Graham Linehan visited by police again.....

Oddly, Dr Harrassment is being quiet about this whole thing, which is unusual for him... I wonder if PC Plod told him off?

It's quite sinister.

It's a rather effective chilling mechanism.

If the Police will turn out to visit glinner on what read like such slight grounds, people who are less privileged and protected will definitely consider their livelihood, working conditions etc. before speaking up. How many of us would be able to say anything in particular settings that might be the matter of a report in this Brave New World where conversation and thought is now monitored for wrong speech and wrong think so that by suppressing it we can be free?

You don't need armies to enforce totalitarianism if you can persuade a populace to monitor and police each other.

The definition of transphobia is now so meaningless that it includes anything that someone doesn't like hearing. Trans groups have "trained" the police, civil service, NHS staff, education staff, universities etc with their preferred beliefs. As a result some police forces are acting as personal agents of these groups / individuals. A real misuse of power.
Burglary, assaults, harassment of women (crimes that cause real harm to people) are of little importance to the police compared to tracking down anyone daring to challenge the preferred trans narrative. Sinister indeed.

They have to investigate, especially if the complainant is a 'protected group' member.

So was Harrop somehow trying to allege the tweet was homophobic? I can't see how you could get that out of it no matter how much you twist the words.

And I don't understand why the cops wouldn't read the tweet, work out all by themselves it isn't a hate crime, and write Harrop off as a nuisance caller without spending any further time on it.

It's quite sinister.

I don't understand why the 'investigation' can't be in the form of the police reading the offending tweet (or whatever) and then saying 'no, no hate crime there'. Why does it have to involve statements and visiting people?

Presumably if I rang up and reported by neighbour for a hate crime and was asked 'what did they do?' and I said something ridiculous like 'they said they didn't like the colour of my car' I'd be told to get lost and stop wasting their time, because whilst it might have hurt my feelings, they haven't actually done anything criminal.

They have to investigate, especially if the complainant is a 'protected group' member.

Dr. Adrian Harrop is a cunt.

Being a cunt isn't a protected group.

Hate crime, in all it's forms is a priority for the police atm.

They have to investigate, especially if the complainant is a 'protected group' member.

Dr. Adrian Harrop is a cunt.

Thanks for the info Carowiththegoodhair. The more people can inform others, the better.

Given you can’t even get the police out for a burglary, how is this happening?

This. How many officer's time has been wasted? Taking a statement; the paperwork to pass it between forces; then coming out and speaking to you. How the hell did this pass through so many hands without someone deciding it wasn't worth the time?

I’ve been told that for hatsssmebt to occur, someone actually has to contact you. Which is not the principle applied in DPP vs Kellett. In fact this a good case for people to be aware of if employers are contacted by activists. It does constitute harassment.

choptheknot.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/kellett-v-dpp-2001-ewhc-admin-107/

Mentioning someone’s media appearance on Twitter does not constitute harassment.

Has anyone tried switching them off and back on again?

Glad you're on top of this Glinner. What a fucking waste of time. Please use Aspies joke in something some time ;)

That's good to know, Graham. Good advice for anyone else.

As a result, this entire issue is backfiring on Harrop. Making him look like an absolute idiot, and either in cahoots with dodgy police, or manipulating them like fools.

Has anyone tried switching them off and back on again?

Good for you, Glinner. I am glad to see you here but am sorry to hear of the latest nonsense.

Graham

I think Norfolk police passed on my details to Yorkshire police the last time. Luckily I have experience on how to deal with this sort of thing now. They wanted to be able to say something like "I am happy to announce that a fifty year old comedy writer has been told by police etc etc etc" so I just refused to accept any restrictions to my behaviour.

Thanks for all the support, as always. :)

I still don‘t understand this. Surely, Harrop cried wolf, ok. But surely, the modus operandi of the police will be to ask for the incriminating twitter thread, which Harrop can easily provide. And after reading this, the police still felt the need to drive over to Graham and interview him?!?!?! I am at a loss.

The police are working properly.

Has anyone tried switching them off and back on again?

When women call the police for violent crimes we are evil carceral feminists.
I won't hold my breath waiting for pseudo left wing misogynists to call out Harrop for his carceral actions.

Yes my thoughts went to you and the lack of police help, Caro . It makes me furious, tbh.

Thanks for this:
“21. People refusing to validate your identity may be painful.
22. Something being painful is not conceptually identical to it being a moral harm, structural violence, or an act of oppression.”

They do this because then it becomes part of their narrative. It becomes 'GL was even visited by the police because of his awful harrassment', 'I had to call the police about GL because I was so alarmed,' 'The police even had to visit GL and give him a warning about his awful hate speech'.

It becomes then that nobody cares about the actual facts and details, just the mud sticking. It's a tactic.

Glinner made a fair comment about Harrop's views. That's what anyone's entitled to do, isn't it? Which 'law' might the police who visited Glinner feel might be invoked here?

I'm guessing, at a stretch, malicious communications.

.....his eyebrows......I’m glad he seems to have given up being a real doctor as I wouldn’t want to treat me

Yes, NotEvenMyRealName suggest they are doing it to fund sex reassignment surgery.