Allison Pearson has warned how a "shocking" police probe into a so-called "non-crime" X post shows that "thought control" is attempting to "shape morality".
In her first sit-down TV interview, Pearson explained to GB News that Britain’s police state hunted her down just a few days ago over a comment made on social media last year.
Pearson described the encounter as "against freedom and tyrannical" as she discussed the ordeal with Nigel Farage.
She said: "Because it was Remembrance Sunday I drew myself up and told them [the police officers] we are here today on a special day commemorating hundreds of men your age who laid down their lives for the country so that it could be a free country and not live under the jackboot of tyranny.
Allison Pearson spoke to Nigel Farage in her first sit down interview
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"Here you are on Remembrance Sunday, coming to my house in something that I see to be against freedom."
Pearson added: "I'll tell you what, it was shocking. It was upsetting because I'm a law abiding person and I respect the police. I want to trust and respect the police.
"To me, this seemed to be a completely mad overreaction. Whatever it was that I posted a year ago on X, I'm not in the habit of writing anything horrible and inflammatory. If I wrote something that was unwise, I appear to have deleted that tweet.
"I have no memory of what it was but I still don't think that's a proportionate response."
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Allison Pearson sat down for an exclusive interview with Nigel Farage
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The journalist pointed out that "looking at Essex Police and forces around the country" officers have become "more interested in trying to solve thought crime than the kind of crime that normal people are interested in".
She argued: "The reason I decided to go public with this was because I felt ashamed. I don't want to be a person who's visited by the police.
"It's embarrassing, It's humiliating. But I can speak now, it's not shaming. I'm not ashamed that people came to my house with a really crazy overreaction to something that should just be let go.
"It's trying to shape the morality of the population. It's thought control, I'm allowed to say what I want.
"Obviously there are limits to free speech in the sense of inciting terrorism or riot but this is just within the the realms of what normal people think. And I've heard from so many people today with lots of very upsetting examples."
Allison Pearson claimed that 'thought control' is 'shaping morality'
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Pearson's experience has prompted a furious reaction from MPs and political figures around the world.
Farage called the timing particularly concerning, adding: "On Remembrance Sunday of all days, when we remember those who fell for democracy and freedom of speech, it is outrageous that Allison Pearson had to face police officers on her doorstep."
"We are very much in the territory of a thought crime here, where the accusers are called 'victims'," Farage added.
Elon Musk, the founder of X, responded: "This is insane. Make Orwell Fiction Again!!"
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson also posted: "This is appalling. How can Starmer’s Britain lecture other countries about free speech when an innocent journalist gets a knock on the door - for a tweet?
"Our police have their hands full of burglaries and violent crime. They are being forced to behave like a woke Securitate - and it has to stop."
Essex Police opened its investigation against the journalist under Section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986, relating to material posted on her X account last year and said it allegedly was "likely or intended to cause racial hatred".
A police spokesman said: "We're investigating a report passed to us by another force. The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed."
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