Trans tyranny apparently rules the United Kingdom. British police arrested Graham Lineman as he got off the plane at Heathrow Airport because he tweeted trans jokes. The Irish comedian who resides in Arizona is the creator of the Father Ted. Mr. Lineman penned an account of his arrest on Substack:
Graham Lineman account of arrest on Substack.
The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. Not one, not two—five. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets. In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up. When I first saw the cops, I actually laughed. I couldn't help myself. "Don't tell me! You've been sent by trans activists" The officers gave no reaction and this was the theme throughout most of the day. Among the rank-and-file, there was a sort of polite bafflement. Entirely professional and even kind, but most had absolutely no idea what any of this was about. “Kind” because the officers saw how upset I was—when they began reading me my rights, the red mist descended and I came close to becoming one of those police body-cam videos where you can’t believe the perp isn’t just doing what he’s told—and they treated me gently after that. They even arranged for a van to meet me on the tarmac so I didn't have to be perp-walked through the airport like a terrorist. Small mercies. At Heathrow police station, my belt, bag, and devices were confiscated. Then I was shown into a small green-tiled cell... Later, during the interview itself, the tone shifted. The officer conducting it asked about each of the terrible tweets in turn, with the sort of earnest intensity usually reserved for discussing something serious like… oh, I dunno—crime? I explained that the ‘punch’ tweet was a serious point made with a joke. Men who enter women’s spaces ARE abusers and they need to be challenged every time. The ‘punch in the bollocks’ bit was about the height difference between men and women, the bollocks being closer to punch level for a woman defending her rights and certainly not a call to violence. (Not one of my best as one of the female officers said “We’re not THAT small”). He mentioned “trans people”. I asked him what he meant by the phrase. “People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth.” I said “Assigned at birth? Our sex isn’t assigned.” He called it semantics, I told him he was using activist language. The damage Stonewall has done to the UK police force will take years to mend. Eventually, a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure was over 200—stroke territory. The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life! So I was escorted to A&E, where I write this now after spending about eight hours under observation. The doctors suggested the high blood pressure was stress-related, combined with long-haul travel and lack of movement. I feel it may also have been a contributing factor that I have now spent eight years being targeted by trans activists working in tandem with police in a dedicated, perseistent harassment campaign because I refuse to believe that lesbians have cocks..... I looked at the single bail condition: I am not to go on Twitter. That's it. No threats, no speeches about the seriousness of my crimes—just a legal gag order designed to shut me up while I’m the UK, and a demand I face a further interview in October. The civility of individual officers doesn't alter the fundamental reality of what happened. 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. Epilogue: At one point, I said “I bet I know who made this complaint. Lindsay Watson” (demented ex-copper troon who was fired for his online conduct). ...
Andrew Doyle pointed out the warped nature of it all:
But as absurd as it sounds, the arrest of a comedy writer at an airport is by no means the most egregious example of state overreach in recent years. We have seen journalists visited by police for wrongthink; citizens imprisoned for posting memes; prosecutions for controversial Halloween costumes; teenagers convicted and jailed for offensive jokes. Freedom of Information requests by The Times revealed that over 12,000 people are arrested each year for offensive comments posted online, and an estimated quarter of a million of us have been logged by police as perpetrators of “non-crime hate incidents” (NCHIs), mostly without being informed. Unherd
Thus the British police arrested a foreign comedian for jokes he tweeted when he was not in the United Kingdom. Trans tyranny, indeed.
51 comments:
Don't think the liberals in these United States don't dream of imposing the same level of total subjugation here.
Father Ted was one of the greatest comedy shows ever made in the UK or Ireland.
I hear your a racist now, Father!
My Lovely Horse - Father Ted Eurovision
The show ended tragically when the actor who played Father Ted died suddenly of a heart attack the night of the Season 3 wrap party.
Not surprised at all.
Such has been the official policy of the UK for awhile now.
Once the Boomer and Early Gen X dwindle to the point they don't influence elections, this will come to the US. Except worse.
Ok well what is the source of all this trans tyranny? Anyone who posts anything about the history and source of this madness gets censored because the truth is… an uncomfortable cohensidence
The more things change, the more they stay the same. There's a reason why the USA exists, you know. It's just a modern-day example of why we broke off from England in the first place.
With the erosion of the first amendment under Trump, this may happen here sooner than you think. Sure Trump won’t arrest people for hating on trans people, but once the right is gone, it’s gone forever.
All it will take is one executive order and maybe an emergency declaration. Thanks Trump!
And I cannot wait for you tinfoil hat wearing conservatives to cry like babies as you are trying to find another country that will let you live there once we libs are back in power. There will be consequences this time.
Senator and former VP candidate Tim Kaine believes that rights come from the government. I am sure he must be fine with the UK’s version of free speech- free to say what you want as long as the government approves.
Did you sleep through the Biden Administration? Unlike the current administration, the Biden Administration was actively seeking to censor social media, including threats of anti-trust actions if social media companies didn’t comply with requests to censor debate about COVID. Anti-abortion protestors were arrested and charged with crimes, while people who burned businesses and damaged federal property went unpunished. Parents were labeled terrorist for speaking out at school board meetings against woke school policies. Attempts to force government employees to use preferred pronouns is another example. Nothing Trump has done has come close to matching the degree of Biden efforts to suppress speech. Stop drinking the koolaid and ignoring the real threat to speech from the left.
How exactly has there been "erosion of the first amendment under Trump"? I'd counter that there's been much more significant erosion by the left. Examples: silencing the debate over global warming, threatening doctors and researchers who opposed COVID theories and mandates, the "me too" movement's trials by "popular" opinion, the mainstream media being the megaphone for leftist propaganda, only black lives matter and don't dare say otherwise, etc.
" once we libs are back in power" .
That's the funniest comment I've read in months !
The British also arrest people who pray on public sidewalks...you might be praying for the wrong thing. So glad we left them when we did.
3:02 and 3:06 are obviously trolls. Nobody with enough sense to comment on this blog believes Trump is anti free speech.
KF, you added nothing new to this conversation that has been going on for about a week. Maybe some more Mississippians learned about it here, and that’s good. Freedom of Speech is threatened in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and here in the USA including Mississippi.
If anyone thinks they are safe or that the Alphabet Mafia won’t target you for simply resisting them by standing firm for truth and sanity, then they are wrong.
Graham Linehan, John Cleese, and Rowan Atkinson have been arguing for free speech and the right to offend for years. I’ve been aware of this for years and marked the erosion of our rights for decades. I’ve been in the resistance for a very long time.
So, KF, if you’re posting this to raise awareness, welcome to the discussion.
@7:32PM - if you don’t believe Trump has acted against your freedoms, including free speech, you’re not paying attention. I have more than enough sense, I have been posting for years here, and I’m paying closer attention to Trump and world leaders than you are. Wake up.
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology. ~ Ayn Rand
@4:08 - got any links to those cases where they were prosecuted? I’ll wait. Show me a parent who was prosecuted as a terrorist for speaking at a PTO meeting. Show me where anti-trust laws were used to censor social media companies. Show me where anti-abortion protesters were arrested for laws free speech. Trump is the worst president for constitutional rights in the history of this nation, there is no debate there, it’s just so plain and obvious that anyone with a shred of patriots the dangers when that lunatic overwrites the constitution with a made up emergency and a stroke of the pen. He doesn’t even know what he’s signing half the time.
He decided a couple of weeks ago that burning a flag, which was decided by the Supreme Court to be free speech, is now against the law and has already made arrests on it. He’s defunded congressional approved funds for universities based on his not liking their positions on DEI and minority rights. He’s pulled security clearances for law firms that employees lawyers he disagrees with or who formerly worked on prosecutions he disagrees with. He’s arrested as well as deported students who were here legally because they are pro-Palestine. He’s sued tv companies who don’t cover him favorably. The list goes on and on and on. How have you not heard about any of it? Do you consider yourself an informed voter?
He’s arrested as well as deported students who were here legally because they are pro-Palestine. He’s sued tv companies who don’t cover him favorably.
Awwwww.... well you genocidal maniac, he tried to deport a foreign student who was an actively working with and supporting Hamas. He led the harassment of Jews at Columbia. If they were blacks, you would be screaming for his deportation and you know it.
As for the lawsuits against the networks, well, ABC settled for a reason. It was guilty. George shot his mouth off, was warned not to do so by the brass, and did it anyway. Trump would have won in Court and that is what ABC's lawyers told it.
There is plenty of evidence where the Biden admin leaned on social media companies to censor speech such as lab leak theories. Fauci, his employee, arranged for phony articles in the Lancet trying to discredit lab leak. Guess you forgot about that.
8:44
I have heard of all of it. Both sides.
Thank goodness for common sense and TRUMP.
Many of these comments, to me, exemplify how some crazy issue like this gets taken so far beyond reason:
It becomes a political issue, that politicians fight over. Beating the other side is the only that matters to those people. As long as they get a "win," they don't care if it makes no sense at all.
As for this: "once we libs are back in power"
As long as democrats continue to fight culture wars, they will continue to gets their clocks cleaned on the national stage. The right-wingers invented culture-wars-as-politics. They cannot be beaten at this game.
I’ve been in the resistance for a very long time.
And your brain is fried.
But Nigel Farage says UK has free speech.
The problem with mocking troons is that they have a nearly 40% suicide rate due to their severe mental illness. If they aren’t so zealously protected, and their delusions collectively enabled, the number would be significantly higher 😵
street prayer by ANY religion is just a protest and should be illegal everywhere. Pray unceasingly but not for show.
If Pervert and Criminal loving Democrats have their way, we’ll be dealing with similar anti-free speech totalitarianism scenarios in the US.
At 11:20 in the Brandon Lehman link below, we get to see with complete clarity Washington State’s Perversion of Children Position as follows:
WA State Kindergarten Sex Ed
“Gender Jamboree” Lesson
Objective: Kids can identify their own Gender and Name at least Three Gender Identities
Key Message: “Some People are Boys, Some People are Girls, Some People are both, and Some People are Neither.”
Pre-Obama you literally could not have made this psycho shit up.
US no longer stands for Unites States, it stands for Us against Perversion of Children and Criminal Loving Democrats, and we prepare to deal with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYEWufvLjxE
The problem with mocking troons is that they have a nearly 40% suicide rate due to their severe mental illness.
Link?
@5:08 - considering Trump’s approval rating and the fact that MAGA is tied to Trump not the GOP, it should occur the next time we have a free election.
@9:31 - the constitutional rights are common sense. Trump is the enemy of our rights. Sounds like you’d be happier under a true dictator. America is not for you.
@7:05 this was super easy to google. Do better. Work on your tech literacy.
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transpop-suicide-press-release/
This was the Biden administrations wet dream.
8:36 is deceitful. Parents were labeled as terrorists by the media and investigated by Biden's FBI for daring to speak out at school board meetings. 8:36 twisted the words to "prosecuted as a terrorists" for speaking out at PTO meetings. Big difference.
Liberals are inherently mean people. Inherently.
There's a reason that number one on the list of things we tacked onto the constitution was freedom of speech, because the British Empire has been trampling it for centuries.
@8:12, you undoubtedly failed reading comprehension. Suicide rate is not attempted suicide. Try harder.
@7:32 - nice troll, at least I hope you are trolling. No way even a Mississippian is that stupid to say Trump is pro 1st amendment.
@9:14
Sorry, I’m not really studying troon psychology that hard. It’s a number posted often online. Suicide is common among demon possessed people. Suicide allows demons to take a soul and remove all chance of entering heaven. The victim’s mortal body means nothing to a demon. Since they can always possess a new victim.
@8:45 - so no one actually got in any legal trouble at all?
@8:45 - you apparently don’t understand the definition of the word liberal. Liberals are factually the more accepting people. Conservatives want everyone to be a white, heterosexual sexual, Christian. Any other person is shamed and ridiculed. It’s why Trump’s childish insults play so well to the right wing base. It’s a party of bullies with no ability to show empathy or common decency.
Trump isn’t anti-free speech. He is, though, anti-Israel-genocide free speech. And like it or not, censor it here or not, that is just simply a cold, hard fact.
For some reason, as I am reading @9:51’s comment, I keep hearing and seeing Rosie O’Donnell.
She is probably secretly grateful that Trump extended her 15 minutes of fame.
9:49 do you want to volunteer to be investigated by the FBI?
There is no genocide in Gaza. The only genocide that happened took place on October 7, a date I'm sure you celebrated just like Mandami did.
Wrong KF you are a Zionist tool. The genocide has been taking place since 1947. As a Zionist liar, you spin every attempt at self defense by the Palestinians as an unprovoked attack against the Zionist occupation. You repeatedly censor anyone who proves you wrong with historical facts because you can’t debate the facts. You just regurgitate Zionist propaganda.
You should see what they do to people who are opposed to all the muslims taking over. Saw a video where they took an old man, who was a veteran and picked him up out of his wheelchair and arrested him over a sign he was holding. I guess that's what happens when you let the government take away your right to defend yourself, Australia is finding it out as well.
Coming to NYC and other areas as well soon.
Father Ted had some really funny Nazi gags Do you have anything from the Allied side? “No, I wouldn’t be interested in that sort of thing”
Kingfish is just wrong. Maybe he’s uninformed or maybe he’s ok with what he’s seen over there, but it’s 100% a genocide. Israel is wiping the whole place off the map so Trump can turn it into a cheap resort. You don’t have to be pro-Palestine to call a spade a spade. What’s wrong with people these days not able to make an informed decision and just parroting whatever talking points their billionaire funded political team tells them?
@10:17 - sounds like you have a fantasy that’s gotten so twisted, you’re no longer living in reality.
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