On Monday, five British police officers arrested a comedian at Heathrow Airport for his posts on X that trans "women" shouldn't be allowed in (real) women's bathrooms. Yes, that actually happened.
Associated Press is Associated Propaganda. Two tier Keir and Labour give harsher sentences for mean tweets than Islamic grooming gang rapes. The yookay has fallen to the woke jihad.
When the police have to run past 10 stabbings in order to track down one mean tweeter, or when you have a "sanctuary state" for child molesters, you may then know your civilization is in decline.
Truer words were never written. The criminals posing as police and their bosses who arrested Linehan should be among the first to hang after Nigel Farage becomes prime minister.
Mr. Berenson , I don’t know if you’ll read this, but I’m curious, what prompted you to write this post today? I am genuinely interested to hear your comment at the thread and not just tell me to read the post, please educate me further.
The real problem is you must start to name the people that are doing this. Who is the official in charge of these officers who gave the order. If you cant name them you cant fix this
After his arrest, how much of the social media posts, likes and re-posts/re-tweets etc of ANYONE visiting the UK will be reviewed and potentially lead to arrest?
Yes, it is. Imagine going there with your family and then being arrested for liking that comedian's posts? Or posting here. I'd never heard of him before this. They don't even care about the content since their actions have demonstrated (again) the Streisand effect. The UK is progressing toward a totalitarian society if not already there in some places. And they have no weapons to fight it.
This man wrote the wildly popular (in the UK & Ireland) sit com Father Ted. He was beloved like Rowling until he spoke out on behalf of the rights of biological females. Before this, he was on track to help write a West End musical based on Father Ted. Now virtually all his colleagues consider this brave and principled man a social pariah. His arrest comes as no surprise to me, sadly.
Let that cesspool of an island and all of Europe burn to the ground. There is no better way to show the U.S. what will happen here if we continue to let these communists become lawmakers.
It's also done to make an example of various people to nudge the larger dissident public to "behave" and do what they're told. Definitely totalitarianism.
Liberalism/Progressivism is so confusing. They were fighting for women's rights for years, but now they require respect for Muslims who insist women are not to be seen or heard, and they require respect for transgenders who can wake up one day and say they feel like a women and automatically get all the benefits of being a women. Make it make sense.
To be honest and respectful, this is evil. It’s solely about the following:
Relentless lying and shameless hypocrisy;
Narratives and ideologies of decay, destruction and death;
absolutely no remorse for consequences caused;
Mocking and disdaining healthy accepted boundaries set by society for generations;
and I’ve added this recently, abject cowardice, whoring, and absolute avoidance to take a stand and support those who genuinely need to be sheltered and shielded.
Hey, Dennis Miller said it 25+ years ago, “it’s just my opinion, I could be wrong”…
The progressives aren't really "for" the causes they adopt. The causes are merely a tool. When gay rights were firmly established, the gays weren't useful to them any longer so they went on to take up the ever-expanding LGBTQ-blah blah blah cause, also things like climate change etc. The progressives don't actually believe in anything they pretend to stand up for. It's all about power.
What else could you expect? Immigration policies that don't promote/encourage, indeed demand, assimilation, necessarily means the native population will eventually be forced to assimilate in their OWN country!
The irony.
Stripped of their native religion, culture, and historic customs and forced to praise foreign religions, cultures, and customs taking hold in tge West’s civilizational void, Europeans are effectively assimilated within their own lands.
Europeans are taught to despise their own civilization and to bow down before those who seek to replicate a foreign civilization inside Europe. Europe’s bureaucratic ruling class uses foreigners to beat the Europeanness out of Europeans
While the bureaucratic ruling class has actively repressed the historic identities of native Europeans, its has flooded the continent with foreigners who are encouraged to retain their own cultural identities. In this way, a Hungarian or Pole or Dane who celebrates his country’s unique heritage is denounced as a “far-right nationalist,” while a Frenchman who insists that African and Middle Eastern immigrants assimilate to the European way of life is denounced as a “racist” and “bigot.”
Couple all this the low fertility rates below replacement, and you can see how fast a civilization can collapse.
Solzhenitsyn identified it 80 years ago:
"Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief's.
For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn't know any better. But for you to have one was 'terrorism'."
Laws aren't designed, and enforced, to protect the citizens, they're designed, and enforced, to protect the lawmakers. Thieves carrying knives aren't a threat to lawmakers living in gated communities, but potentially revolutionary citizens carrying knives
You have to wonder about the twisted logic of these leftist $h!tbags, that they can just bring in anyone from other countries and think that these people will be so utterly and completely grateful that they’ll do whatever they’re told by the scum rulers.
What is so hideous that we won’t see, is these illegal alien equally $h!tbag scum get entrenched and take over this country, they’ll kill all of us who don’t have much power, influence and control, and at the end, they hang all these white stupid inattentive, controlling assholes, I just hope they hang leftist progressive scum upside down and light them on fire from the head, I would love to watch that kind of flaming embalming.
Free speech has also stopped existing in Ireland and Australia and will continue to spread throughout the EU, most likely Germany next since it's highly doubtful a coincidence that 6 AfD candidates have lost their lives over the last couple of weeks.
If ya'll think it's scary now just wait until they get a legal definition of "right wing extremists ".
Once that's done you have a legal basis for progressively more exclusionary laws...ya...know...just like Hitler in 1935. It was at that point he was able to quickly exclude the jews from society through the Nuremberg laws.
Britain has become a proud country of trans and Muslims - what a fascinating combination…. However, those trans rights will be gone in 3,2,1…. Perhaps the UK wokes should learn how trans rights exist in Muslim dominated by countries. Wokeness is a cancer everywhere it exists.
What took many centuries to create will be gone within 100 years with no shots fired. Love or hate Trump the American left wants to do the same thing with free speech here. He winning put a halt on it for a minute, but constant vigilance must be practiced. The left’s version of free speech or “science” is only what they approve. The true authoritarians…
Having lived in Europe with my children, traveling widely and seeing the various cultures of each country was wonderful. Now in many places, overrun with waves of refugees and little if any assimilation. Europe used to be very special and living there is different than visiting. Now? Zero desire to visit and see the negative changes, which I find quite sad. So glad I experienced this 30 years ago. It had a rich harmony then.
I saw one of those mayors you listed above giving a speech in which he said basically this: "We're not here to join in, we're here to take over." The Brits heard him say this, so what on earth did they think? I guess the answer is that they did not think.
You know what, people who claim to be advocates of freedom, independence, autonomy, and choice, just coil in absolute terror, watching bad things happen to bad people because they can’t handle the truth.
No kidding, as Bruce Willis so appropriately put it, “welcome to the party, pal!“
This is what sociopathy/leftism is about, totally destroying people’s freedoms, totally destroying people’s hopes, and then just destroying people. It will never end as long as people put up with leftism, that’s what you should be writing about, how to efficiently and relentlessly marginalize and ostracize everybody who embraces leftist narratives and ideologies, they need to be so rejected, they flee, or turn to attack and then are put down like rabid dogs.
And people won’t take a stand, because we are surrounded by equal or more numbers of cowards, whores, and avoidants, who will never take a stand, even when other people in their lives who are utterly dependent and helpless are going to be destroyed by such cowardly whoring avoiding bullshit.
Well George Washington had a set of ivory teeth as well as wooden. So; maybe it is literally true? Dental freedom for all! "If we hang by the skin of our teeth, we hang together!"
I saw a video from the UK with a large group of protesters protesting illegal immigrants being housed in hotels courtesy of taxpayers. After her speech the woman went to hang the British flag on a building and was immediately swarmed by 4 policemen and arrested. Arrested for hanging the flag of the country she is a citizen of. The UK is lost.
yes, the next time we have a dem president + dem senate majority, they will nominate and confirm like ten more gay, obese, mentally handicapped, pedophiles of color to the supreme court - and our constitution, bill of rights, et al will be permanently gone within two years
Evil will not wait for validation and public justification, they’ll do it on their terms, they will cheat and threaten and rule by utter terror. And most will get on their knees.
Oh, remember Covid? Mr. Berenson here certainly does…
I've made similar comments to Substackers like eugyppius, but I think part of what makes the notion of the "crimes" outlined in Section 181 so offensive is that they're always applied against people with very specific ideological bents - people opposed to the UK's transgender policy, immigration policy, COVID policy, etc. Surely, there are residents of the UK using social media to make violent threats against, say, Nigel Farage because they think he's an intolerant twat, right? Is the reason we never read about people making those threats and getting arrested because they're not happening, they're happening but unreported, or (I suspect most likely) the threats are happening but the authorities and media are totally incurious about reporting on them?
I wouldn't advocate for reporters to turn into Taylor Lorenz style snitches and comb social media for prosecutable speech. I genuinely think the UK's speech laws are heinous and no one should be arrested for anything other than Brandenburg-style threats about imminent lawless action. However, I'm actually curious how often the government sees comparable speech directed against the Nigel Farage's of the UK and ignores it. There's an added layer of illegitimacy (in my mind) that the laws are so often politicized to prosecute the government's ideological opponents. Some day, the UK is going to elect a Trump-style far-right figure and Labour's constituents will cry "why, oh why did we set up a massive, government-sponsored surveillance and policing apparatus?"
Associated Press is Associated Propaganda. Two tier Keir and Labour give harsher sentences for mean tweets than Islamic grooming gang rapes. The yookay has fallen to the woke jihad.
When the police have to run past 10 stabbings in order to track down one mean tweeter, or when you have a "sanctuary state" for child molesters, you may then know your civilization is in decline.
All by design.
#EUpowderkeg.
Truer words were never written. The criminals posing as police and their bosses who arrested Linehan should be among the first to hang after Nigel Farage becomes prime minister.
Mr. Berenson , I don’t know if you’ll read this, but I’m curious, what prompted you to write this post today? I am genuinely interested to hear your comment at the thread and not just tell me to read the post, please educate me further.
I would assume it has to do with the demise of free speech. Speech was suppressed if you doubted the vaccine if you remember?
The real problem is you must start to name the people that are doing this. Who is the official in charge of these officers who gave the order. If you cant name them you cant fix this
Nailed it. Could not agree more
After his arrest, how much of the social media posts, likes and re-posts/re-tweets etc of ANYONE visiting the UK will be reviewed and potentially lead to arrest?
The process is the punishment. The whole idea is to make surveillance permanent in its effect, even if it's episodic in its action.
The end result is the "subject" becomes the principle of his own subjection.
Infinite examination = compulsory objectification.
Yes, it is. Imagine going there with your family and then being arrested for liking that comedian's posts? Or posting here. I'd never heard of him before this. They don't even care about the content since their actions have demonstrated (again) the Streisand effect. The UK is progressing toward a totalitarian society if not already there in some places. And they have no weapons to fight it.
This man wrote the wildly popular (in the UK & Ireland) sit com Father Ted. He was beloved like Rowling until he spoke out on behalf of the rights of biological females. Before this, he was on track to help write a West End musical based on Father Ted. Now virtually all his colleagues consider this brave and principled man a social pariah. His arrest comes as no surprise to me, sadly.
Yes. We should never forget the first place communism and Nazism invaded was their own country.
Same applies to the current situation in the UK and EU.
Oh well, Europeans have been killing each other for thousands of years. Its a tinderbox.
Let that cesspool of an island and all of Europe burn to the ground. There is no better way to show the U.S. what will happen here if we continue to let these communists become lawmakers.
It's also done to make an example of various people to nudge the larger dissident public to "behave" and do what they're told. Definitely totalitarianism.
The Jihad is absolutely the opposite of woke. Sorry, if I missed your meaning.
Liberalism/Progressivism is so confusing. They were fighting for women's rights for years, but now they require respect for Muslims who insist women are not to be seen or heard, and they require respect for transgenders who can wake up one day and say they feel like a women and automatically get all the benefits of being a women. Make it make sense.
There is nothing more misogynistic than a biological man taking a woman's place simply by stating he identifies as a woman
I keep wondering what happened to the feminists who fought for equal rights for women. Why are they giving those rights to men?
Germaine Grier is someone to look at on this. She said their movement was used/coopted to usher in social engineering. A proper U-Turn.
Its not meant to make sense. Its end stage Leftism. It always ends the same. In fact, the less sense it makes, the better.
I think we're at a flashpoint. The left has, and will always, rely on this formula:
The higher the demand for denying reality, the more militant its enforcement has to be.
Apply that to transmania and migrantmania and you can see it clear as day.
One requires you to deny the most basic ontological premises of human existence.
The other requires you to believe that non-citizens have more rights than the citizens - that they have agency, but you don't.
And if you dare so "no" when the world demands a "yes", you will pay the price.
Now you know why political violence is ALWAYS necessary in a leftist regime.
To be honest and respectful, this is evil. It’s solely about the following:
Relentless lying and shameless hypocrisy;
Narratives and ideologies of decay, destruction and death;
absolutely no remorse for consequences caused;
Mocking and disdaining healthy accepted boundaries set by society for generations;
and I’ve added this recently, abject cowardice, whoring, and absolute avoidance to take a stand and support those who genuinely need to be sheltered and shielded.
Hey, Dennis Miller said it 25+ years ago, “it’s just my opinion, I could be wrong”…
Uber correct: "It's not meant to make sense". And it most definitely does not.
a lot of it relies on the suicidal empathy of white women
Don’t you know what feminism devolved into? That a woman can be as big as dick as a man…
Toxic empathy is REAL...a dysfunctional mental illness perhaps!
The progressives aren't really "for" the causes they adopt. The causes are merely a tool. When gay rights were firmly established, the gays weren't useful to them any longer so they went on to take up the ever-expanding LGBTQ-blah blah blah cause, also things like climate change etc. The progressives don't actually believe in anything they pretend to stand up for. It's all about power.
It just means they were all fake arse gaslighting mother f****** all along.
to play devil's advocate - it's arguably safer for them now that the penalty is being thrown off a high pile of rubble
What else could you expect? Immigration policies that don't promote/encourage, indeed demand, assimilation, necessarily means the native population will eventually be forced to assimilate in their OWN country!
The irony.
Stripped of their native religion, culture, and historic customs and forced to praise foreign religions, cultures, and customs taking hold in tge West’s civilizational void, Europeans are effectively assimilated within their own lands.
Europeans are taught to despise their own civilization and to bow down before those who seek to replicate a foreign civilization inside Europe. Europe’s bureaucratic ruling class uses foreigners to beat the Europeanness out of Europeans
While the bureaucratic ruling class has actively repressed the historic identities of native Europeans, its has flooded the continent with foreigners who are encouraged to retain their own cultural identities. In this way, a Hungarian or Pole or Dane who celebrates his country’s unique heritage is denounced as a “far-right nationalist,” while a Frenchman who insists that African and Middle Eastern immigrants assimilate to the European way of life is denounced as a “racist” and “bigot.”
Couple all this the low fertility rates below replacement, and you can see how fast a civilization can collapse.
Solzhenitsyn identified it 80 years ago:
"Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief's.
For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn't know any better. But for you to have one was 'terrorism'."
Laws aren't designed, and enforced, to protect the citizens, they're designed, and enforced, to protect the lawmakers. Thieves carrying knives aren't a threat to lawmakers living in gated communities, but potentially revolutionary citizens carrying knives
You have to wonder about the twisted logic of these leftist $h!tbags, that they can just bring in anyone from other countries and think that these people will be so utterly and completely grateful that they’ll do whatever they’re told by the scum rulers.
What is so hideous that we won’t see, is these illegal alien equally $h!tbag scum get entrenched and take over this country, they’ll kill all of us who don’t have much power, influence and control, and at the end, they hang all these white stupid inattentive, controlling assholes, I just hope they hang leftist progressive scum upside down and light them on fire from the head, I would love to watch that kind of flaming embalming.
Free speech has also stopped existing in Ireland and Australia and will continue to spread throughout the EU, most likely Germany next since it's highly doubtful a coincidence that 6 AfD candidates have lost their lives over the last couple of weeks.
If ya'll think it's scary now just wait until they get a legal definition of "right wing extremists ".
Once that's done you have a legal basis for progressively more exclusionary laws...ya...know...just like Hitler in 1935. It was at that point he was able to quickly exclude the jews from society through the Nuremberg laws.
gotta love how there's no such thing as 'he/she is on the right'....it's always the EXTREME right...they've followed Orwell to the max
you ever notice how they NEVER label the Left as "extremist", "far-Left, alt-Left, etc.?
correct...so excuse me for now, I have a pregnant person calling me...
Britain has become a proud country of trans and Muslims - what a fascinating combination…. However, those trans rights will be gone in 3,2,1…. Perhaps the UK wokes should learn how trans rights exist in Muslim dominated by countries. Wokeness is a cancer everywhere it exists.
Uk is being conquered.
- The mayor of Rotherham is Muslim
-The mayor of London is Muslim
- The mayor of Birmingham is a Muslim
- The mayor of Leeds is Muslim
- The mayor of Blackburn is Muslim
- The mayor of Sheffield is Muslim
-The mayor of Oxford is a Muslim
- The mayor of Luton is a Muslim
-The mayor of Oldham is a Muslim
- The mayor of Rochdale is a Muslim
Tnis is not immigration, it's an invasion by 7th century ideological marauders....and murderers...
What took many centuries to create will be gone within 100 years with no shots fired. Love or hate Trump the American left wants to do the same thing with free speech here. He winning put a halt on it for a minute, but constant vigilance must be practiced. The left’s version of free speech or “science” is only what they approve. The true authoritarians…
Having lived in Europe with my children, traveling widely and seeing the various cultures of each country was wonderful. Now in many places, overrun with waves of refugees and little if any assimilation. Europe used to be very special and living there is different than visiting. Now? Zero desire to visit and see the negative changes, which I find quite sad. So glad I experienced this 30 years ago. It had a rich harmony then.
Lucky you. I await seeing an eternal landmark known across the globe, burned to the ground by these Muslim thugs and fuckers.
I saw one of those mayors you listed above giving a speech in which he said basically this: "We're not here to join in, we're here to take over." The Brits heard him say this, so what on earth did they think? I guess the answer is that they did not think.
Wow...had no idea the infiltration was that deep in holding such positions in the UK! Sounds like Minnesota...
Yes because if you're terrified of white people it makes sense to move from Africa to Minnesota....;)
I read this comment and just wonder, are we supposed to really feel outrage or pain should London burn? I’m gonna be frank, I could give a F.
cleanse by fire!
You know what, people who claim to be advocates of freedom, independence, autonomy, and choice, just coil in absolute terror, watching bad things happen to bad people because they can’t handle the truth.
It’s a cancer, yes, but also a psychosis and a monomania.
No kidding, as Bruce Willis so appropriately put it, “welcome to the party, pal!“
This is what sociopathy/leftism is about, totally destroying people’s freedoms, totally destroying people’s hopes, and then just destroying people. It will never end as long as people put up with leftism, that’s what you should be writing about, how to efficiently and relentlessly marginalize and ostracize everybody who embraces leftist narratives and ideologies, they need to be so rejected, they flee, or turn to attack and then are put down like rabid dogs.
Oh, and the addendum:
And people won’t take a stand, because we are surrounded by equal or more numbers of cowards, whores, and avoidants, who will never take a stand, even when other people in their lives who are utterly dependent and helpless are going to be destroyed by such cowardly whoring avoiding bullshit.
Time to withdraw from NATO. Why should the USA provide a security umbrella for totalitarians?
Fortunately, the Brits lost all authority -- legal, moral, dental, and otherwise -- over us Yanks, back in the late 1700s. Thank God!
Dental*
Lmao.
Well George Washington had a set of ivory teeth as well as wooden. So; maybe it is literally true? Dental freedom for all! "If we hang by the skin of our teeth, we hang together!"
ha. lol. the libs will probably make the claim that Washington was a trans because he wore a wig!
I saw a video from the UK with a large group of protesters protesting illegal immigrants being housed in hotels courtesy of taxpayers. After her speech the woman went to hang the British flag on a building and was immediately swarmed by 4 policemen and arrested. Arrested for hanging the flag of the country she is a citizen of. The UK is lost.
If Harris or Biden had won.....this would be us. No. Fricking. Doubt.
We are so close to destroying ourselves. I am glad I am old and may not see it. I warn my children and grandchildren....and they basically laugh.
I sometimes wonder... Would the US be headed in this direction if the election had gone the other way?
Absolutely. We are just an election away.
yes, the next time we have a dem president + dem senate majority, they will nominate and confirm like ten more gay, obese, mentally handicapped, pedophiles of color to the supreme court - and our constitution, bill of rights, et al will be permanently gone within two years
Evil will not wait for validation and public justification, they’ll do it on their terms, they will cheat and threaten and rule by utter terror. And most will get on their knees.
Oh, remember Covid? Mr. Berenson here certainly does…
Some will accuse you of hyperbole. I fear the future you describe.
well at least we will be able to look forward to the gun confiscation wars
we may not win, but we'll have a blast either way (pun intended)
Don’t ever visit the UK. Nuff said!
We should no longer consider the UK an ally. They no longer share our values like free speech. They have no valuable resources.
Same with Germany and France. Canada, too, although they have oil and share our border.
I wonder if the same law would be enforced if a follower of Islam said something similar......
I've made similar comments to Substackers like eugyppius, but I think part of what makes the notion of the "crimes" outlined in Section 181 so offensive is that they're always applied against people with very specific ideological bents - people opposed to the UK's transgender policy, immigration policy, COVID policy, etc. Surely, there are residents of the UK using social media to make violent threats against, say, Nigel Farage because they think he's an intolerant twat, right? Is the reason we never read about people making those threats and getting arrested because they're not happening, they're happening but unreported, or (I suspect most likely) the threats are happening but the authorities and media are totally incurious about reporting on them?
I wouldn't advocate for reporters to turn into Taylor Lorenz style snitches and comb social media for prosecutable speech. I genuinely think the UK's speech laws are heinous and no one should be arrested for anything other than Brandenburg-style threats about imminent lawless action. However, I'm actually curious how often the government sees comparable speech directed against the Nigel Farage's of the UK and ignores it. There's an added layer of illegitimacy (in my mind) that the laws are so often politicized to prosecute the government's ideological opponents. Some day, the UK is going to elect a Trump-style far-right figure and Labour's constituents will cry "why, oh why did we set up a massive, government-sponsored surveillance and policing apparatus?"
According to Mark Steyn, Linehan was only returning to England to attend trial for his earlier "offense".
True. He now lives in Arizona.