Posted on 09/03/2025 7:30:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan was once known for his charming, sometimes surreal sitcoms—Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd—on British TV. These days, however, he is better known for his online crusade against transgender activism. His X feed takes the same approach as Libs of TikTok, cherry-picking videos of criminals and fetishists in a full-scale assault on “gender ideology.”
He is obsessive and offensive. But is he a criminal? The British police seem to think so. Linehan was arrested by five armed officers today on his return from the United States, where he has been working on a new sitcom, and was accused of “inciting violence.” He says this allegation relates to three posts on X. (Authorities have not contradicted him, and British news outlets are treating his account as credible.) In one of the offending posts, he wrote: “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.” Can criminal incitement really occur in a hypothetical situation? If so, we’re going to need a bigger holding cell.
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Try checking the prices of flights to Caracas and Havana on say Air Canada and Kayak. You can’t.
Flights to the UK could be cut off in the same way.
We need to fight for free speech in the UK.
UK insanity tends to head west across The Pond.
It’s a fascist mindset. not just a problem.
Australia, NZ, and Canaduh are similarly deeply infected.
Western Civ. is crashing on the shoals.
There is irony in the fact that the Atlantic finds a problem with this sort of totalitarian approach to speech control.
He ought to have resisted agressively until all five were scattered upon him holding him immobile.
If they believe you are “violent” and require 5 cops, then earn it.
Swatt team? Earn it. Tell the judge he was training them, exposing their poor training.
Cute how the leftist a-holes at the nation call this outrages action merely a “free speech problem”.
I like the way you think.
Because the older one gets the less frightening the phrase “life in prison” becomes.
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biden certainly gave it a good try
please refrain from giving out advice
or maybe you could do his time when resisting arrest is added to the charges
EU masters have taken to disallowing wrong-think candidates to stand for election...or even voiding election results if ‘right wing’ candidates do well.
I figure I was already on such a list for my general FR posting. And the thought had already crossed my mind, that I don’t want to travel to the UK in the current environment.
I honestly don’t think they find a problem with it, except it raised visibility in the public eye.
Starmer’s Regime Just Lit The Fuse On The U.K.’s Free Speech Crisis
The bust heard 'round the world.
How does the UK think it has jurisdiction over an Irish citizen exercising first amendment rights while in the US?
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