WATCH: Man Facing JAIL TIME for ‘Grossly Offensive’ Joke Reacts to Guilty Verdict
On Wednesday, a British court found vlogger Mark Meechan (AKA Count Dankula) guilty of a hate crime for posting a video of a “grossly offensive” prank on YouTube. He’s now facing jail time for the joke.
The 30-year-old, a self-described “s***poster” and free speech advocate, trained his girlfriend’s pug dog to raise his paw, mimicking a Nazi salute. Meechan filmed the trick and posted the footage to YouTube, where it has racked up over three million views. Meechan was reported to authorities, and in April of 2016, was arrested for his alleged hate crime . . .
Meechan hopes something good can come from his sentencing: U.K. residents will wake up to the tyranny of their own hate crime laws.
Even if it takes me going to jail for a year for me to show everyone how ridiculous and overreaching hate speech laws are, where a YouTube comedian — a s***poster like myself — can go to prison for an entire year for everyone in the country to realize, “holy s***, these laws need to be changed, they’re overreaching, they’re authoritative, they’re clearly being used to control public discourse, people are seeing things that we don’t like them seeing and that’s what these laws are being used for.” If it takes me going to prison for a year to actually get people to see that and campaign for these laws to be changed, I’m happy to do that.
While awaiting sentencing, Court has ordered that I meet with a court social worker for an assessment as to whether or not a Restriction Of Liberty Order will be placed on me. This would involve a GPS tracking device being attached to me and me being placed under house arrest.
— Count Dankula🏴 (@CountDankulaTV) March 20, 2018
According to a post from Meechan, the court ordered that he “meet with a court social worker for an assessment as to whether or not a Restriction Of Liberty Order will be placed” on him. “This would involve a GPS tracking device being attached to me and me being placed under house arrest,” he added. (Read more from “WATCH: Man Facing JAIL TIME for ‘Grossly Offensive’ Joke Reacts to Guilty Verdict” HERE)
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