The lackadaisical response to a musician who told Britons who „want your country back“ to „shut the fuck up“ cited as two-tier justice.
The lackadaisical response to a musician who told Britons who “want your country back” to “shut the fuck up” and who led chants of “death to the IDF” has been cited as an example of two-tier justice in a country where middle-class housewives are locked up for tweets.
Days after death chants by musician ‘Bob Vylan’ were broadcast live by the BBC from the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, the organs of state are slowly starting to respond, with concerns about offensive and potentially illegal content. State broadcaster the BBC has now acknowledged it shouldn’t have been aired at all, the broadcasting regulator says there are questions to be answered, and police are investigating whether a speech crime took place.
Given the ferocious response the government has been perceived to have made in response to other speech crimes in recent memory, warnings have inevitably been made about “two-tier justice”, the name given to a rising feeling among some in the United Kingdom that the law is applied unevenly to different groups depending on how favoured they are by the state. The Conservative Party’s Shadow Home Secretary — interior affairs spokesman — Chris Philp said it was his opinion that the law had been broken and, for the sake of consistency, arrests must take place.
He said: “It seems clear Vylan was inciting violence and hatred. They should be arrested and prosecuted – just like the Government insisted happen during the riots last summer. By broadcasting his vile hatred, the BBC appear to have also broken the law.”
Per the Daily Telegraph, Philp compared the response to that of Lucy Connolly, a controversial case where a housewife received a long prison sentence for a swiftly deleted tweet during the post-Southport attack riots last year.
