padib said:
Kasz216 said:
padib said:
Kasz216 said:
kowenicki said:
What does the British government have to do with this guys sentencing....? The British government has no power to over-rule an English court decision by a Judge. And it isnt a crime if the man has no concept of a crime... you have much more faith in the US treatment of overseas defendents than I do.
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The whole point is they feel someone with Aspergers would be treated differently and unfairly in the US.
If people with aspergers are being arrested and thrown in jail for the max penalty with no mitigating factors, for lesser crimes...
That destroys all credibility in the arguement.
Furhtemore, the government should be outraged at what happened and be speaking on this internet trolls behalf right?
I've yet to hear any public outrage.
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Because justice has been served. Sorry for trolling a bit but it's true. Someone had to take the shit for it at some point, these things have been much too common (suicides due to harassment). If one guy had to serve the punishment so as to give a clear message to the others not to do it, then well it's a bit unfair but so be it. And I'm looking at it from a philosophical point of view at this point, not legal. I may be totally wrong here, but that's how I feel about it.
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Hey i'm not the one that could go to jail over it.
Also uh... nobody committed suicide due to harrasment.
Or at least not due to his harrassment. He didn't even know any of the girls until after they had died.
He was basically arrested for taunting the parents of children who have died.
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Hah! I love it. Then again this isn't a rememberance page for Drew :)
You're right about him being arrested for taunting after her death, it wasn't clear to me given the article. Still, he's not just a troll, he's a sick one. Trolling is okay to an extent, but that's just defamation and hate especially in a place where the person's life is being honored (a rememberance page). I believe our species still understands honor, so maybe that's why they took it so seriously. I mean, maybe if it was on another site it would be less offensive to the parents. It's just the symbol of it is much worse to bear on a tombstone or in a rememberance page.
EDIT: But I think the article didn't give enough information on the Bullying part, alledged to be the reason of her suicide. Are there other articles that mention those events?
Per the article: "Miss MacBryde had thrown herself under a train in February after being bullied."
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She was bullied by classmates because her parents got a divorce... i'm sure the parents divorce played a part in it as well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357144/Natasha-MacBryde-bullied-divorced-parents-dies-rail-track.html
I'd agree what he did as wrong and about as evil as you can get, however not everything "wrong" should be illegal.
Nor should evil people be thrown in jail on BS crimes just because people don't like them.
