This chap had his day in court.....
That arsehole is local to me. Glad to see he's got a wider audience now.
Gary Farrimond, from Wigan, also said he wanted to ‘burn’ the Quran in a string of Islamophobic messages he posted on Facebook under the alias ‘Gary Gaz Farrimond’.
Surprised they managed to track him down with such a clever alias.
ghosltymachine and chakaping - i would like nothing more than to nail this guy..within the confines of the law...but for that process to happen the law needs to take an interest to start off with...
Just shows the double standards between forces.......
Surprised they managed to track him down with such a clever alias.
Poor journalism to term that an alias
My social media feed sometimes features posts from ex-schoolmates with stuff that's at best utterly nonsensical and at worst a straight share of Britain First type bollix.
Having known the characters for some years, none of them are particularly bright or educated, some are either ex-forces or are married to ex-forces people, some have a natural tendency towards indulging in what I can only term as "Fear Porn" - i.e. reading the hysterical headlines of the Daily Heil or Faily Express and taking them at face value.
The uneducated ones can usually be silenced with a response of "provide a citation to support your assertion", the thicker ones simply respond with variations of "yeah, but...(etc)...innit".
It never ceases to amaze me how people who will share a badly photoshopped picture of refugees to support their world view are seemingly incapable of using a reputable search engine to check out the facts beforehand...
FWIW one of these ex-schoolmates gleefully shared a post celebrating "National Dognut Day" (sic) the other week, another asserts that she's entitled to her opinion that "Britain is full" because - despite having elected to spawn four children and that her frequent flyer and loving mother of four lifestyle is down to good honest hard work and neglects to mention the generous settlement from a wealthy ex-husband. Another guy posts lots of things that are anti-Islam and stuff about "taking are country back", but he appears to have never left East Anglia. Finally there's an ex-forces guy, who seems to have served in some kind of a spud peeling or junior wire-crimping capacity.
I read this thread from start to finish last night and was pretty pleased at how sensible almost everyone was. Then you get the police letting everyone down.
To my mind - as a white guy - we should be tolerant of everything except intolerance. Violence is rarely the answer and I would never wish to encourage it, but if people have genuine reason to fear for their safety OR the safety of others, and feel let down by the authorities, then I would find it very hard to condemn a level of violence.
Nothing on this planet puts a smile on my face like a youtube video of a teenage mugger picking on an old codger who turns out to have been european middleweight boxing champion back in the day. Maybe ninja grannies but they're rarer.
fwiw -I'm rather disappointed the polis aren't following this up.
Just as an aside, why do people allow comments on their YT videos? It's dead simple to stop them (or vet them) and if you allow them, well, you know what you're bound to get.
