Sharpe's Opinion
Monday, 18th Jan, 2010
Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest
Paul Chambers wrote on Twitter “Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your s**t together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!” And then:
A week after posting the message on the social networking site, he was arrested under the Terrorism Act and questioned for almost seven hours by detectives who interpreted his post as a security threat. After he was released on bail, he was suspended from work pending an internal investigation, and has, he says, been banned from the Doncaster airport for life.
Round of applause for the police there. Keeping us safe from those dangerous terrorists who go round advertising their intentions on public social networking websites. Give yourselves a pat on the back.
They’d better apologise soon, or I’m going down there and blowing the police station sky high.
Comments
I just dont understand why the police even bother with this kind of thing. Who the hell signs this stuff off?
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“Who the hell signs this stuff off?”
Lazy incompetents who like an easy life.
The police are terrified of going after the real threats who openly support, for instance, the Taliban killing British troops, which wouldn’t be politically correct. So they go after an obviously harmless white male middle class citizen (an easy target because they think correctly that nobody cares about his rights) and they THINK we’re impressed at their “vigilance”.
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January 18, 2010 at 4:59 pm