Lord Ahmed jailed ...

.... for twelve lousy weeks?

Labour life peer Lord Ahmed was jailed for 12 weeks today for dangerous driving by a judge who heard he sent and received a series of text messages from his car on a motorway. Sheffield Crown Court was told Lord Ahmed was involved in an accident which left a man dead on the M1 near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, on Christmas Day 2007. But the judge made clear the text messaging had finished before the accident took place and was not connected to the fatal incident.

I tell you, there's one rule for us ...

Chris Huhne - one word too many

From the intro to his article in The Independent, on the topic of Geert Wilders:

Freedom of speech is our most precious freedom of all, because all the other freedoms depend on it. The decision to stop people from exercising this fundamental right must never be taken...

Excellent stuff, I'm with him so far. But then he does a DoubleThink and turns the whole logic on its head by ending that second sentence with the word "... lightly" and concluding that "It is precisely the prevention of harm to minorities that justifies the restrictions to Mr Wilders' freedom of speech."

Dude, WTF? "Harm to minorities"? Wasn't Labour peer Lord Ahmed threatening to 'mobilise ten thousand Muslims' who would march, presumably armed with pitchforks and blazing torches, on the Houses of Parliament? Who's threatening to harm whom here, exactly?

H/t DK