Father Ted Creator Seeks Asylum in US Following Arrest
Hounded out of Britain for believing that biological sex is real, Graham Linehan has fled to Arizona and is now seeking asylum in the US as a “free speech refugee”. The Mailhas the story.
Earlier this week… he was dramatically arrested by five armed police officers at Heathrow and treated like ‘a terrorist’ hauled off to a cell. His crime? For three social media posts while living in the US.
Linehan posted these three tweets in April for which he was arrested
Irish-born Linehan, 57, who spent 30 years living in the UK, was returning… to face trial after being accused of harassing a transgender woman with abusive comments and damaging her phone.
The comedy genius [behind] IT Crowd, Black Books and Motherland, was flying back from Arizona where he has made a new life for the past six months.
He has formed a production company, Friendly Fire, with former Saturday Night Live star Rob Schneider and Northern Irish playwright and journalist Andrew Doyle, and filming on their new comedy called Tenure is set to begin within weeks.
Republican Schneider, who once played Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo in the 1999 film of the same name, is something of a kindred spirit with Linehan when it comes to their transgender views.
In 2023 he clashed with transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney, calling her transgender identity “cultural appropriation”.
Schneider this week revealed that Linehan has hired MAGA lawyer Aaron Siri over the asylum bid to appeal to President Donald Trump.
After Linehan’s arrest Schneider announced on X: “This morning, our attorney at Friendly Fire Studio, @AaroSiriSG, will ask the Trump Administration to give Asylum to Graham Linehan as a UNITED KINGDOM FREE SPEECH REFUGEE.”
It is not clear which visa Linehan could be granted, or if the Trump administration would give him a green card, which allows for permanent residency.
However, Donald Trump has prioritised resettlement to the US for groups he considers marginalised, including white Afrikaners from South Africa who he claimed were being subjected to “genocide” back home.
The lawyer Linehan has turned to Siri is a vaccine sceptic who works closely with US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
Siri said this week that he was “confident he (Linehan) will be able to flee the persecution” in the UK.
In a statement to the Daily Mail, Siri said: “We have been in contact with Mr Linehan. We have a robust immigration practice at the firm. We are confident he will be able to immigrate to the United States and flee the persecution and abject infringement of his fundamental right to free speech.”
Siri also took aim at Britain’s record when it came to free speech.
He said: “The UK’s increasing disregard for this fundamental right is disturbing. The UK is already ranked as more illiberal than Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay when it comes to free speech, and is on the fast track to becoming less liberal in permitting speech than Tunisia or Iran.”
Amid a growing backlash, his supporters are calling for a new “Linehan’s Law” to ensure no British citizen “is ever arrested, silenced or gagged for expressing lawful speech”. …
On working in the US, he said: “Oh, it’s like being able to breathe for years of being suffocated.
“I realised quite late on is that I wasn’t just expelled out of comedy, I was expelled out of the middle classes. The middle classes did not like me upsetting their dinner party conversation, so they rejected me like an owl rejecting a pellet.
“The UK is almost impossible for someone like me to live in. You cannot tell the truth without the police coming to your door.”
He should grant him a green card and then cancel his visit on the grounds of not supporting a dictatorship
coviture2020
7 months ago
Surely it should be “HER balls”
Pembroke
7 months ago
At least the drag artiste at my local pub the other day was honest about his sexuality, and that he just enjoyed dressing up as a woman to make a living from it.
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The MAIL refers to Dylan Mulvaney as ‘HER’??!
Aaaaaaaghhh!
This is why The Mail will never get a penny from me. The same for any media organisation which twists truth and reality.
We should all be ashamed that the Starmer regime has brought the UK so low that people are claiming asylum in the US from his tyrannical regime.
Only those who voted Labour need to be ashamed. The rest of us can just be embarrassed.
I hope he gets his asylum claim. Maybe many others of us can apply to shelter from the oppressiveness and high taxation of this government.
But isn’t he an Irish citizen, not a UK citizen, and so is in no danger from authorities in Ireland?
Or would the Irish government actually “extradite” their own Irish citizen to UK police?
I honestly don’t understand the need to claim asylum in the US, because he’s an Irish citizen.
Perhaps he has a UK passport as well?
Maybe…
It’s worse over there.
That’s true. :/
He’s northern Irish, so has a British passport
I do hope Trump grants him asylum … and JD Vance announces it whilst Trump is visiting Charlie Windsor.
He should grant him a green card and then cancel his visit on the grounds of not supporting a dictatorship
Surely it should be “HER balls”
At least the drag artiste at my local pub the other day was honest about his sexuality, and that he just enjoyed dressing up as a woman to make a living from it.