How many Aussies are rotting in jail for words?

How many Aussies are rotting in jail for words? By The Noticer.

Political prisoner Joel Davis is met by friends as he walks out of Sydney’s Long Bay jail after more than four months on remand for a Telegram post.

 

Joel Davis was released on bail yesterday, after spending 133 days in solitary confinement for words he allegedly posted online, that no one is alleging resulted in any real world harm.

Fortunately for Joel, he has thousands of highly motivated friends and supporters worldwide, some with massive platforms in the US and Europe, and was therefore able to crowdfund enough money to pay for a great legal team, and his profile guaranteed media attention.

But even so, it took Joel more than four months, tens of thousands of dollars, and four bail applications before he was let out under extremely strict conditions.

Speech crime:

The police and prosecutors [argued that] Joel should stay in jail until the trial to protect the “emotional safety” of the public and his alleged victims.

They spent weeks going through every personal and group chat message he has ever sent to find the worst jokes and comments possible in order to lay those charges and to paint him as a dangerous and violent extremist. Lots of alleged words, but no evidence of violent acts, or violence resulting from his words. …

They wanted the judge to keep Joel behind bars for a minor charge 93.5% of people spend no time in prison for, knowing he could be there for two years in isolation with sporadic showers and no exercise …

We are all becoming so desensitised to police state multiculturalism, pre-crime arrests and jail for “hate speech” that it bears repeating – they are trying their best to jail Joel Davis for five years for words. Words on a screen that are not alleged to have caused any violence or harm. Murderers get lighter sentences all the time.

How many lower-profile cases are there that we don’t hear about?

Joel’s treatment at the hands of the system raises another question — how many more Australians are currently in jail for similar offences, potentially for even longer, because they don’t have the same level of support and the same profile as Joel?

The Australian Federal Police has publicly announced the arrests of a couple of dozen men for similar “carriage service” offences — mainly for alleged threats against MPs made online — and for “violent extremist material” offences, which means people allegedly caught with videos of terror attacks or terrorist groups, and terrorist propaganda videos or books. None of these alleged offences, that we know of, have been alleged to have resulted in any real world harm either. …

The corporate media has little interest in defending people accused of these crimes or hearing their side of the story, and they only give Joel attention to try to demonise him and his associates, shame the mother of his newborn baby, and/or call for more and harsher speech crimes, which the left-wing activist journalist class overwhelmingly support.

Prejudiced treatment from the system:

Most of the men facing these charges, it is safe to assume, are relying on Legal Aid or lower end lawyers, and are therefore at the mercy of biased magistrates and local courts, and we all saw how that went for Joel.

Aboriginals get special lawyers who are dedicated to keeping their clients out of jail because of the colour of their skin, but White people get no such defenders, and how many social justice warrior Legal Aid lawyers are going to fight hard against a magistrate they have to deal with every day to get an “extremist” out on bail?

One of Joel’s Legal Aid lawyers was obese and unkempt, turned up late with his shoelaces untied, and made no effort to get his client granted bail. No one batted an eyelid. Some magistrates felt the need to virtue signal at length in the courtroom, and wax lyrical about how awful Joel’s alleged words were, not bothering to hide their personal feelings despite being under media scrutiny.

If it wasn’t for the money Joel’s supporters raised for a top barrister to take his case to a higher court, he’d still be locked up. If it wasn’t for the fact that he’s a public-facing political activist, which they are also trying to use against him in court, no one would know he was locked up in the first place. …

Shut up, peasant:

The system is working in the opposite way to how most people think it should, but if we complain about the system or what it does we risk being jailed for “breaching social cohesion” or “undermining democracy”.

The Victorian Attorney-General’s lawyers told Jacob Hersant’s Nazi salute appeal last year that his implied right to freedom of political communication under the Constitution should be overridden by the rights of minorities not to be offended, essentially saying to Australians: “We have imported millions of immigrants against your will, but now that they are here you have to surrender your political rights”.

Her representatives argued, without evidence, that “hate speech” makes minorities scared to vote, and therefore any form of political communication that offends minorities should be illegal — a true tyranny of the minority. He who is most offended gets to decide what everyone else is allowed to say. That’s democracy in “modern Australia”.

This is police state multiculturalism, a term coined, ironically, by Joel Davis himself.

But Islam? Give those guys a total pass: