Barging in is a can of worms

Most of the 12 minutes is just him protesting that he supports the police, plus there are things he can legally say. He ran an initial vid and this is the update. The small part relevant to us is at 08:12, after his advertising is seamlessly slipped in.

His conclusion ... and remember he says all through that there are aspects he cannot divulge and how wonderful the police are ... is that the two "officers" were out of order barging in, then asking for the filming to stop, with no warrant. And especially seizing the child's phone.

You yourselves are restricted by English law about commenting, as am I ... it reminds me very much of the superinjunctions brought by Giggs and Clarkson, where everyone knew but no one could say. Also TR reporting outside a courtroom while the BBC did ... MSM knew of the injunction, TR was not aware he could not report ... so he says.

Many commenters have done so over at his youtube account, the BBB, expressing their opinions on the whole matter.

Whole thing reminds me of a can of worms.

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Sorry me, laze and gem, I'm going to have to insist that comments on this post have some sort of moniker attached somewhere.

Why Not? Didn’t The Left Rewrite George Floyd’s?

 As we often say, if it wasn't for double standards, the Left wouldn't have any...

Perhaps it was these noble gestures toward generosity and sympathy that led some commentators to be more laudatory to Kirk’s memory than an honest recounting of his life would allow. In the days following Kirk’s death, several bewilderingly inaccurate postmortem hagiographies have appeared, including from prominent voices on the left and center, that seem to wish that the tragedy of Kirk’s death could retroactively have given him a more honorable life.

Not as egregious as raising monuments to a fentanyl-addicted long time career criminal who wasn't even 'killed by police' in any case, but by the consequences of his own addition, surely? 

The most egregious of these came from Ezra Klein, a center-left columnist at the New York Times known for his ability to channel and influence elite opinion. In a piece published the morning after Kirk’s death, titled Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way, Klein made a series of strained, bizarre and outright untrue assertions about Kirk’s career and character. Kirk, Klein argued, was, if anything, an example of civic virtue. “Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way,” Klein said. “He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion.” Klein’s point was that political persuasion – the rational debate of ideas between equals in which violence is unthinkable and good faith is presumed – is a cornerstone of liberal democracy, the kind of thing we should all be striving for, the kind of thing we need more of.

And...shouldn't we? What happened to 'it's better to talk'? The left csn'y possibly disagree that that's what Kirk spent most of his time doing, can they? 

Fair enough, I suppose, on its merits, but such a description of reasoned, honest, good-faith debate is so inaccurate a description of what Charlie Kirk engaged in on college campuses – in his series of large, staged events where he “debated” untrained liberal undergraduates with cameras rolling – that it reads as willfully naive, if not outright dishonest.

Reader, it appears they can. 

Charlie Kirk’s “debates” were aggressive, unequal, trolling affairs, in which he sought to provoke his interlocutors to distress, shouted them down and belittled them, spewed hateful rhetoric about queer and trans people, women, Black people, immigrants and Muslims, and selectively edited the ensuing footage to create maximally viral content in which his fans could witness him humiliating the liberals and leftists they perceived to be their enemies.

Ah, the Left's 'argument' is that when he spoke, people got upset? Maybe ask why these people couldn't argue their points calmly and logically and without bursting into tears at the mean man who failed to agree with them that men could become women and vice-versa? 

In the rush to canonize Kirk and revise his history, honest accountings of his life have not only become rare – they have also become dangerous. In the days since his death, journalists, media personalities and others who have not been sufficiently laudatory to Kirk in public have lost their jobs for telling the truth about his life.

No, they've lost their jobs because in celebrating political murder, they've brought the brands they represent into disrepute, and thus breached their terms of employment. 

It is easy for me, even, to show sympathy for the humanity of Charlie Kirk, who, for everything else he was, was a human being who has now been robbed of the opportunity to learn, grow, and repent. But such commitments – to human life, to nonviolence, to a faith in the possibility of redemption and reconciliation – need not lead us to lie to ourselves about Charlie Kirk.

But you've already introduced the concept of lying about people's lives, even if these people you are complaining about were actually lying, you'd have no leg to stand on. 

The Indians are coming

... no, not the Red Indians.  I'd not thought much about Indians till now to be honest ... yes, there was this Vivek Swamirami, forgive the spelling, Eva Vlaar is just as difficult and Vivek and I mutually follow ... but I'd seen the sniping and lack of gruntledness among Americans, including with this H1B thing.

Seems it's quite a deal more than that at this ultrasensitive time when westerners are starting to wake up en masse to what's being done to them.

Sunday post on a Saturday morning

This below is an abridged form of the photo and screenshots over at Unherdables on the topic (Sat 14), below which is this:

Remember?

Grinning Hancock, Fauci and Birx, Gates and Brock, Pence and Pepfar, DJT’s stupid Warp Speed, the heads of the FDA and their other interests, nightingale tent hospitals, dancing tiktok nurses, empty wards and clinics, single point of truth Ahern, Northern Territory, Oz concentration camps, thug plod, armed, accosting women and children in parks and on beaches, standing on spots in the supermarket after queuing 6 feet away from anyone, never 5’10”, masks while eating out, standing in the street at 8 p.m., clapping like demented seals.

Care home deaths, Fredo’s brother in NYC … the most horrible people at large … Whitty, Ferguson … it goes on and on … and then the Karens. Oh yes … the Karens, inc. Andrew Neil and others here, Kimmel across the pond. The dark side of human nature.

Nasty, nasty people, superior people in their own estimation wanting horrors visited upon us for not complying with what, by any sane measure, were barely tested or untested, but planned well ahead of time, DNA altering measures.

I'm not even sure this was left versus right ... seemed Karens infested both sides of the political aisle.

Saturday post on Friday evening

Two excellent pieces came through from sources I don't usually visit.  The first was from Konstantin Kisin whom we saw as an anti Trump left liberal and he admits as much here:

"My entire public career since 2016 has been predicated on describing what anyone could see with their own eyes: the Left was going off the deep end. The first and most obvious sign of this was the response to the Brexit vote here in Britain and the election of President Trump in the United States. As a Remain voter and Trump skeptic myself, I could not believe what I was seeing.

I devoured Ayn Rand’s writings in my youth and, while much of my thinking has evolved significantly since, one quote stayed with me: “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” In other words, if events you cannot believe keep happening, you are missing something.

Because of this, even as a default liberal in 2016, I had one choice and one choice only: to ask what I was missing and seek information outside my bubble. This, incidentally, was the genesis of TRIGGERnometry.

But that is not what my soon-to-be-former friends on the Left did. Instead, they buried their heads even deeper into the sand."

The second was from John Ward, surprisingly:

The line that ‘life was always this crap’ is trying to hoodwink Millennials:

Governments used to design socio-economic policy based on the needs of the 96%. Now it's devised solely by and for the 4%.

The Baby Boomer parents of the late 1940s begat the Beautiful People of the 1960s.....who in turn begat the Millennials born during the Noughties.

But along the way, things went terribly wrong.

In education and science, the search for Truth turned into the politically correct.

In public life, punishment for malfeasance turned into do what you have to do and tell any lie necessary to get away with it.

Among showbizz celebs and the media, a talent to entertain and investigative journalism turned into if it feels good do it, and lock-step elite propaganda.

In service industries, after-sales care turned into 'No Reply' emails and AI jargon....thus ensuring that accountability turned into inaccessibility - and then invisibility.

In Silicon Valley, hitech progress turned into surveillance State process.

In soccer, playing attacking ambitious football turned into play-safe midfield pass-tapping, and corner kicks turned into all-in penalty area wrestling.

In government, being a politically neutral bureaucrat turned into neutured elected assemblies and revolving door corporatocracy.

In politics, explaining necessity turned into rationalising expediency.

In banking, our money became their money and their losses became our responsibility.

In pharmaceuticals and healthcare, making sick people better turned into making money from addicted patients. 

Overall, in fact, natural tribal mutuality capitalism turned into monopoly-globalist greed.

Clearly this must stop, plus Millennials and Zoomers need to understand that while, overall, greed at the top did always rule and plebs were turned into cannon fodder on a whim, the better to keep populations controlled ... this in the past few decades has seen a real cranking up of the hell and departure from all ethical precepts ... at least they made a show of decency earlier ... MPs resigning etc.

Even soft MPs such as Badenough and Cooper, Kendall, have lost all decency whatever ... suggestion the elderly lose their pensions? Should be eased out of the world?  Babies aborted up to and after birth? All the body mutilation? Nope, this stuff was not around earlier, except in narrow clubs and dens.

Oh, Do Get Over Yourself!

The etiquette of when to offer your seat on public transport is some of the most complicated we’re forced to navigate – probably worldwide, but definitely in Britain, where most of us are easily mortified, and could then be trapped together, at least until the next stop, to endure the aftermath. When you factor in that it must be done in full view of numerous spectators, no wonder so many commuters pretend not to notice who is standing near them. Make a mistaken offer and you’ve insulted a stranger, to their face, in front of a live audience. You’ll carry the shame with you for ever, on some level, as anybody who has had their Good Samaritan moment ruined by the reply “I’m not actually pregnant, thank you very much” can attest.

As someone who has now reached the age where I am occasionally offered a seat (ewhich I usually decline with thanks because I only go a handful of stops), can I say what a load of utter bollocks this article is? 

Let’s agree from the off that those who choose priority seats (the ones clearly marked for people with a greater need to sit down), and then fall asleep or become engrossed in their phone/book/thoughts, are the absolute worst. If you sit there, you are entering into a moral contract. With great comfort comes great responsibility. You’re duty-bound to monitor your surroundings, and leap up if the need arises.

Have you ever been on a crowded train? Doesn't seem like it... 

The train track to hell is laid with good intentions – you may genuinely mean “Please do sit down, I care about your wellbeing,” but they will hear “You are ancient, or overweight, or perhaps both.” In a nutshell, you have to be pretty confident of the facts before you dare open your mouth.

People like you with attitudes like this are what has ruined commuting. Decrying basic good manners as somehow 'offensive' and shaming those who display them.

Choose your terrorist organisation of preference

There are known terrorist organisations such as Hamas, the three letter agencies in the west, gangs such as the WEF, Mexican drug gangs ... Obama was taught by one, led by one Bill Ayers ... universities are rife with them, students are highly susceptible, hence the wheeze of getting the most hopeless brains into university, owing huge amounts of money, accruing debt, making ends meet by antifa activities and the like, girls doing OnlyFans ... BLM is another.

Running these two again to give an idea of the sheer scale:

And then there are all the support services facilitating them ... easing their way through, even escorting them ... organisations such as these:

They themselves are not independent, in neither fear nor favour ... they're clearly beholden to, in thrall to, some supra-organising body.  In short, someone is pulling strings from afar, using money, blackmail and threat.  And this body is global.

So, while some sicko kid may have been the patsy, may even have been the Oswald and joined in, there were many others involved.  How good was Kirk's security?  How onside? Did he cross some line which sealed his fate, as with both Kennedys and Lincoln?

Not sure about Diana ... with Chas III's proclivity for checked table cloth headgear and allo snackbar, why would he have wanted to see her deathcult dalliance stopped? Or maybe it was Phil the Greek?  Who knows?  Maybe Chas really was the jealous hubby.

Then we get to councils, police and the rape gangs ... just as antithetical to society but there we're getting into another aspect ... moral degradation of a society ... again across the west. Is the target Christian values, is it the west itself?  Is it all to do with rich resources to be plundered, as with Russia?

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A reminder, dear reader, that you're welcome to comment as Anon but if so, please invent a moniker to appear somewhere in your text ... it tells Watchers nothing, it does help the readers.

The Gravy Train Has Hit The Buffers

Publications aimed at LGBTQ+ and other diverse audiences are facing “good old-fashioned discrimination” as advertisers avoid them after political attacks on diversity and inclusion campaigns, editors have said. Senior figures at publications aimed at the gay community and other minority groups said a previous “gold rush” to work with such titles was over.

Nature is healing, at last. 

Tag Warner, the chief executive of Gay Times, said his publication, which had been growing digitally in the US, had lost 80% of its advertisers in the past year. It has also lost in excess of £5m in expected advertiser revenue.Warner, who has led the outlet since 2019, said his title’s growth had been accompanied by an enthusiasm from brands to embrace LGBTQ+ audiences. He blames an anti-DEI drive in the US for the dramatic shift.

Sure, people were happy to buy your rags but stopped immediatly Trump was electted. That's believable. Isn't it more likely it's just part of the general slowdown in the magazine market?

“I know that media and marketing is also going through a challenging year anyway, but when we’re thinking about other organisations that don’t talk to diverse themes, they’re not nearly as impacted as we are,” he said. “This is just good old-fashioned discrimination. Because discrimination doesn’t have to make business sense. Discrimination doesn’t have to be logical. Discrimination is discrimination.

It's not 'discrimination' if Mr Average decides he can only afford one magazine this week, and makes it 'Field and Stream' or 'National Geographic' instead of 'Horny Lumberjacks' is it? 

Nafisa Bakkar, the co-founder of Amaliah, a publication aimed at “amplifying the voices of Muslim women”, said there had been a “change in mood” among brands and advertisers. “There was this DNI [diversity and inclusion] gold rush,” she said. “It is, I would say, well and truly over.

Basic fact of business life, love: all bubbles burst. All fads have a shelf life. And I think most people are hearily sick of having the voices of Muslims amplified!

Mark Berryhill, the chief executive of equalpride, which publishes prominent US titles like Out and The Advocate, said some brands and agencies “may have been a little bit more cautious than they have been in the past”. However, he said it had so far meant deals had taken longer to be completed, in a tough economic climate.

It's the economy, stupid. Just like always. 

What sort of utter imbecility is this?

More vitally ... who is the imbecile who ordered it?  How did she get that way, the silly bint?

And even more vitally, how to stop the damage they're doing, esp. to children?

This Is Why The Migrant Hotel Protests Must Continue

A drunk Somali asylum seeker who spat at a police officer while staying in a migrant hotel has avoided punishment.

Who is surprised? The so-called justice system bends over backwards to excuse these savages. 

The asylum seeker was said to have been inebriated, having downed half a bottle of vodka and beers, and officers called in backup to restrain him.

Aren't most Somalis Muslim? 

As PC Browning took hold of Momad, the defendant launched a volley of spit which landed on his hand, Poole Magistrates' Court heard. The migrant, who continues to stay at the historic hotel despite being in the country for five years, was then arrested for assault on an emergency worker.

Here for five years and still not denied asylum. Is there anything slower than the asylum system in this country? 

He pleaded guilty to the offence at court, where it was heard he was already serving a six-week suspended prison sentence for a religiously aggravated assault on a member of the public.

*sigh* 

But because his latest offence took place before he was sentenced for the earlier offence in March, it was not taken into consideration as the magistrates issued their sanction.

Their 'Sanction' being ... nothing at all.

'He is an asylum seeker who gets quite depressed as he is not allowed to work. He has been in the UK since 2020 and accepts he has a problem with drink.'

Then deport him back to his Muslim, dry country - two problems solved!  

As of last month, there were some 91 criminal charges against migrants staying at the two hotels. It's a similar picture at the nearby Chine Hotel, a mile away, where another 25 charges against migrants were brought following a spate of alleged crimes in the town. A total of 116 charges were brought against 51 asylum seekers living across the three hotels near the seafront.

These hotel protests aren't going away, while this situation continues.