Luke Yarwood, 36, let loose on X after a deadly car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, last December. His posts called to burn migrant hotels and take to the streets in force - ugly stuff, sure, but in a free society, should that land you behind bars when it reached fewer eyes than a bad cat video?

It's the equivalent of shouting frustrations into an empty forest and getting hauled off to jail for it, all while actual criminals roam free.

Even more disturbing, Yarwood's own brother-in-law, locked in a family feud, ratted him out to the authorities. It's straight out of Orwell's 1984, where family members turn on each other for "Wrongthink."

Prosecutors at Bournemouth Crown Court painted Yarwood as a threat, claiming his "extremely unpleasant posts" could spark disorder near local migrant hotels. Never mind the tiny audience—his defense called them the "impotent rantings of a socially isolated man" with no real-world impact.

But Judge Jonathan Fuller wasn't buying it, slamming the tweets as "odious in the extreme" and designed to stir racial hatred.

Yarwood's first tweet responded to Germans fed up with immigration, reading "Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground." The second, replying to a GB News post, stated "I think it's time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs' houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE."

Clearly the rantings of an unstable individual, other posts from Yarwood griped about not hearing English in Bournemouth and asylum seekers eyeing local girls - hardly incitement, but part of a month-long pattern prosecutors used to nail him. There was, of course, zero evidence of any actual violence sparked.

This insanity echoes the case of Lucy Connolly, jailed for 31 months over a single tweet venting about asylum hotels after the Southport murders. Now free, Connolly has claimed her 13-year-old daughter was subsequently barred from a new school because the headteacher sniffed out mom's "racist" conviction, calling it too "difficult."