kecske posted:

what do you do about liability insurance etc for a setup like this?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

learnincurve posted:

Homeless people got the set up from number 2 going on in the woods owned by the water board in our area, only theirs is tarp rather than canvas, and they got some of those fishing chairs.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Another friend has posted a big pic of piles of poppies and says "we're now into the 2 week Remembrance period in Britain". Since when did it become a 2 week period?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I read that as Rebecca Long Bailey for a moment instead of Royal British Legion.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I read that as Rebecca Long Bailey for a moment instead of Royal British Legion.

OwlFancier posted:

Should be wearing 11 poppies.

Soricidus posted:

I shall be wearing my poppy with pride as we remember the brave men of the Royal Navy who risked their lives for free trade in the opium wars

Grey Hunter posted:

Starmer, well, its a shame he's" spins wheel of hate "A Gay Romanian Muslim."

communism bitch posted:

None of that will happen to Starmer; he might even be allowed to win. It's important to the grand narrative that sensible centrism is seen as the only route to government for Labour.

namesake posted:

The wheels are properly coming off the UK

Guavanaut posted:

Hate it when the US has more progressive policy than Britain.

blunt posted:

Context? This isn't a link..

quote:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Trump made sure to protect tenants by banning evictions during the pandemic, but public officials have done almost nothing for property owners. That’s inviting disaster.

Many of these landlords, particularly mom-and-pop small-building owners, have been struggling for months to make ends meet as the COVID crisis drags on.

Thousands of tenants haven’t paid full rent. Others, looking to escape the virus, violent crime and plunging quality of life, have fled, pushing up the vacancy rate and forcing owners to grant concessions.

Meanwhile, landlord bills — including property taxes and water and sewage fees — have mounted, without letup. Cleaning and other costs have actually soared, thanks to the pandemic.

etc

quote:

A neo-Nazi teenager who encouraged terror attacks and downloaded indecent images of young children has been spared jail.

Harry Vaughan, 18, made extremist propaganda and joined a spin-off of the National Action terrorist group.

He admitted 14 terror offences, including encouraging terrorism, and two of downloading indecent images of children that were linked to occult beliefs and Satanism.

The teenager was handed a suspended prison sentence at the Old Bailey on Monday.

A judge said he will not have to serve the 24-month term unless he commits more crimes or violates court orders in the next two years.

Mr Justice Sweeney ordered Vaughan to undergo a deradicalisation programme, rehabilitation activities and have his internet use monitored.

He warned him that if he violated the conditions or committed further offences, he would be sent to a young offenders’ institute to serve his sentence.

Prosecutors said Vaughan had been described as an “A* student” by teachers at the Tiffin boys’ grammar school in Kingston, and during legal proceedings he achieved the top grade in four A-level subjects.

His father, Jake Vaughan, holds the senior position of Reading Clerk in the House of Lords and the court heard his son had “every advantage that could be afforded to him” in life.

Naeem Mian QC, for the defence, described his parents as “bewildered”.

He told the court that Vaughan considered himself to have been “groomed” online through exposure to extremist material from the age of 14.

Mr Mian said a psychiatric report diagnosed him with high-functioning autism and a “deficiency in emotional intelligence”, which made him susceptible to influence from online groups.

“He disappeared down a rabbit hole of the internet and he was in a very dark place,” he added. “He has shown remorse and … stated that he no longer holds racist and homophobic views.”

The Old Bailey heard that Vaughan joined System Resistance Network (SRN), a spin-off of National Action which has since been banned, in 2018.

In an online application, Vaughan said he believed the “whole system is so diseased that it needs to be destroyed”.

“The time for discussion is over, the time for action is now,” he wrote. “I can handle myself in a fight and there is nothing I wouldn’t do if I thought it was essential to the cause.”

Prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds said he boasted to fellow neo-Nazis online that he had already been making his own posters to “spark tensions” in and around his school in Kingston, south-west London.

“Vaughan had an entrenched extreme right-wing racist mindset, as well as an interest in explosives, firearms and violence more generally,” he told the court.

“His posters endorse Nazism, violence, terrorism and acts by lone wolves.”

Between early 2018 and his arrest in June 2019, he was active across online platforms including a forum dedicated to fascism, “free speech” social network Gab and Discord messaging service.

Vaughan created and spread neo-Nazi posters, including some featuring images of Auschwitz and guns, with SRN’s network and that of Sonnenkrieg Division.

He also created an “idiots’ guide” for fellow extremists wanting to make their own propaganda, which was inspired by the Siege ideology of American neo-Nazi James Mason.


'Miss Hitler' and fellow neo-Nazis convicted of National Action membership
A specialist report concluded that the teenager followed a hybrid of occult “left-hand path” ideology and neo-Nazi accelerationism, which advocates terror attacks to bring about a race war.

The court heard the encouragement of terrorism charge was over three posters shared on the Fascist Forge forum, all with Sonnenkrieg Division’s logo, referencing hanging, arson and guns.

Vaughan admitted disseminating terrorist publications by directing forum users to an archive of viable instructions on creating homemade explosive devices and firearms.

He advised readers to encrypt the material and warned that they could be charged with the terror offences he was later prosecuted for.

“The feds can and will charge you if possible,” he wrote, calling material that other neo-Nazis had been jailed for as “like children's book in comparison”.

Vaughan also pleaded guilty to 12 counts of possessing documents of use to a terrorist, including on bomb-making, close combat techniques and building or adapting live-firearms.

He admitted two counts of downloading indecent images of children, which Mr Pawson-Pounds said were among a larger amount of material linked to the occult and Satanism.

All but two of more than 30 videos of children, including boys, had been deleted and had included the most serious category of child sex abuse images.

Vaughan was not charged with planning a terror attack himself, but Mr Pawson-Pounds said he had looked at online shopping websites for components including plastic pipes, and that evidence of his internet activity was limited.

Investigators managed to recover 4,200 images and 302 files that were all linked to extreme-right wing ideology, but Vaughan had made it impossible to access other material.

The court heard Vaughan had used “sophisticated” techniques to conceal his online activity and delete files, including encryption, the dark web and rebooting his laptop’s operating system.

He also used aliases online but was arrested after a national counter terrorism operation identified him among individuals posting messages on an extremist website.

TheRat posted:

Sir Keith is at it again. Wasn't nationalised broadband just about as popular a policy as it could possibly be?

https://twitter.com/schneiderhome/status/1323274989366398977

TheRat posted:

Sir Keith is at it again. Wasn't nationalised broadband just about as popular a policy as it could possibly be?

https://twitter.com/schneiderhome/status/1323274989366398977

quote:

Prosecutors said Vaughan had been described as an “A* student” by teachers at the Tiffin boys’ grammar school in Kingston, and during legal proceedings he achieved the top grade in four A-level subjects.

His father, Jake Vaughan, holds the senior position of Reading Clerk in the House of Lords and the court heard his son had “every advantage that could be afforded to him” in life.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/neo-nazis-uk-terrorism-attacks-harry-vaughan-b1536489.html

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

"Mom and pop small building owners".

LordVorbis posted:

the anti national FREE broadband stuff was the literal straw that broke me from reasonable arguments in politics. Something that is a very basic, easy, net good with no downsides gets a huge backlash with arguments starting from, "oh it'll be badly mismanaged and be perfect, so don't do it." To "won't someone think of the poor isp monopolies. Who will suddenly have to provide a competitive service."

I couldn't do it. I couldn't even argue with these people. I can't even think of how to explain the wrongheadedness.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/neo-nazis-uk-terrorism-attacks-harry-vaughan-b1536489.html

quote:

The court heard Vaughan had used “sophisticated” techniques to conceal his online activity and delete files, including encryption, the dark web and rebooting his laptop’s operating system.

Guavanaut posted:

When you try to hide your files by rebooting your laptop.

NoneMoreNegative posted:

"the Tiffin boys’ grammar school in Kingston"

The loving what, this is some tv satire name.

Guavanaut posted:

Don't forget "they will use it to spy on people and regulate the internet" in ways unlike what they can already do, such as

Frekkie Melody posted:

Mega corps at least abuse employees within the law.

TheRat posted:

Heh

Frekkie Melody posted:

The laws that they bent to their favor I mean

Vigil for Virgil posted:

That's still not true.

Frekkie Melody posted:

It overwhelmingly is.