Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Are The Police Biased Against Middle-aged White Autistic Men?

Julian Assange - autist in jail
In early 2022, I was perusing the YouTube channel of Richard D. Hall.  I was watching a video of Richard interviewing Gary McKinnon, the middle-aged British computer expert, who was arrested in 2002 and charged with hacking into American government computer systems; McKinnon claims he was merely looking for information on U.F.O.s, which he believed the U.S. government were covering up.  In 2008, McKinnon was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome - a mild form of autism.  I then watched Hall's documentary on the murder of British T.V. presenter Jill Dando, where autistic man Barry George was framed for her murder.  George had his life ruined, spending several years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, before being acquitted in 2008.  I subsequently watched Hall's film about the murder of Europhile Labour party M.P. Jo Cox, in which he investigates the claim that the anti-Brexit politician was murdered by "Far-Right" activist and middle-aged White man Thomas Mair.  Hall casts enough doubt on the case to suggest that Mair may have been framed for this crime, perhaps as part of a "psy-op" to dupe the public into believing that anyone who was "anti-Brexit" was a Far-Right murderous lunatic, with the murder conveniently occurring just before Britons were due to vote on Britain's membership of the E.U.  I don't know whether Mair committed this crime - and if he did, it was clearly a heinous act - but it struck me whilst watching Hall's film that Mair had all the characteristics of someone with autism: he had few friends, and lived a quite isolated life; he was polite and friendly to those who spoke to him; he was intelligent, and was particularly good with language; he had bad anxiety, which prevented him from working full-time; he didn't make any comment at all when interviewed by police - not even to say "no comment" - a verbal shutdown which often happens when an autist is completely overwhelmed with anxiety.  At this point, I suddenly realised that all these three aforementioned men had symptoms of autism; and that all three may have been victims of false convictions.  Ironically, it was not long after this that the police turned up at my house to arrest me for a "crime" which I don't believe I have committed - and I also fit into the category of a White male middle-aged autistic man.  I also stumbled upon a recent video with Julian Asssange's wife, in which she stated that Assange has autism spectrum disorder (ASD).  So, could it be that autists are disproportionately being convicted of crimes they haven't committed, and why might that be?  In August of 2022, I had been hoping to visit Richard D. Hall at his stall in Merthyr Tydfil market, but was unable to go, and I have now found out that he has been arrested and charged with spreading misinformation, and that both his YouTube channel and market stall have been shut down.  Do we live in a free society? Increasingly not, it seems, as we autistics are increasingly finding out to our cost.  So, the answer posed to the question in the title, appears to be a resounding, "Yes"!

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