For posting this on a Social Media website.

Because over in Airstrip One that’s exactly what happened to a 51 year old British Army veteran. You can watch it here.

I think the Police Officer’s Obersturmführer’s words need to be highlighted:

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

Harry Miller, a former police officer, was also arrested after claiming he had tried to prevent the former serviceman from being detained and his comment is also enlightening:

“…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.”

To be fair a Crime Commissioner for the Hampshire Police did have this to say:

“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.“

I wonder what the arrest and conviction rate is in Hampshire for boring old crimes like those, and what the penalties are even when convictions have been successful? I would guess they’re not great since another member of the Police and Crime Commission in the Greater London Authority, Caroline Russell, made it quite clear what priorities she wants the cops to emphasise:

“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.”

Or as one woman once put it:

 “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.”

Remember that this is happening with a Tory government in power. Ironically I don’t think the Left are going to be willing to call them Fascists over this issue!

That last article also shows you can do the same thing with the British flag; but that will get you laughs.

Speaking of which, perhaps the best way to fightback is through laughter, as Tucker Carlson shows with a related – but equally inflammatory piece of teenager humour – from America: