You Tube joke leads to 10 years in prison

[tovaris]

A young man in Croatia who insists he was just joking on You Tube has been accused of supporting terrorism and risks up to 10 years in prison.

http://www.croatiantimes.com/picture/7m6y1370.jpg/

Damir Mamic from the southern town of Trogir made a home video pretending to be an invented character Commander Shamil and has in January this year called for attacks on police stations, offices with EU flags, bridges, railways, bankers and all the people who support capitalism.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITKXRlY2YOU

Police soon located and identified him.

He kept saying he thought no one would take his joke seriously. However, the public prosecutor has still accused him of supporting terrorism.

Damir Mamic is employed in the local Brodotrogir Shipyard in Trogir.

Source: http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2013-11-12/34772/_You_Tube_joke_leads_to_10_years_in_prison,

[NeuroTiger]

That's how we see it: supporting terrorism.
It's just too bad if he was joking...
THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU ACT

[tovaris]

that's how we see it: Supporting terrorism.
It's just too bad if he was joking...
Think twice before you act

lol :) seriously...

[Human]

I think some people take things too seriously... I mean, I doubt he'll be jailed and obviously it was a stupid idea to do this but I think the government needs to back off sometimes

[sqishy]

I think some people take things too seriously... I mean, I doubt he'll be jailed and obviously it was a stupid idea to do this but I think the government needs to back off sometimes

Yes ^ .

This is an overreaction, terrorism is the general excuse governments are using now -.-

[tovaris]

I think some people take things too seriously... I mean, I doubt he'll be jailed and obviously it was a stupid idea to do this but I think the government needs to back off sometimes

The funiest thing is that he isnt even consistent in his speech o... :) if anyone is to take him seriously they should consider being stupider than an eggplant.

[Twilly F. Sniper]

That guy just shouldn't have done it, because he should have known some people will take him seriously.

[Dark Unicorn]

Wow!He took it a little too far.

[othees]

That's not good. We're very panicked.

[johndoe1112]

A young man in Croatia who insists he was just joking on You Tube has been accused of supporting terrorism and risks up to 10 years in prison.

image (http://www.croatiantimes.com/picture/7m6y1370.jpg/)

Damir Mamic from the southern town of Trogir made a home video pretending to be an invented character Commander Shamil and has in January this year called for attacks on police stations, offices with EU flags, bridges, railways, bankers and all the people who support capitalism.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITKXRlY2YOU

Police soon located and identified him.

He kept saying he thought no one would take his joke seriously. However, the public prosecutor has still accused him of supporting terrorism.

Damir Mamic is employed in the local Brodotrogir Shipyard in Trogir.

Source: http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2013-11-12/34772/_You_Tube_joke_leads_to_10_years_in_prison,

uhh i don't even know what he is saying

[tovaris]

uhh i don't even know what he is saying

That is probably dueto the fackt he is speaking croatia...

[Col.Snoopy]

That guy just shouldn't have done it, because he should have known some people will take him seriously.
We have freedom of speech here in America. We can joke all we want, It's not like the guy said he was gonna blow up a building.

[tovaris]

We have freedom of speech here in America. We can joke all we want, It's not like the guy said he was gonna blow up a building.

Tehikly he did tell people to blow up buildings... :P

[Body odah Man]

Paranoia at its finest. Thats America for you.

[Left Now]

Right.

[Luminous]

Yes, he took it too far and he should have thought, but really everyone is overreacting.. The government should back off a smidge.

[Sogeking]

Paranoia at its finest. Thats America for you.

This happened in Croatia

This just another example of governments taking things too far. Here, in Texas a teen was arrested earlier this year over a sarcastic terrorist remark on Facebook. He was incarcerated for 5 months but during that time, he was so abused and depressed, he was placed on suicide watch. But luckily an anonymous donor bailed him out.

But this still shouldn't even happen. They're helping no one by doing these sort of things. You'd think that they would do a little more research on people before arresting them over a little joke that harmed nobody.<_<

[tovaris]

Paranoia at its finest. Thats America for you.

Croatia...

[Body odah Man]

Croatia my bad.
And the governemnt rlly is over reacting.

[teen.jpg]

Oops, maybe he should just know what not to do. Yeah its a shame if he actually was just joking, but nobody's dumb enough to not know the potential consequences of a joke like this.

[Jess]

He should have known better, but the government also overreacted..

[Fanta_Lover44]

Well to be honest, it's his fault.... He took it too far and so did the government.

[britishboy]

He got what he deserved

[Stronk Serb]

Ummm... Croatia is becoming a police state like America I guess. I'm not saying America is bad, but they use terrorism to imprison innocent people.

He got what he deserved

Lolwut? People have freedom of speech Croatia you know? They had no rights to arrest him.

[britishboy]

Lolwut? People have freedom of speech Croatia you know? They had no rights to arrest him.

You can not promote terrorism.

[Stronk Serb]

You can not promote terrorism.

That is infringing the freedom of speech.

[britishboy]

That is infringing the freedom of speech.

No it's not, you can talk about hating/ loving whoever, what you cant say is go blow up or attack that for whatever reason.

[Stronk Serb]

No it's not, you can talk about hating/ loving whoever, what you cant say is go blow up or attack that for whatever reason.

Ummm, freedom of speech means that I can say anything without restrictions. What you said is not freedom of speech because you restrict what people talk about. That leads to tyranny.

[Sugaree]

That is infringing the freedom of speech.

Technically, no, it's not. You see, freedom of speech comes with its limitations. For example, I can say "I hate X and Y" but I can't say to people "You should all go and kill anyone who supports X or Y". That promotes terrorism. I think the police force were in their full rights to arrest him.

[Stronk Serb]

Technically, no, it's not. You see, freedom of speech comes with its limitations. For example, I can say "I hate X and Y" but I can't say to people "You should all go and kill anyone who supports X or Y". That promotes terrorism. I think the police force were in their full rights to arrest him.

If that is to be taken as a definition of freedom of speech in Croatia, a lot more arrests should occurr due to Croatian nationalism or hate speeches. Those speeches promote genocide and terrorism, so people doing that should get arrested. Unfortunately it's not happening. All rallies for terrorism should be taken with same measures, not cherry picked like in Ex-Yugoslav countries.

[britishboy]

Technically, no, it's not. You see, freedom of speech comes with its limitations. For example, I can say "I hate X and Y" but I can't say to people "You should all go and kill anyone who supports X or Y". That promotes terrorism. I think the police force were in their full rights to arrest him.
Completely agree

[tovaris]

You can not promote terrorism.

He is not actuly promoting terorism, watch the wideo