Brickbat: I Guess You Can Say That

The West Yorkshire, England, police department has agreed to pay street preacher David McConnell  £3,250 ($4,500) plus legal fees and other costs to settle a lawsuit for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and human rights violation. McConnell was charged with a hate related public order offense "for preaching on gay rights and abortion," according to The Christian Institute, a nonprofit group that supported him. McConnell was held for six hours before a police sergeant listened to a recording of his preaching and determined what he had said did not violate the law.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Wait, what? Some Limeys not only admitted speech rights but actually paid reparations?

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Seems like they just paid a “go away” fee out of their tea and biscuit fund.

[Hank Phillips]

They're hoping he'll spend it on plane fare to Georgia, where the Gee-Oh-Pee needs speechwriters and women's clinic bullies and gunmen.

[Agammamon]

They didn't admit the existence of speech rights - in the UK you have no rights. They simply admitted that what he said was not currently disallowed.

[m4019597]

“Anyone who has ever watched TV knows the police have to tell you what law you’re supposed to have broken, but these officers never did.“ said this preacher.

He’s an idiot. They need to tell their boss and prosecutors, not the defendant.

I suspect he is the kind of butthole that did a street lawyer routine, pissing off the cops. “I know my rights… I don’t have to talk to you… You can’t do that…”

No wonder he was arrested.

[Kip 0verland]

Actually you pig ignorant sister fucking sack of shit, the defendant does actually get to find out what crime they are being charged with. Unless of course they are being spied on by the federal government by means of a secret court with no representation. But in normal circumstances, yeah. The state doesn't get to just put you in jail on secret charges. You should consider keeping your stupid cocksucker shut instead of opening your stupid cocksucker and proving what a stupid cocksucker you are.

[Jerryskids]

The cops are free to hold you for a certain, "reasonable" amount of time before they are required to tell you what you're being arrested for (assuming they haven't decided to suspend the right to habeus corpus.) Further, I'm not sure how it works in England, but here in America, thanks to Heien, the cops are free to invent the law they charge you with violating, it doesn't even need to be a real law, they can just make shit up.

[Agammamon]

He was harassed because of standing on the corner talking - and they even admit he did nothing wrong.

If he acted like you wanted him to he would have shut up and moved along like a good prole?

Submit, obey, even if you're going about your lawful business? Fuck that.

[m4019597]

The venue to argue with cops is in court, not on the street. I’m not saying the cops are right; I’m saying he’s wrong.

[m4019597]

Typo….

I’m not saying they cops are right; I’m saying HE MIGHT BE wrong.

No video was released, but judging from his statement to the news, he seems like a dick.

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[Mickey Rat]

That there are things a street preacher might say that could get them arrested for blaspheming against gayness is a problem.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

In Great Britain, I'm told, "being offensive is an offense." And the police are apparently embracing the role of enforcer of wrong think.

[Agammamon]

Its easier than taking back the Muslim no-go areas and policing pikey trash dumps.

[markm23]

I'm offended by that policy.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

McConnell was charged with a hate related public order offense "for preaching on gay rights and abortion,"

Egads! What if an Anglican had heard him?

[Hank Phillips]

Or a Haitian? He'd be appointed dictator.

[Earth Skeptic]

I am amazed that the Brits have not yet banned the Bible. That book is just full of "hate".