I feel for you guys...

[MarinePMI]

Smdh...I'm pretty sure if something like this happened in the US, there'd be a major backlash (never mind open rebellion).

UK police say British Army veteran arrested because anti-LGBTQ social media post 'caused anxiety': video

A police officer in the United Kingdom was seen on video lecturing a handcuffed British veteran that his social media meme of the Pride flag in the shape of a swastika "caused anxiety."

www.foxnews.com

 

[potshotpat]

The police officer( police service person) would have had all the relavant training and the painted nails.

 

[308tikka]

Theres a bit of activism here - wanting to get arrested to show how useless some police can be instead of tracking down actual criminals.

Most UK police are reasonably sensible.

 

[Woodsmoke]

For Christ's sake. Seems our rights end where the snowflakes' feelings begin. Wokist Nazism, pure and simple

 

[User00036]

Smdh...I'm pretty sure if something like this happened in the US, there'd be a major backlash (never mind open rebellion).

UK police say British Army veteran arrested because anti-LGBTQ social media post 'caused anxiety': video

A police officer in the United Kingdom was seen on video lecturing a handcuffed British veteran that his social media meme of the Pride flag in the shape of a swastika "caused anxiety."

www.foxnews.com

Im sure that the intended purpose of this sad sorry story, is click bait. Designed to polarise peoples views on a subject that doesnt even really matter. Divide & rule. Its a distraction. I'm sure there are many gay etc people in the armed forces both here & in your country who are proud to serve their country. Likewise in the health service. I speak as a white heterosexual male, who recently got banned from a rainbow woke pride pub for asking politely for a pint of beer. still trying to work out whether it was my sexual orientation or because I wanted some beer as I was thirsty. Its a complicated world we live in sometimes, but I'm not moaning, just went to another pub that serves beer.

 

[nun_hunter]

Anyone who takes anything Laurence Fox is involved with seriously is a moron. He's the male equivalent of Katie Hopkins and has found the easiest way to be famous is to wind people up.

 

[MarinePMI]

So, did the guy get arrested for simply posting something offensive online? Or did he not?

 

[mealiejimmy]

The story was on Fu*ks News which immediately makes it a legal requirement to ignore it
Marine PMI, I really like and respect the stuff you put on here, but please don't tell me you believe anything Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity says.

Cheers

Bruce

 

[csl]

Im sure that the intended purpose of this sad sorry story, is click bait. Designed to polarise peoples views on a subject that doesnt even really matter.

It's nothing to do with sexuality or swastikas, it's to do with certain people wasting their time on flag memes when they could be spending it on crime such as burglary, it's as simple as that.

 

[Littlekilmory]

Modern sensibilities… apparently, one individual complained to the police saying that they had been offended. The guilty individual had merely re-tweeted Fox’s post. Even the local commissioner agreed that it was a waste of police resources.
Of course, for those of us north of the border this has become business as usual.

 

[MarinePMI]

Modern sensibilities… apparently, one individual complained to the police saying that they had been offended. The guilty individual had merely re-tweeted Fox’s post. Even the local commissioner agreed that it was a waste of police resources.
Of course, for those of us north of the border this has become business as usual.

Exactly. But I see politics are as equally divisive in the UK as they are here. Everyone picks a side, and calls the other side's news rubbish, instead of asking the question "What is the nugget at the core of this story?".

I tend to read a lot of different news sources, some that I don't agree with, some that I do, and some I consider fairly neutral (which is becoming rarer and rarer these days). Everyone has a slant, the key is getting down to the core issue of the story.

Guy retweets an offensive symbol. Police confront him about it because someone was made anxious by it. He tells them to (essentially) F' off. They arrest him. Local commissioner, after hearing all the details, agrees that it was over the top and an overreaction by the constables.

But what it really gets down to is this: If you say something/post something that someone takes the wrong way, some of your police will arrest you for it so they can "discuss the issue with you".

....And everyone is okay with this? I mean, I know UK folks are polite to a fault at times, but....really?

But if that works for you, carry on. <shrug>

 

[mealiejimmy]

I think everybody, and I mean everybody should understand that no-one has the right not to be offended.
If someone says or does something that you find offensive, you need yo understand that you don't have the right to decide if it is actually offensive.
That's a decision for the courts
So, if you are offended by something, then get a lawyer or STFU

Cheers

Bruce

 

[Littlekilmory]

Again, sign of the times - a friend had a laptop stolen from his car and went to the cops. There response? Gave him a crime number and offered counselling. No thought of fingerprints, investigation etc. Too busy with the wrongspeak drivel.
Hate crime is the big fashion ticket now.
PS I like Tucker Carlson… am I cancelled!

 

[Littlekilmory]

One last though before I’m locked up for the night; I used to pay good money to be offended by the best stand-up comedians in the country. No subject was out of bounds and one felt short-changed if you left without some boundaries being crossed.
But now,,,
Look at Frankie Boyle, a one time stalwart of the dark art of out there humour. Now sadly assimilated into the BBC alongside all the dull and unfunny (but “woke”) chaff such as a ish Kumar.
Night night all

 

[TomT3]

Im sure that the intended purpose of this sad sorry story, is click bait. Designed to polarise peoples views on a subject that doesnt even really matter. Divide & rule. Its a distraction. I'm sure there are many gay etc people in the armed forces both here & in your country who are proud to serve their country. Likewise in the health service. I speak as a white heterosexual male, who recently got banned from a rainbow woke pride pub for asking politely for a pint of beer. still trying to work out whether it was my sexual orientation or because I wanted some beer as I was thirsty. Its a complicated world we live in sometimes, but I'm not moaning, just went to another pub that serves beer.

imagine what would of happened if a gay man was banned from a normal boozer…

 

[Harry mac]

Exactly. But I see politics are as equally divisive in the UK as they are here. Everyone picks a side, and calls the other side's news rubbish, instead of asking the question "What is the nugget at the core of this story?".

I tend to read a lot of different news sources, some that I don't agree with, some that I do, and some I consider fairly neutral (which is becoming rarer and rarer these days). Everyone has a slant, the key is getting down to the core issue of the story.

Guy retweets an offensive symbol. Police confront him about it because someone was made anxious by it. He tells them to (essentially) F' off. They arrest him. Local commissioner, after hearing all the details, agrees that it was over the top and an overreaction by the constables.

But what it really gets down to is this: If you say something/post something that someone takes the wrong way, some of your police will arrest you for it so they can "discuss the issue with you".

....And everyone is okay with this? I mean, I know UK folks are polite to a fault at times, but....really?

But if that works for you, carry on. <shrug>

He more likely got arrested for telling the officer to "F' off"

 

[Apthorpe]

I think everybody, and I mean everybody should understand that no-one has the right not to be offended.
If someone says or does something that you find offensive, you need yo understand that you don't have the right to decide if it is actually offensive.
That's a decision for the courts
So, if you are offended by something, then get a lawyer or STFU

Cheers

Bruce

You seem to be suggesting that something offensive is illegal. Not by any chance a policeman?

 

[Fadcode]

Again, sign of the times - a friend had a laptop stolen from his car and went to the cops. There response? Gave him a crime number and offered counselling. No thought of fingerprints, investigation etc. Too busy with the wrongspeak drivel.
Hate crime is the big fashion ticket now.
PS I like Tucker Carlson… am I cancelled!

You should tell your friend he should have asked the Police not to take fingerprints, or to try and get the laptop back, as your friend has just written an article about LBGTD&co on the aforementioned laptop, and if they found and read it they may be offended, and i am sure that would have spurred them onto actually find it.

 

[Fadcode]

Looking at the whole picture, it surprises me on how much the British Public will take, we have seen profiteering taking place regarding Fuel and essential services, we have seen massive fraud relating to Covid Contracts, fraudulent claims on the grants handed out during the lockdown, we see massive illegal immigration , over 700 people today came from France, we are being ruled, misled, whichever way you want to look at it, by a group of Politicians who don't seem to have any idea of what is going on in the real world, and we just sit here and do nothing, yet there are avenues open to us, to do something about it, but when someone does do anything all we seem to do is criticise them.

What has become of this once proud nation,
we who freed the world through two great wars,
we who are looked upon as the protectors of freedom
yet we who our losing our own freedom, stand still, and do nothing
yet will go into battle to save the freedom of others.

 

[Jagare]

Click bait, Lawrence fox, Tucker Carlson. WGAF.
WTF were the police doing there in the first place. Police forces around the country have abysmal clear up rates for real crime. Grooming gangs flourish but retweet something and the full weight of the law descends. Come round my house for stupidity like that and your going to get told to phuck off.
Reading some of the replys to this thread it's no wonder you won't have any field sports or firearms ownership in a few years.