How the mighty have fallen:
Think about the formerly great Great Britain. The home of the Magna Carta. The place where people like William Wilberforce stood strong in Parliament for the abolition of slavery. The home of powerful Christian preachers such as Charles Spurgeon. Today the UK is a shadow of its former self.
But some might object, saying there is plenty of free speech to be found there. OK, I stand corrected – there most certainly is, but only of a certain kind. Only on certain topics and causes. You basically have complete and unfettered freedom of speech in the UK if you want to promote and celebrate
-homosexuality, transgenderism and the like
-abortion on demand with no questions asked
-Islam and all things Muslim
In these and other areas you are free to speak openly and without fear. But dare to criticize any of these matters and you will find out real quick just how far free speech goes in that land. Here I want to offer a broadbrush look at these issues and then present a specific case of it.
UK going down the tubes
Robert W Malone recently shared a speech by Peter Mcilvenna called “The Assault on Freedom in the UK and Europe, and a Warning for the United States.” Here is part of that piece. He begins:
In the UK and throughout Europe, we face three huge threats to our ability to speak freely.
-Growing Censorship
-Intrusive Surveillance
-Militant Islam
I want to major on Censorship, which is on many of our radars, but Surveillance and Islam are also serious threats to our freedoms and yet they are not getting the attention they need to receive.
Censorship
Censorship is the enemy of Free speech and Privacy and seeks to control every area of our lives.
We find ourselves in a new era of totalitarianism, characterized by the words that can be uttered.
Hate Speech is a concept that has been forced on us under two guises:
-Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
-Multiculturalism
Cultural Marxism has taken hold of our institutions and removed truth as the standard and replaced it with subjective thought.
The right to offend is no longer a right but a threat to the new world order.
Dictates are to be followed and not questioned or discussed.
Just look at the Covid Tyranny. Divide and Conquer was used to full effect. Them and us. The Vaxed and the Unvaxed. Fear is a very powerful motivator. And people are sheep-like. They want to be part of the crowd. To be popular. But I believe the rise of MAGA is giving new confidence and boldness to ordinary Americans, and in fact citizens across the world, to speak up and challenge the consensus.
We see how blind obedience is rewarded with ….well yes….a better social credit score.
And this blends into surveillance.
He continues:
British authorities arrested more than 1,000 people following a week of riots sparked by anger over uncontrolled immigration. Of course any violence must be prosecuted. We cannot accept or tolerate or promote lawless behaviour. But many protests were peaceful and many people were arrested over facebook posts. In fact now in the UK we have 30 arrests a day for hurty words online.
And to make room for all these new prisoners the left wing UK government announced a prisoner release programme called Operation Early Dawn. Its just like Jesus and Barabbas! Up to 5000 prisoners are being released early to free up space for all these keyboard warriors.
In the UK we have seen sentencing of 3 years for Publishing online material “intended to stir racial hatred”.
And the speed of sentencing? In 48 hours!
I am involved with a legal case getting compensation for a Grooming Gang Survivor from her rapist. These are the Muslim family Rape Gangs that have terrorised white English girls all across England for 50 years with impunity. We now have over 450 people who have been jailed for rape and sex trafficking from 80+ trials in 40 towns. A left wing MP, Sarah Champion, in an interview a few years ago said that up to 1 million girls have been affected by this. One of the biggest stains in English history. The police and courts have actively collapsed cases and often arrested the girls for prostitution and arrested the fathers for public order offences when they complained. The police lost so much footage of video interviews with these girls. And yet the concern from successive governments was people exposing these heinous crimes. These individuals like Tommy Robinson were attacked and targeted by the state. Much easier to silence dissent than to fix a problem like Muslim rape gangs operating in every major town in the UK.
For our legal case to get financial compensation from the already charged and sentenced rapist it has taken 4 years so far and we wait 5 or 6 months between court rulings.
Yet the British legal system has been able to lock up facebook and X users in 48 hours for unacceptable speech. 48 hours! So it takes 5 years for compensation from a rapist for their victim but 2 days for hurty words online.
At long last we are now going to have a public inquiry into these rape gangs. Rupert Lowe MP raised half a million pounds in a few days for this and Elon Musk has been reposting it.
What have I learned from the unprecedented clampdown by this new far left British government over the last 6 weeks?
- Those in power are terrified of people who speak the truth.
- Those in power are terrified of the reach and lack of control on social media
- Those in power will not tolerate views or comments that they have deemed incorrect. Only Newspeak will be accepted.
- Elon Musk has been the main opposition to the British Government (Nigel Farage has now taken on some of this role with the spectacular rise of ReformUK political party).
- Those arrested and charged have often received little or extremely poor legal advice. No jury. Just selected magistrates
- This government is attempting to terrify and silence us through outrageous show trials and ridiculous punitive sentencing.
If we had time we could play a word game where I could give you a word and you could tell me the connected word that cannot be mentioned.
If I said Islam then you could not say death cult. You must say peace.
or Transgender + mental health. You must say normal
or abortion + murder. You must say health care
or vax + damage. Then, you must say safe and effective
We saw the thin end of the wedge during covid tyranny. We at Hearts of Oak had our first YouTube strike because a Swedish journalist discussed the importance of vitamin D and sunshine in relation to health and combatting covid back in 2020. That was medical misinformation!
With these new hate speech legislations it’s all to do with offence. Anything we say could cause offence to someone somewhere in the world. If one person in 8 billion is offended then it’s a hate crime. Or if someone believes that someone may be affected then it’s hate speech.
My question to you is who decides what words or concepts or ideas are accepted?
David Skinner
David who? David Skinner is a Christian, an octogenarian, and a pro-life and pro-family activist from Bournemouth. He has been a champion warrior for decades now. I happen to know David, and I have spent time with him in the UK. A former schoolteacher, he could easily be enjoying a cushy life of ease in retirement. But he continues to stand up for the unborn and for God’s designs for marriage and family.
And for daring to do that, he keeps finding himself being hounded by the authorities, going to numerous court hearings, and paying a big price for standing up for what is right. In his recent emails to supporters, he has discussed his most recent run-in with the powers that be:
I am eighty years of age and have no criminal record and yet on the 1st May, I was summarily tried, found guilty and fined £3,840 in the criminal court of Poole Magistrates, for reporting to Dorset Police, via email, the mass murder of unborn babies in the local abortion clinic in Bournemouth.
Ten times I have been summoned to court. This included a trial on the 23rd October which was aborted because there were too many on the court list and the Magistrate didn’t feel qualified – supposedly with the complexities of the case….
In 1829 in an era when everyone understood and shared the same Biblical truth, values and morality, restraining us all from fallen human nature: unbridled greed; lust; ambition; hatred and pride, the people consented for Robert Peele to create the police force and his nine Peelian Principles of Policing. But, today, in the absence of any Christian consensus, human nature is free to drive a coach and horses through his principles and our ancient Constitution – especially the Magna Carta.
There can be no justice, or truth in our courts, when in place of equity impartiality and fairness, feminist and LGBT ideology and politics rule and reign.
He concludes:
I have been harassed by the police for many years, but this latest incident began when on May 9th, 2023, two police officers turned up at my door and ‘invited’ me to Winton Police Station to face a charge of breaching ‘The Malicious Communications Act 1988’ by sending Inspector Fern Graham and allegedly Yvonne Fenwick an email which allegedly had offended them. Because no evidence could be found of any intention on my part to cause distress or harm, this charge was later dropped and replaced with being accused of breaching Section 127 Electronic Communications Act which criminalizes someone for merely causing offence.
I was released but under investigation before finally being ordered to appear in Bournemouth Crown Court and Poole Magistrates throughout 2024 and 2025. It appears that the court system can summon a person as many times as they wish, waste their whole day, and then tell them to go away and return and go through the whole punishing process again…and again. This punishment includes the cost of petrol and all-day parking fees. There is no redress for this treatment, for those who run the system do it with impunity. The Courts are shambolic and a disgrace.
Isaiah 59:14: “Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed.”
I would value your help in paying my fine of £3,840 and possible further punitive financial measures the police, Crown Prosecution, the abortion industry and the LGBTQ might attempt to bring against me and others.
If you want to help support him, contact me and I can send you his banking details.
David’s story is just one of so many. I have shared numerous stories on these pages of the downward spiral that the UK is in. But because I personally know David, and know what a godly, humble and conscientious man he is, I get even more incensed at the death of free speech in the UK – if not the death of the UK itself.
Please keep David and others in your prayers as they stand strong for things that ALL Christians should be fighting for.
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