Well said. And as Pogo noted years ago:
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Posted on 05/26/2023 9:40:04 PM PDT by Angelino97
The white supremacist host of a podcast that made “vile” racist attacks in an attempt to stir up hatred, divide communities and spread fear has been jailed for two and a half years.
James Allchurch, 51, from Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, and his guests used extreme racial slurs and propagated racist ideology while discussing topics such as grooming gangs, immigration, slavery and crime...
But the judge, Huw Rees, told Allchurch he was a “perfectly intelligent man” whose lack of work “gave you the time you needed to harbour and promote your warped thinking and express it in highly emotive, racial and antisemitic language”.
The judge continued: “You were bent on inciting racial hatred. Your offending amounts to a stain on our humanity for our fellow human beings. The contents of these podcasts were vile. You are a man who holds deep-seated views of a highly pejorative racist and antisemitic nature.”
The judge highlighted a probation report that said while there was “no direct victim”, what Allchurch had done “has an impact on community cohesion” and created fear.
Each charge he faced related to a separate episode uploaded by Allchurch between May 2019 and March 2021 to a public website called Radio Aryan, later renamed Radio Albion.
A number of other known extremists from the UK and US featured on the podcast talking to Allchurch, who went by the alias Sven Longshanks – a reference to King Edward I, who was also known as Edward Longshanks and was responsible for expelling Jewish people from England in 1290.
Jonathan Rees KC, prosecuting, described the podcasts as “highly racist, antisemitic and white supremacist in nature”. Rees said: “The very purpose of Radio Aryan was to spread his propaganda about racial conflict.”
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I remember when Warsaw Pact nations imprisoned people for voicing their opinions. And Western nations condemned them for it. Now, the West is doing it.
There is no free speech in the Anglosphere outside of the U.S.
Well said. And as Pogo noted years ago:
We’re headed in this direction.
Sadly, that is correct, unless we elect the right leadership in 2024.
And even that is circling the drain!
You notice they make no mention of exactly what mean thing it was he said. It must’ve been pretty close to true or they wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to shut him up.
“Say anything you like. Just don’t say anything you don’t like.” - Old Communist saying.
What is the difference between “racial slurs” and “extreme racial slurs”?
Are there “benign racial slurs”?
The Guardian...’nuff said.
As loathsome as the KKK is, not long ago, its expressed hatred and marches were tolerated for the sake of the 1st Amendment.
We now have corporations and banks threatening rather benign individual speech through Social Credit Scores.
Indeed. Ignore the Paki grooming gangs and the ultra violent third world garbage people destroying the UK. Can’t offend those guys as they are slitting your throat after raping you daughters.
There is no free speech in the Anglosphere outside of the U.S.
There is no free speech in the Anglosphere.
There...fixed it.
People are fired and canceled over their speech in this country with alarming regularity. “Hate speech” and other thought crimes are added bonus charges in racially charged crimes.
Elimination of the 1st Amendment has not quite been codified into law just yet but its coming.
2nd amendment ping.
The Guardian is the British equivalent of the Washington Post. Nothing more than leftist propaganda.
It’s the devolution of society into Fascism to mete out 2 1/2 years of prison time to someone for saying what they think. Sadly the world is trending in this direction. People can’t be offended by speech anymore.
Non-white, non-Christians can't be offended by speech anymore.
Offending straight, white, cisgender, Christian males is not only permitted, it's laudable.
“in an attempt to stir up hatred, divide communities and spread fear has been jailed for two and a half years.” The American fascist left does this every day.
I don’t care how vile his podcasts. Why is he not free to express his thoughts? This is tyranny.
Britain used to be a free country. Its not anymore.
Sad.
All over “western civilization” the idea of Voltaire - that led in the development of the right of Free Sppech - is being ignored, with cultural suicidal consequences:
I disagree completely with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
No freedom of speech in the UK.
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