All eyes on this one
The religious police called and a woman in Scotland is going to need our help
On Wednesday April the 28th 2021 I received a call from a PC Laura Daley from @policescotland requesting i attend an interview for homophobic and transphobic tweets under the milacious communications act. I was asked to attend that coming Friday, she told me I had to attend East Kilbride police station so I could be then transported to Cathcart police station in a police car because I would have to go to a police station where there is holding cells, I would be then processed, questioned and then most likely charged. I told her I would not be attending any interview on that day especially with it being a bank holiday weekend because my autistic twins needed me and I was scared I would be held all weekend. To this she told me she would attend my house with social workers for my boys.
I contacted a solicitor straight away and he was unable to get PC Daley so for the first bank holiday in May I sent my disabled twins away for fear of this officer carrying out this threat.
This absolute nonsense has been hanging over my head for a month, I can barely sleep or eat and I still don't know what the offending tweet is, my new interview has been scheduled for Thursday the 27th May, I will find out what I am supposed to have said at that point and if I will be indeed charged, again at another bank holiday, I just want to say, anyone who knows me, knows I am not homophobic or transphobic, I am a hard working mummy who would fight to the end for the safety and dignity of women and girls and for my vulnerable twinnies. If we sit back and do nothing we will regret it for ever. For this reason I will never Wheesht. #WomenWontWheesht
I’ve also been sent this, on Laura Daly, the officer mentioned in Marion’s thread.
This is one of the most frightening articles I have ever read. I cannot understand why our freedom of speech and freedom of expression has been so eroded that it has come to the point where the majority of voters, tax payers, and the general populace, have become thought criminals. Here is my point: Think about what thought is. Many academics believe that a great deal of thought is subvocal speech. In other words, you speak to your own mind using the language you speak with your mouth. you speak inside your mind to yourself without using your mouth and vocal cords to openly speak the words. If you are unable to speak those thoughts through fear of the law then you have lost the freedom to speak your mind, freedom of speech. If you are unable to write what you want to write for fear of the law you have lost the freedom of expression. In the book 1984 by George Orwell, Winston Smith lost even the ability to speak the truth. Never let the police or politicians tell you that 2+2=5. Never bow to a lie. Never let others lies be law above the truth. I do not know what words caused PC Laura Daily to react but, whatever it was, I believe the police should keep their noses out of policing thought, language, and expression, unless it libels a person or issues a direct threat to a named individual. There was a time when we were free, but now the tail wagging the dog is all powerful. Be careful but be prepared to act in favour of freedom
How can we help? This poor woman must be terrified. This is insane