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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by cassianoleal on Friday April 01, 2022 @06:42AM (#30876843)
Calling for the murder of a dead person?
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by tonyedgecombe on Friday April 01, 2022 @06:55AM (#30876918)
Was he dead then?
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by ImprobableTruth on Friday April 01, 2022 @07:22AM (#30877073)
Yes? From the article:

>The day after his death, Kelly, 36, tweeted “the only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella buuuuurn.”

Very crude, but he was celebrating his death, not calling for it.

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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by NoGravitas on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:57PM (#30881994)
> I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

--- Clarence Darrow (not, sadly, Mark Twain)

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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by whywhywhywhy on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:47PM (#30881084)
He’s implying dead British soldiers go to hell. Not calling for violence.

It’s rude and extremely poor taste but let’s not start pretending it was anymore more.

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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by tgv on Friday April 01, 2022 @06:40AM (#30876829)
No, he wasn't. It's offensive, but the figure of speech "the only good ... is a dead ..." does not call for murder. And offending soldiers is not a hate-crime, AFAIK. The tweeter should have been made to pay a fine to the charity Captain Tom was endorsing.
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by tonyedgecombe on Friday April 01, 2022 @06:57AM (#30876927)
"burn auld fella" sounds like a call to action to me.
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by Krollifi on Friday April 01, 2022 @08:03AM (#30877302)
Isn’t he talking about one’s burning in hell which no humans have a say in.
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by tonyedgecombe on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:26AM (#30877839)
You are correct, I didn't realise he had already died.
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by smcl on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:31AM (#30877875)
He's very clearly trying to say that Captain Tom is (burning) in hell.
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