Criminalizing Free Speech to Protect the Lie

They got him! British police finally made the arrest of the century.

No, not a terrorist they welcomed across open borders. Not the leaders of the immigrants who organized “groomer gangs” to sexually abuse young girls while the British government covered it up for two decades.

The heinous criminal was one of Britain’s most famous comedy writers. Graham Linehan, a household name in British television comedy, was swarmed by five armed police officers as he stepped off a flight at Heathrow.

His crime? Three tweets criticizing transgender activists.

One tweet read: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and, if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”

Another mocked a trans rally with the caption, “A photo you can smell,” and a third called trans activists “Misogynists and homophobes.”

For this, Linehan was treated like a terrorist— and only released on bail on the condition he no longer post online.

He described it himself: “The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting… I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal… and banned from speaking online—all because I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers.”

Linehan is far from alone.

In just a single school year (according to data from the UK’s Department for Education), 94 students in primary school were disciplined for some alleged transgression against the woke / trans narrative.

This includes ten pupils from year one (aged 5-6), plus at least one a child as young as three years old who was suspended from nursery school for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity.”

These are supposed to be professional educators who are supposed to make sure that the kids know how to read… and to not run with scissors.

Instead they’ve become full-blown thought police ready to pounce on any potential wrongthink, even when it comes from a child who can’t even form complete sentences.

It’s also alarming to see the rapid evolution of what is considered wrongthink in the UK; British law punishes “grossly offensive” content— without bothering to define what that actually means.

This is similar to US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s view on pornography— “I know it when I see it”, which makes “grossly offensive” the exclusive domain of the accuser.

This is an extremely dangerous standard because the whiny crybullies on the left are offended about everything. And they’re constantly moving the goalposts.

Jokes that people laughed at a few years ago could easily get someone thrown in jail today.

Last month a young man was arrested in a sleepy market town in rural Cumbria under these vague laws for chanting “we love bacon” at a protest.

Obviously the guy didn’t just wake up that morning feeling kinky about pork products. He was at a protest against a new mosque being built in his community, and the “we love bacon” chant was essentially saying “We don’t like your religion, and we don’t want your mosque here.”

And so what? If Muslims are allowed to declare jihad against people who oppose their beliefs, is a Brit not allowed to oppose Islamic beliefs?

(Moreover, even as a legal technicality, how is chanting “we love bacon” considered “racially aggravated”, which is what they charged him with? Islam is a religion, it’s not a ‘race’.)

British authorities are even starting to consider the flag of England, the St. George’s Cross (which is different than Great Britain’s Union Jack), to be offensive hate speech.

Politicians refuse to acknowledge that their open-door, open-border, multi-cultural, far-left ultra-woke policies have been abject failures, and even resulted in the literal rape of the British people.

Because in the warped priorities of Britain’s rulers, it is less dangerous to silence a man chanting “We love bacon,” or gag a comedy writer for offending trans activists, than to admit they sacrificed their own daughters and wives on the altar of ideology.

If you point out that mass immigration brought organized rape gangs, you are “far right.” If you point out that men in dresses don’t belong in women’s spaces, you are “inciting violence.”

Rather than admit their mistakes and work to fix the mess they’ve created, Britain’s government is criminalizing the truth to cover up their lies and failures.

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