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Congratulations, UK. You have answered the question of whether there is anything more ridiculous than one police officer arresting a person for praying in public. Or one police officer arresting someone for flying the UK flag in the UK. It's FIVE ARMED POLICE OFFICERS arresting a comedian at an airport for tweets that have been deemed "offensive" and therefore illegal in Britain.

Meet Graham Linehan, a comedian who claims in a Substack post that he was arrested as if he were a terrorist over three humorous X-Twitter posts mocking gender ideology and protestors. If you aren't familiar with him (I wasn't), he recently appeared on Rogan's podcast to discuss the recent backlash over his criticisms.

Linehan claims, "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."

Police would only say a "man in his 50s was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence. This is in relation to posts on X."

Here's one of his X posts they claimed incited violence: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops, and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”

Then there was this:

Fellow British comedian Jonathan Pie spoke out about the horrifying overreach, sharing an old clip of when he warned about it. Pie is similar to Bill Maher in that while he disagrees with us on 98% of political issues, he is solid when it comes to free speech. Only, unlike Maher, and this part is crucial, Jonathan Pie is actually funny. He has a brilliant video from 2020 about what happens when you cave to the thought police.

I don't think even he predicted real police.

In a country where police don't normally carry guns and the left signals their virtue about their fears of travelling to America, claiming they could be arrested over how many pronouns they have, ARMED POLICE actually will arrest you for making fun of those people, claiming it is incitement to riot.

Or, that they are "investigating" and incitement to riot. What that usually means is one person called to cry about it.

This is a crucial "Pay Attention, America" moment, because the UK apparently did not. Pie's video is from 2019. We all saw what happened throughout the pandemic. Now, six years later, treating a comedian like a terrorist... over tweets.

Here's the thing. Throughout those six years? You had UK voters electing and re-electing the leaders who put these policies in place. If UK voters paid attention, they are quite right with people getting arrested for tweets and flags and praying.

Pay attention, America. There are leftists in this country who do as well.

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