1. The word on Twitter is that Tommy Robinson was arrested for showing this documentary he made at a protest he organized. The state claims it is because he makes false claims about something or other, and not having watched it yet, I do not know what those might be.
Like Hate speech laws, saying something the state says is untrue is now clearly dialectically enforced. And in a Republic, freedom of speech means the right to say whatever you want, even if its a lie. Especially about the state and about politics. Because the cost to liberty is greater when the state determines what is true.
We all saw that during Covid. In fact Orwell could not have written a better example. But I have personally seen this in the trials of Helen Grus and many other doctors attacked by the media and captured institutions like the CPSO and equivalent orgs. across Canada. And at no point are they, or other doctors held to account when it was made clear they supported a narrative which was proven untrue. Even by official documents provided via a FOIA request.
Therefore, Tommy’s documentary must be seen if for no other reason than because the state has drawn a line at that point. Tommy was arrested, and this documentary was banned. So the assumptions above are decent ones pending more information.
https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1817184820151070917
If this video above disappears please leave a comment so I can work on restoring it.
2. This is interesting. So Obama… voting.,. another great example of no matter how much truth is exposed, it won’t make any difference. I think Yuri Bezmenov explained that would be exactly how the West would be in his famous interview in 1984. You can see it in this short segment.
3. More on the Druze and demands for Israel to respond, not just to Hizb’allah, but to Syria and other terrorist regions forcing Israeli citizens to live under constant bombardment.
4. Speaking of the dialectical application of freedom of speech, this article is quite good from someone I would call, a left-libertarian. He details how one of the organizations recently created to validate news as being consistent with the party policy came to visit him once he caused them to notice him. Really, this article should be read inside your head using a 20th century era Soviet accent.
The most chilling words today: I’m from NewsGuard and I am here to rate you
Recently, I wrote a Hill column criticizing NewsGuard, a rating operation being used to warn users, advertisers, educators and funders away from media outlets based on how it views the outlets’ “credibility and transparency.”
Roughly a week later, NewsGuard came knocking at my door. My blog, Res Ipsa (jonathanturley.org), is now being reviewed and the questions sent by NewsGuard were alarming, but not surprising.
I do not know whether the sudden interest in my site was prompted by my column. I have previously criticized NewsGuard as one of the most sophisticated operations being used to “white list” and “black list” sites.
My new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” details how such sites fit into a massive censorship system that one federal court called “Orwellian.”
For any site criticizing the media or the Biden administration, the most chilling words today are “I’m from NewsGuard and I am here to rate you.”
Conservatives have long accused the company of targeting conservative and libertarian sites and carrying out the agenda of its co-founder Steven Brill. Conversely, many media outlets have heralded his efforts to identify disinformation sites for advertisers and agencies.
Read the rest at the link above. But this isn’t about the media or the Biden admin. This is about the COMINTERN. Die Partei. Harris is a better rep for it than Bden is, who is if anything, a rep for cottage industry ice cream. At least in term of any actual agency he has left.
5. An excellent meme taken from here
Thank you all for checking out this site
https://rumble.com/v2q1fhk-silenced-a-banned-documentary-by-tommy-robinson.html
Full film on Rumble
X sucks
Need a Druse on screen for Israel ongoingly
Druze are close kin to Jews. Moses was married to Jethro’s daughter, Zipporah. Jethro was a priest of Midian, the father of the Druze faith.
It’s hard to get their history straight or find an accurate description of their religious beliefs. Moslems claim Jethro, just as they do Noah, Moses, and Jesus. Secular elites of all flavors throw them into the mush of esoteric mumbo-jumbo.
They’ve survived in that fraught region for thousands of years, refraining from hairy theological disquisitions. So most descriptions of their faith are outsider fiction.
Moslems are – well, Moslems. Druze suffered horribly, pogroms and forced conversions. But they are righteous survivors.
As Jews have always had a presence in the Holy Land, the relationship with Druze has deep roots. Mutual respect and friendship, separate tribes who don’t intermarry but remain united as they say, in a “covenant of blood”.
Druze Israelis are among the bravest, most skilled warriors in the IDF. The current military elite is secular left, estranged from traditional Israelis – both Druze and Jews. They share the formulaic expression for mourning those who have been murdered: May their blood be avenged.
But the Druze most certainly will not tolerate temporizers. No appeasement, not even to obtain essential weapons or ensure diplomatic support. Silver-tongue Bibi Netanyahu may as well STFU.
To be clear, it’s the upper echelons of the IDF – secular Yekkes – who have little respect for the majority Jewish and Druze Israelis.
To be clear, it’s the upper echelons of the IDF – secular Yekkes – who are contemptuous of the majority Jewish and Druze Israelis.
Tommy Robinson’s video is about a schoolyard fight between two boys: one an English boy the other a Syrian refugee. Someone filmed the English boy pouring water from a bottle onto the other boy’s head after he’d knocked him to the ground.
The media ran with the story: poor Syrian refugee boy, waterboarded (yes!), target of terrible racism. The politicians took up the story. I think Tommy said Theresa May even mentioned it at a G20 meeting.
The real story according to fellow students and teachers, including the headmaster: The Syrian boy 15 years old, was a bully. Always in trouble. He’d said he would rape the other boy’s young sisters. The English boy was 12 by the way, and by all accounts a decent young boy.
The English boy’s house was surrounded by angry Muslim men, (because of the media reports); he and his family had to be taken by the police to a safe house. (A one star motel next to a brothel, in a highly Muslim neighbourhood). Tommy compares it to the 4 star motels that house refugees.
He had to use hidden cameras because people were afraid to speak on camera, for obvious reasons. The head teacher admitted that he’d been paid by the Council not to speak about the incident. Other teachers the same. He lost his job and I think the school has been closed.
The Syrian boy has been awarded 10’s of thousands of pounds in compensation. I don’t remember the exact amount. It was quite a sum.
The film is a little rough and uneven at times but well worth watching.