Comments on: Convicted For A Facebook Rant

By: Roy Bard

Roy Bard — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:40:42 +0000

Well – he could have served time…..

By: who_me

who_me — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:19:28 +0000

£300 and the equivalent of 30 8 hour working days of slavery. doesn’t sound all that lenient to me.

By: Roy Bard

Roy Bard — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:47:24 +0000

Azhar Ahmed sentenced

Ahmed was also fined £300 at Huddersfield Magistrates' Court. He will have to do 240 hours of community service over a two-year period. Ahmed was charged after the mother of one of the soldiers read the comments and was so upset she called the police.

'lenient' sentence designed to discourage an appeal?

By: Deadbeat

Deadbeat — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:11:30 +0000

It is clear that Azhar Ahmed properly juxtaposed the killing of innocents by the soldiers to the soldiers deaths. He was very correct in his outrage and commentary. Apparently Judge Jane Goodwin, is more about defending the status quo than she is about justice. I hope Ahmed is able to appeal the ruling.

By: fool me once...

fool me once... — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:17:48 +0000

Agreed. And even the white and black “squares” are culpable, by their complacency!

By: Ariadna Theokopoulos

Ariadna Theokopoulos — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:44:57 +0000

I agree with both w-m and DG.
This: “I do think that soldiers killed in the line of duty should be revered. Their sacrifices should be memorialised…”
invalidates the very criticism it attempts to make.
Revering soldiers for dying while killing innocent people in wars “of choice” and memorializing their “sacrifice” makes it impossible to indict those who started the wars.
Continuing to utter in hushed whispers of reverence the set phrase “our men and women in uniform” while knowing that the US has not fought a defense war in memory propagates the noxious lie.
The explanation many on the left make that most of those soldiers joined the army only because there are no other viable economic alternatives is not an excuse but in fact an accusation: why do they not assault the Congress, Wall Street, the banks?
The chess table should be swept off because not only the king, the queen, the bishops but the pawns are criminals too.

By: David Holden

David Holden — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:16:22 +0000

the merit of those who die in the line of duty must depend on the nature of that duty. reverence cannot be in any way an appropriate response to the deaths of personnel when an armed force is deployed to commit crimes against humanity in the course of an illegal invasion undertaken at the behest of a gang of psychopathic usurpers who have gained control of the US government.

By: Blake

Blake — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:04:43 +0000

No one can even answer you when you ask what are the western armies doing in Afghanistan anyway.

By: who_me

who_me — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:29:35 +0000

“Although Ahmed’s message is deeply unpleasant,”

no it wasn’t. it’s what needs to be said a lot more. it was his kind of sentiment that went a long way in securing an american retreat from vietnam. it was the sort of wishy washy hemming and hawing, support the troops type of sentiment, as expressed by the author of this piece, that has so far kept those troops killing, maiming and raping. as long as these “people” running the government (for israel) and their assorted lackeys and hired don’t feel the opposition in a strong way, they will keep on ignoring it as they do now.