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I can think of at least one reason I’m glad I live in the USA—at least it’s not England. For the time being, we have the pretense of a First Amendment here. Whereas Americans might lose their bank accounts, jobs, or social-media platforms for committing wrongthink, at least they aren’t being jailed…yet.

Three weeks ago, a dizzying swirl of events kicked off when three young white girls were stabbed to death and several others were critically injured at a dance studio in Southport, England. Unlike those three white girls, this story—and the way it’s been purposely mangled by the British government and media—refuses to die.

I first covered the story here, and then here, and yet again here. I would suggest taking a Valium or three before reading those stories in order, because they get increasingly infuriating, and the swiftness with which the narrative has been entirely undermined to serve a totalitarian agenda to punish people for spreading “misinformation” will drive you insane if you weren’t already mad-dog crazy.

Since I didn’t file this column last Monday (I came down with a touch of ye olde COVID—which is another topic about which we’ve been gaslit for years), I neglected to inform you about one of the most maddening aspects of the whole sad saga. On August 8, Metro UK published the following headline and story:

The woman accused of being first to spread the fake rumours about the Southport killer which sparked nationwide riots has been arrested.

A 55-year-old woman from near Chester has now been arrested on suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred, and false communication. She has since been released on bail.

While she has not been named in the police statement about the arrest, it is believed to be Bonnie Spofforth, also known as Bernie, a mother-of-three and the managing director of a clothing company.

Spofforth, 55, posted the false claim at 4:49pm on Monday, July 29, the day of the attack, saying: ‘Ali Al-Shakati was the suspect, he was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year and was on an MI6 watch list. If this is true, then all hell is about to break loose.’

Kindly take note that Ms. Spofforth qualified her post with the phrase, “If this is true.” But it didn’t spare her from the law grabbing her by the throat, hauling her to jail, and making an example of her for the entire world.

On August 10, a hideous naked mole rat of a man named Sir Mark Rowley, London’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner, didn’t rule out the possibility of extraditing American citizens to the UK for making unapproved social-media comments about England’s ongoing troubles:

We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.

When a female reporter from Sky News asked Rowley whether the purview of “further afield online” applies to “dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country,” the scrawny man with a badge and the full weight of the surveillance state behind him snapped back:

Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material…. All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.

I invite—no, I beseech and implore—the readers to cite me one example of the British press or government ever referring to a nonwhite person as a “yob.”

Last week it was reported that a 61-year-old yob named David Spring was jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty to “violent disorder” due his participation during the riots in Whitehall on July 31. As far as I can discern, Mr. Spring didn’t commit any literal acts of violence; instead, he chanted, “Who the fuck is Allah?,” called policemen “cunts,” and screamed “You’re not English anymore” at them.

Arguing for the prosecution, a barrister with the exceedingly British name of Alexander Onakomeme Agbamu, said:

Daniel Thomas, also known as Danny Tommo in some circles, organised a demonstration in Whitehall. Members of the far-right responded to that call with the seeming intention of replicating scenes seen earlier in the week, precipitated by false information relating to the religion and immigration status of the perpetrator of the Southall [sic] murders.

But when far-right yob David Spring was arrested, he allegedly told officers, “I didn’t go up to London to riot. I went to complain about people put up in hotels.”

But Judge Benedict Kelleher wasn’t buying it. In fact, he was more certain what was inside David Spring’s mind than Spring was. In sentencing Spring to a year-and-a-half behind bars—where he will undoubtedly have to deal face-to-face with multiple Muslim prisoners—he solemnly intoned, “What you did could and it seems did encourage others to engage in disorder.”

When I first reported on England’s rapid unspooling, I noted that the haggard Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, had taken a two-tiered approach toward describing rioters. When Gypsies raised holy hell in Leeds over police removing members of a Roma family, she’d referred to them as “individuals,” but when white people rioted in Southport, she called them “thugs on the streets who have no respect from a grieving community.”

Now comes word that Cooper, the wife of the Right Honourable Ed Balls, is seizing this opportunity to clamp down even more fiercely on hatespeak by boldly announcing that something she calls “extreme misogyny” will be treated as terrorism. Initial reports claim that extreme misogyny will be prosecuted under a program called “Prevent,” which is part of Britain’s “Counter Terrorism Policing.” The program “aims to stop individuals [from] becoming terrorists,” but as far as I can tell, it’s merely some sort of snitch line that encourages Britons to report other Britons for daring to criticize anyone besides working-class white-male yobs.

In yet another startling example of England’s Ministry of Truth altering information on the fly, I awoke this morning to find several links claiming that Ms. Balls equated “extreme misogyny” with “terrorism,” only to blink and then find that the word “terrorism” had been erased and replaced with “extremism.”

For example, a screen cap of an X link to the Guardian article on the story shows that its original title was “Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism under UK government plans,” and as I write this, the URL for the Guardian article still contains the word “terrorism,” but when you actually read the revamped piece, the word “terrorism” has been removed from the article, with the following correction appended at the end:

This article replaces an earlier version of 18 August 2024, which appeared under the headline “Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism under UK government plans”. In fact such misogyny would be treated as extremism, not terrorism, under a planned review of counter-extremism strategy. The version published above includes further revisions and updates.

The Telegraph also quickly changed their original headline, which was “Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism,” but they also modified its initial URL, which I will link to right here…

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/17/extreme-misogyny-treated-as-terrorism-government/

…so that you can see it redirects to a different URL and a different headline, one that carefully excises every mention of the word “terrorism.”

Here is what I’d already cut and pasted from the Telegraph article before its sudden cleansing [emphasis added]:

Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of terrorism for the first time under government plans, it was reported.

Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the counter-terrorism strategy to address violence against women and girls and identify gaps in current legislation and examine emerging ideologies, according to the Sunday Telegraph.

Under the proposals, teachers would be legally required to refer pupils they suspect of extreme misogyny to Prevent, the UK government’s counter-terror programme….

 Deputy chief constable Maggie Blyth, national lead for policing violence against women and girls (VAWG), said the influencing of young boys online is “quite terrifying.”

Blyth said senior officers who focus on violence against women and girls are in contact with counter-terrorism teams to look at the risk of young men being radicalised.

She said: “We know that some of this is also linked to radicalisation of young people online, we know the influencers, Andrew Tate, the element of influencing of particularly boys, is quite terrifying and that’s something that both the leads for counter-terrorism in the country and ourselves from a VAWG perspective are discussing.”

My, that sure seems like a lot of English newspapers suddenly switched out the word “terrorism” for “extremism.” If one were a paranoid-schizophrenic extremist terrorist, one might even suspect that government authorities had terrorized the papers into making the change.

In March, the UK government had issued a new definition of “extremism,” mentioning somethin’-somethin’ about “the pervasiveness of extremist ideologies in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023” but clarifying that most “extremist materials and activities are not illegal and do not meet a terrorism or national security threshold.”

But I quite doubt that all these papers had simultaneously made the same mistake. It seems likely that British authorities realized that they’d overplayed their hand and demanded that their mandarins in the press soften the tone so as not to terrify England’s white public any more than they’ve already been terrified by nonwhite stabbers, roving Muslims, and their traitorous government officials’ constant threats of incarceration.

Bringing things full circle in the most terrifying way imaginable, late Sunday night in Manchester, an unidentified person stabbed three people. As I write this, one of the victims has died:

A 43-year-old woman is dead and a 17-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a triple stabbing.

The incident unfolded in Barnard Road, in the Gorton area of Manchester, at 11.20pm yesterday.

Another victim, a 64-year-old man, is also in hospital with life-threatening injuries.

All three were found with serious stab wounds at the property. The woman died at the scene.

A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and has been taken into custody.

A male suspect and two female victims? I believe that English authorities will permit me to emphatically state that this was yet another case of extreme misogyny.