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Announcement
As announced yesterday, the magistrates’ court trial to which I was made subject went badly for me. I cannot blog about that at present.
I am presently due to be sentenced at the end of January, or in February, of 2024. After that, I have 15 working days, i.e. three weeks, in which to serve any Notice of Appeal. Any appeal hearing, before a Circuit Judge (sitting with two magistrate-assessors), would be a complete rehearing, which would probably not happen until the Autumn of 2024, perhaps not until 2025.
I shall decide in February 2024, post-sentencing, whether I shall appeal.
Saturday quiz
Well, a poor score this week, a mere 4/10; I see that John Rentoul scored similarly. I knew the answers only to questions 2, 3, 4, and 7.
From the newspapers
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24778179/moment-teen-kills-army-veteran-bus-station/.
“SHOCKING CCTV footage shows the moment a teenage boy killed an 82-year-old Army veteran with a single punch.
Omar Moumeche, who was 16 at the time, attacked Dennis Clarke at Derby bus station after the veteran told off his friends for messing about on an escalator.
The pensioner suffered a fractured skull as well as a bleed on the brain and died in hospital nine days after the assault on May 6, 2021.
Moumeche, now 18, was found guilty of manslaughter in July, with the judge sentencing the killer yob to two years in youth detention at Derby Crown Court today.
No further action was taken against two other teenage boys who were arrested at the time in connection with the attack.”
[The Sun]
“Omar Moumeche“? So… Algerian, presumably. Why is he even here? Why is his family here?
Life certainly is cheap in Britain’s wonderful new “diverse” multikulti paradise…
Imagine what this country will be like in another 30 or 50 years. I am actually glad that I shall not be here to see it.
Thus Britain, through the gradual acceptance of stupid “laws” and “rules” (invalid and/or misinterpreted) becomes a multikulti and “biosecurity” “poundland” police state.
“The only man alive who can tell you what it is like to be EXECUTED after three Death Row staff in Alabama spent 90 agonising minutes trying – and failing – to give him a lethal injection.”
[Daily Mail]
The U.S. Constitution is a bad joke in most respects. Here is one example. The 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids “cruel and unusual punishment“. Then look at what has been found to be not “cruel and unusual,” such as these ghastly lethal injection executions and, of course, the classic one, the electric chair, which can take several minutes and may fry someone alive, in effect.
The U.S. Constitution, looked upon by most Americans as if holy writ, when in fact it was just a document cobbled together by a bunch of freemasons (many of them), partly (it is said) in a New York City tavern.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt8-4-9-10/ALDE_00000975/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair#Botched_executions.
Another symptom of the rot in plain sight now in our society.
…and again…even more “diversity”. How wonderful…
“A total of 356 asylum seekers were intercepted by Border Force officials from seven boats and escorted into Dover, Kent, throughout the day.”
[Daily Mail].
…and still they come. Migrant-invaders. Migration-invasion.
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The wrongheadedness of the “austerity” drive since 2010, which badly damaged the UK economy, especially in the years 2010-2015, but was sold to the unthinking British people as “necessary”.
That was a long time ago. The world is now overpopulated, and particularly with non-Europeans. A reduction of the world’s population to about 10% of what it is now is very desirable, but of course the remaining population has to be mainly ethnically European.
Talking point
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I do not know the details of the case, but the penalties do seem extremely heavy, just speaking generally.
See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/01/19/diary-blog-including-thoughts-about-prepping-on-the-individual-level/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/02/03/diary-blog-3-february-2021-including-more-thoughts-about-prepping/.
“You carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your
fathers and forefathers. You do not know those who
have vanished in endless ranks into the darkness of the
past. But they all live in you and walk in your blood upon
the earth that consumed them in battle and toil and in
which their bodies have long decayed.
Your blood is therefore something holy. In it your parents gave you not only a body, but your nature. To deny your blood is to deny yourself. No one can
change it. But each decides to grow the good that one has
inherited and suppress the bad. Each is also given will
and courage.
You do not have only the right, but also the duty to pass
your blood on to your children, for you are a member of
the chain of generations that reaches from the past into
eternity, and this link of the chain that you represent
must do its part so that the chain is never broken.
But if your blood has traits that will make your children
unhappy and burdens to the state, then you have the
heroic duty to be the last. The blood is the carrier of life. You carry in it the secret of creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it God’s will
lives.”
[SS Verlag: material for instruction of the Hitlerjugend]
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If I am not mistaken, that is the India/Pakistan border. Both sides indulge in military march theatricals, a strange macho posturing performance.
“They” can never be believed.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Many people not just Americans believe lethal injections are humane and akin to a much loved pet being put to sleep at the vet but they are anything but even if they were performed by trained professionals which they are not.
Basically, the experience is said to be awful as the person has a feeling they are being burned internally and suffocating without being able to tell someone about it since
their diaphragm is paralysed.
In many ways, it is the worst and most inhumane method of capital punishment.
The electric chair isn’t quite as cruel but can cause some burning and takes a few minutes.
I prefer an expertly conducted British-style long drop hanging where the neck is broken cleanly and quickly and the convict is dead almost instantly.
Painful lethal injections or ‘riding the lightening’ on the electric chair is suitable though for executing the vile, anti-British POS like Sir Kid Starver, Tony Bliar, Tory scum that have all intentionally and systematically ruined our formerly great country and given us deplorable situations like you describe above.
When they are punished for their despicable treason as they will have to be eventually I really don’t see why these evil, treasonous, anti-British scumbags should be accorded the fairly civilised method of execution originating from a country they so obviously hate.
Let them die painfully for what they have done using inhumane Yankee methods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair
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The most ridiculous aspect of capital punishment in the US is not so much the various unsuitable methods they use but the time it takes to execute a convict.
Put simply, if they want to have some form of deterrent effect from the death penalty then the time between sentencing, concluding appeals and the sentence of death being put into effect needs to be massively shortened.
Taking, in some cases, as long as three decades to do the deed is an absolute farce with a capital F.
The maximum time on ‘death row’ should be five years and ideally far shorter than that. Britain’s Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is still the ultimate court of appeal for some Caribbean countries that retain capital punishment and they said that if someone can’t be executed within five years then that person’s sentence should commuted to a life term. I agree that the ‘death row phenomenon’ as it is called imposes a psychological ordeal on the prisoner waiting for execution and that this represents a double sentence in effect so the time period on death row should be five years or less.
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The world is overpopulated and this country is grotesquely overpopulated and that is the basic reason why no matter how much money the terminally thick, fake Conservatives waste on building new roads they will NEVER combat congestion.
If you believe in God then you will probably think he has a future plan to reduce the world’s population ie a new world war or a new, much more deadly viral pandemic.
The world’s environmental carrying capacity is limited. We simply can’t tackle global warming or other environmental problems if the world population continues to rise and rise.
The Green Party would get more votes if they had a hardline stance on immigration. Limiting immigration is good for the environment. Put basically, it is a green principle.
This country could do with a proper National-Conservative/Nationalist/Green-Conservative Party.
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John:
The great crisis of the world may come upon us sooner than 99.9% believe.
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Dan White, if there is a God he will kill most foul, fake ‘Conservative’ MPs and their fellow travellers in Labour.
God doesn’t like these evil Tory and Labour bastards who quite clearly despise disabled people. I am quite surprised the wicked, virulently anti-British, Tory cunts haven’t proposed a ‘Final Solution to the disabled and other benefit claimants problem’ yet ie using gas chambers on them.
The libertarian, globalist extremist, fake Conservatives would be aghast at someone suggesting the method of gas chambers as used in Arizona should be used to execute immoral, wilful murderers but they would be comfortable with someone using gassing to dispense with disabled people and the other objects of their unhinged hatred ie the unemployed. Poor people like that are just ‘untermeschen’ in the German Nazi phrase to your average wicked Tory as epitomised by Iain Dumbo-Smith.
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A world population reduced to just 10% of what it is now would be too low and cause the world economy to collapse.
A reduction of 20-35% should be sufficient to avoid or lessen the worst environmental effects of world overpopulation without harming prosperity.
Britain’s ideal sustainable population is probably between 30 to 50 million.
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Yet another criminal imported by the virulently anti-British, globalist libertarian, , Zionist Entity First and Britain Last, fake CONServative Party.
Sod the fact we have enough of our own criminal scumbags to deal with so let us import them from countries we have no historical connections with whatever.
Sod the British people’s quality of life as long as we can enrich ourselves.
They are heading for a truely massive landslide defeat next year and it will be richly deserved.
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John:
Leaving aside totally brainless OAPs (I am myself now an OAP, though I hope not an unenlightened one…), I cannot imagine any (even the affluent) voting Conservative next year. Many, though, will not vote Labour either (which anyway has very similar policies to the “Conservatives”. Whatever. Abstentions and protest voting will surely cull (sadly not literally) the ranks of the Con Party MPs.
I am inclined, as things stand, to think that the Con Party may have as few as 50 MPs by 2025.
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And it will be because they failed to adopt a populist conservatism in tune with ordinary people and had instead a libertarian globalist ideology.
The Liberal Party in Germany called the Free Democratic Party (FDP) is more to the ‘Right’ section of liberalism ie libertarianism and is one of the world’s more successful ‘liberal’ parties yet even when you consider the fact that Germany has a pretty fair electoral system of PR called Mixed-Member Proportional Representation (MMP) they have never received more than 14% of the national vote then you can understand that there is a clear limit to libertarian values in electoral popularity terms.
The FDP now after Merkel opened the floodgates on immigration is barely doing well enough in current opinion polls to be able to stay in the Bundestag ie you have to be able to get to the threshold for reepresentation ie 5% or more.
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John:
Both Germany and the UK need to get to the crunch point, the point of crisis at which nothing will do except national social upheaval and a reset of the entire society. As in 1932-1933 in Germany.
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I think the turnout next year might collapse. There are signs of that happening in the by-election results. Very few people are enthused by the so-called Labour alternative.
This government will fall through mass Tory abstention. One of the most profound weaknesses of our present archaic electoral system is that there is no direct and explicit link between a party’s vote share and its seat numbers ie you can’t directly vote for a party- a weakness shared by the Irish version of PR called the Single Transferable Vote (STV).
Labour can win an overall majority simply by maintaining its support from last time ie 33% and if the Tory vote was a fair bit lower ie 25%.
Labour is in second place in most Tory-held seats thus if enough Tory voters abstain in them they will automatically fall into Labour hands just like Mid Bedfordshire did recently.
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John:
It is, of course, a bit of a fool’s game to predict a GE a year in advance, but I am thinking (in England) 20% Con, maybe 40% Lab, 10% LibDem, maybe 10% Reform UK, maybe 4% Greens. That would reduce the Con MPs to 104. Worst result ever.
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Last time in 2019 the Labour Party didn’t do well in total seat numbers but in vote share Corbyn still got 33% which was 6% higher than Michael Foot in 1983 so in vote share terms they didn’t do too shabbily.
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John:
Well, of course, the thing that matters is having enough votes concentrated in seats so that a seat can be won, but not huge numbers of votes concentrated in too few seats.
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Yes, I agree. Last time, the Tories spread their total vote share more efficiently than Labour did which they normally are better at doing than Labour.
That 33% national share Labour obtained had a significant contribution to it provided by seats in inner London, Birmingham and Merseyside. Some constituencies in Liverpool have totally ludicrous Labour majorities with the most loony being the seat of Liverpool Walton with its 75% plus Labour vote share which makes it not just the safest Labour seat but the safest seat of any party. Many Labour votes last time were completely wasted and piled-up in such seats to no effect nationally.
My own Tory held seat of Brentwood and Ongar, Essex, is the Conservative Party’s tenth safest with a Tory majority of 29,165 so many Tory votes were cast here wastefully and didn’t contribute to the national Tory seat total.
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Yes, under FPTP you only need to win a seat by a single vote over your nearest opponent in order to gain the representation provided by that seat. Any votes over that are effectively wasted.
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WHEN is the Conservative Party going to get it into its anti-British head we DO NOT want to see more floods of migrant-invaders here turning yet more parts of this blighted country into lawless and innately alien territory.
Get a fucking GRIP, FFS!
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Indeed, Jim Prescott.
There is well-established economic theory where it is recognised that people on very low incomes such as benefit claimants have a great propensity to spend whatever income they have thus putting money into local economies and helping shops ect keep people in employment and paying taxes.
I am sure Jeremy Hunt must have heard of it. He is supposed to be one of the very few in number of the Tory Party’s more intelligent and able figures.
It is disappointing to see he has lowered himself to the level of abject, bigoted THICKNESS one can expect from most Tories such as that evil cretin Iain Dumbo-Smith.
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John:
I know that you think highly of Hunt (a sentiment I do not share), but in any case he is in the grip of the steel bands of Fate (and events,, and this Government’s slide to oblivion). He cannot do anything, really, except try to shore up the collapsing Con Party vote in the country.
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The most effective way of doing that would be to ACT on immigration control instead of just spouting meaningless platitudes but it is probably too late now and so the Conservative Party will crash to an historic landslide defeat which might well be practically impossible to recover from just like the Canadian Tories in 1993 when they had hundreds of MPs and then, overnight, were reduced to TWO.
This time next year the Tories might have cause to regret their fanatical devotion to First Past The Post.
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John:
This Government, as any System government, *cannot* really stop immigration on the mass scale.
Firstly, because the System parties are controlled by forces encouraging migration invasion— the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
Secondly, because the flow cannot be stopped, still less reversed, without clamping down severely on all “legal” routes, as well as sinking boats in the Channel.
In short, the massive flow will continue.
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Re the death penalty. It is noteworthy that British opponents of capital punishment such as Amnesty International always cite the USA as an example to back-up their claims that the death penalty has no deterrent value at all.
Well, if the death penalty is rarely given and takes years and years, often decades, as in the US to put into effect then yes it it isn’t surprising that a deterrent effect doesn’t happen.
Why don’t the opponents use the example of Singapore to say that the death penalty is no deterrent to crime? Is it because they think a country where if you receive the death penalty you have virtually no chance of an appeal against the sentence being allowed and the sentence being enacted far more quickly may undermine their claims?
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Left wing lawyers who are the absolute DREGS of British society as they proved, ONCE AGAIN, at the Bliar imposed Supreme Court on Thursday and lefty, PC judges will have to answer for their anti-British treason one day.
The ultimate penalty of death or a whole life term of imprisonment in a British version of Alcatraz in the Falklands, Ascension Island, St Helena or the Western Isles/Shetlands will be their punishment.
A defence of ‘I was only following orders’ was not allowed for the Nazis at Nuremburg it won’t be accepted either for them.
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Re that tweet above detailing the Zionists’ incessant moaning about people burning the flag of the Zionist terror state. It really is not that difficult to wonder why Hitler and by extension the German people became so utterly fed-up with their whinging and trouble making that his original intention was to throw them out of Germany and eventually Europe as a whole, is it? Hitler and Germany did this even taking into account that Germany had the world’s most integrated Jewish community in the 1920’s and before. Zionist Jews make things bad for their fellow Jews.
They show no form of self-awareness! People are burning the Israeli flag all around the world because they heartily disapprove of the Zionist state and its callous treatment and oppression of very long-suffering Palestinians. If and when the Zionist entity stops this then its flag won’t be burnt.
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Re the death penalty in the USA. Both lethal injection and the electric chair are horrendous methods which are brutal but out of the two lethal injection is not just worst on a potential pain level comparison but also as a deterrent. If you are going to use the death penalty then the method should not involve unnecessary pain and serve as a deterrent. Lethal injection in the minds of so many people including potential criminals who could be punished with it is thought of like going to the vet and being put humanely to sleep thus it has little deterrent value. The electric chair must be thought of by the public and potential criminals as a frightening and painful method thus it is likely to serve as a greater deterrent.
America should use long drop hangings but if they had to make a choice between the painful lethal injection method and the electric chair then the chair is better as it is more of a deterrent I would think in the minds of those criminals who could be punished with it.
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That Algerian should be executed along with the scummy, anti-British politicians (probably Tory) who let him in and thus enabled him to murder a defenceless, old Briton.
Our treasonous politicians must be held accountable for the ever lengthening list of these crimes involving immigrants attacking or even worse murdering our people and one day, God willing, they WILL be.
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A disgracefully lenient sentence under the soft on real crimes so-called Conservative Party.
How unlike well-run Singapore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime
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A single shot to the back of the head could be a good method of capital punishment as used in Belarus (the last country in Europe to use the death penalty):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Belarus
It is a bit bloody and violent but not so much as the firing squad method the US State of Utah has:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Utah
https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States
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John:
As you know, I am generally against the death penalty, but “horses for courses” perhaps. A society can run completely wild, and then require dictatorial or Draconian laws for a time. Under Trujillo, the Dominican Republic had very fierce laws but also very safe streets.
As a matter of fact, I find the example of Trujillo very interesting, though I should not “agree” with all of his policies (not that that matters either way).:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Trujillo
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This ‘society’ entered a disastrous tailspin decades ago, especially in relation to crime. Reading newspaper reports these days doesn’t shock me with the details of some criminals and their depravity and cruelty to fellow humans.
There does need to be certain civilised standards in society which shouldn’t be breached by criminals without being punished and the death penalty can help to ensure those standards are upheld.
A line in the sand needs to be widely understood by society as a whole.
Also, in regards to treason. Until that foul nation wrecker Bliar came to power and rather conveniently abolished the last few remaining offences for capital punishment one of which was treason there was a line in the sand for that offence too. There should be once again with [REDACTED] traitors swinging on the end of a stout piece of British rope for what they have done to ruin this formerly great country and continue to do. I say, as Clint Eastwood would, ‘Hang ’em High’!
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John:
Regret that, free speech now scarcely existing in the UK, and after my recent juridical experience, I have found it expedient, and in fact necessary, to redact your designation of those whom you would like to see “swinging”.
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America has a new method of capital punishment which has never been used anywhere else before and is due to be employed for the first time in the state of Alabama in February 2024:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Alabama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_USA
That might be a good method but unlike the electric chair (particularly)or a long drop hanging might not scare the criminal much. It might well be perceived like a ‘humane’ putting to sleep like lethal injection.
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John:
*Most* murderers are not recidivists if released after years of incarceration. I think that it is necessary to consider whether the death penalty is itself even necessary as either punishment or deterrent, but you I think have a firm view on that which is (ironically?) less liberal than my own.
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I think the death penalty is a deterrent in some circumstances but not all eg for terrorism I wouldn’t use it since it is likely to breed martyrs (a whole life tariff is more suitable) and there are some murders where it isn’t a deterrent either ie impulsive ones where the red mist descends eg lovers’ tiff arguments/a wife murdering her husband with the aid of a kitchen knife after suffering years of abuse.
Other murders can be deterred by the use of the ultimate penalty such as robbery murders using firearms. In the 1950’s criminals would frisk their partners to ensure they didn’t have a gun in case they shot and murdered a police officer which would result in the capital sentence being applied to a criminal over the age of 18 under the law of common purpose.
The death penalty should be an option for a panel of judges where they can use their judgement and evaluate mitigating and aggravating circumstances.
There are both very bad and some good points about the death penalty in the USA. One of the good points is that it isn’t a mandatory sentence.
Some people say the death penalty is inherently cruel but is it really any less cruel to incarcerate a person in prison and deprive them of their liberty for decades on end and perhaps for the rest of their natural life?
Apparently, a few years ago in Italy some prisoners serving life sentences actually petitioned the Italian government to be allowed to end their lives as they said they ‘died a little every day’ being imprisoned for such long sentences.
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Dear Ian (If I may) I heard about your plight via Nurse Dave Wilson on Twitter/X. Can you give any details on the court case? P.C Plod now far more eager to arrest for “hurty words”, than for burglary, drug dealing, mugging.
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Mr. Goggins:
I prefer not to give details of the trial (or the case generally) until after the matter is at an end (including the sentencing hearing), which means until February 2024, at earliest. Suffice to say that “the usual suspects” were behind it all. They have been making malicious complaints about me since about 2012.
As to your general comment, that of course is the case. Society is becoming shockingly distopian in the UK.
Free speech is now effectively dead in the UK.
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I support your right to free speech as I do in the Alison Chabloz case. I don’t agree with it though;)
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