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[High Plains Biker]

The UK, like Australia is a police state at war with its own population.
British Blasphemy? UK Government Moves Toward New Definition of “Islamophobia” for Speech Regulation

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/09/b ... egulation/

Recently, after the speech of Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, various European leaders went public to express their shock and disbelief that they would be accused of rolling back on free speech. For many of us, it was a laughable display of denial, particularly from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. In a country that has eviscerated free speech, Starmer told Bret Baier that the UK “guards” free speech and “we don’t believe in censoring speech.” Now, the government is continuing this month with its effort to regulate and criminalize speech. The effort to crack down on “Islamophobia” could create a type of blasphemy standard if it encompasses criticism of the faith or its practices.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has announced that the government will be further cracking down on hate speech with a new working group tasked with defining ‘Islamophobia’. The free speech community is raising the alarm that the effort is likely to further broaden the government controls over speech.

It was announced last week that Rayner’s working group would be chaired by former Conservative attorney general Dominic Grieve KC, who has himself admitted that defining Islamophobia while safeguarding free speech is ‘extremely difficult.’ Notably, Grieve wrote the foreword to the 2018 All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) report on Islamophobia, which advanced a definition that many critics argue is far too broad.

The APPG included criticism of Islamic beliefs and practices as examples of Islamophobia. It has been condemned for treating criticism of the faith as a type of hate speech.

For years, I have been writing about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom and the steady stream of arrests, including in my book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.”Last year, Nicholas Brock, 52, was convicted of a thought crime in Maidenhead, Berkshire. The neo-Nazi was given a four-year sentence for what the court called his “toxic ideology” based on the contents of the home he shared with his mother in Maidenhead, Berkshire. Judge Peter Lodder QC dismissed free speech or free thought concerns with a truly Orwellian statement: “I do not sentence you for your political views, but the extremity of those views informs the assessment of dangerousness.”

Lodder lambasted Brock for holding Nazi and other hateful values:

“t is clear that you are a right-wing extremist, your enthusiasm for this repulsive and toxic ideology is demonstrated by the graphic and racist iconography which you have studied and appeared to share with others…”
The fear is that an expanded hate speech law that includes criticism of Islamophobia will operate like a British blasphemy law. In 2008, the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were abolished in England. This new effort could constructively restore such prosecutions as they relate to Islam.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

[SuburbanFarmer]

There’s a reason we revolted against those assholes. Same reason everybody wants to be here. It ain’t because we make cheeseburgers.

[Montegriffo]

Imagine being sent to Ukraine to die for nothing except the hope that the US will bail out your pathetic country a third time.

Fuck you.

Solid point, thank you.
And fuck your country’s cucked population going along with their own genocide.

We've followed you into just about every war you've started since WWII.
Even when we officially sat out Vietnam, British special forces were deployed.
Hundreds of British troops died in Afghanistan after 9/11 and in Iraq as a part of your wars for oil.
Fuck JD Vance and his "better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years" after Britain committed to putting 20,000 boots on the ground in Ukraine when old shit for brains Bonespurs (who thinks veterans are ''suckers and losers'') refused to send a single soldier.

[Martin Hash]

The U.S. was wrong in all those foreign adventures but we have good leadership now. Sorry Britain for our past mistakes and dragging you along with us. You’re now free to pursue your own policies.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Fuck you.

Solid point, thank you.
And fuck your country’s cucked population going along with their own genocide.

We've followed you into just about every war you've started since WWII.
Even when we officially sat out Vietnam, British special forces were deployed.
Hundreds of British troops died in Afghanistan after 9/11 and in Iraq as a part of your wars for oil.
Fuck JD Vance and his "better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years" after Britain committed to putting 20,000 boots on the ground in Ukraine when old shit for brains Bonespurs (who thinks veterans are ''suckers and losers'') refused to send a single soldier.

Britain sending a few thousand guys as an ‘expeditionary force’ is a token gesture. The us military is a threat to all life on the planet twice over. You don’t call us in unless the shit is already in the fan.

Certainly not because your oligarchs are sad about losing their grift in Nowhere Former Russia.

[SuburbanFarmer]

The U.S. was wrong in all those foreign adventures but we have good leadership now. Sorry Britain for our past mistakes and dragging you along with us. You’re now free to pursue your own policies.

Agree on this. I’m still looking for that ‘no more bullshit wars’ option on the ballot. Trump is the closest we’ve ever had.

Tom Luongo is making a strong case that it’s been the UK dragging us into all the ‘police actions’ since ww2. I’m on the fence, but it’s looking very likely.

[High Plains Biker]

The Telegraph explains to Brits that nobody is coming to save you
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/br ... E#comments

A snip:
"Britain stands alone in a brutish world. Our small, impoverished yet special nation has spent too long lying to itself. The horrifying reality is that we have no real friends, just interests and beliefs. If we want to ensure the security, liberty and prosperity of the British people, and as Lord Palmerston put it, be "the champion of justice and right", we will have to do it ourselves. Nobody, least of all the greater or lesser powers, has our back, or any interest in fair play. (snip)

We must reconstruct our economy, military and society for an era of trade wars, diplomatic blackmail, banditry, spheres of influence and power politics. We must embrace a neo-Gaullism with British characteristics, centred around a renewed love of country, a turbocharged, technologically advanced capitalist economy, much larger and more modern Armed Forces, a fully independent nuclear deterrent and a focus on resilience. (snip)

America saved Britain during World War I; it rescued us from totalitarianism in World War II; it destroyed Soviet tyranny in the Cold War. It earned the eternal gratitude of mankind. But those of us who love America must acknowledge how the US ruthlessly exploited its participation in the wars to demolish Britain's financial, maritime and geopolitical power. [destruction of the pound sterling as reserve currency, support for Indian independence, the Suez Crisis, etc.] (snip)

The Government should immediately launch a Year Zero review of all policies, on the postulate that we cannot rely on anyone. We need to decouple from China when it comes to high-tech. We must scrap net zero, and produce more of our own energy. Faster productivity growth is required, necessitating a bonfire of regulations, a smaller state and reduced tax. We need to pull out of the ECHR and UN conventions to restrict migration and forge a cohesive civic nationalism.

Our early 21st-century settlement was predicated on an imaginary utopia in which we expected fair dealing from friends. In today's dog-eat-dog world, we must stand up for ourselves."

[SuburbanFarmer]

Who knew the telegraph was a neo-nazi rag. /s

I wonder how many politicians actually believe that geopolitics used to be ‘nicer’, or that we intervened in the wars because we like Mary Poppins. Total clown world.

[High Plains Biker]

Who knew the telegraph was a neo-nazi rag. /s

I wonder how many politicians actually believe that geopolitics used to be ‘nicer’, or that we intervened in the wars because we like Mary Poppins. Total clown world.

IKR lol. I agree.

The UK is too busy throwing those horrible white teenagers in jail for posting memes and they have more horses than tanks. It's surreal and sad. Australia is no better.

A year or two ago I used to post on reddit. (Don't judge me!) But on some Australian thing, somebody posted a photo of a Jeep Gladiator somewhere in Australia that had a black high lift jack on the back and all of the Aussie people there were, "OMGZ, call teh police!" because they thought it was a gun. I pointed out that 1, having a high lift jack wasn't a crime, even down there, and 2 WTF do people need to call the police for stupid crap. Like go call the police "just to check..."

I then pointed out that ANZAC forces in WWI and WW2 were some of the most bad ass people on the planet, and now they were a neutered and eunuched society where people would willingly go to a covid concentration camp. It was like I went up to a hornet's nest with a stick and WHAAAP!

[Montegriffo]

Who knew the telegraph was a neo-nazi rag. /s

Er, like, everyone dude.
We call it the Torygraph.
It's like the Daily Mail with its own library.
The thinking man's Stormfront.