Posted on 08/09/2024 6:35:03 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
London's Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well.
"We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.
Riots have broken out across the United Kingdom in recent days over false rumors spread online that an asylum seeker was responsible for a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event that left three girls dead and others wounded. The murders, allegedly committed by a now 18-year-old British citizen born to Rwandan parents, sparked a series of violent protests that tapped into broader concerns about the scale of immigration in the U.K.
Footage of the violent clashes involving anti-immigration protesters and the groups of counter-protesters, some of whom have been seen waving Palestinian flags, has gone viral on social media, and the government is warning that sharing such content may have serious consequences.
One key aspect that makes this apparent crackdown on social media particularly shocking to critics is that the British government is threatening to extradite American citizens from the U.S. to be jailed in the U.K. for violating their rules about political speech online.
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I could see our Feds picking you up and handing you over.
We have been friends with the Brits for a long time now. I hope they do not push this.
Hate to see us have to get into it with them again.
Americans should show this little pile of dog excrement what the Second Amendment is all about.
When they knock on our doors, I wonder if they’d be asking themselves how many of those 400 million American guns are behind this door?
Sounds like a proper challenge to me.
We’re a few nautical miles out of his jurisdiction, and a few centuries too.
And were they not on board with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948? Or its progeny, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?
Who’s running things over there these days?
Bring it, Sir Chutney Ferret.
If the feds attempt to help the UK extradite US Citizens for speech, then rebellion becomes duty. All bets are off.
And he wouldn't have a problem with it.
That made me laugh, and to respond to the Poster, yes.
Yes, that could be considered a “Hate Crime”, if your Self Esteem was pulverized. But prosecution would be difficult.
Someone tell me where to post my response to this assclown.
What a pompous ass of a police chief.
Unbelievable arrogance.
Three innocent little girls are butchered and all
this lunatic is only concerned about what people
are saying about that ugly atrocity.
What a ridiculous attitude!! The Brits have fouled their own nest. They are anathematizing their own native born citizens when they object to being victimized by imported colonialists. And they are threatening private citizens of another sovereign country? They aren’t Putin telling the Belarusians to shut up.
Rowley is a multi-tier disgrace.
“it’s a global world now, and things are global.”
That is exactly right. But in the mean time The guy is absolutely insane... Just try you limey SOB... I’ll bake a Scone the size of a basketball, top it with orange marmalade, and shove it up his limey...
He’s rattling an empty threat, for now.
It won’t be so empty if Trump loses in 2024.
Did we give up when the Luftwaffe bombed Pearl Harbor?
HELL NO!
It might be a little less ridiculous if the chief were a burly 6’4”, 275#. This twerp from the mailroom is going to threaten the private citizenry of the US?
Dear UK, you really should have paid more attention to Orwell. However, we Yanks cannot criticize since we have a leadership clown show that is much more ridiculous than yours, but thanks to our constitution (and Amendments 1 & 2), we still have a chance of doing something about them. You are in much more trouble due to your lack of situational awareness in over-importing the members of the prime religion of hate in the multiverse. Please, find a way out. The solution will be painful, but it’s still possible.
“They have no jurisdiction to do so.
They have no arrest powers here.”
I believe it was Clinton who signed an agreement that gives foreign countries the right to come and arrest American citiens and take them out of the country.
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