Mostly on the state of law and freedom in the UK: Links 1, July 12, 2019

1. What happens when people lose faith in justice within the law? When is vigilantism the lesser of the evils?

Dr. David Mackereth, an ‘unashamed’ Christian, is now suing the government at an employment tribunal for discrimination on the grounds of his religious belief

A Christian doctor in the English midlands lost his job in a government department after he refused to refer to a theoretical “six-foot-tall bearded man” as “madam,” a tribunal heard.

 

Dr. David Mackereth, 56, claims he was sacked as a disability benefits assessor by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) over his religious beliefs.

The father of four alleges he was asked in a conversation with a line manager: “If you have a man, six foot tall with a beard, who says he wants to be addressed as ‘she’ and ‘Mrs.’, would you do that?”

 

Mackereth, an evangelist who now works as an emergency doctor, claims his contract was then terminated over his refusal to use transgendered pronouns.

He argues that he was dismissed “not because of any realistic concerns over the rights and sensitivities of transgender individuals, but because of my refusal to make an abstract ideological pledge.”

(In Canada its actually  against the law to not pretend along with any sort of deviancy of this nature)

4. Toronto hospital fires around 150 employees after uncovering multimillion-dollar fraud

In what could be one of the largest and longest-lasting benefits fraud schemes ever discovered in Canada, a Toronto geriatric hospital has dismissed approximately 150 employees for falsely claiming as much as $5 million in benefits over an eight-year period.

 

“It appears to be organized,” said William Reichman, president and CEO of Baycrest Health Sciences. “It had to be done in such a way that it would escape at least detection by the benefits administrator… It’s a betrayal of trust.”

 

As in previous scams of comparable size, such as the one discovered last year at the Toronto Transit Commission, this one involved misuse of prescription coverage for orthotics, knee braces, and compression stockings, but also physiotherapy.

 

On Wednesday Baycrest fired those employees who did not resign after a third-party internal investigation by an auditor. The investigation found that one employee had taken more than $100,000, and that several others had pocketed amounts in the $25,000 range […]

 

Baycrest’s investigation found two main types of fraud. In one, an employee would submit invoices for services they never received, such as physiotherapy, and pay a kickback to the provider. In another, an employee would accept unrelated products — purses, for example, or shoes for athletics or fashion — with the provider pocketing the difference in price between those items and the prescribed medical device.

(Not ONE name was given. The irony is, I bet they could have just given one name and it would have covered a significant number of the participants of this scam)

5. Ann Widdecombe Brilliantly Argues In Favour Of Free Speech At Oxford Union

(She is wrong about one thing. Snowflakes and totalitarians are not at opposite ends of any spectrum. They are the same end of the spectrum but use different tactics)

6. Clare Lopez tweet:

(And the Irony is, Im pretty sure this happens in Canada, and did happen in Ottawa some years ago. But our government-media complex was better at keeping the real nature of it out of the papers, than the UK.There was even a public trial in Ottawa about a ‘grooming gang’ in a very muslim part of Ottawa and after initial reports by SUN TV, nothing.)

7. Clare Lopez discusses the alliance of the Koch Brothers and George Soros for some strange purpose to be revealed in this interview.

Thank you TL., M., Coram Deo, ML., Oz-Rita, Wrath of Khan, EB., and all who sent in lots of amazing materials. 

Here is Ezra again! More on Pakistan’s obscene and totalitarian silencing of any criticism of itself or Islam. This time with a Pakistani journalist who agrees with Ezra.