Many British people have been extremely disturbed by the way that Essex Police targeted the journalist Alison Pearson for harassment over a tweet from a year previous that Ms Pearson had already long deleted. Two uniformed police officers turned up at her door, on Remembrance Sunday if you please and questioned her about her online comments. The police eventually went away from Ms Pearson’s door but she had the threat of being prosecuted for a bollocks ‘hate speech’ crime, something which is not good to have. The behaviour of Essex Police got so intense after this incident that Essex Police instituted ‘Gold Command’ to deal with it even though ‘Gold Command’ is usually the strategic command level as opposed to loser Bronze Command which is operational command level. It certainly seems that Essex Police have either seriously overreacted over this issue or they are now so politicised that they believed it acceptable to do what they did.
Ms Pearson, as others have quite rightly pointed out, has been put through hell not just by Essex Police but also by various leftist activists and also by mainstream journalists. Some of these journalists are people who should have defended Ms Pearson’s right to speak freely and certainly should not have decided to take the side of Essex Police over this incident and use this incident as a cudgel to use against Ms Pearson.
Yesterday the news emerged that Essex Police have dropped the investigation into Ms Pearson and t that she will face no further action from this force.
After facing mounting criticism from figures like Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, and Elon Musk, Essex Police have finally decided to drop their investigation into Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson regarding a year-old tweet. The decision came after intervention from a criminal lawyer funded by the Free Speech Union. Good news for freedom of speech lovers…
Whilst I welcome the decision of Essex Police to drop this case I consider this action as good but not good enough. There should be no situation where law enforcement or any other similar agency turns up at people’s doors and accuses them of wrong-think. Apart from when someone is deliberately and credibly inciting immediate violence, what people say, no matter how offensive it might be to some or how inaccurate it is or whatever, law enforcement should have no place in regulating what Britons say.
This is a definite win for Ms Pearson and for freedom of speech along with a massive embarrassment for Essex Police. However as Guido points out referencing Nigel Farage’s words, although Ms Pearson has won we should not forget that dozens of other Britons every day are facing intimidation from police forces. These Britons are being targeted by police forces that have long surrendered to partisan political attitudes which gets reflected in the manner that they police. It is highly likely that Essex Police’s obsession with ‘diversity’ may have played a part not just in the decision to target Ms Pearson over something that didn’t even meet the threshold of being criminal under Britain’s outrageously restrictive speech control laws, but also been a factor in this force’s overreaction to Ms Pearson’s posts online.
Until the restrictive speech laws are repealed and until police forces learn to defend Britons rather than their chosen diversity ideology, Britain and Britons will continue to suffer outrages of the type that Ms Pearson has suffered.
It’s good that Ms Pearson has had the police back off but it’s not enough that they back off from Ms Pearson, these politicised filth need to back off from every Briton.
