Originally Posted by Taf (Post 36202174)

Did Starmer direct judges to come down hard on dissenters? I suppose we'll never know. But the disparity in sentencing between Connolly and Jones shows that some judges are very fickle in how they deal with direct or perceived threats against people, both online and in public.

Originally Posted by Taf (Post 36202174)

Did Starmer direct judges to come down hard on dissenters? I suppose we'll never know. But the disparity in sentencing between Connolly and Jones shows that some judges are very fickle in how they deal with direct or perceived threats against people, both online and in public.

Originally Posted by Taf (Post 36202174)

Did Starmer direct judges to come down hard on dissenters? I suppose we'll never know. But the disparity in sentencing between Connolly and Jones shows that some judges are very fickle in how they deal with direct or perceived threats against people, both online and in public.

Originally Posted by Sirius

I see we have had yet another person arrested for posting on X.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36202116)

Graham Linehan was arrested by 5 armed police officers as he arrived at Heathrow yesterday. His crime? Tweeting that a man cosplaying as a woman in a woman’s toilet is committing a violent act and must be resisted, and if all else failed ‘kicked in the b0ll0cks’.

Graham Linehan believes he knows which particularly unhinged gender activist reported his tweets to the police. That activist might be advised to reflect on whether he’s advanced his cause at all, given the backlash today. Even Owen Jones has been forced to defend Linehan’s right to say stuff Jones himself vehemently disagrees with. The only person who seems to have made a bold defence of the police is the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, who made a spectacle of himself on Newsnight last night by claiming it was reasonable and proportionate to send 5 coppers to intercept Linehan, keep him in custody for 18 hours and then ban him from Twitter as a bail condition.

Now even the Met Police commissioner, no less, has weighed in, demanding that the law and guidance that goes with it is changed because officers, he claims, are being forced to act in situations where he seems to think they shouldn’t have to.

This is what happens when you try to legislate what people can and can’t say, by centring the hurty feelings of people who claim that ‘words are violence.’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mx09l5297o



I started off posting this in the gender ideology thread but the issue is far broader than the subject Linehan chose to tweet about. We have sleep-walked into a position where police are going in mob-handed against popular comedians for making obviously satirical, if somewhat angry, social media comments. We are in danger of becoming the laughing stock of the ‘free’ world.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36202195)

From what the BBC lunchtime news said today, there is more to this than this single incident and it appears that Linehan & the transgender activist have had a history of incidents since he was 17.