Graham Linehan arrested for tweets

Originally Posted by Taf

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.

Nothing to do with Judges - Jones was found not guilty by a jury, so there was no sentence…

You may wish to read what Melanie Philips had to say, and she is somewhat to the Right on the political Spectrum.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/col...tice-z60xh6psc

Non-paywall version

https://archive.ph/CEOPK

Originally Posted by Taf

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.

I am not sure he directed judges directly, but there was a general attitude across the system to go in hard on the rioters. The same happened in the Tottenham Riots 10 or so years ago.

When there is mass civil disorder, we tend to give harsher sentences to stamp down on it and make people think twice. Such riots tend to have a sense of excited momentum, where people lose their minds and see it all as very exciting. Then they hear someone is going to prison, it snaps them back to their senses.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Taf

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.

He implied it. but it's tenuous.

He said rioters would feel the "full force of the law" but any PM would say that, and in regards to actual "rioters" I don't think anyone would disagree.

Not so sure about tweets though.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Sirius

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

Yea its scary one can be treated badly JUST FOR STUFF HE SAYS ONLINE!!

I think anonymous posting on sites like that X site are beneficial!!

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Chris

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.

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.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

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.

I think it’s fair to say that you have misunderstood events completely.

Today’s court case is unconnected with the reason for his arrest earlier this week.