Brickbat: Mostly Free Speech

In England, the Harrow council has canceled a performance by comedian Reginald D. Hunter at the Harrow Arts Centre, citing a joke he made at an Edinburgh Fringe performance comparing Israel to an abusive spouse. "We champion arts and culture in Harrow and strongly support freedom of speech," said a council spokesperson. "However, we also take seriously our duty to foster good relations with people – something we take great pride in Harrow. Recent comments and events relating to Reginald D Hunter do not reflect our values of diversity, inclusion, and good community relations."

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[Rob Misek]

Mostly? WTF! Nothing close to free speech.

When you censor people because you don’t like what they say, when they aren’t breaking any laws, YOU ARE OPPOSING FREE SPEECH.

The media and governments are silent about the Israeli genocide in Gaza. All we hear about is their coercive efforts to censor anyone who opposes Israeli crimes against humanity.

Miko Peled is an Israeli, an author, a public speaker and the son of a famous Israeli general.

He is also opposed to Israeli apartheid terrorism and oppression of Palestinians.

In the following video he demonstrates the Israel you won’t see in our western propaganda. Instead you’ll recognize the Israel that’s on trial for genocide in the U.N.

Between 40:40 and 43:45 in the video he describes Israeli terrorism.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaxAckFCuQ

Israel is on trial for committing genocide, Hamas isn’t.

Netanyahu is responsible for telling the IDF to commit genocide by referencing the Jewish biblical “god approved” genocide of women and children with the story of AMALEK. Clearly inciting genocide. With over 24000 non combatant women and children intentionally targeted and killed and IDF soldiers on record rejoicing about it referencing Amalek, the effect of Netanyahus instructions are clear.

Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was fighting “human animals” and that they will be “starved of food and water” which Israel has done and continues to do.

Amichay Eliyahu, the minister for heritage, suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza. Israel isn’t supposed to have nuclear weapons. Saddam Hussein was hung for crimes against humanity and he didn’t even have WMD much less threaten to use them.

The country’s mainly ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, who described Palestinians as “an entire nation out there that is responsible” demonstrates the genocidal intention.

These statements in combination with their actual execution clearly meets the UN definition and criteria for genocide aka holocaust.

[Finrod]

First of all, you're completely wrong: Saddam had WMDs, and this has been known since 2006.

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/iraq/iraqchemweaprecovered.pdf

Second, the supposed evidence for Israel committing "genocide" comes from UNRWA which is owned lock, stock, and barrel by Hamas. If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

[Rob Misek]

Firstly the potential existence of chemical weapons in Iraq doesn’t diminish the fact that Israel threatened to use nuclear weapons, it isn’t supposed to have, in Gaza.

Netanyahu and his complicit ministers still need to swing from the gallows for their part in the genocide. In Gaza.

What you believe is irrelevant. Israel is on trial in the UN for committing genocide. Israel is violating its signatory obligations to the UN genocide convention by continuing its offensive while on trial and being ruled to stop. Every nation assisting Israel is also violating their signatory obligations to the UN.

Interesting,

Apparently some old chemical weapons were found in Iraq. So why has all media and governments lied about it then? Everyone has been told that NO WMD were found. Maybe because the “west” put them there, left them there, and they are now in the hands of ISIS.

“Yet all the chemical weapons found by soldiers were manufactured before 1991, the Times reported. They consisted largely of 155-millimeter artillery shells or 122-millimeter rockets – not designed for mass destruction, and produced in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.

According to the Times, the reports were embarrassing for the Pentagon because, in five of the six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been “designed in the US, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies”.

It was also reportedly embarrassing for the US government that had found chemical weapons – but not of the kind that they had claimed existed.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/iraq-s-hidden-chemical-weapons-us-covered-up-discovery-of-chemical-weapons-after-2003-invasion-and-many-are-now-in-isis-s-hands-9795485.html

[Minadin]

Nazi's gonna Nazi.

How do you feel about the Rothschilds?

[Rob Misek]

Jews have fabricated antisemitism for centuries to take advantage of it. The Nazi meme is just another example of it.

Palestine has always been every Zionists wet dream.

When WW1 was close to completion in 1916 rich Zionists, like Rothschild, made a deal with Britain to bring the antiwar US into the war in exchange for the promise of Palestine via the Balfour Declaration which began, “Dear lord Rothschild”.

Getting impatient global Zionists boycotted all German trade in 1933, promising to bring another world war to Germany successfully resulting in WW2.

In 1948 with allied weapons and support cowardly Jews incapable of Independence, declared the apartheid state of Israel referencing the Balfour Declaration beginning the Middle East conflict.

They have occupied and terrorized Palestinians for the last 76 years with more US weaponry and aid than any other nation.

Now Jews, not Nazis, are on trial in the international court of justice for committing genocide in Gaza. Reneging on their signatory obligations to the genocide convention.

These are the facts.

[Minadin]

Do you believe that the Hamas fighters who brutally raped and murdered women in Israel, not all Israeli's, BTW, were justified in their tactics? What about when they paraded their naked bodies in the streets of Gaza?

[Rob Misek]

There are so many accounts of Israeli atrocities that Israel is on trial for genocide, not Hamas.

October 7 was an inside job.

The following video is the best compilation of evidence to date that proves October 7 was an inside job coordinated by Israel as an excuse to commit genocide in Gaza.

https://richardgage911.substack.com/p/new-documentary-on-gaza-october-7

The video proves that Israel, funded, coordinated and enabled the October 7 attacks.

It shows that Israel opened the gate to welcome trucks carrying Hamas through the wall.

It shows how Israel not only ignored repeated warnings from their many surveillance sources but withdrew all defences from the wall and emptied their military bases just hours before the attack and had ZERO response for more than 6 hours.

It shows and proves that the IDF attacked the concert goers and the kibbutz’s with Apache helicopters and tanks.

It shows that they sacrificed dozens of their IDF forces to blame Hamas.

It shows that only handfuls of Hamas soldiers wandered for hours through the evacuated areas looking for soldiers to fight but finding none.

It shows that the hostages that were taken by Hamas said they were treated well.

It shows that Israel/Netanyahu has funded Hamas with billions in cash in suitcases in the backs of cars for many years.

[Rob Misek]

You’re a bigot, so you won’t try to believe me.

Watch the videos by Jews.

Here a Rabbi, matter of factly, tells his flock how October 7 was an inside job.

https://old.bitchute.com/video/UGUT0tVXda9n/

[Fist of Etiquette]

Free speech is fine as long as it reflects the values of the collective.

[Mickey Rat]

What free speech?

https://decripto.org/en/uk-james-martin-18-sentenced-to-two-years-for-flying-the-british-flag-in-front-of-an-immigration-centre/

"Uk, James Martin, 18, sentenced to two years for flying the British flag in front of an immigration centre"

"The incident occurred around 10 p.m., when Martin, together with two other young men, approached the Islamic centre wearing a mask, a cap and waving an England flag. The police, who were already monitoring the situation, followed the group to Roscoe Street, where Martin started shouting and swearing at the people present at the Islamic centre, many of whom were engaged in prayer."

"Martin was charged with possession of articles with intent to damage or destroy property, resisting a public officer and causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress. During the trial, held at York Crown Court, it emerged that Martin, who worked as an apprentice bricklayer, had no criminal record. However, Judge Sean Morris emphasised the seriousness of the offence, pointing out that Martin’s behaviour was unacceptable and dangerous to civil society. James Martin was sentenced to two years and two months imprisonment, with the possibility of serving half of the sentence on probation."

[Finrod]

"Mostly" free speech, just like how Minneapolis getting burned down was "mostly" peaceful.

[ObviouslyNotSpam]

Martin was waving the English flag, not the "British" flag, actually. I'm not defending his prosecution, but the former flag (aka St. George's Cross) has taken on a association with the British right wing/football hooligan crowd. The red-white-blue Union Flag does not arouse such apprehension, apparently.

And this, kids, is why having a written Constitution and a meaningful Bill of Rights is important--and worth preserving, in the case of the USA. Few other countries in this world hobble themselves with such limitations. Be grateful for where you have been lucky enough to have been born--and be kind to those who were not so lucky (but recognize greatness when they see it).

[diver64]

"We champion arts and culture in Harrow and strongly support freedom of speech," Therefore, we must censor speech we don't like to keep it free for everyone.
Sounds like a Kamala campaign ad.

[ObviouslyNotSpam]

Which one?

[Longtobefree]

Ever notice how often DEI works by excluding someone?

[mad.casual]

If anyone were going to be making jokes and making authoritative comparisons to domestic abuse, it would be a guy like Reginald D. Hunter. People like him are just inelegant, with no sense of taste or decorum when it comes to more nuanced, sensitive social issues like this one.

That said, I fully support his right to engage in crude humor. They should’ve just moved his performance to the porch.

[sarcasmic]

DEI applies to things people can't change, like race or sexuality.

It does not apply to thought.

[Malvolio]

DEI applies to things people can’t change

So, not religion. Or gender.

[Finrod]

DEI like so many leftist things is the opposite of what it states it is. There's no diversity of thought in DEI, in fact it's actively stamped out. Equity is a financial term that they've shanghaied and tortured into something completely different. Inclusion, their whole purpose is to exclude "wrong-think".

[Longtobefree]

"and causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress."

Funny how that law never gets a Muslim mob arrested when they start knifing anyone in sight.

[ObviouslyNotSpam]

Hilarious.

[mad.casual]

Are we to just assume that telling jokes on the stage of this particular venue *wasn't* going to be a Harrowing experience?

[Think It Through]

Define "strongly", "support", and "freedom of speech." The result is in the opposite direction of these words.

[Rob Misek]

You don’t really represent your anonymous alias.

You should put those words in a sentence then define and consider the meaning of “context”.

If you can do this, actually “think it through”, your perspective might change.