{"id":1772,"date":"2017-05-21T17:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2017-05-21T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:06:18","slug":"scottish-youtuber-faces-a-year-in-prison-for-teaching-nazi-trick-to-girlfriends-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"Scottish YouTuber Faces a Year in Prison For Teaching \u2018Nazi Trick\u2019 to Girlfriend\u2019s Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scottish YouTuber Faces a Year in Prison For Teaching \u2018Nazi Trick\u2019 to Girlfriend\u2019s Dog<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Throughout the Western World, the most lethal enemy of free speech is the Jewish pro-censorship lobby. Now, in Scotland firmly in the grip of dour, grim homorless political correctness, a You Tube comic could face a year in prison as an example for a comic You Tube he made a year ago.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

Paul Fromm.,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director<\/strong><\/p>\n

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A year ago, Scottish YouTube comedian Markus Meechan AKA Count Dankula<\/a>uploaded a video<\/a> to YouTube of himself teaching his girlfriend\u2019s dog to be a Nazi. \u00a0The conceit of the video was to play a prank on his girlfriend by having her pug, Buddha, learn\u00a0to do tricks to\u00a0the sound of offensive Nazi slogans, like \u201cgas the jews\u201d and \u201cseig heil.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video went viral, receiving millions of views and landing on the front page of Reddit. Most people laughed at\u00a0the joke and did not interpret it as supportive of Nazi values. But the Scottish police were not amused.<\/p>\n

A month after Meechan posted the video, police arrived at his door and threw him in jail for the night. He will appear before a judge on Monday facing a hate crime charge\u00a0with a maximum sentence of one year in prison. He has also lost multiple jobs as a result of the video. Meechan could become the first Scottish comedian to be jailed for a joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everything can and should be joked about,\u201d Meechan told Heat Street<\/em>\u00a0over the phone. \u201c<\/span>I\u2019m still trying to find the humor in it, laughter just makes it easier to deal with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Marcus Meechan and his girlfriend\u2019s Nazi pug<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meechan said he fears the judge will try to make an example of him because of the amount of attention the case drew from the\u00a0British press. His trial will have no jury and his sentencing is entirely up to the judge\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen this happen before when people get dragged through the media.\u201d he said. \u201cThe judge says \u2018let\u2019s completely fuck up this one person\u2019s life so no one does it again.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Meechan\u2019s situation\u00a0closely mirrors the recent \u201canti-semitism\u201d controversy with the YouTuber Pewdiepie. <\/a>Pewdiepie made a similar style joke, using an anti-semitic phrase as shock humor to make a different comedic point.<\/p>\n

Interesting enough, Pewdiepie was based in London when he made the joke, but was not charged with a crime despite living under similar United Kingdom hate crime laws.<\/p>\n

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Buddha the pug has found new inspiration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scotland\u2019s history of sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics made the police hyper responsive\u00a0to verbal attacks on religion, more so than in England and Wales.<\/p>\n

Scotland is so horrifically PC,\u201d Meechan said. \u201cIf you have\u00a0a hate crime charge most companies won\u2019t hire you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite Scotland\u2019s\u00a0absurdly strict hate crime laws, major Scottish comedians are not given the same treatment as small time YouTubers.<\/p>\n

In 2010 comedian Frankie Boyle had to apologize after describing the Palestine situation as a \u201ca cake being punched to pieces by a very angry Jew.\u201d Boyle was not arrested for the joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Frankie Boyle got arrested people would be fucking furious and the police would not have any public support,\u201d Meechan said.<\/p>\n

He added that\u00a0he believes the fact he is a YouTuber makes him an easier target for both the police and the media.<\/p>\n

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The group leading the charge against Meechan\u00a0is the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities. At the time of his arrest in 2016 the group called the video \u201coutrageous\u201d and dismissed the idea it could possibly be taken as a joke.<\/p>\n

Heat Street\u00a0<\/em>reached out to the council and asked if they believe Meechan deserved jail time for the video, but they declined to comment.<\/p>\n

In a recent video<\/a>, Meechan explained that many Jewish fans from outside Scotland had reached out to him and asked to write letters vouching for that Meechan is not an anti-semite. But unfortunately only the opinion of Scottish Jews could be submitted used in court.<\/p>\n

Both\u00a0Scottish comedians and the YouTube community are supporting Meechan through this situation.<\/p>\n

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@<\/span>CountDankulaTV<\/span><\/a> wishing best of luck for @<\/span>CountDankulaTV<\/span><\/a>‘s trial in the meantime here’s a fanart with pepepug<\/p>\n