Issues with free speech

Before even starting this post - to put "inverted commas" around "free speech" in the heading or not?  Why?  Well ... when enemies of free speech are breathing down one's neck, threatening to wreck one's webpage, one does look at it a bit more closely than the average web surfer.

All right, look at this series of screenshots below.

Question ... can that be substantiated?  Answer is one of two things ... ask for substantiation of the claim, or else just ban the above at your site in order to protect Gettr and keep behaviour "ethical".  We saw tweets on what Gettr did when DJT first started with it.  Also - is he "the Donald", "Donald", "DJT", "Trump" or "Drumpf"?  The choice brands the writer.

Question ... is Gettr scared of being shut down, therefore another free speech outlet is snuffed out ... or are they "censoring" in the bad sense of the word to us?  All right:

That's one of the Frank Quotes.  My view as a website admin is that it's easily substantiated or debunked from other sources.  What of this one?

Which five?  Not named.  Is that playing safe re litigation or is it unsubstantiated assertion?  It needs at least a source link or two.

Does that not lay the onus on Dr. Malone to substantiate?  Ah, not so fast.  Under EU law, the blog writer or admin is also liable.  So is the commenter below.  But we're not in the EU.  You think so?  The law has not changed.  There was no Brexit, only WA3.  Obviously, this site believes Dr. Malone ... for now ... his bona fides are good with us.  Not with the cabal and apologists though.

That was on Gab.  Clearly an opinion, not a libel or slander of person[s].  Ah, but it's an opinion which those quoting "community guidelines" want removed.

What of humour?  The in-joke?  You'd need to know the photoshopped FBI reference to get the humour.  Were I not to use that acronym just now, would that make the joke more acceptable?

On Twitter, I reposted a lady, Emerald Robinson, without giving my own opinion, and she said she believed Chauvin, not Floyd.  I was banned for reposting her.  Who's right or wrong there?

All right, Gab is the closest to a free speech platform going just now [IMHO].  There are some people flooding the timeline just now and the word "jew" appears often.  There's another where the word "muslim" appears often.  We all attack "the Woke" and quote examples.

Should Gab come down?  This post will go up at N.O. and OoL ... watch the quite different treatments of comments.

When all these issues are resolved, then the blog has a firm policy.  Does it even need one?

Safety, and Human Life, in South Africa

 

I know that it was a long time ago, and I also know the black man is now in charge (or at least allegedly in charge) but the basic truth of the tale as I recounted it still applies.

I'd Recommend 'A Deep Dive' Too...

Speaking at the latest board meeting last month, Stephen Mayo, interim director of nursing for patient experience at Thurrock CCG, called for a “deep dive” into what caused the incidents.

He said: “There were 85 serious incidents across the acute during this period and one never event which related to an angiogram commenced on an incorrect leg.

“This brings the total of never events during this time period to five. Four of them are related to wrong site surgery and one to a medication incident within maternity.

“We have requested that there is a deep dive regarding these never events and reporting to our system quality group. They need to take as part of that reporting process the impact on patients and staff within their investigation and going forward.”

...but possibly, I'd mean something rather different. Something very different!

The Synod of Whitby

In AD664, the question required resolution and so King Oswiu decided to resolve it at this place:

Read on to find out how.

Halting That Long March...

Top BBC executives intervened to tweak an article written by a staffer who used the phrase 'assigned female at birth' to describe women. Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC's director of nations, reportedly requested 'women' replace the phrase 'assigned female at birth' in a March 26 feature on endometriosis.

And, predictably, the online 'community' exploded in rage: 

According to the Times, internal information show readers' complaints about the article increased after the phrasing was edited.

Yet for once, the BBC stuck to their guns. And also expanded their corrections: 

Another article was recently updated about a suspected serial killer to make clear she had only recently started identifying as a transgender woman.

Interesting! Did they, perhaps, sense which way the wind was starting to blow? 

But battles are always fought on more than one front:

An NHS equality chief has rallied colleagues and urged them to ignore the ruling from a government watchdog which states trans people can be legally excluded from single-sex wards.

Tara Hewitt, the group head of equality, diversity and inclusion at Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, slammed the ruling as 'transphobic' and urged her colleagues to ignore its guidance.

Why would a woman who has the position of equality chief be so vehement (and wrong) in her mutiny against... 

Oh. Another thing that battles must beware of - enemy infiltration.

Not just Palm Sunday

... but also Round One of the French presidential election. PD sends PJW of Infowars:

 

Le Pen has been there before in this position, round one, but there are differences.  Marion Marechal, my fave, backed Zenmour.  Zenmour is certainly saying the right things in order to reverse the crime-ridden invasion at globo behest but there's just ... je ne sais quoi ... something offputting about the man, not quite kosher.

Anyway, lets say Marine the softy does pip the creep, traditionally in round two she goes down to the cabalist candidate, as the left gives its votes to him.  However, this time, the left are saying no.  Hmmm.  Plus the gillettes jeunes violence by plod, plus the farmer attacked in his home, plus Marine promising to slash petrol prices ... there's just the tiniest glimmer of hope ... plus if a crash comes, which the globocrims would be mad to try until after their creep is back.

There's US style election theft of course, though a bit difficult with personal voting at polling stations.  Still before midday here, so a long way to go.

Doris squanders taxpayer money to help wipe out Ukrainians

About the only thing I'll add to Doris committing taxpayer funded British kit to support the militias murdering their own people in the Ukraine is this exchange in comments:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/09/zelenskyy-gives-british-prime-minister-boris-johnson-a-guided-tour-of-the-battle-to-save-kyiv/

Reader 1: How are they going to move 120 armored vehicles across the border into Ukraine without Russia seeing them and blowing them up as soon as they enter the country?

Reader 2:  They’ll do it during the commercial break.  Now sit down and watch the show! 

These Places Are Exactly Where Intelligence Gathering Is Needed...

A mosque attended by Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his family says it has suffered 'smearing and demonisation' after claims it turned a 'blind eye' to extremism.

That hardly makes it unique... 

Earlier this month lawyers for the families of the bereaved said it was accepted the mosque was in no way linked to the bombing or the radicalisation of Salman Abedi, who carried out the deadly bomb attack after an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017. But it was claimed the mosque had hosted extreme Islamist sermons, failed to condemn violence and 'buried its head in the sand' over radicals in its congregation.

Gosh, how, err, unusual. But no doubt this will be dismissed as the ravings of 'Islamophobes', right? 

Well, it's going to be difficult... 

An Imam at the mosque, Mohammed El-Saeiti, who delivered a sermon condemning terror groups, told the inquiry trustees believed speaking up against terrorists would 'provoke' its sympathisers and supporters. The mosque then failed to support him when he faced a petition for his removal signed by, among others, Ramadan Abedi, father of the bomber. He said after the bombing the mosque's solicitor, a Mr Hafezi, pressured him to not mention the Abedis' links to the mosque.

Heh! 

The statement said it had tried to keep politics out of the mosque, adding: 'Mosques are places of worship and should not become places where intelligence gathering on people's lives and politics should take place.'

Sounds like these places are exactly where it should take place to me... 

Last day for Covid Inquiry responses

Last day for Covid Inquiry responses

https://lauradodsworth.substack.com/p/my-response-to-the-covid-19-terms

Areas not covered [in her view], that the Inquiry should address:

1. Use of professional behavioural psychology techniques and the effects of deliberately stoking fear in the general public, the media and institutions.

2. Accuracy of the recording and measurement of deaths from Covid.

3. The censorship or suppression of anyone who questioned the official narrative, for example pursuant to Ofcom guidelines.

4. Lack of impact assessments and the disregard of harms caused by restrictions, particularly for children, who must be considered separately in terms of physical, social, psychological and educational impacts.

5. Discrimination against the unvaccinated population, especially mandatory vaccination of Healthcare Workers (‘HCWs’) and care home staff, which lacked scientific justification (as per the PACAC report). At one point, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said life was going to become difficult for the unvaccinated. How could this discrimination have been justified and tolerated by government? The country only just swerved becoming a two tier medical apartheid county.

6. Vaccine harms and deaths.

7. Covid Fixed Penalty Notices were set at disproportionate and cruel levels. Fixed-penalty notices are normally used for minor and straightforward infractions. They are also normally set at low levels, say £100 for littering or £130 for parking. Covid fines were set up to £10,000 for repeat offences, unrelated to income. Fines were issued disproportionately to black and Asian people. The fines could have created perverse incentives for councils. FPNs were incorrectly issued.

8. Why emergency legislation was used when Covid-19 was not a HCID.

9. Why the existing protocol for pandemic strategy was not followed.

10. Examine the evidence base for mass asymptomatic testing, and discover whether an impact assessment conducted.

11. How did the lockdown and restrictions impact the population’s human rights.

12. This Inquiry should make recommendations for future pandemic management.

13. Delayed and inadequate Freedom of Information requests related to the pandemic management.

14. The accuracy of data behind the government Covid-19 dashboard. One of my FOI’s revealed alarmingly incorrect case data by test centre by day for the month of December 2020, and my requests for correct data and clarification go unanswered. I will be happy to supply the data I have to the enquiry.

Today is the last day you can submit your own response.  Follow link to do this.

Cruelty or callous indifference ...

... by sub-standard "leaders"?

The Daily Sceptic may have been better showing a non-slapper who never pleasured her way to the top but there they go, this was in the newsround:

“Cruelty – the missing word in Ofsted’s ‘pandemic’ impact report” – It is not the “pandemic” which has had a disastrous effect on child development and well being, it is the Government’s response, says Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom.

Yeeesss, so many examples of this cruelty showing through, esp. in family unable to see the elderly as they died for a start.  Difficult to know if this was sadism or just callous indifference.  

Or that monster in Melbourne continuing on mask mandates and the like despite most of the west lifting this.

Or that monster Zelensky in the Ukraine accosted over the Azov bayonetting and other atrocities we've documented, his response on film: "They are what they are."

Or the incarceration without trial of the J6 invitees under attested appalling conditions.  Or Assange's treatment.  Or despite his subsequent showing himself to be a dead loss on SCOTUS, Heels-Ups bullying of Kavanaugh and non-interest in southern border conditions ... the list goes on and on and on.

It's a quite marked phenomenon, this gross indifference and cruelty, it's now found at all levels, e.g. in baton charges on rally protesters on one side but never sgainst the other tossers like the pink pussy paraders in Washington.

There's a bible verse I mention at another place which says, essentially, that in the last days, society having fallen away, it would be led by children.  No one as callous as children ... see Omar, Cortez, Lightfoot, Whitmer, the Baltimore one, the Squad, Truss, Harbag, Hewitt and going nominally male - Hancock and his grinning face.  Carrie Johnson running policy in the land.