LOCAL charity organiser Tracy Olin and her family have been targeted by extremists opposed to the location of asylum seekers at Penally’s army camp.
Mrs Olin, who is the head of PATCH, was subjected to horrendous personal abuse after placing a comment online saying that the Charity would provide support to asylum seekers placed in Penally who needed help with clothing.
A series of foul-mouthed and obscene comments followed Tracey Olin’s social media post in which she said: “We will of course still be giving to locals as well, the same as we always have. But of course these gentlemen are now also ‘locals’ whilst they stay with us.”
The abuse targeted at Ms Olin and her family was so foul that The Herald cannot repeat it here.
Most of the abuse appears to come from so-called ‘sock-puppet accounts’ in which racist cowards hide behind pseudonyms to spread their vitriol. Many of the offending posts appear in a group called Penally Against Illegal Migrant Camp, which ironically asks its members to be kind and courteous.
The content of that group’s posts leaves no doubt that they are anything but ‘kind and courteous’, giving vent to fake news and bigotry coming from far beyond Pembrokeshire’s borders.
Among the fake news spread in the group is an allegation that a local man was spat on by a so-called ‘illegal’.
Not only is the story untrue, but the person identified as the victim of the alleged incident by a third party says it is untrue.
Meanwhile, hate-mongers from outside Pembrokeshire continue to target online news articles and attack those who disagree with their extremist views.
Freedom of speech is not the freedom to incite racial hatred or to provoke others to break the law.
