pdogg Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 President Obama arrives in Phnom Penh on November 19th. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Villagers who live next to the Cambodian capital's airport had a message for President Barack Obama, but he won't be seeing it when he lands next week.Authorities on Thursday arrested eight villagers for plastering the U.S. president's picture on their rooftops beside spray-painted messages of "SOS." Their community of about 400 families lives in rickety homes with corrugated tin roofs adjacent to the Phnom Penh airport's only runway. Villagers say they were ordered in July to vacate their land so the airport could enlarge its runway and build a security buffer zone. "We are being forcibly evicted from our land without proper compensation," said 23-year-old villager Sim Sokunthea. "We didn't mean any harm. We just wanted Obama to help us." Dozens of police arrived at the village early Thursday morning. They ordered villagers to remove the rooftop artwork, which was deemed illegal, and they arrested those responsible, said Long Kimheang, spokesman for Housing Rights Task Force, an advocacy group that works with villagers facing eviction. http://www.fresnobee...s-messages.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kahuna Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 It ain't just in Cambodia... "Britain prosecutes those who post obscene, offensive, or menacing messages on Facebook and Twitter. November 15, 2012 LONDON — One teenager made offensive comments about a murdered child on Twitter. Another young man wrote on Facebook that British soldiers should "go to hell." A third posted a picture of a burning paper poppy, symbol of remembrance of war dead. All were arrested, two convicted, and one jailed — and they're not the only ones. In Britain, hundreds of people are prosecuted each year for posts, tweets, texts and emails deemed menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene, and the number is growing as our online lives expand. Figures obtained by The Associated Press through a freedom of information request show a steadily rising tally of prosecutions in Britain for electronic communications — phone calls, emails and social media posts — that are "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character — from 1,263 in 2009 to 1,843 in 2011. The number of convictions grew from 873 in 2009 to 1,286 last year." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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