In precisely one hour from the time of this writing the trial of Marion Millar begins.
Marion Millar is Scottish, a feminist and a working mother. On April 28th 2021 she received a phone call from a police officer who told her she would need to attend her local police station to be interviewed under the Malicious Communications Act (MCA). When Marion told her she had small children to care for (she has autistic twins) she was informed that social services would look after them while she was interviewed. She was contacted again and told to attend the station on May 27th. Her interview was eventually rescheduled for 3rd of June.
“I shall be attending with my lawyers,” Millar told Twitter on May 28th.
What was her crime?
Tweeting.
Specifically she tweeted this:
This is a Suffragette Ribbon. Transgender activists targeted Marion Millar after claiming that the ribbon represented a noose. The Scottish feminist drew their ire after campaigning to protect biological women’s spaces and right to express themselves.
Yes, really. This is the high crime for which Marion may spend two years in jail for.
The United Kingdom, where legally protected free speech is now virtually non-existent, is notorious for arresting people for tweets simply on the basis that some offended person who identifies as LGBT complained about it.
After contacting his employers, Humberside Police interrogated a man and told him to “check his thinking” after he posted a limerick that offended a transgender person.
Harry Miller told police he did not write the limerick and merely retweeted it, but was told by an officer, “Ah. But you liked it and promoted it. It’s not a crime, but it will be recorded as a hate incident.”
The complaint against Marion 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 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.
Following complaints from transgender activists, a GoFundMe campaign created to raise funding to cover Millar’s legal expenses was shut down and all donations refunded to Millar’s supporters. The campaign had raised £14k in 3 hours.
Millar later began accepting donations through PayPal, but the account was locked for suspicious activity, presumably because the account was mass-reported.
Marion is not the first person in the UK to face legal prosecution for displaying defiance to gender identity ideology on social media. Katie Scottow of Hertfordshire, England was convicted of the offense of Persistently Making Use Of A Public Communications Network To Cause Annoyance, Inconvenience, And Anxiety following 2018 tweets in which she used male pronouns to refer to transgender-identifying advocate Stephanie Hayden, and called the advocate a “pig in a wig.” Scottow was fined £1,000 and handed a two-year conditional discharge.
She successfully appealed the conviction in December.
It goes without saying that #IStandWithMarionMillar and that the rest of you should have her in the forefront of your thoughts and prayers today.
I will report more on this story as it develops.
I have opened the comment section to all today, including any so-called Trans Rights Activists who think they're going to score any "gotcha" points on me.
In case you're interested, here's the scoop.
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