(Crankers) Don’t have time to stop violence when the UK is busy arresting comedians for comments in social media. A member of Parliament warned the United States legislators that Americans can and will get arrested too if they visit the United Kingdom and get a little too sassy on social media.
A new British law, which has faced critics from almost every place on the planet, has received a lot of negative attention this week after a comedian was arrested for things he said on social media.
The comedian, Graham Lineham, who’s Irish and not British, was making comments about transgender people on his account when he later got arrested for it.
Nigel Farage said to the House Judiciary Committee: “He’s not even a British citizen. He’s an Irish citizen… This could happen to any American man or woman that goes to Heathrow, that has said things online that the British government and British police don’t like.”
Lineham told police his posts were meant as jokes, but he was still arrested. He says the arrest caused his blood pressure to spike and he went to the hospital afterwards.
Lineham talked about his arrest in more detail on his personal Substack page:
The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. Not one, not two—five. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets. In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up.