He is currently facing jail time.
The Video
The video in question was created by Count Dankula, Markus
Meechan, in 2016 as a prank on his girlfriend, who was always telling him about
her cute pug.
The joke was that Meechan would teach the dog to raise its
paw to Nazi phrases as if it were giving a salute. As he stated in the video,
he wanted to make the cute dog into the least cute thing he could think of, a
Nazi.
Being a YouTube personality Meechan uploaded a video of him
training the dog to his channel. The video was viewed over 3 million times and
has been put in a suspended state by YouTube as offensive content.
The Verdict
This video landed Meechan in hot water with the UK
authorities under the Communications Act
of 2003. This lead to charges being filed against him and a court case that has
lasted two years.
On March 20, 2018 a guilty
verdict was handed down. It stated that Meechan was guilty of being grossly
offensive (#grosslyoffensive) and he will be sentenced on April 23, 2018.
This means that being offensive in the UK is now illegal and
you could face jail time. Since anyone can be offended at any time by anything
it means it is up to those in power to determine what is and is not offensive.
A situation has developed in the UK that would seem
laughable if it were not so horribly true. The police refuse to investigate and
bring to justice Muslim grooming
gangs for fear of appearing racist but will gladly send someone to jail for
an offensive video on YouTube.
It is a dark day in history when your government ignores
young girls and women being abused, raped, tortured, sold into sex slavery and
in some cases killed because the perpetrators of those crimes have a specific
minority status (some might call it privileged), but the full weight of the law
needs to come down hard on someone posting a ‘grossly offensive’ joke on social
media.
I am thankful that I am in the US but my heart goes out to
the citizens of the UK and I stand with them in their fight for free speech.
#grosslyoffensive
#Liberalist
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