Peter Nunn found guilty of "rape tweets" to MP

He basically seems to be trying to weasel out of it by coming up with any excuse he can possibly think of, which makes him come across as rather a pathetic excuse for a human being, as well as a misogynist.

Men like this don't understand what rape is because they don't have to live in the shadow of it. Rape is not a joke or satire anymore than terrorism is. His right to free speech does not trump her right to not be raped or threatened with rape. He really must be a pathetic excuse for a human not to get this.

The part I don't understand is ff he had walked up to her in the street and said those things to her, he would surely have been arrested? Why is it suddenly an infringement of his free speech to not be allowed to make threats of violence online?

Would his partner still be defending him if she had stood there in the street and listened to him tell her all the horribly violent things he wanted to do to her, for the huge crime of believing women should be equally represented on our currency?

He really did cross off all the "arsehole" items on his shopping list:

• "satire" - tick
• "just a joke" - tick
• "free speech" - tick
• "you should take it as a compliment" - tick
• calling the women he sent rape threats to by their first names, "Stella" and "Caroline", like they are mates - tick (also, ugh)

Hope he goes down. What a knobhead.

And yes, really depressing that there are some women (as well as the usual MRAs) lining up to defend him.

Scallops, I don't think anyone with an ounce of sense or credibility could imagine that Buccanon* is in any way respectable, oppressed or anything other than a sad little misogynist.

What makes me sad is that there are women who are defending him. He did it because his wife nags him. He did it because he was drunk. He only retweeted other people's rape and death threats. The women he threatened in some way invited/enjoyed/were ok with his threats because they retweeted them. The women who reported his activities to the police are police informants and therefore not to be trusted.

A nagging wife doesn't make men go on twitter and post rape threats against other women. It's not even an excuse to make rape threats against the woman doing the nagging.

Being drunk is no excuse for anything.

He didn't only retweet others rape threats, he made threats of his own, he created several accounts on twitter in order to retweet his own and others threats to several women over a period of several weeks. He boasted about creating new accounts to be able to stalk women and threaten them.

I should imagine that the several women he threatened retweeted his threats because they were not being believed. Or they had had enough, or felt seriously threatened by them.

The last thing is beyond my comprehension. Several men are making endless threats against you, but you shouldn't take it to the police? If you do, you're a police informant and can't be trusted? This shows that the people making this claim have no clue what a police informant is.... It's not someone who reports a crime to the rozzers, it's a criminal who informs on his fellow criminals in the hope of leniency. Are they accusing CCP, SC and others of being criminals, complicit in the threats?

Why do women do this? Why do they collude with the basest misogynists against other women?

Sorry, bit of an essay, but I'm completely flummoxed about it.

Just realised you said he's friends with Buchanan, Capt Chaos. That really doesn't surprise me. Buchanan is all about being a respectable/respectful 'oppressed' man. Shows what a load of bollocks that is. It doesn't take much to show their true colours.

I hope he gets a decent sentence, what a vile man.

Free speech doesn't mean freedom to make specific, violent, threats against another person. And the thing she was campaigning for was so inoffensive! Fair representation of historic figures of both sexes, FFS.

It is really sad and depressing to see yet another example of a man making rape threats against a women. Anita Sarkeesian getting rape/death threats, and now this turd Peter Nunn making rape threats against women. It is about time that rape (and other) threats against women are taken seriously and the perpetrators are charged, and if found guilty, incarcerated. It is a disturbing and dysfunctional development that this piece of scum has any support for him whatsoever. Anyone who makes rape or deaths threats to another person, especially someone they perceive to be weaker than they are, should be held up to be the arseholes and degenerates of society which they truly are.

These shit-for-brains arseholes have no idea what free speech actually means. Making explicit and specific violent threats is not covered by free speech legislation. Making violent threats towards a person is actually a violation of that person's free speech.

I feel so sorry for his poor daughter with a pair of woman-haters for parents. What's it going to be like being raised by a man who threatens to rape women for expressing an opinion? What's it like going to be like being raised by a man who clearly fantasises about raping women?

Scary if you go onto his twitter feed, theres a whole lot of support for him, almost as if he is fighting a crusade for free speech! Unbelievable.

Ahhh! That's who he is . Thanks Darkesteyes.

Yep. What a knob.

Ah yes I remember him Hes got a thing about women being witches.

And apparently he runs a security company if I remember correctly.

Knob!

Agreed - fear of punishment can be useful!

Also what an arsehole.

What a fucking ginormous cock he is. Hope he gets time in chokey.

Bell end.

Ugh what a ghastly piece of human being.
"It was just a joke"
"She should take it as a compliment"
"free speech"

It is a very good day for everyone that this man is to be sentenced.

I just feel so sad inside because he is not the only one with this exact mindset and there are many many more men just like him who won't ever be sentenced.

Well! Colour me shocked.... he's pally with that delightful chap Bucannon*

Free speech my arse.

and he has a 3yo daughter. poor girl.

He's appealing!

Twunt

What a deeply unpleasant individual he seems. I wonder what his partner thinks of him?

Hopefully, given that he is completely unrepentant, he will be given a custodial sentence. I doubt it though. iirc there should be another couple of cases to go with regard to this??