> Mark Meechan, the one arrested for teaching a pug to do a nazi salute as a joke
Wait, that’s real? Some dude got in trouble with the police just for teaching his dog to do the nazi salute??
> In April 2016, Meechan posted a video on YouTube of his girlfriend's pet pug Buddha titled "M8 Yer Dugs A Nazi". At the start of the video, he says: "My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of, which is a Nazi."
> In the video, the dog, prompted by the command "Sieg Heil", raises his right paw in the manner of a Nazi salute, watches a speech by Adolf Hitler (footage shown from the Triumph of the Will), and responds immediately when Meechan asks if he wants to "gas the Jews". It ends with images of Hitler and Buddha the dog depicted with a toothbrush moustache similar to Hitler's.
Reminds me of the guy who taught his girlfriends dog to raise it's paw when it saw hitler talking or when it heard the phrase "heil hitler". He did it as a joke and put the video on youtube and ended up going to jail over it.
Which I very strongly disagree with. It was perhaps in poor taste, but hurt no one.
> After all, England almost jailed something for training their dog to give the Hitler salute or for posting something mean on Facebook.
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He wasn't 'almost jailed' - he was fined £800. And the video involved him saying 'Gas the Jews' over and over again to his dog, to which the dog reacted.
"The centrepiece of the video consisted of the
appellant repeating the phrase “gas the Jews” as a command to the dog, to which the dog
then reacted. The video also showed the dog responding to the exclamation “Sieg Heil”
(hail victory), by raising its right paw whilst watching a recording of the Nuremberg rally.
This was interspersed with flashing images of Hitler and swastikas, accompanied by strident
music.
The sheriff analysed the law under section 127 of the 2003 Act by considering the
dicta in DPP v Collins [2006] 1 WLR 2223 (at paras 7-12 and 21-22) to the effect that whether a
message was grossly offensive was a question of fact. The sheriff found in fact that the
video was grossly offensive and would be found to be so by a reasonable person. The
repeated use of “gas the Jews” and similar phrases had a menacing character and reasonably
caused apprehension within the Jewish community. The appellant had known that the
video would be likely to be regarded as grossly offensive and menacing to Jewish people, or
at least recognised the risk that it would be taken as such. The offence was aggravated by
both racism and religious prejudice."
I would like to reiterate the legal ruling that "whether a message was grossly offensive was a question of fact".
Poetically, the only other dog that I know of which learned the Nazi salute was absolutely despised by the Nazis, and they went out of their way to try to find the dog, using a lot of resources that could have been more efficiently used gassing innocent families.
You're just lying, he's been condemned for sharing the video : https://www.nouvelobs.com/justice/20190919.OBS18677/alain-so...
Video which btw have nothing antisemite... but if you want to kill your dog, accuse him of having rabies...
Oh and it's not 1 year sorry, it's 18 months.
Well if we're quoting how about including this part:
> Fining Meechan £800, the sheriff told him: "The centrepiece of your video consists of you repeating the phrase 'Gas the Jews' over and over again as a command to a dog which then reacts.
I'm honestly taken aback at the poor taste of this comment. The dude adopted a cute puppy and cared for it. That's not a good reason to be murdered.
I don't know exactly when this happened, but tensions were high after the Cuban missile crisis, and a peace offering in the form of a cuddly creature to love doesn't really seem terrible to me.
I don't think there was any intent for a Pug to start a new holocaust.
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