The “woke” Stasi are in charge in Britain, with tech billionaire and X owner Elon Musk warning that our trans-Atlantic cousins are facing a “civil war.” A similar movement is afoot here in the United States, with only the Second Amendment — and the upcoming presidential election — to protect us from a similar fate. Last week, protests erupted across the United Kingdom, with thousands taking to the street to voice their dissatisfaction with a British ruling elite that has encouraged unfettered illegal immigration and ignored the negative consequences ordinary Britons have to live with: Increased crime, higher living costs, and diminished education and health care services for citizens.
The protests got disorderly, with the media largely covering the rioting — cars torched, and mosques and hotels housing asylum-seekers damaged or destroyed. The blame fell exclusively on “far-right” extremists. The new Labor government, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, sprang into action, vowing to speed up judicial procedures to convict and jail the rioters while cracking down on “racist” social media postings.
The Starmer government even threatened to extradite Americans they felt were spreading “misinformation” about the perpetrator behind the murderous knife attack late last month that sparked the unrest . “We will throw the full force of the law at people,” London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley said last week. “And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.
” On Wednesday, the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales said it had created a team dedicated to monitoring social media content and that anyone who even reposted “offensive material” could be charged with a crime. The British enforcement mechanism is tied to a 2003 law that states “electronic communications which are grossly offensive or indecent, obscene or menacing, or false, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another” could be prosecuted. The law did not define what qualified for any of these terms.
William Nelson Morgan, a 69-year-old retiree with no criminal record, is the oldest anti-mass migration English rioter convicted so far. He was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for holding a stick and refusing to disperse at an Aug. 4 street clash at a library in Walton, West Yorkshire.
He took no part in the rioting. Billy Thompson, 31, was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for commenting on a Facebook post using emojis to depict minorities and a gun along with the words “filthy b———.” He didn’t even attend the street protests.
British citizen Tyler Kay, a father of three, was sentenced to 38 months in prison for copying a post on X by Lucy Connolly, which stated: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f——— hotels full of the b———- for all I care. ..
. If that makes me a racist, so be it.” Ms.
Connolly was arrested for her post. Mr. Kay was sentenced for his online comment on it, which read, “My point is more [that] it’s one rule for some and another rule for others.
” Perhaps Mr. Kay was referring to the Muslim immigrant who recently raped a 13-year-old girl but was allowed to walk free because he claimed he didn’t know rape was illegal. Or to Mustafa Al Mbaidib, an asylum-seeker who was ordered to pay 2 pounds a month for assaulting an emergency worker but was spared community service because he doesn’t speak English.
Then there was the armed “Muslim Patrol,” whose members surrounded and attacked a pub on Aug. 5, waiting for the “right-wing” agitators to appear. The far-right protest never materialized, leading the Muslims to attack a journalist and vandalize the vehicle of a Sky News Team.
Sky News quickly cut the feed. The West Midlands Police Department said it had “well-rehearsed plans in place” to deal with right-wing protests but simply didn’t know how to deal with the roughly 300 Muslims who showed up and rioted instead. Adding to Britain’s summer of discontent is Mr.
Starmer’s vow to release dangerous inmates early because of crowded prisons while apparently having no problem replacing those prisoners with anti-immigration advocates. “I saw an astonishing statistic that 34% of the public actually support the protests — if not the violence associated with it,” former Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote in an op-ed in the Daily Mail last week, addressing Mr. Starmer’s policies.
“It is time to reflect, PM, as you sip your sundowner, on whether you struck exactly the right note on illegal immigration, and I mean illegal immigration, the kind that is resented especially by many who have brought their families here perfectly legally.” What’s happening in Britain is a reflection of the immigration debate in the U.S.
— with the caveat that most Americans believe they shouldn’t be arrested and jailed for merely disagreeing with the Biden administration’s policies online. All of this will change if Democrats have their way — because Democrats have shown they would rather censor debate than defend their positions. For over three years, Vice President Kamala Harris supported the massive federal censorship complex aimed at COVID-19 “misinformation,” blacklisting groups, news sources, academics and individuals who questioned mask mandates and other compulsory measures.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Ms. Harris’ running mate on the Democratic ticket, set up a snitch hotline so residents could report their neighbors who sneaked out of their locked-down homes during the pandemic to attend something nefarious such as, say a church service.
As constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley wrote last week: “President Biden made censorship a central part of his legacy, even accusing social media companies of ’killing people’ for failing to increase levels of censorship. Democrats in Congress pushed that agenda by demanding censorship on subjects ranging from climate change to gender identity — even to banking policy — in the name of combating ’disinformation.’” Or, as Mr.
Walz put it on MSNBC last year, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.” If you don’t think what’s happening in the U.K.
can happen here, you haven’t been paying enough attention — it already is. Copyright © 2024 The Washington Times, LLC. .
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