Well, if an article recently published by Reclaim The Net is anything to go by the probable answer is ‘yes’.

Reclaim The Net, an organisation that campaigns for internet freedoms and free speech on the internet, has published an article that shows that the British state, an entity not known for its support for freedom of speech, could be going after the You Tube comedian and personality Count Dankula. The article also shows that Twitter and its policies regarding ‘hate speech’ and acceptable use policies and the way that they deal with their users, are extremely and unnecessarily vague.

Reclaim The Net has published a message that Count Dankula, real name Mark Meechan, received from Twitter management. The message was to inform Count Dankula that Twitter had been approached by UK law enforcement as a UK law had been broken. Twitter do not specify which UK law has been broken or what particular police force or part of the UK government approached Twitter. Neither do they state which post by Count Dankula has offended which of the many diversity Grand Panjandrums of the British policing system. It’s all really, really vague.

Count Dankula, for those who do not know, was outrageously persecuted by the Scottish part of the British state for a joke video he made of his then girlfriend’s pug dog doing a Nazi salute. Now Count Dankula is in no way a real and genuine Nazi, far from it, he strikes me as being from the moderate Left, he was just trying to wind his girlfriend up by making the dog, the cutest thing he knew, do the most disgusting and outrageous thing he could think of. The video in question didn’t have that many viewers on YouTube but his local police force, Police Scotland, went out of their way to seek out people who could say that they were ‘offended’ by the video and use this claim of offence as reason to arrest Count Dankula on various ‘hate speech’ and Communications Act charges. The Count was brought before the Scottish courts and the case dragged on for three years before he was convicted and fined £800, a fine that he refused on principle to voluntarily pay.

One of the laughable and almost Kafaesque things about the communication from Twitter to Count Dankula is that Twitter claim that they have contacted him to let him know of the communication from UK law enforcement as part of their ‘transparency’ policy. However there is no real transparency in Twitter’s communication. They have not told Count Dankula who has contacted them and neither have they said what UK law he has allegedly transgressed. This strikes me as the very opposite of an organisation being ‘transparent’.

The communication from Twitter has left Count Dankula very much in the dark as to what UK law he might have broken or what policing or diversity Grand Panjandrum may be taking an interest in him. He’s not even clear about which, if any, of his posts might have caused this interest in him.

But, as with anyone who is left in the dark by Britain’s increasingly biased and capricious policing and criminal justice system, Count Dankula has been wondering why the sudden interest in him and has come up with a theory about why he may be the subject of interest again to the British police. According to a Tweet that Count Dankula put out and which was screen-shotted by Reclaim The Net (see below), he believes that this may be down to his criticism of the frankly Orwellian arrest of a twelve year old boy for racist online comments about a Black footballer. Now for the record I don’t like to see anybody racially abused no matter who they are, but it also strikes me that a battle between a twelve year old boy and a possibly millionaire footballer backed up by the police, is a seriously unequal one. This situation could I believe have been dealt with better. The footballer could have ignored the comments, after all they are just words and may not have contained anything that could be classified as a credible and immediate threat of violence, or if it was felt necessary to involve the police then the police could have just had a quiet word with the boy’s parents about their son’s online activities. There was certainly no need or justification in my view to arrest the boy for ‘hate speech’ and hold him in custody.

The comment by Dankula believes that may have elicited the police’s interest in him was this one. In talking about the case Dankula said:

“It should be easy for (the boy) to get the charges dropped. He has to become the victim of a grooming gang and the cops will forget all about him”

This comment is a reference to how some of those girls who have been raped, abused both physically and sexually and trafficked as slaves by majority Muslim grooming gangs, have been treated by various police forces not as victims of abuse, but as criminals themselves. I note that this arrest and the gloating about it comes from West Midlands Police a force that as many regular readers of this blog will know, has been very much compromised by its obsession with ‘diversity’ matters. West Midlands Police also has a long association with Islamic grievance monger groups of questionable probity and has failed to properly tackle Islamic Rape Gang activity in their force area, despite this issue being a matter of considerable public concern.

I find myself at a loss to know what actual law Count Dankula has broken here? Is it one of the all encompassing and vague ‘hate speech’ or ‘communications’ acts? That’s a possibility. If he has not named the minor that was arrested then he hasn’t broken the Children and Young Persons Act that forbids the naming of those under eighteen who are arrested or brought before the courts. It’s quite possible that this may be a Contempt of Court Act matter that forbids comment on a case before it has been disposed of by a jury or a magistrate and we should not discount the possibility that West Midlands Police may be using this act, possibly at the instigation of various Islamic groups, to divert criticism away from them for their failure to tackle problems, such as the rape gangs that are now clearly Islamic in nature? The problem is nobody knows, least of all Dankula.

So, this is Britain folks, a land where a social media platform and a police force can tell you that ‘you’ve broken the law’ but not which law you are alleged to have broken. Truly Britain and its law enforcement and criminal justice system has become a Clown World.