August 22, 2024
In the space of
just one week there has been a massive, almost Orwellian crackdown on free
speech, with a number of arrests made. Not in North Korea or China but in the
USA and UK. Barely days after former UN weapons inspector and social media tsar
Scott Ritter had his house raided by FBI officers looking for evidence that he
was actually working for America’s enemies we witnessed the arrest and
detention of a young British journalist called Richard Medhurst who, when
arriving at Heathrow airport from overseas, was escorted off a plane and held
on terrorism charges. And then remarkably, Elon Musk, a billionaire who owns X
and claims to be a champion of free speech shuts down the account of Egyptian
comedian Bassem Youssef – which is followed by rumours on social media that the
next polemic commentator to get the chop will be the YouTube talk show hosted
by Judge Andrew Napolitano.
What’s going on?
What do these individuals all have in common? Clearly their uncompromised
stance against Israel is the issue here and we have to assume that either the
Zionist State has cracked the whip and wants this baptism of criticism and
scorn to stop or the initiative comes exclusively from the deep state itself in
the U.S., with London ever grateful to play the role of diminutive pooch in the
handbag. But the crackdown is unprecedented and really bears witness to a fear
many in the west have had for some time, which is that most of these countries
are parodies of democracy. Some even go further and claim, like Youssef, that
western countries’ governments are controlled by Israel. Far-fetched? Less so,
given the arrests and cancels in recent days.
Yet if it is all
about making the accusations against Israel more round-edged, one has to ask
the questions whether the decision was wise or foolhardy and taken at what
level?
The genocide
Israel carries out can’t be covered up or extinguished by the history books,
even if those tomes are written by the victors, as Churchill once said.
Britain and the
U.S. are complicit in it and will have to face the consequences for it one day.
Both the ICJ and the ICC tribunals in the Netherlands are collecting evidence
on a daily basis leaving many stunned by the rank desperation and stupidity of
this Kristallnacht stunt both by the deep state and by Elon Musk.
The three guilty
were commentators and journalists who are hell-bent on saying or reporting the
truth, no matter how unpalatable it may be. We can assume in the case of the
young journalist Medhurst that instructions to scare him with the Heathrow
stunt were probably instructions from Langley which UK cops happily obliged to
execute.
But the shutting
down of Bassem Yousef just confirms our worst suspicions about Elon Musk. That,
rather than being a supporter and campaigner of freedom of speech, he is a
hypocrite and like so many powerful, rich people he uses the free speech
platform for his own agenda. Rarely if ever, do the rich who cry out for
freedom of speech ever really want absolute freedom of speech. What they want
in reality is freedom of speech within their own political prism with a
definite cut-off point when a line is crossed. Yousef’s criticism of Israel was
clearly hitting home and influencing huge numbers of people on X and for Musk
the cut-off point had been reached.
One huge
supporter of Musk in the UK is Nigel Farage, who, it should be mentioned, has
also started banging on the drum of free speech and was very vocal in
supporting Musk who has allowed a phalanx of right-wing groups and individuals
to use X as their base and to rally racism in its ugliest form, often through
lying to the greater public. Recently in the UK, three toddlers were murdered
and riots broke out across the country, often with clashes with British
Muslims, based on tweets which were factually incorrect – stating that the
murderer was a Muslim. Is this the kind of free speech that Musk and Farage are
happy with having a safe haven on X?
But others who
simply hold an acerbic tone against Israel and its 21st century holocaust need
to be silenced? How can Musk now be taken seriously when he rambles on about
free speech?
And Farage for
that matter? Since when did Farage care about free speech? For well over a
decade when Farage was an MEP in Brussels he showed no interest whatsoever in
free speech. In fact, he contributed towards the only free speech independent
outlet which investigated scandal and graft, a magazine called The Sprout,
shutting down in 2006. Farage poached one of the two founding editors for his
own political media needs to promote himself, whilst allowing the same
individual to shut down all avenues of cooperation with the same magazine.
Whilst Farage spent millions of self-promotion using European Parliament funds
allocated for media, the only investigative magazine in the history of the
European Union folded before his eyes – without even a cry from the leader for
a whip round in the pub to try and keep it going.
Perhaps the
former UKIP leader also had his own petulant agenda there as the magazine
exposed a number of UKIP MEPs for fiddling their expenses while using
parliamentary assistants as modern-day sex slaves. Farage only ever cared about
using his parliamentary position in Brussels to promote himself, almost nearly
always with big media which the European parliament actually subsidized the
productions costs of to operate in the building. Rather like his absurd
statement recently that he thought Putin “was evil and bad” when his
relationship with Moscow was put under the spotlight, one has to laugh off most
of what Nigel says as lies. Presumably he thought Putin was evil and bad when
he was making shows for RT and having appearances for the Kremlin’s channel for
500 pounds a pop. Nice work if you can get it.
Let’s be
serious. Whether you are billionaire Elon Musk or Nigel Farage earning a
miserly 100,000 quid a month through doing TV work, free speech is always
bullshit. It’s always a platform to use to promote yourself, your political
views or even boost your bank balance. Free speech is always doused in rank
hypocrisy, red in tooth and claw with lies from those you have stabbed in the
back. Next Farage will be giving us lessons on the virtues of fidelity in
marriage, or Musk on the importance of a feral, active media and its role in a
healthy democracy. Free speech is a lie. Nearly all of those who talk about it
are using it to rake in the money and gain more political ground. If Farage
believed in free speech so much, then he would give a percentage of his salary
from GB News to a new media start-up in his own constituency and he would lobby
for defamation laws to be reformed.
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