She murdered his umbrella!
We might as well give up. It’s all women’s fault, always, all the time, no matter what. He didn’t hit her, she provoked him, end of story.
Police are investigating claims that a leader of the For Women Scotland campaign group harassed a pro-trans activist by vandalising his rainbow umbrella.
They’re not investigating, or just plain recording, the obvious fact that an anti-women activist harassed women who dared to speak up for their own rights.
Police Scotland has faced intense criticism from gender-critical campaigners and MSPs for allowing Tom Harlow, of the Cabaret Against the Hate Speech group, to disrupt a rally outside Holyrood on Thursday by attempting to drown out speeches with amplified music.
The force defended its stance, claiming that the music, which included Lily Allen’s F*** You and a Kate Nash song that refers to gender-critical activists as “germs” did not meet the threshold of a serious public nuisance, which would have justified intervention.
Because loud music intended to drown out speeches is not a serious public nuisance?
Well, see, the speeches were women-speeches, and the drowning out was man drowning out, so the man wins, because he’s a man.
However, it said inquiries were continuing into a complaint lodged by Harlow against Susan Smith, a For Women Scotland director and rally organiser. Harlow complained that she had “harassed and intimidated him” during a confrontation and broke his umbrella.
He complained. He was there to disrupt, he did disrupt, and still he is complaining?
Some of those at the protest claimed they were left with hearing issues as a result of the music being played by Harlow, who at times sat on a deck chair while being shielded by Police Scotland officers.
Pam Gosul, a Conservative MSP who spoke at the rally, said she had been “appalled” at the way police had handled the counterprotest, citing legislation that gives officers legal powers to order someone playing loud music to desist if it is causing annoyance.
He was playing the loud music for the purpose of causing annoyance. He didn’t just rock up with his amplified music because he wanted to hear some tunes. He was there to disrupt.
JK Rowling claimed that it was clear that Police Scotland had taken an ideological position that “women defending their rights are in the wrong and must pay the penalty by having their legal right to assemble and protest disrupted by trans activists”.
LOUD trans activists.
A pity that Susan Smith didn’t break rather more than his umbrella.
The loud music must have annoyed any number of people in the area as well — people who were not involved in the rally. I find the attitude of the Scottish police quite extraordinary, and blatantly mischievous.
There’s a big difference between personally not wanting to hear someone else’s speech (in which case you can plug your ears, or leave the area, etc.), and preventing anyone else, from hearing someone’s speech.
I would suggest their attitude is better described by a different “M” word. Misogynistic. Rowling is right:
The police are trans activists. Would they have let some random stranger do what this one-man “cabaret” did in any other circumstance? No. For any other case, an officer would have told the cause of the nuisance to turn it down, and or move along. Police inaction was as deliberately political as Harlow’s “protest”, with the effect of supporting his “beliefs” against those of the women speaking. By aiding Harlow’s disruption of their right to speak, the police were violating that right, right along side him.