VHeadline commentarist Carlos Herrera writes: On the BBC web site it was reported today that:

Christopher Pierson, 40, was arrested on New Year's Eve and charged on Sunday with malicious communication and causing a public nuisance. Father-of-two Pierson, from Ruskington, appeared before Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court in London on Monday. He was remanded in custody by District Judge Daphne Wickham until 24 January.

This individual wrote to people in the UK pretending to be the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Thailand, informing them that their missing relatives involved in the Asian tsunami tragedy, had been confirmed as dead. As a result, Pierson was charged with:

...causing a public nuisance and a further charge under Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act...

This is interesting for me and my colleagues in Venezuela since there have been many complaints and articles written on the terrorist activity of A. Boyd via his hate-Venezuela website based in London.

Refer to the recent VHeadline articles: Can we really accept this sort of terrorism on the Internet? and Hitting a raw nerve when the right questions are asked... and which could be interpreted both as not only being a call to threaten violence against a sovereign state and a democratically elected government in the case of Venezuela, but also, and more importantly, as being malicious communications, as outlined in the UK’s Malicious Communications Act.

Here are the relevant sections of this law for VHeadline readers, and the British Authorities:

Being a responsible and law abiding citizen, I make a public call to the British Intelligence Services, Special Branch Police and the Home Office (Internal Affairs) for investigation of Boyd’s activities in London ... in the light of the arrest of this Pierson character and the charges brought of malicious communications.

• If the British authorities do not act speedily, I make a personal call to Venezuelan Ambassador in London, Alfredo Toro Hardy to take this matter further and pressure the British authorities to act, in strict compliance with the law.

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