{"id":1267,"date":"2025-06-04T00:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:11:43","slug":"the-word-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/the-word-police\/","title":{"rendered":"The word police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been wanting to write about Lucy Connoly for a while now but I\u2019m so enraged by the injustice that has been done to her I\u2019m afraid I might end up in prison too. This was not at Speakers Corner or on a rally over a microphone but on her own little twitter account and something she deleted when she calmed down. She was angry when she wrote it. Not about her team losing at football or her neighbour&#8217;s noisy party or her husband\u2019s annoying eating noises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, she was angry about a young unkempt looking black man with a foreign sounding name that deliberately walked into a children\u2019s dance class and stabbed to death three little girls aged 6, 7 and 9. The six year old had 122 knife wounds. The seven year old had 85 knife wounds. Eight other children and adults were also seriously harmed. All will suffer the trauma of this for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rumour spread rapidly over social media that it was an asylum seeker and so she said what she said, which I won\u2019t write here but fully agreed with and said to myself along with probably thousands of others at the time. I just want the migrants gone and I don\u2019t really care how to be honest. I don\u2019t doubt for one minute that I\u2019m the only one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what do we have here then? 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