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Originally Posted by nomadking
Isn't this thread meant to be about an actual arrest for expressing opinions. So if I stood up and said that I wanted to have the same rights as immigrants, I wouldn't be arrested like in this example. |
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His opening remark was: "If you are a black, vegetarian, Muslim, asylum-seeking, one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you."
No one present expressed any concerns at the time but a letter of complaint was later received by police, and another person wrote to say he disagreed with the remarks made.
He was arrested the next month, and a further five months later was contacted at his farm in Cambridgeshire and asked by two officers from Gloucestershire to attend an interview at a police station.
At the station he declined to answer questions without a lawyer and was arrested.
He was put in a cell and told that he would have to stay overnight if he wished to wait for his solicitor, but after 40 minutes agreed to be interviewed without legal representation.
Mr Page said: "I was told I had committed a 'hate crime', interviewed under caution and given police bail."
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That comes as no surprise, as the PC brigade have been in charge of this country for far too long.