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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

What Is ‘Hate Speech’?

Posted on | March 18, 2018 | Comments Off on What Is ‘Hate Speech’?

Left to right: Tamin Rahmani, Shersha Muslimyar and Rafiullah Hamidy.

In September 2016, a 16-year-old girl was gang-raped in Ramsgate, England, by three men and a 17-year-old boy:

Throughout the trial, prosecutor Simon Taylor told grim details of how “every single orifice had been penetrated by the group of men, while others watched, laughed and joined in themselves”.
Mr Taylor added that the girl was pushed onto a mattress whilst men physically restrained her and stood by the door “so she knew there was no escape”.
The victim was then escorted out the premises, where she was found “sobbing”, “hysterical” and “pacing up the road crying” by a woman who found her on the street.

In May 2017, the three men — Tamin Rahmani, Rafiullah Hamidy and Shershah Muslimyar — went on trial and were convicted. This was only the most recent in a series of crimes against English girls perpetrated by Muslims, including the notorious rape gangs of Rotherham, which targeted girls as young as 11. There is a clear pattern to these crimes, including a stifling political correctness that inhibited law enforcement, allowing such exploitation to continue unchecked for years:

What has gone wrong in Rotherham, and what is wrong with its Pakistani community, are questions much asked in recent weeks: How could this small, run-down town in northern England have been the center of sexual abuse of children on such an epic and horrifying scale?
According to the official report published in August [2014], there were an estimated 1,400 victims. And they were, in the main, poor and vulnerable white girls, while the great majority of perpetrators were men, mainly young men, from the town’s Pakistani community. Shaun Wright, the police commissioner who was responsible for children’s services in Rotherham, appeared before Parliament after his refusal to resign over the scandal. The scandal has cost both the chief executive and the leader of the council their jobs, and four Labour Party town councilors have been suspended.
A popular explanation for what Home Secretary Theresa May has described as “a complete dereliction of duty” by Rotherham’s public officials is that the Labour-controlled council was, for reasons of political expediency and ideology, unwilling to confront the fact that the abusers were of Pakistani heritage. Proper investigation, it is said, was obstructed by political correctness — or, in the words of a former local M.P., a culture of “not wanting to rock the multicultural boat.”

People in England were understandably outraged by the revelation of the Rotherham horror, which was not an isolated incident. Part of the problem is that concerns about inciting “racism” and “Islamophobia” not only led to “dereliction of duty” by public officials, but also by the media, which for many years refused to report on such crimes. Anger about this situation gave rise to what might be called vigilante journalism, and when the Ramsgate rapists went on trial in May 2017, Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen showed up in the town to produce videos exposing the perpetrators. “We don’t want these dirty Muslim pedophile bastards touching our kids,” Ms. Fransen said in one of the videos.

Golding and Ms. Fransen are leaders of Britain First, which has been called a “fascist” organization, that came to widespread attention in November 2017 after President Trump retweeted one of their videos. Trump subsequently explained to Piers Morgan that he retweeted the video “because I am a big believer in fighting radical Islamic terror. [The video] was a depiction of radical Islamic terror.”

This publicity came after Golding and Ms. Fransen had been charged with “religiously aggravated harassment” for their Ramsgate videos, and earlier this month, both of them were sentenced to jail terms.

In sentencing them, the presiding judge said they had “demonstrated hostility” towards Muslims: “It was a campaign to draw attention to the race, religion and immigrant background of the defendants.”

This raises disturbing questions. If there is a demonstrable pattern of serious crimes committed by people of a certain “race, religion and immigrant background,” as seems to be the case in England, why should it be illegal to “draw attention” to that pattern? While we may abhor the vigilante tactics and rude language of Golding and Ms. Fransen, would it not have sufficed to charge them with some ordinary crime — disturbing the peace, trespassing, disorderly conduct, whatever — rather than “religiously aggravated harassment”? This kind of Thought Crime prosecution gives credence to those who accuse British government officials of showing favoritism toward Muslims, a suspicion that in turn is likely to inspire still more vigilante reactions.

Americans should take notice of what is happening in England, because our own First Amendment rights are being threatened by those who claim that “right-wing propagandists”should be silenced. Because they blame the “right wing” for Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016, liberals are eager to suppress “hate speech,” and they have shown themselves to be unscrupulous in making such accusations. Steven Crowder has been falsely smeared as an “alt-right neo-Nazi,” and Crowder was suspended by Twitter for “hateful conduct” for a video spoofing a “gender-fluid” gathering at the SXSW conference. Where will this lead?

“Truth is great, and will prevail if left to herself,” Thomas Jefferson declared. Truth “is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”

We have laws against libel and slander, so that falsehood can be punished. If “hate speech” is a problem, the solution is speech against hate. What the situation in England suggests, however, is that people can be punished for “hate speech” even when they speak the truth. There actually were “dirty Muslim pedophile bastards” in Ramsgate, after all.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.



 

Category: Great Britain, Immigration, Islam, Media Bias

The Other Podcast: Episode 4

Posted on | March 18, 2018 | Comments Off on The Other Podcast: Episode 4

John Hoge of Hogewash and I launched a podcast last month during CPAC, but the planned second and third episodes were marred by technical difficulties. Saturday night, however, everything worked and we had a wide-ranging hour-long discussion that included three call-ins from listeners.

 

We plan to make this podcast a weekly event. Your financial support for this project is most earnestly solicited.



 

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Illegal Immigrant from El Salvador Arrested on Child Exploitation Charge

Posted on | March 18, 2018 | Comments Off on Illegal Immigrant from El Salvador Arrested on Child Exploitation Charge

Juan Alberto Juarez Saravia.

Caught in an eight-state child pornography roundup:

A traveling pastor in Durham [North Carolina] has been arrested by State Bureau of Investigation officers on charges of alleged child sex abuse charges.
Juan Alberto Juarez Saravia, 35, a Salvadoran immigrant who entered the U.S. illegally, worked primarily in the Hispanic community in the Durham area, according to SBI investigators. He was one of 76 people arrested during a mutually coordinated law enforcement operation among eight southeastern states. Operation Southern Impact II also resulted in 13 children being rescued or identified as victims.
The Department of Homeland Security participated in the operation.
Saravia admitted to using a fictitious identity Facebook account to entice a 14-year-old Virginia girl into producing sexually explicit videos of herself which she then sent to Saravia, SBI investigators said. There may be more minor victims, investigators said. . . .
Saravia was charged with first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and taking indecent liberties with a child. Saravia was being held in the Durham County jail in lieu of $750,000 bail.

More on the interstate dragnet:

Thirteen children were rescued from an eight-state child pornography ring that led to the arrest of 76 people seeking and distributing the most violent child pornography involving infants and toddlers, authorities said.
Of the 76 arrested, eight men were in North Carolina and ranged in age from 32 to 73, according to N.C. State Bureau of Investigation. Eight of the 13 children rescued in the multi-state sting were in North Carolina.
During the investigation 1,255 digital devices were seized, 235 of which were mobile phones. The arrests stemmed from cybertips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and online undercover investigations.

(Hat-tip: An Open Secret on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime, Immigration

FMJRA 2.0: Warriors

Posted on | March 17, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Late Night With Rule 5 Monday: Champagne Season
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Disgusting ‘Trans Lesbian’ Exposed
Rotten Chestnuts
EBL

Vote Democrat and You Can Get Killed by a Foreigner Who Will Walk Free!
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Listening To The Music The Machines Make
A View From The Beach
EBL

Lauren Southern Banned from the U.K.
A View From The Beach
EBL

Dear GOP: No Zipper Problems, Please
EBL

Two Killed by Bombs in Austin
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.12.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Are ‘Commitment-Phobic Men’ to Blame for England’s Declining Fertility?
EBL

Hillary’s Worldwide Blame-America Tour
EBL

Transgender Totalitarianism
Welcome To My Playpen
A View From The Beach
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.13.18
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: Pi Day 2018
A View From The Beach
EBL

Violence Against Women Update
EBL

Palm Beach Jihad: Teen Converts to Islam, Stabs Three People — Media Ignore It!
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Muslim Murdered in Houston, and Guess Why Media Are Ignoring This Crime?
A View From The Beach
EBL

Your Tax Dollars at Work: $9 Million Pedestrian Bridge Collapses at University
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

California: The Crazy State
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.15.18
Proof Positive
EBL

More Skeezy Activities by Obama DOJ Lovebirds Page and Strzok Revealed
EBL

Communist Arrested in Texas
EBL

Jeff Beck Shout Out To Andrew McCabe
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.16.18
Proof Positive
EBL

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | March 17, 2018 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

 

Mark Andrew Topper is a registered sex offender. In 2001, when he was 19 years old, Topper was convicted of a third-degree sex offense in Maryland. However, he is not currently a danger to children because he has been in prison since 2013, and he won’t be getting out soon:

An inmate who beat his cellmate to death nearly 18 months ago while they drank alcohol in their cell at Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday.
Washington County Circuit Court Judge Mark K. Boyer accepted the plea from 36-year-old Mark Andrew Topper, who appeared for the hearing with large horns tattooed on his forehead. . . .
The prosecution is asking for 25 years without the possibility of parole.
Washington County State’s Attorney Charles Strong said Topper pummeled Benjamin Hall to death after the two got in a fight while drinking alcohol in their cell Oct. 10, 2016.
Strong said an officer found Hall lying on his back in a puddle of blood. Topper had blood on his shirt and told the correctional officer, “Get him out of here. He’s done.”
Both Hall and Topper were alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. . . .
Topper told investigators, Strong said, that he had to kill Hall because Hall punched him in the mouth and knocked out one of his teeth.
“I’m missing that tooth for the rest of my life. I don’t take that lightly,” Topper reportedly told a Maryland State Police investigator, according to court records.
Topper, who was serving a prison sentence after being convicted of robbery and armed robbery, was housed in a segregation area of the prison with Hall as his cellmate, Herald-Mail Media has reported.
Hall, 26, was serving a theft sentence at the time of his death.

Some might call this a “win-win,” in that one member of the Aryan Brotherhood is dead, while another — a convicted sex offender with “large horns tattooed on his forehead” — won’t be getting out of prison for 25 more years. But like I keep saying, Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Crime

Jeff Sessions Fires Andrew McCabe

Posted on | March 17, 2018 | Comments Off on Jeff Sessions Fires Andrew McCabe

The long-rumored termination happened Friday night:

The Justice Department dealt a stunning blow to former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Friday night, firing him just days before he would have been eligible for a lifetime pension after determining that he lied to investigators reviewing the bureau’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email server.
“Pursuant to Department Order 1202, and based on the report of the Inspector General, the findings of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility, and the recommendation of the Department’s senior career official, I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective immediately,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.
“After an extensive and fair investigation and according to Department of Justice procedure, the Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) provided its report on allegations of misconduct by Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR),” Sessions said.

Consequences?

Fox News reporter Adam Housley reported on Twitter [Friday night] about the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, stating his sources were telling him that in the past few days McCabe threatened to “take people down with him” if he was fired. Housley also reported that the Inspector General-Office of Professional Responsibility report had uncovered “tons of stuff” on McCabe unrelated to the Trump investigation and that McCabe’s firing was a morale boost to FBI agents.

No doubt the liberal media will try to portray this as a political vendetta on the part of President Trump, but it appears McCabe was dishonest, and that the FBI had been corrupted during eight years of Eric Holder’s tenure as Attorney General. Clinton broke the law when she used a private email server to conduct official business while Secretary of State; she then obstructed justice by concealing facts from federal investigators. McCabe was apparently part of that cover-up.

 

Category: Crime, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 03.16.18

Posted on | March 17, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.16.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: They All Knew
Twitchy: Mass. State Rep Calls For Removal Of Sign Honoring Union General Joe Hooker. Guess Why?
Louder With Crowder: Everyone Needs To See THIS!
Breitbart’s Big Government: SECRET EMPIRES – Joe Biden’s Boy Strikes Billion-Dollar Deal With Chicoms Ten Days After Biden’s Visit To PRC (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Trad Thots Get Deported Edition
American Power: Video Of FIU Pedestrian Bridge Before Its Collapse
American Thinker: Imagine The Left Treating Freedom of Speech As It Treats Gun Rights
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Age Of Majority Friday
BattleSwarm: Twitter Blocks Users From Tweeting Link To “8 Stubborn Facts On Gun Violence In America”, also, LinkSwarm For March 16
CDR Salamander: Continental NATO – The Welfare Mentality, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Death Of Toys R Us – Not Murder But Suicide, also, William Hoge – Team Kimberlin’s Worst Nightmare, also also, Humanity, The Name Is Tribal War
Don Surber: Collapsed Bridge Courtesy Of Obama Program
Dustbury: Sometimes You Just Can’t Winn
The Geller Report: Christian Refugee Returns To Syria Since Europe Is Flooded With ISIS Sympathizers, also,  Facebook’s Zuckerberg Deploys “Secret Police”, Reportedly Catches Leakers
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Kate Steinle’s Illegal Immigrant Killer Now Suing Justice Department For Vindictive Prosecution
JustOneMinute: Clinton Cash Followup
Legal Insurrection: California Teacher Placed On Leave After Asking If School Would Allow Anti-Abortion Walkout, also, Former FBI Director McCabe Fired Right Before Retirement
Power Line: The Reductio Ad Absurdum Of Diversity, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Rubio & Scott Tackle FIU Bridge Collapse
Shot In The Dark: Unintended Consequences
STUMP: Two Awful Tastes That Go Great Together
The Jawa Report: War Porn – God Damn The Taliban Edition
The Political Hat: Obamacare – Decreasing The Surplus Population
This Ain’t Hell: Clock Boy’s Lawsuit Dismissed, also, Code Pink Hates JROTC
Victory Girls: Seven Great Anti-Fascist Movies You Can Watch With Your Kids
Weasel Zippers: Liberal Politicians Attend Anti-Gun Rallies Surrounded By Armed Bodyguards, also, IRS Finds 1.2 Million Cases Of Identity Theft By Illegal Aliens
Megan McArdle: We Finally Know For Sure That Lies Spread Faster Than The Truth
Mark Steyn: Die United, also, Snakes On A St. Patrick’s Day Plane


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Jeff Beck Shout Out To Andrew McCabe

Posted on | March 16, 2018 | Comments Off on Jeff Beck Shout Out To Andrew McCabe

by Smitty

Per Legal Insurrection, McCabe got the ouster late Friday night. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving piece of work.

Category: Uncategorized
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