The police investigated House of Lords member and former Labour MP Ian Austin under hate speech laws for calling Hamas “Islamists”, it has emerged. Austin writes about what happened in the Telegraph.
It isn’t just journalists like Allison Pearson who have been investigated by the police for comments on social media.
I also fell foul of the thought police for tweeting about the Middle East, just as Pearson suspects she did as she was told it dates back to a year ago, when she was tweeting about the Hamas atrocities on October 7th.
Back in February I ridiculed UNRWA’s claim that it had not known about the Hamas operations centre underneath their offices in Gaza, saying: “Everyone, better safe than sorry: before you go to bed, nip down and check you haven’t inadvertently got a death cult of Islamist murderers and rapists running their operations downstairs. It’s easily done.”
Political opponents and extremists deliberately misinterpreted my joke, claimed my use of the word Islamists was Islamophobic or racist and caused a torrent of abuse and threats.
I suppose that was to be expected, but I was shocked and appalled when the police became involved.
Late one evening a few days later I received a call from West Midlands police asking about my whereabouts and safety. I assumed this was because of the threats.
How naïve that was. It was actually because they had received complaints about my tweet, had carried out an investigation but decided not to take action. They would, I was told by a senior police officer, have recorded it as a “non-crime hate incident” had the rules not been changed to raise the threshold.
They said it was because I had used the word “Islamist” and asked whether I had seen what people had said on LinkedIn.
I explained that Islamist is used 17 times on the Government’s list of proscribed organisations. It was coined to distinguish between decent law-abiding Muslims and extremists and is used by governments, academics, expert think-tanks, and the world’s leading media organisations.
It’s no coincidence that Pearson has “in all likelihood been targeted for speaking up for Israel, just as I was”, Austin adds. “Our laws and police force have been weaponised in the campaign to silence critics of Islamism. What begins with a few tweets won’t end there.”
Worth reading in full.
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I hope these are bots and not real people. Our Dr Suneel Dhand Tweets a perfectly reasonable and sane comment about being relieved he doesn’t have to wear masks anymore for work and this is the level of vitriol in response. Maybe all of that mask wearing and O2 depravation has addled their minds. Sickos.
https://twitter.com/DrSuneelDhand/status/1661756802294333440/photo/1
“Dr Emily Zobel Marshall, an expert in postcolonial literature at Leeds Beckett University, has called for wider acknowledgment of the debt Potter owed to the stories told by African slaves in American.”
So what if she did? Maybe African authors as revered in Africa as Potter owe a debt to some Europeans for stories they heard and used in their books. Who cares?
Expert at Leeds Beckett University? Good for her/they/those. Today, Leeds Beckett tomorrow Solihull Technical College.
I think Dr Simon Goddeck’s post from today sums it up perfectly. This is definitely the way I see it;
”It’s been three years since the world was held hostage under the pretext of a deadly virus. Consequently, a potentially lethal gene therapy was administered to the majority of the global population. Those who expressed skepticism were discriminated against and ostracized.
Nowadays, hardly anyone wants to remember it. “We want to return to normal,” is a phrase often spoken by the perpetrators and the complicit. However, I cannot simply return to normal. Every time I meet someone, I question whether they were involved in the discrimination of critics or not. Moreover, those responsible for these three dystopian years remain unpunished. Millions of people have died due to these measures, the gene therapies, and the demonization of initial treatments, and the push is to forget these as quickly as possible so we can transition to the next issue: the climate?
We must not repeat the same mistake that Germany made in 1945. Denazification must occur immediately. The roles of individuals like Fauci, Drosten, Wen, Schwab, Tedros, and others need to be investigated without delay, and these people should be detained. This world must become a fair one; there is no place for misanthropy, Satanism, or the discrimination of critical scientists and doctors.
Never forget.”
It’s interesting to read the names of individuals above and consider the failures of denazification.
Operation Paperclip was of course real and not a fantasy of disinformation flat earthers and anti-vaqqas.
I have tried to punch the like button for you, but it will not accept it.
I will never forget what was done, I will not be gas lighted and I will never forgive. Most people when they watched Schindlers list, believe they would have behaved as he did, then they should reflect on how they behaved towards the unvaccinated and others who did not comply and ask themselves who did they really behave like.
Yes I know what you mean. I think these sort of people, people that all of us on here know personally, who avoid talking about the obvious and even get quite shirty if you bring it up, it’s a sort of coping mechanism for them. The reality is that they just want to forget about it, and the fact that they were complicit in helping along the narrative and supporting the destruction of society and the resulting harms that occurred. What they probably find hard to digest is the coming to terms with the fact they were duped, made fools of and were in the wrong. Perhaps feelings of guilt and shame bring about avoidance and denial. And then there’s the reality that we’re never going back to 2019 ‘normal’. It’s quite the bitter pill to have to swallow, so they bury their heads further.
If there’s one video that I feel is imperative to watch it is this one. It’s 21 mins long but Dr David Martin completely skewers the entire virus and vaccine debate with this speech to the European parliament at the International Covid Summit III. It cannot be fact checked because these are the facts, the truth. I found it riveting. If anyone is in any doubt as tio the origins of the virus and the vaccine, here it is. A bio-weapon designed to kill human beings. Quite brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFLPWWCAHfQ
I’ve seen this floating about but never seem to get around to watching it. I like David Martin so I must take a look later.
Watched this the other day..it’s a great video…it’s had lots of re-tweets and people saying it is one of, if not the most important video you will watch…
Everyone should have a look…..
Aye and…
Never forgive.
They do it like this in the burren!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/can-trumps-opponents-prove-him-wrong-on-ukraine/
Was Johnson there in a personal capacity as a total nobhead or a governmental representative as a total nobhead?
Nobhead oblige.
…sprog number 22/23/24? on its way isn’t it!
LOL….got to make cash somehow….
Watch the video on the section ‘Shocking legacy of harm from lockdowns’. It’s a compilation of weasel Trudeau’s words on lockdown / jabs/ coercion: one side of the screen is him today telling an audience that everyone had a choice, and the other half are his totalitarian fear mongering fascistic statements at the time. Wriggling like the worm he is on a hook of his own making (with help from Uncle Klaus?)
Thanks to Sky News Australia for continuing to muster tiny amounts of gumption 3 years on. Still, better than 99% of our pitiful street of shame.
Just look at this! This is a perfect example of modern Western (and Chinese, in a lot of cases) COLONIALISM! This is far worse than any previous empires, but the ptb cheer it on, Brag about it!
Imagine what could have been done for its people with 10 billion dollars! instead of supplying Germany with ammonia!
The rape of Africa continues and increases!
This f-ing hypocritical world is sick!
“NAMIBIA MEDIAN INCOME
Using the upper-middle-income-country poverty line of 2011 PPP $5.50 per person per day, the poverty rate fell from 68.0 to 51.0 percent between 2009 and 2015. However, the incidence of poverty is projected to have increased since 2015, reaching 64 percent in 2021.”
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/namibia-moves-ahead-on-green-hydrogen-project-with-german-investors/
“Staff invited to hold nine-minute silence for George Floyd at News U.K.”
He was a criminal, didn’t deserve that I admit,but a criminal none the less.
Why don’t they have a silence for all the innocence who died of vaccine injuries by the very vaccines they pushed? Shame on all news UK!!!
How many minutes did they have for Lee Rigby..?
Well said!, and many other hero’s who died in the line of duty! and they pick Floyd?
9 minutes virtue silencing from News UK staff and another few minutes to ‘write’ the whole day’s editions using Chat GPT.
What do they do with the rest of the day? I suppose they’re looking for work in areas that won’t have totally disappeared in the next couple of years.
Undertakers and morticians are undergoing a bit of a boom at the moment. There will be stiff competition mind.
“My garden shed is institutionally racist”
Another thing to worry about. And there’s me thinking that my (pale blue but no, not trans) shed was only an ecological disaster zone because of all the petrochemical based plant pots and nitrogenous (albeit organic) plant feed ….
Speaking of gardens and racism, I’m surprised they haven’t started targeting the gnome population. I’m yet to meet a gnome of colour. Anyone else spotted such an elusive gnome race, if indeed they do exist…?
This is a great thread – from 2007
http://www.thisgardenisillegal.com/2007/07/racial-equality-among-garden-gnomes.html
Oooo…you can’t say ‘gnome’, Mogs. It implies small dwarf-like stature. Nowadays you have to say an ‘allegedly mythical being of a size corresponding to its living conditions’ which rolls off the tongue for any nascent storytellers out there….
So this is significant. Neuralink gets the go-ahead from the FDA. If this were only going to be put to good use and benefit those with brain injuries and disabilities I’d be over the moon, but we know it never plays out like that does it?
No BCI company has managed to clinch the FDA’s final seal of approval. But by receiving the go-ahead for a study with human patients, Neuralink is one step closer to market.
Neuralink’s BCI will require patients to undergo invasive brain surgery. Its system centers around the Link, a small circular implant that processes and translates neural signals. The Link is connected to a series of thin, flexible threads inserted directly into the brain tissue where they detect neural signals.
Patients with Neuralink devices will learn to control it using the Neuralink app. Patients will then be able to control external mice and keyboards through a Bluetooth connection, according to the company’s website.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/25/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-fda-approval-for-in-human-study.html
I watched ‘The Matrix’ last night. I thought it was a documentary. Maybe it is..
And 1984 is the “The despots big book of International world domination instruction manual” these days!
Well I forgot to add quotation marks and for some reason no editing is available, despite being under 15mins. That’s a minus for Mogwai.
I will give you a tick. Does that make it better
?
Oo! Controlling external mice – with your mind with just a modicum of invasive brain surgery. What a boon! What a wonderful thing is Man! I wonder if I could have the optional USB C connector up me fundament?
Thanks Elon! However, I’ll wait for the Alan Sugar version which might have an additional pedometer and toaster.
similar to this article:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/24/gert-jan-oskam-paralysed-man-walk-digital-implant-read-mind/
Transhumanism will start in the medical field with brain implants for paralysed people and become normalised and everyone will say how great. Gradually it will become non-medical.
Yep, they’ve certainly got their eyes on the military for starters and I hope future candidates for the armed forces are aware of this.
This is already on the table and has been for some time.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/986301/Human_Augmentation_SIP_access2.pdf
P46: Defence, however, cannot wait for ethics to change before engaging with human augmentation, we must be in the conversation from the outset to inform the debate and understand how ethical views are evolving.
And:
https://www.army.mod.uk/media/11826/20210322-army-future_soldier-publication-final.pdf
P12: ‘Central will be the game-changing benefits
of digitalisation – incorporating artificial intelligence, automation and machine learning.’
DARPA has had an Office for Biological Technology since 2014
.The office will cover everything from brewing up tomorrow’s bioweapon detectors and connecting humans to computers to designing entirely new types of super-strong living materials that could form the basis of future devices.’
Oops – link to DARPA quote:
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/04/inside-militarys-new-office-cyborgs/81670/
Super army soldiers…the SAS.
Hey I’ve got an idea: If it can detect neural signals, then couldn’t we upgrade it to read thoughts, just in case, you know, anyone has a thought that isn’t state-approved? It would be a wonderful convenience for the Twitter police as they would no longer have to call in to “check your thinking”, any wrong-think that occurs would immediately be flagged up and a go-team mobilized to neutralize the dissent. That’s food for thought (while we’re still allowed it).
So Boris the UK’s Warmonger In Chief…has been wheeled out in Texas…?
He was there at the invitation of CEPA….funded by the US State Department..,,part of which is the Russia Strategic Initiative …in turn funded by the US DOD….
Also funded by the usual suspects..Google, Amazon, all the major arms companies like Lockheed Martin,BAE Systems…and the NATO public diplomacy division..among others……
He’s desperately looking for another, more profitable job isn’t he….??
P.S….
…However, he did arrange the Dallas trip as a stopover en route to the SCALE Global Summit in Las Vegas, an investment conference where he will be paid an expected six-figure sum for a scheduled speech.
https://fintechmagazine.com/events/scale-global-summit-2023
LOL!
Even the military industrial complex think he’s a loose cannon (or barrel bomb).
I think BoJo has a way to go before he can be awarded that accolade. Tony Blair is a tough act to follow.
..maybe the ‘most current’…then. Oh I think BoJo is giving him a good run for his money…I don’t remember Blair going all over the world touting for a nuclear war….?
Every day, more and more of what would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
In recent years I have had the recurring clichéd thought that the lunatics have taken over the asylum. I have now decided that this is wrong, what has happened is that many more people are now unhinged. It has long been thought that the general populace need clear guidelines, however, with the decline of religion many are now without a creed and so are very vulnerable. It seems to me that Western democracy is in terminal decline, and there are only two major forces that can succeed this century, both are ruthless and violent and compared with the idealised democratic past seem pretty awful.
One is shouty, choppy, and backward looking, the other is very organised with a clear vision, has cool tech, and makes lots of stuff, I think I prefer the latter.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jeremy-clarke-remembered-by-boris-johnson-sophie-winkleman-eric-idle-and-more/
With all due respect to a dead man what on earth has this got to do with the current state of Britain?
Give it a bloody rest.
They’ve gone nuts..it’s the only explanation… apparently Target the large department store in America has become another company to feel the backlash…according to the New York Post…
“Target has lost $9 billion in market value since angry social media users called for a boycott of the Minneapolis-based retailer over its rollout of the “PRIDE” collection featuring LGBTQ-friendly clothing for children.”
The most egregious things, in my opinion, were the trans messages on the baby-grows…’
..another of the items is a ‘tuck-friendly’ swimsuit which has a bigger crotch so that it can be worn by trans women who still have male ‘bits’…!!
this is the comedian Alex Stein, who actually put one on..LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxhqK6dU49Y
“Liz Truss wasn’t to blame for borrowing costs after all…”
It’s obvious that she was installed in Downing Street as a useful idiot, a puppet, a scapegoat, somebody on whom the financial mess can be blamed, instead of on the extremely obvious cause: LOCKDOWNS.
“Business of the House”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8DSb2k1_WA&list=WL&index=3 Oh dear, spot the liar at the dispatch box, being selective with the truth at best. “We have reliable and honest jounnalism of high standards….” 2m 18s.
I’ll have a watch later but I’m guessing it is that vile, mendacious Mordaunt bullying Andrew Bridgen. Again.
She’s a dreadful piece of work.
Of all the countries of Europe..Hungary is the one that is constantly being penalised by both the EU and the USA…Victor Orban’s popularity and common sense is a thorn in their side…they are now being blocked by EU MEP’s from taking over the ‘rolling’ presidency of the EU in 2024
….and the fact that they won’t give weapons to Ukraine..that they are actively stating that peace talks and negotiation are the way forward..that they won’t take in illegal migrants, and that they won’t bend the knee to the LGB+ and Wokerati?? Nothing to do with it…LOL!
This is a good article from Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga…(they seem to have the monopoly on common sense there!!?)
https://rmx.news/european-union/the-eu-has-no-leadership-only-ngos-and-think-tanks-telling-it-what-to-do-says-hungarian-minister/
No one has the courage and aptitude to lead Europe today, meaning there is no political leadership in the European Union, especially in the European Commission, said Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga at a Budapest conference on Thursday.
“In the European Union today, it is non-governmental organizations (NGOs), foundations and think tanks that tell Europe how to run Europe, according to the will of their own leaders,” she said.
“Recently, for asymmetric reasons, a crisis of confidence has arisen between the EU leadership and the Hungarian government. This is because the Hungarian government, unlike the EU institutions, says what it thinks and does what it says,” she added.
Varga said Europe is stumbling around the stage of history as a clumsy sideshow, drifting from crisis to crisis, and since the migration crisis, it has been trying to make policy in a way that is completely divorced from the real needs of its citizens. She said the institutional system also failed during the Covid crisis and then shot itself in the foot with sanctions against Russia after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
We make no secret of the fact that we want to hold the functioning of the institutions in the European Union accountable in terms of the rule of law….Let’s talk about whether the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European institutions are respecting the rules, whether the rule of law is working in the institutions,” said the minister….
According to the minister, the European Parliament wants to block Hungary’s EU presidency precisely because it fears that Hungary will take stock of the dysfunctional state of EU institutions…..”
How many times have we said this…it really ISN’T about health….
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/no-risk-no-reward-doctors-paid-massive-bonuses-to-push-experimental-jabs-on-children/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=catholic
The pressure to meet vaccination targets could lead to doctors dismissing safety concerns and removing uncooperative families from their practices. In addition to incentivising doctors, patients were also offered rewards like food vouchers and gift cards to encourage COVID vaccination….
Worth a read..but horrible….
“hero woman hoses down Just Stop Oil protesters…
Actually quite disappointed at the lukewarm response by bystanders. Let’s face it, it was just a garden hose – I was hoping it would be a fire hose!
Which I would also have applied to the onlookers who applauded JSO.
To answer their question “what’s the point in a garden if you can’t eat”. The point in a garden, is that it provides sustenance for pollinators such as bees, wasps, butterflies and moths that are absolutely essential for a healthy balanced ecosystem. In turn, the health of agricultural yields depends on this balance.
These morons do not think any more than skin deep: What if, for instance, all agricultural machinery was electrically powered? Then the costs of maintaining, powering and replacing this equipment would skyrocket, and this would be reflected in food prices pushing people into food poverty. The question should be “What’s the point in Just Stop Oil if you can’t afford food?”
Wow, do my eyes deceive me..or has common sense finally prevailed!?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/65718748
British Cycling is to ban transgender women from the female category of its competitions following a nine-month review and consultation.
Under a new participation policy that the governing body said was “predicated on fairness”, such athletes will compete in an ‘open category’ with men.
Female races will be “for those whose sex was assigned female at birth”.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/mhra-symposium-reveals-no-quality-control-for-jabs-fewer-inspections-and-other-dangerous
This is one hell of an eye-opener. Basically the MHRA wilfully abandoned all testing and safety protocols for the “safe and effective” so-called vaccines.
This page is becoming more and more concerned with identity politics and the war on woke. It is like someone staging a bar room brawl so that they can climb behind the bar and raid the cash register. I am well aware of cultural winds but this particular battle is a pure contrivance. Don’t be duped by it. It makes you look silly, wastes your time, furthers the real agenda.
Look closely! The world us coming apart!
De santis world leader!