So an Irish chap (Graham Lineham) who is a resident of Arizona posted some stuff to Twitter. And so the British authorities arrested him at Heathrow airport essentially for exercising his First Amendment rights in America.
So how is it possible that the Administration has not summoned His Magesty's Ambassador and given them 24 hours to free him and drop all charges? Or. Else.
I really don't understand the political optics here. Sure, sure - "all politics is local" and all that. I understand why His Magesty's Government would be happy to stick a thumb in Trump's eye, but what's up with Trump?
I mean there's no domestic downside to bringing the hammer down - nobody here cares about Europe, everyone here loves free speech, everyone here hates the woke censors, and Trump has been going after the DEI (woke censor) brigade here on these shores.
How on earth is it possible that they are letting this golden opportunity slide? I mean, it's not like the UK has made themselves our greatest ally over the last decade. And it's not like Kier Starmer wouldn't fold like a house of cards over this.
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So, if a Brit visits Vermont and straps a holstered revolver on his hip and goes walk-about in the Vermont woods all is good and locally legal. Upon his return to Britain, is he subject to arrest for violating the strict English gun laws?
AFAICT one of his tweets was along the lines of "If you see $TYPE_OF_PERSON, punch them in the balls", so presumably he was "encouraging the commission of an offence" as per https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/27/part/2
The current approval levels of the British Government are, well, they make Joe Biden's look good. So consider this episode either evidence that they figure they have nothing to lose, or that they are so clueless that the Losing will Continue.
knirirr, that is all well and good for the UK, but here in the USA (where the tweet was made and where he seems to reside), this is protected speech. Lots of case law on this.
I'd guess that the legal argument is that though he made the comment whilst in the US he "published" it where people in the UK could read it, therefore violating UK law.
Of course, getting tooled-up in Vermont would not violate UK law, because one would be remaining only in Vermont. So, presumably, if he'd made the comment on a US site which was blocked in the UK he'd have been fine.
Getting US tech companies to do their censorship for them is perhaps the real goal.
I'm sure the UK government would be delighted to have US (or any other, for that matter) tech companies undertake censorship (and also surveillance) for them.
Concur that America is 'missing' an opportunity here.
Whelp, the Brits arrested an IRISH chap, for starters... Shouldn't IRELAND be going to his rescue?... Go a step further; why aren't the BRITS pushing back against people who are arresting them for tweets?... It's not our fight...
"he "published" it where people in the UK could read it, therefore violating UK law."
Wait. Did he specifically send it to the UK? Or did some persons or entities in the UK go looking outside the UK to retrieve that info?
Seems as if logging on in the UK and going to a US site to retrieve a post - whether that is done by an individual or a company in the UK - can not be blamed on the person doing the publishing outside the UK.
Is he a US citizen?
Yes? Send in the Marines under an airstrike. Because nobody should be able to touch a US citizen for doing legal things in the US of A.
No? Don't care. After he gets out and comes back, he should apply for a US citizenship. Though he has a case for asylum under a hostile regime. Of course, any asylum seeker should immediately lose asylum status if they travel back to the home country that they're claiming asylum from.
As to those questioning the UK's rules, those are the rules of the UK. Anyone speaking against the UK is subject to arrest and punishment anywhere in the UK. So speak against Two-Tier Kier while a citizen in the US of A, you're subject to arrest if you go to Canada, to Australia, to the British Isles, to the Maldives, to Bermuda...
Face it. Britain has become what they were fighting against in WWII. A national socialist nation that is aggressively anti-freedom and antisemitic (of the Jewish persuasion, they love muslims...)
One more time:
The Rothschilds own Europe (including Britain) and Europe does whatever their owners want done!
They yearn for the "good old days" of their Messiahs - Lenin and Stalin - and intend to get there BAMN!
Twitter is a US site.
It also appears that Mr. Linehan is not a US citizen, but is instead either Irish or British, based on Wikipedia.
Any government that abandoned the children to "gangs" for "grooming" and then arrest the children for standing up to being sexually abused and will do nothing to protect them should be used for target practice for our bombers.
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