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Terrifying Swift Injustice dealt out to Tommy Robinson
Right
now it seems to me, watching this from the opposite end of the earth,
that everyone (except those on the Extreme Centre) are correct but
not right.
I
will say, straight-off that I do not warm to the likes of Stefan
Molyneaux and Lauren Southern. I dislike their thesis that the
‘other’ (Islam) is evil and that western ‘civilisation’ is
perfect but under assaiult from the Left.
They
willfully ignore the contributions of western imperialism in creating
this situation. I wouldn’t mind betting that these people are also
very pro-zionist.
I
identify strongly with the anti-war movement which is often both
‘Left’ and ‘Right’ and their diagnosis of the situation. But
then I dislike their silence on this matter.
When
will we transition from an ‘attack on MY free speech’ to an
‘attack on free speech’.
Both
‘Left’ and ‘Right’ have the same enemy – the FASCIST STATE
that is trampling on the free speech rights both of anti-war
imperialists as well as those who are shining some light on the
darkest areas of British society.
I
think we need to acknowledge that there are at least two things going
on. The western neo-cons, Deep State (you find the label that suits
them) are bombing the countries of the Middle East and have been for
at least 17 years creating a whole generation of radicaled jihadists
turned by the justifiable fury against what has been unleasshed on
society.
This
has unleashed a terrible, right-wing religious fanatic extremism that
is coming back to bite the very forces that have destroyed the very
fabric of their societies. A generation ago Muslim societies were
much more secular and inclusive than they have – wholly due, I must
say, to western society.
At
the centre of Empire (and I am thinking of the UK and Europe in
particular) we have a different problem. Liberal ideology and
political correctness dictates that it, while bombing Muslims in
their thousands, western societies allow (and encourage) a flood of
increasingly-radicalised Muslims and to go against any attempts to
‘insult’ these same groups (while they are more-or-less free to
practise real hate speech against their host coutures) and a very
real problem with pedophilia and Muslim rape gangs that have affected
the lives of thousands of British girls.
It
is ‘racist’ to even suggest that the problem is at all related to
Islam (or to even mention the problem to a large extent) when if you
look at the accused at all of the ongoing trials the (alleged)
perpertrators are demonstrably all Muslim.
Of
course there is a problem at the centre of Empire! It does not help,
in my mind, one little bit, that someone like George Galloway whom I
admire in many ways turns into a nasty bully when confronted with one
of Tommy Robinson’s followers and celebrates Robinson’s fate.
I
have ignored Tommy Robinson for a while, associating him with the
likes of the (semi)-insane Alex Jones.
But
I can’t any longer when the civil liberties of Tommy Robinson and
his followers are under attack from the Corporate State.
In
fact when I do listen to his (as in this conversation with a Shiiite
Imam), I find that his arguments (although I disagree with many of
them) his are much more though-out and coherent than I was led to
believe.
Should
I be surprised?
There
is another event that the British state tried to shut down – the Media on Trial conference – that happened this weekend.
It
would be nice if groups could stop following their own tribal
interests and came together to defend the rights of ALL.
I
look forward to hearing what the folks at UK Column have to say on
this – but they might not be able to because of State censorship
and suppression of the truth.
[Redacted] Arrested for [Redacted] Outside [Redacted]: Leeds Crown Court Issues
Media Ban
I
will say, straight-off that I do not warm to the likes of Stefan
Molyneaux and Lauren Southern. I dislike their thesis that the
‘other’ (Islam) is evil and that western ‘civilisation’ is
perfect but under assaiult from the Left.
They
willfully ignore the contributions of western imperialism in creating
this situation. I wouldn’t mind betting that these people are also
very pro-zionist.
I
identify strongly with the anti-war movement which is often both
‘Left’ and ‘Right’ and their diagnosis of the situation. But
then I dislike their silence on this matter.
When
will we transition from an ‘attack on MY free speech’ to an
‘attack on free speech’.
Both
‘Left’ and ‘Right’ have the same enemy – the FASCIST STATE
that is trampling on the free speech rights both of anti-war
imperialists as well as those who are shining some light on the
darkest areas of British society.
I
think we need to acknowledge that there are at least two things going
on. The western neo-cons, Deep State (you find the label that suits
them) are bombing the countries of the Middle East and have been for
at least 17 years creating a whole generation of radicaled jihadists
turned by the justifiable fury against what has been unleasshed on
society.
This
has unleashed a terrible, right-wing religious fanatic extremism that
is coming back to bite the very forces that have destroyed the very
fabric of their societies. A generation ago Muslim societies were
much more secular and inclusive than they have – wholly due, I must
say, to western society.
At
the centre of Empire (and I am thinking of the UK and Europe in
particular) we have a different problem. Liberal ideology and
political correctness dictates that it, while bombing Muslims in
their thousands, western societies allow (and encourage) a flood of
increasingly-radicalised Muslims and to go against any attempts to
‘insult’ these same groups (while they are more-or-less free to
practise real hate speech against their host coutures) and a very
real problem with pedophilia and Muslim rape gangs that have affected
the lives of thousands of British girls.
It
is ‘racist’ to even suggest that the problem is at all related to
Islam (or to even mention the problem to a large extent) when if you
look at the accused at all of the ongoing trials the (alleged)
perpertrators are demonstrably all Muslim.
Of
course there is a problem at the centre of Empire! It does not help,
in my mind, one little bit, that someone like George Galloway whom I
admire in many ways turns into a nasty bully when confronted with one
of Tommy Robinson’s followers and celebrates Robinson’s fate.
I
have ignored Tommy Robinson for a while, associating him with the
likes of the (semi)-insane Alex Jones.
But
I can’t any longer when the civil liberties of Tommy Robinson and
his followers are under attack from the Corporate State.
In
fact when I do listen to his (as in this conversation with a Shiiite
Imam), I find that his arguments (although I disagree with many of
them) his are much more though-out and coherent than I was led to
believe.
Should
I be surprised?
There
is another event that the British state tried to shut down – the Media on Trial conference – that happened this weekend.
It
would be nice if groups could stop following their own tribal
interests and came together to defend the rights of ALL.
I
look forward to hearing what the folks at UK Column have to say on
this – but they might not be able to because of State censorship
and suppression of the truth.
[Redacted] Arrested for [Redacted] Outside [Redacted]: Leeds Crown Court Issues
Media Ban
26
May, 2018
The
Leeds Crown Court has issued a UK media ban following the arrest of
well-known activist and citizen journalist [redacted] outside
[redacted].
The
reporting restriction, which requires on all publications within the
United Kingdom to cease any mention of the details of the arrest or
court proceedings of [redacted], was issued Friday afternoon:
Shortly
after the issuance of the press ban on the case, several media
outlets, including Breitbart London, the Mirror, the Daily Record,
Birmingham Mail, and the Russian state broadcaster Russia Today,
complied with the restriction and removed articles concerning
[redacted]’s case.
Several
other media outlets have kept their coverage of the arrest and the
subsequent court details up, despite potentially falling foul of the
court-issued ban which is to be lifted following the conclusion of a
separate case.
The
media ban, along with [redacted]’s arrest has sparked a wave of
controversy on social media with many criticising the arrest and the
court proceedings that followed it.
Supporters
of [redacted] have called for a mass protest in front of number 10
Downing street with the hashtag [redacted].
Youtuber Count Dankula Crowdfunding to Appeal Conviction for ‘Sh*tposting’ breitbart.com/london/2018/04…
The
arrest comes after [redacted] had been involved with a new free
speech movement in the United Kingdom following several cases,
including the arrest and prosecution of YouTube personality Mark
Meechan, known by his online persona Count
Dankula.
Meechan
was arrested for hate speech after he taught his girlfriend’s pug
dog how to perform a Hitler salute on command when he uttered a
specific phrase. He was later found
guilty of causing gross offence by
a Scottish court in April and ordered to pay a penalty of £800.
Since
the sentencing, Meechan has refused
to pay the £800 fine, donating
the money to a children’s hospital instead, and said he will appeal
the court’s guilty ruling. Within 24 hours he was able to raise
over $100,000 for
his future legal fees.
HERE
are the contempt of court documents for the case against Tommy
Robinson in May last year
And
a version of yesterday’s events in London
Britain Makes it ILLEGAL To Report On Tommy Robinson In Prison
Peter
Sweden
Swift Injustice: The "Terrifying" Case Of Tommy Robinson
27
May, 2018
- The swiftness with which injustice was meted out to Tommy Robinson is stunning. No, more than that: it is terrifying.
- Without having access to his own lawyer, Robinson was summarily tried and sentenced to 13 months behind bars. He was then transported to Hull Prison.
- Meanwhile, the judge who sentenced Robinson also ordered British media not to report on his case. Newspapers that had already posted reports of his arrest quickly took them down. All this happened on the same day.
- In Britain, rapists enjoy the right to a full and fair trial, the right to the legal representation of their choice, the right to have sufficient time to prepare their cases, and the right to go home on bail between sessions of their trial. No such rights were offered, however, to Tommy Robinson.
The
very first time I set foot in London, back in my early twenties, I
kicked up into an adrenaline high that lasted for the entire week of
my visit. Never, in later years, did any other place ever have such
an impact on me -- not Paris, not Rome. Yes, Rome was a cradle of
Western civilization, and Paris a hub of Western culture -- but
Britain was the place where the values of the Anglosphere, above all
a dedication to freedom, had fully taken form. Without Britain, there
would have been no U.S. Declaration of Independence, Constitution, or
Bill of Rights.
In
recent years, alas, Britain has deviated from its commitment to
liberty. Foreign critics of Islam, such as the American scholar
Robert Spencer, and for a time, even the Dutch Parliamentarian Geert
Wilders have
been barred from the country.
Now, at least one prominent native
critic of Islam, Tommy Robinson, has been repeatedly harassed by the
police, railroaded by the courts, and left unprotected by prison
officials who have allowed Muslim inmates to beat him senseless.
Clearly, British authorities view Robinson as a troublemaker and
would like nothing more than to see him give up his fight, leave the
country (as Ayaan Hirsi Ali left the Netherlands), or get killed by a
jihadist (as happened to the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh).
On
Friday, as reported
here yesterday,
the saga of Tommy Robinson entered a new chapter. British police
officers pulled him off a street in Leeds, where, in his role as a
citizen journalist, he was livestreaming
a Facebook video from
outside a courthouse. Inside
that building, several defendants were on trial for allegedly being
part of a so-called "grooming gang" -- a group of men,
almost all Muslim, who systematically rape non-Muslim children, in
some cases hundreds of them, over a period of years or decades. Some
ten thousand Facebook viewers around the world witnessed Robinson's
arrest live.
Pictured:
Police officers pull Tommy Robinson (center) off a street in Leeds,
England, where, in his role as a citizen journalist, he was
livestreaming a Facebook video from outside a courthouse. (Image
source: TommyRobinson.online video screenshot)
The
police promptly dragged Robinson in front of a judge, where, without
having access to his own lawyer, he was summarily tried and sentenced
to 13 months behind bars. He was then transported to Hull Prison.
Meanwhile,
the judge who sentenced him also ordered
the British media not
to report on his case. Newspapers that had already posted reports of
his arrest quickly took them down. Even ordinary citizens who had
written about the arrest on social media removed their posts, for
fear of sharing Robinson's fate. All this happened on the same day.
A
kangaroo court, then a gag order. In
the United Kingdom, where rapists enjoy the right to a full and fair
trial, the right to the legal representation of their choice, the
right to have sufficient time to prepare their cases, and the right
to go home on bail between sessions of their trial. No such rights
were offered, however, to Tommy Robinson.
The
swiftness with which injustice was meted out to Robinson is stunning.
No, more than that: it is terrifying. On
various occasions over the years, I have been subjected in person to
an immediate threat of Islamic violence: I have had a knife pulled on
me by a young gang member, and been encircled by a crowd of
belligerent men in djellabas outside
a radical mosque. But that was not frightening. This is
frightening -- this utter violation of fundamental British freedoms.
From
one perspective, to be sure, Robinson's lightning-fast arrest, trial,
and imprisonment should not have come as a surprise. "There has
been a campaign to 'get Tommy' -- or what looks remarkably like it --
for some time," a source in the UK, whom I will call Jane Doe,
told me late early Saturday morning.
The
apparent justification for Robinson's arrest is that he was on a
suspended sentence. In
May of last year, he was taken into custody while reporting from
outside a courthouse in Kent, where another group of Muslim
defendants was being tried, also on "grooming" charges.
That arrest was also unjustified. At least, however, Robinson was
given a suspended sentence. This time, presumably, it was determined
that the mere act of reporting yet again from outside another
courthouse amounted to a violation of the terms of his suspended
sentence.
The
official cynicism here is obvious. Jane Doe made a vital point: that
often, when one of these "grooming gang" trials is being
held, the extended families and friends of the defendants stand
outside the courthouse and "heckle and intimidate" the rape
victims as well as their families
and supporters. "I've had reports of children as young as five
throwing stones at victims' families," Doe said.
"This
intimidation by extended community groups also involves going around
to houses and harassing people." She
has even heard of witnesses for the prosecution who have needed
police protection to use a rest room inside
a courthouse.
Needless to say, this heckling and harassment is rarely reported on
and never punished.
One
potentially positive aspect of this ugly turn of events is that it
turned heads that should have been turned long ago. Jane
Doe noted that many of her Twitter contacts "were tweeting that
they didn't necessarily support Tommy in general but were appalled
that someone reporting these [grooming] crimes was arrested."
Some of her acquaintances, she said, "are stunned and in
despair." On Saturday, thousands of Robinson's supporters
rallied in Westminster. But will such public protests make any
difference? One British ex-policeman reacted to
Robinson's incarceration with a video urging his fellow countrymen
not just to march or rally but to join Ann Marie Waters' party For
Britain and do for freedom of speech in Britain what UKIP did to get
British out of the EU.
Jane
Doe had more interesting information to offer. While
Robinson is being punished for drawing attention to Muslim rape
gangs, the Sikh Awareness Society, which has also reported on these
"grooming" trials, is left alone. "They
are a godsend," said Doe, "because they pull no punches yet
don't seem to get the intimidation that people like Tommy get."
Of course -- British police would not dare arrest a bearded man in a
turban. Doe also mentioned an imam who was arrested recently, only to
be let go by police after "a large group of supporters demanded
his release." At least one police officer acknowledged that the
imam had been freed because otherwise "they would have been
facing riots all around the country." Doe summed up British
authorities' current approach to the Islamic situation as follows:
"they have lost control... and are simply going for those who
they think will make the least fuss. The classroom bully has
terrorised the teacher into punishing the kids who are bullied."
One
assumes that the officials think that perpetrating this kind of
injustice will somehow keep the peace. If I were one of their number,
I would not be so certain. The
people at that Westminster rally on Saturday were angry. How many
other British subjects share their anger? Doe expressed concern that
this summer in Britain may turn out to be quite restive. Well, maybe
that is all for the good.
For
my part, I cannot for the life of me fathom why not a single
prominent or powerful individual in all of the United Kingdom has
come forward to challenge the mistreatment of Tommy Robinson – and
thereby stand up for freedom of speech.
Is
the whole British establishment a bunch of cowards? I suppose we will
know the answer to that question soon enough, if we do not know it
already.
*
* *
1. A reporter discovers a child sex ring
2. Reporter tells the story
3. UK arrests reporter for sharing the story
4. UK puts reporter in prison for 1 year for reporting the story
5. UK places gag order on the story & takes down story from the web
You are not dreaming!
Welcome
to the future...
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