Linehan told The Times: “I was outraged by what happened. I’d just travelled ten hours from Arizona to voluntarily appear in another court case and they thought they had to send armed police to get me."
"I was arrested for messages on X when I haven’t even been banned from X. The tweets are not my best work but they are completely harmless. I’m furious about what is happening to women in the UK and I despise trans activists because I think they are homophobic and misogynist.... I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me and banned from speaking online — all because I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers. To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad.”
The Times prints the tweets in question:
1. “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.” 2. (with a photo of a trans rally) “A photo you can smell.” 3. (referring to the trans rally photo) “I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. F*** em.”Lineham recently talked to Joe Rogan for 3 hours, embedded below. I've listened to it in full. Lineham is very intense on the subject of censorship and transgender issues and women's rights. It's hard to notice from America, but he is a substantial pop culture figure in the UK and Ireland, and it's painful to see him persecuted.
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Homophobia is a subset of transphobia. Bisexuals? Are a product of gender ideology replacing sex in human biology. #HateLovesAbortion
Don't worry. Sharia Law will sort this out.
Brits need to overwhelm the leftists with acts of defiance. They can’t put everyone in jail for their social media posts.
“the UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women“
…… and the land of milk and honey for the Hollywood elites.
He wasn't arrested. He's transitioning.
I only listen to Joe Rogan for certain guest. I noticed that Mike Rowe finally sat across from Joe, so I'll have to download that interview and this one with Graham Lineham.
I'm very interested in the events in the UK, because I work for a company based there and know many coworkers living there. While UK politics greatly impact my company, my coworkers rarely discuss the politics happening there. I get more of that news from other sources.
I feel like Keir Starmer learned from the Biden Administration and is focusing even heavier on the everyday person rather than big name political rivals. I know they tried to debank Nigel Farage, but that happened under the previous "conservative" government, and it was a PR disaster for that government. Rather than go for the top, Starmer is boiling the frog, but as Althouse has noted, it isn't like the frog will just sit there and take it.
…they told you it was illegal. Before yesterday even. Or are you making a point?
A Monty Python sketch with an absurdist mean streak.
BTW I’m sure I’d be in a British jail for some of the things I post here. How about you?
Britain and liberal areas of Europe have appropriated the title of rape capital previously held by the progressive South Africa. Fortunately, they can abort the "burden" of evidence in a misogynistic and pedophilic forward-looking paradise. #NoJudgment #NoLabels
"The IT Crowd" was one the funniest sitcoms I'd seen in a long time. Kind of like a British Dilbert come to life. Too bad this guy hates us right wingers who stand up for his free speech. We still do it. Right is right.
It's interesting that the London Times didn't feel intimidated about reprinting the posts.
The first post does recommend violence. It's something I'd delete if it were in my comments.
While all things are tolerable. Left-wing ideologues have a notoriously short fuse... and then they march. Can Europe and Britain abort the baby, cannibalize her profitable parts, sequester her carbon, and have her, too?
A lot of Americans are going to have no problem warming up those old NORAID smuggling lines again. This time we'll call it BRITAID.
Has anyone in the UK government read "1984?"
Don't they realize what they are doing?
Or do they know and are okay with it?
1984 was a "how to."
The first post does recommend violence. It's something I'd delete if it were in my comments.
I don't know, but I'm guessing there was context we can't see. Maybe it's rephrasing/reframing of a tweet from a trans activist that Linehan was replying to or calling attention to.
"Brits need to overwhelm the leftists with acts of defiance. They can’t put everyone in jail for their social media posts."
I have been advocating this for some time- flood the social media with posts the government will want to prosecute for by the millions every single day. Also, flood the reporting system every single day with complaints about the posts of the political enemies- by the millions every single day.
Violence wasn't the first option. It was the option provided if all else fails as a response to an act that is perceived as violent. I'd think a women interested in women's rights would agree a women should have the right to use violence as a last resort against violence acted upon her. Alas, in the UK, a young girl was arrested for threatening violence against a man stalking her and her sister. It apparently isn't a right there to threaten violence under any circumstances.
Trump's State Department ought to announce a new policy of granting political asylum to any British subject charged with any form of "hate speech" infringement.
Fight fire with fire.
"It's interesting that the London Times didn't feel intimidated about reprinting the posts."
Who is going to get arrested at The London Times- the entire staff and publishers? Some animals are more equal than others.
And British lefties are pushing to allow young children to vote.
What could possibly go wrong!?
He gave them an opening when he encouraged violence.
Still fascinating to hear about Government Oppression supposed to be coming from the Right, but sneaks in on the Left while everyone was looking the wrong way.
"And British lefties are pushing to allow young children to vote.
What could possibly go wrong!?"
A 'Children's Crusade'...probably end up like the last one.
nn: "He wasn't arrested. He's transitioning."
Made me think of another resistance tactic: anyone arrested for this sort of thing should immediately claim to repent, announce their own transition, and start crossdressing like the recent trans-Nazi: in the most OTT, pantomime-dame, uncle-Miltie, Victor/Victoria way. And of course demand to be housed with the opposite sex. Lawrence Fox, Rowling, this Father Ted guy. Perp-walk them with gigantic inflatable balambas or luxurious Kitchener moustaches (or both!) as the case may be. Stand in the dock and recite all the pieties in a way that's obviously sarcastic but which not even a British judge could find contemptuous when seen on the trial transcript. Make the mockery a mockery. RR, JSM
He gave them an opening when he encouraged violence.
Lesson learned, one hopes!
I suggest this approach: "Make a scene, call the cops, and if all else fails..." comment admiringly on the size of his package.
The problem with this is that as we've all seen in viral videos, all too often a "trans activist" will suddenly revert to full toxic masculinity when mocked. So use my approach with caution, and maybe with a knife in one hand and an axe in the other (which carries its own risks).
What is Britain going to do? Killer clowns to the left of them, child rapists to the right... The great British middle is really up against it these days. It's tragic; I love that country. (Long past time to check in with some old friends in London and see how they're faring.)
To amplify and extend CJinPA at 9:54 I offer this from the great Tom Wolfe:
"The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe."
"Has anyone in the UK government read "1984?""
Uhmmmm ... George Orwell wrote "1984" in 1949.
He was writing about the UK.
There is today a government surveillance camera right outside what was his home.
Of course they read it.
It's their user manual.
"You loot, we shoot" still legal in Texas, as a phrase and a in practice.
Most disappointing has been the spineless comedians in the UK who, instead of rallying in support of Linehan, have mocked him.
Speaking of Orwell, there is literally a "good behavior zone" sign outside his home. Britain has become a Monty Python sketch...a bad one.
"1. “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. ”
I wish he wouldn't have used the word violent. He can say abusive, fine that is a matter of opinion, but it isn't inherently violent. Rhetorically blurring the lines between speech, non-violent actions, and violent actions is a tactic that has been used by those trying to censor people.
If Trump did announce a policy of political asylum for certain Britons, would that create a shockwave enough to cause things to happen?
How I used to admire Britain and the British, and look forward to visiting the place. Now, not so much.
Is the Lord of the Rings banned yet in England? Because this seems like a case where that great English Novel might be a little too on the nose. Scourging of the Shire. Gondor under Denethor, or Rohan under Wormtongue.
Who will be the Gandalf to stir the west?
Now that I think about it, weren't Tolkien's Orcs essentially just trans Elves?
Vault Dweller: "He can say abusive, fine that is a matter of opinion, but it isn't inherently violent"
Mmm, I would say implicitly violent? An American woman suddenly finding a man in her bathroom or locker room is going to think of rape first thing. Maybe Japanese or Scandinavian women used to coed hot baths/saunas, or French women used to topless beaches, might just be moderately perturbed or even amused. In fact, I remember using a French coed public toilet over 20 years ago (at the US Cemetery in Normandy, of all places). But for American women and what they're used to, a man inserting himself into a female space...probably wants to insert himself into a female space. RR, JSM
I really don't get the attraction of converting your open western nation and culture into what this is headed toward. Why would native British leaders want that, and why would people who ran from it want it in their new home. It seems like leftists everywhere are just suicidal nuts or incredibly stupid. Neither of those seems possible among so many at the same time in so many places. WTF?
A laff for us all: Starmer and Co. are the "moderates".
Regarding assertions of "what the Brits need to do" -- consider what happened to UK culture over the last few hundred years:
- The explorers left to discover the world, claim new lands, and form the empire.
- The ambitious settlers left to the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Those with fighting spirit got killed during WW1 or WW2, or other random conflicts.
The (traditional, white) UK stay-at-homes, risk-averse establishment, and the nannies took over. Safe, timid, formal, trusting, and unaware they are pawns or being eaten by emerging predators.
If a man comes into the ladies change room and dances around wagging his unwanted junk in your 8 year-old daughter's face, is that violent or just speech?
Now compare that to getting arrested for this tweet.
Leftism is a toxic cancerous disease.
Vance said...
If Trump did announce a policy of political asylum for certain Britons, would that create a shockwave enough to cause things to happen?
Only if it was backed by sanctions.
The British government is just as totalitarian as the Russian government. We should be treating them both the same way.
The left insulate themselves in a blanket of corruption - where voters cannot throw the bums out.
That's what this is all about.
But we should talk, eh?
Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
We have a jihadist lady in Congress who married her brother.
We have a dude who was banging a Chinese spy.
We have an old alcoholic hag who is insider trading.
We have a heavy set lady punching ICE agents.
We have a dude who made up Russian lies.
We have a dude who drinks margaritas with gang members.
We have a lady who speaks in Ebonics.
We have a Speaker who lets people sleep on the floor.
We have staffers ass f*cking in the Senate chamber room.
Congress is a joke.
bagoh20 said...
If a man comes into the ladies change room and dances around wagging his unwanted junk in your 8 year-old daughter's face, is that violent or just speech?
Now compare that to getting arrested for this tweet.
If I was in that situation I’d be forced to choose between doing the right thing and going to jail.
My solution is teaching my daughters how to do the right thing. I want them to be able to make the man’s dream come true and perform the appropriate surgical procedure. They won’t have anesthesia on hand though.
Italics begone.
Ann Althouse declared: "The first post does recommend violence. It's something I'd delete if it were in my comments."
You know, Ann, who else recommended violence against the British government?
Paul Revere did.
Benjamin Franklin did.
George Washington did.
Thomas Jefferson ... the author of the Declaration of Independence, recommended violence in that very document.
"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
There is but one way to abolish your government and that way is to violently overthrow it. Thomas Jefferson and the others of our founding fathers understood this.
I wish you did.
Shame on you for suggesting that recommending violence should get your comments deleted.
Would you have deleted the Declaration of Independence, upon which your First Amendment rights are based?
Shame on you.
ISWYDT, Mosby @10:29am!
Ya cain’t get nothin’ by me…
"If a man comes into the ladies change room and dances around wagging his unwanted junk in your 8 year-old daughter's face, is that violent or just speech?"
I will note that you had to add extra facts to merely being in the room to argue that it is violent. But I think the underlying question misses the point. Actions don't need to be violent to be wrong and rightfully prohibited. I do think that men who identify as women should be prohibited from women's and girl's private spaces but not because their being there is an act of violence. JK Rowling has previously made the point that the use of language on trans-matters matters. A Transwoman isn't really a woman. So she objects to the culture trying to force people use that false term. Similarly, I object to the misuse of the term violence. Not because I favor men who identify as women to be allowed in women's spaces, I don't, but because it is false.
Ann Althouse said...
It's interesting that the London Times didn't feel intimidated about reprinting the posts.
The first post does recommend violence. It's something I'd delete if it were in my comments.
That is why it is up to men to protect your freedom.
No person has any rights they cannot protect by force. The only reason you can say the things you do is because braver and better people that you fight for your “Rights.”
I do think that men who identify as women should be prohibited from women's and girl's private spaces but not because their being there is an act of violence.
I consider it violent. The threat is inherent.
Every act in society comes down to force. Collectively People choose to allow or not allow things like this.
There are 4 main options if men invade women’s spaces:
1. Arrest them.
2. Allow husbands and fathers to crush invaders.
3. Declare all public spaces unisex.
4. Protect men who invade women’s spaces from husbands and fathers.
No matter which option you chose it will always come down to violence one way or the other.
"I wish he wouldn't have used the word violent. He can say abusive, fine that is a matter of opinion, but it isn't inherently violent."
A distinction worthy of emphasis. "Violence" is intended to harm, to do damage. It is possible to use "force" without using violence. And it is ethical to use force against people who refuse to respect legal boundaries.
Why would native British leaders want that, and why would people who ran from it want it in their new home.
On the first part, what makes you think what is happening in Britain is new? Seditious Libel, that is any statement made that might bring contempt or hatred against the government, was only removed from British law in 2009. It had been the law since 1275. You can say what you want about the British people, but British leaders are not to be trifled.
There are two definitions of "violence" running these days. One includes only physical force, but nearly all also include or add severe emotional harm as a form.
In general, I agree it requires physical force, but some non-force actions can be so damaging that they can exceed the harm of some physical force, and part of the harm of physical violence is understood to be the emotional damage that comes with it. We have aggravated assault for brandishing a weapon, and you can shoot someone who threatens you in a convincing manner, so actual physical contact is not required by law to commit "violence".
First they came for the anti-semite and i said nothing
Then they came for the racist and i said nothing
Then they came for the homophobe and i said nothing.
And now they've come for me.
His first post may recommend violence, but it's also exactly the same sort of thing I was told when I was young, if I needed to defend myself from a man. He also said, "if all else fails".
Seems like the UK has gone down the hate speech slippery slope, dropped off the cliff, and is now is in full censorship fascist mode.
Note that all these laws were passed during Conservative Governments ruled the UK. You'll never head Conservatives attacking this stuff unless its to hurt the Labour party for political advantage. Put the Tories back in, and they will be no different than Starmer.
The Labour Government recently said they will choose refugees over native born Britons. When these loonies are trying to make war against Putin or supporting Genocide in Gaza, they're making war on their own people.
In my great state of FL, my governor and many, many sheriffs have basically told people that if protestors come onto a highway and step in front of the vehicle, they (the protestors) should expect the possibility of being run over. I know that I would do that. I would not deliberately try to kill someone in that manner, but if I proceed at a slower speed and some asshat liberal crowd wants to get in my way, oh well. Anyway...
I'm glad this guy was on Joe Rogan, and his arrest his outrageous. But that bit about the urinary leash was the stupidest crap I've heard. Yeah, that's how men controlled women back then. No women only public toilets! And Joe Rogan goes "Jesus Christ" (how horrible). LOL. What a maroon.
If Linehan had posted the exact same content about Trump rather than trans he'd be praised by all the people who are currently condemning him. And I very much doubt he'd be arrested for anything.
Linehan obviously expects this sort of harassment. He should be better prepared for it. I'd suggest: "Right, then. I shall answer your first ten questions in the persona of Roy from IT Crowd. The second ten as Moss. I suggest you choose your inquiries wisely, as everything after that will be me channeling Richmond."
Graham talks about how all his showbiz "Friends" deserted him and "nobody stood up for me". And how the Irish media "treated me like I was dead". You really wonder if Graham, or people like him, ever pay attention. The Showbiz Left has operating like this...forever.
But every leftist who deviates from "the party line" is shocked and amazed, when he gets the same treatment.
Similarly, I object to the misuse of the term violence. Not because I favor men who identify as women to be allowed in women's spaces, I don't, but because it is false.
and
There are two definitions of "violence" running these days. One includes only physical force, but nearly all also include or add severe emotional harm as a form.
I'm pretty much with Vault Dweller on this one - the leftist tendency to call their actual violent acts "free speech" and rightists' speech "violence" is corrosive. They already want to redefine too many common terms into tortuous half-(or less-)versions based on "intent" and flat-out mind-reading and ancient history; I object to using the already-perverted terms in the ways they use them.
In this case, the arrested guy described an action, not words, it's true - and as a woman (she said self-consciously), I'm aware of and sympathetic to JSM's 10:29 comment noting that cultural differences can draw the distinction between what a woman perceives as a normal act versus what she perceives as a threatening one. But I've accidentally wandered into too many men's rooms in my life (particularly when the place uses cute terms - I get Setters and Pointers but not all are that clear*) to go reflexively with "he means harm!" right off the bat.
* My husband was recently alone in a men's room in one such place when a woman did just that - wandered in, looked around in confusion, and hurriedly left. Just a few minutes later, this same woman was standing in the lobby area and my husband's (female) cousin, who was visiting us, struck up a conversation with her. Turns out she was francophone from Senegal. When my husband rejoined us, the cousin told him, "See that woman there? She's French-speaking! You should say hi!" because my husband speaks French. So he went toward her.
And of course she looked terrified because she thought he was coming to confront her on her invasion of his privacy. We laughed and laughed... eventually.
Per the Guardian "This month, the Reform UK leader will give evidence to the House judiciary committee in Washington as part of a hearing on the effect that UK and European online safety laws are having on American citizens and tech companies."
Starmer and the EU fascists are trying to make the internet, including Americans, abide by their censorship and restrict our free speech. Hopefully Trump can fight them. Biden would be working with them.
Biden would be working with them.
Correction: The Biden regime was explicitly organizing the effort to use European laws to end round the first amendment and force American companies to censor US citizens.
I believe in 2 things:
1. Live and let live.
2. Get off my lawn.
Black Books is a hilarious sitcom.
Since this scenario takes place in the Ladies room, it is a call for self defense. IOW, the violence is incited by the guy impersonating a woman, not by the tweet author. I wouldn't recommend kicking the balls, rather a generous application of bear spray.
1. “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.”
King Chuck has the power to put a stop to this nonsense. He is not supposed to use that power but he uses it behind the scenes all the time. Maybe it is time for him to use it openly.
Unless he wants to be the last English king. And really, what is the point of being king if at some point you don't sack your prime minister (Starmer is not England's PM), prorogue parliament and withdraw your royal assent from some of the laws permitting this ridiculousness.
I don't expect him to do anything about this. I expect that he is on the side of those persecuting free speech.
I have always wanted to go to England and Scotland. There is no way I would do it now. I would be afraid of getting arrested for some of the things I've said online. Like Lese Majeste (Mocking Charles as King Chuck) and other stuff.
Yeah, probably a low risk as an American. But somewhat more than a zero risk. As this post illustrates.
John Henry
Planet Fitness allows men to use the bathroom of their choice.
Peachy said...
The left insulate themselves in a blanket of corruption - where voters cannot throw the bums out.
British voters don't even elect the bums. Not really. Their parliamentary elections are more in the nature of saying to King Chuck "We would like to have joe bloggs as our member. Would you please appoint him?" And, by tradition and custom, though not by law he does. But he doesn't have to.
PM is worse. The punters don't have any say at all in him/her. The party that wins the most seats asks King Chuck to appoint them. Along with the rest of the cabinet. By custom and tradition he usually does. But he can also withdraw the appointment, just ask Liz Truss.
Suppose the reform party wins and asks Chuck to appoint Farage as PM. Will he? Suppose an Oswald Mosely, who really was almost literally Mussolini (dedicated Fascist) was proposed as PM? Would Chuck exercise his safety valve function?
In France they recently passed a law that Marine LaPen is not allowed to participate in politics for 5 years. In Germany the AfD party is essentially, if not techically, outlawed.
Fuck England. We bailed them out twice is the last century at considerable cost of American blood and treasure. We had no dog in either fight.
It looks like we might have to again. It is time to get out of NATO before they suck us into another meat grinder.
John Henry
Too bad this guy hates us right wingers who stand up for his free speech.
At this point he may be happy with support wherever it comes from. Another question is whether one can disagree without hating those one disagrees with. Linehan may or may not have hated old Irish Catholic conservatives, but he was willing to speak at a British Conservative party conference, so maybe hate isn't quite the right word.
What jumped out at me was that the police were armed. When did that happen? I can remember when the police were unarmed, and Brits were pretty proud of that fact. Almost obnoxiously so at times.
The times, they are a-changin’.
Lots of English are probably wishing they had a First Amendment. And a Second Amendment.
Or even a Constitution.
Instead of a collection of customs and traditions that can change daily. It is as much a "constitution" as a man in a dress is a woman.
John Henry
Big Mike: "What jumped out at me was that the police were armed. When did that happen?"
Well it was at the airport. A lot of the airport police are armed because airports and planes are terrorist targets. Also, the Brits don't trust passengers coming from other countries to be fully searched - if you come in from outside the UK, even from the USA, and transfer to another flight, you and your bags go through the full search routine. So it may just be SOP for armed officers to make first contact with a suspect coming in from overseas.
The big governmental and tourist sites have armed cops too: the palaces, Parliament, etc. And there are armed detective squads for high-risk cases. Average beat cops are still unarmed. RR, JSM
Strongly recommend the British sitcom show "The IT Crowd" which can be streamed on Amazon, Roku, Tubi and Pluto.
He's transpirational, a carbon emitting endangerment, and a first-order forcing of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.
Neither Venus nor Mars nor Uranus, the Antigyns are on notice.
RCOCEAN II said...
"First they came for the anti-semite and i said nothing
Then they came for the racist and i said nothing
Then they came for the homophobe and i said nothing.
And now they've come for me."
Nothing to worry about. Their round-ups are obviously ineffective.
I see lots of people praising Black Books and The IT Crowd. They were both pretty funny, but Father Ted is absolutely golden. I don't know if it is available in the US on streaming, but I highly recommend it. The Catholic church in Ireland actually does send wayward priests (not the pedophile ones) to remote islands. I spent a lot of time growing up on a tiny island off the west coast, and the priests were a bit unusual to say the least. One was a very heavy drinker who always acted as DJ at the local "disco" nights. We are talking about an island with around 150 residents, many of them old, so the disco was pretty strange. He loved playing Rod Stewart, especially Do You Think I'm Sexy. The next priest failed to show up on Easter Sunday so they sent a local lad to find him. He found him in bed with an off-island woman smoking hash, and it was soon discovered that he had a vast collection of empty whiskey bottles in the rectory and had spent every penny the parish had on booze and dope. Many years later he married my wife and I. He had been moved to another parish where he served under strict supervision by this time.
Father Ted really does reflect reality to an extent.
I mean to say that he performed the marriage, of course.
A man walks into a ladies' room pulls it, out waves it around, aims it at someone, and makes gestures of using it on her, but makes no contact.
"It" is:
1) His penis
2) His handgun
One will get you prison, cost you your Second Amendment rights, and all that is after it takes most of your bank account, because it's considered violent due to fear it instills in the victim.
The other is your right and freedom of expression.
I think brandishing a gun is more likely to be justifiable, and for some it's less scary.
Greetings from the Yookay as the fascisti like to call it. Ann says “ The first post does recommend violence. It's something I'd delete if it were in my comments.”
I understand and in principle I sympathise, but if you did so, you would be complicit in the Yookay’s two-tier justice system. Please Google “Jo Brand battery acid”. A Leftist alleged comedienne, Jo Brand tweeted that Nigel Farage should be doused in battery acid. Her excuse? “Only joking!” . Needless to say, she was not arrested. It could hardly be clearer that there is one set of laws for those loyal to The Party and another set of laws for those who are not.
5 armed? Queer. It was brayed from The Outer Limits or visited in The Twilight Zone?
Question for the anglophiles. Why do they still call themselves “Labour” when they obviously hate and fear the ordinary British working class men and women? And are eager to see the daughters of the working class families turned into sex slaves?
I suppose it’s related to the party that calls itself “Democrats” being in favor of one-party rule, e.g., California, Illinois.
"To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad.”.... well he isn't wrong!!!!
The UK is now worse that Putin's Russia.. literally. Since they have no Bill of Rights (including 1st and 2nd Amendments) they are 'subjects'.. And note Russia's 'rights and freedoms of its citizens' still has no guarantee of free speech or right to arms....
So the dictators in both countries now can arrest whom ever they want.
IF you happen to operate a core router, or DNS root server, kindly do the needful and delete the UK from it until they let Morris Moss out of prison.
He should have started a rape gang instead.
Why do they still call themselves “Labour” when they obviously hate and fear the ordinary British working class men and women?
My first reaction was "but Democrats". And they indeed don't care much for Democracy. Related, and to be fair, it was Republicans that pushed the term "liberal" as a pejorative, but Democrats were happy enough with the term for a time. I wouldn't call Democrats "liberals" now either.
Democrats might prefer "progressives" now, but they seem rather regressive to me. What party is pushing to retain non-citizens to be used to as cheap labor to pick crops? Which party supports racial preference and segregation in schools?
It seems to me that they are singling out people that are to some extent notable public figures, but lesser ones, and also fairly common citizens. These are people less able to defend themselves successfully against the state. Do you notice that you always know who the target is, but never know who the targeters are? The governments likes its protective anonymity.
I think one could go down the checklist from Dept. of State and see what items align with the conditions precedent for political asylum. I think this is an exercise that should be done, and made public. I think our Dept. of State should be moving into the policy of public shaming diplomacy.
I don't know what the deal is with their government but they should try turning it off and on again.
"The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe."
Is that a direct quote? I thought it was "... always falling on the US, always landing on Europe."
Also, the Brits don't trust passengers coming from other countries to be fully searched - if you come in from outside the UK, even from the USA, and transfer to another flight, you and your bags go through the full search routine. /i>
I found this out the hard way when I arrived at Heathrow from the States for a transfer (also on British Airways) to Prague. When the flight crew on the transatlantic leg heard it was our 30th anniversary they gave us a pretty nice bottle of champagne, Pol Roger as I recall. Of course it was confiscated as you cannot simply stay on the sanitized air side and get on your next flight. Everything gets unloaded and off you go to the security line for the next flight.
I am seriously considering never returning to England. I have said 10,000 things on the Internet that would put me at risk for being arrested there. I've never done anything illegal while in Britain, but I do not trust the likes of Two-Tier Keir to make the distinction.
Oh no. Italics again. Out, out!
@Leland: "Democrats might prefer "progressives" now, but they seem rather regressive to me. What party is pushing to retain non-citizens to be used to as cheap labor to pick crops? Which party supports racial preference and segregation in schools?"
The term "progressive" made political sense 100+ years ago when science and evolution and sanitation and new technologies were transforming the farm culture and curing diseases. Indeed, the old-time progressive political strategy affected everything from religion, to medicine, to foods, to roads, dams, to urban planning and all public works.
"Progressive" became outdated when the eco-left symbolically buried a car in the 1970s. This followed sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, hedonism, and bohemianism disguised with traditional worker-pro-science "progress" values. See what happened with Slick Willy "I feel your pain as I feel you up" Clinton, and Harvey "Lets smash the NRA as I get mine and then destroy your career" Weinstein. And Jeffrey Epstein.
The Democrats (as dominant in urban areas) regressed to primal politics (e.g., oligarchy, corruption, tribalism, etc.) because every single-party government always does.
Hassayamper: Pol Roger was Winston's favorite. I've only been fortunate enough to have a small glass at a Churchill Society event. So I feel your pain at having a whole bottle given then taken away.
Even if the liquid rules are silly (and I think UK's are less stringent than ours), though, a champagne bottle, with that thick bottom, is kind of a deadly weapon: it's basically a war club. I'm sure you weren't about to go around braining your fellow passengers, but what if you and Mrs Amper killed the bottle and binned it, then some chav picked it up? So you can console yourself that you were keeping Heathrow safe. RR, JSM
Liberal is divergent. Progressive is monotonic. Conservative is moderate. Democratic is majoritarian. Republican is representative. Principles matter.
Re the small grammar issue from 2:14: I think the [absence of a] hyphen comes to the rescue here. "5 armed police offices" unhyphenated is five people who happen to also be armed. "5-armed police officers" would be a more interesting story. But perhaps with two limbs, a club, taser and pistol, not entirely impossible!
"5-armed police officers"
In the 70s TV adaptation of Trollope's Palliser novels, leading Liberal politician Planty Palliser is trying to figure out how to switch Britain to decimal coinage, but can't decide what to do about the farthing, one fourth of a penny. His horsey maiden cousin suggests calling it a pistil, because that's what they call the fifth leg of a horse. Her joke wasn't in the book.
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