Self-described Nazi becomes first person jailed in Australia for performing outlawed salute
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Self-described Nazi becomes first person jailed in Australia for performing outlawed salute - Lemmy.World
Summary Jacob Hersant, a self-described Nazi, was sentenced to one month in
prison, becoming the first person in Australia jailed for performing an outlawed
Nazi salute. Convicted in Victoria for making the salute outside a courthouse in
October, Hersant’s act followed new legislation banning the gesture. Magistrate
Brett Sonnet justified the sentence, citing Hersant’s intent to promote Nazi
ideology publicly. Hersant’s lawyer argued that his actions were nonviolent and
claimed they were protected as political expression, stating plans to appeal the
ruling on constitutional grounds.
I don’t like Nazis for sure, but I also don’t like people being jailed for expressing their views and speech. So my thought would be to get like two or three hundred protesters together and all go to that courthouse and make that salute and make them arrest every one of them. If the court system wants to waste their own time and tons of taxpayer money, prosecuting people for free speech, then let them do so. Kind of like Iran using $2,000 drones to cost Israel $2 million missiles.
I’m sorry, since when was being a nazi in public in any way tolerable? We aren’t talking about “I don’t like cereal” here, the nazis were arguably one of the darkest times of our history. Trying to revive it is absolutely not acceptable.
Never give the government power that you would not want turned against you because governments change. I vehemently disagree with their cause, but I would also vehemently defend their right to express their opinion.
This is the right take, and the fact that these people aren’t seeing it is insane.
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