Britain
There have been arrests in Britain of people wearing T-shirts bearing the phrase Bollocks to Blair. This has provoked much debate on whether Britain's freedom of speech is being eroded.
- In September 2005, 20-year-old Charlotte Dennis was arrested at a Gloucestershire event for wearing this item
- In April 2006, a Conservative Party worker was threatened with arrest for wearing a "Bollocks to Blair" T-shirt.
- In a non-political case in August 2007, a man was warned he could be fined for wearing a t-shirt with the slogan "don't piss me off, I'm running out of places to hide the bodies".
- The band Cradle of Filth produced a t-shirt which included the phrase "Jesus is a cunt", which has been the cause of prosecutions from the late 1990s.
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