Didn't know people like these still existed...

 This video of a woman on a tram in London being awfully racist has recently been going around the internet. She was later arrested due to her actions. 

Now here we have an obviously ignorant and extremely bigoted woman hurling abuse at people who were on the tram. I agree with her getting arrested but one of my friends posed the question:

"What about freedom of speech?"

Should this woman have been arrested for just saying what she thinks? We live in a society where freedom of speech is valued. If the British National Party, English Defence League and other quite clearly racist Political groups can go around saying the same without being arrested then why can't she?

I'll tell you why not, because what she is saying is directly abusing other people. These parties, yeah their values instil an underlying racism but it's a general broad thing. I'm not saying this is right but when it comes to the law if you are publicly offending people in this way it deserves an arrest. If she was saying this in her own home or to her friends it would be different I guess. This doesn't make it right however I am just explaining why she was arrested. Another reason is that with this video going viral, if the police did nothing then a whole outrage would occur with people thinking that the police are still "institutionally racist" or that they don't discipline on these grounds. Well they do and they have and they do it all the time!

Free speech goes out the window when someone is this outright and abusive to those people on the tram and those on the internet. To be honest, if having to arrest people on offences like these means that we have no free speech. Then so be it! I'd rather not have free speech than just let something like this go by. It isn't even the fact that this is just Britain being overly politically correct. This is a genuine crime and a genuine value that Britain should upkeep. Being racist should not be tolerated at all in today's society. It is morally wrong. I don't care what anyone else thinks.

We should have learnt our lesson already with the deaths of many people which have been attacked due to their race. For example Stephen Lawrence and Anthony Walker.

It should not be tolerated at all! Who cares about Freedom of Speech. This isn't right!