Pro-Hamas protesters desecrate the Union Flag at Manchester Piccadilly this weekend. In front of police officers. Apparently their freedom of expression is protected in another example of two-tier policing.
This weekend, the pro-Palestinian protesters were out in force once again, obviously deaf to the disgraceful scenes we saw last week during the return of a murdered Israeli family. In Manchester, they decided to destroy some Union Flags. (Not that this was covered by most of the the mainstream media.) Obviously the irony of destroying the flag of a nation where you enjoy the freedom to do so is lost on them. But then, rational thought doesn’t seem high on their agenda at the best of times.
As a subject of His Britannic Majesty, i.e., a UK citizen, of Caledonian flavour, I was angered and insulted by this act. I suspect that many many millions of fellow Britons were a lot more angry than I was. But we live in a nation with freedom of speech and expression so this is legal, no matter how distasteful it is.
Only, apparently, that’s now subjective in the eyes of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), who, earlier this month arrested a man for burning a Koran. “We have no blasphemy laws in the UK,” screeched pretend solicitor and Business Minister Jonathan Reynolds, when grilled about J.D. Vance’s assertion to the contrary. Reynolds made the argument that all Leftist authoritarians make these days, that apparently such an act is inciting racial hatred and a public order offence.
Okay, so it was a public order offence – presumably because GMP assesses that it would incite a reaction from Muslims. Fair enough, I get that, although I don’t understand what race has to do with religion. Maybe a Labour Party member can explain it to me.
So if the Koran burning was a public order offence which could incite a reaction, then what was the desecration of our national flag in a political protest? Why wasn’t that a public order offence? It offended millions and it creates a very real risk of violent reaction or reaction in kind.
This is the heart of the problem. You either have freedom of speech or you don’t. You either have blasphemy laws or you don’t. What’s happening here is that senior plod at GMP are subjectively deciding, off their own bat, what is acceptable and what is not. As these officers have been thoroughly brainwashed in the equality, diversity and inclusion training, where our institutions have decided to introduce Critical Race Theory and radical gender politics into their employee’s training (often at odds with their own internal policies on these issues and making unlawful assertions), it is entirely predictable that they see a Koran burning as heinous and the desecration of our national flag as not.
We see this in the continuing police persecution of Christians in our country. Apparently it’s fine for Islamist radicals to scream ‘Jihad!’ in our streets and to insult our soldiers returning from battle, to the extent that anyone who wears a military uniform in this country, including cadets, are advised (usually unofficially) not to wear it whilst traveling to their depot and not to wear it in public alone. But it’s not okay for street preachers like the incredibly courageous Hatun Tash to debate Islamists at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, where she has been wrongfully arrested on several occasions, again using public order laws. The hulking bearded men who beat her in front of police officers are protected by our brave boys in blue who arrest a slight woman of Turkish ethnicity.
Look, I’m a Catholic. I don’t like seeing comedians insulting my faith. I don’t like seeing our churches and brothers and sisters being destroyed and persecuted (70 Christians were beheaded by Islamists in Congo last week – as usual it’s not a prime headline). I don’t like blasphemy. I know it upsets many Muslims to see a Koran desecrated. But that’s the deal, that’s the price we pay for living in a free society. If you can’t accept that then perhaps you’d be happier in Iran or Saudi Arabia. Despite my own feelings on blasphemy, I would not want to live in a Christian theocracy like 17th century Scotland or Spain.
There are clearly double standards in the application of public order offences here and this matters because Labour is using the public order offence to deny that it has brought in a blasphemy law by the back door. By denying that the Koran burnings are enforcement of blasphemy laws, Reynolds et al. have just once again highlighted the two-tier justice system in the application of public order offences.
It seems to me that the Labour Party and our criminal justice institutions want to have their cake and eat it and in doing so they are reinforcing the two tier justice system that is obvious to anyone paying attention in the UK. Justice is meant to be blind – only in the UK it is obvious that this is no longer the case: she’s peeking.
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The police force en masse should be charged for incitement to public disorder.
Because their way of acting is inciting a lot of anger in a lot of people in this country with their double standards. Obviously I very much hope it doesn’t result in public disorder but one wouldn’t be surprised if it does. The double standard is simply outrageous. The police with its actions is provoking the public.
GMP, also known as Andy Burnham’s Goon Squad.
Anti-whitism. On several levels – firstly just a double standard, but secondly and more importantly the desire to protect the project to destroy our race, culture and civilisation – going back to the Race Relations Act. Lots of people from other cultures being here seems to cause trouble – without even needing to assign blame, let’s just agree that it’s not a good idea and ditch the idea. It’s our bloody country after all. This could have been done at any point, but those promoting the invasion double down every time.
You are right, it does indeed go back to the Race Relations Act, which was shoved through the British Parliament in the very same year as similar legislation was shoved through the American Congress, in a coordinated Globalist plan to open the Gates of the West to Mass Invasion from the Third World, detailed in the Evil Communist Cloward-Piven Strategy.
But in fact, it goes back to the first large-scale illegal human trafficking operation, which began with The Windrush in 1948, a fait accompli carried out without the knowledge or consent of the British People or their Parliament.
This is an interesting article with a collection of cases which provide evidence the police have been progressive and racist woketards for a long time. Plenty of anti-white examples in here;
”In September 2018, a senior Metropolitan Police officer faced possible dismissal for alleged racism after using the phrase “whiter than white” when addressing colleagues.
The detective superintendent, who worked in anti-corruption, was suspended from certain duties and investigated for gross misconduct.
The phrase, according to the Collins Dictionary, means “very pure, honest, and moral” and has no racial connotation. The officer said he used it to urge colleagues to be faultless and above reproach in their inquiries.
In February 2019, an employment tribunal ruled that Cheshire Police unlawfully discriminated against an “exceptional” candidate by rejecting him under so-called “positive action” policies.
Matthew Furlong, 25, applied to join the force, following in the footsteps of his father, a serving detective inspector. Despite passing the interview process, he was ultimately denied the role.
He was told “it was refreshing to meet someone as well-prepared as yourself” and that he “could not have done any more.” Yet, his application was rejected—not due to merit, but because he was a straight white male.”
https://news.starknakedbrief.co.uk/p/when-your-police-are-ideologically
This image from Germany perfectly illustrate the state of play in the U.K and elsewhere. The police have it all back to front: protecting and prosecuting the wrong people. If this police officer hadn’t been intent on wrestling a patriot to the ground he might have seen the West-hating Muslim psychopath before he was fatally stabbed from behind. Imagine dying because you failed to see the threat posed by the real villain due to being preoccupied by someone who posed no threat whatsoever;
”This image sums up best the west’s “suicidal. empathy” on immigration. On May 31, 2024, in Mannheim’s market square, the anti-Islam, Citizens’ Movement Pax Europa held a rally.
Afghan migrant Sulaiman Ataee attacked the attendees. A German defending himself was wrestled to the floor by police officer Rouven Laur, 29. Ataee fatally stabbed him.
Well, he did not want to be accused of racism, Islamophobia or Heaven forbid, stereotyping Islamic terrorists.
There have been 5 Afghans involved in murder in a matter of weeks. The German govt is to allow thousands more in now the election has finished.”
https://x.com/AntSpeaks/status/1894027154624491977
https://x.com/Sapiential_Sage/status/1894054481408434573
Two-tier Prime Minister, two-tier judiciary, two-tier policing.
One-tier solution – back to the fundamental principles of British jurisprudence, under which all people are treated equally in the eyes of the law.
Even that imposter Google AI agrees…
“…The principle that all people are treated equally in the eyes of the law is a fundamental principle of the rule of law in the UK. It’s also known as equality before the law or legal equality.”
Ironic that Equality, as formulated in DIE, fosters the exact opposite in the real-life, dissonant world of current two-tier policing and judiciary.
100% Spot on
The author is right. And why is Burning a Holy Bible not illegal in the UK, only Korans?
As for the author’s mention of the 70 Christians beheaded by Islamists in the Congo last week, there are a few important details to this terrorist attack neglected by the media:
The 70 Christians were all Protestants, beheaded in a Protestant Church by terrorists backed by CATHOLIC RWANDAN TUTSI LEADER KAGAME, who has been funding them for years from Rwanda, perhaps using the £millions of British Taxpayers’ Money handed to him for the Failed UK plan to ship the dinghy mob to Rwanda as a deterrent. There is no actual proof that the Rwandan Tutsi-backed-and-led terrorist gangs operating in the Congo are Islamists at all, but just a continuation of the Rwandan Genocide by the Minority Elite, Light-Skinned Tutsis/Fulani against the Oppressed Majority Dark-Skinned African Hutus.
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There needs to be a mass Koran burning protest.
A bonfire of the vanities.
A bonfire of the inanities, more like
Anti British Actions are OK then. Unbelievable how the UK has become a Joke justice example.
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Birmingham has to sell assets following a grant of £180m of Taxpayers money. Very clear where this is headed, the government sells on these assets to pay some national debts.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-city-council-credit-breaking-31048303.amp
One can only assume the Government want civil unrest, specifically from the perceived ‘far-right’ (basically anyone questioning immigration numbers).
Divide and conquer etc etc.
Prosecuting Koran burners but not Union Flag burners is a necessary component of the Great Replacement. It’s an indication that the police force has abandoned the English people. And it means we’re on our own – the government, the Establishment, the political class have all abandoned us, and will not protect us from our enemies.
The answer is to honour the flag ourselves and sod the Islamists and their tame poodles, the police.
Union flag as part of every ensemble: a pin, scarf, patch on a rucksack or bag; anything at all. (Not all at once – don’t want to look like crazy EU beret- wearing nut job)
And make a peaceful, lawful fuss if we are witness to such disrespect: sing a patriotic song or recite the Lord’s prayer loudly. If they are burning the flag or a bible, chuck a Koran into the flames along with it. (Can you get cheap second-hand ones from Amazon?)
The trouble is, we don’t defend our own culture firmly enough so what have the barbarians to fear by committing these outrages?
And if we witness it happening, report it as a hate incident; make a complaint – we are extremely hurt and distressed and feel unsafe. Use their tactics against them.
This is blood boilingly bad. We let these wretched creatures into our country and then expect them to…. Erm be hostile. What’s worse, we encourage them to be hostile with translators telling them how to max out benefits, and lefty idiots telling them we are perpetrators in some historic evil and WE are covered in some original sin.
ENOUGH!
politicians wake up!
Sorry, but what makes MY blood boil is that, with the exception of the older woman, those in the video seem to be white and very young?
Why? Because Sharia is a fact.
Door opened by 14yr Conservative government.
It is easy to understand. You can listen to secular materialist presenters on the radio calling Mohammed ‘the prophet’. They don’t do this because they have any acquaintance with his thinking. It is simply the easy option, the line of least resistance given that Islam is by far the strongest and most feared religion in this country. Just like the vaxx that’s all it is pure fear and expediency. Cheap whores aren’t difficult to find.