Lords and MPs have condemned prize-winning author Hilary Mantel, saying her fantasy of assassinating Margaret Thatcher – written as a short story – is “sick and deranged”
That’s probably a fair comment. But then, Thatcher death fantasies seem to be an obsession with the more deranged leftists. So what?
and that the author should be investigated by police.
NO! No, no, no, absolutely not! For flying fuck’s sake! it’s a story. A fantasy. Stupid, sick, deranged maybe, but it’s just words on a page. The police should be involved in investigating crimes. This should not be a crime and the police have no business investigating it. There is nothing to investigate. Jeebus!
Freedom of speech, if it is ever to mean anything means people get to say horrible things.
The Tories are no different to Labour, frankly. Both are the enemies of liberty.
The Police to investigate short story writers? What about the old offence of ‘Wasting police Time’?
Section 5(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1967. Still on the books.
As for Hilary Mantel; well, if ever I want to be bored to sleep, I pick up a copy of ‘Wolf Hall’. I’m out like a light. 😈
Next, old Mo will be calling for the prosecution of people who call him a paedophile, even though he’s dead. Wait a minute! Why prosecute when his admirers can hand out instant justice instead?
They say “lets get this type of published material stopped by banning it” and the reading public should also be made to want it stopped and banned.
Queue the thought police to investigate on suspicion of committed felony or hate crime. Come forward the judiciary CPS to decide the material is a crime and will be banned and the owner of said material prosecuted.
It’s all so fucking exasperating!
Dear Mr Longrider
” “I thought, if I wasn’t me, if I was someone else, she’d be dead,” Mantel said in an interview. “
So she wasn’t thinking about killing Margaret Thatcher; she was thinking about a fantasy someone else killing her.
That’s called fiction.
It isn’t a crime.
Yet.
In next week’s news: Agatha Christie’s ghost arraigned on multiple counts of murder; Herr Schrodinger’s shade prosecuted for maybe being cruel to a cat.
DP