Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Dear Jo Brand

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June 13, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Dear Jo Brand

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	I don't want to have to talk about George Orwell's novel 1984 all the time, but when it happens to be the way that my country is going, I feel that I don't really have much of a choice.
	In 1984, the Two Minutes Hate was a daily public period where members of the outer party, so not the top brass who are controlling things, but those who are orbiting around in the middle. use to attack those who are outside of the party, the enemies of the party.
	Anyone who could be a threat to the current status quo is anathematized, and those on the inside are told to just hate them.
	The horrible thing about the two minutes hate was not that one was obliged to act apart, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.
	Within 30 seconds, any pretense was always unnecessary.
	A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.
	And yet, the rage one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion, which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
	This is from a recent episode of a TV program called Have I Got News for You?
	One that I used to watch quite regularly and that is very popular with the kind of urban middle classes.
	This is Joe Brand directing Two Minutes of Hate.
	Also in the news, it was revealed that David Cameron has spent eight grand on a hot tub.
	According to the hot tub makers brochure, Cameron's luxury tub is great for parties.
	Unlike him, he's ruined his.
	Also, police are investigating whether UKIP Euro candidate Carl Benjamin might have committed a crime when he stated he might rape Labour MP Jess Phillips.
	I think it's shocking that politics has been reduced to such vile and abusive personal attacks, especially from a twat-faced, beardy, tiny cocked tosser like him.
	It's not that one was obliged to act the part, it's that one could not help but join in.
	But that's not where that ended.
	Next, Joe Brand went on Radio 4 and said this.
	Say, Joe, we are absolutely united in feeling.
	We are living through a terrible time from a parliamentary point of view.
	Well, yes, I would say that, but I think that's because certain unpleasant characters are being thrown to the fore and they're very, very easy to hate.
	And I'm kind of thinking, why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?
	That's just me.
	And it's alright, I'm not going to do it.
	It's purely a fantasy.
	But I think milkshakes are pathetic.
	I honestly do.
	Within 30 seconds, any pretense was unnecessary.
	A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer.
	Or an acid attack, Joe.
	Do you see how you're being manipulated yet?
	They seem so very easy to hate.
	Well, I'm sure they do seem that way.
	But if you take a few seconds to sit there and think, what do I know about Emmanuel Goldstein beyond what the media has told me?
	You are not representing anything I said accurately any more than if I turned around and said, Joe Brand wants to acid attack Nigel Farage in the face.
	You'd say, well, hey, I didn't say that.
	I made a joke.
	Joe Brand is actually being manipulated by the media in the kind of Orwellian way that Orwell described in 1984 through the use of selective editing, through the use of including some information and leaving out the rest to give Joe Brand and people like her, her audience, her friends around her, an interpretation of people that is just simply not true.
	Maybe it would be sensible for you to go to the sources first hand and try and find out for yourself.
	Even as we grasp at victory, there is a cancer, an evil tomb, growing, spreading in our midst.
	Shout, shout, shout out his name.
	And who was Goldstein?
	He was just a man speaking, wearing a suit, being calm.
	But you're not.
	You're getting hysterical over someone you know little about and you are refusing to listen to them.
	I think that's very irresponsible for anyone to do, let alone someone who is on TV and who appears to be deliberately stirring things up.
	That is at least the interpretation that Nigel Farage had of what you were doing, and that's probably because he has been attacked.
	This was also the opinion of a moderately famous anti-Brexit activist called Femi.
	While he might disagree with Nigel Farage on everything regarding the European Union, at least on the subject of inciting political violence, they agree.
	He says, for the record, I do think that Joe Brand was very irresponsible to say that.
	Maybe it would have been fine pre-2016, but there are people who might take her words seriously.
	He then points Nigel Farage to this particular clip from a live event that he did.
	But if I don't deliver this Brexit, if I spent 25 years of my life working for, then I will be false.
	The Don Carkey, pick up a rifle and have a front line.
	Now, Femi doesn't seem to understand that there is a qualitative difference between these two statements.
	Nigel Farage was not speaking about any individual in particular.
	He didn't even give a political faction beyond the broad swathes of remain and leave.
	What Nigel Farage was saying was actually quite obviously a political figure of speech.
	No one's actually going to be donning khaki, picking up rifles and heading to any front lines because there are no front lines.
	There is no war.
	This is all metaphorical.
	It's obvious by the way it was said, by the way it was constructed.
	It's anachronistic.
	But throwing milkshake at people is not.
	Throwing acid at people is also not.
	This is something that affects hundreds of people every year in this country.
	It's actually something real.
	So when the BBC publishes an article called The BBC Defends Joe Brand over Battery Acid Joke, you have to wonder how far into this cult mentality is the media at Westminster.
	The BBC said these jokes are deliberately provocative as the title implies and are not intended to be taken seriously.
	Well now, that sounds like quite a good defense for the jokes I told.
	They're designed to be provocative and not taken seriously.
	If it's okay for Joe Brand, why is it not okay for me?
	In response to Nigel Farage, you had someone like Victoria Corin Mitchell, the host of Have I Got News for a host for it, saying, Nigel, I'm genuinely disappointed.
	We don't agree on everything, but I would totally have had you down as a free speech man, especially when it came to jokes.
	Victoria, that puts you in defence of me, incidentally.
	But also, it's not you being attacked in the street, is it?
	You are speaking from a position of privilege, are you not?
	You know that it won't be you receiving a splash of acid to your face.
	You know that.
	But they will target Nigel Farage.
	And it's because of the culture that you are creating that makes it permissive to attack people.
	And you know this.
	For once, Spiked was also on the wrong side of things.
	It is not that Joe Brand is directly inciting violence, although I think you actually could make a case for her to be saying to be have done so.
	It's that you are dehumanizing your opposition.
	You are treating them as if they are simply acceptable to attack.
	No one is acceptable to simply attack.
	I don't know why I have to say this to the morally correct, privileged class of Westminster.
	You should know better.
	You are the influencers, the opinion setters of the nation.
	You should know better.
	If we, the YouTubers or whoever else, have a duty of care to what we say and we act like we do.
	We regularly say not to incite violence, not to attack people.
	If we have this duty of care, then you do as well.
	But instead, you use your power and your privilege to create Emmanuel Goldsteins using your two minutes of hate whenever you get the chance.
	And the funny thing is, you're always doing it to family men.
	Someone like myself, Tommy Robinson, or Count Dankula, who's getting married soon.
	Investigated by the press over his wedding?
	Why?
	Investigated by the police over a joke.
	Why?
	Utterly anathematized in the case of Tommy Robinson for merely saying that maybe the Muslim communities in this country have not been perfect to the English communities around them.
	Maybe there is some kind of grievance there that might be worth airing?
	Nigel Farage saying, hey, you know what?
	It's actually worth us pursuing and completing Brexit for all of these other reasons, as well as, and ancillary to, the principle of democracy.
	Because we voted for it.
	You understand that you are a class of people and we are outside of that class, broadly speaking.
	And there used to be a respect between these classes, but since the Brexit referendum, when the European middle class decided that the English lower class were beneath contempt for voting to leave the European Union, so they would have to get visas to go to their villas in the south of France and whatnot, we have seen a noticeable decline in the quality of our democracy.
	It seems that everyone begins to hate one another, and it never used to be like that.
	And the onus for this is on the media creating hate figures for people like you, Joe Brand, to say, well, they're just so easy to hate.
	We should throw acid in their faces.
	You are being emotionally manipulated by the press, Joe Brand.
	Your statement is way worse than my statement.
	Do you know how I know this?
	In Britain, acid attackers will get a life sentence even if they miss their targets, according to Crown Prosecution Guidelines.
	Rapists do not receive this level of punishment, Joe.
	Qualitatively, what you have done is worse than what I have done, which is joking about acid attacks compared to joking about rape.
	Anti-Brexit activist Gina Miller was afraid to leave her home after threats of acid attacks.
	This is affecting your side on the debate as well, and you are just stoking the fire.
	How long until someone does get that?
	How long until you have to sit across from them in a TV studio and know that you were complicit in getting acid thrown in their face?
	You may well have remembered that this is already filtering down from your hate preaching to people who then hate.
	F**k off!
	You may recognize this very angry NHS worker.
	You may remember the old man in Newcastle who got milkshaked.
	Just an old man, a veteran, I believe, who was campaigning for the Brexit party because he voted to leave.
	He was attacked in the street as well.
	Your hatred, Joe Brand, your two minutes of hate, your lack of information about the people that you're dealing with is creating this political environment.
	And you have been acting as if there will be no consequence to the things you have said.
	Well, now you are being investigated by the police in the same way that Count Dankla had, in the same way I have, in the same way now that you have.
	And now we're all being investigated by the police or have been and convicted by the courts over jokes that the other party didn't like.
	Do you think that there is possibly enough now that we can say right, no one should be investigated for jokes?
	No one.
	It's not fair to do it.
	It's destroying the public life in this country.
	Do you want to now say, okay, I, Joe Brand, may agree with the free speech activists I have been deriding.
	I have been lied to about in the media.
	Maybe they have a point.
	The people that you are anathematizing into Emmanuel Goldstein's are family men.
	They have large networks of friends.
	They have large extended families who know and love them.
	They are just speaking up about an issue that they are encountering in society.
	And instead of listening to them and saying, oh, what is it?
	Are we doing anything wrong?
	You are instead saying, no.
	These people don't have a grievance.
	They're evil.
	I bet you can't tell me a single thing that Tommy Robinson has said.
	And I know you don't know anything that I've ever said.
	Because when you try to quote me, you do it inaccurately.
	Just think about what you actually know about these people.
	Why are they being supported?
	Why do people like them?
	Why are you the ones getting harassment, quote unquote, on social media?
	Why aren't people on your side?
	Have some introspection and think, why do I even hate this person?
	What do I know about them?
	Why am I letting the media create hate figures and then becoming complicit in it?
	Because the sort of mainstream establishment can't dare look at their own picture that's rapidly turning into a disgusting, deteriorating monster, they have to instead silence us, deplatform us, defund us.
	And then their little media hounds will come snapping around going, oh, can you tell us how that affects you?
	Can you tell us what that's like?
	Why would we?
	Why would we help you in any way, shape, or form?
	I would suggest, ladies and gentlemen, now is the time, as I keep saying, to follow your favourite creators on a platform that is not from Silicon Valley.
	It is now as the time to help fund them because they are being defunded and deplatformed as part of a political campaign to silence them while people like Joe Brand turn them into hate figures in their own countries and communities.
	This is the evil of the current order and Joe Brand is playing directly into it.
	However, we are not going to stop.
	We are not going to back down because we are human beings with rights as well.
	We have the right to speak.
	We have the right to exist in society and we are going to continue to press this right.
	We did nothing wrong.
	You are the evil here, Joe Brand, and all of the cackling, hysterical, privileged people who are set around thinking we can never be touched.
	We are not going away.

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