The Kafkaesque Censorship Plughole Swallowing Tommy Robinson
It's almost impossible to think of anyone in the history of this country who has been as savagely censored quite as relentlessly and unfairly as the man who had a much easier life when he was known as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
Britain has an embarrassing history of censorship, from 17th Century erotic fiction to Frankie Goes To Hollywood and early video game outrage, taking in Lady Chatterley's Lover, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Mary Whitehouse and the puritanical pornography laws that have always existed and are due to be applied to the Internet at some point this year.
But the silencing of Tommy Robinson is more troubling and more perplexing than anything than has come before.
The reason for this is twofold: Firstly, it is not clear what Mr Robinson has done wrong. And secondly, the shocking willingness of all sections of the mainstream media and a large proportion of the public to go along with what is happening to him.
If you turn on the BBC or Sky news or read any newspaper from The Mail to The Guardian, you will find criticism, outrage and moral panic concerning the view and activities of Tommy Robinson.
He is called far-right, racist, fascist, Islamophobic, a hate speaker and a violent criminal. None of these labels are true, except the one that refers to the made-up term 'Islamophobic'. Just as inaccurately, he is also always introduced as "the former leader of the EDL", an organisation he abandoned several years ago because he didn't like the extremist element that were infiltrating it.
None of the so-called journalists spewing accusations towards Tommy Robinson ever provide proof of the abhorrent behaviour they accuse him of, there are literally no recorded examples of him ever uttering anything racist.
So why do they do it? And why do so many people in an age of super-information believe what they are told about Luton's most famous son since Eric Morecambe?
The most important factor in this unprecedented demonisation of a British citizen is the almost complete breakdown among once credible media across most of the western world.
The BBC, The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times and so on have always had their problems but they were, for the most part, built on solid foundations of journalistic integrity and a requirement to always seek out the truth.
Not any more.
Just look at The Guardian's willingness to adopt the term 'Islamophobia' in 2017 as part of their laughable crackdown on so-called 'hate speech' in the comments section of the website. This is a term that was invented by the extremist organisation the Muslim Brotherhood in order to silence criticism of the religion of peace in the west and it has been swallowed and adopted by a news outlet that always considered itself to be the choice of the most intelligent consumers in Europe.
If you had told someone in the middle of the nineties that almost two decades into the 21st Century, that the entire UK media would be enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws they would have laughed in your face.
And yet, here we are, actively pushing back against many of the magnificent humanist triumphs of the last few hundred years, our once trailblazing journalistic breakthroughs being thrown out of the window by the very souls given the duty of keeping them safe.
It is this pathetic collapse of standards that has allowed the censorship of Tommy Robinson to reach such Kafkaesque proportions.
But it is also the fear of the savage ideology of Islam itself.
The media are so worried about offending even one Muslim, they go out of their way to avoid covering negative stories involving them, even when the story is a big and as breathtakingly disgusting as the systemic rape of up to a million underage white working class girls by Pakistani gangs. Andrew Norfolk was very much the exception, not the rule.
So, along comes Tommy Robinson, an ordinary lad from a once ordinary town which has been turned into an Islamic hell hole in less time than it takes to get through primary school. He knows nothing except what he sees with his own eyes, so he learns, he reads, he understands, he becomes an expert, he protests about the destruction of the country he loves, he stands up to the bullying middle-eastern mindset and he dares to speak out against the industrial sexual abuse of minors happening on our streets. And he does it alone.
What happens? Death threats arrive on his doorstep, the police hassle him and his family, he gets sent to prison on trumped up charges and is kept in solitary confinement and almost starved to death and then he is ousted from every major public platform on the planet and relentlessly vilified by billions of people who have been fed false propaganda about who he is and what he does.
What happens to the moral compass of a country that allows something like this to happen? We will have to wait and see but no-one can seriously believe that the future of this nation is anything other than bleak.
Tommy Robinson, for his part, soldiers on with extraordinary courage and the support of millions of his fellow citizens from the forgotten towns and cities of what remains of their land.
He may well be the last great working class hero of our age. You either support him or you will soon find yourself on the wrong side of history.
Britain has an embarrassing history of censorship, from 17th Century erotic fiction to Frankie Goes To Hollywood and early video game outrage, taking in Lady Chatterley's Lover, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Mary Whitehouse and the puritanical pornography laws that have always existed and are due to be applied to the Internet at some point this year.
But the silencing of Tommy Robinson is more troubling and more perplexing than anything than has come before.
The reason for this is twofold: Firstly, it is not clear what Mr Robinson has done wrong. And secondly, the shocking willingness of all sections of the mainstream media and a large proportion of the public to go along with what is happening to him.
If you turn on the BBC or Sky news or read any newspaper from The Mail to The Guardian, you will find criticism, outrage and moral panic concerning the view and activities of Tommy Robinson.
He is called far-right, racist, fascist, Islamophobic, a hate speaker and a violent criminal. None of these labels are true, except the one that refers to the made-up term 'Islamophobic'. Just as inaccurately, he is also always introduced as "the former leader of the EDL", an organisation he abandoned several years ago because he didn't like the extremist element that were infiltrating it.
So why do they do it? And why do so many people in an age of super-information believe what they are told about Luton's most famous son since Eric Morecambe?
The most important factor in this unprecedented demonisation of a British citizen is the almost complete breakdown among once credible media across most of the western world.
The BBC, The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times and so on have always had their problems but they were, for the most part, built on solid foundations of journalistic integrity and a requirement to always seek out the truth.
Not any more.
Just look at The Guardian's willingness to adopt the term 'Islamophobia' in 2017 as part of their laughable crackdown on so-called 'hate speech' in the comments section of the website. This is a term that was invented by the extremist organisation the Muslim Brotherhood in order to silence criticism of the religion of peace in the west and it has been swallowed and adopted by a news outlet that always considered itself to be the choice of the most intelligent consumers in Europe.
If you had told someone in the middle of the nineties that almost two decades into the 21st Century, that the entire UK media would be enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws they would have laughed in your face.
And yet, here we are, actively pushing back against many of the magnificent humanist triumphs of the last few hundred years, our once trailblazing journalistic breakthroughs being thrown out of the window by the very souls given the duty of keeping them safe.
It is this pathetic collapse of standards that has allowed the censorship of Tommy Robinson to reach such Kafkaesque proportions.
But it is also the fear of the savage ideology of Islam itself.
The media are so worried about offending even one Muslim, they go out of their way to avoid covering negative stories involving them, even when the story is a big and as breathtakingly disgusting as the systemic rape of up to a million underage white working class girls by Pakistani gangs. Andrew Norfolk was very much the exception, not the rule.
So, along comes Tommy Robinson, an ordinary lad from a once ordinary town which has been turned into an Islamic hell hole in less time than it takes to get through primary school. He knows nothing except what he sees with his own eyes, so he learns, he reads, he understands, he becomes an expert, he protests about the destruction of the country he loves, he stands up to the bullying middle-eastern mindset and he dares to speak out against the industrial sexual abuse of minors happening on our streets. And he does it alone.
What happens? Death threats arrive on his doorstep, the police hassle him and his family, he gets sent to prison on trumped up charges and is kept in solitary confinement and almost starved to death and then he is ousted from every major public platform on the planet and relentlessly vilified by billions of people who have been fed false propaganda about who he is and what he does.
What happens to the moral compass of a country that allows something like this to happen? We will have to wait and see but no-one can seriously believe that the future of this nation is anything other than bleak.
Tommy Robinson, for his part, soldiers on with extraordinary courage and the support of millions of his fellow citizens from the forgotten towns and cities of what remains of their land.
He may well be the last great working class hero of our age. You either support him or you will soon find yourself on the wrong side of history.
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