Extremist transgender advocate seeks more attention
This was carefully timed.
To understand the careful timing we have to go back to June, and a post by Women Are Human dated June 10:
Airdrie, Scotland. A 50-year-old mother-of-two has been charged with a hate crime after an extremist transgender advocate reported her to police for retweeting a photograph of green, white and violet women’s suffrage ribbons.
Police Scotland confirmed that Marion Millar, an accountant, business owner and gender-critical feminist campaigner, was arrested. Ms Millar, who has since been released on bail, is accused of posting six tweets in 2019 that run afoul of the Communications Act 2003.
The women’s suffrage ribbon, which was tied to a chain-link fence in front of a tree outside the Glasgow studio where a BBC soap opera is shot, appears to be a central focus of the police investigation.
The BBC soap is the one that employs David Paisley.
The complaint is rumored to have been filed by David Paisley, an aged 42, heavily muscled, tattooed actor who stars as Rory Murdoch on the Glasgow soap River City. There is no official confirmation that Mr Paisley filed the complaint.
The complainant purportedly told police that the bow of ribbons shared by Ms Millar represented a hangman’s noose, putting the complainant in fear of his life as a transgender advocate who is also a gay man.
The C-list entertainer tweeted that he has fled his home and is in hiding. He claimed that police have “put my home on rapid response,” and that he is in contact with a local victim and mental health support team.
Now he’s tragically leaving Scotland altogether and it’s all the fault of those horrible witchy women.
Updating to add:
Jesus. In know he word “hysteria” has some etymological baggage, but mein Gott this dude is a hysterical tool.
I understand that histrionic interpretations of emotional “safety” are par for the course in ideological stances like trans ideology, but even within those parameters there must be some genuine cases of clinical paranoia. I’d like to know if Paisley has been hallucinating, for one.
Wait, let me get this straight: this enormous dude construed a ribbon tied to a fence to represent a noose/death threat towards himself? A ribbon in suffragette colors? And this notion affects him so much that he not only needs emergency mental health support but is also fleeing the country, in fear of his life? JFC, I’ve never heard such mewling even from actual people who are actually directly threatened with death. Like, ya know, women at protests facing transgender activists saying that they’re going to kill them. Or, ya know, like an actual woman who was beaten at Poet’s Corner (Maria Mac) by one of them. Those women stood and are standing bravely for their beliefs, and this guy is running for the exit because he spotted a piece of fabric on a fence. I suppose that it makes sense that gumbies who talk constantly about how the use of an “incorrect pronoun” represents actual violence would deem the appearance of a piece of colored fabric to represent murder most foul.
Godspeed and best wishes to him in whatever fabric-free locale that he next finds himself.
Hm…. Anyone remember his tweet from July 20th, after the event in Glasgow, when he went for a nice walk to prove he wasn’t frightened, after carefully making sure everyone had gone home?
https://twitter.com/DavidPaisley/status/1417581732828700681
Which is it, David?
I don’t know if he’s fleeing by train, but I have a train journey on Thursday (going to this in case anyone else wants to come along: https://twitter.com/ForwomenScot/status/1423614835581980672) so I’ll be sure to drape the platform in ribbons just in case. I don’t want him stopping here.
Look at him, there. He can’t even wear a hat properly.
And this dude lives in Glasgow! A city full of hard men, Orange order thugs, football thugs, once the stabbing capital of the UK. The famously gritty city. Jeez. The big jessie, as they would say there.
I was thinking the same thing, even way over here and not knowing much about Glasgow – not much but enough to know about the famously gritty part. Ribbons!! On a fence!!! Run for your life!!!!
Where does one go to hide from those terrible ribbons? Saudi Arabia perhaps? Afghanistan? Iran? North Korea? David has so many choices!
It must be nice, having the financial means to simply uproot and relocate on such flimsy justification.
A guy I know went to Glasgow once for a gig and got into a fight in a toilet. This guy was a punk who wore leather stud bracelets and he managed to rip his attacker’s face open. He ran into his attacker later at another gig, and the attacker said, “Are ye the c**t who ripped ma face open?”
The punk said, “Aye,” in some trepidation.
“Och, that was greeeat.”
(You have to tell that story in a Scots accent.)
He thinks he’s going to find a more trans-friendly place than Scotland? Really?
Specifically a Glasgow accent.
To quote Tombstone:
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The court gave some legal news to Marion Millar today, so I imagine the court gave some legal news to David Paisley too (rumored to be her accuser).
I imagine the court is stuck in the middle. They didn’t write the stupid law, or file the stupid charges. The court seems unprepared to handle the case, and they seem to be making up the rules as they go — e.g. they said that now they will consider the compatibility of this prosecution with the European Convention on Human Rights — I imagine because Joanna Cherry told them to — and then they will reconvene.
Maybe Paisley is stuck in the middle too. If Millar’s tweets were legally protected speech, and truthful, then maybe Paisley could be in trouble for filing a false accusation and/or defamation. That is only my speculation, but maybe the court gave Paisley some legal news today that he might face some legal exposure, and that news motivates him to leave Scotland.
#OB 11 – The bloke who told me this story had a non-posh Edinburgh accent, but imitated the attacker’s Weegee accent. Even tough Edinburghers think Glaswegians are a bunch of thugs.
When you do go to Glasgow the people there are more friendly than in Edinburgh – more Irish – and it is a splendid city in many ways – livelier and more creative than Edinburgh. A Glasgow musician once told me that Edinburgh people spend so much time admiring their own beautiful city that they are wrapped in the past instead of creating anything in the present.
I love the possibility that Paisley is fleeing Scotland in hopes of evading legal jeopardy, and trying to turn shit into gold by pretending it’s in order to be safe from the life-threatening danger of…ribbons.
Paisley has a new job (“exciting new challenge”) outside Scotland, which is why he’s moving. The business about being afraid is a lie… and one which might well be illegal. Let’s hope.
I started a rumour that Paisley’s new job is deputy manager to a 16 year old boss in a Hartlepool Greggs. I hope it catches on.
I went to all the trouble of finding this link to Paisley’s “exciting new challenge” posts then simply forgot to paste it in above. So here it is.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-MKq47XoAMmpGB?format=jpg&name=large
Of course, it might not be a new job (which would definitely be in Greggs, pass it on). As someone suggested, perhaps he’s transitioning…
Dave @13, not that I know about Scottish law at all, but generally most jurisdictions do not allow what happens as part of criminal complaints or legal proceedings to be used as evidence of defamation. Theoretically there are other avenues of addressing specious claims – wasting police time for instance. In reality no one will ever be taken to task for making one or a small number of complaints that turn out to be nothing burgers. Especially not where police and prosecutors have gleefully jumped on board. That gets reserved for the likes of women who make false rape complaints.
If Paisley, as is generally believed, is the one who made the complaint, I think he did so in bad faith and is a wanker for doing so. There should be social consequences for doing that. I’m actually more mad at the law makers who came up with such a putrid law in the first place and the police and prosecutors who have thrown themselves headlong into prosecuting what is at most a trivial thing compared to the toxic and frightening abuse women face all day everyday online.