Man arrested for liking bacon
I took a quick look. What happened was that a man who clearly objected to the spread of Islam in Britain was in the vicinity of a new mosque and shouted ‘I want bacon.’
And so I asked myself: Was this man really arrested for liking bacon? It didn’t take many milliseconds to see that the answer was ‘no, of course not.’ The perpetrator would clearly have known that his remark was openly provocative. In other words, he was deliberately inciting religious – and probably racial – division. That’s why he was arrested, not for liking bacon.
So should he have been arrested at all? Personally I would say not, because I feel that the war on free speech and bringing the law down on every statement which might be deemed divisive or insulting has already gone too far. But that isn’t the point, is it?
The point is that the woman running the channel clearly sees herself as an ‘influencer’ and is prepared to throw reason to the wind in order to continue to do so. Either that or she’s a big head with very little brain. The latter is equally likely because it seems to me that ‘influencers’ are becoming just as big a stain on rational society as advertisers. They’re just a lot less subtle.
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