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When blogging gets dangerous (and they come for you)

Recently I posted on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's campaign to protect bloggers from Internet censorship.

Here's an example of why it's critical.

From Australia's Real World Libertarian comes a January 7 report that I just picked up that British authorities are arresting blogger Lionheart:

I am currently out of the Country and on my return home to England I am going to be arrested by British detectives on suspicion of Stirring up Racial Hatred by displaying written material" contrary to sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986.

This charge if found guilty carries a lengthy prison sentence, more than what most paedophiles and rapists receive, and all for writing words of truth about the barbarity that is living in the midst of our children, which threatens the very future of our Country.

What has become of my homeland, the land my forefathers fought and died for on the battlefields of the world when one of their children is forced into the position of facing years in prison for standing up for what is right and just within British society.


What does Lionheart's criminal hate speech consist of?

Here's a sample of what got him in trouble:

With the ongoing internal Islamic terror threat that Great Britain is facing from its British Moslem community, and the horrifying scope of the threat that MI5 have already spoken of in public, it is only a matter of time now until we switch on our T.V's or computers and watch another Islamic inspired atrocity unfolding within the British homeland with many innocent people killed like on the morning of 7/7.

Ooops sorry our Home Secretary has told us that we cannot call it Islamic terror anymore (that is an imprisonable offence now within the UK because it breaches Labours tyrannical 'community cohesion' policy), we must call it anti-Islamic activity - Work that one out because I cant, seems to me there is a screw loose somewhere.


Yep, that's hate speech, OK. Tower of London for him, and no cookies, either.

Comments

Always On Watch said…
Lionheart has been the topic of two of our recent internet-radio shows. See this and this. I think that you might be interested in the info we had on the show.
Anonymous said…
Don't worry soon everyone here will know what persecution of the Libertarians means.
Jim Fryar said…
Thank you for the link, I have reciprocated.

I strongly oppose Islamic fascism, (and of course all other types) however it is important that we respect those Islamics who are happy to to live in peace and harmony among us.

I do not however believe that this needs to entail prohibition of words describing terror from that quarter as Islamic, that is a cop out.

The term anti-Islamic terror or whatever is not a problem, if people wish to use it they can. On the other hand a decree from the Home Secretary to the effect that it is the only term that can be used, is authoritarian and has no place in a free society.

I have differences of opinion with Lionheart, however he should not be silenced. While people can speak freely and openly their statements can be argued against and that is the way it should be.

There are people in the world who are uncomfortable with the freedoms of others and may be offended by them. These people are usually referred to as neurotics and should get treatment, not have the law changed to suit them.

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