This is my appeal for help in paying the nearly £800 I have been ordered to pay by early/mid April 2024 following my recent free speech conviction (see earlier blog posts). So far, in the past few days, £160 has come in, from three generous donors who regularly read the blog.
Talking point
Interesting, but nothing would have the impact of 6 such missiles landing on Central London.
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Blog post from Ian Millard regarding his recent trial and sentencing under the Communications Act. Ian is another victim of modern Britain's politically-motivated prosecution and persecution system.#FreeSpeech#Nationalismhttps://t.co/Br9DeSSuKq
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 18, 2024
A girl is looking for food in the catastrophic conditions in which Muslims live in the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/jlfEhJ34Nc
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 18, 2024
Erdogan congratulated Putin by phone on his convincing victory in the elections and wished him new successes in government activities for the benefit of the people of Russia , reports the Kremlin.
▪️He said that Turkey is ready to play any facilitating role in returning to the… pic.twitter.com/rTup1kz1wZ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 18, 2024
According to Israeli media, Israelis are rushing to purchase power generators, fearing that they will be turned off in the event of a large-scale war with Lebanon.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 18, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 18, 2024
Good grief.
Many attempts have been made to conquer that region: Alexandrine Greeks under Alexander the Great (4th Century B.C.), the troops of the British Empire (19thC A.D.), the armies of the Soviet Union (1980s), and the armies of the Western alliance (2001-2021). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan#History.
According to my use of Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], that works out as leaving the Con Party with about 42 MPs (Labour 518; LibDems 49; SNP 18; Plaid Cymru 3; Greens 2; Northern Irish seats 18).
Were that to happen, the LibDems would be the official Opposition, and the UK would be under what is already looking like being a Labour Party “elected dictatorship” for 5 years at least.
Little hope for our natural world with mass immigration and huge population growth on a fairly small land mass like Great Britain. Your ilk are nature's enemies.
— Anglo Appreciator 🏴 (@LancsDreamer) March 18, 2024
[Laura Towler and her husband, Sam Melia, who is presently and unjustly in prison; a political prisoner of the NWO/ZOG state]
Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) also has a crowdfunder to help him in prison, and to get him back on his feet once released (likely to be any time after May 2024, and in any event by August of this year). https://www.givesendgo.com/SupportSven. Even small amounts help (the minimum donation is a mere £4).
My own crowdfunder (to help me pay the financial impost imposed upon me by the Court at my sentencing hearing last Thursday) can be found here: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
I was expecting a storm (even if in a teacup) after my sentencing, rather as happened after I was wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016. The Crown Prosecution Service (or should that be Clown Prosecution Service?) also seem to have been expecting a great deal more interest from Press and public than there has been.
The CPS posted this:
⚖️ Ian Millard, 67, denounced the Holocaust as ‘fake history’ and claimed there was ‘nothing wrong’ with being antisemitic.
Today, the ex-barrister has been sentenced after a CPS prosecution.
“A disbarred barrister who posted grossly offensive antisemitic material online has been sentenced.
Between May 2021 and April 2022, Ian Robert Millard persistently posted about his hatred of Jewish people online, while claiming he was simply exercising his freedom of speech.
Statements made by Millard included that ‘there is nothing wrong with being antisemitic’, that England would ‘be a great deal better’ with more antisemitism and suggestions that the Holocaust was ‘fake history’.
He also posted imagery which portrayed antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Working closely with Hampshire Constabulary, the CPS trawled through twelve months’ worth of evidence from Millard’s blog.
Unpicking the evidence, piece by piece, including one month of posts alone which totalled 450 pages, prosecutors were able to show the continuous barrage of offensive material – all of which needed to be considered by prosecutors to build the strongest possible case.
At trial, prosecutors utilised the evidence to prove Millard was not simply expressing his freedom of speech, but was engaged in a campaign of antisemitic hate, publishing grossly offensive material which breached the Communications Act.
Having been found guilty after trial of five charges of breaching the Communications Act, Millard, 67 and of the New Forest, was sentenced at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on 14 March 2024 and received a nine month Community Order.
Sophie Stevens, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor with CPS Wessex, said: “Antisemitism has a devastating impact on individuals and communities – we won’t hesitate to bring offenders of hate crime to justice.
“This was a complex prosecution which required many hours scrutinising the masses of online content that Ian Millard deemed perfectly acceptable.“
[Crown Prosecution Service public/Press statement]
A few points about that.
Firstly, the malicious and politically-motivated pro-Israel group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, or “CAA” (effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy) have admitted on both their website and Twitter/X account that they brought political pressure to bear on the CPS to prosecute me for something/anything, including a letter written directly to the Director of Public Prosecutions by “Lord” Ian Austin, the notorious ex-MP. The “CAA” campaign against me has lasted a whole decade now.
Second, the words allegedly used on the blog were “…a lot better for a little more defensive antisemitism“. The CPS has left out that important qualifier.
Thirdly, imagine the waste of public money in which the CPS has indulged. Hundreds, if not thousands, of pages of blog material, examined minutely. A court process involving some half dozen days or part-days of hearing during 2023 and 2024. Instruction of outside Counsel to appear at each hearing etc.
Also, months of enforced activity by me as I fought to defend myself without any legal or financial assistance; a certain amount of stress, inevitably. The necessity to drive to Southampton several times, too.
The result? Slightly more severe than I had hoped (I was hoping for a conditional discharge or small fine of about £200), but far less severe than the “CAA” and its horrible supporters wanted to see. They really wanted the manacles on me, to quote the late Sir Roger Hollis.
So. 15 meetings with the Probation Service spread over the next 9 months. Also, a nearly £800 costs order and “surcharge” [see also https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J].
Notice how the CPS was obviously desperate to have the result of my case in the newspapers, even adding “Notes for Editors” to its statement.
The question now is whether the CPS will be pressured further by the “CAA” to take other action against me, particularly in respect of blog posts in late 2023 and early 2024 (after conviction but prior to sentence). Needless to say, all further attacks will be vigorously defended, should push come to shove.
Looking at the CPS statement, the old saying “it ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings” comes to mind.
As for the blog, I have already announced that, while the blog will continue to be published daily, or near-daily, its content will inevitably have to change slightly, be more diplomatic etc. Also, I hope to shift the emphasis from comment more towards how to build for the future.
Naturally, in a situation where free speech is all but dead in this country, I cannot invite further politically-motivated prosecutions. I must tread the line, as did Sir Thomas More [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More], between (metaphorically, in my case) keeping my head on my shoulders, and staying true to principle and honour.
There have been a few tweets about my trial and sentence. The “no-one watches” Talk TV (part of the mass media empire founded by the ancient billionaire, Rupert Murdoch), tweeted thus:
Ian Millard, 67, of Pennington, Hampshire, was found guilty at Southampton Magistrates' Court of five offences of posting the messages between April and December 2021.
As one would expect from a Murdoch operation, there is dishonesty in that tweet. For one thing, the image and quotation is from my old Twitter/X account. The Jewish lobby or members of it had Twitter delete my account in 2018, almost 6 years ago, and the tweet probably comes from well before even that date.
I notice that Talk TV’s tweet has had some 3,400 views, yet only 9 people have “liked” it, and only 9 (presumably the same 9) have retweeted it. About a quarter of one percent. So somewhere between 99.5%-100% are either with me or are just not very interested in the story.
The tweet by the “Clown” Prosecution Service followed the same pattern. No less than 13,000 people have apparently viewed it, but only 85 have “liked” it, and even fewer (29) have retweeted it. 85 out of 13,000; about half of one percent. So —again— about 99% of people are either with me or are not terribly interested in what the CPS has to say.
“Millard and the People!” (?) (and with apologies to Ceausescu).
I suppose that it proves how nervous the System is at the popular mood under the surface. People in the UK may be unaware of their own unconscious political preferences…
I noticed that one clown tweeter seems unable to read:
Well if he’s reached 67yrs with that mindset then I doubt anything will cause him to change now. I hope his past cases are reviewed and that he is disbarred. #IanMillard#TalkTV
One of the few other reply-tweets about the matter:
.@cpsuk act like authoritarian dictators, like Hitler and Mussolini, using violence to suppress ideas they don't agree with. Why can't CPS behave like adults and debate opposing points of view here on Twitter instead of abusing their power to silence legitimate free speech.
— Dave. Anti-Fascist As Feck. 𝕏 🇺🇦 (@DaveAFAF) March 15, 2024
That lunatic (he is actually a mental case of some sort, on medication) has been making silly and rude remarks about me for many years, and inciting various people, various organizations, the few who bother to read his tweets, against me.
If I had more money (well, it is just possible that I might hit the Euromillions lottery…), I should apply for a Norwich Pharmacal Order, thus have his identity and address confirmed (like others, he may not be quite as anonymous as he thinks anyway), and then take legal action against him. That would prove expensive for him…
For more about that lunatic, and others of similar type, see this blog post from 5 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/. In that article, I examined the strong links between “antifascism”, Zionism, and mental illness, linkages rarely if ever noted by the mainstream media.
This was tweeted too, by the “Searchlight” “organization” (one old “you know who” in an East London backroom):
— @Searchlightmagazine (@Searchlight_mag) March 15, 2024
Note that “Searchlight“, which has been tracking me since about 1975, is completely washed-up.
Their tweet (politely pretending that it is more than one individual…) has had (after 2 days) only 575 views, and only 5 “likes”. Malicious, but ultimately pathetic, idiot(s).
In fact, I see that “Searchlight” only has about 2,800 “followers” on Twitter/X. When I was expelled at the behest of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby in 2018, I already had over 3,000, and by now would have had probably at least 10,000 (which, of course, was why “they” had me expelled…).
This time round, there has been no interest by Sky TV, the Daily Mail (the scribbler whom I believe was in charge of my disbarment story in 2016 has left and is now the editor of…the Jewish Chronicle!) etc. Only the BBC, the “no-one watches it” Talk TV, and a small provincial newspaper which describes me as “disgraced barrister“. “Disgraced“? Now I think I know from (((where))) that description comes…
I may be disbarred, but am not disgraced except in the little minds of the “usual suspects” and the fools who listen to them.
Incidentally, there were no reporters at all at the sentencing hearing, so that “journalist” (stupid scribbler) has taken his “report” straight from the “CAA” and/or CPS.
There is a lot of news around at present: the Israeli mass slaughter of women and children in Gaza, the Russian elections, the now rather rapid destruction of the misnamed “Conservative” Party. Even in the area of so-called “far-right” “extremism”, on the very same day that I was sentenced (last Thursday), a supposed “far-right” or “neo-Nazi” young man was sentenced to over 2 years in prison for having done not very much.
In view of all that, the story about the retired barrister who said a few supposedly “grossly offensive” things about Jews etc on his blog (read by a fairly small number of people worldwide), and allegedly posted a few cartoons, hardly makes the cut.
I suppose that I should be grateful to, especially, the CPS and the “CAA”, as well as Talk TV, the BBC, and the various Jewish/Zionist and supposedly “antifascist” Twitter/X accounts, and a few small online news outlets, for their diligent work over the past days and months, spreading my words, or alleged words, and my views (or supposed views), so widely.
Their attacks on me, their reportage, and of course the whole recent prosecution of me, have brought my views to the attention of a wider audience by far than my modest blog had so far reached. Thank you.
Finally, I forgot to note that the main policeman (a uniformed constable) who has been involved in my “case” (since 2021), was in court for my sentencing.
I do not propose to name him here (despite his name having been read out in open court), and actually he seems to be generally an amiable young man, though seemingly rather misled ideologically, judging by his dogged snooping on my blog, and by his witness statements.
My point here is that was the same policeman whose “neighbourhood policing team” failed (as far as I know) to do much to deal with a spate of anti-social and acquisitive crime incidents in 2021-2023 in the relatively not-good neighbourhood where I now, perforce, live. Those incidents included the theft of a wheel from my own car in early 2023.
Putting it less politely, the Hampshire Constabulary proved to be utterly useless in doing their proper job.
So there we have it. Next stop— 15 meetings with the Probation Service…
I suppose that I should add a word about appeal to the Crown Court.
At present, I do not intend to appeal on either conviction or sentence.
The present political climate —and this was a political case, and I was charged as part of the UK’s present political repression on free speech— would make an appeal against conviction unlikely to succeed.
Appeals to Crown Court from the magistrates’ court are before a Circuit Judge, assisted by one or two magistrates. So no jury to whom to speak, or to persuade. As for appeal against sentence, the present sentence is not particularly severe. 15 days or part-days of meetings, and a financial impost. The maximum sentence would have been 6 months’ imprisonment (in reality, about 2-3 months).
For me, there would thus seem to be little point in appealing, even though I dispute that I was convicted correctly, or charged correctly.
Finally, I do have a crowdfunder in place to help pay for the £1,000 the case has cost me. Any and all donations gratefully received. Thank you.
[Update, 15 April 2024: I only today noticed that the “no-one watches” Talk TV has it on its website that I was “jailed” at my (March 2024) sentencing hearing! Ha ha! The stupid bastards at Talk TV cannot even get the most basic facts right.]
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
[Update, 13 September 2024: As of yesterday, I do not have to attend any further meetings with the Probation Service, despite not having actually attended very many: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/09/13/diary-blog-13-september-2024/. My sentence is therefore effectively at an end. “The usual suspects” ((( ))) will be fuming].
Parasitic Locust from Pakistan (a safe country without free speech) explains how he lost his passport in Scotland but lived in Birmingham for 6 months and now wants a house in Ireland… Shady, disingenuous, lying snakes… GET THEM OUT! #IrelandisFullpic.twitter.com/vcFCQBeR3L
Barrister Steven Barrett: "The far-left will come first. The far-right will only come in response. If we don't want the far-right, let's deal with the far-left now."
All that money, yet the little money-juggler fails to look, think, or behave like a Prime Minister.
Among the items stolen were a rosewater dish described as a sister piece to the Wimbledon women's singles trophy, a military polo trophy, statuettes of mounted soldiers, and a cavalry trumpet.
“In August 2020, wildfire burned almost the entire Big Basin Redwoods state park in California, scorching ancient redwood trees, some dating back more than 1,500 years and among the tallest living things on Earth.
Redwoods are naturally fire resistant thanks to their thick bark, but the wildfire was so intense and flames so high the trees’ foliage was destroyed, even in tree canopies more than 300ft high.
It was feared the redwoods would never recover, but a few months later something incredible happened – many of the trees began sprouting tiny leaf needles from blackened trunks and branches, and two years later the forest had turned green.
Much of this fresh growth sprouted from buds under the bark and also deep inside the trees, some buds having lain dormant for more than 1,000 years.”
[The Guardian]
Very good news.
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Blog post from Ian Millard regarding his recent trial and sentencing under the Communications Act. Ian is another victim of modern Britain's politically-motivated prosecution and persecution system.#FreeSpeech#Nationalismhttps://t.co/Br9DeSSuKq
🚨Russie 🇷🇺 : Vladimir Poutine remporte l'élection présidentielle pour six années supplémentaires, avec 95,23% des voix. Âgé de 71 ans, il est au pouvoir depuis 24 ans.
Putin: Few people are interested in a large-scale conflict between Russia and NATO
In the event of a large-scale conflict between Russia and NATO, the world will be on the threshold of the third world war, however, few people are interested in such a thing happening, said the… pic.twitter.com/qAqP0kar6o
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 17, 2024
“Putin: Few people are interested in a large-scale conflict between Russia and NATO In the event of a large-scale conflict between Russia and NATO, the world will be on the threshold of the third world war, however, few people are interested in such a thing happening, said the candidate for the president of Russia Vladimir Putin.“
Trump on the start of the SVO: “If we had a real leader, Putin would never have done this. Remember, he didn’t do it, for four years he didn’t do it.” pic.twitter.com/bImJTYjhmJ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 17, 2024
The White House says that Ukrainian Armed Forces units in Donbass are running out of ammunition and are retreating to the “second and third lines of defense.”
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 17, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
Well, this week I am back on winning form— 6/10, compared to political journalist John Rentoul’s 5/10. I very nearly got more, but could not bring the answers to questions 7 and 10 to mind for some reason; I had no idea about question 5, and guessed wrong on question 9.
Announcement
Regular readers will please be aware that, despite my trial, conviction, and sentence in respect of alleged breaches of the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127, this blog will continue to be published.
I shall blog later (probably later today) about the trial (held in November 2023) and sentencing hearing (held 14 March 2024).
The blog will continue to be published, but the style will have to change, inasmuch as my freedom to express views and to explain current and historical events has inevitably been restricted by the trial and sentence.
I am not in fact under any greater legal prohibition now than I was a year ago, but it will be readily understood that my having been convicted does apply somewhat of a chilling effect on my freedom to write what I want, or in such terms as I should prefer.
The “usual suspects”, and their dupes in the police and Crown Prosecution Service, will now be watching and “monitoring” (spying and snooping on) my blog in even greater detail than was previously the case.
They may think that they have scored a narrow victory “on points”, as the sport people say; I say merely that we shall see…
Like Sir Thomas More, I shall express my views and opinions in compliance with current law (however misguided and abused that law may be), so far as I can do so without compromising principle and honour.
Quite apart from that, I think that, in the circumstances of repression and “control” in which we (in the UK and some other countries) live, all social-national people have to look beyond the mere expression of views and the mere analysis of events to actually accomplishing the germinal basis of a different and more advanced society.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
More music
Of all the types of music of the Renaissance (and/or as modern-day composers have reinvented it) for me the best is the stately Pavane.
Old England, in the morning of its glory.
Talking point
[from the Daily Telegraph]
“A former Nato commander predicts our future – and it looks terrifying.
Ever since Erskine Childers’s 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands urged the British government to treat Germany, not France, as the leading threat of the new century, thrillers have often been co-opted as a means of warning policymakers about under-appreciated perils – with the advantage that such a book may be more likely to keep the reader awake than a dispassionate report.
Three years ago, the novelist and decorated ex-Marine Elliot Ackerman collaborated with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis on a political thriller called 2034.
The novel imagines – or predicts; we’ll see – that in the next decade a complacent America will suddenly find its military technologies outclassed by those of its rivals, and when pulled into a conflict with China in 2034, will resort to tactical nuclear strikes, resulting in the tit-for-tat annihilation of Shanghai and San Diego.
The book ends on the brink of a new world order, with a truce called but the US and China so badly damaged that India and parts of Africa are able to vie with them for superpower status.
Now, Ackerman and Stavridis have dusted down their crystal ball for a sequel: 2054. This time, the threat facing humanity isn’t nuclear destruction, but the event that keeps futurists awake at night, “the Singularity”, defined here as “an ‘intelligence explosion’, the equivalent of thousands of years of biological evolution crammed into months or even weeks when machine and human learning [will] integrate into a single consciousness”.
The Singularity may bring about such advantages as immortality, if you’re happy to have your brain uploaded into a mechanical super-body: useful in a future in which pandemics are commonplace. But it’s going to be bad news for the enemies of whichever nation or corporation wins the race to develop the tech.“
A question which has concerned me since I first read predictions of what seemed to be possible human/robot melding in then-unpublished manuscripts by Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg.
As far as I know, the relevant Steiner manuscripts, and probably also the Tomberg ones, are still unpublished. I do not know whether they might be in that online archive. Probably not. I read them well over 40 years ago, in a basement, from dusty files containing brittle old typescript.
Tweets seen
Vaughan Gething set to become Wales’ first minister and first black man in the post after winning Welsh Labour leadership contest https://t.co/y53vV2Vi7L
The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan (ignore the pretty blatant vandalistic “editing” carried out by some of “the usual suspects”).
Not that I fully favour Marine le Pen (her father was better), but this has to be a positive move. The “Overton Window” is moving, and it is moving across Europe, except in Britain, where the “usual suspects” have a stranglehold on the mainstream media, politics, the legal system etc.
That is not to say that nothing is happening in the UK, but it is happening under the surface, as in all police states; for that is what the UK is becoming. Not a full police state, as yet; very much (usually) a “velvet glove” (“iron fist in velvet glove”) one.
The direction of travel, though, is pretty clear, looking at what happened during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic.
Most of the population complied with every last stupid, silly, pointless, made-up-on-a-whim, completely ridiculous “rule” invented by “Boris”-idiot, Little Matt Hancock and the misnamed “SAGE” committee (I always called it “DUMB”, i.e. “Department Under Matt and Boris”): “the Rule of Six”, “social distancing” of 1, 2, or 3 metres, the facemask nonsense etc.
Most people complied with being shepherded about in, or outside, supermarkets by bossy “security” dogsbodies or insolent little shop-girls. How the latter must have hated having had to give up instructing shoppers where to stand and walk, and having had to return to their usual routine of filling shelves and serving customers, rather than barking at them…
Quite a number of members of the public, either from misplaced fear, or from sheer malice, were willing to “report” (denounce, as it was always called in the Soviet Union under Stalin) their neighbours for “crimes” such as taking a ride in the car or on a motorbike, or having a few friends over for a drink at home.
The very compliant ones, and the enthusiastic collaborators, can be written off. Useless people. Our interest, at this stage, is in the non-compliant part of the population. They may still have some fight in them.
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The real situation of the army of the Israel
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) :
Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.… pic.twitter.com/jl1HBW3tV1
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“The real situation of the army of the Israel.
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) : Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.
The ground army is a small force that does not have surplus forces; in order to strengthen one sector, it is necessary to bring in forces from another sector. The situation is so bad that the army does not have the strength to fight in more than one and a half sectors.“
Please support me through the link on my page My family in Gaza is suffering I beg you to help me 😭https://t.co/AkHyHHqrdb
Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory
▪️Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military… pic.twitter.com/uE7a15Jp5J
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory.
Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military intelligence service, General Petr Pelc, in an interview for “Radio Universe”.
“Russia is crushing Ukraine in a slow and systematic way. We all send it money, part of which disappears somewhere, part does not even reach Ukraine, and thus we only prolong the agony and increase the number of dead people,” Peltz believes. – “
Weapons and soldiers win battles, and industry and logistics win wars. That’s all. The question is what we call a military victory. In two years of this armed conflict, Russia increased the productivity of its military-industrial complex 15 times. We are not for that, of course capable ,” he stated.“
As I have always said, short of a palace revolution in Moscow followed by complete anarchy, Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
My recent trial and sentencing hearing
Background
On 30 November 2023, I was tried under Communications Act 2003, s.127 in respect of 5 counts of having breached the said Act by having allegedly posted 5 pages of this blog.
In fact, only small parts of those 5 pages were alleged to have been “grossly offensive” (a few comments, remarks and cartoons).
To put the accusations into context, today’s blog post is number 1,799; tomorrow’s will be number 1,800. 1,800 blog posts published since November or December 2016.
Even taking the last few years, there have been blog pages posted almost every day, at least 1,000 in the past 3 years. I stood accused of having posted 5 pages, out of which pages about 2% of the content was supposedly “grossly offensive”.
I do not propose to go into the decade of persecution of me engaged in by Jewish Zionists, pro-Israel Jews. Anyone interested in the background can find it on the blog easily enough via the search box. Suffice to say that there has been a decade of false complaints and reports to police, politicians, professional regulators etc.
The organizations persecuting me (and many others, from Al Jazeera TV to David Icke, to Alison Chabloz, to various social-national political figures) have been the Campaign Against Antisemitism [“CAA”] and UK Lawyers for Israel [“UKLFI”]. The memberships or supporter-cadres tend to overlap to a degree.
I was wrongfully and (as it later transpired) unlawfully disbarred in 2016. I was later invited to re-open the matter, but declined, partly because I might have been re-instated at the Bar but fined heavily; in any case, the Bar is now a dustbin as far as I am concerned.
Various malicious and false (based on lies) complaints were made about me to the police from about 2012. All such complaints were from CAA-connected Jewish individuals. Not one was upheld, but I was subjected to two “voluntary” police interviews and a number of insolent telephone calls from police drones.
The last such lying complaint about me was made in 2021 by one Stephen Silverman, who grandly styles himself “Head of Investigations and Enforcement” at the “CAA”. My account of that can also be found on the blog. That complaint was thrown out by the Crown Prosecution Service [“CPS”] in early 2022, but the “CAA” persisted in trying to get the matter re-opened via the so-called “victim’s right of review”.
In a clear misuse of their powers, the CPS, having informed me that I would not be prosecuted for the (completely untrue) “racially-aggravated harassment” of Silverman (for which there was no evidence whatsoever), dropped that potential charge, but then (a year later) charged me of having posted 5 “grossly offensive” pages from this blog. Though never arrested, I was charged by post early last year, 2023.
The “CAA” are still tweeting and scribbling on their website that they have pursued me for 7 years (in reality, longer), and that my “case” was only brought to court after “Lord” Ian Austin (former Labour MP) wrote directly to the Director of Public Prosecutions to demand that I be prosecuted.
The prosecution of me was purely political.
🇬🇧 Following action from CAA, former barrister Ian Millard appears in court over five offences contrary to Communications Acthttps://t.co/FVWeiwwzJ4
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) June 29, 2023
After CAA action, former barrister Ian Millard found guilty of offences relating to comments about Jews.
Once again, the CPS dragged its feet and only acted after we applied pressure.
So far, in the past days, no tweet from them about my sentence, which they no doubt think too light.
The trial, and later sentencing hearing
The trial took place over one day in November 2023. It was presided over by District Judge [stipendiary magistrate, in the formerly-used title] Greenfield at Southampton Magistrates’ Court. I represented myself.
The old saw has it that “a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client“. Very true words, but I had reasons for doing so. Firstly, I have not been, nominally, a barrister for many years, and not a practising barrister for about 16 years.
I have not been involved in criminal law (except some corporate “crime” and international extradition matters) for even longer, since the early/mid 1990s. I was therefore treated more loosely by the Court, as being a non-lawyer. Also, I have little but contempt for the spineless Bar of today, and would not wish to be represented by one of them, even though in some respects I might have been better off having an advocate who was current on the law and practice of the criminal courts. I undoubtedly made mistakes in my Court presentation etc.
I found the judge to be generally courteous, eminently fair in most respects, and willing to put the rather poor police and CPS case to the test where he felt that it was particularly weak.
The judge was, however, unwilling to listen to argument about why I had even been charged, i.e. the obvious (and now admitted) political pressure brought to bear on the CPS, which had caved in to pressure from the Jewish/Zionist lobby (as the “CAA” itself admits on its website and Twitter/X account).
The judge (fairly enough, in a sense) made the point that I could go to the High Court on a judicial review application, work that I once did as Counsel, about 30 years ago. That would have had the effect of automatically staying the criminal prosecution, possibly for a year or more. Yes, in theory, but someone on his own, without money? Difficult.
Silverman from the “CAA” was in Court, but he was not a witness, and gave no evidence; just sat at the back of the Court. Afraid of being cross-examined, no doubt, and as I had pointed out in preliminary documentation.
I have no idea why the police never charged Silverman with, at very least, wasting police time over his demonstrably false accusation that I had “racially and/or religiously harassed” him in 2021, which brought two police drones to my door (on my birthday, at that) and effectively compelled me to attend two “voluntary” interviews (the first called off for technical reasons when I had already attended).
In my view, Silverman could have been charged with perversion of the course of justice: “Perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation are serious offences that undermine the administration of justice by falsely accusing people or withholding crucial evidence thus potentially damaging police investigations and wasting courts’ time” [Sentencing Council].
As in other aspects of this case, there are serious questions to be answered around the role of Silverman and the “CAA”, and his/their apparent influence over the police and CPS, but as matters stand they remain unanswered and may remain unanswered.
Reverting to the trial itself, I had been intending to make a submission at “half-time” (after close of the Prosecution case) of “no case to answer”, and on at least two grounds, but the judge (very fairly) pre-empted that (because I was treated as a non-lawyer and unrepresented by a practising advocate), and did it for me, in effect, by grilling Prosecution Counsel (instructed by the CPS) for a bit, before retiring to consider the matter over the lunchtime adjournment.
Sadly for me, the judge decided that the case could continue (I think that it was touch-and-go), so it did. I should not have bothered to give evidence but did (a mistake; I was very tired), and was briefly though not much cross-examined.
The judge gave a fairly brief summing-up and, in my now almost-lay opinion, said one or two things that seemed to me to provide possible appeal points, before convicting me on all 5 counts. A short discussion about potential sentence level then occurred between judge and Prosecution Counsel, and I had to get up and politely insist that I thought that another view was possible about level of sentence; and that was that. Adjourned for 3 months.
The matter reconvened in early 2024 and was adjourned after the Prosecution applied to ask for a Criminal Behaviour Order restricting my blogging slightly.
The sentencing hearing took place on 14 March 2024. The sentencing judge (District Judge/magistrate), District Judge Callaway (a former Deputy Chief Metropolitan Magistrate) presided, District Judge Greenfield having in the intervening period been gazetted and appointed to the Circuit Bench as His Honour Judge Greenfield (now sitting at Reading County Court).
I have to say that I found the sentencing judge, D.J. Callaway, to be as generally fair and courteous as had been the trial judge, D.J. Greenfield.
I had drafted in advance a Defendant’s Argument on Sentence, examining the relevant law as well as my own circumstances, which the sentencing judge was kind enough to say “was very well put together“, if I recall his words correctly. Maybe I still have the remnants of the barristerial skills that (if I may immodestly remember) led some (though not all!) judges to commend me in Court all those years ago. A different world…
The cutbacks in court funding led to one farcical situation when it transpired that the sentencing judge had not seen the long email (about various other matters), and which I had emailed about 10 days in advance of the hearing, requesting that it be printed out and supplied to the judge.
Not only that, the very efficient Clerk of the Court was unable to find the email at all. Fortunately, Prosecution Counsel, not present in person but appearing like a disembodied spirit via video link (something I had never seen before), and on a small TV high up on a side wall, was able to forward the email (which I had copied to the CPS as a courtesy).
The Prosecution’s application for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me re. my blogging was refused, the judge agreeing, in effect, with me that the proposed Order had been so badly-drafted that it would be impossible to enforce and anyway added nothing useful.
The CPS really are a bunch of clowns; not even honest clowns, looking at the way I have been treated over the past two and a half years.
My submission on sentence, that it should be a conditional discharge, or small fine, was not upheld by the judge. Prosecution Counsel, who on the previous occasion had intimated that the CPS were looking for an uplift on sentence based on the idea that my case was a “hate crime”, despite there being no actual victim (accepted by the trial judge and the CPS at and prior to trial), agreed with the sentencing judge that a “lower level community order” would be the correct penalty.
I was sentenced to a “community order” (akin to the “probation” of former years), which involves 15 meetings with the Probation Service, spread over 9 months, so about one meeting every 2-3 weeks.
In addition, I am to pay a total of nearly £800 in costs, including a notional “surcharge”. Money that I do not have right now.
Crowdfunder
In relation to the above-mentioned costs, I have just set up a crowdfunder. If anyone can help, either with a money donation, or via sharing the crowdfunder link on social media or elsewhere, I should be most grateful.
I shall blog about the (slightly amusing) aftermath of the trial and sentence tomorrow.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
[Update, 13 September 2024: As of yesterday, I do not have to attend any further meetings with the Probation Service, despite not having actually attended very many: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/09/13/diary-blog-13-september-2024/. My sentence is therefore effectively at an end. “The usual suspects” ((( ))) will be fuming].
Memory Lane
[me as barrister, London, early 1990s]
[me as “international lawyer”, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1996]
Late music
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky. I rather like this one; it must remind me of someone…]
Most readers of the blog will be aware that I was sentenced yesterday for breach of the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127, a law so defective that the Law Commission has recommended its repeal.
I shall blog about my trial and sentencing hearing etc either later today or tomorrow.
Today, the most important thing is to think about forward strategy.
We see, in the Britain of today, a level of repression on free speech and/or freedom of expression never seen previously, not even during times of war, at least since the 17th Century.
Countries which are not cohesive, and which are sometimes called “diverse”, always have to have tyrannical police and secret police, and repressive laws. The modern paradigm, I suppose, was the Soviet Union.
My trial last November, and yesterday’s sentencing hearing was only one small example of the repression which is still increasing. Israel-lobby puppet Michael Gove introduced his “extremism” proposals and was supported by such as “Lord Walney” (the former MP, John Woodcock, who had to step down as MP after sex-pest allegations etc), who has always been a vocal advocate for Israel and its lobby in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodcock,_Baron_Walney#Adviser_on_Political_Violence_and_Disruption.
In fact, Gove, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, seems to be mainly targeting entirely non-violent British groups such as Patriotic Alternative, already attacked both by State agencies and private interests (as when Sam Melia and his wife, Laura Towler were “de-banked” for political reasons a few years ago). See also https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.
Incidentally, “Labour” supports the latest anti-free speech repression. At least, those with power in the Labour Party: Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc; all Labour Friends of Israel members.
What I want to do here is look at “what now?“, in the context of a British society where free speech (especially speech critical of “certain groups”) is finished, at an end, extinct.
Nick Griffin was (also) on the right track when he tweeted (and I think that his views remain the same) that there was “no Parliamentary road” to power for us as social-nationalists, but that we should avoid getting involved in “terrorism” (hard to define, of course, but let that lie for now).
The Parliamentary road is no good mainly because the game is so rigged that the Chicago mobs of the 1920s would feel ashamed. Look at the latest Israel-lobby-procured “extremism” nonsense coming out of Gove and the rest. That means that entirely lawful bodies such as Patriotic Alternative (mentioned by name by Gove) would never be able to take part in elections (certainly not if they looked like having success), might well find it hard to hold bank accounts, or operate any “regulated” mass media etc.
Of course the “antifa” clowns (unwitting pawns of “others”) will think this all wonderful, at first. Later, of course, they will find themselves fed into the meat-grinder.
As for anything approaching the usual view of “terrorism”, that would have no chance even were it morally acceptable. The State holds all the cards— police, military power, secret and security services, arms and ammunition, the mass media (more or less), and pretty tight control over international travel; and so on.
I think that that has to be the way forward. It is in concord with Clausewitz and his views (in another context) re. concentration of forces, sometimes referred to as a kind of Schwerpunkt, or focussed point or area.
Toby, while I recognised you to be very much an ‘establishment conservative’ rather than a real one, I was prepared to let this slide in the hope that you gave a damn about free speech.
“Toad” is his right characterization. The fact is, that the “Free Speech Union” is part of the “controlled opposition” matrix: Breitbart, Toby Young, James Delingpole, Farage, Brexit Party, GB News, UKIP, Reform UK etc.
Anyone, or any organization, which adheres to pro-Israelism or pro the UK (or any other) Jewish lobby is contaminated and not worth taking seriously.
Here is Young, from 6 years ago:
“I’m currently in Israel on a press trip organised by Bicom — the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre. Bicom does a good job of getting experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to give talks to journalists and I’ve attended a few in their London offices. But this is the first time I’ve been on one of their legendary excursions to the Holy Land, which they organise about six times a year. In essence, you’re given a whistle-stop tour of the country while being briefed at every turn by senior ministers and officials on both sides of the divide. It’s seventh heaven for foreign policy nerds, but I also have another reason for being here, which is to weigh up the pros and cons of emigrating to Israel.
Believe it or not, my entire family is eligible for citizenship under the Law of Return because Caroline’s father is Jewish. And the idea of moving here is genuinely appealing because I’ve been fanatically pro-Israel since falling in love with the place aged 17. I had just failed all my O-levels and was mooning about feeling like an outcast when my father decided to send me to a kibbutz. It turned out to be the perfect antidote to my adolescent funk.
I found everything about Israel, particularly its origins, deeply affecting, and in spite of not being Jewish I felt as if I’d discovered my people at last. I was inspired by the example of pioneering Zionists like Theodor Herzl to take control of my own destiny. I would return to England, retake my O-levels, go to a sixth form and, God help me, apply to Oxford. And when it all worked out, I felt as if Israel and the wonderful example of its founders had saved me and I swore an oath that I would always defend the country from its detractors.“
[Toby Young, in The Spectator, 2018]
‘Nuff said?
I have just read the article, or polemic, written by one David Hansard (real name David Johnson, it seems). Basic premise— cut back on free speech (labelled “hate speech”) in order to protect (approved) free speech. I have heard that before…
What a final straw, such a shame. No choice but to cancel my subscription to the @SpeechUnion – unfollowed.
You should state your views, and those of the FSU, on this matter clearly and unequivocally. This is a critical case and your dilly-dallying on it is discrediting you and the FSU.
Like any msm-approved figure, “Toadmeister” runs scared of the Jewish lobby. If they were to turn on him, that would be his fake “free speech” and scribbling and TV talking head career over at once.
Sam Melia and his wife Laura Towler are heroic.
As for that “David Hansard” (David Johnson) character, his background seems opaque. More from him:
Nope. I'm sceptical of free speech absolutism, which has its own orthodoxy and is often intolerant of being challenged, and which seems to disregard the problems which come with permitting someone to post such messages in public.
“Permitting someone…”— that is the wrong starting point. Free speech on social, political, religious and historical topics, is a right, not a privilege granted by some “authority”, not something that should be licensed or allowed on application, or risked on pain of punishment.
Like many people, “David Hansard” seem not to really understand the idea of freedom of expression. He is all in favour of it so long as it does not cause “problems” in society (for those in power, or profiting by exploitation), or cause “divisions”.
In fact, the “divisions” in society are not caused by those talking about things, but by the underlying realities:
A subject close to my heart. After all, later this week a magistrate will sentence me for deemed breaches of the notorious “bad law” Communications Act 2003, s.127, a prosecution procured by the malicious Israel-lobby pressure group (tiny but well-funded) which is pleased to call itself “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, and which has been boasting online about how it has been trying to have me prosecuted for 7 years or more.
Seems obvious and also fair under the 1986 law that such intention was present, in light of the contents of the stickers – even if the stickers were not in themselves unlawful. That does mean every anti-immigration opinion will soon be prohibited. This is an extreme case.
“Hansard” once again throws in a typical argument often seen or heard: Melia’s case was “extreme”, and most people need not fear persecution or prosecution. Yeah, right!
Presumably, “Hansard” meant to tweet that “that does not mean every anti-immigration opinion will soon be prohibited“. His Freudian slip tells the truth, though, despite his intention. Every anti-immigration opinion will soon be prohibited. Melia’s case is a clear signpost.
Already, almost anything not laudatory, and said about Jewish or Zionist behaviour, is almost by default deemed “grossly offensive”.
Incidentally, I notice that “Hansard”, despite having been on Twitter/X since 2012, has only 461 Twitter/X “followers”. When a pack of Zionist Jews connected with the “CAA” had my Twitter account closed down in 2018, I had over 3,000 “followers”, despite my only following about 50 accounts, mostly organizations. If someone had 3,000 “followers” back in 2018, the same person has at least 6,000 now, usually.
I do not know who or what that “David Hansard” is. What is his locus standi to be published, and/or boosted by Toby Young etc? I have no idea. Well, there it is.
Speaking of Sam Melia and Laura Towler, their crowdfunder [https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia] has, as of time of writing, smashed through the £60,000 barrier and stands at £60,374, and still increasing.
I urge everyone to send at least the minimum (£4) and a message of support. Stick it to the System and the “usual suspects”.
[Laura Towler and Sam Melia, with their little child; another is expected very soon]
More tweets seen
Walked into a restaurant in London’s Chinatown last night, While waiting to be seated, some drunken fool, a person I’ve neither met before nor interacted with, sitting with other drunken fools, looks up at me out of nowhere, and asks rather loudly- “Are you Jewish?” I was…
“Walked into a restaurant in London’s Chinatown last night, While waiting to be seated, some drunken fool, a person I’ve neither met before nor interacted with, sitting with other drunken fools, looks up at me out of nowhere, and asks rather loudly– “Are you Jewish?”
I was Stunned. I wasn’t dressed in anything traditional, nor had anything indicating my faith. The fact that it’s a bizarre thing to ask, not this idiot’s, business, and just a weird thing for him to have done, I was just shocked – realizing that fairly a year ago he wouldn’t have had the gall to do that 1 million different responses raced through my mind.
And to my surprise, (and I’m sure to my Mom’s satisfaction,) the one I chose was to just turn to my friend, carry on talking – and ignore the sheer stupidity I encountered. No point in wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty & the pig likes it. My pride in my Judaism is not going to override my common sense. Wishing you all a lovely Sunday.“
Strange how Jews, or many Jews, find it absolutely insulting to be recognized as Jews (as does the one tweeting above, notwithstanding that he claims to be proud to be a Jew).
I have lived in a number of foreign countries, and would quite often be asked, unexpectedly, “are you [whatever nationality]?” I did not find it insulting (as a matter of fact, I was often mistaken for American or German anyway, as well as, on other occasions, correctly identified as English).
Jews are different. They seem to find it a deadly insult to be identified as Jewish, no matter what.
What can one say? Not much, since free speech is all but dead in England…
Only now, writing that, did it come to mind that I had such an experience when hitch-hiking, aged early twenties, going between Hammersmith Flyover in London and Herefordshire late at night. 1980, I think.
I was picked up by a large truck, and that truck took me most of the way. En route, there was the usual desultory kind of conversation. Eventually, the driver asked me where I was from. I replied that I was presently living in London. The driver then asked, “yes, but where did you originally come from? What country?”
It transpired that that truck driver thought that I was not English but something else, but he could not guess what.
Not sure why the driver thought that I was from a foreign country; maybe because I was learning Russian and German (part-time). In fact, I had that very evening come straight from a small Russian conversation circle in Belgravia (at the GB-USSR Association, a cultural and para-diplomatic body funded by the Foreign Office). Maybe that had slightly affected my normal speech, though it seems unlikely.
From The Shadows: Meet the IDF's new guided mortar Iron Sting – and the incredible women who are working around the clock to make it more effective. pic.twitter.com/KwrBfp09dT
An interesting weapon. If it is as good as the Israelis claim, it would be very effective (for either side) in the Ukrainian theatre, but at present it is claimed (in the clip in that tweet) that Israel alone has it.
Lee Anderson defects to Reform. Reform get their first Member of Parliament. And say they'll specifically target the Red Wall at the next general election. Here's the wider plan 👇 https://t.co/flCYHN6cFY
I don’t see Reform UK making much headway, despite the inadequacies of the main System parties. Well, perhaps I am wrong; we shall quite soon find out.
Stoltenberg: The allies continue to pour billions of dollars in new aid into Ukraine, including Sweden's largest package, which provides ammunition, air defenses and attack boats. pic.twitter.com/ALE45QN27W
Macron is upping the ante and playing escalation in Ukraine with bad cards in hand . There is no unity in the European Union and NATO on the issue of sending troops into Ukrainian territory, and French ground forces are not ready for direct confrontation with the Russian army. pic.twitter.com/zg5TujM8j5
I used to think that NATO would stick together in the event of conflict with the then Soviet Union (and later the Russian Federation), but that was assuming that NATO’s basic posture would be defensive, defending Western Europe from Soviet invasion, or (later) defending NATO’s new front-lines in the Baltic region.
Now? I am not so sure, and Macron’s belligerence looks more like an unnecessary attack on the Russian front-lines in the Ukrainian theatre. Will other NATO states directly support an attack of that nature or support France if Russia attacked its armies? I am thinking “not necessarily”. I certainly cannot see the USA going that far. If it did, of course, it might lead to a Third World War.
"I felt as if Israel and the wonderful example of its founders had saved me and I swore an oath that I would always defend the country from its detractors.
In the 37 years since, I have done my best to keep that promise and been back several times… pic.twitter.com/ssdXsvpkmk
[“Toby Young in a 2018 article: “I felt as if Israel and the wonderful example of its founders had saved me and I swore an oath that I would always defend the country from its detractors.In the 37 years since, I have done my best to keep that promise and been back several times to renew my vows.”Does anyone seriously think he would stand up for your free speech if you called out Zionist control in the West or Israeli war crimes?“].
What “founders” does he mean?
Last November, he, Allison Pearson, and Laura Dodsworth became directors of the British Friends of Israel.
The European Union has exhausted its own stockpiles of weapons during the conflict in Ukraine , said the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell. pic.twitter.com/8HLqI0X3eo
"Britain has only removed 1.3% of the 114,000 people who entered the country illegally, some of whom represent such a threat they are being ‘monitored daily’ by the security services. This is lunacy."https://t.co/YVanhNk8Ll
I expect that the rebel “Conservative” MPs have someone else in mind, probably one of the non-whites like Kemi Badenoch or Suella Braverman (or, even worse, arguably, the return of “Boris”-idiot).
🇺🇸 "U.S. refusal to resume arms deliveries to Ukraine will result in Kiev losing significant territory this year," the CIA chief said. pic.twitter.com/XSNJJQH82k
Damn. This week I was, for once, beaten by political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 8/10; I scored 7/10, and did not know the answers to questions 3, 8, and 9 (in fact, I should also have got no. 9 right, but I had forgotten about his existence).
Sam Melia and Laura Towler
[Laura Towler with her husband, Sam Melia, and their little child; another is expected within weeks, while Melia is in prison]
Most readers will know the facts of the case: Sam Melia sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 years, of which he will probably have to serve 8-12 months, while Laura Towler struggles with her child —soon, two children— everyday life, her house (she may have a mortgage, I do not know), and her small business. Therefore, a crowdfunder was set up to help her at such a time of crisis. That fund has now reached, at time of writing, £58,972, and still rising. Excellent.
The monies raised will go towards helping the couple survive the year ahead, and get them back on their feet after Melia is released. In addition, no doubt a small part of the money will be directed to helping him while he remains in prison.
Anyone can send modest sums to those in prison, via an official programme, using a debit card: see https://www.gov.uk/send-prisoner-money. To use that service, you need the prisoner’s name, his official prison number, and his date of birth. I have no idea of the date of birth of Sam Melia, but Laura Towler, Mark Collett, or Patriotic Alternative would be able to supply it (I am myself unacquainted with the couple, or Patriotic Alternative people, so have no contact details).
Message about Sam Melia from Laura Towler
Laura Towler has posted a message about her husband’s present situation:
“We can now write letters to Sam
I’ve just spoken to Sam. He is in HMP Leeds. He won’t be staying there for the whole of his sentence but it might take a while for him to move. He’s safe and has made friends. He’s been exercising and reading a lot. He says the worst thing (other than missing us) is that it’s quite boring, although the library is pretty good. He said he would appreciate letters from people to help pass the time. Please don’t get too political or the letter won’t get through.
Samuel Melia A3370FC HMP Leeds, 2 Gloucester Terrace, Stanningley Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 2TJ
You can include a stamped address envelope in the first letter if you want him to write back.
We can also send him books from their preferred suppliers and also email him. I’ll provide some more information on this shortly.“
The “men behind the wire”
I also happened to see the following, which may have been written also by Laura Towler (if not, then by associates of hers):
“I know I have posted about Sam a lot over the last few days but here are the addresses for Sven Longshanks and James Costello who are both serving time for the same public order offence as Sam. Sven will be out this summer hopefully but Costello still has over two years of his sentence left to serve, so he needs us the most.
It’s sometimes difficult to think about things to write as you can’t get too political but they are both intelligent men with an interest in history, literature and culture. They might appreciate a poem you like, information about what’s happening on the outside, or even just a message to say you are thinking about them and they are missed.“
Details below for both James Allchurch (“Sven Longshanks”), and James Costello.
Incidentally, “Sven Longshanks” (imprisoned for having published internet podcasts) also has a crowdfunder, both to help him survive in prison and to get him back on his feet when released (expected to be this spring or summer): https://www.givesendgo.com/SupportSven.
Also incidentally, I myself am due to be sentenced this week, in my case in the magistrates’ court, and for the political offence of having breached the Communications Act 2003, s.127 (recommended for repeal by the Law Commission but still at present on the Statute Book).
Tweets seen
Sentenced to two years, not for the content of any of the stickers he distributed –all of which were deemed not worthy grounds for prosecution– but for the 'intent' behind them. Sam Melia was sentenced for thought crimes. Sam Melia did nothing wrong. https://t.co/L3bkHt6vs5
David Atherton says that “the law” is trying to shut down “the debate“. Behind “the law” and the Bench, and the CPS, and the police, is (in 90+% of such cases in the UK) the Jewish/Zionist lobby.
Also, this is not a “debate” but a war (so far a cold war most of the time).
Incidentally, many imagine that I just hate Israel and anything to do with it. Not so, as such. I like some of the Israeli town planning, and the efforts made to green the cities and towns; also, I like some of the modern architecture, and some of the agricultural, horticultural and hydrological techniques and projects (irrigation, de-salinization etc).
By the same token, I have only limited respect for many of the Arabs of the wider region (I have been to Egypt, Qatar etc several times, and, in the past, had occasional dealings with Kuwaitis and other types, as well as a few visits to Tunisia).
However, the Jews should never have been allowed or encouraged to take over Palestine and turn it into the state of Israel, and their brutal repression of the Arab inhabitants (including mass killings, deportations, and other “ethnic cleansing”) has been, in effect, a 76+ year war crime.
“What goes around comes around“, as the Americans say, and I think that the time will come when Israel will face fleets of drones and missiles, numbered in the tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands.
Tel Aviv may, one day, look not unalike to Gaza today.
Macron discussed with French politicians a possible French invasion of Ukraine
The leader of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, told reporters that the topic was raised at a meeting between the president and the heads of political parties. According to him, Macron… pic.twitter.com/SmtH2NsBWQ
“Macron discussed with French politicians a possible French invasion of Ukraine.
The leader of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, told reporters that the topic was raised at a meeting between the president and the heads of political parties.
According to him, Macron allowed the entry of French troops into Ukraine if the Russian Armed Forces break through towards Odessa or Kyiv.
“There are no restrictions and no red lines,” concluded Jordan Bardella (National Rally). “I arrived excited and left even more worried,” concluded La France insoumise coordinator Manuel Bompard,” writes L’Indépendant.
Also in Paris, they are now discussing issuing permission for French special forces to cross the Ukrainian border, to create a “strategic dilemma” before the Russian Federation. And French Foreign Minister Sejournet said that Kyiv has not yet asked Paris to send troops, but “nothing cannot be ruled out in the coming months.”
Ha ha! What’s that? Revenge for Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, 212 years on? Madness.
I shall be sorry to see Paris destroyed, if it comes to that, even though it has become largely a poubelle (rubbish bin). France may have its force de frappe (independent nuclear deterrent), but if it ever uses it, Paris and all other major French cities will be annihilated.
The French discussions, though, do seem to give the lie to the outpourings of Grant Shapps and others. Macron is obviously not expecting a Kiev-regime advance in 2024; au contraire… he expects Russian advances upon Kiev and Odessa. So do I, though whether they will be in 2024 or 2025 (after the US and UK elections this year) is an open question.
Pennsylvania!" Send me to Congress ." Biden forgot where he was running.
I promise you: we will take back Congress, we will restore abortion rights to the law of this country. pic.twitter.com/vveKG2sbi3
God. Biden is in a world of his own. He really is gone…
The tide has turned and there’s no going back.
— Brother Augustine (@BrotherAugusti2) March 8, 2024
In respect of the Israeli war crimes in Gaza as well.
🚨Israeli army shelled a house above its residents’ heads last night in #Gaza, Most inside, including children and women, were killed & those who survived sustained severe injuries!
After living in fear, terror, destruction, hunger, and thirst for 154 days, they were killed ! pic.twitter.com/73lSvQOYy0
Clarissa Ward interviews a small group of Israeli protesters who are blocking aid in to Gaza, and yes, they're as hypocritical and demented as you imagined. pic.twitter.com/PgF76Z4YDF
— 🇮🇪Ireland4Palestine🇵🇸 (@HensonJames11) March 8, 2024
They show their true character…
Yet “they” (both in Israel and outside Israel, inc. the UK), continue to whine about (and demand “reparations” for) what Germans, Poles, Ukrainians etc did or did not do to Jews in Eastern Europe, 80+ years ago.
Israel literally tortured United Nations staff to get them to make false statements against UNRWA.
They. Tortured. UN. Staff.
If we had anything remotely like objective news reporting in the western press, this would be the top story everywhere for days.
AMANDA PLATELL: Stay away from Britain, Meghan – YOU ARE NOT WELCOME
<Often seated alongside Harry during his attacks on his family was his calculating, self-satisfied, former TV actress wife Meghan, milking her in-laws’ personal drama while taking millions from Netflix and… pic.twitter.com/Df0zfr1vDg
Also, people from poorer countries outside Europe can live off small amounts of food-money, because they are accustomed to making their money stretch. I have had to do it myself a few times in the past, but it seems to come naturally to those such as a Nigerian girl I met in the 1980s, when she was a tenant of someone I knew. She would go to the street market a mile or so away in Peckham (South London), buy rice or potato by the sack, cook it with some hot spices and sauce etc, maybe add some small amount of protein, or not even that, and bingo…dinner served.
In fact, I seem to recall the same was true of a West Indian girl, another tenant of the same landlord, and also in the 1980s. She had been sacked for theft by her employer, the wife of an MI5 officer (she denied that she had stolen anything, but was sacked anyway), and was another one with basically no, or very little, cash.
I myself am not naturally a thrifty person, but I have blogged in the past about how I have had a few (in the American word) “hardscrabble” times in my life. You adapt, one way or another…
MOST READ no.2 this week. Labour's Plan to Upend Democracy. How Labour plan to make another people's revolt against the status-quo impossible.https://t.co/UA2ukmAaby
“Last week, I told you about the Labour Party’s plan to import divisive, America-style culture wars into Britain —how the party plans to hardwire a toxic woke ideology into our civil service, schools, universities, and prevailing culture.
This week, I’m going to tell you how Labour also plan to make their political and cultural revolution permanent —by taking power out of the hands of the elected government in Westminster, out of the hands of the masses, and giving it to unaccountable quangos and civil servants you will never be able to vote out of power.“
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable” [John F. Kennedy]
The present “Conservative” Government has to be removed, and the Con Party stamped on, but Labour under Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is going to impose an “elected” dictatorship. It will be all but impossible to change that path by the usual Parliamentary/electoral methods.
Humza Yousaf campaigning for Scottish independence so he can turn the place into an Islamic republic. pic.twitter.com/XKTLveoiwH
The SNP is led by a Pakistani Muslim. Scottish Labour is also led by a Pakistani Muslim. What is strange is that Muslims only comprise 1.4% of the population of Scotland (about 75,000 out of 5.4M), yet two out of the three main System parties in Scotland have Muslim leaders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland#Population.
Is that why the euro zone is plunging into recession , dopey. We blew the cash on covid & ludicrous public spending https://t.co/f5WslJERQg
I favoured Brexit, but saw that it was (deliberately) mishandled from the start. A journalist in 2017 visited the civil service office that was meant to be planning for a smooth withdrawal, only to find it shut. That says it all.
“We are where we are”, in the commonly-heard phrase. For me, Britain’s main strategic move must be to withdraw from NATO before some lunatic starts a Third World War, and at the same time to pursue an independent course combined with a close friendship with the Russian Federation.
Russia can supply us with oil and gas at cheap rates, maybe even cost-price or below. It could save us.
It's the biggest demographic shock on these islands in over 3000 years. Everything feels like it is being swept away. I like many of the immigrants as individuals, just as I like water molecules, but not the tsunami they are a part of however. It's too big, too fast, too sudden.
Money, in vast amounts, wasted on the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic, on no-hope stuff such as “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime), money wasted on Israel and the UK Jewish lobby, huge sums expended on the upkeep and health of millions of migrant-invader parasites, money in even greater amounts wasted on a largely-useless State educational system. Further vast sums spent on pointless “Defence” hardware.
As Goodwin says, all spent without much real benefit to the majority of UK residents, especially the real British.
Israeli Channel 11:
Iran has done the impossible!
The Iranian Red Crescent has opened shelters for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, distributing food. pic.twitter.com/k44yRhIuqC
As said earlier and previously, I shall be sorry to see Paris turned into a wasteland of irradiated ash, even if in recent years it has become rather a poubelle…
The Russian Ministry of Defense publishes footage of the destruction of S-300 air defense missile launchers of the Ukrainian army using an Iskander missile in the area of the city of Pokrovsk.
“The Russian Ministry of Defense publishes footage of the destruction of S-300 air defense missile launchers of the Ukrainian army using an Iskander missile in the area of the city of Pokrovsk. Over the course of a month, UAF air defense systems and radars were systematically destroyed.”
Well, that pretty much puts the cap on the expected “Conservative” Party debacle at the upcoming General Election.
The Con Party is presently running at between 19% and 27% in various opinion polls, with most closer to the lower level. Call it 23%. Of those 23 points, about 20 points consist of the votes of persons over 65. If that demographic were all to vote elsewhere or abstain, the Con Party would be looking at a vote of about 3%, the same sort of level as that typically achieved nationwide by the Greens (2.7% in 2019).
Of course, that will not happen. Many middle-aged and elderly people are people of habit. Many have habitually voted Con for decades. Many say “so if I don’t vote Conservative, for what can I vote?” Brainwashed by the “two main parties” scam.
Having said that, I now think that many people even of advanced years are now angry enough to either abstain or vote elsewhere as a protest.
I do not think it totally impossible now for the Conservative Party to go one or two points below 20% at GE 2024. That would mean only a few Conservative Party MPs left— between 20 and 50, depending on all the other factors in play.
Sam Melia and Laura Towler
[Laura Towler and Sam Melia]
I see that their crowdfunder is now at (as of time of writing) £56,350, a magnificent sum, and still increasing, though more slowly than in the days since Melia’s sentencing hearing (last Friday, 1 March 2024; he was sent down for 2 years, meaning that he will probably not emerge for 12 months, maybe 8 months).
The money will support Laura Towler (who has a young child, with another expected within weeks), will make Melia’s time in prison more tolerable, and will support the couple and their socio-political struggle in 2025 and thereafter.
“UPDATE: Firstly, we would like to thank everyone who has donated so generously to this campaign, from the bottom of our hearts we are thankful for such a wonderful outpouring of support.
Secondly, as most of you will now be aware, Sam has been sentenced to two years custodial sentence.
Sam is now incarcerated in a British prison for the ‘crime’ of producing messages the prosecution admitted were ‘totally lawful’. What’s more, under this particular law, the Judge reminded that the jury that the ‘truth was no defence’.
This campaign will remain live for the duration of Sam’s imprisonment and the money raised will support Sam’s pregnant wife Laura and their child Catherine.“]
A modest donation (the minimum amount is only £4) not only supports a young family (and particularly a young mother who is also a staunch social-nationalist and who is imminently expecting a baby while her husband is —unjustly— in prison), but also sticks it to the System.
[Update, same day: the following message is believed to have originated from Laura Towler:
“We can now write letters to Sam
I’ve just spoken to Sam. He is in HMP Leeds. He won’t be staying there for the whole of his sentence but it might take a while for him to move. He’s safe and has made friends. He’s been exercising and reading a lot. He says the worst thing (other than missing us) is that it’s quite boring, although the library is pretty good. He said he would appreciate letters from people to help pass the time. Please don’t get too political or the letter won’t get through.
Samuel Melia A3370FCHMP Leeds 2 Gloucester Terrace Stanningley Road Leeds West Yorkshire LS12 2TJ
You can include a stamped address envelope in the first letter if you want him to write back. We can also send him books from their preferred suppliers and also email him. I’ll provide some more information on this shortly.“].
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Mustache Man speaking on Palestine:
“The country is undergoing restriction of its liberty by the most brutal resort to force.. is being robbed of its independence & is suffering the cruelest maltreatment for the benefit of jewish interlopers.. the poor arabs are defenseless &… pic.twitter.com/4ZYNgMEL70
How the fuck is the deranged Rachel Reeves even a member of the Labour Party. Is this new image meant to make her look like a serious politician or did she deliberately pick the psychotic serial killer look? https://t.co/jmzblu1Xyv
Rachel Reeves was also caught trying to defraud the Parliamentary expenses system in various ways.
Now Rachel Reeves is intending to increase the existing harassment and bullying of the sick and disabled, and unemployed, in the UK, a theme she has supported previously.
The present Government has to be removed, but anyone who imagines that “the party formerly known as Labour” will be better is deluding himself.
And then we have Darren Jones and other senior Labour front benchers like Rachel Reeves pointing to the inflated size of the debt after 14 years of austerity ruination and invoking the exact same economically illiterate tropes as the Tories did in 2010,
More torment and bullying for the sick and benefit claimants and five more years of failed and destructive neoliberalism. Hope rarely survives contact with Rachel Reeves.
Hmm . . . "I will never play fast and loose with the public finances" says Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancer. In 2015 Rachel Reeves had her credit card taken from her for £4,000 bogus expense claims, and there's more – pic.twitter.com/OGKdrsHbVI
When people show you who they really are, believe them. Rachel Reeves & Liz Kendal told us back in 2015, Jess Phillips, Lisa Nandy , David Lammy since around 2019, and Starmer since 2020 Why would you trust these people with running our country?
Labour’s main problem in getting to its GE 2024 “victory by default” is its own MPs, and especially its own front bench. Every time they open their mouths, they seem less pleasant, and indeed less competent. I suppose that is why Starmer keeps them gagged whenever possible.
Woman on £93,731, subsidised food, travel, housing, alcohol, 2 properties she can make profit from, unlimited claims for energy the 2nd one. Knows benefits lowest in the OCD, state pension lowest in the 🌍. Patron saint of presenteeism. 330,000 + have died due to “austerity”. pic.twitter.com/m3auAgZqMD
— NotVotingForGenocidePeddlers#BLM #WeAreSoFucked (@bigfadge) March 6, 2024
Liz Kendall, yet another “Labour Friend of Israel”…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 7, 2024
Ha. Very true. Without the TV fear-propaganda, the System could never have got away with, for example, the 2020-2022 “Covid” panicdemic or scamdemic.
That tweet reminded me of a scene from this film:
A rather odd film, which (as has often happened with me when I encounter experimental-style films, like those of Tarkovsky) grew on me when I saw it for the second and third time (on video).
I first saw Alice in the Cities in the early 1980s, at some art-house cinema, as the Americans say, in Hampstead. I was rather reluctantly dragged there by someone I knew, “Major Tillman” (a nom de guerre), and his French girlfriend. His girlfriend apparently later complained that I had “fidgeted...like a little child“. Probably. I do not have a lot of patience with films. I believe that I heard that they eventually married, and now live in Paris.
On seeing the film again, I think twice more, so three times altogether over 20 years, the film grew on me, though I still think it not entirely a success, artistically.
“Laurence Douglas Fink (born November 2, 1952) is an American billionaire businessman. He is a co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation.[1]
BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the world with more than US$10 trillion in assets under management.[2][3]
"We’re shipping in more people & GDP per capita is flatlining. This blows a hole in Whitehall’s assumption we need ever more immigration to drive growth" (Iain Martin, The Times). Indeed 👇https://t.co/enNED9cWuS
In reality, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan is being implemented by cabals of evil persons embedded in the Government, Parliament, msm, and Civil Service. They scarcely even try to conceal the agenda any more.
Another talking point
In fact, that person’s opinion is legally incorrect.
“1)A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and “thief” and “steal” shall be construed accordingly.“
[Theft Act 1968, s.1]
It is a long time since I practised at the Bar (2008) and even longer (nearly 30 years, early/mid 1990s) since I did any ordinary criminal law, but my clear recollection is that someone can be convicted of shoplifting (theft) without having left the store. That is because the immediately-relevant component of the offence is that the person has “appropriated the rights of the owner” to the goods taken (with a dishonest intent) and with the intent of permanently depriving the owner.
Assuming that the foodbank basket is (as the one in Waitrose is, and I think at Tesco etc) under the name and control of [name]-Foodbank, then anyone taking food from the shelves, with the appropriate intent, and then “giving” that food to the foodbank by placing it in the foodbank basket or bin has committed the offence, even if the shoplifter does not get any (material) benefit.
In fact, I doubt whether it would be any different even were the foodbank basket or bin to be labelled with the name of the supermarket, because the shoplifter has still “appropriated the rights of the owner” to the goods, and intending to permanently deprive. I have no idea whether that exact situation has ever been tested in court, or in appellate court, though.
The same is true of a shoplifter who places items in a shopping bag or pocket (assuming that the “mental element” of dishonesty is present). It is not necessary, to ground the offence, for the shoplifter to have left the store with the goods taken. This is a common misconception.
It is true that store detectives and the like usually do wait until the suspected shoplifter has exited the building before stopping the suspect. That is because the shoplifter can hardly then claim to have intended to pay (as he or she might be able to say if stopped somewhere inside the store); there have, though, been appeal cases reported (often in the 1970s, the Theft Act 1968 still then being quite new) where convictions were upheld under such circumstances.
It is just easier for store detectives to stop suspects outside.
More tweets
#Sydenham Library is once again operating a 5 day service and we are on the look out for new #volunteers. If you can spare a few hours a week to help keep this vital service open please do get in touch! contact@sydenhamlibrary.co.uk https://t.co/8X7piBgD33#se26#lewisham
Public libraries are vital even though most people, most of the time, do not use them. A component of a civilized society.
The beauty of your country and it's race, ethnicity and culture is not something to just flippantly discard and destroy in a melting pot of immigration.
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, or a large part of it.
On those days when you feel like the whole world is out to get you ………………………. ………….They are. Your government is allowing thousands every day to come destroy you, your family and everything your people ever worked to build.
Meanwhile, in Reykjavik, migrants storm the Icelandic parliament as they debated tougher immigration laws. They demand housing and their families to join them in Iceland. Deport them now. pic.twitter.com/4EiYgbWemy
God. This whole invasion is like a skin condition, a spreading rash of some sort.
It happened again. Another European girl was killed at the hands of a migrant in Vienna and she wasn’t the first one this week. And tomorrow it will happen again, because white lives don’t matter to our globalist leaders.
One of the israeli massacres on Rafah today, causing massive injuries, agonising death & trauma to hundreds of displaced Palestinian people https://t.co/F5y9iz8sVt
Even some Jews, the ones less contaminated by ancient tribalism, oppose the mass “slaughter of the innocent(s)” in Gaza.
Yesterday from Gaza city |
“Nice flag! You bang*ed out! F*** your religion”
An Israeli soldier from the Givati Brigade at the military checkpoint along Gaza's coastal road harassing a Palestinian woman who is raising a white flag. pic.twitter.com/rLc4KKCWiw
Apocalyptic. Contrast the complacent American reaction to this with the scalded American reaction to the destruction, by Islamist militants, of two large buildings in New York City in 2001.
According to the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] pressure group in the UK, something like 96% of Jews in the UK identify with Israel and Zionism. That may or may not be exactly accurate, but gives a general picture, anyway.
Katie Hopkins about OFCOM censorship, Talk TV and GB News
Also:
Predicting it now:
This will be cited as a pretext under a Labour government to expand the scope of Ofcom's broadcast standards to YouTube channels, under the Online Safety Bill
The establishment sanitisers will chase Britain's dissidents to the furthest corners of the internet https://t.co/Pn4K1diCnX
“Donald Trump surged closer to a rematch with Joe Biden in November as he trounced Nikki Haley, his final rival for the Republican nomination, on Super Tuesday.
The former president, 77, dominated the biggest day of the primaries, winning eleven states by 9.30pm, and leaving the ex-South Carolina governor’s White House dreams hanging by a thread.”
[Daily Mail]
Trump is very flawed, but at least he is not suffering from increasingly-obvious dementia. He will take away Zelensky’s ricebowl, and that will end the war in Ukraine within weeks, as the already-crumbling frontlines of the Kiev regime break, allowing Russian to fulfil its “manifest destiny” and take over all Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and also the Black Sea littoral as far west as Transdniestria.
“Birmingham City Council has signed off on a wave of ‘devastating’ cuts to services and a 21% rise in council tax.
The Labour-run local authority has declared itself effectively bankrupt and says it needs to make £300million in savings, after after identifying equal pay liabilities estimated at £760million.
Councillors were seen leaving Tuesday’s crunch vote in tears after more than 50 of them voted in favour of the financial measures needed to secure a £1.255billion bail-out loan from the Government.“
[Daily Mail]
That is what happens when the Common Purpose cancer takes hold— administrative chaos.
More tweets seen
We’re the only G7 country in recession.
I can’t think of one public service that’s better than it was 14 years ago.
Yes…but a good part of the overall problem is caused, or made far worse, by the migration invasion, meaning the importation into the UK, every single year now, of a million backward persons, almost all non-European, i.e. non-white, and most of whom are little more than parasites, a substantial minority actively criminal and/or terroristic.
Unfortunately, the trade unions are no longer very useful to the workers of the UK. They have been captured by “woke” fanatics, pro-immigration lunatics, and/or the Zionist lobby. The Labour Party is similar.
The % of Brits who think immigration has been too high hits a new record high of 65% in the YouGov tracker
Only 19% think "it's about right"
As I've consistently argued, the British people are utterly fed up with how elites have managed this issuehttps://t.co/5eG7ts1LTK
As most readers will probably know, Sam Melia was sentenced last Friday to 2 years imprisonment (which may in practice mean 6-12 months —more likely 12 than 6) for distributing stickers which themselves contained nothing illegal, as the trial and sentencing judge recognized.
The judge is said also to have recognized, in his summation, that Sam Melia is a good fellow (or some such), a good family man, a good citizen and community member etc. Despite that, Melia has been imprisoned, for what amount to purely political reasons.
Melia’s wife, the brave Laura Towler, has been left to struggle with her home and small business, with one small child, as well as being about to give birth to a second child.
The crowdfunder set up to help Melia and Laura Towler has now reached, as at time of writing, £55,641.
This is the link to that crowdfunder: https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia. Donate as little as £4, and so not only help that family but also stick it to the System, to “the lobby”, and to all enemies of this country’s future.
[A hero with a Valkyrie— Sam Melia and Laura Towler]
I am personally unacquainted with that couple; neither do I belong to Patriotic Alternative.
The couple and their children are exactly the kind of people who could, if existing in sufficiently-great numbers, form the basis for a new civilization once the present one collapses, which will probably happen within the next decade.
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Over 5 million migrants (8% of our population) have come to the UK over the last 5 years.
No economy or culture could survive such a dramatic rate of change.
Economically, culturally and constitutionally the UK is being extinguished
Undeniable, but it would be a mistake to imagine that Labour, under Jewish-lobby puppets Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc will be much different, or any better. Still, stamp on the Conservative Party anyway— extinguish it.
This follows an earlier post which looked at Labour's plan to double down on divisive woke theories about race, gender, etchttps://t.co/ohKIsJJ5uB
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) March 6, 2024
I must have missed all that.
I have my own (non-“conspiracy”) theory, which is that anything the human mind can imagine, even if only as a vague concept, can and will eventually become reality.
The idea of human flight by artificial means was first thought of in ancient times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus. In mediaeval and then Renaissance times, a few of the more-educated people conceived the idea of flight using either harnessed birds (Bishop Godwin) or mechanical contrivances (Leonardo da Vinci): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Moone
[Frontispiece of Der Fliegende Wandersmann nach dem Mond, 1659]
Neither Godwin’s nor Leonardo’s ideas were immediately practicable, but the important thing was that those people, and Leonardo in particular, had the idea that flight was possible, in Leonardo’s case by mechanical means. That was key.
Later, of course, in the 18th and 19th centuries, there were hot-air and lighter-than-air balloons, then Zeppelins (late-19th/early 20th centuries), and then the several people in the early 20thC who developed heavier-than-air machines; the Wright brothers are of course most famous.
[World War One: German Zeppelin over the palace of Westminster, probably 1916]
The fast jets, passenger airliners, spacecraft etc which we now know came, originally, from that one spark in a human mind.
The same is true in all spheres of activity. The human mind need only be able to think that something can exist for it to exist, though the working out may take, sometimes, hundreds or even thousands of years.
Typical of the “Conservative” drone-MPs of the past 15-20 years.
Anyone who has been to any uni has come across a Laura Trott in a seminar. Hasn’t done most of the reading, doesn’t understand what she has read but continues to spout nonsense with an unfounded sense of confidence.
Can Laura Trott actually count? People on less than £25k a year are worse off, due to frozen tax thresholds & fiscal drag. That is not a tax cut. She actually said. ‘the economy has been doing so well’. We are in a recession. Jesus – she is so thick.
“Jesus, she is so thick“, the lady says…well, the only thing that can now save the Conservative Party is that many of the voters are also very stupid…
Harsh? Look at how many voters at the recent by-elections still voted Con. Yes, a minority, but thousands each time…a third of the voters who voted at Kingswood, and a quarter at Wellingborough. At Rochdale only 12%, but of course English voters who voted were a small minority there.
Alex Jones interviewed Laura Towler, the wife of Sam Melia. It's important that we make everyone aware of this gross miscarriage of justice. pic.twitter.com/TC57x1en8D
I know Laura Towler. She's a really nice young woman. She and her husband Sam Melia have been hounded by the system for years.
Even had several police raids, classed them as "terrorists", can you even believe that?
The 2 tier policing system needs to stop.
— National Identity 🇬🇧✝ (@_National_ID) March 6, 2024
Correct this is a sample of the jew hate stickers he produced. #SamMelia also asked that they be posted close to schools. So many people defending a man they know nothing about. pic.twitter.com/pI1jDbAn7s
I have no problem with the examples shown; some may, but not me.
Time to start sheltering people like Sam Melia and others who are persecuted by the (in)justice system, instead of turning themselves in they should just go into hiding.
Ireland is pretty sad these days. Sinn Fein/IRA too. They seem to have surrendered completely to NWO/ZOG. Their “Irish Republican resistance” stance has become a kind of joke “cosplay” that evokes little but derision, and rightly so.
[Irish Republican Army volunteers, 1920]
[Black and Tans search a suspect, Ireland, 1920. Note the officer using his left hand to search the suspect’s pockets, while probably covering him with a pistol or revolver held in his right hand (unseen). Note also the body of a woman lying in the roadway behind]
Quite the chart! As I say, the immigration numbers that are unfolding in Britain right now are bananas https://t.co/3HlwWpqlFD
"What we are likely to see under a future Labour government is a return to what one scholar called 'post-democracy' — political powers will once again be pushed sideways, away from ordinary voters, to an array of quangos, auditors, regulators & the expert class"…
In that event, Britain will be something akin to a dictatorship. In that event, anything will be justifiable by way of resistance to what may amount to a disguised tyranny.
Due to the difficult situation at the front, the United States may evacuate Zelensky from Kiev, said ex-Pentagon employee Stephen Bryan pic.twitter.com/dcATsI1xtn
In that event, will Zelensky and his wife go to his USD $40M villa in Florida, to another of his luxury houses (in Italy and elsewhere), or will he drop all pretence and go “home” to Israel?
According to the Washington Post, since the start of the war, the United States has secretly transferred more than 100 weapons shipments to Israel that were not submitted for congressional approval because their financial value was below the minimum financial value requiring…
[Sam Melia and Laura Towler, of Patriotic Alternative]
Regular readers of the blog will be aware that I have blogged in recent days about the very unjust prosecution, conviction, and sentence visited upon Sam Melia and, consequently, upon his wife, Laura Towler, and their children (one very young, the other expected to be born sometime in the next few weeks).
I am not a member of Patriotic Alternative, and am personally unacquainted with the couple, but this is a disgraceful persecution, not merely an unjust prosecution.
I often criticize Toby Young and his “Free Speech Union” (for turning a blind eye when social-national people such as Alison Chabloz, “Sven Longshanks”, and indeed me, are harried by the State at the behest of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby), but credit where due— even Toby Young has criticized this latest curb on freedom of expression: see https://www.noticer.news/sam-melia-jailed-two-years-for-sticker-campaign-patriotic-alternative/.
Prior to his sentencing, Sam Melia made a statement, alongside Laura Towler, and Mark Collett; Laura Towler also made a brave and defiant statement after her husband had been taken away:
The crowdfunder referred to by Sam Melia, set up mainly to support his wife and children during his involuntary absence, has now reached, as of time of writing, £52,331. The more the better. These seem to me to be good people. Help these people and, at the same time, stick it to the System. Minimum donation is £4.
Incidentally, Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) is still in prison, inter alia for having criticized “the usual suspects” on his podcasts. He too has a crowdfunder, in order to help him both in prison and upon release (probably around August 2024). https://www.givesendgo.com/SupportSven.
As regular readers will also know, I myself am also to be sentenced (next week) (for having blogged the truth over the past years).
Tweets seen
Israeli soldiers have published a photo of themselves posing in the nursery of a Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/dn58QH6MHf
I should add that the Mukhabarat officers who “did not” arrest me in Alexandria were quite polite most of the time, and even gave me a couple of cups of good-quality Arabic coffee. A long time ago now— 1998.
It's good that finishing dead last among all sections of the Labour membership in the 2015 leadership contest didn't persuade Liz Kendall to take her views of people on benefits and shove them right up her old tan track. It's profoundly democratic that she gets to rerun them now. pic.twitter.com/VLlbH8YRce
I had better not comment about Liz Kendall (Labour Friends of Israel member) in case some snooper and/or policeman thinks that my comment might be “grossly offensive”…
Remember the Blair-Brown “elected dictatorship”? The likely Starmer one will be twice as bad, at least. In every way.
A former American army officer made a statement: “The Israeli army is bombing buildings in the Gaza Strip, knowing that there are children there.” pic.twitter.com/M9kj3vG3Le
In a desire to save the lives of its soldiers and service dogs, the Israeli Defense Forces are experimenting in the Gaza Strip with combat robots and remote-controlled robotic dogs. pic.twitter.com/8DNclpheqQ
Russia: We have information that the West is preparing mechanisms to support the irregular opposition before the Russian presidential elections pic.twitter.com/f78sg7CvzS
Putin’s enemies, like mine, have a strange habit of dying. The difference is that Putin (unlike me) seems to give Divine intervention a helping hand rather often…
George Galloway calls on Jeremy Corbyn: "Announce an alliance of the remaining socialists in the country, you lead it, I'll support it, and let's go. Time is running out." pic.twitter.com/itnNct7vtK
Corbyn is rather underwhelming, as I have said previously and for a number of years. Poor (almost non-existent) academic and work background, far too interested in the blacks and browns as contrasted with English people and, despite his opposition to Israel as a state, far too ready to give credence to all the “holocaust” stuff.
A SINGLE anti-war candidate just got elected in a free and fair election, and within 24 hours the media class are slandering him and the entire UK Government has been weaponised against him.
God forbid we have a voice for PEACE in Parliament!
These people are contemptible.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 1, 2024
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 4, 2024
My own home area is not much better. This is the real UK, while this rotten misgovernment (with Starmer-Labour support) throws taxpayers’ money at the Kiev regime, Israel, and the Jewish lobby in the UK (particularly the “Community Security Trust” [“CST”] strongarm and snoop org). About £15M per year to the CST alone (billions to the others): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Security_Trust#Funding_and_finances.
🚨 New polls shows trust in mainstream UK political parties has fallen below 12%
They don’t fear George Galloway
They fear losing the control they’ve held for so long
A dying regime always starts by restricting freedom of speech and freedom to organize.
Keep the faith.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 2, 2024
The corrupt “two main parties” scam is now trying to criminalize anything and everything they decide to label “extremist”. Fight it.
It isn't centrist or moderate to break every record on net migration, year after year, and then refuse to monitor the results of your policy decision. It's extremism, driven by ideology. https://t.co/pRR7CLFoSa
I am in absolute disbelief, how are we now a country that refuses to give the data to its people specially because they ‘don’t want it to inflame tensions’? I cannot possibly be reading this right, surely?
Behind that, the reason is because the System has an agenda: google “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan”.
You're undoubtedly correct. The really big question, therefore, is why DO successive governments and civil servants support such insanely high immigration figures, given the enormous strain it puts on the economy? I truly have no idea, unless the Kalergi plan is really true 😦
They did this with GCSE results based on country background of kids about ten years ago, the results showed what everybody already knew so they simply disappeared in the hope nobody would notice.
Islamism is only one existential threat to Britain. (Political) Zionism is another, mass immigration and/or “migration-invasion” by non-Europeans generally is yet another. Societal breakdown and the allied cultural trash is another. There are others too. Those strands are woven together.
Goodwin is very pro-Israel, very pro the Jewish/Zionist lobby. He makes some good (though very obvious) points about UK society and politics, but his limited ideological perspective leads him to partly-incorrect conclusions, as in his espousal of the “controlled opposition” Reform UK party.
“Trainee physician associates (PAs) are being employed by the NHS to work with patients despite having no medical training, this newspaper has learned.
There are already growing concerns about the escalating use of these ‘cut-price medics’ – who are supposed to assist doctors and nurses with routine duties after two years’ training.
But many are being asked to take on clinical duties which go far beyond their remit, with mounting evidence that this has caused harm to patients and led to misdiagnoses and even deaths.
But The Mail on Sunday has now discovered that the NHS is rolling out ‘apprenticeships’ for PAs – which means untrained staff are going directly into paying jobs working with patients.“
The presenter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Phillips] a black man from Guyanese origins, and the three commentators also of non-European origin: a mixed-race (?) youngish man, a possibly Chinese (?) woman, and another woman, possibly/probably South Asian. The main other commentator expected, but not yet present, would be Shami Chakrabarti [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shami_Chakrabarti], the well known commentator, activist etc, who is of Indian (Bengali) origins.
Many readers will be aware that Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative was imprisoned on Friday for 2 years, which means that he will be incarcerated for a period somewhere between 6-12 months.
Melia’s wife, Laura Towler, is looking after their small child while Melia himself sits in prison; another child is expected within the next 2 months.
While I am unacquainted personally with Melia and Laura Towler, and while I do not belong to or (as such) “support” Patriotic Alternative, it is our duty to help those in trouble, especially those on our side of the overall societal argument. Even the New Testament says that.
There is a crowdfunder: https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia. Minimum donation is £4. So far, the crowdfunder has raised not far short of £48,000, which is a stunning compliment both to the couple themselves and to all those who have donated.
What an utter disgrace. Why can't our people stick up for each other ? Every other group can. Locked him up just when he is most needed in the home. His Wife is not long off giving birth. He needs a 24/7 Vigil outside the nick https://t.co/Gf60AL300g
I agree with Kurten, and the same is true of my “case” (I am going to be sentenced in a couple of weeks, in effect for having written the truth as I see it).
I wonder whether Melia will appeal, at least on sentence. It can be risky, but might work out for him on the facts as I have read of them. Hard to call. At present, it seems that he may be able to get out before the full year (out of two years) is up, but I only know what I have read here and there about his case.
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It has been a long time since I swam in similar places in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean. Too long, perhaps.
Voltaire said I might disapprove of what you say but I will fight to the death for your right to say it. No matter what your opinion of Sam Melia any Englishman should defend his liberty. He has been locked up for two years for nothing. This must be opposed or free speech is over
Sam Melia committed no crime. He insulted no-one. Yet he was arrested by the Thought Police & sent to the Gulag for two years. This is tyranny! Regardless of your politics we need to rise up against this monstrous attack on English Liberty. https://t.co/pGjOpENnSW
Today I took a trip to Salisbury Cathedral and lit my first ever votive candle at the “Prisoners of Conscience Window” there. I thought nobody more fitting to be remembered as a Prisoner of Conscience than Sam Melia, and I prayed on behalf of many that our prayers be heard. pic.twitter.com/lfeKbZKFgr
Next time you go there, light one for me too. I am going to be sentenced soon for having blogged the truth…
The regional German party “Free Saxony” filed an application to initiate criminal proceedings against the Bundeswehr due to plans to carry out an attack on the Crimean Bridge
This Sunday, lawyer Martin Kohlmann filed a criminal complaint with the German Attorney General's Office… pic.twitter.com/iMJwLDD6A8
Berthold Kohler, a columnist for Frankfurter Allgemeine, believes that the published conversation between Luftwaffe commanders “increases both the shame and the foreign policy damage” for Berlin on a topic that has already become an endless… pic.twitter.com/P6hRmpMFHt
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