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Thomas Mair faces four charges (Original Post) shenmue Jun 2016 OP
Death to traitors The King of Prussia Jun 2016 #1
But...but...but..."de-contextualised lines"!!!! muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #2

muriel_volestrangler

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2. But...but...but..."de-contextualised lines"!!!!
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 02:23 PM
Jun 2016
Jason Lock, who is Ukip’s membership officer in Caerphilly , wrote on Facebook last November in the context of a discussion about terrorism: “The trouble is the PC brigade and all the f***ing do gooders should be shot as traitors they have put our nation and families in danger. These Muslims will not give up until they own the world so action not words are needed!”
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He added: “They were publicly available on an open Facebook page. What is really worrying is that Ukip’s membership officer’s role includes recruiting like-minded people to his party. I would hope that Ukip will remove him, but it’s a sad reflection of their party organisation in Caerphilly.”

A Ukip spokesperson responded: “Ukip are sick and tired of the Labour Party using underhand and extreme tactics of rifling through our volunteers’ private social media to pull out deliberately de-contextualised lines from private threads to try to demonise the party.

“Having read the entire Facebook conversation it is clear to any sane person that the Labour Party edit and interpretation of the thread is deliberately malicious and untrue.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/ukip-official-criticised-after-calling-11205735

UKIP didn't try to provide this 'context', of course, though it would be truly fascinating to see what context could make that not a murderous rant.
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