Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - The Enemy of the British State

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Aug. 2, 2018 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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The Enemy of the British State

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	The law is a blade and it cuts according to the inclination of the sovereign that wields it.
	This is the academic opinion of Dr. Falguni Scheff, postmodern philosopher and director of undergraduate studies at Emory College, as explained in her 2009 book, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race.
	Scheth believes that the unruly populations are targeted by sovereign power because, fundamentally, they are perceived to be a threat to the existing order of the state.
	These populations are, in her words, racialized, although race is not necessarily a factor.
	Any kind of distinguishing characteristics can be used to form a race of people that the state perceives as the enemy of stability.
	A group of white, working-class, anti-Islamic British patriots are very easily distinguished from the multicultural, bourgeois, educated middle classes.
	And so, according to Scheff's theory, they indeed can be racialised.
	and the British state has long had it out for Tommy Robinson.
	You are both under arrest.
	Oh my god.
	I'm stuck in police.
	Listen, excuse me.
	No, no, officer, officer.
	When you attack, when I'm in the middle of the moment, take that camera up before you're in the middle of the- No, when I'm in my children, you're telling me I have to leave now!
	Why?
	Why?
	Because there's likely to be disorder out there.
	If someone come up to you on a day out with your children and told you, if someone come up to you with your children, get arrested again, find my kids' caution with your horrible teacher.
	Why are you following us?
	Go away!
	On the 1st of August 2018, anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson was released from a two-month stint in prison after a successful appeal over his conviction for contempt of court.
	This conviction was overturned by Lord Burnet, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, an office that has existed since 1234 and as of the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005, the highest judicial authority in the land.
	These are Lord Burnett's conclusions.
	1.
	It was inappropriate to proceed immediately on the motion of the court to deal with the alleged contempt after immediate steps have been taken to remove the offending video from the internet.
	An adjournment was necessary to enable the matter to proceed on a fully informed basis.
	In any event, 2.
	The failure to comply with Part 48 of the rules resulted in there being no clear statement, orally or in writing, of the conduct said to comprise a contempt for contravening the section 4-2 order in place.
	3.
	It was unclear what conduct was said to comprise a breach of that order, and the appellant was sentenced on the basis of conduct which fell outside of the scope of that order.
	4.
	The haste with which the contempt proceedings were conducted led to an inability of counsel to mitigate fully on the appellant's behalf.
	Tommy's case had been rushed through the court without being fully informed, and the speed of the conviction prevented Tommy's legal defence from doing their job.
	It was unclear what Tommy had done wrong, Tommy had not been informed of the crime he had committed, and Tommy was sentenced for behaviour that did not constitute contempt.
	Tommy was not given a fair trial, and he was unjustly jailed for two months, much of which was spent in solitary confinement for his own protection.
	This is a miscarriage of British justice, and was done for political reasons.
	It was done because Tommy Robinson is a vocal critic of Islam and political correctness.
	So the Islamophilic, politically correct establishment did what they could to him because he was Tommy Robinson.
	That Tommy's conviction has been overturned is a real problem for many political commentators.
	A widely read, award-winning legal blog called The Secret Barrister had led the charge to imprison Tommy and declare the righteousness of the British legal system.
	This blog was forced to publish a humiliating retraction and admit to an open bias against Tommy Robinson and his supporters.
	My initial impression, based on limited information available, was that the summary procedure was appropriate in the Leeds case.
	As the Court of Appeal explained, it was not.
	As a result, the hearing was not fair.
	Were we too quick to dismiss the case with a nothing to see here wave of the hand, blinded by the unappealing nature of Robinson's supporters and the organised maelstrom of fake news stirred up here and abroad?
	Maybe we were.
	Maybe we could have, should have, cleared our ears and browsers of the white pride noise and paid greater heed to the arguments of due process.
	But you see, it doesn't matter that the secret barrister endorsed judicial oppression of a British citizen because it played into his own biases, because he still has the moral authority here.
	I'd suggest, self-servingly, that an inaccurate but well-meaning prediction, such as we all make in the courts every day, is a lesser social evil than the deliberate, racially tinged misinformation campaign that we do our best to counter.
	Tommy spent two months in jail that he should not have spent in jail.
	The procedure was deliberately ignored because the overwhelming bias against Tommy because of his political critique of a religion.
	But to the secret barrister, that which is legally or morally correct is inferior in importance to that which is politically correct.
	This probably wouldn't have been so humiliating to the secret barrister if he had not taken such a haughty, spiteful and derisory tone towards the morally inferior underclass of Tommy supporters.
	From his previous blog post on the 25th of May, he defended the malpractice of the court, claiming that this was, worryingly, entirely standard, and ended with a paragraph explaining how he was morally entitled to deal with Tommy's vile supporters in such an abrasive way because they were evil racists and didn't really have concerns about due process.
	Put simply, the secret barrister was better than them.
	Way better than them.
	They are garbage.
	And when called out about this on Twitter, the secret barrister decided to double down on the legitimacy of the court that had delivered the unjust verdict that had just been overturned.
	To all the free Tommy well-wishers, today's judgment disproved every single thing you've been saying.
	There is no deep state conspiracy, no biased judges, no cover-up, just our Appalachian system working as it should.
	This is a victory for the rule of law, not you.
	The system is working as it should when it wrongfully imprisons a man.
	I must disagree with this sad effort to save face.
	The system did not work as intended, and the existence of the appeal system is in place because such miscarriages of justice can and will be done by biased activist judges.
	And we can be pretty certain that the judge in this case did not like Tommy, given how he was photographed laughing at his arrest.
	And the judge also forbade the media from reporting on Tommy's arrest, as well as the court trial which he was wrongfully arrested for filming.
	When Tommy was released from prison, he was immediately hounded by a Sky News reporter.
	Robinson, Tommy, it's Jason from Sky News.
	Can I have a word?
	You got any regrets?
	Why would I have anything to say to you?
	All you do is lie.
	You've lost the faith of the British public.
	What, the media generally?
	All the mainstream media do is like, we've covered your campaign, we're covering your release.
	You can say what you like now.
	All the mainstream media do live.
	The British public no longer believe you.
	What would you like to say?
	I've got a lot to say.
	Tommy Robinson is one of the most demonized people in the United Kingdom because of the media reporting on him and of his supporters to be fascist, racist, far-right, misogynist, and any other derogatory buzzword under the sun.
	Tommy rightfully rebuked this reporter, who then acted sheepishly, as if Tommy had every reason to expect fair and impartial coverage from the media.
	Well, he said he wasn't going to talk to me.
	He didn't trust the mainstream media.
	He feels that the public don't trust us and that anything that he would say to us would in some way be twisted.
	Obviously, I was just explaining to him that he could say what he liked.
	He could come out, he could speak to us and we would broadcast whatever he said.
	But most worrisome is that Tommy emerged from jail looking gaunt and nervous.
	I expected him to practically burst out, full of confidence, ready after months of inactivity to take on the smear merchants and the mainstream media.
	Instead, he looks stressed, sickly and hounded from what he claims is the intense psychological pressure of being put in a prison with a large population of Muslim inmates who targeted him with harassment.
	I'm so happy that I feel weird man because I am happy that I don't feel happy.
	I can't express I don't feel super happy.
	So what's gone on?
	I had threats every day.
	You know this heat that we've had here.
	I couldn't have my cell windows open because they would be spat through or shit put through them.
	Oh my god.
	And so I had my windows shut all the time.
	They moved me from H ⁇ P Hole, which was a 7% Muslim population, to the most densely Muslim populated prison in the country.
	Did they give you a reason?
	No, they gave no reason, but then what they I know why they did it because what they then did is they used the excuse of my safety, which then I got there, they put me straight on solitary confinement.
	They locked me straight away, which was 23 and a half hours a day, locked in a room and the flew mat.
	So Muslim prisoners were cooking your food, is that right?
	Yeah, I had them the first day.
	How was your dinner, Tommy?
	So I didn't see my dinner.
	So most people in prison, you come out.
	You didn't want to eat the food.
	You were worried they were going to.
	So every prisoner comes out, you walk into a kitchen canteen and you see the person hand you dinner.
	But it's prisoners, which are Muslims.
	But I didn't even get to see so I could see what they'd done to all the food.
	My dinner was brought to me on a plane and handed to me at my door.
	And who knows what this house would have happened?
	And then I've got them telling me, how was your dinner, Tommy?
	For fear of having his food tampered with, Tommy had to purchase his own food and lost over 40 pounds of weight.
	The backlash from Tommy's supporters spawned the hashtag Feed Tommy campaign to provide him with moral support.
	When Tommy was arrested for filming outside of the court in Leeds, I did not join the calls to hashtag free Tommy.
	I am not a legal expert, and the experts had taken to the media to explain that this was, in fact, all completely normal and that Tommy was getting what he deserved.
	On a personal level, I disagreed, but I was not able to argue the case.
	Now the Lord Chief Justice has declared otherwise, and the new information that we have has made it apparent that Tommy Robinson is indeed the enemy of the state.
	Tommy is not out of the woods yet.
	He is to have his hearing rescheduled and new judgment will be passed.
	It remains to be seen if the judicial system will conduct a fair trial for the man next time, with so many eyes watching.
	It could be that excessive public scrutiny is the only weapon the dispossessed English working class have to hold the state to account.
	This most recent treatment is not the only example of Tommy and his supporters finding the law cutting against them.
	For years, the authorities have treated Tommy and his gammons as a problem population because the British state is enthralled to political correctness.
	The subsequent state Islamophilia conflicts with the anti-Islam activism of Tommy and his working class supporters, and so the establishment must demonize Tommy's gammons as if they will be the end of the existing political order.
	For the politically correct elite, they are part of the problem.
	For the rest of us, they are a part of the solution.

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