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UK: You're Not Allowed to Talk about It. About What? Don't Ask.
The Gatestone Institute ^ | May 28. 2018 | Bruce Bawer

Posted on 05/28/2018 10:35:33 AM PDT by yoe

"I am in a country that is not free... I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America. You don't know how lucky you are." — Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), YouTuber with around a million subscribers.

"I am trying to recall a legal case where someone was convicted of a 'crime' which cannot be reported on." — Gerald Batten, UKIP member of the European Parliament.

"UKIP Peer Malcolm Lord Pearson has written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid today saying: if Tommy is murdered or injured in prison he and others will mount a private prosecution against Mr Javid as an accessory, or for misconduct in public office." — Gerald Batten.

Good on Lord Pearson.

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"On Friday, British free-speech activist and Islam critic Tommy Robinson was acting as a responsible citizen journalist -- reporting live on camera from outside a Leeds courtroom where several Muslims were being tried for child rape -- when he was set upon by several police officers. In the space of the next few hours, a judge tried, convicted, and sentenced him to 13 months in jail -- and also issued a gag order, demanding a total news blackout on the case in the British news media. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was immediately taken to Hull Prison."

Sadly, many of our college and universities campus' have squashed freedom of speech, making Communism a fact with tenured professors/teachers and faculty refusing to hear but one side of a discussion....their side.

1 posted on 05/28/2018 10:35:33 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

One reason why the Party of Bureaucrats and College Indoctranators (Democrats) want to confiscate guns.


2 posted on 05/28/2018 10:37:51 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: yoe

Go get ‘em Lord Pearson!


3 posted on 05/28/2018 10:39:02 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: yoe

This is starting to look more and more like the tyranny my country declared independence from. I am perpetually grateful that it did.


4 posted on 05/28/2018 10:39:31 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: yoe

It’s Kafka.

The whole idea of his novel “The Trial” is that the defendant doesn’t know what he is accused of. If he tries to defends himself, it is seen as a sign of his feelings of guilt. If he makes light of it and doesn’t prepare a defense, it is seen as a sign of his lack of repentance. You don’t know what you did, but you’re in trouble no matter what you do.


5 posted on 05/28/2018 10:41:14 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: yoe

In the UK, and most other countries, the government actively suppresses free speech. In the USA, the government is forbidden to do so, but does it anyway. Bammy ordered the irs to harass organizations that have normal, sensible, human goals. In democrat-controlled areas the government uses its power to suppress free thought.

Major corporations have willingly taken on the job of suppressing non-conformist thought. The media, especially “social” media have implemented measures to eliminate opinions that do not conform to PC-leftist thought.

Colleges have gone far beyond the kgb in persecuting students and professors who do not bow down and conform.

The end result is the same. We do not have freedom of thought in the USA.


6 posted on 05/28/2018 10:41:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: BigEdLB

And the officers who arrested him.


7 posted on 05/28/2018 10:42:08 AM PDT by stevio (MAGA)
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To: yoe

Now you know why we fought to leave your azzes back in 1776.
You people need to rise up against this tyranny and put an end to it once and for all before it’s way too late. The muzzies will kill ALL of you once the timing is right.


8 posted on 05/28/2018 10:44:07 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: yoe

Don’t ask. Don’t tell.

Subjugate
Interrogate
Incarcerate
Eliminate / Exterminate

TACTICS of TOTALITARIANS.


9 posted on 05/28/2018 10:44:55 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: yoe

Like I said, make Lordmounbattening a sport and watch how fast things change.


10 posted on 05/28/2018 10:45:59 AM PDT by heights
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To: All

It’s not this party and that party doing these things. It is a creature, which grew to be trillions of dollars strong. It was funded to keep us _safe_, but it has become a power onto itself; acting as god of all; running US government behind the veil.


11 posted on 05/28/2018 10:47:09 AM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: Garth Tater

I am in a country that is not free... I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America. You don’t know how lucky you are.” — Carl Benjamin

Here you go genius. You have no idea what a police state is.


12 posted on 05/28/2018 10:50:16 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: yoe
(VIDEO: Wilders Statement in Solidarity with Tommy Robinson)
13 posted on 05/28/2018 10:51:57 AM PDT by yoe
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To: I want the USA back
The end result is the same. We do not have freedom of thought in the USA.

A free man can only be ruled unjustly if he allows it. Even if the law does not say so, even if everyone around me says otherwise, I am free. I cannot be made or forced to think anything. I can be harmed for my actions, but my actions cannot be stopped.
14 posted on 05/28/2018 10:52:05 AM PDT by JamesP81 (Traitors are more dangerous than enemies. Vote and act accordingly.)
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To: yoe

If this ends up becoming a revolution against a corrupt government by the people of the UK; I’m siding with the people.

It actually sounds like it’s a necessary action at this point. The UK is one millimeter from being lost.


15 posted on 05/28/2018 10:52:54 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Moral Equivalent of the Plague - It Destroys Anyone it Infects)
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To: Boomer

My thoughts, too.

The U.S. doesn’t need a Civil War against the left - the world needs a war against these vermin, because they’re EVERYWHERE, and seizing power now wherever they can get away with it.

And ... serious question, how can the Brits think they can get away with this “no reporting” crap in this day and age, unless they also censor the internet?


16 posted on 05/28/2018 10:56:22 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: yoe

Their papers should write that a guy whose name rhymes with Jommy Tobinson was shmarrested for deporting on the brial of Hooslim Trapists. No gag order violation there.


17 posted on 05/28/2018 10:58:01 AM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: yoe

What’s the US media excuse? NYtimes? NPR? Doesn’t the Washington Post know that Democracy Dies in Darkness?


18 posted on 05/28/2018 10:58:24 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: I want the USA back

It is getting to where the only way to save the UK is a military coup, and their military is not likely to be in favor of it, since it has been co-opted by the left. One of the theories about Trump is that the military is helping him restore constitutional government in order to avoid the need for a coup here. Let’s hope he succeeds, with England as an example of where we are heading if he doesn’t.


19 posted on 05/28/2018 11:00:37 AM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: Boomer

And when BREXIT is cancelled or permanently delayed, there should be rioting in the streets.


20 posted on 05/28/2018 11:00:41 AM PDT by walleye (Molon Labe - Resist!)
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