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.
This is not the correct way to do this.
Because it works and shows the foolishness? Yeah.
What foolishness? Removing Nazis from civilized society?
No, trying to enforce unenforceable laws, if a bunch of people went and did this and made the state arrest and prosecute all of them, it would be an extreme burden to the taxpayers unless they just didn’t decide to prosecute the cases. The point would be to punish unenforceable laws economically. Here in the United States, a form of that would be to protest absolutely every traffic ticket that you ever receive on purpose. Even if you did wrong and you know it, The point is that it wastes their time and energy that they could be using for real issues on trivial shit.
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