, of Fir Avenue, Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, was bemoaning the level of attention the British soldiers who died in a bomb blast last week received compared to Afghan civilians who have died in the war.
Mr Ahmed will appear at Dewsbury Magistrates’ court on March 20th.
Making prosecutions against teenagers based upon Facebook comments seems extremely petty to me! Teenagers make stupid comments (it is part of being a teen), and any adult with a bit of sense would just ignore them! Crime must really be low in the UK if this is what the police spend time investigating!
Secondly, without seeing his original comments, his reported comments do not appear racist to me!
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