Not much time, except to offer grateful thanks to 'Guido' for displaying this YouTube film of Rowan Atkinson making a superb speech in support of the movement to reform Section 5 which makes the practice of insulting someone a criminal offence. Do yourselves a favour, you ungrateful lot of lazy, useless, pig-ignorant 'pillicocks' (see below the paragraph in which I insult the DPP) and take a few minutes to enjoy Atkinson's speech. It's a corker!
http://order-order.com/2012/10/22/rowan-atkinsons-defence-of-freedom-of-speech/
It is a good speech - a campaign to keep an eye on.
Posted by: A K Haart | Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 20:23
I thought so.
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 21:27
I posted this to Facebook, where I have something like 200 friends - with the normal caveat about what constitutes a 'friend' on Facebook - and, out of those 200 friends, only 1 person commented/liked the video. Okay, the sample size is incredibly small but still, only one in two hundred people give a fuck about freedom of speech?
If anyone else has posted this video to Facebook I'd be interested to know what response they got.
Posted by: The Cowboy Online | Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 10:44
Howdy, Cowboy, and welcome to D&N. I suspect - hope? - that this campaign will gradually increase in strength as time - and ridiculous (and dangerous) police/legal actions - continue and begin to make an impact on headlines. We shall see!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 11:02