Man charged with displaying Nazi hate symbol after showing off tattoos at NSW beach

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1. Couple of three questions…

   1. Was the Nazi salute and displaying the tattoos separate counts?

   2. How and why did the settlers in New South Wales hate North Wales that they decided to separately exclude them?

   3. Hats off to the man reporting the Nazi and not being scared of retribution.

2. And another country in the Anglo sphere abandoning the principle of free speech. Having an odious visible tattoo is still free speech, not a crime. It is not fraud, it is not an incitement to imminent lawless action, nor is it a true threat. Being offended is not being harmed. We can shun such people, we can mock such people, but we should not establish a precedent of punishing them, as next year the roles might be reversed.

3. First they came for the nazis,
   and I said nothing because fuck them, they’re nazis.
   It didn’t solve all the problems in the country, but we for sure didn’t end up worse.

4. How do you make someone’s body illegal? Is the government going to forcibly un-tattoo him? Or keep charging him with “displaying Nazi hate symbols” each time he takes a shower or exercises shirtless in prison? Can you be court ordered to wear a shirt the rest of your life? What if he tattoos it on his face, making “must cover up” conflict with the government’s new powers to demand you uncover?

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