Corey Delaney

[Collin Li]

Making incitement a criminal offence is a huge attack on free societies.

If someone tells you to do something, you do not have to do it. It goes back to the age old childhood saying: if he told you to jump off a cliff, would you?

We cannot keep subsidising individual responsibility in reaction to the social conservatives who want to punish anyone simply because of their personal perceptions of others.

I know I was incorrect on stating what is the law. Anyway, there is no proof that Corey had incited these attacks.

[excal]

Of course there is no evidence of incitement at all.

As for the $20,000 bill - the police are well within their rights to claim back costs from what they believe to be the cause of these costs. Their belief is that the party caused such damage, and as such the party organiser is liable. As Corey is a minor, the burden falls on the parents.

It really is a civil matter, rather than a criminal matter tbh...people seem to treat this 'fine' as a criminal thing.

[Collin Li]

No. The party cannot have caused the damage because the damage came from public grounds. He did not organise a party on the streets, he only did it at his house, and the people left the house and started causing havoc.

That is not his responsibility.

[brendan]

As for the $20,000 bill - the police are well within their rights to claim back costs from what they believe to be the cause of these costs. Their belief is that the party caused such damage, and as such the party organiser is liable. As Corey is a minor, the burden falls on the parents.

It really is a civil matter, rather than a criminal matter tbh...people seem to treat this 'fine' as a criminal thing.

What right is this? What case? What statute?