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Scottish Facebook rioters get three years’ porridge
TWO TEENAGERS who started a riot in Scotland using Facebook have got three years each in prison.
According to the BBC, 16 year old Shawn Divin and 18 year old Jordan McGinley were administrators of a Facebook page called "Riot in the toon" that urged people to "kill some daftys".
The pair had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to breaching the peace.
Divin was sentenced to a total of four years and three months, including one year for breaching a previous probation order and three months for breaching his bail by inciting riots.
Sentences for inciting riots via social networks have varied hugely in degree. In August, two were imprisoned for four years for inciting riots on Facebook, while another man got off scot-free after writing a letter of apology, highlighting the capriciousness of the UK judicial system.
Facebook was used as a vehicle for other incitements to rioting, with two girls, aged 13 and 14, receiving referral orders for stealing designer clothes after finding out about looting on Facebook. The judge slated what he called "the Facebook generation", which he classified as "selfish, self-motivated and unable to think for yourself". µ
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Yes this makes perfect sense, as anyone who is bored and looking for something to do could so easily be influenced by a FB posting. Why not just ban FB altogether, as that would have solved this problem before it started, and avoid any future problems like this?
Putting people/kids spouting nonsense on the internet in jail? I guess the idea is to float the next economical system on prisons then eh.
Incidentally, they really should hire some chinese judges and let the chinese build the prisons for such 'offenders', since the chinese have the expertise and will beat other offers in pricing.
Sure the saudi's and such also have the know-how but china is a good cost-saver.
Then 2 years later when we have the superior experience we can rent that out to them again
There where no riots in Scotland, these teenagers simply started a facebook group, i don't doubt that they thought what they were doing was legal.
...yet the crimes perpetrated by our government against the welfare of our nation goes unpunished.....
Maybe if they are good in prison, when their three years is up they can get two more years just to make sure they understnad the consequences of their actions.
it aint you getting your oats you have to worry about.....
just dont drop the soap
I don't know why they call Prison Porridge, because in prison one thing you don't get is your oates.