Is free speech for some but not for all?
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The following is an email received this morning.
“Freedom of speech received a huge blow today as Tommy Robinson was sentenced to 18 months in prison for publishing a political documentary called “Silenced”. He is expected to serve nine months.
Click here for a video update I filmed outside of court today:
After a short hearing, Justice Jeremy Johnson immediately delivered a lengthy sentence, appearing to be reading from a prepared script on his computer. The judge said he wanted to apply the maximum sentence of two years to Tommy, but there were certain rules that required the time to be reduced somewhat, such as Tommy’s decision to not contest his guilt.
Tommy was immediately taken away to Belmarsh prison, the most notorious prison in the UK, a high-security facility filled with terrorists and murderers. Tommy will be held in solitary confinement there, as the British prison system is controlled by Islamic prison gangs, and were Tommy in the general population, he would surely be attacked. Nine months in solitary confinement is an extremely unusual sentence, as it is generally considered to be a form of psychological torture, and many jurisdictions no longer permit it for that period of time. Tommy was not convicted of a crime; he is being held for civil contempt, yet he is being held in a prison for murderers.
Tommy’s defence lawyer, barrister Sasha Wass, KC, pointed out that unlike many cases of contempt of court, Tommy was not self-serving — he didn’t lie under oath, commit perjury or otherwise try to slyly benefit himself. The “contempt” in this case was publishing an investigative documentary into a matter of public interest. That made the sentence even more shocking: in the UK, the government is now the final arbiter of what’s a fact and what isn’t, and a prison term awaits for those who are off-side.
A lot has been said in recent weeks about the UK’s lurch towards a two-tier justice system. Today’s punitive sentence is just the latest example of that — and it serves as a warning to anyone who would dare to criticize the government’s agenda. If they can jail Tommy Robinson, they can jail you, too. It’s an attempt to scare citizens into silence.”
The following involves those who live in Victoria, Australia but this will eventually affect all of us living in Australia! These people who are making these laws to silence any speech that disagrees with them. No more will one be able to say definitely there are only two genders; male and female! This vilification will even reach into one’s faith. Will a Bible believing Christian be able to quote John 14:6 without being taken to court? We will have to wait and see but it seems very likely it will happen.
The Australian Christian Lobby recently sent out an email speaking concerning this proposed reform.
“Urgent action is needed to oppose the Allan Government’s proposed reform of anti-vilification or “hate speech” laws. This reform threatens to lower the vilification threshold, making it easier to prosecute Christians and effectively confining their faith to private spaces. We must act now to protect our rights and freedoms.
The Overview Paper shows that the proposed changes to the law are very concerning. In brief, this law reform will set a dangerous precedent, introducing a subjective element into law that could see Christians in Victoria being reported to VEOHRC or VCAT based on someone’s perspective.
Christians could potentially be stifled, or even prosecuted, for expressing a religious view on Biblical sexual ethics and biological facts. Activists will find Christians an easy target to bring before a tribunal.
If these proposed changes become laws, Victorian Christians would be forced to suppress or hide their faith in public, including schools and workplaces, for fear of offending others.
This is law is repressive, robbing Christians of their freedom of religion, speech and expression.”
Here is the pdf with the proposed changes to the anti-vilification laws in Victoria, Australia.
What Kent Brandenburg writes in the following article is sadly the truth of the reality for all of us living in the West.
This was submitted by the United Australia Party’s Senator Ralph Babet. It is amazing that the USA, UK and Australia are together seeking to limit the free speech of their citizens.
Do you love your free speech? I do as well! However, our governments in the West are now filled with those despots who do not want you to have that freedom.
“In free countries, readers get to decide which journalists to trust. But in Trudeau’s Canada, that’s now a government decision, and Trudeau hand-picks the censorship panel making the decision.” https://www.rebelnews.com/federal_court_sides_with_trudeau_censorship_ruling?
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