Thread: If you were the sentencing judge ....

Does our angry diplomat deserve to spend 7 years in a cage for this?

"Allegations that a senior British diplomat launched into an anti-Semitic rant in a London gym while watching TV footage from Gaza will not upset the "treadmill of diplomacy", the Israeli Ambassador to London said today. In a curiously tongue-in-cheek response to a case that has provoked concern within the Jewish community in Britain, Ron Prosor added that the tirade did not reflect "the health and fitness of our relations".

The diplomat, 47-year-old Rowan Laxton, allegedly shouted "f***ing Israelis, f***ing Jews" while watching television reports of the Israeli attack on Gaza last month. He is also alleged to have said that Israeli soldiers should be "wiped off the face of the Earth" during the rant at the London Business School gym near Regents Park on January 27. The tirade reportedly continued even after other gym users asked him to stop.

After a complaint from a member of the public, Mr Laxton was arrested for inciting religious hatred - which can carry a seven-year prison term - and bailed to reappear at a central London police station at the end of March. In the meantime, he continues to work as usual as head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's South Asian group, in charge of UK diplomatic policy in the region. In that job he would be expected directly to brief the Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who is himself Jewish. ..."

British diplomat arrested over 'anti-Semitic' rant - Times Online

He is certainly likely to lose his job.
Not a wise act by a diplomat.

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

Not a wise act by a diplomat

How many do we see???

Anti-Semitic....?? Now would that be directed towards the Semitic Arabics or Persians or Africans or Jews.

seing the dieing and crying children in Gaza is enough to make anyone lose their top

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

seing the dieing and crying children in Gaza is enough to make anyone lose their top

Agreed. It's an emotional issue.

Lose his job? Yup. Go to jail? Hardly, especially for the reasons cited above re. babies

even though he's right, he's probably going to have to look for a new line of work.

They're easy to hate though, aren't they? Sort of their own bloody worst enemy.

Hmmm, go to jail for expressing your genuinely held opinion.
Chairman Mao would be proud.

He had the balls to express his opinion, although perhaps to far. He feels just like most who are affraid to open their mouths.

With the exception of the deniers of course.

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

seing the dieing and crying children in Gaza is enough to make anyone lose their top

Maybe, but not enough to keep Hamas from firing more rockets into Israel wnen ever the jews quit bombing and shelling tho it seems.