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Facebook Memes that Held the Wrong Opinion Gets British Man a Prison Sentence

A British man has been Jailed for 8 weeks for posting 3 Memes on Facebook.


Lee Joseph Dunn, a 51 year old British man from Whitehaven was yesterday jailed for posting 3 memes on Facebook.


Welcome to Starmer's own 1984.


The memes didn't break any law, they didn't call for violence, or threaten anyone, nor were they slanderous or mention any race, religion or colour. Yet these totally innocuous Memes got Dunn 8 weeks in jail. jailed for thoughtcrime.


Dunns 'crime' occurred on July 30 and 31 and involved three shared Facebook posts.


Prosecutor George Shelley said Dunn had posted three separate images.

The first one showed a group of men, Asian in appearance, at Egremont crab fair 2025, with the caption: “Coming to a town near you.”
The second also showed a group of men, Asian in appearance leaving a boat on to Whitehaven beach. This, said Mr Shelley, had the caption: “When it’s on your turf, then what?”
A final image showed a group of men, again Asian in appearance, wielding knives in front of the Palace of Westminster. There was also a crying white child in a Union flag T-shirt. This was also captioned, said Mr Shelley, with the wording: “Coming to a town near you.”

Cumbria Police had confirmed before the hearing that Dunn had been charged with posting offensive and racially aggravated content online.


Dunn was said by his lawyer, Andrew Gurney, to have apologised for his online actions. He had removed the offensive content he posted, and was given credit for this by the district judge, a John Temperley.


Dunn was handed an immediate eight-week jail term — discounted by a third from 12 weeks in view of his guilty plea — by district judge John Temperley.


The Judge said 'This offence has to be viewed in the context of the current civil unrest', even though each individual court case should be prosecuted purely on its own merits. Context is irrelevant a law has either been broken or it hasn't. Here, the 'context' is really the prevailing ideology.


Dunn was jailed because the government didn't like what he was saying. He has. committed a thoughtcrime, and clearly this prison sentence is designed to send a message to the public, 'don't criticise mass immigration' if you do we will send you to prison.

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