George Orwell understood human nature. He just thought it would take less time for the bastards to take over. Ok, I don’t know about their parents’ matrimonial status, so perhaps calling them globalists, Marxists, fascists, or Satan worshippers is more appropriate. Regardless of what you call them, their audacity is impressive. Because when they protect migrants, even after crimes are committed, you better not dare to question their narrative while being an ethnicity native to Britain.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press mean nothing. You must accept that mass immigration and diversity are good and wonderful. And British tyrants aren’t satisfied with just arresting their own citizens for disagreeing with the Party. Even Hitler and Stalin and Mao didn’t expect to arrest people in other nations they didn’t control for pointing out the obvious truth. But in Britain, that’s exactly what they hope to do.
I feel bad for the British WWII veterans who fought so hard to protect their country from foreign enemies only to have their freedoms erased by domestic ones. It almost makes me want to throw up a Boston-style tea party. If global finances don’t convince you London still exerts a great deal of control over the world – the first overseas arrest for an online violation of woke Britain’s insanely totalitarian interpretation of hate speech laws should open your eyes. Note to British globalist-Marxist-fascist-would-be-overlords who want to arrest people for thoughtcrime: I’m not condoning or promoting or inciting violence against any group of people – just pointing out the oppression you’re getting away with arresting people for commenting on things like statistics.
From the article by Jonathan Turley
London Calling: Police Chief Threatens To Arrest People Around The World For Online Speech
London has been hit with days of violent protests over immigration policies, including attacks and arson directed at immigration centers. This violence has been fueled by false reports spread online about the person responsible for an attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event that left three girls dead and others wounded. Despite false claims about his being an asylum seeker, the culprit was an 18-year-old British citizen born to Rwandan parents.
News outlets and pundits have condemned the false reports and the violent protests. However, the police are moving to arrest those who are repeating false claims or engaging in inflammatory speech. Rowley is warning that they will not stop at the city limit or even the country’s borders.
He warned “We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.”
Rowley was asked by a reporter about the criticism by Elon Musk and others over the response of the government. Musk noted a video of someone allegedly arrested for offensive online comments with a question, “Is this Britain or the Soviet Union?”
Pundits and politicians in the United Kingdom have called for an investigation or the arrest of Musk for merely speaking publicly on the controversy.
The reporter said that high profile figures have been “whipping up the hatred,” and that “the likes of Elon Musk” are involved in the online speech. She then asked what the London police are prepared to do “when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country?”
Rowley told the reporter:
“Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material. All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.”
The message is chilling because free speech has been in a free fall in the United Kingdom as well as other Western countries. I discuss this trend in my new book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.
The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free speech advocates. A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.”
We also discussed the arrest of a woman who was praying to herself near an abortion clinic. English courts have seen criminalized “toxic ideologies” as part of this crack down on free speech.
The London police are now deputized to stop or arrest those engaged in speech deemed inciteful or inflammatory. Last year, the police stopped a man from walking in the street because there were pro-Palestinian protesters and his presence would be inciteful because he was “quite openly Jewish.”
The United Kingdom has a myriad of laws criminalizing speech with vague terms allowing for arbitrary enforcement. For example, Public Order Act 1986 prohibits any expressions of racial hatred, defined as hatred against a group of persons by reason of the group’s color, race, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins.
Section 18 of the Act specifically includes any speech that is “threatening, abusive, or insulting.” An arrest does not have to be based on a showing of intent to “stir up racial hatred,” but can merely be based on a charge that “having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.”
The country has also targeted social media companies to force them to censor users for speech deemed threatening, abusive or insulting by the government.
These ambiguous laws are written on the same “trust us, we’re the government” rationale. The police insist that they will use their discretion wisely in what speech will result in arrest.
Ordinarily, one would expect the U.S. government to push back on the suggestion that these laws could be used to arrest and extradite its citizens for the use of free speech. However, the Biden-Harris Administration has been a proponent of censorship and blacklisting for years. At the same time, leading Democrats have called for European-type laws to be adopted or enforced against U.S. citizens for their views on social media.
We previously discussed how Democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton called on foreign countries to use or pass censorship laws to prevent Elon Musk from restoring free speech protections on Twitter.
The effort of these politicians would allow free speech to be reduced to the lowest common denominator as countries export their anti-free speech laws. When Clinton called upon Europeans to censor Americans, this is precisely what such actions would look like. These foreign countries could force Americans to curtail their speech under the threat of ruinous financial penalties or even arrest.
As some of us predicted, these laws have expanded as the desire to silence others becomes an insatiable appetite. Advocacy groups have pushed the police to crackdown on their critics. Now, the threat to “throw the full force of the law at people” may be extended to the people of other nations.
I never would have expected people in a previously free country to be arrested for citing statistics, disagreeing with government conclusions, or even just singing or even merely existing in the wrong place.
But it’s a necessary part of plans for more economic and social collapse, chaos, and war on the path towards greater totalitarian control.
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Dissent, incitement, ‘hatred’, hurting snowflakes’ feelings, etc. It’s all just a cover to bring in necessary controls – for something else – far more destabilising.
Preparation of h sapiens for the immanence of the eschaton is not a pleasant process.
As more and more folk figure out what’s going on, controls will be needed to avoid destabilisation (panic). This will be coincident with distractions (4 horsemen, etc.).
Sadly, I completely agree with you
They arrest many people like in UK. And then they talk about sending the arrested to Falklands. Is wheat already being gathered?
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