An anonymously written Sept. 2 WorldNetDaily article let a man whine that he felt consequences for his actions:
Amid growing unrest in the United Kingdom over immigration policies and disconcerting incidents of Brits arrested for publicly – and silently – praying, word comes that a popular comedian has been arrested because of a series of “anti-trans” X posts.
Graham Linehan, creator of the comedy TV show “Father Ted,” was arrested by five armed police officers at Heathrow Airport, the Daily Mail reports.
The Irish comedy writer, who was traveling on an American Airlines flight from Arizona to London Monday, says he was treated like a terrorist after being detained as soon as he stepped off the plane.
Linehan says he was then escorted to a private are and informed he was under arrest “for three tweets.”
Police confirmed that a 57-year-old was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence at “in relation to posts on X,” the British news site reported.
After his arrest, Linehan says he required medical assistance “because the stress nearly killed me.”
One of the posts, from April 20, said: “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.”
That’s right — Linehan is whining that his incitement to violence was called out. But he wasn’t done whining, and WND wasn’t done helping him whine:
Linehan decried the arrest, saying: “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.
“I promise you, I am not making this up.”
He said he was “arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online.”
“To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the U.K. has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad,” Linehan added.
Or, you know, he could not publicly incite violence against people. Linehan seems not to have considered that option. It seems that LInehan is the violent, entitled, abusive man here.
Robert Knight perpetuated Linehan’s victimhood in his Sept. 9 column:
The fight for freedom of speech knows no borders. That became abundantly clear this past week in Great Britain and in Congress.
Graham Linehan, a comedian and producer known for the U.K. sitcom “Father Ted,” penned three X posts in April criticizing transgenderism while he was in Arizona.
When he flew to London’s Heathrow Airport on Sept. 1, this Irish citizen was met by five armed police officers, who arrested him on suspicion of inciting violence.
Released on bail, he was told “not to go on Twitter.”
One of his posts said: “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.” Not nice, but is posting it a criminal act worthy of arrest?
Well, yeah, when a man tries to incite violence, it usually gets the attention of law enforcement. Knight doesn’t explain why it shouldn’t.
Linehan, meanwhile, doesn’t regret inciting violence with his tweets.