During WW II, a man was arrested in London for calling Winston Churchill a fool.
The next day in the House of Commons, the opposition members were ready to roast the government for this.
“Are we living in a police state”, they shouted, “where we cannot call the PM a fool”?
Churchill’s reply was truly disarming – “The man was not arrested for calling the Prime Minister a fool”, he said, “but for letting out a state secret at the time of war”.