{"id":34564,"date":"2018-05-28T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34564"},"modified":"2018-05-28T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T14:07:06","slug":"uk-youre-not-allowed-to-talk-about-it-about-what-dont-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34564","title":{"rendered":"UK: You&#8217;re Not Allowed to Talk about It. About What? Don&#8217;t Ask."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"print_content\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/12389\/britain-dissent-silenced\">UK: You&#8217;re Not Allowed to Talk about It. About What? Don&#8217;t Ask.<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<p class=\"sans-serif\">&#8220;I am in a country that is not free&#8230; I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America. You don&#8217;t know how lucky you are.&#8221; \u2014 Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), YouTuber with around a million subscribers.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"print_content_3\">\n<div>\n<ul class=\"content_preface_bullets\">\n<li>&#8220;I am trying to recall a legal case where someone was convicted of a &#8216;crime&#8217; which cannot be reported on.&#8221; \u2014 Gerald Batten, UKIP member of the European Parliament.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;UKIP Peer Malcolm Lord Pearson has written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid today saying: if Tommy is murdered or injured in prison he and others will mount a private prosecution against Mr Javid as an accessory, or for misconduct in public office.&#8221; \u2014 Gerald Batten.<\/li>\n<li>Good on Lord Pearson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article_body itemprop_articlebody\">\n<p>On Friday, British free-speech activist and Islam critic Tommy Robinson was acting as a responsible citizen journalist &#8212; reporting live on camera from outside a Leeds courtroom where several Muslims were being tried for child rape &#8212; when he was set upon by several police officers. In the space of the next few hours, a judge tried, convicted, and sentenced him to 13 months in jail &#8212; and also issued a gag order, demanding a total news blackout on the case in the British news media. Robinson, whose real name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/10389954\/Who-is-the-real-Tommy-Robinson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Yaxley-Lennon<\/a>, was immediately taken to Hull Prison.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/pics\/3317.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>Hull Prison, in Kingston upon Hull, England, where Tommy Robinson was taken to serve a 13-month prison sentence just hours after his arrest on Friday, May 25.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Most media outlets were remarkably compliant. News stories that had already been posted online after Robinson&#8217;s arrest at the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/uk-world-news\/watch-former-edl-leader-tommy-12594744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Daily Record<\/a><\/i>,<i>Birmingham Live, The Mirror, RT,<\/i> and <i>Breitbart News<\/i> were promptly pulled down, although, curiously, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/tommy-robinson-arrested-leeds-court-child-grooming-trial-edl-founder-latest-a8368821.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> remained up at the <i>Independent,<\/i> a left-wing broadsheet that can be counted on to view Robinson as a hooligan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK: You&#8217;re Not Allowed to Talk about It. About What? Don&#8217;t Ask. &#8220;I am in a country that is not free&#8230; I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America. You don&#8217;t know how lucky you are.&#8221; \u2014 Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), YouTuber with around a million subscribers. &#8220;I am trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20252,20255,13721,462,20253,20254],"class_list":["post-34564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bruce-bawer","tag-citizen-journalist","tag-gatestone-institute","tag-journalism","tag-lord-pearson","tag-tommy-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34565,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34564\/revisions\/34565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}