Retired police officer arrested over ‘thought crime’ tweet
A retired special constable was arrested and detained over a social media post warning about the threat of anti-Semitism in Britain, The Telegraph can reveal.
Julian Foulkes, from Gillingham in Kent, was handcuffed at his home by six officers from Kent Police – the force he had served for a decade – after challenging a supporter of pro-Palestinian marches on X.
Police body-worn camera footage captured officers scrutinising the 71-year-old’s collection of books by authors such as Douglas Murray, a Telegraph contributor, and issues of The Spectator, pointing to what they described as “very Brexity things”.
It's not April 1st, I just checked.
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Is it illegal to refer to the police as Gestapo? I mean the German police, obvs.
I laughed during lockdown when my mother started panicking about what books might be visible in the background when she took zoom calls - now I’m starting to wonder whether she was a step ahead of the rest of us….
There’s something terrifying about the idea of law enforcement officers who don’t appear to understand the concept of wanting to be fully informed about all sides of an argument; just what are they teaching them these days in police college (or in school, for that matter)?
Big, solid blokes and dumpy sporty lesbians with whiny voices are hired to sort out pub punch-ups and cars breaking down on the hard shoulder.
Then they are sent to do political philosophy and literary interpretation in a situation where irony and subtlety of expression are art forms. Strangely, they don't do too well.
Not just ant thoughtcrime but special Woketard thoughtcrime. The fact that the focus of Wokeism changes all the time is a feature, not a bug - how are you to demonstrate your thoughtpurity if you don't know the latest dogma?
I'll be in trouble, owning copies of the Bible, the Koran, Mao's Little Red Book, ... I don't think I've got Mein Kampf or Das Kapital though. Will the Stasi look on the works of Hayek as a bit Brexity? I suppose those German cops might.
dearieme - only in Germany I imagine, but it's always possible to blur the issue with a name such as Pestapo.
Macheath - perhaps not explicitly, but I suspect they are taught that there can only be one side of any argument, the officially sanctioned side. Schools may be much the same.
Sam - yes, the policing remit is too wide and traditional police indifference towards anything but explicit law-breaking seems to have broken under constant political pressure from totalitarian loons.
DJ - yes, there was a constantly evolving purity aspect of Orwell's 1984 with the incessant adjustment of the past. We are seeing that now, with evolving interpretations of the past and changing emphasis. Owning old history books could become suspect.
dearieme - I have Das Kapital and The Road to Serfdom, but even worse I have Alice in Wonderland which could be very suspect.
Well yes, a privileged white girl - how very dare you?
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