Free Speech
Phillips could hardly contain her satisfaction after she successfully got a man jailed for sending her an email she didn't like.
A British man has been sent to prison for six months because he sent emails critical of government policies over Rape Gangs, it has emerged.
Jack Bennett, 39, from Seaton, Devon, was jailed for sending emails to public officials between January 2024 and January 2025, among those who received the emails were Jess Phillips, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, and Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist.
In the email to Jess Phillips Bennett accused her of failing to investigate allegations of sexual exploitation involving “Pakistani men raping white English girls” and branding her a "disgrace".
In his email to Matt Twist in April 2024 Bennett described Twist as a “rat willing to engage in strong-arm tactics against white English patriots” which the prosecution deemed 'highly offensive'
Mr Bennett also sent an email to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, but the prosecution failed to provide any details of its contents just calling it “grossly offensive”.
Appearing for the prosecution, Hannah Cotton said the emails featured “serious racist abuse towards politicians” while the language used in the emails to Twist was “highly offensive”, for Bennett calling him a “rat willing to engage in strong-arm tactics against white English patriots”.
For calling politicians derogatory names and daring to question their policies Mr Bennett has been sentenced to six months in prison. District Judge Stuart Smith justified the sentence by stating: “She [Phillips] was concerned for your potential to escalate or to encourage others for violence against her, having in her mind the murder of her colleague Jo Cox.”
According to the Malicious Communications Act 1998, Section 1(1)(a)(i), any message deemed “grossly offensive” can be criminalised, even without a direct threat. This vague legislation brought in by Tony Blair gives the Government unchecked power to silence individuals. By deeming anything they don't like as 'offensive speech' they are able to imprison anyone.
Official crime data published in 2024 shows a record increase in arrests for “offensive speech,” with free speech organisations warning that this will soon include private messages so saying something critical of the government even in a private WhatsApp message will soon run the risk of imprisonment.
The heaviest prosecutions are now for thought crimes. Crimes against the state ideology. Once a preserve of countries like East Germany and Mao's China, we are now living under an equally oppressive regime where the ideology comes first and is more important than any individual, and that is Communism.
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