UK Repression Hits New High

[AAAintheBeltway]

I have commented a few times on how repressive the UK is. Some of you probably thought I was exaggerating. There is no First Amendment in the UK, and the "conservative" government has become increasingly intolerant of any criticism of its suicidal immigration policies or of any criticism directed at its rapidly growing muslim population. Recently some fairly prominent foreign right wing figures were detained trying to enter the UK and held in custody, apparently based only on their political views.

As frightening as those incidents were, they pale in comparison to the treatment meted out to a high profile right wing figure, Tommy Robinson. Robinson is an independent journalist who makes videos on the sidewalk, typically criticizing the country's immigration policies or the failure to prosecute horrific muslim crimes. While reporting outside a high profile trial of a group of muslims accused of running a grooming, ie sex slavery, gang, in which young white girls were pimped out and treated in appalling ways, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to 13 months in jail. An order was then issued barring the media from even reporting on his arrest and sentence. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lon...nson-arrested-for-breaching-the-a3849046.html

This kind of kasfkaesque secret arrest and punishment is apparently legal in the UK. One can easily imagine liberal journalists here being outraged if Putin did such a thing, but they have been remarkably silent over Robinson's plight.

Robinson is at high risk of being murdered in prison, as he is a particularly juicy target for jihadis looking to advance their religion.

It's hard to believe that our own government still considers the UK a close and reliable ally. Their spy agencies were up to their ascots trying to defeat Trump and then smear him. It's clear we no longer share common values with their ruling class. It's time for Trump to take a stand and demand justice for Tommy Robinson.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, is a douche.

UK prisons are not quite as incompetent as the US'. He is perfectly safe.

"arrested and summarily sentenced to 13 months in jail".. yep, don't even have to read to know this is bullshit. Only way to be put in prison like that is if he was already out on license and breached it.

You are just telling lies KKK.

 

[polaris]

I have commented a few times on how repressive the UK is. Some of you probably thought I was exaggerating. There is no First Amendment in the UK, and the "conservative" government has become increasingly intolerant of any criticism of its suicidal immigration policies or of any criticism directed at its rapidly growing muslim population. Recently some fairly prominent foreign right wing figures were detained trying to enter the UK and held in custody, apparently based only on their political views.

As frightening as those incidents were, they pale in comparison to the treatment meted out to a high profile right wing figure, Tommy Robinson. Robinson is an independent journalist who makes videos on the sidewalk, typically criticizing the country's immigration policies or the failure to prosecute horrific muslim crimes. While reporting outside a high profile trial of a group of muslims accused of running a grooming, ie sex slavery, gang, in which young white girls were pimped out and treated in appalling ways, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to 13 months in jail. An order was then issued barring the media from even reporting on his arrest and sentence. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lon...nson-arrested-for-breaching-the-a3849046.html

This kind of kasfkaesque secret arrest and punishment is apparently legal in the UK. One can easily imagine liberal journalists here being outraged if Putin did such a thing, but they have been remarkably silent over Robinson's plight.

Robinson is at high risk of being murdered in prison, as he is a particularly juicy target for jihadis looking to advance their religion.

It's hard to believe that our own government still considers the UK a close and reliable ally. Their spy agencies were up to their ascots trying to defeat Trump and then smear him. It's clear we no longer share common values with their ruling class. It's time for Trump to take a stand and demand justice for Tommy Robinson.

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Back To The Future: The cyclical nature of human history can provide a valuable insight of what's to come.

 

[Arnie]

What do you expect from a country of inbred idiots?
Incredibly stupid logic to go along with their bad teeth.

Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says

• Joel Adams

27 MAY 2018 • 8:52PM


Ajudge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.

Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.

Latest figures show stabbing deaths among teenagers and young adults have reached the highest level for eight years, and knife crime overall rose 22 per cent in 2017.

In the past two months, he said, there have been 77 knife-related incidents in Bedfordshire, including three killings.

Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge said he was concerned that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles CREDIT: SBNA
Judge Madge told the assembled judges, barristers and court staff: “These offences often seem motiveless - one boy was stabbed because he had an argument a couple of years before at his junior school.”

He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.

He said: “A few of the blades carried by youths are so called ‘Rambo knives’ or samurai swords. They though are a very small minority.


"The reason why these measures have little effect is that the vast majority of knives carried by youths are ordinary kitchen knives. Every kitchen contains lethal knives which are potential murder weapons.

"Accordingly, it is very easy for any youth who wants to obtain a knife to take it from the kitchen drawer in his home or in the home of one of his friends.”

As a result - said the judge - the most common knife a youth will take out is eight to ten inches, long and pointed, from his mother's cutlery tray.

He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?

“Butchers and fishmongers do, but how often, if at all, does a domestic chef use the point of an eight-inch or ten-inch knife? Rarely, if at all."

"Acknowledging that any blade could cause injury, the judge pointed out “slash wounds are rarely fatal.”

So, he said: “I would urge all those with any role in relation to knives - manufacturers, shops, the police, local authorities, the government - to consider preventing the sale of long pointed knives, except in rare, defined, circumstances, and replacing such knives with rounded ends.

"It might even be that the police could organise a programme whereby the owners of kitchen knives, which have been properly and lawfully bought for culinary purposes, could be taken somewhere to be modified, with the points being ground down into rounded ends," he said.

Office for National statistics figures published in February revealed 215 fatal stabbings had been recorded by police in the 12 months to March 2017.


This was on par with the previous year’s 212 stabbing deaths but a marked increase on the 186 in the year to March 2015.

The latest figures show ten 16 or 17 year olds lost their lives in the year to March 2017, as well as 51 people aged between 18 and 24. The combined total is the highest since 2008/9.

In the first 100 days of 2018, 53 people were killed in the capital alone, many of them victims of knife crime.

New tougher sentencing guidelines for knife crime were introduced in March, with gang membership or carrying a concealed weapon both identified as aggravating factors which can increase a jail term handed down for a knife offence.

The Sentencing council said the reforms were intended to “reflect Parliament’s concern about the social problem of offenders carrying knives.”

 

[Clubber Lang]

What do you expect from a country of inbred idiots?
Incredibly stupid logic to go along with their bad teeth.

Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says

• Joel Adams

27 MAY 2018 • 8:52PM


Ajudge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.

Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.

Latest figures show stabbing deaths among teenagers and young adults have reached the highest level for eight years, and knife crime overall rose 22 per cent in 2017.

In the past two months, he said, there have been 77 knife-related incidents in Bedfordshire, including three killings.

Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge said he was concerned that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles CREDIT: SBNA
Judge Madge told the assembled judges, barristers and court staff: “These offences often seem motiveless - one boy was stabbed because he had an argument a couple of years before at his junior school.”

He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.

He said: “A few of the blades carried by youths are so called ‘Rambo knives’ or samurai swords. They though are a very small minority.


"The reason why these measures have little effect is that the vast majority of knives carried by youths are ordinary kitchen knives. Every kitchen contains lethal knives which are potential murder weapons.

"Accordingly, it is very easy for any youth who wants to obtain a knife to take it from the kitchen drawer in his home or in the home of one of his friends.”

As a result - said the judge - the most common knife a youth will take out is eight to ten inches, long and pointed, from his mother's cutlery tray.

He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?

“Butchers and fishmongers do, but how often, if at all, does a domestic chef use the point of an eight-inch or ten-inch knife? Rarely, if at all."

"Acknowledging that any blade could cause injury, the judge pointed out “slash wounds are rarely fatal.”

So, he said: “I would urge all those with any role in relation to knives - manufacturers, shops, the police, local authorities, the government - to consider preventing the sale of long pointed knives, except in rare, defined, circumstances, and replacing such knives with rounded ends.

"It might even be that the police could organise a programme whereby the owners of kitchen knives, which have been properly and lawfully bought for culinary purposes, could be taken somewhere to be modified, with the points being ground down into rounded ends," he said.

Office for National statistics figures published in February revealed 215 fatal stabbings had been recorded by police in the 12 months to March 2017.


This was on par with the previous year’s 212 stabbing deaths but a marked increase on the 186 in the year to March 2015.

The latest figures show ten 16 or 17 year olds lost their lives in the year to March 2017, as well as 51 people aged between 18 and 24. The combined total is the highest since 2008/9.

In the first 100 days of 2018, 53 people were killed in the capital alone, many of them victims of knife crime.

New tougher sentencing guidelines for knife crime were introduced in March, with gang membership or carrying a concealed weapon both identified as aggravating factors which can increase a jail term handed down for a knife offence.

The Sentencing council said the reforms were intended to “reflect Parliament’s concern about the social problem of offenders carrying knives.”

I was waiting for the punchline.
Or to find out it was The Onion or some other fictional website.

Sadly, just another lunatic liberal idea

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?

This is what happens when you start down the slippery slope of allowing government to decide what you "need" and what is best left for the authorities. One day it is "assault rifles", before long they want to regulate kitchen knives.

Let's not forget, this is a country where it is essentially illegal to defend yourself and your family in your own home from intruders.

Ordinary working class Brits can be forgiven for asking why exactly their ancestors gave their lives in two senseless world wars? So their country could be surrendered by big money elites to an invasion of muslims?

Unlike Tommy Robinson, I can ask these questions because I live on a country that is still somewhat free. Of course I would be fired from my job and socially ostracized, but for now at least, I wouldn't be sent to prison to be murdered.

 

[Slartibartfast]

KKK has never left the US quite likely and does not understand the world or how not-free the US is compared to the UK. Brainwashed cattle he is.

At least the Judge made those comments in his retirement speech and not from the bench. Still, I'd prefer to be stabbed than shot.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Swift Injustice: The Case of Tommy Robinson
by Bruce Bawer
May 27, 2018 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12378/tommy-robinson-injustice



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• The swiftness with which injustice was meted out to Tommy Robinson is stunning. No, more than that: it is terrifying.
  
  
• Without having access to his own lawyer, Robinson was summarily tried and sentenced to 13 months behind bars. He was then transported to Hull Prison.
  
  
• Meanwhile, the judge who sentenced Robinson also ordered British media not to report on his case. Newspapers that had already posted reports of his arrest quickly took them down. All this happened on the same day.
  
  
• In Britain, rapists enjoy the right to a full and fair trial, the right to the legal representation of their choice, the right to have sufficient time to prepare their cases, and the right to go home on bail between sessions of their trial. No such rights were offered, however, to Tommy Robinson.
  

The very first time I set foot in London, back in my early twenties, I kicked up into an adrenaline high that lasted for the entire week of my visit. Never, in later years, did any other place ever have such an impact on me -- not Paris, not Rome. Yes, Rome was a cradle of Western civilization, and Paris a hub of Western culture -- but Britain was the place where the values of the Anglosphere, above all a dedication to freedom, had fully taken form. Without Britain, there would have been no U.S. Declaration of Independence, Constitution, or Bill of Rights.

In recent years, alas, Britain 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, has been repeatedly harassed by the police, railroaded by the courts, and left unprotected by prison officials who have allowed Muslim 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 police officers 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 Muslim, who systematically rape non-Muslim 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.

Pictured: Police officers pull Tommy Robinson (center) off a street in Leeds, England, where, in his role as a citizen journalist, he was livestreaming a Facebook video from outside a courthouse. (Image source: TommyRobinson.online video screenshot)



The police promptly dragged Robinson in front of a judge, where, without having access to his own lawyer, he was summarily tried and sentenced to 13 months behind bars. He was then transported to Hull Prison.

Meanwhile, the judge who sentenced him also ordered the British media not to report on his case. Newspapers that had already posted reports of his arrest quickly took them down. Even ordinary citizens who had written about the arrest on social media removed their posts, for fear of sharing Robinson's fate. All this happened on the same day.

A kangaroo court, then a gag order. In the United Kingdom, where rapists enjoy the right to a full and fair trial, the right to the legal representation of their choice, the right to have sufficient time to prepare their cases, and the right to go home on bail between sessions of their trial. No such rights were offered, however, to Tommy Robinson.

The swiftness with which injustice was meted out to Robinson is stunning. No, more than that: it is terrifying. On various occasions over the years, I have been subjected in person to an immediate threat of Islamic violence: I have had a knife pulled on me by a young gang member, and been encircled by a crowd of belligerent men in djellabas outside a radical mosque. But that was not frightening. This is frightening -- this utter violation of fundamental British freedoms.

From one perspective, to be sure, Robinson's lightning-fast arrest, trial, and imprisonment should not have come as a surprise. "There has been a campaign to 'get Tommy' -- or what looks remarkably like it -- for some time," a source in the UK, whom I will call "L", told me late early Saturday morning.

The apparent justification for Robinson's arrest is that he was on a suspended sentence. In May of last year, he was taken into custody while reporting from outside a courthouse in Kent, where another group of Muslim defendants was being tried, also on "grooming" charges. That arrest was also unjustified. At least, however, Robinson was given a suspended sentence. This time, presumably, it was determined that the mere act of reporting yet again from outside another courthouse amounted to a violation of the terms of his suspended sentence.

The official cynicism here is obvious. L made a vital point: that often, when one of these "grooming gang" trials is being held, the extended families and friends of the defendants stand outside the courthouse and "heckle and intimidate" the rape victims as well as their families and supporters. "I've had reports of children as young as five throwing stones at victims' families," L said.

"This intimidation by extended community groups also involves going around to houses and harassing people." She has even heard of witnesses for the prosecution who have needed police protection to use a rest room inside a courthouse. Needless to say, this heckling and harassment is rarely reported on and never punished.

One potentially positive aspect of this ugly turn of events is that it turned heads that should have been turned long ago. L noted that many of her Twitter contacts "were tweeting that they didn't necessarily support Tommy in general but were appalled that someone reporting these [grooming] crimes was arrested." Some of her acquaintances, she said, "are stunned and in despair." On Saturday, thousands of Robinson's supporters rallied in Westminster. But will such public protests make any difference? One British ex-policeman reacted to Robinson's incarceration with a video urging his fellow countrymen not just to march or rally but to join Ann Marie Waters' party For Britain and do for freedom of speech in Britain what UKIP did to get British out of the EU.

L had more interesting information to offer. While Robinson is being punished for drawing attention to Muslim rape gangs, the Sikh Awareness Society, which has also reported on these "grooming" trials, is left alone. "They are a godsend," said L, "because they pull no punches yet don't seem to get the intimidation that people like Tommy get." Of course -- British police would not dare arrest a bearded man in a turban. L also mentioned an imam who was arrested recently, only to be let go by police after "a large group of supporters demanded his release." At least one police officer acknowledged that the imam had been freed because otherwise "they would have been facing riots all around the country." L summed up British authorities' current approach to the Islamic situation as follows: "they have lost control... and are simply going for those who they think will make the least fuss. The classroom bully has terrorised the teacher into punishing the kids who are bullied."

One assumes that the officials think that perpetrating this kind of injustice will somehow keep the peace. If I were one of their number, I would not be so certain. The people at that Westminster rally on Saturday were angry. How many other British subjects share their anger? L expressed concern that this summer in Britain may turn out to be quite restive. Well, maybe that is all for the good.

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.

Is the whole British establishment a bunch of cowards? I suppose we will know the answer to that question soon enough, if we do not know it already.

Bruce Bawer is the author of the new novel The Alhambra (Swamp Fox Editions). His book While Europe Slept (2006) was a New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His other books include A Place at the Table (1993), Stealing Jesus (1997), Surrender (2009), and The Victims' Revolution (2012). A native New Yorker, he has lived in Europe since 1998.

See also: Petition to Free Tommy
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[Slartibartfast]

He breached a prior contempt of court intentionally.

This is just a publicity stunt.

His name is not even 'Tommy', he is that much a media whore he picked one that sounds more English.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.. double barrelled names are a bit posh for Sun readers.

 

[Slartibartfast]

So there was no "lightning trial", more KKK lies.

"Contempt of court is a criminal offence that can see people jailed for speeches or publications that create a "substantial risk that the course of justice in the proceedings in question will be seriously impeded or prejudiced".

Robinson is already under a suspended sentence for committing contempt of court over a gang rape case heard in Canterbury last year.

Judge Heather Norton handed him a three months imprisonment in May last year but suspended it for 18 months on the condition he did not commit further offences."

He was risking the mistrials of the sex offenders on trial by breaking reporting restrictions perfectly normal in the case of underage sex victims. He got contempt as he should have. He then breached his deal and already sentenced, went to jail.