It can’t happen here…or could it?
Posted January 4th, 2008 at 10:33 AM by Jon HamA British blogger, Lionheart, is going to be arrested for inciting racial hatred for his blog criticizing Britain’s cave-in to Muslim extremists. Maybe Britain does need a written constitution if free speech is that precarious over there.
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.
Political correctness, white guilt, Western guilt, prosperity guilt, whatever guilt you want to mention, is fueling this insanity. The world missed its chance two years ago when every single newspaper, TV station and blog should have run those Danish cartoons of Mohammed just to make a point to emigre Muslims that this ain’t the Middle East. But most media gutlessly caved, and look where it’s gotten us.
Somebody needs to write an updated version of this book. But come to think of it, Lionheart’s blog IS that book. He’s sounded the warning but nobody is listening:
I have placed my head above the parapet ready to be shot off because of threats against my life by Pakistani Moslems, how dare these enemies to the State threaten my life, me an Englishman living in my own country surrounded by my own country folk?
Yet my own country folk are now my enemy for standing up for them, their children and their grandchildren and all because their pay masters do not like me speaking the truth – What does that make you?
(via Instapundit and Gates of Vienna)
UPDATE: Has it already started?


January 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
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January 4th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
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January 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I highly recommend “While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within” by Bruce Bawer (perhaps that book is the update you were looking for?).
January 5th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Thanks, I’ll buy it.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Also, it occurs to me belatedly, you might enjoy some of the videos of Englishman Pat Condell (I’ll try some links, hope I’ve got the format right):
a word to Islamofascists
more demands from Islam
video response to Osama
I find Condell highly amusing and generally dead accurate.
Oh, and a thought… you do realize that what we’re both agreeing on here — i.e. that arresting someone for speaking their mind is utterly wrong — is in support of the idea of civil liberties? I was under the impression that “civil liberties” had become something like a dirty word (phrase) in conservative circles, along with “liberal”. Perhaps I have been misled.