Posted on 03/19/2018 10:50:16 AM PDT by Slyfox
LONDON, United Kingdom — Thousands of free speech enthusiasts, alongside a handful of hard-left and Islamist opposition, gathered at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park this afternoon to hear a speech written by Generation Identity’s Martin Sellner, delivered by former EDL leader Tommy Robinson. Sellner was banned from entry by the UK government earlier this month, for daring to lead a right-wing organisation which sheds light on Islamic extremism and mass migration on the continent of Europe.
Robinson — formerly of the Rebel Media — delivered the speech to thousands who gathered in the snow at the historic Speaker’s Corner, the home of free speech in London for hundreds of years.
Marx, Lenin, Orwell, and others have famously given speeches at Speaker’s Corner, which is what drove Sellner and Robinson to pick the spot to deliver the speech (below).
Thousands listened to the speech live in person, while tens of thousands watched online.
Robinson told Breitbart London: “The true battle for free speech started today. This is just the start.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Then the muzzies moved in and started beating people up.
Guess whose fault it probably was?
TR for PM!
And for us here:
The First Amendment Is In Far Greater Danger Than The Second
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3636314/posts
Stay strong, Tommy.
They don’t have a 1st Amendment in the UK.... but we catch your drift.
Nope, unless they changed the law. British law says if you are standing 9 inches (I believe) or more off the ground, you can’t be prosecuted for banned speech. Therefore people stand on soapboxes (whatever) and talk about their grievances at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park every Sunday. It’s pretty cool! When I was there a London Councilman was talking about how he was being persecuted by some mayor who was having an affair with his wife! Real soap opera stuff!
In reality, we are just a group of young patriots fed up with the system, the mainstream press and lying politicians.
We use peaceful activism to make our voices heard, and contrary to our friends on the radical left, who are probably swarming you right now, we never wear masks.
From Paris to Rome, from Vienna to London, we fight peacefully but without compromise for our freedom, our homelands, and our identity!
Appropriate spot for the speech - yes, we never wear masks! God help us - we've taken on the machine with bare faces...
:)
I like him.
Common man, but street smart and right in his position.
“Knowing how jealously British government officials protect the 1st Amendment rights of citizens”
From Wikipedia: “Speakers here may talk on any subject, as long as the police consider their speeches lawful, although this right is not restricted to Speakers’ Corner only. Contrary to popular belief, there is no immunity from the law, nor are any subjects proscribed, but in practice the police intervene only when they receive a complaint.”
So how long before the Mayor of London complains about the content of the speech, and how it offends Islam?
bkmk
May obviously doesn’t believe in free speech, hence the government constantly banning speakers into the UK.
Since it is London and the London mayor is a muslin, it may have not been May.
Yes, but May must control entry to the country, so she would be behind banning people.
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