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Swift Injustice: The Case of Tommy Robinson
2018-05-28
For the anonymous Rantburger who complained about the sources we use on the subject of Moslem colonist misbehaviour, this kind of thing is why. Lots of links at the link.
[GatestoneInstitute] In recent years, alas, Britannia 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,
...the former head of the English Defense League, his real name apparently is Stephen Lennon...
has been repeatedly harassed by the police, railroaded by the courts, and left unprotected by prison officials who have allowed Moslem 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 coppers 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 Moslem, who systematically rape non-Moslem 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.
Posted by:trailing wife

#15  No big deal.

It won't effect me.

I'm not a Jew.

Eloi, wiling away the time until the Morlocks pick one,of them to be the evening meal. The jihadis did not stop to ascertain whether the individual potential victims were Jewish when they were driving trucks up on the pavement, leaving bombs on subways and concerts, or debauching the daughters of the underclass preparatory to pimping them to their mosque buddies.

First time here.

Welcome, Snineger Bumble3999! But who is Roger29Palms?
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-05-28 22:13  

#14  They are treating him as if he were Irish!
Posted by: Sgt.D.T.   2018-05-28 21:45  

#13  The look of shock and uneasiness on the faces of the Royals at Judeo Christian values being spoken so openly at a royal wedding by an American preacher is a sign of how arrogantly closed minded and hostile that nation has become in regards to basic human values.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606   2018-05-28 20:55  

#12  First time here. Orwell's name for London, "Airstrip One" is now official. I'm surprised Roger29Palms has not heard about what's happening in the U.K...Robinson has been front and center on the subject of Islamisation in the U.K for some years now.
Posted by: Snineger Bumble3999   2018-05-28 19:07  

#11  I feel Tommy was a threat to the main source of establishment funding, namely the immigrant subsidies.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-05-28 17:30  

#10   As oft posted here, there is no 1st Amendment without the 2nd Amendment.

Usually, in the aftermath of a revolution, the first order of business is to make sure no one can run the same playbook against the newly-installed government. Our founding fathers had a different vision, not a mad grab for power, but a recognition that over time, all governments devolve towards suckitude. They didn't phrase it like that, of course, coming from a time when literacy was actually a thing, but the attitude shows up in our Constitution which is to a great degree a list of things the federal government is simply not allowed to do. The right to bear arms helps ensure that everyone stays in their lane.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-05-28 16:33  

#9  Londonistan. Gone. Sad.

And where is Charles, "defender of the Faith"?
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-05-28 15:38  

#8  The feed back I get from my Brit friends is "Que sera sera".

No big deal.

It won't effect me.

I'm not a Jew.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-05-28 15:13  

#7  I am sad to report that you are wrong, Matt, and it is worse than that. From 2015, before such reportage was formally interdicted:

Councillors and police 'had sex' with Rotherham abuse victims
Feb 4, 2015
[TheWeek] Sordid allegations emerge as council is branded 'not fit for purpose' by inspectors.

Some daughters are considerably less equal than others in Old Blighty.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-05-28 14:57  

#6  The inference I'm drawing is that British law enforcement thinks that the potential for violence is so far beyond their control that at all costs they have to avoid offending the Believers, even if it means standing by while British daughters are raped. I hope I'm wrong.
Posted by: Matt   2018-05-28 14:28  

#5  An the Euros (and American Europhiles) wonder why we hug our guns. As oft posted here, there is no 1st Amendment without the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-05-28 13:14  

#4  Formerly Great Britain has apparently gone 'full soviet'. Keep that in mind if you're planning a European trip.
Posted by: PBMcL   2018-05-28 12:51  

#3  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.

Unless of course, the English Defense League - being a 'far-right-wing, anti-Moslem' group - deserves to be thrashed for their views. Terrifying, indeed.
Posted by: Bobby   2018-05-28 12:45  

#2  
Until reading this article I had no idea England had become so Obama-like. I have difficulty absorbing this "new England."
Posted by: Roger29 Palms   2018-05-28 12:19  

#1  I'd say this could get ugly but it looks like it already is. Could get uglier still.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-05-28 11:28  

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