I know what they could have got
but that doesn't bear any relation to whether 4 years is harsh or not.
Edit: Just seen your second point about what the reaction would be if it was EDL. I confess that I would probably find it harder to get as annoyed about, but that wouldn't neccessarily make the sentencing any less wrong, it would just need to find different voices than to mine to argue the case. And yes, that's my hypocrisy and one that I can live with.
Although the racial aspect is actually allowed for in law, so by definition the harsher sentence could be argued to be more valid anyway. So it would depend if they were explicitly inciting racial violence or not.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:45,
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