England was the birthplace of the ideas that formed the Constitution.
Freedom is quickly being extinguished in the British Isles.
And RFK Jr. issued one bone-chilling warning about the tyranny sweeping England.
Britain's Jury Trial Crackdown Is the Final Blow to Free Speech
The Magna Carta, the document that inspired America's Founding Fathers, was signed in 1215 after rebellious barons forced King John to accept that even the king answers to the law.
Clause 39 couldn't be clearer: no free man shall be arrested or imprisoned "except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."
Eight hundred years later, Britain's Labour government just scrapped trial by jury for crimes carrying sentences of up to three years – precisely the category covering social media "speech offenses."
The man behind it, Justice Secretary David Lammy, warned in 2020 that "criminal trials without juries are a bad idea" and that juries were "foundational to the justice system." Now he's the one tearing them out.
The Free Speech Union ran the numbers: defendants are acquitted by juries 33% of the time in speech cases – versus just 14% before judges without one.
In the year ending June 2025, juries acquitted 75% of defendants who pleaded not guilty to speech offenses.
Lammy isn't fixing a backlog. He's removing the one thing standing between a British citizen and a judge who can put them in prison for a Facebook post.
British police are making more than 12,000 arrests per year for online speech – more than 30 every single day – a number that has more than doubled since 2017.
"And then you look at what's happening in England now, you know, with people going to jail for Twitter posts," RFK Jr. told Rogan on Friday's episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience."
"Twelve thousand people this year," Rogan confirmed. "12,000 in the last year."
"And then this, where the Magna Carta was written," Kennedy said. "Now it's just a dictatorship."
Every police force in Britain now runs a dedicated team monitoring social media for content the government finds offensive.
Bloggers, veterans, ordinary citizens – anyone who voices outrage about mass immigration or government policy risks a knock on the door.
Rogan laid out exactly what that looks like without a jury to protect you: "If it's a social media infraction, there's no judge by a jury of your peers. You're getting judged by a judge."
Kennedy called it by its name: "It's the Soviet system. It's like Kafka" – the novelist whose most famous work features a man arrested by a mysterious authority and never told what crime he committed. Britain's citizens posting about immigration are living that story right now.
Rogan nailed the logic of it: "People are outraged. They have a right to be outraged. If you can put them in a cage because they're outraged, that's nuts."
Britain isn't punishing criminals. It's punishing people who notice the criminals and say so online.
Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden Wanted This for You
RFK Jr. didn't bring up Britain to generate sympathy for the British. He brought it up because he spent three decades inside the Democrat Party watching it build the exact same system here.
Nancy Pelosi's office sent tech platforms lists of accounts to suppress. Chuck Schumer's caucus cheered when conservatives got banned. Biden's White House pressured Facebook and Twitter directly to pull content that embarrassed them.
They called it fighting "misinformation." What they meant was: shut it down.
They didn't get as far as Britain.
Not because they didn't want to. Because Americans still have the First Amendment.
JD Vance said it directly at the Munich Security Conference earlier in 2025: Britain is walking a "dark path" of government speech control. Keir Starmer's government responded by continuing to arrest 30 people a day.
Every speech law, every "harmful content" regulation, every government portal to silence online critics that Pelosi and Schumer pushed for is already fully operational across the Atlantic – and people are going to prison for it.
Kennedy grew up in a Democrat Party that believed the First Amendment was sacred. He watched that party become the thing it once opposed, and now he's sounding the alarm before America follows Britain down the same road.
Sources:
- Alexander Hall, "RFK Jr tells Rogan UK went from home of Magna Carta to dictatorship for speech crackdown," Fox News, February 27, 2026.
- Charlie Parker et al., "Police make 30 arrests a day for offensive online messages," The Times, April 4, 2025.
- Free Speech Union, "Lammy's plan to scrap jury trials is an assault on free speech," December 3, 2025.
- Al Jazeera, "Why is the UK scaling back jury trials, and why is it controversial?" December 2, 2025.
- Pia Comer, "Britain's trajectory shows what will be lost if we fail to defend free speech," The Pinsker Centre / Conservative Home, December 15, 2025.
