Brickbat: Vacation Photos

West Yorkshire police arrested Jon Richelieu-Booth at his home after someone complained about a LinkedIn photo he posted of himself legally holding a gun while on vacation in Florida. He spent the night in a cell. Police initially cited allegations of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, as well as stalking. Those charges were quickly dropped, but then he was accused of a public order offense related to a different social media post, though police never specified which one. After months of legal trouble, the Crown Prosecution Service dropped that charge too.

Comments

[Vernon Depner]

England has fallen. It's past time for us to break off diplomatic relations and military cooperation. They are an enemy now.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Should have stayed in America's wang.

[mad.casual]

Jon Richelieu-Booth

Sic semper subjecti!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Seems like Reason is now just recycling links posted in Roundup a few days earlier for the Brickbat.

[Rossami]

Outrageous and stupid. But not unprecedented. This is the same legal logic that lets the western countries prosecute sex tourism (that is, going to some other country to do icky stuff that's nevertheless legal there), bribery, child labor, etc. The issue is not extraterritoriality - that ship sailed long ago. The problem is that a country that once led the Enlightenment has fallen so low.

[Vernon Depner]

As far as I know, child prostitution is not legal anywhere. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Rossami]

Who counts as a child varies quite widely by country. That hasn't stopped western countries from applying their higher age-of-consent rules to prosecute johns who travel for sex.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

The problem is different definitions of the difference between child and adult.

It's not much different from countries and states calling each other's prisoners "political prisoners" because the crimes they were convicted of are not universal crimes. Then you get into "slavery" because some jurisdictions require prisoners to work, and some pay them less than the legal minimum wage.