Seppo Lehto is not a communist, socialist or nazionalsocialist

There is a petition for Seppo Lehto in finnish

http://www.adressit.com/allekirjoitukset/freeseppolehto/

Thank you beforehand

Seppo Lehto
Muhammed caricaturist
Tampere
Suomi - Finland

I appeal you internationally - I fight against islamization in EU and in Finland and I do not want that original nationalities will be slaved by new immigrants from Africa and islamistic countries.

I salute you and thank you if you can more publicity to this insanity and justice murder of mine 30.5.2008. Total punishment was 2 years and 7 months. Not something 2 years. - Think about it.

Seppo Lehto
Muhammed caricaturist
Tampere
Tampere tunnetuksi http://tampere-tunnetuksi.blogspot.com
Suomi - Finland - Finnland - Finlande

Although Lehto certainly has published very offensive material about several Finnish parliamentarians and other politicians, only one parliamentarian was among the plaintiffs of this sentence. This was the presently only openly gay member of the Finnish parliament and the sentence only referred to spreading false information about his sexual behaviour, including false pictures. Critizising his politics was not an item of the sentence.

The other plaintiffs were an African immigrant who has a long history of legal battles about Lehto, as well as a judge, a DA and other legal court personnell connected to Lehto’s trials with the African immigrant. Also here the charges included false allegations about the plaintiff’s private life, sexual behaviour and other personal conduct, also including fake pictures. Also the email-addresses of the plaintiffs were published, leading to numerous offensive postings at them.

Lehto also didn’t receive the harsh sentence without a warning, he already has two milder sentence about his online writings.

He also didn’t just write comments in his “blog”, but had, according to the sentence, created “at least” 41 websites with a very large amount of content and also spread his allegations over the Finnish “patrioottiradio”.

Whether the sentence is just or not in terms of freedom of speach can be debated. However, discounting the personal attacks of Lehto against the plaintiffs as appearing “to have been criticism of several of his country’s parliamentarians” doesn’t quite match the reality.

Should someone reading this know Finnish, here a link to the complete sentence, which a supporter (!) of Lehto (or Lehto himself - he’s not yet in jail) has published in his blog: http://kullervokalervonpoika.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/seppo-lehdon-tuomio/