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Posted on 11/29/2025 2:26:03 PM PST by fluorescence
West Yorkshire Police arrested a British business owner over a picture he posted on social media of himself holding a gun in the United States.
IT contractor Jon Richelieu-Booth told the Yorkshire Post that in August, he posted a picture on the networking site LinkedIn of himself holding a shotgun at a friend’s homestead in Florida. He was visited by local police, who warned him about the post and told him to be “careful” about what he says online and “how it makes people feel.”
Eleven days after the post, West Yorkshire Police officers returned and arrested Richelieu-Booth over allegedly possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and a charge of alleged stalking over another picture of a house on his profile.
Unlike in the United States, where gun ownership is protected by the Second Amendment, Britain has some of the strictest gun control laws in the Western world, with outright bans on many types of firearms and rigorous licensing requirements for those permitted.
When he attempted to show the police force the geolocation data of the picture with the firearm to prove that it was taken in the United States, police reportedly replied that it was “not necessary”.
Richelieu-Booth said that over the next four months, he was visited multiple times by police, before the Crown Prosecution Service ultimately dropped the case over a lack of “enough evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction”.
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According to The Telegraph, Mr Richelieu-Booth has been charged with a public order offence over another post on social media. However, he said hat he has yet to be told what the contents of the post were.
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If nothing else, sounds like the police were hoping to provoke him into some sort of act with their constant visits and warnings.
(and “how it makes people feel.”)
Feelings.
Nothing more than... feelings.
Feelings! Woah woah woah feelings.
Britain is so over.
Britain is one endless, dystopian Monty Python skit.
So telling that the prosecutor’s name was Richelieu.
So telling that the prosecutor’s name was Richelieu.
It's not comedy, it's both tragedy and irony that the VICTIM's name was Richelieu!!!!
The “free world” in the Anglosphere is nothing more than an oxymoron anymore.
Joseph Goebbels would be shocked at the levels of propaganda and censorship in the so called democracies.
I don’t think Monty-Python ever intended their material to be both an instruction manual and a parody. 🤔
> Mr Richelieu-Booth has been charged with a public order offence <
In the UK, a public order offence includes any action that can cause “harassment, alarm or distress”.
So just what does “distress” mean here?
It means whatever the UK fascist state wants it to mean!
(Oops! I bet my post will cause Prime Minister Starmer distress. I’d better stay out of the UK for awhile.)
So, what is an “Aspiring Rapper” supposed to do, while he makes his breakout videos? You need lots of cash and you need a lot of guns to pose with. Right?
George Orwell never intended 1984 nor Animal Farm to be instruction manuals either. What was comedy in 1984 (or 1948 when Orwell published or 1949 when FA Hayek laid on the philosophical gloss of why socialism is bad) is now reality in England. And the ignorant are importing the awfulness to the US now.
Except now the Muslims will have the last laugh, not some eccentric pederast in Yorkshire.
It’s interesting that the police aren’t remotely concerned about how their own words and actions “make people feel” - assuming feelings really matter to the State.
Joseph Goebbels would be shocked at the levels of propaganda and censorship in the so called democracies.
Goebbels learned his craft from George Creel.
So was he in Homestead FL?. Brit journos may want to Google that.
Causing a snowflake “distress” is almost impossible to avoid.
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Many people seem to have the sense that the police are “on our side.” The police have no sides. They wear a uniform. They will do what they are told.
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