Trouble with Belfield and a lot of the "free speech" brigade found on You Tube etc, is that free speech is fine, but only if it agrees with their set of beliefs/view of the world, which isn't free speech at all IMO.
I agree that to hand down a consecutive, rather than the more usual concurrent sentence does seem harsh, but I don't know the Sentencing Guidelines or the Judge's reasoning behind that decision. Even Belfield reckoned the Judge was "good" after he was allowed to report on his own trial on You Tube, when the mainstream media were not.