Blasphemy against our sacred symbol

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England is lost. It's going to be one hell of a battle getting our countries back.

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Mr Brady shared the meme, which was originally posted by Laurence Fox, a 44-year-old actor turned campaigner, on social media. Mr Fox said the image reflected his belief that LGBT pride month is 'enforced with a sense of hectoring authoritarianism'.(Daily Mail)

A British military veteran was arrested because he retweeted a photo of the LGBT pride flags arranged to form a Nazi Swastika.

Hampshire Police say the social media post, which you can see below, caused “anxiety” among an unnamed person.


Meme Mr. Brady Shared on Twitter
https://www.toddstarnes.com/crime/briti ... nsgenders/

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/som ... -arrested/

“Someone has been caused anxiety based on your social media post. And that is why you’re being arrested.”

The video of the arrest of the Hampshire, England man who posted a meme offensive to trans militants was recorded by thereclaimparty. After it went viral, the HantsPolice commissioner released a statement criticizing her officers over excessive response. t.co/WQDNUakpEA

— Andy Ngô (MrAndyNgo) July 31, 2022

https://www.hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/police ... hate-crime

Police and Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones responds to video published on Twitter involving Hampshire police officers regarding alleged hate crime

29 July 2022
The arrests were made yesterday (July 28) by the Constabulary following the report of an image being published on social media.



PCC Donna Jones: “I am aware of the video published on Twitter which shows the arrest of two men in Hampshire yesterday, one for malicious communications and one for obstruction of a police officer.

“I have taken this issue up with the Constabulary today and have been advised officers made the arrests following a complaint from a member of the public of an alleged hate crime.

“It follows a post on social media of Progress Pride flags in the shape of a Swastika.

“I am concerned about both the proportionality and necessity of the police’s response to this incident. When incidents on social media receive not one but two visits from police officers, but burglaries and non-domestic break-ins don’t always get a police response, something is wrong.

“As Police Commissioner, I am committed to ensuring Hampshire Constabulary serves the public as the majority of people would expect. It appears on this occasion this has not happened.

“This incident has highlighted a really topical issue which Hampshire Constabulary and other police forces need to learn from. In order to support this I will be writing to the College of Policing to make them aware of this incident and encourage greater clarification on the guidance in order to ensure that police forces can respond more appropriately in the future.”

Hampshire Constabulary:
https://www.hampshire.police.uk/advice/ ... ate-crime/

Hate crimes and hate incidents
In most crimes it is something the victim has in their possession or control that motivates the offender to commit the crime. With hate crime it is ‘who’ the victim is, or ‘what’ the victim appears to be that motivates the offender to commit the crime.

A hate crime is defined as 'Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person's race or perceived race; religion or perceived religion; sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation; disability or perceived disability and any crime motivated by hostility or prejudice against a person who is transgender or perceived to be transgender.'

A hate incident is any incident which the victim, or anyone else, thinks is based on someone’s prejudice towards them because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or because they are transgender.

Not all hate incidents will amount to criminal offences, but it is equally important that these are reported and recorded by the police.

Evidence of the hate element is not a requirement. You do not need to personally perceive the incident to be hate related. It would be enough if another person, a witness or even a police officer thought that the incident was hate related.

THE ARREST:

The meme, which resulted in a Twitter suspension and calls for police investigations against the actor turned anti-woke campaigner last month, was described by Fox as a commentary on how Pride Month is “enforced with a sense of hectoring authoritarianism”.


Despite the veteran saying that he had reposted the meme from Fox, the police chose not to arrest the Reclaim Party leader for the same post.

In the footage, one officer was heard justifying the arrest by saying that “somebody has taken offence” to the “homophobic” post shared on Facebook.

The arrest comes less than a week after the College of Policing issued national guidance telling officers to focus on actual crimes rather than intervening in “debates on Twitter”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/0 ... -facebook/

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The Video

The Daily Mail identified the man who was arrested as Darren Brady. His arrest was captured on video, which you can see below. [link]
https://www.toddstarnes.com/crime/briti ... nsgenders/

Police told Brady that he could avoid jail and possible hate crime charges if he would agree to attend a re-education seminar. The Army veteran declined.

Note that the article doesn't give an accurate or inclusive transcript, I've added in relevant comments that they left out.

In the video, shot on a mobile phone, Mr Brady can be heard asking the three police officers: ‘Why am I in cuffs?’

One officer responds: ‘It didn’t have to come to this at all.’

Mr Brady [calmly] replied: 'I just wish Hampshire police would realize how ridiculous this is.'

‘Tell us why you escalated it to this level because I don’t understand.’

"I posted something that he posted, you arrest me, you don't arrest him, why has it come to this? Why am I in cuffs because of something he said, then I said."

The officer responds: ‘Someone has been caused anxiety based on your social media post. That is why you have been arrested.’

In a separate video, Mr Miller is led to a marked police van in handcuffs and before he is taken inside, a cop asks: ‘Have you got anything on you that could harm me or you?’

Mr Miller instantly replies: ‘Just my razor sharp wit and knowledge of the law.’

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... flags.html



Mr. Brady has more military stripes on his well earned medals than then whole 'taste the rainbow' flag!

There is backstory to the video and how events played out:

Harry Miller, a former police officer, was also arrested after claiming he had tried to prevent the former serviceman from being detained.


He told MailOnline:

'Hampshire Police showed a blatant disregard of the law. They approached Mr Brady and acted as summary judge, jury and executioner - but didn't know what offence he'd actually committed. They said he was being arrested for causing anxiety, which is utterly ridiculous!

'Mr Brady is a British Army Veteran and they were trying to extort him for money by making him pay around £80 for educational course so he could downgrade from a crime to a non-crime, which would still show up in a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

'They thought they could get away with it. It was the world's worst shakedown.'

Commenting on the video circulating on Twitter, Mr Miller wrote: 'I’d been locked up by this time and missed this exchange. I’m speechless.'

Mr Miller, who in December won a Court of Appeal challenge over police guidance on 'hate incidents', said police visited the man 10 days earlier and has informed him that he could take the option of attending an £80 education course to avoid being arrested and possibly charged with a criminal offence.

The veteran said he needed time to mull it over, before the officers agreed to return at a future date.

Writing on Twitter on Sunday, Mr Brady told his followers: 'It's nice to be able to enjoy a Sunday morning in peace without being harassed by Hampshire Police trying to extort money from me, or have me "re-educated" for sharing a meme on the Internet.'

Dang this article goes on even more...good stuff, make sure to read it https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... flags.html

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Dang this article goes on even more...good stuff, make sure to read it https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... flags.html

Yep, I'm going to have to lay it out anyway

So more about Laurence Fox, this is the meme, it includes 'Oh blessed and most holy month'

The tweet showed four LGBT pride flags positioned to make a swastika, captioned with the words, 'Oh blessed and most holy month'

This is clearly political speech, and isn't remotely offensive, say compared to the radical proabortion protests having a girl dressed as the Virgin Mary having a bloody abortion! Didn't hear about any Libtards feeling the vapors or 'anxiety' over anyone who might be offended about that! /s


Laurence Fox video

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Police returned to the Mr. Brady's property on Thursday, but he had contacted Mr. Miller and Mr. Fox during the intervening period. The pair run the Bad Law project together, which claims to 'challenge and depoliticize' policing.

They agreed to attend the man's home and were present when officers returned.

Mr. Miller claims the former serviceman refused the offer of the educational course, leading to his arrest.

A statement from Hampshire Constabulary said: 'When officers arrived, they were prevented from entering the address to discuss a potential resolution to the matter.

'As a result, officers felt it was necessary to arrest a man at the scene so they could interview him in relation to the alleged offence.'

But Mr Miller subsequently place himself between the officers and the veteran, telling police: 'You arrest him, you’ve got to come through me.'

He was also arrested on suspicion of obstructing police and has been released under investigation, describing the incident as 'one of the proudest moments of my life'.

In a separate video, Mr Miller is led to a marked police van in handcuffs and before he is taken inside, a cop asks: 'Have you got anything on you that could harm me or you?'

Mr Miller instantly replies: 'Just my razor sharp wit and knowledge of the law.'

The footage, captured by Mr Fox, also shows the actor and veteran accuse police of acting like the Gestapo.

Mr Miller won a Court of Appeal challenge over police guidance on 'hate incidents' in December after claiming it unlawfully interferes with the right to freedom of expression.

The former officer who describes himself as 'gender critical', was approached by colleagues at Humberside Police over alleged transphobic tweets in January 2020.

The force recorded the complaint as a 'non-crime hate incident', defined by the College of Policing's guidance as 'any non-crime incident which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice'.

Mr Miller, from Lincolnshire, challenged both Humberside Police's actions and the College of Policing's guidance at the High Court and a judge ruled the force's actions were a 'disproportionate interference' with Mr Miller's right to freedom of expression.

Mr Fox returned to Twitter on Thursday unrepentant after being suspended for posting the meme.

The tweet resulted in a sharp backlash, with Twitter temporarily freezing his account for violating their 'hateful imagery' policy, and a London Assembly member calling on the Met Police to investigate Mr Fox.

Caroline Russell, who is also a member of the Police and Crime Committee in the Greater London Authority, wrote on Twitter: 'I hope the Met Police will look into Laurence Fox using pride flags to create nazi imagery and posting the images on a public platform.

'This is a hate crime,' Ms Russell wrote.





Mr Fox hit back at the London Assembly member's intervention, however, accusing her of employing tactics reminiscent of those exercised by the Chinese Communist Party.

He wrote: 'This is the UK, not China. Good to know you would like to see your political opponents prosecuted for "hate", locked up and probably worse.

'So thanks for proving my point for me,' Mr Fox said.

In another tweet, Mr Fox shared a link to a satirical article entitled, 'Scientists Discover Remote Island Untouched By Pride Month'.

Mr Fox captioned the tweet with the words: 'Don't cave in to the mob. Laugh instead.'

Access to Mr Fox's Twitter account was restored this morning, with the polemicist and founder of The Reclaim Party telling his 310,500 followers that the LGBT pride flag has become a 'holy flag' that 'cannot be criticised'.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism hit out at Mr Fox for his 'insulting' post.

yada yada yada 'how dare you!' etc..

Mr Fox's political colleague Martin Daubney, deputy leader of the Reclaim Party, rushed to back him up on the social media site, posting his own picture of a swastika - this time compiled from Union Jack flags.

'So is this worthy of a ban?', Mr Daubney, a former Brexit Party MEP, asked in a tweet of his red-white-and-blue swastika.



Seizing on Mr Daubney's now-deleted tweet, Mr Fox wrote: 'You can openly call [the Union Jack] a symbol of fascism and totalitarianism [on this site].

'You cannot criticise the holy [LGBT pride] flags.'

Mr Fox told MailOnline: 'While I’m pleased that my account has been reinstated, this temporary ban only served to reinforce the rank hypocrisy which Twitter is engaged in.

'Over the Jubilee weekend, I lost count of the number of posts comparing the prominence of Union Jack flags around the country to Nazi Germany.

'The prominence of the various pride flags and symbols throughout the month of June however not only goes unquestioned, but its acceptance and celebration are enforced with a sense of hectoring authoritarianism.

'My post was clearly meant to highlight this double standard – and the temporary ban which resulted from it effectively proved my point.'

In the end, the flag community needed someone punish and/or extort(reeducate), so it was Mr. Brady who the police tried pin as the fall guy.