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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: karajorma on June 13, 2011, 07:00:26 pm

Title: Maybe we can do this for the 2012ers too.
Post by: karajorma on June 13, 2011, 07:00:26 pm: Quote
It's bad enough that the world didn't end on May 21 for followers of Christian fringe group leader Harold Camping, but things got worse for a Malawian disciple who pleaded guilty for distributing false leaflets about the end of the world.

Saduki Mwambene, a 39-year-old bicycle repairman, got six month suspended sentence for distributing pamphlets about Camping's doomsday predictions, Agence France Presse reported on June 12.

"Police opened a case for him for circulating false documents that threatened the peace and security of citizens," an official with the magistrate's court in Chitipa district told the AFP.

A judge released Mwamben on bail, but ordered him to come back for a hearing after May 21 to prove that he'd given out wrong apocalyptic information.

Camping, who suffered a stroke over the weekend, became a short-lived media sensation in the run-up to May 21 -- the day he said would be the Rapture.

HIs followers plastered the cities in the U.S. and around the world with billboards proclaiming that humanity's time on Earth was short.

:lol: I do love the Judge's sense of humour in only charging the guy after he said the world would already be over. :p
Title: Re: Maybe we can do this for the 2012ers too.
Post by: Klaustrophobia on June 13, 2011, 11:41:12 pm: is handing out flyers really illegal? o.0
Title: Re: Maybe we can do this for the 2012ers too.
Post by: newman on June 14, 2011, 01:23:51 am: Quote from: karajorma on June 13, 2011, 07:00:26 pm
Saduki Mwambene, a 39-year-old bicycle repairman..

(http://i56.tinypic.com/261nsbb.jpg)
Title: Re: Maybe we can do this for the 2012ers too.
Post by: headdie on June 14, 2011, 02:24:51 am: Quote from: Klaustrophobia on June 13, 2011, 11:41:12 pm
is handing out flyers really illegal? o.0

In France if it "threatened the peace and security of citizens" apparently
Title: Re: Maybe we can do this for the 2012ers too.
Post by: Mikes on June 14, 2011, 03:06:58 am: Quote from: Klaustrophobia on June 13, 2011, 11:41:12 pm
is handing out flyers really illegal? o.0

Depends on the content, no?

I can easily think of several topics that would get you arrested in the US.
Title: Re: Maybe we can do this for the 2012ers too.
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on June 14, 2011, 03:10:46 am: Quote from: Mikes on June 14, 2011, 03:06:58 am
Quote from: Klaustrophobia on June 13, 2011, 11:41:12 pm
is handing out flyers really illegal? o.0

Depends on the content, no?

I can easily think of several topics that would get you arrested in the US.

I can think of a time where handing communist flyers would get you in lots of trouble in the US :P
Title: Re: Maybe we can do this for the 2012ers too.
Post by: Grizzly on June 14, 2011, 05:07:55 am: Quote from: Klaustrophobia on June 13, 2011, 11:41:12 pm
is handing out flyers really illegal? o.0

Well,t hese flyers can be pretty... disruptive. Still, its nowhere near shouting 'HES GOT A BOMB!' whenever a somewhat suspicious looking IE drunk figure appears in a public crowd, causing the crowd to panic and flee, thus endangering other people with trampling etc (this happened during the WW2 ceremonial in Holland last year <<). Still, it's similar.
Title: Re: Maybe we can do this for the 2012ers too.
Post by: Flipside on June 14, 2011, 08:10:27 am: Quote from: newman on June 14, 2011, 01:23:51 am
Quote from: karajorma on June 13, 2011, 07:00:26 pm
Saduki Mwambene, a 39-year-old bicycle repairman..

(http://i56.tinypic.com/261nsbb.jpg)

:lol: :D