Arrested for saying you love bacon!
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Lilith — 7 months ago(August 22, 2025 01:52 PM)
This must be more of that unequivocal "free speech" that Starmer told Trump Britain has.
This is right up there with having a section of the female police force jogging around just waiting for someone to "cat call" them because the "offender might do something more dangerous in the future". I really feel like the world is truly a long-running episode of The Twilight Zone, or right out of 1984, or straight out of Demolition Man fining people for "bad words" deemed a violation of the "verbal morality code".
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/.ㅤ — 7 months ago(August 22, 2025 01:59 PM)
And seeing as she is a sucker for far right propaganda I would imagine there’s a lot more to the story than what she says but there’s no way I’m going to give one of her dumb videos a watch lol
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sheetsadam1 — 7 months ago(August 22, 2025 02:20 PM)
It appears to be this case:
https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/25398182.one-man-arrested-lake-district-mosque-protests/
I'm a free speech absolutist, so I'm against the types of dispersal orders that led to this arrest. But Lilith isn't. I remember her clutching her pearls hard over the protests in L.A. a while back, begging for somebody to do something.
So, yes, her principles are very selective.
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Dazed — 7 months ago(August 22, 2025 02:26 PM)
I would imagine there’s a lot more to the story than what she says
I agree, her usual tactic is to never let the truth get in the way of a salacious headline. If you want highly edited, no context, right wing, pearl clutching videos then Lilith is your man.
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sheetsadam1 — 7 months ago(August 22, 2025 02:38 PM)
I'm not sure. But I want all of the files released, save for the names of the victims. I think there would be a lot of guilt by association if they just released a list without context, because he was probably in contact with people for business reasons who weren't involved in sex trafficking.
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/.ㅤ — 7 months ago(August 22, 2025 02:25 PM)
Any reason you are deliberately missing out the part where this was done outside a mosque as part of a protest?
Regardless of whether it is justified to arrest people to prevent escalation you are missing out a key detail.
You are not going to be arrested for simply saying "I love bacon" in public.
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sheetsadam1 — 7 months ago(August 22, 2025 02:34 PM)
Trump applauds Columbia University shutting down free speech:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/us/columbia-students-disciplined-pro-palestinian-protests
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/.ㅤ — 7 months ago(August 22, 2025 02:35 PM)
Yes it is.
Saying "I love bacon" is a completely innocuous act.
The implications of being arrested for that are dystopian beyond anything Britain has ever lived through.
Saying it during a protest outside a mosque is clearly an act of incitement.
They're not just randomly sharing cooking recipes, they are taunting the people inside the mosque.
You can say it's not a severe enough act for an arrest but missing out this detail is dishonest.
If you want an honest conversation about free speech you don't leave out key details.
Not unless you feel your argument requires deception in order to have any merit.
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