I would have thought that things you do in your home country are no problem — I mean legal stuff and such, of course.
And of course too that would apply to your freedoms — in our case, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and so on.
But that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore when it comes to the UK and Europe. Because they seem to be obsessed with policing speech — you know, the “hate speech” bullshit — they seem to be getting a leeetle too big for their britches.
Consider this, in Britishland:
Police officers questioned a grandfather for more than an hour after he called his neighbour “Mrs Twat” in a row about his dog.
Laurence Meir, 73, was visited twice at his home in Gorsley, Herefordshire, by police who warned him not to use the term again.
Background:
In January last year, Mr Meir’s dachshund Dixie strayed into his neighbour’s front garden, prompting the neighbour to allegedly call him a “twat”.
The neighbours had another run-in several weeks later, during which Mr Meir said “Hello Mrs Twat”.
Days later, two officers from West Mercia Police arrived at his home and questioned him for more than an hour about the incident, before warning him not to get “involved” with her again.
What about that second visit?
The police then visited his home for a second time after the neighbour complained that he poked his tongue out at her children.
“I was livid that the police had come to see me again about such a pathetic matter and couldn’t believe that they were wasting more of their time,” he said. “I told the officers that I didn’t stick my tongue out at these kids and that they should go and catch some real criminals. But the police warned me that if it happened again then they would be forced to take further action. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, it really shows that the police have got their priorities completely wrong.”
“Further action”? What the actual fuck are these idiots doing Over There?
But it gets worse.
A grandmother was spoken to at her home by police after she criticised Labour politicians online for sending offensive WhatsApp messages.
In a series of Facebook posts Helen Jones called for the resignation of a councillor embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal which led to the sacking of Andrew Gwynne, the former health minister.
The 54-year-old school administrator, who was not accused of committing a crime, said she was left feeling scared to post on social media following the unannounced visit by two officers on Tuesday.
Mrs Jones said two plain-clothes officers arrived at her home in Stockport last Tuesday at around 1.30pm, but she wasn’t in and they spoke to her husband Lee via an intercom. She rushed home fearing something had happened to a relative.
At 2.15pm she received a phone call from an officer thought to be the same sergeant who knocked on her door and was told the police had received a complaint about her recent social media posts.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, Mrs Jones said: “It was actually quite scary. It made me think I best just keep quiet for the rest of my life, because you just can’t say anything these days.
“I asked the police officer, have I committed any sort of crime – why did you call at my door? They said, ‘Someone has spoken to us about your social media posts’.
“I then said: ‘If I don’t take your advice and continue doing what I am doing, will I be committing a crime?’ He said no. I then asked: ‘What will you do about it?’ He said: ‘There’s not a lot we can do, we are just giving you advice’.”
Of course, to Americans, the concept of the fuzz coming over to your house because of something you posted on the Intarwebz is almost a joke, because we have that pesky inconvenient First Amendment whereby we can call (say) Barack Obama or Chuck Schumer a fucking asshole without the fear of a knock on the door from the police. Furthermore, I am equally free to call BritPM Keir Starmer a fucking moron Commie who’s going to destroy Britishland because he’s well, a fucking moron Commie, he and all his little Labour Party lickspittles together.
Now pay careful attention to this.
Do you realize that through British and European law as currently written, if I were to visit the UK (as I am wont to do), I could be denied entry because of my predilection for “hate speech” — or even if I were allowed into the country, the cops might very well show up at, say Free Market Towers or wherever I was staying and arrest me for something I said in the United States?
Look at it this way. Thanks to my Second Amendment freedom, I own a handgun (quit sniggering). Now imagine that I went to Britishland and was arrested for possessing a handgun, because that’s streng verboten over in Airstrip One — and I don’t mean arrested for carrying a handgun in the UK (which I wouldn’t do, because I’m not stupid), but for possessing a handgun in my home country.
That sounds ridiculous, of course. But if it’s ridiculous for the Second Amendment, it’s equally ridiculous for the First. That my fevered rantings are available to oh-sensitive Brits and Europeans via Teh Intarwebz is just one of those things; it may be inconvenient to the Powers That Be, but them’s the breaks.
I could be arrested Over There for pointing out on this blog Over Here that a whole lot of Muslims seem to be child molesters — using as examples, oh, the Rotherham grooming gangs who systematically raped non-Muslim minor girls, or the fact that Iraq just lowered the female marriage age to 9 years old — which wouldn’t matter to the “authorities” because that’s considered “hate speech” against a group of people and is subject to punishment.
Yeah, well fuck you, your fascist “hate speech” laws and your tender sensibilities. If you fuckers think you’ve seen hate speech before, I haven’t even begun to hate. You totalitarian thugs.
And no, I won’t be frightened by the threat of arrest. If I feel like going over to Britishland or France to visit my friends, I will, and be damned to you.
Here’s the above-mentioned Mrs. Jones:
“It was actually quite scary. It made me think I best just keep quiet for the rest of my life, because you just can’t say anything these days.”
Yeah, well I’m not like Mrs. Jones. Your pissy little laws don’t frighten me, and nor do your Stasi-wannabe enforcers. I’ve been threatened by apartheid-era Afrikaner secret police, and to be frank, your petty little enforcers don’t impress me.
Sorry if I’ve pissed in your morning porridge, but say hello to my freedom of speech, you bastards. And yes, I do own a handgun.
Since the Brit authorities have taken to visiting citizens in person just give “friendly” advice, let me give some “friendly” advice from a crabby Old F*rt who’s spent way too much time in the Aridzona sun: Don’t. Just don’t!
It amazes me sometimes that we don’t have as many “loyal subjects of His Majesty, the King” trying to come here as we have third-world Hispanics.
Yeah, England can go fuck itself. I have to take yearly refresher training on bribery and corruption. Because of England mostly. You see, I’m in Texas, I work for a company headquartered in Houston, but we have a branch office in England. Thus England assumes that its laws have jurisdiction over all company action anywhere on the fucking globe because of that one little branch office. So if I go down to say, Brazil, to conduct some company business and provide a little scratch to a local official to help ease the way, I’m in violation of English law and subject to criminal charges and my company is subject to fines and penalties. For something that occurred in Brazil involving a Texas company. Fuck England. Someone ought to tell those fucks that they are no longer a global power and haven’t been for many many decades.
“decades”
Didn’t you mean to type “for over a Century!”?
Yup, you could legitimately argue that WWI broke them.
I thought you Texas guys had that ” they needed killin’ ” thing.
Sounds to me like that needs a little transferring their way.
I know I’m all for it.
Censorship seems to be a favorite thing for fascists to use as a weapon against enemies.
The nature of capital R Rights is that they are universal, symetrical, inherent in your existence and exist whereever you are.
The only question is whether the local denizens, authorities and/or thug gangs are willing to wage war on you to suppress them, and what you’re willing to do about that.
Careful, Kim! That big shiny revolver will scare the bajeezus out of your usual Bobby, but then you accent it with a SNIPER RIFLE in the background!
Actually, I lost both in the Great Canoeing Accident On The Brazos, all those years ago.
Yea? Well, I didn’t lose mine. I got plenty, and I know how to use them. And I’m sure the Brit version of the Stasi can find me, if they like. Come on out. I got plenty of places to dispose of – well – “evidence,” too. I’d even happily use a British rifle, just to be all friendly-like.
Mr. Starmer, your country sucks. You suck. And if you don’t respect rights, well, I’d remind you of the most important non-sacred text in human history:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ”
How’d that work out, last time we broke out them there words? Just saying . . .
One of those rights is the right to tell self-rightous little tyrants like you to fuck right off. See how that works? There ya go; I’ve probably annoyed someone over there. use your MI6 and come find me. We’ll have a chat.
I double dog dare ya.
You mean the battle rifle which had to end up being made by the Germans because the Brits fucked up their own design?
Oh, no, I have three Lee-Enfields – No. 1 Mk III*, a No. 4 Mk 1, and Mk. 1*. Admittedly, one is manufactured in Australia, one in Canada, and one in the US (a Savage marked “US Property as a Lend Lease rifle). So, I guess technically, not perfectly “British,” but close enough for government work. I actually don’t have a P14.
They all work fine.
Oh, no, I have three Lee-Enfields – No. 1 Mk III*, a No. 4 Mk 1, and Mk. 1*. Admittedly, one is manufactured in Australia, one in Canada, and one in the US (a Savage marked “US Property as a Lend Lease rifle). So, I guess technically, not perfectly “British,” but close enough for government work. I actually don’t have a P14.
They all work fine.