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Offline Emjay

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Tommy Robinson case gag order on British media lifted in the face of worldwide protest
« on: May 30, 2018, 05:38:44 pm »
When Tommy Robinson was arrested for live-streaming a report outside the Leeds courthouse where members of an alleged Muslim grooming gang who allegedly forced young British girls into prostitution, and the court quickly imposed a gag order on U.K. media reporting it, outrage (and an overseas legal defense fund) quickly followed.  (See my writing about it here, here, and here.)
In the words of Washington Post writer Avi Selk:

The gag order backfired, turning English Defense League founder Tommy Robinson into a sort of free-speech martyr to conservatives such as Donald Trump Jr. and Roseanne Barr before the gag order was lifted Tuesday.

Selk's report, incidentally, drips with contempt toward Robinson, calling him "
  • ne of Britain's most notorious anti-Muslim campaigners" (emphasis added).


Robinson wants to halt Muslim immigration and focuses on the crime statistics and the violent jihad activity that have resulted from large scale Muslim immigration.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/05/tommy_robinson_case_gag_order_on_british_media_lifted_in_the_face_of_worldwide_protest.html
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Re: Tommy Robinson case gag order on British media lifted in the face of worldwide protest
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2018, 05:39:45 pm »
We are way too close to stuff like that happening here.  We need to stop bickering and support conservatism in whatever ugly form it might take.
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Re: Tommy Robinson case gag order on British media lifted in the face of worldwide protest
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2018, 07:13:40 pm »
Quote from: Emjay on May 30, 2018, 05:39:45 pm
We need to stop bickering and support conservatism

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Re: Tommy Robinson case gag order on British media lifted in the face of worldwide protest
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2018, 07:24:47 pm »
I was listening to an advertisement from that "Alliance Defending Freedom",  they went through a few cases they have worked on. We do have some egregious wrongs done to individuals here.  Likewise, all of that ranching story with Clive Bundy, I'd say, there are some injustices in that. I just haven't read up on it in depth. As said, we all need to come together to defend Conservative values.
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Re: Tommy Robinson case gag order on British media lifted in the face of worldwide protest
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2018, 01:56:05 am »
Quote from: TomSea on May 30, 2018, 07:24:47 pm
I was listening to an advertisement from that "Alliance Defending Freedom",  they went through a few cases they have worked on. We do have some egregious wrongs done to individuals here.  Likewise, all of that ranching story with Clive Bundy, I'd say, there are some injustices in that. I just haven't read up on it in depth. As said, we all need to come together to defend Conservative values.

I agree @TomSea.  Although some people think that idea is hilarious.
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