Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - The Situation As I See It

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March 7, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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The Situation As I See It

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	Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
	How are you all doing?
	Right, so I thought I'd just come up and give you a bit of a breakdown of the political situation as I see it at the moment.
	Because it's a pretty messy time in politics at the moment.
	And I suppose I'll apologise in advance to the people who, well, to the people who couldn't get in.
	A bunch of people had to be turned away because apparently someone had been circulating some kind of false email about tonight's event.
	And we do have a gaggle of communist protesters outside.
	You may have heard their whistles.
	So, yeah, so we are in one of those positions where the usual rules of liberal politics are kind of breaking down because of, in my opinion, far-left-wing subversion of many of our institutions.
	And this is primarily led, I would say, by an activist organization called Hope Not Hate.
	Yes, yes.
	The BBC is alleged to be working quite closely with them, as Tommy Robinson showed in Panodrama.
	And I say alleged because legally I probably have to, but we all saw the footage.
	But they've got quite a reputation, quite a history of, well, honestly, boxing, harassing, smearing, allegedly attempting to subvert activists on sort of our side of the aisle with cash payments.
	And these are all things that I've heard through the grapevine.
	And these are all, unfortunately, dangers that we have to live with now.
	We can't just freely associate.
	We can't apparently hold our own politics.
	Apparently, we must be harassed by the far left at this point.
	So these are dangers that honestly you've all got to watch out for because they will do their best to isolate you and intimidate you, harass you, get you fired from your job, try and make you a pariah to your friends and family.
	Don't let them do it.
	The way that they do this is obviously through social shaming.
	Now, they follow an ideology that we can just call, put simply, intersectionality.
	A lot of people won't know what that means, and I'm not expecting you to walk away fully informed on it.
	But essentially, what it means is that they view the world through the lens of a communist.
	Someone is oppressing someone else.
	And when I say someone, I mean an entire class of people.
	Now, normally from the communist worldview, this is the proletariat versus the bourgeoisie.
	The bourgeoisie being the property-owning classes who are oppressing the working man.
	I think that's a terrible conception of the world because effectively it is the politics of grievance.
	Someone else is responsible for what's happened to you.
	Now, they've expanded this from merely taking from an economic argument to an argument to affect all aspects of society.
	Every kind of identity that you could possibly hold is now in a power calculation with someone else's identity, and you are treated effectively as an agent of that identity wherever you go, wherever you are.
	There's no retiring from politics anymore when it comes to this ideology.
	And it makes them rather fervent because it means they see enemies at every corner.
	And they think that everyone in this room is a fascist.
	And I mean, I personally would be terrified if we could, if a fascist party in Britain could pack out a room like this, I would be protesting it.
	I would think that would be a terrible thing.
	However, I'm reasonably confident you're not all fascists and you are just regular British folk who are very concerned about the way things are going.
	And then we come to the second part of their major complaint, which is everyone is a racist, apparently.
	Everyone, I mean, like Lenny Henry for setting up comic relief is a racist.
	Trevor Nell on the Daily Show is now a racist because he criticized Pakistan and India.
	You know, the Labour Party, obviously, virulently racist against Jewish people, and apparently the Conservative Party has never not been racist.
	So we're in a position where, I mean, the term, I personally think the term racist should have weight and should mean something when you're applying it to someone.
	I mean, that person should be obviously promoting hatred against people on a racial basis, not just someone who disagrees with my far-left politics, which is the position we find ourselves in now.
	Noticeably, because they effectively have to misrepresent their opposition, they find themselves kind of afraid of engaging in debate.
	For example, if a far-left activist came in now and started shouting something that he wants to contest with me, I would have the argument with him.
	If I went out and spoke to the far-left activists out there, the police would be required to keep them off of me.
	And I think that's an important distinction and really shows you who the real fascists are in this situation.
	Speaking of the real fascists, no, I'm joking.
	I'm about to start talking about the police, and I don't want to insult them because we need them for protection.
	But the problem is, and this is something that very much concerns me, is the politicization of the police, because part of the ideology of intersectionality is gender and sexuality.
	They're very concerned about this.
	And so they put it under the umbrella term of LGBT, which you may well have heard at some point.
	Well, the police are very much in favour of promoting this ideological position.
	Now, it doesn't really matter where you fall on the argument of, you know, about any of these arguments about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual issues.
	The point is the police should be impartial and they should be committed to the principle, the founding principles of the police.
	When it was back in the 19th century founded, which is to be an impartial and apolitical force for the protection of the public good, the public safety, and frankly, your rights.
	They are not supposed to be parading around with any kind of political ideology of the day and waving the banner for that.
	And I have to, I mean, it's not even that I disagree with the politics of it, but I disagree with the police are being involved in the politics of it, especially when they've been on their diversity training courses.
	You've probably heard that there have been many times where the police, when they're not outright arresting people for posting something quote-unquote offensive on social media, the police will take a visit to certain activists.
	Now, this puts me in a position where I have to defend people that I would otherwise make videos mocking.
	The radical feminists who do not believe that women are men and men are women or can be are actually being persecuted by the intersectional activists who are currently infiltrating our institutions.
	For example, they call them TERFs.
	And one of them recently I had to do a video in Defense of was a lady called Posey Parker, who is frankly, you know, and again, just like many of them, they get visits from the police where the police will literally come to their house and say, excuse me, I saw that you posted on social media that you don't believe that men can become women or whatever particular offensive tweet.
	And they will sit there and try to have a discussion with them about the ins and outs of intersectional ideology.
	Now, I'm sure you're well aware that the police don't know what they're talking about when it comes to intersectional ideology, and nor should they.
	It's not their job.
	However, they have been through these diversity training courses and they have been told what to say and think on this regard with no deep understanding of the philosophy that underlies it.
	And they find themselves in a position where they are compelled to try and enforce an ideology on the public.
	I think that's utterly unacceptable and completely the antithesis of what the police are there for.
	And this, in my opinion, is a really serious problem that the police force needs to actually publicly address.
	The second thing that we, the second thing, the next thing on the long list of problems that we currently have is the deplatforming of political activists.
	Now, I'm sure you're all aware that Tommy Robinson had his Facebook and Instagram accounts nuked the other day on what I can only presume to be false charges because I have seen no evidence of what he's accused of.
	The accusations is that he was promoting various forms of hate speech, but also inciting violence.
	Now, I follow Tommy's social media.
	I've never seen him inciting violence, especially in the particular way that they claimed it.
	He apparently said that his followers should behead the followers of the Quran.
	Now, I have a really hard time believing that because I honestly think that if he had said that, and apparently a number of months ago, this is supposed to have happened, this would have been national or probably international news on the day that he had posted it.
	It would have been everywhere.
	Hope, not hate, would have been bashing down his door with a bunch of rainbow-coloured bobbies behind them to club his head in.
	He would not have escaped from the wrath of the state on this, and yet no evidence.
	Not one screenshot, not one link, nothing.
	And the only other thing that I saw was a clip that was taken out of context where he was talking about jihadis in a particular area that had been breeding jihadis.
	And this was assumed to mean all Muslims because a particular something like 16-second clip had been taken out of context, no understanding of what he was actually saying, and therefore Tommy Robinson has been banned from Facebook, banned from Instagram.
	And as far as we can tell, this is for life.
	There is no path to redemption.
	There is no way of getting these accounts back.
	And for Tommy, that's probably around 2 million followers that he had that he doesn't get to talk to anymore.
	And that's 2 million people who don't get to hear from him anymore.
	And that was an executive decision by Facebook, presumably in conjunction with Nick Clegg, who is currently working with me.
	Again, what we're seeing is the increased politicization of our institutions against any kind of dissenters, which means all of you.
	And we've got cameras, so we know you're in trouble now.
	The next one, and this story continues with the ex-Labour deputy Tom Watson, who recently sent a letter to YouTube, Sundar Pechai, which the CEO of Google with Jones YouTube, requesting that YouTube remove Tommy Robinson's account.
	Now, as you can imagine, he hasn't violated their terms of service.
	So why on earth would he need to do that?
	The only excuse is, of course, that they don't like what Tommy Robinson has to say.
	What he's saying is not illegal.
	Otherwise, they would arrest him.
	If it broke the terms of service, they would remove his page.
	But he can't do that.
	So all he has to do is say, look, essentially, I don't like Tommy Robinson.
	That is the point.
	I don't like his politics, and I don't like that other people want to hear what he has to say.
	That is an absolute travesty.
	It's a disgrace.
	And I'd like to say, can we get a round of applause for Jared Batum?
	I'm sending a counter.
	Any, any other of the leaders of political parties could have done this.
	You know, if the Conservatives actually cared about British liberal values, they would have been the first to stand up and say, well, hang on.
	You can't just de-platform someone because you don't like them and because you think you have the power to do it, but no one else did it.
	Gerald was the only person to do it.
	Then we come to Marcus Meeching, Count Dankula, a fellow UKIP member and a panelist on the BBC, or would have been, were it not for the outrage over a show that hadn't even been aired yet.
	It was just the fact that he was on it.
	And the obviously the usual social media mob of far-left activists got to work, intimidating and harassing the people who made this document, this panel show.
	And again, it's pretty miraculous that he was invited to be on the BBC.
	So they obviously know that latently, somewhere in the back of their mind, they do have a commitment to be fair and impartial, which means representing both sides of the argument.
	Of course, when it got out that he was on there, and I think that it was actually kind of his fault by tweeting about it, really put the wind up him.
	Obviously, the BBC caved instantly once the activists harassed and browbeat the people making it.
	And they said, well, we'll edit him out.
	It wasn't good enough.
	The entire show has been cancelled.
	So now, even if you aren't a supporter of Mark, then it's the other people on the panel who are suffering because of what these far-left activists are doing, because they have absolutely no faith in the public to hear something and not automatically agree with it, which really makes me wonder about their own state of mind, frankly.
	The next one would be Sebastian Walsh, another UKIP member who at the University of Lancashire.
	He had had a debate in the classroom about the various issues in the country.
	And this had been apparently, as I understand it, instigated by the tutors in the university themselves.
	He said his piece, he doesn't like the idea of Islamizing Britain and various other, you know, a point about the NHS, something like that.
	And halal meet, yeah, good point.
	Sorry, thank you.
	Yeah, and the fact that he finds the method of halal slaughter barbaric, which it is suspended from his university.
	Good news, though, me, myself and Mark have put up videos about this.
	And for him to begin his legal action, he requires £20,000.
	And he was at, I think, about £16,500 just before I came up here.
	So hopefully by tomorrow, he'll have that money.
	So we'll be able to take the fact that.
	So you may well be thinking, well, what can we do?
	You as individuals do.
	And there are actually a few things you can do.
	The first thing is, I suppose, attend events in real life.
	But we have such a full room, I can see you've already got that one down.
	But yeah, you've got to go out of your way to actually make an effort because ultimately, all of the work on social media is very useful.
	It's absolutely excellent for raising awareness of the issues that we're talking about.
	However, bodies in seats is a lot more powerful.
	Actually, seeing the people in the flesh that gives the people who are aware that, frankly, the people who are working against us, it shows them that there is a depth of feeling here and you're prepared to actually make the effort.
	Because, and like sharing on social media, commenting, social media, liking, all of this sort of stuff, is unbelievably invaluable, but it's very low effort.
	And they know that.
	They know it doesn't take much for a person to do that.
	But to actually take time out of your day, to make the efforts come here, that is honestly, it's worth its weight in gold.
	It's just such an important thing.
	The next most important thing, in fact, probably the next most important thing would be support.
	I mean, for example, I donated £500 to Seb's fund because I want to see him taking the fight to them legally.
	Because they can't be allowed to do this.
	They can't be allowed to simply just persecute people for having different opinions.
	And we do have legal avenues and we should pursue them.
	So basically, support one another via donations, via any way you can.
	You have to go out of your way to do it.
	And finally, you've got to talk to your friends.
	I know that sounds like a weird thing because a lot of people don't want to talk politics with their friends or family, but you kind of have to.
	Because you have to be able to talk to them about why you believe the ideas that you believe.
	Otherwise, some far leftist is going to put it in their head that, in fact, you're a racist or a xenophobe or an Islamophobia or whatever.
	They're going to put some kind of negative label on you, and your friends and family, having no challenge from you to that label, will start to believe it.
	And it will start to ruin your relationships with other people.
	Obviously, these conversations can get difficult, so you've got to be you know, show a great deal of forbearance and understand that you know, you probably don't have all the answers yourself, but the trick is to get them to see that you have at least one or two points that you think are valid, and get them to understand why you believe them.
	And obviously, finally, write letters and emails to elected representatives.
	They are your representatives, they are there to serve you, they need your votes, they need your support.
	And if you don't support them, if you don't like what they're doing, you tell them again.
	It's effort, it's not just a like or a click, but it works because when they receive a deluge of emails individually written from concerned citizens like yourselves, they sit up and take notice, and that's what really makes them take notice.
	So, that is basically where I think we are politically at the moment, and it's not good, so we really have to keep fighting.
	But we have options, and you are not powerless in this.
	You can do something, and what you do matters.

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