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A Scottish teenager has been arrested for alleged incitement after posting pro-disorder statements on Facebook. Glasgow has been mostly untouched by the disturbances despite the dangerous incitement of 16-year-old Alexander McQuarrie from Cessnock. Strathclyde Police said the arrest sent a strong message "to anyone who is …

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Probably

    Probably what he said was just the sort of banter he'd have with his mates - with no comeback because no-one else is listening. Probably he just forgot the cops were listening this time.

    So good that he got caught if the intent was serious, but bad if we end up living in a society where we have to worry about who's listening all the time. Of course, if you use Facebook, you've pretty much opted in to such a society anyway, so no sympathy from me.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    RE: what he actually said

    He made a facebook page called:

    "Let's start a riot in Glasgow"

    which seems pretty clear that either (1) he is a dick (b) he wanted to start a riot or (iv) he is a facebook using dick who wanted to start a riot.

    Police became aware of the page when members of the public alerted them - so this is not a fucking case of Plod sitting around social media eating deep fried doughnuts instead of

    going out and catching rioters [who weren't actually rioting in Glasgy anyhow].

  4. Andrew Jones 2
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    Double Standards.

    If some guy had posted a group on Facebook organising a terrorist attack and it later turned out that the police knew about the group on Facebook but had done nothing about it - you would all be screaming that the police were useless and should of done something.

    The group on Facebook at first glance seemed to be serious enough - certainly serious enough that I reported it. There were many many links to the group flying around on Twitter under the #riot hashtag. In the same vane there are many many people posting pictures to Facebook of themselves with all the stuff they have stolen - and even people trying to organise sales for stuff they have stolen.

    It has got to the point where it is difficult to distinguish between those who are trying to be funny and those who are actually involved.

    However - regardless of whether the group was serious or not - *some* people could have decided to organise something based on the initial idea of the group.

    Additionally having just heard the poor shop owner "reeves" - in complete shock at his store being burned to the ground after 100 years of being there, and the dumbstruck woman who was watching the partyshop burn knowing that there were 3 flats above it - but completely helpless to do anything - it was in very poor taste for someone to suggest starting a riot elsewhere.

  5. Guus Leeuw
    WTF?

    Incitement

    Sir,

    surely an incitement is BBC showing people mobbing and looting with the police standing by idly...

    No?

    Oh...,

    Guus

  6. Dave Murray
    WTF?

    Glasgow has been mostly untouched by the disturbances?

    Mostly untouched?

    Try nothing has happened here apart from us laughing at the burning English.

  7. John Dougald McCallum
    Facepalm

    Glasgow

    I was in Glasgow last Saturday and you could hardly move down the main shopping streets. From the statue of Donald Dewar looking down the hill it seemed that the people were one solid mass,so a riot would only happen if it was a walking one,because I think if you started running you'd soon be coming to a grinding halt.

  8. Big Bear
    Angel

    No need to worry about Glasgow

    Why? They have the ultimate deterrent himself. I mean, of course....

    JOHN SMEATON

    He'll set upon you. Glasgow does not stand for this.

  9. Tony Paulazzo
    Big Brother

    Title

    Freedom defined is freedom denied.

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