Posted on 03/01/2023 12:09:22 AM PST by weston
Yes!
I found a little encouraging news;
Judge Overturns “Misgendering” Conviction For Street Preacher Reported To Terror Watchdog
Dave McConnell, 42, was appealing a conviction on Thursday at Leeds Crown Court after he was arrested under section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986 for insulting a member of the public in Leeds City Centre on June 8, 2021.
The arrest was made after he “misgendered” someone who self-identified as transgender.
In footage from McConnell’s body-worn camera, Farrah Munir is seen approaching the preacher and asking, “Does God accept the LGBT community?”
In the video, McConnell refers to Munir as “a man” and “this gentleman.”
As the police arrive, a growing crowd chants, “Hate speech, hate speech.”
McConnell is later arrested after a policeman says, “Listen mate, I’m not having that because she’s told you she’s a woman.”
“She asked me, he asked me what do I think,” replies McConnell. At that point, the officer handcuffs him, adding, “OK, you’re under arrest.”
During proceedings, the arresting officer was asked why he had arrested McConnell after initially suggesting that he just move on. The officer said: “He wanted to argue his rights of free speech. Regardless of what he’d have preached, I think the crowd wouldn’t allow it … the final trigger was when [McConnell] referred to the victim as a man in a dress. I stopped him and told him he’d been told the victim was a female.”
McConnell was asked in court whether he knew that “misgendering” a trans person could be insulting, to which he replied: “I wasn’t misgendering. I was telling the truth.”
He told the court: “I think people could have been offended but that’s not the intention. My intention was to simply stay faithful to my beliefs, stay faithful to God, and to stay faithful to my conscience.”
“I wasn’t being transphobic—I was expressing what I believe,” he added.
‘Appalled’
Hawks said that McConnell “misgendering” the complainant did cause the complainant distress but “it is not an offence to insult someone.”
Furthermore, he said that under the Public Order Act “it is not enough to show words were insulting and that [the complainant] was distressed.”
She should have been charged with treason in 1972.
She is 85 years old now.
Like a true Communist, she still wants to kill innocent people.
It was right after announced this.....
....with white eggs rightfully being in the minority.....
Thanks. The BBQ has been postponed until Sunday so I should be better by then. I’m almost afraid to say this publicly, lol, but I haven’t gotten sick, other than cancer, in quite awhile. It’s usually allergies. I can sympathize with your pain as I get that occasionally.
I need to put down the tablet if I don’t want pain, lol.
I was going to go out, weather here still ridiculous.
High winds, off and on rain, what have they done to our weather?
Prices are out of control, but, hey, Joe says we are doing good.
Got a clip coupon from Albertson’s grocery store, 1 pound of butter, $5.75, WHAT?
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG
Unapologetic Pro-Life Politician here. 🙋♀️
I routinely get death threats because of the nasty women on The View and the things they say about me.
But calling for us to be assassinated makes The View, the hosts, the producers, the network, the advertisers, and everyone involved responsible for death threats, attacks, and potential murders of Pro-Life politicians and activists.
I am reporting this.
By the way @Janefonda your eggs are dried up so you don’t have to worry about getting pregnant anytime soon, so you can retire from demanding baby murder now.
12:46 PM · Mar 10, 2023
I love that movie. I’m a free market capitalist, and I have no problem with what those guys did. My problem is with government intervention.
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
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Silicon Valley Bank has collapsed, the largest bank since 2008.
Silicon Valley was the 16th largest bank in the US, holding $210 billion in assets.
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zerohedge
@zerohedge
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As of December 31, 2022, Silicon Valley Bank had approximately $209.0 billion in total assets and about $175.4 billion in total deposits: FDIC
Of these $151.5BN are uninsured
I went to HEB, didn’t buy much, a couple of Cornish game hens and a couple of bags of cat food put my bill over the top. But at least they had the cat food. See how it works? We’re grateful there is a supply.
have the hens been injected with MNRA?
ha!
Albertson’s is the same as Slaveway, Safeway owned by Alberson’s, but I got butter for $3.99 on sale today and it wasn’t the store brand.
I so detest going to the store that usually I send hubby with a list.
It makes me sick to see the price of things.
Lately hubby has been refusing to buy stuff as he says he won’t pay that price.
I told him it is only going to get worse and what he refused to buy today will only be higher next week.
I feel so sorry for big families.
Not yet that I know of, but activists are working on it.
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
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I’ve been waiting for someone to actually refute anything that Tucker presented, but all I’ve seen is people calling him a “liar” “propagandist” without actually addressing the underlying video evidence itself. Name calling and personal attacks have replaced discourse. Sad!
yup, pretty obvious. Keep the pressure on folks.
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