The Death of Peter Lynch

Speechcrime and punishment in modern Britain

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Peter Lynch was a 61 year old English grandad who said things the state did not like. This week, a few months into his sentence, he committed suicide in prison.

His crime was to speak truth to power.

He said the state was corrupt. He was given 32 months in gaol for calling the police “scum”, and holding up a sign which said migrants were “child killers”.

Lynch’s placard stated that police chiefs, reporters, civil servants, judges and the Environment Agency were all ‘corrupt’.

He was described as a “conspiracy theorist” for this.

If you are a “conspiracy theorist”, anything you say is devalued, and can be thrown away, along with you and your life.