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Scottish woman told would be charged for homophobic and transphobic tweets

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 22/05/2021 13:25

twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1396039074239164423?s=19

On Wednesday April the 28th 2021 I received a call from a PC Laura Daley from police scotland requesting i attend an interview for homophobic and transphobic tweets under the milacious communications act.

I was asked to attend that coming Friday, she told me I had to attend East Kilbride police station so I could be then transported to Cathcart police station in a police car because I would have to go to a police station where there is holding cells, I would be then processed, questioned and then most likely charged.

I told her I would not be attending any interview on that day especially with it being a bank holiday weekend because my autistic twins needed me and I was scared I would be held all weekend.

To this she told me she would attend my house with social workers for my boys.

I contacted a solicitor straight away and he was unable to get PC Daley so for the first bank holiday in May I sent my disabled twins away for fear of this officer carrying out this threat.

This absolute nonsense has been hanging over my head for a month, I can barely sleep
or eat and I still don't know what the offending tweet is, my new interview has been scheduled for Thursday the 27th May, I will find out what I am supposed to have said at that point and if I will be indeed charged, again at another bank holiday, I just want to say, anyone who knows me, knows I am not homophobic or transphobic, I am a hard working mummy who would fight to the end for the safety and dignity of women and girls and for my vulnerable twinnies.

If we sit back and do nothing we will regret it for ever. For this reason I will never
Wheesht.

#WomenWontWheesht

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AssassinatedBeauty · 05/06/2021 22:04

@FightingtheFoo at the moment, I think it's not possible to donate as Marion's PayPal has been put on hold. I would wait and see what updates are made on her Twitter account about it, when a reliable method has been established.

The issue I would guess with PayPal is just that it's a personal account that has suddenly become very active and receiving a large amount of money. They will have to check that everything is above board.

FightingtheFoo · 05/06/2021 22:05

[quote AssassinatedBeauty]@FightingtheFoo at the moment, I think it's not possible to donate as Marion's PayPal has been put on hold. I would wait and see what updates are made on her Twitter account about it, when a reliable method has been established.

The issue I would guess with PayPal is just that it's a personal account that has suddenly become very active and receiving a large amount of money. They will have to check that everything is above board. [/quote]
Thanks.

Couldn't FPFW or another campaign body (e.g. Sex Matters) collect on her behalf?

Mollyollydolly · 05/06/2021 22:08

She'll probably need to do something like Allison Bailey did. I'm sure people will advise her tomorrow. There's no rush plenty of time to raise money if she needs it and I get a feeling she could raise 100K in a day the level of anger out there.

BoreOfWhabylon · 05/06/2021 22:15

And we know who was encouraging reporting Marion's Paypal too, don't we?
Fucking fuckers

But in the words of the Blessed Julian of Norwich

All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well

OllyBJolly · 05/06/2021 22:15

Someone duplicated Marion’s Twitter and put up a fake paypal account. She has taken hers down but the sum raised was just short of £10k.

The amount of crap that poor woman has had to put up with in the past few days is unthinkable.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/06/2021 22:35

This will be deleted but I wanted as many people to see it as possible:

This individual is a lying manipulative wee shite who will no doubt be locking his account citing dogpiles and mental health issues.

Scottish woman told would be charged for homophobic and transphobic tweets
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Cwenthryth · 05/06/2021 22:43

Ach I donated originally via GoFundMe, double what my normal gardening fee would be anyway, when I saw it had been taken down I was ready to quadruple it.

I felt I couldn’t justify the time off work to be in Glasgow on the 20th....but now, if my money isn’t needed, am wondering about using it on train tickets/hotel and donating my annual leave days instead. Realistically it’d be at least 2 days from London.

BraveBananaBadge · 05/06/2021 22:46

Never heard of Joss Prior before today but what a loathsome piece of work.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 05/06/2021 22:52

Is that Teddy the one who was the SNP equalities person?

Calling a mother of kids with extra needs a fetishist?

Wonder how Teddy's mother feels about Teddy? cos I'd be fucking raging with the odious little shite

MintTeaLady · 05/06/2021 22:59

Whilst it’s not directly related, it is so heartwarming to see how quickly and how much has been raised compared to Dr Christian’s fundraising campaign.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/06/2021 23:02

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

Is that Teddy the one who was the SNP equalities person?

Calling a mother of kids with extra needs a fetishist?

Wonder how Teddy's mother feels about Teddy? cos I'd be fucking raging with the odious little shite

Yes, he's the one that flounced after being horribly traumatised by women at a branch meeting. This horrific experience led Sturgeon to produce an "unscripted" video on twitter pleasing for him and the other TRAs to return.
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Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons · 05/06/2021 23:05

FFS I'm off to dig for FWS again until I can figure out how to send directly to MM

Anyone else planning their week around where ribbons can be tied?

ArabellaScott · 05/06/2021 23:10

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

This will be deleted but I wanted as many people to see it as possible:

This individual is a lying manipulative wee shite who will no doubt be locking his account citing dogpiles and mental health issues.

Teddy understands, does he? Fairly sure Teddy isn't a mother to any children, let alone children with additional needs.

Disgusting tweet.

Paralithic · 05/06/2021 23:25

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

This will be deleted but I wanted as many people to see it as possible:

This individual is a lying manipulative wee shite who will no doubt be locking his account citing dogpiles and mental health issues.

Ah, but doesn’t Teddy look just like Siegfried and Roy when they were at their height. Something we could all aspire to (with enough fake tan and hair extensions).
FannyCann · 05/06/2021 23:39

Think there'll be something in Sunday Times Scotland tomorrow.

twitter.com/sundaytimessco/status/1401243022575218694?s=21

Scottish woman told would be charged for homophobic and transphobic tweets
Undersnatch · 05/06/2021 23:42

Just bought some ribbons. This is all so disturbing.

BoreOfWhabylon · 05/06/2021 23:44

Someone should tell Sunday Times about the PayPal debacle too.

And the screenshots of the plotting.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/06/2021 23:46

[quote FannyCann]Think there'll be something in Sunday Times Scotland tomorrow.

twitter.com/sundaytimessco/status/1401243022575218694?s=21[/quote]
Fingers crossed... It took a lot of pulling to get this thing moving, but it seems to have started to gain momentum now with more and more media picking up on the various attacks on women and their rights.

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CharlieParley · 05/06/2021 23:50

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

This will be deleted but I wanted as many people to see it as possible:

This individual is a lying manipulative wee shite who will no doubt be locking his account citing dogpiles and mental health issues.

Just FYI, Teddy accuses Marion Millar of fetishising and objectifying (her own) children, because Marion has the word "mother" in her Twitter bio together with the hashtag #NotWithMyChild. He specifically objects to Marions use of the word "my" in that hashtag.

As if our language wasn't being tortured enough, the use of the often necessary and typically useful pronoun "my" is here framed as an automatic act of objectification.

No mother degrades her child to the status of a mere object by simply using the phrase "my child". To claim she is, betrays a staggering ignorance of language, objectification and motherhood.

To be fair, Teddy has shown staggering levels of ignorance on other matters previously, so this is not a departure from the (lamentable) norm for this individual.

Losttheplotyearsago · 05/06/2021 23:55

Does anyone know what she actually tweeted?

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 06/06/2021 00:11

[quote FannyCann]Think there'll be something in Sunday Times Scotland tomorrow.

twitter.com/sundaytimessco/status/1401243022575218694?s=21[/quote]
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fundraiser-block-after-cash-pours-in-for-feminist-charged-with-hate-crime-tx9bht0mx

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AdHominemNonSequitur · 06/06/2021 00:13

I believe it was over this image, which was thought to reassemble a noose. It's a painting done from a picture of a tatty suffragette ribbon tired to a fence .

smtrends.net/images/twitter-a09bf688-c7a30739.jpg

Mollyollydolly · 06/06/2021 00:33

This is beautiful to see.

Scottish woman told would be charged for homophobic and transphobic tweets
EsmaCannonball · 06/06/2021 00:52

Huh? We all say my child/my daughter/my father/my hamster/my friend/my colleague/my postman, etc. It doesn't mean we own these people (or hamsters), it just shows where we stand in relation to them, otherwise we could be talking about any child or postman or hamster.

There was a woke person on Twitter the other day saying that she was no longer using terms like 'summer' or 'winter' because they weren't inclusive of people from the southern hemisphere. I don't think it was a parody account. Personally I would credit people from the southern hemisphere with a lot more intelligence. It's a woke strategy to constantly shift and narrow the language rules so that nobody will ever feel confident that their speech will evade the witch-hunt. Chilling and Orwellian.