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Title: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Rev.Cambeul on Fri 28 Jan 2011
I'm no fan of O'Connell and know him to be a hater of Creators. I also think he's a bit of a loony with the way he carries on. Nevertheless, reverse what he was convicted of saying to a Jew so that it is instead said to a White man, and apart from many of us already being on the receiving end of such abuse, it turns out it's not a crime. Furthermore, if we do dare to complain about being on the receiving end of racial abuse, we are told to grow a hide, build a bridge and get over it. The typical "Whatever!"

Or, as happened to me, threats of arrest for racial vilification if I attempt to report acts of violent racial vilification perpetrated against myself.

Cailen




Brendon Lee O'Connell found guilty of racial hatred

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/accused-racist-anthony-oconnell-demands-judge-fact-treason-charge/story-e6frg13u-1225996353894?from=public_rss (http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/accused-racist-anthony-oconnell-demands-judge-fact-treason-charge/story-e6frg13u-1225996353894?from=public_rss)

A PERTH man who posted a video online showing him arguing with a Jewish man and calling him a "racist, homicidal maniac'' has been found guilty of racial hatred.

Brendan Lee O'Connell, 38, represented himself before a jury in the Perth District Court after firing the lawyer who had been defending him against an accusation that he posted an anti-semitic video online.

O'Connell faced seven charges related to the posting of a verbal altercation he had with Stanley Keyser and Timothy Peach, who are Jewish, and was found guilty on six.

An argument broke out between the three men at an IGA supermarket in South Perth on May 2, 2009, where a Friends of Palestine group was holding a protest against Israeli oranges.

Mr Peach, 19, told the court during the trial that he was a member of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students at the time and had attended the rally to "observe" and hand out flyers to educate the protesters about Israel.


He said he was "angry", "confused" and "offended" by O'Connell when he started to film the two Jewish men and argue with them about their religion.

During the trial, O'Connell refused to acknowledge Judge Henry Wisbey when he entered the court and, instead, rose to bow to the jury.

About a dozen supporters in the court cheered when O'Connell labelled the proceedings "a kangaroo court" and gave a long, repetitive rant about the King James Bible and the Constitution.

The video that O'Connell posted online was shown on the first day of the trial.

"You have a religion of racism, hate, homicide and ethnic cleansing," O'Connell says to the men on the video.

"You are a racist, homicidal maniac."


When the jury found O'Connell guilty on Friday, he shouted: "Free Palestine! Free Iraq!" before being taken away.

Outside court, Mr Keyser's mother Shelley said it was "a big relief" for the "terrible" ordeal to be over.

O'Connell was remanded in custody and is due to reappear in court on Monday.
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Rev.Cambeul on Sat 29 Jan 2011
The Comments Page: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/accused-racist-anthony-oconnell-demands-judge-fact-treason-charge/comments-e6frg13u-1225996353894 (http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/accused-racist-anthony-oconnell-demands-judge-fact-treason-charge/comments-e6frg13u-1225996353894)

Harry Posted at 5:30 PM January 28, 2011
What a looney.
Comment 1 of 20

cynical Posted at 6:28 PM January 28, 2011
Another man jailed for daring to criticise Israel.
Comment 3 of 20

Cailen Cambeul of Adelaide, SA Posted at 6:46 PM January 28, 2011
Can't say I'm a fan of Mr O'Connell, but reverse the abuse and you've got the life stories of many average White Australians. But then we're told to grow a hide, build a bridge, whatever ... and get over it. Where's the same attitude in return?
Comment 4 of 20

JR of Mandurah. WA Posted at 6:54 PM January 28, 2011
Lock him up....throw away the key...
Comment 5 of 20

xXx Posted at 7:33 PM January 28, 2011
A tool, a loser and an idiot all rolled into one. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Enjoy prison.
Comment 6 of 20

Mike Posted at 8:01 PM January 28, 2011
I totally agree with Callum [I take it he means me ~ Cailen], anyone that uses public transport will realise this fact, JR of Mandurah, get a life, there are far more serious crimes being committed and our judiciary do nothing.
Comment 7 of 20

Australian Posted at 11:02 PM January 28, 2011
This man didn't just speak his mind and wasn't locked up for criticizing Israel. He was locked up for making threats against the Jewish community. I am close to the young boy abused in Mr O'Connell's video. He and his family have had to live in fear for 18 months, Mr O'Connell placed the young boys statement to the police on the Internet. I was also in court when he asked the judge if he slept with small children and told the jury that rabbis had bribed the courts to have him convicted. This man is a raging anti Semite and menace society, I am grateful that he is now off he streets.
Comment 9 of 20

non sugar coater Posted at 7:20 AM Today
I completely agree with Cailen Cambeul of Adelaide. I watched this guys youtube video and i dont particularly agree with him and i even agree that his view are abit extreme but still i am still just someone who believes in principals. Where do you draw the line when it comes to freedom of speech?? Australian, comment 9, if this boy really had been living in fear then I would have had no problem if this guy had been charged with making threats, but he wasnt, he was charged with racial vilification. Since when does the government have the right to tell us who we are allowed to like and who we arent allowed to like?? I think everyone should check this guy out and watch all of his videos, https://www.youtube.com/user/IbrahimSiddiqConlon (https://www.youtube.com/user/IbrahimSiddiqConlon). Some of the things he says in some of those videos boggles my mind as to why he hasnt been charged with hate crimes! Oh wait, yeah thats right, he is muslim so it doesnt count as racist then. This is just nothing but a law that was pressured into existence by political correctness, another example of more of our democratic rights being eroded. A white person would have just been told to build a bridge and just get over it.
Comment 18 of 20
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Jimbo on Tue 01 Feb 2011
exposing the crimes of kike-en-vermin now qualifies as "hate speech"?

kike-en-vermin invade Patagonia......locals flee!

http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/01/30/israeli-war-criminals-in-patagonia (http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/01/30/israeli-war-criminals-in-patagonia)

re: O'Connell....my under-standing is that he had good advice from some-one i know in Perth who is "hooked up" with the Australian Truth Movement/freeman/common-law but sneeringly ignored it....if he had to accept it, then, he might have beaten these bogus "charges"!....if not in that court then, almost certainly, before Appeals Justices!

Outside court, Mr Keyser's mother Shelley said it was "a big relief" for the "terrible" ordeal to be over

oy vey!

"da poisecution"

these kike scum had to endure, at best, 30 seconds of "verbal abuse" and, now, O'Connell has to endure three years or so of gaol....his life pretty much wrecked...and, if he's un-lucky, sloughed up in a 10' X 4' concrete box with three or four psychopathic boong "bum bandits"!....such a deal, itz!  &:(

this is the latest info', i think......three years gaol.....

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/three-years-not-enough-for-racism-victim-20110131-1aavd.html (http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/three-years-not-enough-for-racism-victim-20110131-1aavd.html)

WA prisoners get "remissions for good behaviour", so, not sure how long he'll actually "serve"....maybe eighteen months, if he gets "parole"

Family friend Steve Lieblich told reporters it was a "very distressing" time for the Keyser family who were happy to have it over.

"I think it was a victory for decency and against bigotry and prejudice," he said.

"On this occasion it was the Jewish people who were the target of this bigotry but on future occasions it could be Muslims or Asians or any group, so we we should all be happy about this result."

Mr Lieblich said he hoped O'Connell would have time to reflect on his views during his prison term.

He said the internet made it easy to "spread hatred" and it was important to address the issue.

"This has got nothing to do with free speech," Mr Lieblich said.

"There's clearly a limit to free speech, there's a limit to all freedoms we have in society because we have to consider others.

"Words can hurt and cause a lot of damage and people need to recognise that they have to watch their words"



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uh........."Words can hurt and cause a
lot of damage and people need to recognise
that they have to watch their words
"

oy vey!

can you get any more KIKISH than that?!?
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cheers!

(Jimbo)
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Grimm on Tue 01 Feb 2011
There's a limit to free speech- if that speech is not directed towards a White person expressing their opinion.  Should that be the case, the person can be derided as a racist, homophobic, holocaust denier who would probably own a slave if slavery were still legal - and have no recourse under the law.

We, as a race, need to force this double standard to be addressed in the highest courts - or simply change the mentality of the people until a case like this is laughed out of the court room.
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Jim on Thu 03 Feb 2011
I agree 100%  They are a double standard. We MUST do something.
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Whitelaw Towers on Thu 10 Feb 2011
Sorry lads I have been very busy and a little slack about dropping over to see the Creators. This Brendon thing is rather big, yet not much is going on. Please stay up to date here for a White Nationalist angle http://whitelawtowers.blogspot.com/ (http://whitelawtowers.blogspot.com/) and here for the revisionist type folk and the Liberal type, that is Brendon's people http://brendonoconnell.blogspot.com/ (http://brendonoconnell.blogspot.com/)

Now Brendon is a friend of mine. I have stood by him since 2007, I have never been able do anything more for him besides help him financially. The last thing I needed was to bring him down because of my beliefs. He isn't one of us. But he is a brave individual who is doing time for us all. I was the last person to speak with him before they dragged him away. He has no regrets, he is a simple man, sadly a worshiper of the Sun God but that isn't his fault.  Now he is in prison I can now open the flood gates on these evil Jew bastards, it makes no difference any more. Help me help all of us and Brendon.

Post his vids keep the chat lines going. We are next, especially if you live in Australia. Take note of this vid my American friends, Brendon O'Connell. Fresh Fruit - The Return Of The Vineyard Owner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsxBLepEX74#) you guys are in a lot more trouble than us.  828
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Whitelaw Towers on Thu 10 Feb 2011
Quote from: Rev.Cambeul on Fri 28 Jan 2011
I'm no fan of O'Connell and know him to be a hater of Creators. I also think he's a bit of a loony with the way he carries on. Nevertheless, reverse what he was convicted of saying to a Jew so that it is instead being said to a White man, and apart from many of us already being on the receiving end of such abuse, it turns out it's not a crime and if we do complain about it, we are told to grow a hide, build a bridge and get over it, the typical "Whatever!" Or in my case, threats of arrest for racial vilification if I attempt to report acts of racial vilification perpetrated against myself.






Brendon Lee O'Connell found guilty of racial hatred

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/accused-racist-anthony-oconnell-demands-judge-fact-treason-charge/story-e6frg13u-1225996353894?from=public_rss (http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/accused-racist-anthony-oconnell-demands-judge-fact-treason-charge/story-e6frg13u-1225996353894?from=public_rss)

A PERTH man who posted a video online showing him arguing with a Jewish man and calling him a "racist, homicidal maniac'' has been found guilty of racial hatred.

Brendan Lee O'Connell, 38, represented himself before a jury in the Perth District Court after firing the lawyer who had been defending him against an accusation that he posted an anti-semitic video online.

O'Connell faced seven charges related to the posting of a verbal altercation he had with Stanley Keyser and Timothy Peach, who are Jewish, and was found guilty on six.

An argument broke out between the three men at an IGA supermarket in South Perth on May 2, 2009, where a Friends of Palestine group was holding a protest against Israeli oranges.

Mr Peach, 19, told the court during the trial that he was a member of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students at the time and had attended the rally to "observe" and hand out flyers to educate the protesters about Israel.


He said he was "angry", "confused" and "offended" by O'Connell when he started to film the two Jewish men and argue with them about their religion.

During the trial, O'Connell refused to acknowledge Judge Henry Wisbey when he entered the court and, instead, rose to bow to the jury.

About a dozen supporters in the court cheered when O'Connell labelled the proceedings "a kangaroo court" and gave a long, repetitive rant about the King James Bible and the Constitution.

The video that O'Connell posted online was shown on the first day of the trial.

"You have a religion of racism, hate, homicide and ethnic cleansing," O'Connell says to the men on the video.

"You are a racist, homicidal maniac."


When the jury found O'Connell guilty on Friday, he shouted: "Free Palestine! Free Iraq!" before being taken away.

Outside court, Mr Keyser's mother Shelley said it was "a big relief" for the "terrible" ordeal to be over.

O'Connell was remanded in custody and is due to reappear in court on Monday.

Mate he was done over by heap of Jew Nazis in the past Thats why I worked with him. Im the real deal. More here http://whitelawtowers.blogspot.com/2011/02/brendon-oconnell-fresh-fruit-return-of.html (http://whitelawtowers.blogspot.com/2011/02/brendon-oconnell-fresh-fruit-return-of.html) now people may think he was crazy or paranoid, I tell ya mate I am now getting it. The only difference is I am not alone. Shit mate the stuff that I have seen in the past two weeks is totally unbelievable. If I was to publish it people would think Im crackers.

Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Rev.Cambeul on Thu 10 Feb 2011
I know he was done over by a heap of jews, but weren't we all in one degree or another? I support him to the hilt even though I don't like him. Never spoke to him, and never cared to after I discovered how he attacked Creators and Creativity. Put it this way: I don't support him, but I support our White Racial cause and he is involved no matter what. Perhaps you can wake him up.

Until then, to be honest, I consider him a loony in our camp we are forced to support. That is not my opinion as Pontifex Maximus of Creativity. It is my opinion as an average Creator who has seen his abusive rants and consider that any support he receives will not only never be returned in kind, but will be returned as flat out abuse.

Like I said, perhaps you can wake him up.

@Cailen.
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Whitelaw Towers on Fri 11 Feb 2011
Getting him out of jail is the hardest part at the moment. He will never be with us, but its good to know he would at least allow us to speak openly about our beliefs. Here is some light reading, take special note of day two, see how they set him up.

http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_1.pdf (http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_1.pdf)

http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_2.pdf (http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_2.pdf)

http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_3.pdf (http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_3.pdf)

http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_4.pdf (http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_4.pdf)

http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_5.pdf (http://fugaziquo.com/directory/documents/oconnell_legal/trial_transcript/day_5.pdf)
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Rev.WillWilliams on Fri 11 Feb 2011
Quote from: Rev.Cambeul on Fri 28 Jan 2011
An argument broke out between the three men at an IGA supermarket in South Perth on May 2, 2009, where a Friends of Palestine group was holding a protest against Israeli oranges.

These are no doubt the luscious Jaffa oranges that are grown on land formerly owned by Palestinians. Martyred Palestinian freedom fighter Abu Nidal's family owned that land and cultivated those oranges for generations before the Jew and his collaborators stole their land.

From Dr. William L. Pierce's essay, The Big Lie, found here: http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?256767-Terrorist-Abu-Nidal-was-Israeli-double-agent-controlled-by-Menachim-Begin (http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?256767-Terrorist-Abu-Nidal-was-Israeli-double-agent-controlled-by-Menachim-Begin)
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"...I'll tell you about one of these Palestinian 'terrorists' you've certainly heard mentioned by the media if you pay any attention at all to what's happening in the world. He's called Abu Nidal: the most feared Palestinian 'terrorist' of them all. The name the man called Abu Nidal was born with is Sabri al-Banna. He was born in 1937 in the Palestinian coastal city of Jaffa. His family was one of the wealthiest and most distinguished families in Palestine and owned, among other things, more than 6,000 acres of orange orchards, which were the major source of income for the family. When Sabri al-Banna was an 11-year-old schoolboy, the Jews seized all of his family's orchards and other lands, all of their houses, and everything else his family owned, and he and his family ended up living in a tent in a refugee camp in the Gaza strip. Quite a shock for a quiet, introverted little boy.

"The shock led him to dedicate his life to evening the score, to gaining justice for his people, to striking back at the Jews who had stolen all of his family's property and driven them into a refugee camp. He built what was probably the most highly disciplined and ruthless fighting organization on the Palestinian side. He struck not only at Jews but also at Palestinians who collaborated or compromised with the Jews. Whenever Abu Nidal's troops would strike, machine-gunning Israeli tourists at an airport or bombing some Jewish facility in another country, the politicians and the media here always would go into hysterics about Arab 'terrorism.' I always cheered. Abu Nidal is not some crazed murderer who likes to kill people. He is a Palestinian patriot fighting for his people and for his country in the only way he can fight under the circumstances. He does not 'hate America's freedom' as George Bush and the media would have you believe. There is no reason for him to be an enemy of America, except that we have made him an enemy by arming and financing the Jews who stole his family's orange groves and forced him into a refugee camp. Remember that whenever you buy an orange that came into America from Israel: one of those sweet Jaffa oranges that are so favored by New York Jews. That orange is stolen property. It belongs to Abu Nidal. It was stolen from him by the Jew who sold it to you.

"By the way, a good source of information on Abu Nidal is a report published for the U.S. government in September 1999 by the Library of Congress. It's titled 'The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?' It's available on the Internet now..."

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Mr. Brendon Lee O'Connell was being generous to these Jews by just calling them "racist, homicidal maniacs."
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Rev.Cambeul on Fri 11 Feb 2011
I disagree with what he says about Creativity, but I will defend to the death his right to say that Jews are racist, homicidal maniacs.

@Cailen.

Deleted Video: Whistleblower Brendon O'Connell's PerthTuppaware Party 19 February 2010
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Rev.Cambeul on Wed 23 Apr 2014
Brendon O'Connell - Jailed for "Anti Semitism" - Now Released

http://henrymakow.com/2014/04/Brendon-OConnell-Jailed-for.html (http://henrymakow.com/2014/04/Brendon-OConnell-Jailed-for.html)

Australian activist Brendon O'Connell, 42, was arrested
and jailed in 2009 for making "anti-Semitic" statements.
He was released in January. Brendon describes how he
landed in jail and how an apology would have spared him
a four-year ordeal. 


"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."- Voltaire

Judging by Voltaire's maxim, everybody under the PC umbrella rules over the White Race. From that you should be able to judge whom it is that is marked out for extermination and what scum are being positioned to inherit the Earth - scum that includes O'Connell's precious Palestinians as part of the protected PC crowd. Check out an anti-Muslim campaigner looking at the same future https://creativityalliance.com/forum/index.php/topic,7875.0.html (https://creativityalliance.com/forum/index.php/topic,7875.0.html) ~ Cailen.

Quote from: Brendon O'Connell
I was arrested by 7 members of the State Security Investigation group on May the 12th 2009 for calling Stanley Elliot Keyser a "racist Jew" and "racially vilifying him in the process. Section 80B. That was one year jail time.

I then used words such as, "your days are numbered" talking about Rabbinic Pharisaic Judaism etc. This came under a different part of the legislation, Section 77, the most serious in that I was "inciting others" to go and kill Jews.

These are comments from my Blog at the time - after I was arrested - that got me more charges under Section 77 -

"1,500 Gazan's are dead, one million plus Iraqi's. We can only hope and pray that the international community strikes hard and makes sure that gaggle of Satan's children in occupied Palestine are brought to justice."

Transcript Page 626 - 2 years jail.

"Fairly soon Jews will realize that people are thoroughly sick of them, their whining, their perpetual victimhood and their demands for people to bow down and worship their dodgy religion of Holocaustianity."

Transcript Page 630 - 2 years jail

"The Jew community could of at least made their lies and slander half-believable, but I guess after years of inventive and over the top Holocaust memoirs they've gotten lazy."

Transcript Page 632- 2 years jail

"Former Ku Klux Clown lectures Aussies to stamp out racism. Unfortunately our former clown has never read the Talmud, so he forgot to mention Jews as the biggest racists of all."

Transcript p.633 - 2 years jail

Then 2 years jail for saying "your days are numbered in the video.

All up I was given 11 years jail which was then made "concurrent" which mean it all ran together as one charge. If they really don't like you, they run the charges "consecutive" and you do all 11 years. They were trying to scare me. I made sure I said, "Jail here is a holiday camp compared to Gaza!" which the media reported. I wanted to be as defiant as possible.

This Blog links to two video's I did explaining things

Here Justice Buss at my appeal indicates that if I would just say sorry they would let me out of jail. This was in December of 2011:

JA BUSS: One can readily understand that a suspended sentence would have been appropriate had someone in your client's position pleaded guilty even if not at the first opportunity, had expressed some remorse at some stage or even given an apology. If these had been the facts, then it is very difficult to see how a term of immediate imprisonment could possibly have been justified, but those are not the facts.

Transcript 13/12/2011 Page 18 WASCA

Below is a section from a synopsis I prepared for the High Court. It explains a lot. I have also included pictures taken from the raid video's. I don't think anyone has published these before.

Hansard of Debate - Criticism of West Australian  Racial Vilification Legislation by Hon John Fischer Nov.. 2004

"This legislation is atrociously drawn up. It will not achieve what it is intended to achieve, although I am not sure what the intent is. The Government has introduced the legislation and I do not believe there has been any consultation with the general public. I believe this legislation has been brought on as a red herring. From the people I have spoken to, I believe that this legislation will do the Government a great deal of harm. It represents without doubt, a loss of freedom of speech and a loss of freedom of knowledge.
...
I believe these laws will increase problems. The whole of the legislation will be thrown out. It is absolutely pathetic. I cannot emphasize enough that this is probably some of the worst legislation I have read."

Criticism by Greg Craven, 'Conversations With The Constitution: Not Just A Piece Of Paper'. UNSW PRESS.

"The most obvious feature of this rights discourse is its unremitting focus on the rights of minorities. New constitutionalists are relatively uninterested in the rights of common or garden Australians to live dull, secure lives in dull, secure suburbs, unmolested alike by burglars and intrusive governmental gate crashers. They are transfixed, however, by the rights of minority groups: indigenous people, ethnic minorities, sexual and gender groupings though not (of course) by the rights of unfashionable minorities such as conservative religious groups or right wing nutters. New constitutionalists argue, with obvious force, that it is the rights of minorities that most need protection. But there is more than necessity at work here."
Title: Re: West Australia: Perth Man Found Guilty of Racial Hatred
Post by: Rev.Cambeul on Wed 23 Mar 2016
O'Connell Arrested Again - This Time for Racial Vilification Against White Australians While Defending his Sand-Nigger Mates

The dumb shit didn't learn the first time: You cannot be White and behave or speak like a non-White - even if it is in defence of non-Whites. As a White man, O'Connell is subject to the full force of the law. He's a patsy the JOG use as an example to the sheeple that the law will always come down on (White) racists. Last time O'Connell was arrested, we could genuinely admit that he was a martyr for freedom of speech, as he was convicted and sentenced for merely pointing out that Jews and the state of Israel are racist, genocidal people - something we Whites are told every day from all sides ... often accompanied acts of violence. This time, he's chosen the sand-nigger over White Australia. The JOG gave him enough rope, now it's time to hang him as a traitor.

@Cailen.


WA man convicted over ISIS beheading threats

9 News (http://www.9news.com.au/) | 22 March 2016

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/03/21/17/29/man-on-trial-over-facebook-isis-posts (http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/03/21/17/29/man-on-trial-over-facebook-isis-posts)

Brendon O'Connell: The first person to be convicted under WA's racial vilification laws has again been found guilty by a jury, this time for telling a stranger on social media a Middle Eastern kebab shop owner wanted ISIS to cut his head off.

Brendon Lee O'Connell went on trial in the District Court of Western Australia on Monday, charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend.

O'Connell admitted he had sent 17 Facebook messages to Jason Hodgkinson in the space of two days in November 2014 but denied he was threatening the man's safety.

O'Connell told the court he believed Mr Hodgkinson was among seven men who racially abused his friend, Northam kebab shop owner Mustafa Atieh, in front of his children in September 2014, telling him to f*** off back to his country.

O'Connell said Mr Atieh, who was born in Kuwait but identified as Palestinian, was highly distressed by the verbal attack and had complained to him
that local police had taken no action.

After spending two months trying to ensure he had the right man, he took to Facebook to tell Mr Hodgkinson to "confess" so he could "force the issue" with police.

In the initial message, O'Connell said Mr Atieh "wants ISIS to cut your head off".

"I simply wanted to stir the pot so police would become involved and investigate the case," O'Connell said.

"I wanted him to go to the police and sort it out.

"I wanted the police to do their job."

O'Connell became animated when the prosecutor asked if he was trying to threaten Mr Hodgkinson with the message "an awful lot of Muslims want the head of the man that did this", dismissing the comments as "a throwaway line" and "a figure of speech".

"Do you think anyone would take that seriously? he said.

"Are you suggesting an ISIS team would fly over? Do you think they were going to send over a hit team from a Lebanese Hezbollah?

"If he (Mr Hodgkinson) takes that seriously, he's a retarded moron."

O'Connell claimed he was trying to frighten Mr Hodgkinson about the possibility of losing his job over the alleged racial slur when he posted "police are the least of your worries".

"You are in deep, deep, deep sh**," he wrote.

The prosecutor submitted that Mr Hodgkinson was not involved in the kebab shop incident so the fundamental premise of O'Connell's conduct was wrong.

The jury took less than an hour to deliberate and the verdict was unanimous.

Sentencing is scheduled for Tuesday morning.

O'Connell was remanded on bail overnight and faces a maximum penalty of three years behind bars.

He was in January 2011 sentenced to three years in prison for posting an anti-Semitic video on YouTube.


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