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No Laughing Matter: John Cleese Declares "I'm Afraid They Are Going To Have To Arrest Me"
No Laughing Matter: John Cleese Declares "I'm Afraid They Are Going To Have To Arrest Me"
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
In the classic movie comedy, A Fish Called Wanda, John Cleese lamented, “do you have any idea what it’s like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing.”
Now 86, Cleese has a more pressing concern about being English: whether his exercise of free speech will make him a criminal in his own country.
In a recent interview, Cleese observed that...
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