BELATEDLY, I WATCHED TOMMY ROBINSON’S SILENCED, about how a minor
schoolyard scrap ended up front page news based on an accumulation of the most
outrageous deceit. Robinson’s collection
of evidence seems highly credible, but the narrative portrayed by media, celebrities
and the judiciary was an outrageous exercise in extreme dawah. Robinson’s epilogue was an articulate defence
of civilisation currently under attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e1ZAHj1xAo.
THE WORLD’S LONGEST-RUNNING FLOWER SHOW was cancelled. The Shropshire Horticultural Society was faced with a new legal requirement, Martyn’s Law, that events with more than 200 people had to engage in state-monitored protocols to protect visitors from terror attacks. Martyn’s Law is named after Martyn Hett, one of the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena bombing by Salman Abedi. Figen Murray, Hett’s mother, fought for the legislation with admirable tenacity. Yet it does not tackle the key state failures that enabled the Manchester horrors. It does not strengthen borders, which were porous enough for Abedi to return to the UK after a year with militants in Libya. It does not enhance the powers of the police or the security services to apprehend a killer before he acts. It does not drain the extremist swamp in which jihadism flourishes. The Home Affairs Committee has warned that there is little evidence the law will ‘reduce the threat of terrorism for smaller organisations’, though it will certainly make the work of civil society groups more onerous and expensive. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-law-that-is-choking-civil-society/
STEPHEN RAINBOW appears to me to be overcoming his Green Party handicap and showing fragments of common sense. His pro-Israel stance got barbs from the usual suspects, and he criticised the "genocide hotline" established by Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa national chairman John Minto, stating "the promotion may not be unlawful, however, the chief commissioner sees it as potentially harmful to Israeli and Jewish people in Aotearoa New Zealand."
