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I am going to blow up Robin Hood Airport

Robin hood airport The man charged with a criminal offence for posting "I am going to blow up Robin Hood airport" on Twitter has been convicted.

The judgement lacks common sense. Someone joking about terrorism on Twitter might be an idiot but he’s clearly not a terrorist, and treating him like one undermines faith in the law; it's a wildly over the top, authoritarian response to the current situation.

This absurd judgement is enough to make me want to blow up Robin Hood airport.

By Alex Deane

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Big Brother Watch Posted in Legal Action
  • Robert

    Not before I wanted steal it and distribute chunks of the best bits over the bittorrents!

  • http://niklowe.blogspot.com/ The Filthy Engineer

    I would prefer to blow up the Police, the CPS, and the Judge.

  • Friar Tuck

    Makes you proud to be British (not), as has so much over the past Stalinist decade in this benighted country.

  • Redacted

    old soviet union joke:
    “Here in Russia we have freedom of speech, in the West they have freedom after speech.”
    Make that “Had”

  • James Bolen

    Hey, I was going to blow up Robin Hood Airport! If you’re going to do it, it means I can’t. I’ll have to blow up East Midlands Airport instead.

  • NeverSurrender

    This is nothing but a complete failure of common sense and a total waste of our money. This country is being run by fools and policed by idiots!

  • It’s a free country guv!

    One stupid tweet, a venting of frustration perhaps, has cost this chap a future. He’s going to find it tough to get a job, obtain a mortgage, travel (let alone move) abroad, and God-knows what else. Is this guy now more or less likely to turn to crime? Whilst you haven’t provided extended highlights of this case, it does sound like slap-on-the wrist territory to me.

  • It’s a free country guv!
  • Purlieu

    But …. why ?
    (this is a very big question covering “everything” i.e. what is going on in the UK now / etc)
    Can anybody dare to surmise in printed form ?

  • MarkB

    And he lost his job as well. Note that the conviction was delivered by “District Judge,” a professional sitting alone, not by a bench of magistrates who would probably have given him a conditional discharge at worst if they hadn’t already thrown the case out. This increase in professional DJs is another creeping threat to liberty.

  • http://www.msn.com Kay Lidington

    A whole army of people were involved in this travesty. Someone kept a straight when a ‘complaint’ was raised; police and CPS staff (including one or more baristers) decided it was a serious issue (these people are trusted in law to exercise judgement — be very afraid) and an overpaid, overrated, overinsulated Judge bought into it.
    The cherry on the cake is that ‘criminal’ convictions, no matter how absured, contrived or otherwise achieved, blight lives so detering dissent.
    Let’s hope the Condem / LibCon / whatever co-alition can reduce the damage far enough and fast enough to prevent widespread lasting damage in the entire process.