{"podcast":{"title":"Consequential Actions Podcast","slug":"consequential-actions-podcast-7101158","podcast_index_feed_id":7101158,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/465374/s/4746.rss","website_url":"https://jeffkellick.substack.com/s/consequential-actions-podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/465374/s/4746/89d62bf29b5f4bd7e0065e8d1dd33837.jpg","author":"Jeff Kellick","episode_count":110,"summary":"A discussion on the decisions that impact security, technology, and the economy.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-06T20:17:46.793969+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158"},"episode":{"title":"Scribere Est Agere: When a Government Turns Your Writing Into an Act","slug":"scribere-est-agere-when-a-government-turns-your-writing-into-an-act","published_at":"2026-08-18T13:14:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158/scribere-est-agere-when-a-government-turns-your-writing-into-an-act","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158","url":"https://jeffkellick.substack.com/p/scribere-est-agere-when-a-government","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211704537/2eeca9a839a62f579d4d014aa9ca5c8e.mp3","summary":"Six Officers Searched His Home Over a Tweet 26 People Saw In November of 2023, six police officers arrived at the door of a seventy-one-year-old retired special constable in Gillingham, Kent, and handcuffed him in his own home. They searched the house for an hour. Body-worn camera footage later obtained by a newspaper records them going through his belongings and remarking on his bookcase — Douglas Murray, The Spectator, very Brexity things — and examining a shopping list for bleach, tin foil, and gloves that had been written by his wife, who is a hairdresser. They held Julian Foulkes in a cell for eight hours and interviewed him under the Malicious Communications Act. He accepted a caution because he was afraid a continuing investigation would stop him travelling to Australia to see his surviving daughter. He had replied to a stranger on X, warning that Britain was one step away from people storming Heathrow looking for Jewish arrivals. The reply had been seen twenty-six times. Three hundred and forty years earlier, other officers went through another Englishman’s study and carried away his papers. Saturday’s episode covered what happened to Algernon Sidney and the three words of Latin that made it possible. Scribere est agere. To write is to act. This episode traces that rule into the present, and the mechanics matter more than the outrage. The framers knew the Sidney case. Article III of the Constitution defines treason and then makes it hard to prove — two witnesses to the same overt act, and confession only in open court. They wrote a specific rule against a specific abuse, and the rule was real, and it covered exactly one crime. Three forms follow. The punishment of non-violent political writing, including a case where two parents were arrested in front of their…","meta_description":"Six Officers Searched His Home Over a Tweet 26 People Saw In November of 2023, six police officers arrived at the door of a seventy-one-year-old retired s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3293,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158/episodes/scribere-est-agere-when-a-government-turns-your-writing-into-an-act/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158/scribere-est-agere-when-a-government-turns-your-writing-into-an-act.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}