Taking the high road, playing nice and being tolerant got us into this mess. It will not get us out of it.
Of course it would be absurd to pretend there is no two-tier justice when it comes to enforcing hate-speech laws. The police’s enthusiasm for smashing down the doors of so-called hate speakers seems to dry up whenever that hatred is directed at Jews. Judges similarly feel moved to show clemency when faced with a defendant who has expressed support for a rabidly anti-Semitic, genocidal terror army. But the answer to this outrageous policing bias is not to demand the censorship be doled out more consistently. It is to demand an end to the relentless policing of speech in the first place. We need to defend the freedom of Lucy Connolly and the Bob Vylan frontman.
Sure, if the enemy was prepared to play by those rules, but they don’t, do they?
After all, free speech is meaningless if it does not include the right to say things that people consider bigoted, offensive and inflammatory – all of which undoubtedly apply to Bob Vylan’s grotesque chant. The proper response to hatred is not to arrest people for it, but to challenge it. Slapping some handcuffs on a rapper and some BBC producers will do nothing to combat the vile anti-Semitism that is becoming disturbingly normalised in the West. All it will do is undermine free speech for all of us, giving the green light to the police to carry on dictating what we can and can’t say.
In a sane world, I would agree. However, we do not live in a sane world. Fraser and his ilk will be crushed by the cancelling hordes as they cry freedom for all. His fundamental mistake here is to believe that the radical left is forgiving, civilised and rational, when it is none of those things. It is profoundly hypocritical and will happily crush all dissent while doing the very things that it criticises others for.
So, yes, we need some consistency. We need to force these bastards to suffer by the rules they want us to live by. Only when a few of them are rotting in jail will they get the message that freedom of speech needs to be sacrosanct. But for now, Alinsky’s rule number four applies here: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
So yeah, Pascal Robinson-Foster needs to be banged up for the same reason Lucy Connolly is currently doing time. If it’s good enough for her, it’s good enough for him.
https://youtu.be/yEltvii1J4M?si=H9lJubsVXopFO3bK
James O’Brien with some mixed opinions
His basic attitude seemed to be more ‘He shouldn’t have said it because it makes us [the anti-Israel brigade] look bad’ rather than ‘He shouldn’t have said it because it is wrong’.
I hear Trump has already cancelled the band’s visas so no US tour.
Hit ’em in the pocket, never fails.
As for Fraser, merry olde England leading by example might have worked in the days of empire and when the RN ruled the waves, the rest of the world now struggles not to piss itsen openly laughing at us.
Pascal Robinson-Foster needs to be banged up
Everyone who chanted along, as well.
Maybe that would get the far left to demand repeal of the hate speech laws. One can hope.
Avon & Somerset Police have announced they’ve appointed a senior officer and are opening an investigation intovestigation.
Squeaky bum time for lefties? They wanted this legislation …. #consequences
You do realise this investigation will not go very far? Lefties do not need be worried at all.
In case it inflames tensions with the wrong (i.e. not non-violent whitey) community?
Probably, but deep down inside, they know that what they are doing could rebound on them, somif it gives them a few sleepless nights or costs thrm in panicking payments to slimy lawyers, it’s all to the good!
They’ll never give us absolute free speech. We’ve never had it. Even the first amendment doesn’t give it to USians. So we must make the best of the restrictions we have now. But they must be applied universally.
Our first amendment equivalent is Article Ten of the ECHR. Read it. There are so many exceptions as to make it totally useless.
“So, yes, we need some consistency.”
But that requires you to have a standard of behaviour in the first place. Something that both Labour and the Conservatives surrendered over the last couple of decades.
In a sane world, if a singer sang those words at a concert, the audience would walk out. This lot chose to sing along. We’re not living in a sane world.
Look at the audience- it’s not exactly representative of the typical population of the UK, is it?