Monday 28 May 2018

More on the swif injustice against Tommy Robinson


The 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



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’ http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/25/youtuber-count-dankula-crowdfunding-appeal-conviction-shtposting/ 

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.

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Here's the TL;DR version (via @RexTillerson)...
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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