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National attention on nutty radical-Left action here in WA is growing When I talk with national media outlets, they can't believe what people like Reykdal, Pedersen & Brown say+do. Shamelessly. In public. The challenge: Too many WA voters don't believe it, even when they see it.

It hit me how absurdly dystopian life in the UK has devolved to when my significant other had to have “the talk” with me. I was fixing something up in the kitchen when he made me stop what I was doing to make sure sure I’d fully absorb his solemn warning. “Listen to me. If and when the doorbell rings and it’s the police, do not answer it without pressing the record button. The chances are high that they will come by to investigate a tweet or post or even meme. Make sure you have your phone with you to record everything.” I went back to what I was doing. But later that evening, I realized how ludicrous things must’ve have gotten to make his exhortation a necessity. This just underscores how far England - the nation that, in 1215, put out the world’s first statement of the principles of liberty, the Magna Carta - has fallen. It was the historical and philosophical foundation that paved the way of assuring free speech, freedom of expression and a free press. The American Constitution and its First Amendment can trace its intellectual inheritance to the Magna Carta. Not even the experience of spending the first 17 years of my life growing up in Singapore - famously known for draconian speech laws - prepared me for this. The only “talk” I was subjected to was the typical one about the birds and the bees. It is unsettling that UK police resources are being spent on policing speech (a victimless crime) rather than actual crimes such as assault, stabbings and rapes; that prisoners serving time for serious crimes are released to make room for those guilty of mere thoughtcrimes. It’s utterly jarring that the country that brought you the subversive comedy of Monty Python could succumb to Karenism and destroy its culture of dissent and irreverence. It’s really disquieting that a nation that historically spilled so much blood to fight tyranny is welcoming tyranny at home. We have now sunk to a depth at which we are wasting time and bandwidth debating the legality of tweets, worried about when (not just “if” anymore) the police will come knocking. We now have children logged by the police for “non-crime hate incidents” - in other words, for just being children trying to figure out their place in the world. It’s time to turn things around. It’s already getting very dark here.