{"id":5665,"date":"2018-04-26T20:49:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gspellchecker.com\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2018-04-26T20:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T19:52:55","slug":"protest-march-for-count-dankula-speeches-and-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gspellchecker.com\/2018\/04\/protest-march-for-count-dankula-speeches-and-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest March For Count Dankula: Speeches and Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gspellchecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"611\" height=\"290\" title=\"image\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gspellchecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/image_thumb.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was in London on Monday to report from the free speech protest in honour of \u2018Count Dankula\u2019. For those of you who don\u2019t know what that is all about, I made a video explaining the situation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gspellchecker.com\/2018\/04\/knight-tube-free-dankula-protest-graham-linehan-nick-pettigrew-and-omid-djalili\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Mark Meechan (AKA \u2018Count Dankula\u2019) has been convicted by a Scottish court for making a joke video and posting it online. He avoided jail time but was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43864133\" target=\"_blank\">handed an \u00a3800 fine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch my extensive footage of the protest march below, including the speeches and a couple of interviews. I have plenty of thoughts on the event which I\u2019ll save for an upcoming episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/\/www.gspellchecker.com\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\">The Godless Spellchecker Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy reporting from events and sharing the footage with you. However, I am an independent content producer meaning everything I do is entirely audience supported. <\/p>\n<p>The equipment and travel costs for doing this sort of work are not small, and I am finding that I am using more and more of my holiday allowance from my day job to cover such events.<\/p>\n<p>If you find value in what I do and would like to make it possible for me to produce content as my full-time and only job, you can do so by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/gspellchecker\" target=\"_blank\">becoming a supporter on Patreon<\/a>. This lets you pledge to support my content for as little as $1 per month. If a small percentage of my audience did this, I would be able to dedicate my time to this sort of work on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n<p>Please share my video coverage and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Thank you for your support.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px; height: 270px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" id=\"okplayer\" src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/KdWV4cteqDw\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" style=\"left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 480px; height: 270px; position: absolute;\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" seamless=\"seamless\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Stephen Knight is host of The #GSPodcast. 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