What’s Happened to Free Speech in Britain?

It’s not just Scotland, however. Speech-restricting madness exists across the United Kingdom. Here’s an extraordinary tale from West Yorkshire where a teenager has been arrested and “charged with a racially aggravated public order offence” for comments published on Facebook. According to Sunny Hundal, these are the remarks in question:

These are not sentiments likely to command widespread support or earn Azhar Ahmed much sympathy. Nevertheless, it is hard to see how they really constitute a threat to public order or, for that matter, a threat that’s “racially aggravated”. Stupid or ugly as they may be, they are less revolting than the thought you can be arrested for writing this sort of thing.

Clearly there are no Voltaires on the force in West Yorkshire. Whatever next? The police spokesman quoted by PA explained the charge thus: “He didn’t make his point very well and that is why he has landed himself in bother.”