BBC fact checker who actually checks facts and the state of Freedom of speech in Europe and Canada: Links 1 for Aug. 27, 2024

1. FOX clip on the state of freedom of speech in Europe as exemplified by the arrest of the owner of Telegram. This is not an unimportant clip.

Jonathan Turley- “this should scare you” pic.twitter.com/nVPqfug41J

— Karli Bonne’ ?? (@KarluskaP) August 26, 2024

2. Meanwhile, something a little fun. A new Trump campaign advert

Very effective new ad from Trump campaign, showing in swing states.pic.twitter.com/IWCz01Cmhg

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 27, 2024

I believe the music is from Hello Mudda...

3. Former Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament has a few thoughts on mass migration.

I have a few thoughts on his thoughts. First, his basic observations are accurate. Which makes him one of the few politicians willing to go along with the evidence of his sense. Which also explains why he is no longer a politician. But his estimate of why this mass migration to Western countries is happening is not, in our opinion of course, correct. He is confusing the qui bono of it with the reason for it. While his assessment of the mass migration is a sort of ponzi scheme for certain businesses is certainly true, that goes to explaining why certain private enterprises support it. But not why it is happening. He does get to that though. The fact that mass migration means more government control. We at Vlad Tepes believe this is total and apocalyptic aufheben der kultur. The total obliteration of Western culture, people, history, laws and frame of reference including and especially, the notion of the individual and the rights that follow in a society that is based on the individual.

Also the mass migration into the West started well before 2015 and then it went into high gear, 5 years before Covid. So again, I think Randy points out an opportunistic benefit for those who are in control, but it isn’t a cause. It’s a happy effect from the PoV of The Party.

Randy is a man of exceptionally high character. I have witnessed him personally intercede on behalf of a group of trucks that had been sequestered by ANTIFA during the freedom convoy of 2021, although frankly, kidnapped and extortion would be a better word, and since the trucks were not allowed to leave unless they made political concessions, terrorism could be applied as a label, and would be if non-leftists did that to leftists. Randy went in when police would not. And it was below -30 that day. At that temperature it doesn’t really matter if it was F or C. As I recall, Randy did manage to get their release.

Related: From Canada’s Red Star newspaper, Government officers told to skip fraud prevention steps when vetting temporary foreign worker applications, Star investigation finds

4. Here’s a surprise. a BBC fact checker who seems to have a track record of actually checking facts no matter where it lands the opinion, is exposing the number of people who are creating a narrative that Trump somehow staged his own assassination attempt.

I don’t think people recognise how deep-rooted belief in the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump staged his assassination attempt has become among terminally online resistance liberals. https://t.co/RB5r0iC1xT pic.twitter.com/qIuCkiBtoG

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) August 26, 2024

5. Islamic hate preacher now on tour across Canada

The Saudi-based Imam holds fundamentalist views of women, Jews and homosexuals

Imagine a controversial Christian preacher from the U.S. who tells his followers that Muslims are our enemy being allowed to tour this country.

Would the Trudeau government allow such a preacher to conduct a lecture tour if he taught that all Muslims are liars who cheat, and that homosexuals are animals?

It’s doubtful — but if it did happen, there would be outrage and demonstrations outside of the tour locations.

Right now, though, there is a Muslim preacher who holds these very views, except about Jews, touring Canada. Assim Al-Hakeem, an Imam based in Saudi Arabia, has already visited Calgary, Milton, Mississauga and Hamilton, and will be in London on Saturday, Montreal on Sunday and Vancouver next Tuesday.

Brian Lilley is a little late to the party. So late in fact that he bothers with the relativist device. “What if it was another group saying X about that group!”. Sorry but we are way past that. The fact is there is simply no playing field the way we always knew it to be.

Enforcement is so consistently directional that to call it biased is to miss the point. This is about destruction. This is about a different system altogether, the purpose of which is to destroy what is. Islam is an excellent vehicle for that purpose, as Islam, like leftist thought is an engine of destruction of all things not itself. Communism also attacks itself. It is perpetual destruction. But Islam slows down when sharia is the law and Muslims are in all positions of authority. It still will do hijra, meaning to escalate the degree of Islamic adherence from time to time and place to place, but compared to communism, it’s a just system. At least they know who they are and what they believe.

The point I am totally failing to get at, is this isn’t an error or a glitch in the system Brian Lilley thinks is in effect. This is a different system now. In England this is visible in spades. They are literally releasing violent criminals, especially from favoured groups, to make prison space for senior citizen Brits who just said something true but against the new state narrative.

Examples of hate preachers breaking every aspect of hate speech and hate literature laws in Canada are legion.

A Canadian from Montreal, Marc Lebuis as an experiment over 10 years ago, went to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to lodge a complaint against an Imam in Montreal that said the usual authentically Islamic things about Jews, women and non-Muslims. He published them, said them to a congregation, video, writing, every way he could. It would be a slam dunk case. marc brought it forward to try and alert people to the nature of reality back then. As yuo might guess, they elected not to prosecute that case. Which is how the various HRC all function. If they proceed, the verdict will always be guilty. Unless you are Ezra Levant and manage to shine enough light on it to show them for the dialectic tyrants they are. And he did. But you know, I bet today that would make no difference.

To see marc explain his case, and it is well worth it, watch this movie by Danish American film maker, Michael Hanson.

This RAIR article has a few examples of imams in Canada who tip the repugnant speech scale till the springs break. No charges so far as we know. So as much as we’re grateful that Brian Lilley at least showed up to the party, most of the guests are already loaded and taking Ubers home.

Thank you all for your kind attention.

A word about the banner pic for this post.

The idea isn’t mind. The Baron over at Gates of Vienna showed me one to discuss the possibilities of AI. You can spot AI generated images fast after you have seen a few. At least from Chat GPT which have a characteristic look most of the time. But it won’t do real people. Actually it has a LOT of limitations. So to do any images like the one The Baron showed me, I had to come up with a prompt that came close to the original idea, and then merge Commie Camala’s face on it and that’s the result. So since I made it, I may as well use it.

Source: https://vladtepesblog.com/2024/08/27/bbc-fact-checker-who-actually-checks-facts-and-the-state-of-freedom-of-speech-in-europe-and-canada-links-1-for-aug-27-2024/