The crackdown on free speech continues in the United Kingdom as officials use recent rioting to justify a roundup of citizens who they view as “pushing harmful and hateful beliefs.” The government is ramping up arrests of those with “extremist ideologies” in the latest wave of arrests. The crackdown includes those accused of misogynist views.In my book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss how difficult it is to get a free people to give up freedoms. They have to be afraid, very afraid. For that reason, governments tend to attack free speech during periods of public anger or fear.
That pattern is playing out, yet again, in the United Kingdom. The recent anti-immigration riots have given officials a renewed opportunity to use anti-free speech laws to target those with opposing views.
For years, I have been writing about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom and the steady stream of arrests.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.
While most of us find Brock’s views repellent and hateful, they were confined to his head and his room. Yet, 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:
“[i]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…”
Even though Lodder agreed that the defendant was older, had limited mobility, and “there was no evidence of disseminating to others,” he still sent him to prison for holding extremist views.
After the sentencing Detective Chief Superintendent Kath Barnes, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), warned others that he was going to prison because he “showed a clear right-wing ideology with the evidence seized from his possessions during the investigation….We are committed to tackling all forms of toxic ideology which has the potential to threaten public safety and security.”
“Toxic ideology” also appears to be the target of Ireland’s proposed Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) law. It covers the possession of material deemed hateful. The law is a free speech nightmare. The law makes it a crime to possess “harmful material” as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.” The law expressly states the intent to combat “forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law.”
The Brock case proved, as feared, a harbinger of what was to come. The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has vowed to crack down on people “pushing harmful and hateful beliefs.” That includes what she calls extreme misogyny.
Cooper said that the problem revealed by the recent protests was “gaps in the current system” and stressed that “it’s not OK any more to ignore the massive growing threat caused by online hatred towards women and for us to ignore it because we’re worried about the line, rather than making sure the line is in the right place as we would do with any other extremist ideology.”
She added: “For too long governments have failed to address the rise in extremism, both online and on our streets, and we’ve seen the number of young people radicalised online grow. Hateful incitement of all kinds fractures and frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy.”
For free speech advocates, it is chilling to hear UK officials state that they have been too lax on free speech in the past and must now take censorship and arrests more aggressively.
The United Kingdom has a myriad of laws criminalizing speech with vague terms allowing for arbitrary enforcement. For example, Public Order Act 1986 prohibits any expressions of racial hatred, defined as hatred against a group of persons by reason of the group’s color, race, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins.
Section 18 of the Act specifically includes any speech that is “threatening, abusive, or insulting.” An arrest does not have to be based on a showing of intent to “stir up racial hatred,” but can merely be based on a charge that “having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.”
For those Americans who have remained silent during as this anti-free speech movement grows, you need only to look to the United Kingdom to see what this movement means for our “indispensable right.” That wave has now reached our shores and it will require each one of us to defend a right that defines us all.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster).
Harmful and hateful beliefs would be the concept that a government can throw you into prison because you don’t conform with State approved ideas.
If you say a biological truth, that a male of our species cannot become a female, you may find yourself in prison in the UK. Apparently, it causes more harm to say that a man is still a man, even if he says he’s a woman, wears makeup, and even if he goes so far as to surgically remove his genitals. Transgenderism is performative. It’s behavioral. It is not a biological change. It’s still a man performing in society as a female.
When did kindness to those suffering the mental illness of gender dysphoria, become cruelty to those who don’t want to conform to a delusion?
What is so easily missed by too many, as well, is that free speech was not designed to protect popular speech. It was designed to protect the counter culture, the critics, and the unpopular.
I want to know if someone has views I deem hateful, so that I won’t associate with that person. Drive speech underground, and we’d have no idea what anyone really believed.
I wish voters would realize that this is a totalitarian aspect of the Left, whether it’s the American Democrat Party, that has swung rather alarmingly towards extremist Left wing views, or the UK. Democrats claim that Republicans are totalitarian, yet it’s the Left that abuses power to control the individual.
The Dems are great at projecting. We’ve seen that over and over. Trump was in office for four years during which time he had to battle a weaponized DOJ and Nancy Pelosi’s minions. Not once did he show himself to be what the unholy trinity of Biden-Harris-Obama are. Who is trying to censor Americans and quash dissent? Despite the Kool-Aid the media keeps trying to force us to drink, more and more Americans are seeing the truth. But is it too late? Needless to say, I am no longer an anglophile. My love of horses and the rich history sucked me in.
Would a communist death be any death that happened under a communist system?
Would a capitalist death be any death that happened under a capitalist system?
Are you an idiot ?
Are all deaths equal ?
Was the Holocaust OK ? After all everyone dies eventually ?
There are several hundred million deaths attribuited to communism – because communists took people out into the fields – as in Cambodia and shot them or murdered them. For the crime of wrong think. Or in many cases just for the crime of being educated or in the wrong class.
Or they sent them to the arctic Circle to work them to death – or murder them for the crime of maybe engaging in wrong think.
Or the crime of potentially in the future engaging in wrong think.
There is no only no equivalent in capitalist systems.
Pretty much the only rough equivalent is the Holocaust were people were murdered for being the wrong race – and even then – the Nazi’s were SOCIALISTS.
Death is like cheese. The cheese stands alone.
Thank you for proving me right – you are an idiot.
“…SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY…”
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Kama La La Harris just allowed into America 17 million illegal alien invaders of someone else’s posterity.
Was that unconstitutional, unpreambular, or both?
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Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Is a “natural born citizen” “our posterity” or someone else’s?
Well George, since it’s to ourselves and our posterity it’s an investment.
Master class in trolling the BBC. He/they pronouns. Grocery price caps are good because they lead to shortages, which in turn lead to rationing, which is equitable. Etc. But who can blame the reporter for not knowing he was being trolled, when the things Alex says sound like mainstream Dem talk. That’s how insane things have gotten.
https://x.com/TheAlexStrenger/status/1826322791433457858
Secession was prohibited because secession was not prohibited.
Jonathan: Your right. In the UK “it’s not OK any more” to promote online neo-Nazi hate and racist speech that causes rioting and damage to property. It’s against the law. Trying to prevent future rioting is not a suppression of “free speech”. What is bizarre about your columns about the UK is that you are now in the awkward position of defending neo-Nazis like Nicholas Brock.
Back here at home the DNC brought out it’s big hitters the last two nights–Michelle and Barrack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton and even Oprah Winfrey. They each hit one out of the park! But DJT seemed to still be obsessed with Joe Biden. On Monday night DJT posted that Biden had been an “angry man” and DJT seemed to relish “I was happy to have played a part in his demise…”. The problem for DJT is that he still can’t get over the fact that Biden dropped out of the race. DJT blames Harris for staging a “putsch” to remove Biden and secretly wishes Biden were still the nominee. Of course, that’s not how it happened and Biden’s swan song on Monday night didn’t express any “anger” about his decision to withdraw.
DJT’s problem is not so much all the attacks by the Dems at the DNC but the fact that so many Republicans are defecting from DJT’s campaign. Last night also featured a short speech by former Republican Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan who said this about DJT: “These days our party acts more like a cult. A cult worshiping a felonious thug”. When a very conservative Republican from Georgia calls you a “felonious thug” and says that at the DNC, DJT knows he is going to have problems again this year in a deep southern state.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1826015426658415033
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy–to be followed by a dictatorship.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville
Trump also said that Biden was going to announce at the DNC that he was rescinding his withdrawl from the race–more of his fantasizing because that’s what he would do if he had been convinced to withdraw. Trump thought he had an advantage over Biden. Now all of that’s gone. Trump actually threatened to sue at one point after Biden withdrew.
Gigi said that Biden was sharp as a tack and would not withdraw. So Gigi turns on a dime and we are not supposed to remember. I don’t often comment about what Gigi says because I know that she never changes her position regardless of evidence to the contrary. It’s a trait most often found in prisoners incarcerated in the highest security prisons. She is what she is psychologically.
I NEVER said Biden would not withdraw. You just made that up. What did I say in the above post that is untrue and what “evidence to the contrary” do you nave? Cite it. You are what you are psychologically–a member of the Cult of Trump, who is desperate. From “The Daily Beast”:
“Fox & Friends had no choice but to correct Donald Trump just seconds after an interview on the show Thursday morning in which he falsely claimed Kamala Harris met with Vladimir Putin just before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Republican nominee—who also used his time on the air to complain that all Democrats do “is make up lies about me”—claimed President Joe Biden “sent comrade Kamala to see Putin in Russia three days before the attack.” He described the incident as a “little known fact” which the “press doesn’t want to talk about.”
The elaborate conspiracy theory he outlined came hours before her keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and amid surging poll numbers which have put his campaign on defense in swing states.
Trump said Harris, in the imagined meeting with Putin, “gave her case” but Putin still “attacked three days later” anyway. “He laughed at her,” Trump continued. “He thought she was a joke. Now he’s really laughing when he sees her. Can you imagine her negotiating with President Xi of China, with Kim Jong Un of North Korea? The whole thing is like we’re living in a fantasy land.”
When the interview ended around 20 minutes later, co-host Brian Kilmeade set the record straight.
“Just as a quick clarification, we don’t have confirmation that the vice president went to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin,” he said. “I know she went over to Europe right before the incursion when Russia invaded Ukraine, and it’s a war that’s still going on right now.”
Kilmeade’s colleague Ainsley Earhardt then chimed in to say that she had repeatedly heard about the meeting, which never happened.
“I’ve heard that said a lot,” she told Kilmeade. “You don’t have confirmation that that’s true?”
“No,” Kilmeade answered. “I don’t think that—I don’t know if the vice president ever met Vladimir Putin.”
Trump made a similar claim on Wednesday during a speech in North Carolina, saying Harris “met with Putin to tell him, ‘Don’t do it,’ and three days later, he attacked.” In that telling, he did not mention that the fictitious meeting took place in Russia.
In truth, Harris traveled to the Munich Security Conference in Germany where she met with U.S. allies in the days before the invasion. The conference, which Putin did not attend, ran from Feb. 18 to Feb. 20, 2022. Russia’s invasion began four days after the event ended, on Feb. 24, 2022.
Kilmeade was also right to be uncertain if Harris and Putin had “ever” met. Last month, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, who has worked with Putin since 2000, was asked by reporters if he could recall a time when Putin and Harris met. “Frankly speaking, I cannot recall a single contact between President Putin and Mrs. Harris,” Peskov answered, according to Russia’s TASS news agency. The agency noted that there is also no record on the Kremlin website of the pair being in contact.”
Gigi, why does it take 13 paragraphs to say what you could have said in one sentence: “I know not of what I speak.”
Well, I could have said that Trump told another big fat lie, but that’s not newsworthy. I also could have said that Fox knew he lied and said so on the air, which is newsworthy. I could have pointed out that brain-dead Ainsley said another stupid thing, and had I done so, I would have been attacked, so I put in the entire story.
And we could have said===all in one sentence===that your words are not your own. They are lifted, pasted, summarized and characterized as your own. No wonder you live biden.
Perhaps democrats might sue the central committee because democrats didn’t vote for either Harris nor Walz as candidates.
People have left the dems. You’ll need to work on the independents now.
Dems are as dead as budd-lite
Trump leads Harris by 11 points among independents: poll
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/trump-leads-harris-11-points-among-independents-poll
“Rasmussen Reports released a poll on Thursday showing that 51% of likely independent voters would vote for Trump in the November presidential election, while 40% would vote for Harris. Trump was up by 9 points last week in the same survey”
Wait and see what the presumptive RFK Jr endorsement does.
Rasmussen is NOT considered a reliable polling organization.
another Trump hater who likes to hear himself talk
Bullchit
“When a very conservative Republican from Georgia calls you a “felonious thug” and says that at the DNC…”
Then you KNOW that Republican from Georgia is corrupt as hell, guilty as hell, and trying to stay in power and/or avoid prison.
Dennis McIntyre has so little knowledge of history. There was a man on the left who defended the rights of Nazis to march. This man was a darling of the left when he defended free speech. The man has voted for Obama and Biden in the past. This man realizes that the right of free speech is what separates America from Nations like China, Russia and Cuba. The mans name is Alan Dershowitz. Alan is a man who’s family lived under a regime where free speech was not allowed. They said it was hate speech then too. I suppose that with Denis ignorance of history is an excuse.
The British, let’s also include all the leftist of America and the World that should read at speech by Sir Keith Joseph (1972) in which he said: “Perhaps there is at work here a process, apparent in many situations but imperfectly understood, by which problems reproduce themselves from generation to generation. If I refer to this as a ‘cycle of deprivation’ I do not want to be misunderstood”.
The imbecilic notion that words are to be feared is surely a path to damnation and a trail to the cross.
You think words are bad? Huh. Try those numbers!
Fascism doesn’t bend to any particular cardinal direction (left, right, up down – it’s about insanity and power, a lethal combination, and the rest is really just privileged, intellectual mast*rbation), in spite of what Wikipedia, heavily edited by generations that have never known or experienced anything in their upbringing but coddling in the most relatively peaceful and prosperous time the West has ever seen may say; and there is no question that fascism has taken hold once again in Western Europe, big time. It’s clear during this ‘convention’ that our own modern left are in its grip, and I pray that we do not need another global conflict to remind us of what freedom actually is. This is madness we thought we’d never see again.
Really: the only thing saving us are our 1A and 2A, and our courts and balance of powers, and it’s why these things are constantly demonized and under threat. ‘Democracy’ can get bent; freedom is what is on the ballot. Generations that actually WANT the government to continue what mom and dad represented to them in their pampered years to them are not going to extend that to us – it really is up to us that know better, and we largely no longer have a generation that dealt with all of this face first the last time. Vote in numbers that break dams, and accept no falsified quarter.
James,
Great comment.
We have to get those traditional Democrats like Bill Maher, Elon Musk, the good professor and my sister to also vote out these extreme leftists from their own party. They have to disown the leftists and the leftist agenda. The leftists have to be thrown out of the Democrat party. They need to be exposed as the Nazi fascists they are.
@Upstate
Very much agreed. They can try to hide it, but that party is fracturing. If the supposed ‘JFK dems’ have any sense of decency left and are not just automatons, they will wake up. Is that too much to hope?
I honestly still wonder what in the heck would constitute a bridge too far for such folks. Is it really just fear of looking bad? Because that is beyond pathetic and the very antithesis of what they used to claim they represented. I fear that in 2024 we are just weak. It is absolutely true: Trump WAS a JFK democrat, and he was affiliated as such until being that represented sheer insanity. There is no spirit of rebellion remaining in the modern DNC, just safe conformity. What makes them think they will not someday be in the crosshairs tells me we might be dealing a basic lack of intelligence and knowledge of history as well, and I’m not talking about kids, I mean the grown a** adults among us (at times including our host, though again, very grateful). And again I am a lifelong independent, I do not ascribe to ideology, not even a little; I believe in our Constitution. my forebears were indentured servants. It already allows for this variance, people that think it needs to be ‘updated’ do not understand human beings in a way that is most profound.
And ‘Oliver’ is clearly one of the regular trolls assuming a persona. We are not that stupid, ActBlue or whomever. Go blow.
You have mentioned your sister; my brother is another. He has not paid attention to anything whatsoever for 30+ years and actually asked me, ‘What’s woke?’. He has called McConnell ‘the king of the republicans’, which is of course, ludicrous. How do we catch people like this up without a master’s level class spanning months? And he is in CO, he will be voting by mail, and thinks 2020 was totally legit. You have intimated that your sister is waking up a little; will that translate to voting differently? Because even if my brother hates Kamala, he’s going to vote against Trump, period.
Excellent post, James.
Interesting comments. As to what constitutes a bridge too far, unfortunately it seems to always be when they themselves are affected in some dramatic way. I think at the end of the day the problem is ego. People decided at some point in their lives that the democrats were the cool kids. For many of them, being a Democrat was the only thing they had to make them feel cool and morally and intellectually superior to everybody else. If you take that away from them the carriage turns back into a pumpkin and they have to face the fact that their lives have been a lie. The same thing happened in Covid. People were told that the smart people and the good people got the shots. They wanted to continue their membership in that club. Speaking of siblings, my brother is easily the smartest human I have ever met in terms of sheer intellect, but he still managed to vote for Biden. I am guessing that for many men, it is galling to see someone they consider an ahole like Trump attaining goals they would secretly like to attain but didn’t. It’s envy. In other words, people are confusing emotion with reason.
James,
I have asked her if she would be willing to vote for Harris. She said she did not know enough about Harris to make a decision. That was somewhat eye-opening to me. My sister is educated, worldly, and I thought informed. On the last I was clearly wrong. This uneducated, crayon eating former Marine is more informed then her by far. I knew about Harris’s announcement about price controls on the food industry before she did. Harris announced that last Friday. I think she is like many Democrats. They just go along and believe whatever they think is the Democrat party without really looking into it. But she also reads MSM. I mentioned The Free Press to her several times. She does recall when Bari left the NYT and Bari’s devastating resignation letter to the NYT.
My own father tired to argue with me about how great the economy was. I then threw out a number of facts and left him wide eyed. He did not seem to understand what the Establishment survey and the Household survey were and how they differed. When I explained it to him, he was speechless. He claimed 20% of Americans were always complaining about the economy. I then pointed out the fact 67% of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck and of that 67%, 46% were making $100k and still living paycheck to paycheck. Again, he was speechless. How did his uneducated, crayon eating former Marine have a better understanding of the economy then he did?
I read independent media.
Since when did Kamala Harris announce blanket “price controls” over the food industry? She never did. What she actually said was that price-gouging would be addressed, based on the fact that companies that sell us food are making record profits. The two concepts are not the same thing at all. You don’t cite a single source for your “number of facts”–I, for one, would like to see what those “facts” are and where you got them. Favor us, please, especially as to the claim that 2/3 of Americans are “living paycheck to paycheck”.
no no no. She said “price gauging.” I heard her myself.
Crazy lady, you need to listen to what people (Harris) say when they are saying it, not the altered news article from the left-wing press. Your laziness has made you ignorant.
“Favor us, please…” says gigi for the very first time, as she is suddenly impressed with the Brits’ way of talkin’
Or she slipped into an alternate troll persona…
Bill Clinton was one of the architects of this failure. The FCC.
Capitalism took a wrong turn at monopolies perhaps.
By the people for the people was lost.
I think the worst wrong turn was taken by SCOTUS in legitimizing corporate personhood, but I don’t see any sensible way to undo that at this juncture.
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
– JFK
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You Can:
“Make America Great Again!”
A vote for Democrat Kamala Harris, or any Democrat, is a vote for them to Buy Large Mansions while you suffer the wrath of their corrupt, destructive policies.
Democrats get elected. And they all Buy Large Mansions.
BLM founders Bought themselves some Large Mansions with their largesse.
Barack Obama has a Bunch of Large Mansions. He was broke at the start of his political career.
How many Large Mansions does Joe Biden have?
Democrats also Borrow Large Mansions of their rich donors.
At present Biden is vacationing (for free, as always) in a Borrowed Large Mansion in Santa Barbara.
Before this, he Borrowed Large Mansions on vacations in Lake Tahoe, Kiawah Island, Nantucket, etc.
Clintons used to Borrow Large Mansions. Same for Obamas.
They all got filthy rich off government corruption.
Now they all Buy Large Mansions with their government largesse.
While they whine about Trump, who actually BUILDS nice things for people to buy, use and enjoy.
Democrats just TAKE for themselves. And give to their cronies.
Democrats TAKE. They redistribute. They destroy. They do not Build.
Then they rail about capitalism.
And anyone who built their wealth in the private sector.
It’s disgusting.
Absolutely spot on, James! Unfortunately, people blithely accept what is easily identified as fascism when they endorse this current version of the Democratic party. It’s often said that the American people are not stupid. Oh, but they are proving to be extremely gullible. I will be generous and guess that the percentage of people that truly want to collapse our entire system is in the single digits. An overwhelming majority doesn’t want a tyrannical regime to run this country. So the question is: why would they support the Democratic party? I believe Yuri Bezmonov details the answer and this election will determine if we enter the 4th stage:
As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.”
It’s hard not to see in that the state of many modern Americans. We have become a society of polarized tribes, with some people flat out rejecting facts in favor of narratives and opinions.
Once demoralization is completed, the second stage of ideological brainwashing is “destabilization”. During this two-to-five-year period, asserted Bezmenov, what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it.
The third stage would be “crisis.” It would take only up to six weeks to send a country into crisis, explained Bezmenov. The crisis would bring “a violent change of power, structure, and economy” and will be followed by the last stage, “normalization.” That’s when your country is basically taken over, living under a new ideology and reality.
This will happen to America unless it gets rid of people who will bring it to a crisis, warned Bezmenov. What’s more “if people will fail to grasp the impending danger of that development, nothing ever can help [the] United States,” adding, “You may kiss goodbye to your freedom.
https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
The Soviet socialist republic of Britain.
Let’s be clear.
Union of British Socialist Republics (UBSR)
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“The goal of socialism is communism.”
– Vladimir Lenin
A few quick quotes from Joseph Conrad, [aka] Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski.
First from ‘Nostromo’: “Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions”.
Next from ‘Some Reminiscences’: “All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
Oh, if only the British could only read and understand the Magna Carta, the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights and what’s at risk by their actions and intents.
Leftists seek a cuddly corner full of fire safety blankets, where you can neither, see, hear nor speak anything not approved by the leading disciples of Lucifer. They preach Utilitarianism all the while throwing obfuscating notions of their true intended, harsh control of their fellow citizens by any means necessary.
I’ll modify Cagney’s words a little: “You dirty rat, you killed my republic”
George W,
“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
Great comment! As we see by not only their words but their actions, the DNC use various unlawful means to climb upward on others as they inflict misery.
Has ANYONE voted for Walz as their pick for VP?
End of it…
Upstate
By mistake I tuned into the DNC love fest and became I’ll from all the venality being spewed.
As I’ve said before:
God help us all!!!
Just be one of the least. In that way everyone will work to raise you up.
“Holy ‘no where to run, no where to hide’, Batman!”
Professor Turley is at it again. Delving deep into British law without context? Yeesh.
Nicholas Brock wasn’t arrested for thought crime. He was arrested for possessing bomb making information and terrorist documents that went beyond just memorabilia. He was convicted of three counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist. Which seems to be a crime in the UK.
Turley still seems to be having trouble distinguishing inciting language and mere rhetoric. Inciting violence is not protected speech in the UK or here. The problems in the UK are not just mere speech to them. It’s extremism that has led heated exchanges leading to violence like the recent riots and violence against immigrants. They have their laws and they are perfectly within their right to enforce them. We have ours and we would be properly ticked off if UK were to criticize and judge our legal system and values. Oliver is right, Turley should stick to criticism on issues at home. Did Turley run out of Biden and Hunter material to peddle? Perhaps he should focus on Trump’s clear declining mental acuity and slurring speech problem. We all know about his book, does every column have to be another “creative” way to plug his book?
George, and Gigi, and Dennis, and Fishwings, and Anonymous all self-liking and upvoting each other, to create enthusiasm and
in an effort to project a United Front…is kind of what I am seeing at the DNC.
Please reconcile what you just wrote with the findings of Brandenburg v. Ohio.
i can sympathize somewhat with your grievances, but we have increasingly been growing in a symmetric world, one where all Western Countries must align in vision, action, determination and complicity. What happens in Canada, not just in commerce, but overall, concerns Americans, and with the increasing appreciation of Monarchy in the USA and more specifically the British Crown, and in the context of the complicity of the 5 Eyes Nations (Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the united States) I think it’s quite “à propos” to listen to the walls of the Anglo-Saxon world.
Interestingly, the Tories have left 10 Downing street and gave place to the Labor party, which new Prime Minister was viewed as a tired bureaucrat which signaled mostly yawning…. Not the case. And I fear that the Kamalas of the world are getting ready for some purge themselves if we are stupid enough to put her as president. Females have always had more of a fascist belonging then males. Matriarchal societies evolve more around emotion than intellectual temperament. Females dislike democracy, it’s too risky… if you would have listening at the feminist discussions on PBS and NPR for the past 15 years, you’d understand why we are where we are now in our history. Discussions about “democracy, we don,t need it, it’s an illusions, it never existed….”… “who cares about the Bill of Rights and individuality, what we need are collective rights…” etc… You heard her quotes from this week . We all have to work a one…” The same words as fascist who don’t accept party politics, another strong theme of feminists: “We don’t need parties, we just need to work together”. Sure, because those who don’t work as “One” will finish like Gazeans… the expression “The one party system…” is increasingly quoted in the media, and for good reasons.
For those Americans who have remained silent during as this anti-free speech movement grows, you need only to look to the United Kingdom to see what this movement means for our “indispensable right.” That wave has now reached our shores…” If my history is correct Professor, we told the Crown to “shove it” many generations ago. Yes, ‘free speech’ is indeed under assault in the US but we have the The First Amendment and a Supreme Court willing to enforce it on these shores. The UK has neither. It makes a difference. Resistance against The Left™ is not futile.
. . . we have the The First Amendment and a Supreme Court willing to enforce it . . .
For now. The sorry way freedom of speech is regarded in elite law schools nowadays means that, unless we are careful and make good electoral decisions, Scotus will, not too long from now, be populated by justices who have far less regard for the First Amendment.
Anyone here vote for Walz?
Your votes dead
OMFK,
WILL BE?
“…Scotus will…be populated by justices who have far less regard for the…” Constitution.
Let’s review:
The entire communistic American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “…general (all, the whole) Welfare…,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity.
The same article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the Value of money, Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes, and land and naval Forces.
Additionally, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to merely facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure only.
And if necessary, we can tell today’s elites to shove it, too, KS. History does tend to repeat itself for those who refuse to learn it the easy way.
Yes, people should take notes and pass them on to future generations.
There are only a few actions possible at any time and not an infinite number of choices. It’s knowable.
I would think there is a danger in an establishment driving opinion and thought underground, where it can meet with those who agree and conspire or fester in darkness. The French Underground, the Maquis and National Front are good examples of the inability of a forceful oppresser to quell free thought. In the USA, the government suppresses the majority viewpoint and legitimate aspirations at its own peril. Even in the UK, there is a certain breaking point. Comity in society and on the part of government is how we exist as a society.
Dear Prof Turley,
Caught your interview with Glenn Greenwald last night. A virtual free speech love fest!
Y’all should Ketchup more often!!
(fyi by some simple twist of fate, I first came across your writings/thoughts on these most pressing, indispensable speech issues in a Greenwald interview long, long ago .. . and seemingly far, far away!)
*I’m fine with ‘Rumble’ and ‘System Update’, but Glenn should “write” more often .. . he’s a brilliant writer.
DG Snowden? Any relation of the traitor EJ Snowden? I have to say that the Professor has gone down in my opinion if he is associating with the likes of Greenwald, friend of the traitor Snowden. How is Moscow at the moment? Ducking from the Ukrainian drones?
Oliver Reeder. I am very distantly related to American hero Ed Snowden. Our great, great, great, great Grandfather floated down the Allegheny after whipping the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.
Moscow is nice this time of year. .. although I’m sure Ed pines to come home.
And Putin has been a gracious host .. . notwithstanding Putin says Ed won’t give them anything other than what’s in print. The nerve!
(I suspect those ‘Ukraine drones’ are really American drones!)
Thanks for asking.
*Snowden for President 2024 ‘From Russia with Love’
If Edward pines to come home, perhaps he should not have betrayed his country? Nasty little traitor.
Oliver: Just love the way you can invoke or repel your British vernacularisms as warranted in order to address the task at hand!
So many of your other comments/replies are sooooo convincingly American[ized]. Simply amazing.
Lin,
Well said!
And, as always, great take down with your famous wit and economy of words!
Bravo!
Lin, why is it hard to believe Oliver is a genuine Briton? He certainly knows his history and speaks as a well read individual. I suspect jealousy plays a part in the ad hominem attacks towards him.
Dear George: Yes, I am so jealous, -particularly since my whole paternal side of the family is British.
Try again, but thanks anyway.
yours truly, lin.
None of my replies are Americanised as I am not an American. Perhaps if I say something that you think is an Americanism, it is actually a good English expression that you have not as yet managed to corrupt. It is highly amusing that you and others construct these fantasies about me being some beastly but jolly erudite Democrat shill, rather than apply Occam’s Razor to conclude that perhaps, just maybe, I really am who I say I am. But hey, fantasise away if it allows you to ignore my comments and have your blinkered worldview slumber on, uninterrupted.
Dear Oliver: Sorry, just seeing your response. In reply:
(1) Contrary to your friend/alter ego George’s butting in to defend you, please be advised that I never said you were not British.
(2) Nor was it said that you were American. As you must know, “Americanized” carries with it an entire new and fleshed-out understanding/inference/implication.
(3) Although half of my family is either British or of British heritage (as is my surname), I don’t feel compelled to express that or divulge that on an American legal blog. Hence, no need for the exaggerated colloquialisms and verbal twerks that you employ, as I mentioned. Being an American attorney/litigator, I also am quite familiar with the Inns of Court, and I daresay I did not come across any British colleague who was as quite engaged in turning on and off the choice of specious expression(s) as you.
(4) Your whole premise is quite equivocal, as you engage in the very same critical dialogue/discourse against the good professor- as you accuse him of. Quite amusing indeed.
(5) No ad hominem here.
(6) have a nice day, sir.
yours truly, lin.
Pardon me for inferring that your references to Americanisms was implying that you questioned my nationality. Sadly, some of your fellows here do so accuse. And you suggest I am the alter ego of the poster by the name of George. I am not. He is clearly a Democrat true believer, and whilst we may share some views in common, it is also quite clear to me that he espouses some views – especially on Brexit – that I most certainly do not hold.
My point all along is that the Professor is spreading distortion and half truths about events in the UK. I am sure in good faith but still they are wrong. I try not to commit the same sin against the US, but if I truly am guilty, as opposed to simply being the butt of ignorant anti-British hysteria by some ill educated individuals, then I apologise.
I trust you also have a nice day; it is almost ended here.
The day ends at midnight, goofball.
It wasn’t Edward who betrayed his country .. . speaking of nasty little traitors.
Obama
Oliver Reeder, Ed Snowden demonstrated that the government was illegally spying on the people.
I recommend that you keep to the affairs that you know about on your side of the pond.
When your great^4 grandfather drifted down the Allegheny, was that before or after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
It was after 1814 .. . and the Germans didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor.
*hope this helps!
*edit. It was *before* 1814
Actually, it was in 1814.
Actually, the Battle of New Orleans was in January 1815. if one is going to boast of one’s forebear’s heroic actions against us dastardly Brits, you might try getting the year right. Though as mentioned below, quite a long way from New Orleans to Pennsylvania. Not that diminishes your claims in any way of course…
He got 1814 from the first line of Johnny Horton’s “Battle of New Orleans.”
I took this as an indication of his depth of historical knowledge. When I put in the line from Animal House about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbour (sic) he didn’t seem to catch the reference.
I should have guessed that. I’ve heard the Johnny Horton song.
What tripped me up was your forebear drifting down the Allegheny, which is in Pennsylvania, after the Battle of New Orleans, which is in Louisiana.
And speaking of Johnny Horton, he wrote another popular song called “Sink the Bismarck,” which is what the Germans did when they attacked Pearl Harbor.
Some Gestalt, huh?
Our forbears got around.
It may have been before the American Revolution they were floating down the Alleghany. I still have an old cabin in Kentucky that was built in Virginia . .. without ever moving.
Still, the Otto Gustav Von Bismarck never attacked Pearl Harbor.
*Gestalt who?
You’re fun.
One’s Long juice should not be discussed openly on a psyop platform in these times.
I don’t know what that means but it sounds disgusting. Thanks!
I used to be a Greenwald subscriber. Sadly, when Greenwald moved from Substack to System Update, he began to do video exclusively. At first he provided transcripts, then he stopped doing even that. Which made me become a former subscriber. I refuse to rely on videos for primary factual information for reasons that are defensible and entirely valid. I won’t repeat those here unless someone really wants to know them.
I believe Greenwald thinks he can have ‘more impact’ in a more traditional suit&tie ‘news set/studio’ setting. Ala MSNBC, CNN etc., etc.
*he’s quick on his feet alright .. . but I’m not so sure.
Yes, he has said as much, and I’m sure it is more economical of his time. But for me, it is not nearly as effective as his written words (I’m judging from reading the video transcripts that he formerly posted), and I suspect that I am not alone it that.
He has said that he believes he will reach more people via video, and I am certain it takes less of his time (which could contribute to realizing expanded reach). However, to me, his written words were far more effective (I’m judging from reading the written transcripts he formerly published) and I suspect that I am not alone in that reaction. Even when I disagree with Greenwald’s conclusions (which is often), he always makes logical and understandable arguments for those positions, and his integrity is unimpeachable.
Chapman: “I don’t know – Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there were protesters at the mill, that’s all – I didn’t expect a kind of British Inquisition.”
[JARRING MUSICAL CHORD]
[The cardinals burst in]
Ximinez: “NOBODY expects the British Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the King, and nice red uniforms.”
What happened to the nation that fought so valiantly against the tyranny of WWII that they now embrace? Aside from this blog Americans hear nothing about what’s going on in the UK censorship drive and the possibility of it being copied here. Didn’t a U.S. politician ask the Europeans for more censorship sometime ago?
You do not hear about the UK censorship drive because it exists largely in Prof Turley’s imagination.
There are some areas where concern is expressed in the UK; overreach by idiotic police, such as the arrest of a woman for praying outside an abortion clinic – that has resulted in sizeable damages from the police and humiliating apologies. The pronouncements of the dim pixie, Yvette Cooper; it is one thing for her to say things away from Parliament during recess, another for them to enter into law, let alone survive contact with the courts. The Professor is also wilfully confusing “thought crime” with actual criminal communication; encouraging and spreading anti-social, extremist ideology is not a thought crime but a very real one. In the US, you do not allow people to preach in the name of Daesh, do you, the First Amendment notwithstanding?
Only yesterday, the Professor was citing the case of a Jewish man threatened with arrest by police for being “too Jewish” near a pro-Palestinian march. What the Professor omitted to mention was the universal outcry in the UK against the police, from the then Prime Minister downwards, against such damned stupid overreach. The dim Met Commissioner (the same one Turley mistakenly believes threatened Musk with extradition – it is simply not in the Commissioner’s gift anyway) was extremely lucky to have kept his job, and arguably only did so because of the General Election.
This is my complaint against Prof Turley when he wades into matters British; he does not understand the context, and is exceedingly partial in his selection and framing of supposed incidents. I do wish he would remain focused on the USA where he has a decent chance of making a decent argument, and where I think he often does succeed in doing so.
Margot,
Yes, censorship is happening in the UK.
I was arrested at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act, Sec 12 because of my reporting.
6 police officers were waiting for me at the entrance of the aircraft.
I was held for almost 24 hours and questioned.
I believe I’m the first journalist to be arrested under this… pic.twitter.com/pbf6q5dXIf
— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) August 19, 2024
Censorship? Or arresting a rabid anti-Israeli, Anglo-Syrian commentator for extremist views?
I do not know, as it is not clear that the case will proceed to charges or trial. Happy to wait upon such outcomes. But absolutely no difference at face value from anti-Israel protestors being arrested on US campuses for stepping beyond the boundaries of acceptable behaviour and language. Would he have fared any better if he had got off an aircraft at Dulles?
We shall see. Mr Medhurst gets zero sympathy from me in the meantime.
“But absolutely no difference at face value from anti-Israel protestors being arrested on US campuses for stepping beyond the boundaries of acceptable behaviour and language.”
Very wrong. If protesters were arrested it would have been for trespassing, vandalism or violations of other existing statutes. Here in the land of the free, no law defining the ‘boundaries of acceptable language’ would be Constitutional. I seem to remember hearing that our Congress would make no law abridging our freedom of speech. You may find that quaint, but we tend to take that seriously.
I’ll make a deal with you. I won’t comment on British Law, about which I know little, if you’ll stop commenting on American Law, around the basics of which you seem unable to wrap your mind.
Absolutely, though I seem to recall it was Professor Turley himself who has at times argued that the treatment of some of the pro-Palestinian protestors was over speech, an infringement of their First Amendment rights, rather than other offences. Of course, he has also complained about the silencing of Jewish students. That is my point: he is on solid ground when talking about US law, which is why I read his pieces on such issues for my education, but sinks up to his waist when he opines on British issues.
The answer is, infiltration. The old Trojan Horse technique. Been around for ages…
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Sex, drugs and Darwin I suppose whisked them away.
Like George Orwell’s Thought Police in his book 1984 … discover and punish any thought crime as personal and political thoughts unapproved by Ingsoc.
Arresting “right wing extremists” at home, while funding and arming them in Ukraine and Israel. And the blatant hypocrisy escapes every media source in the West.
Amen.
*the Americans and the British, in particular, are like two peoples separated by a common bloody tyranny.
So the new definition of right-wing extremism is wanting to survive as a nation and not be murdered en masse by one’s neighbors.
If you’re referring to Israel/Palestine, as they say (whispered in the back halls of the UN) ‘One man’s terrorist, is another man’s freedom fighter’. .. although I’m confident that analogy will be lost on you.
Lets cut to the chase. If you can get ‘Bibi’/Israel to agree with the 1967 borders, I’ll get the ‘terrorists’ in Gaza to accept it. Deal?
*personally, I reserve the use of the term ‘terrorists’ to nation-states. .. everybody else are just common criminals. (although I’m confident that distinction will be lost you.)
” I’ll get the ‘terrorists’ in Gaza to accept it. Deal?”
@dgsnowden: The terrorists would probably throw you off the roof. Gaza was in the hands of the Gazans in 2005 and Hamas since 2006. What good did that do? From the start, they used terrorist tactics against Israel. They could have created a wonderful place for the people since they are on the Mediterranean and have a good deal of arable land.
Arafat refused all agreements.
Ah, S Meyer and I can agree fully on something. Spot on.
Afternoon Mr Putin. Or is it Mr Khamenei?
Perhaps even liberal western media sources can recognise the terrorism committed against Ukraine and Israel, even if they do not use the “T” word for fear of upsetting their left wing readership?
@Oliver
You are a paid shill for the DNC. Again I say, buy something nice with the $$$, ‘old chap’. We have actual confirmation now that this blog is being targeted:
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/07/29/the-most-chilling-words-today-im-from-newsguard-and-i-am-here-to-rate-you/
You aren’t fooling anyone, and neither is Kamala, or the ‘convention’. Go blow. You are likely a laptop millennial in a brownstone or delusional Gen X’er that grew up with a trust fund. We will stand by our Constitutional rights no matter what the modern left throws at us. good luck with a ‘voluntary’ gun buyback program. You do not want to see how that turns out.
Delusional idiot. I really do not care for the modern Democratic party, and if I were an American citizen would never vote for them. You just cannot accept that anyone who calls out bollocks about the UK might actually be a Brit who actually cares about such bollocks being spouted without challenge. An idiot who is so convinced that he is an expert on Britain because he has a relative or two living here.
I have US friends from our joint service together many years ago. I do not pretend to know the finer points of society in downtown DC, despite long conversations with them. I know the limits of my knowledge. I suggest you give your head a gentle wobble, might do you good. Or pop into the Sarra’heid next time you are in Glasgow to demonstrate your cultural expertise, I am sure they would be delighted.
Buying back guns seems the perfect recipe for bankruptcy, just the economics of it. Lunacy.
Biden was not fit to be President. Trump is not fit to be President. Harris is not fit to be President.
Oh, and do not even ask about RFK Jr. You Yanks really could do a lot better you know, wish you would try 🙂
Oliver offers just enough moderation in his views to placate criticism and appear to be someone he is not…
Boris Johnson is not fit to be president either.
And who exactly is suggesting that BJ should be President of the USA? Oh, no one.
@’Oliver’
Again, buy something nice with the cash. The rest of us will continue to parse out how we save our society and create a world that actually *does* work for everyone, because we actually do care about the well-being of others. Wasted pixels. We could be discussing viable solutions, but no, some people really and truly are that myopic and selfish, if not outright mentally ill.
Kindlt refrain from mentioning that service until you are willing to say exactly when and where. Until you do, you are just another valor thief.
Oliver Reeder — Stick to politics on your own side of the pond.
Biden, Trump and Harris all meet the constitutional requirements for the presidency.
Is King Charles III is to be king?
“good luck with a ‘voluntary’ gun buyback program.”
I like no-questions-asked buy back programs. Obsolete firearms, or those that have been lost or discarded, then found, can prove somewhat lucrative. That way no usable firearms are removed from those who might use them in the service of Liberty, government funds allocated to gun control are depleted, and pocket money is provided to some of those showing initiative.
We will support the Rights to free speech, liberty and freedom of every citizen …as long as it is the same as the States’
Don’t you love it when the opposition appoints and annoints themselves as the entity that will define what speech qualifies as free and what is considered hate?!
Who regulates the regulators!
Mm-hmm. Sure. You are literally a hair’s breadth away from saying Kamala is Christ and communism is enlightenment. GFY dude (or chick, I’m not biased), nobody here cares.
When I think of the money spent on this megalomaniac sheet the DNC spends, it tells me all I need to know. You care about other people the way Kim Kardashian cares about her butt looks on Instagram. And given that your are likely at least to an extent, perhaps not as wealthy as a Clinton or a Pelosi (but I have known personally descendants of the Johnsons, as in LBJ and Lady Bird, and you are stupid aristocrats through and through that are lucky to be able to tie your own shoes) a part of that privileged class (the class that has never built or created anything, but loves to take the credit, since the 1800s, on this continent, at least), really – man, if you insist on faking this to the end you are going to find out what’s real, real quick.
There has been a tremendous amount of restraint on the part of the people that think the likes of you are a flipping idiot up to this point. That is not going to last forever. Stop lying, stop pretending, and if you have something to say, stop saying it as a pretentious coward, because b=not a one of us is buying it.
Sorry for the typos, I actually work for a living, and participate in the time that I can. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ I do not collect checks from system destroyers drunk on their own elevated opinions of themselves. Try being human instead, and loving other people whoever they are, it’s actually kind of nice. It is not possible with what the modern left represents and pushes. Compassion is born of understanding, and understanding cannot coexist with censorship. Period. It might mean hard conversations with your kids. Boo hoo. Grow up.
The UK. should no longer be considered an ally of the U.S.A..
For sure, not after they tried to blackmail Musk into silence.
They did not. Musk got into a slap fight with the Prime Minister – showed up the silliness of the PM for taking the bait – and then the Met Commissioner made a stupid reply to a stupid media question which gave the impression he was talking about Musk when he was in fact talking about a very unpleasant British citizen.
The new Government is not very bright, but even they know that they cannot blackmail someone like Musk, and are better off ignoring some of his dafter comments rather than biting and losing.
Watch what is happening in the UK. The Democrats want to do the same thing. They want to crush all their political opponents. We have seen them use lawfare, three letter agencies, against Trump, RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, and many other Republicans or conservatives. They have even tried to use News Guard to silence the good professor.
Call them out at every turn for the Nazi fascists they are.
Hear, hear!
The ‘good professor’ who voted for
the same people you’re speaking against?
-Signed, FakeScreenName
^^^^^Ralph
^^^^^Wrong
But why would it matter who asked it?
It’s a legit question about double standards, etc.
^^^^^Ralph
And still it wouldn’t matter: the challenge is valid, no matter who articulated it. Has Turley come out and unequivocally stated that he will not vote for the Democratic ticket in 2024? If so, please point it out, because I haven’t seen that. Has Turley endorsed any candidates that have free speech positions superior to those of Harris & Walz? If so, please point it out, because I haven’t seen that. Given his vitriolic condemnation in these columns of the 1A policies and practices of the Democratic Party and of those two candidates, in conjunction with what he admits to be his past record of supporting and voting for Democrats, it is not at all unreasonable to expect him to follow through with a statement indicating that he intends to take principled action on a personal level in November that is consistent with the opinions expressed in his professional writing.
And still it wouldn’t matter: the challenge is legitimate, no matter who articulated it. Has Turley unequivocally stated that he will not vote for the Democratic national ticket in November? If so, please point to a reference, because I have not seen that. Has he endorsed any candidates who have taken free speech positions that are superior to those of Harris/Walz/DNC? If so, please point to a reference, because I have not seen that. Turley has regularly eviscerated the free speech policies and practices of the Democratic Party and the two Democrats atop the ticket, and, on more than one occasion, has gone so far as to describe those entities as a imminent danger to free speech and to the Republic. Taken in conjunction with his admissions that he has previous supported and voted for that party and its candidates, it is perfectly reasonable to expect him to commit to taking actions on a personal level that are consistent with the positions he takes in his professional writing.
Who voted for Walz or even Harris as dem candidates? The central communist committee.
I hate collectives of any kind.
Crush their political opponents? The tories dug themselves into that hole with Brexit and the ensuing mess. That’s why the conservatives in parliament lost nearly every seat in House of Commons. It was a repudiation for their poor governance and stupid decisions. They were the victims of their own incompetence and the british citizenry was smart enough to say they had enough.
NewsGuard was just rating the professor’s blog. That’s not censorship. That’s literally an exercise of free speech. NewsGuard used its free speech right to analyze and rate Turley’s blog according to their criteria. If they said it was a biased or poor source of information they have every right to say so. That is not censorship. Turley was upset that NewsGaurd had the audacity to rank his site and say that it was a poor source for objective opinion or information.
Now this is where George is wholly wrong. The Conservatives did not lose because of Brexit. They lost because of a third rate set of politicians, not least Sunak; who has promptly buggered off back to Santa Monica – you are welcome to him. Sadly, the Labour politicians are even more useless, but the media are sucking up to them still just as your media sucks up to Harris.
Oliver, I respectfully disagree. Brexit was the last straw for British citizens. The failed promises and increased bureaucracy of trade and border checks got to the point where denial of Brexit’s failure became automatic. I listen to LBC’s James O’Brien all the time and his observations on Brexit have been spot on.
Brexit was a disaster.
even at late evening hours, George’s post receives a “like” within 90 seconds of posting.
I listen to LBC’s James O’Brien all the time and his observations on Brexit
have been spot onmatch mine exactly.George thought he had a friend.
Sorry dude, extremists are lonely. Comes with the territory
Bwahahahahahahahaaha