From: uklm@permabulator.33mail.com 
  
 On 23:55  4 Sep 2025, Roger Hayter said: 
 > On 4 Sep 2025 at 23:07:56 BST, "The Todal"  
 >> On 04/09/2025 12:14, JNugent wrote: 
 >>> On 04/09/2025 11:45 AM, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >>>> On 2025-09-04, Clive Page  wrote: 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> One can see that if you are police officer it's a much more 
 >>>>> exciting way to spend your day dashing onto the runway at 
 >>>>> Heathrow in a car with blue lights flashing along with four 
 >>>>> colleagues all brandishing guns than trying to investigating a 
 >>>>> real crime, which might, for example, involve watching a lot of 
 >>>>> boring CCTV footage.  So one can see their point of view, it's 
 >>>>> just not something that most of the public would support. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Did any of that actually happen, or did you make it up? 
 >>> 
 >>> You haven't been following the news, then? 
 >>> 
 >> 
 >> Can anyone quote the post that Mr Linehan made, that attracted the 
 >> attention of the police? 
 >> 
 >> The fact that he's famous or a comedy writer isn't really relevant. 
 >> 
 >> If he was taunting or harassing a specific trans person, he fully 
 >> deserves to be arrested and questioned - whether he has committed an 
 >> offence is for the CPS to judge. 
 > 
 > He is currently being tried for "harassing" the said trans person,[1] 
 > but that was not the reason for his arrest. His offence for which he 
 > was arrested, paraphrased, was to say that if a trans identifying man 
 > refused to leave a female space when asked and reasoned with as a 
 > last resort a woman should punch him in the balls.  Certainly a call 
 > for violence, 
  
 Isn't the reference to punching any trans person who refuses to leave a 
 female toilet, a way the speaker emphasises the trans person's 
 underlying masculinity ... rather than being an exhortation to take 
 action? 
  
 Perhaps it's worth making a comparison with Labour councillor Ricky 
 Jones' words to a sympathetic mob when he said: "We need to cut all 
 their throats". This wasn't taken as incitement by the court. 
  
 > but, arguably, possibly justified violence. Nuanced, we've heard 
 > worse. It will be interesting to see if he is charged. 
  
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