Hi everyone!
British comedy writer Graham Linehan, who has been shunned and cancelled in the entertainment industry for speaking out against trans, was arrested in England after he returned there from Arizona, where he's been living and working. As soon as he stepped off the plane at Heathrow, he was snagged by five police officers and taken him into custody.
The charge? Three tweets. Here's what they said: "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violence, abusing act. Make a scene, call the cops, and if all else fails, punch him in the balls."
He shared a photo of a trans protest in London, with the caption "A photo you can smell." And he wrote in another post "I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. Fuck em." For these alleged atrocities, he was taken to a cell containing a bunk, a toilet, and a mirror with a message printed on it from Crimestoppers.
Linehan was then grilled by the coppers about his posts. And he didn't let up, he said in his write up on Substack. The officers tried to debate his posts with him, asking him about "trans people," defined, the cop said, as "people who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth." Linehan corrected the cop, saying "our sex isn't assigned."
UK cops have been trained by trans activist groups. Some of the cops, Linehan said, seemed to be fans of his and to know that what was going on was insane, but they couldn't say it outright. And while he's in the UK, he's prevented from tweeting. He's also got to come back in October.
The UK is lost. They're arresting people for social media posts and they're doing it quite frequently, with data suggesting it's up to some 30 people per day, or 12,000 per year. It's not just an arrest with caution, these people see the inside of a prison cell, often for months at a time. And the posts vary. They're not all about trans.
UK citizens are arrested for complaining about mass migration, about foreign flags being flown over their high streets, a candidate with the Reform Party was arrested for waving the Union Jack in a public building. Muslims are allowed to hold mass prayer in public squares but Christians are arrested for praying—silently—near abortion clinics.
America's closest ally has entirely lost the plot. They don't value their own culture, their own people, or their own freedoms. They have gone so far into the progressive realm that the nation is unrecognizable. This is what those of us screaming from the rooftops (or maybe just the keyboards) fear will happen to America.
Our country platforms and promotes anti-American ideas in Zohran Mamdani or the People's Conference for Palestine or the ACLU demanding that everyone trans their kids (a slight hyperbole, but not by much) and that the US have open borders.
None of this is sustainable. Our culture matters, our nation matters, our people matter and our freedom matters. I defend the right of my countrymen to say what they please so long as they are not inciting harm, but I absolutely will not abide laws that give their views supremacy.