12 Nov
The Demon Headmaster Jack Straw has backed down on trying to remove the defence of freedom of speech from a new law making inciting homophobic hatred a criminal offence.
The Lords prevented the Ministry of Injustice from removing the right to freedom of speech four times before Jack Straw finally gave up.
This new law – along [...]
Posted in Free Speech, Police State, Political Correctness by: wonkotsane
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22 Oct
Nick Griffin will be on Question Time tonight in front of what is probably going to be the bigget TV audience Question Time has ever had.
And the reason why Griffin is going to be getting this huge amount of publicity? Because the anti-democratic, anti-BNP idiots have made such a fuss about him appearing on the [...]
Posted in BBC, Free Speech, Police State by: wonkotsane
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01 Aug
German police in Passau have dug up the grave of a neo-nazi to remove a swastika flag that was thrown onto it when he was buried.
The swastika is banned in Germany, along with other symbols of Naziism and the glorification of Naziism. It is illegal to posess a swastika (presumably Hindu’s are allowed a swastika [...]
Posted in Federal Europe, Free Speech, Police State by: wonkotsane
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25 Nov
BNP leader, Nick Griffin, is to be allowed to speak at an Oxford Union debate on free speech. He will be joined by David Irving, a historian who was jailed in Austria for the thought-crime of saying that the Holocaust never happened.
It was looking a bit iffy for Griffin and Irving after protests against them [...]
Posted in Free Speech by: wonkotsane
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24 Sep
Google search results are notable fickle with the top match changing a couple of times a day as a site starts to challenge the top match. A couple of times today the top result for “Schillings“, the lawyers at the centre of the Alisher Usmanov censorship battle, has turned up a couple of websites closed [...]
Posted in Free Speech by: wonkotsane
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22 Sep
This appeared on the Channel 4 News website yesterday:
As Roman Abramovich gets his man at Chelsea, another Russian oligarch is making waves at Arsenal.
Alisher Usmanov, who this week increased his stake in Arsenal to 21 per cent, has taken exception to some of the fans’ websites repeating allegations first aired by the former ambassador to [...]
Posted in Free Speech by: wonkotsane
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20 Sep
Veteran bloggers Tim Ireland, Bob Piper and Boris Johnson have had their sites pulled by their ISP’s for criticising Alisher Usmanov, the alleged dodgy geezer who is trying to buy Arsenal football club.
People who have been into the blogging scene for a while will know that things like this have happened a few times in the past but [...]
Posted in Free Speech by: wonkotsane
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