A battle for freedom of speech is underway. The US, led by Musk, X, and Trump will crush those who get in the way.
Europe Fears Free Speech
The EU and UK fear they are under attack by Musk and Trump. But the Nannycrats need to look in the mirror to see the real problem.
This has come to a head with objections to Musk lending support to AfD, an alleged “far right” German political party, and also with Musk putting a well-deserved spotlight on gang rapes in the UK.
Instead of tackling the real issues, EU and UK politicians seek to silence Musk, control AI, and suppress freedom of speech. But every time they do, opposition grows.
A War of Repression Is Underway
Wolfgang Munchau, Eurointelkligence founder and UnHeard author, brilliantly explains Why Europe Fears Free Speech.
We all know the old joke: when a European referendum delivers the “wrong” outcome, the country votes again until they get it “right”. The EU thought this would be the case after Brexit. But so far, no one’s laughing.
If anything, things have got worse. Take Romania, which recently cancelled its presidential election when Călin Georgescu, leader of a nationalist Right coalition, won the first round. Thierry Breton, former French European Commissioner, revealed the EU’s mindset during a damning recent TV interview. “We did it in Romania and we will obviously do it in Germany if necessary,” he said. In other words, if you can’t beat the far-Right, ban them.
I disagree with almost everything Breton has ever said, but I am grateful to him for stating his case with such revealing clarity. During his time as industry commissioner in Brussels, from 2019 until last summer, when Emmanuel Macron replaced him with a more compliant figure, he was the driving force behind a series of laws designed to keep Europe in the digital dark ages. The most extreme of which is the Digital Services Act (DSA) which compels “very large online platforms”, such as X and Meta, to check facts and filter out fake news.
But, thanks to Breton, the truth is out there. Europe’s ultimate aim isn’t to save public discourse, it is to suffocate far-Right parties by depriving them of the oxygen of information.
MEPs found it hard enough to stomach Nigel Farage’s brutal outbursts when he was a member of the European Parliament. Now they have Musk breathing down their neck, endorsing candidates from the AfD, a party that sits on the far-Right in the European Parliament’s benches and which supports German withdrawal from the EU.
The German media had a collective breakdown when Musk tweeted an endorsement for the AfD, interviewed Alice Weidel, the party’s co-leader, on X, and then endorsed her in an article for Die Welt. The op-ed editor of the German daily resigned in protest.
The Romanian case demonstrates how these restrictions on freedom of speech are the first salvos in a greater war of repression. Let’s be clear, there was no suggestion of any vote rigging. Georgescu won the first round of the election fair and square. Georgescu is still the most likely candidate to win according to opinion polls, but the Romanian political establishment is still determined to find ways to disbar him, the most promising of which is the hope that he may have received undeclared funds.
There are similar patterns elsewhere. Marine Le Pen faces potential disqualification from the 2027 presidential elections following accusations of irregularities regarding her assistants in the European Parliament. More recently, Brussels was spooked by the victory in Austria of the Freedom Party, which managed to obtain 28.8% of the vote in the September general election. It surpassed a threshold at which point it became politically impossible for the other parties to form coalitions.
Surely, though, the sensible approach to the rise of the AfD, the FPÖ and other parties of the Right is not to censor them, but to address the underlying problem that has made them so strong: persistent economic uncertainty, loss of purchasing power, and dysfunctional policies on migration. Failing that, why not co-opt parties of the far-Right as junior coalition partners as they did in Sweden and Finland?
It’s an approach that will inevitably backfire. A banned Le Pen would be far more dangerous for the centrist establishment, and possibly even more extreme when she eventually gets to power. Likewise the AfD would surely be radicalised after a ban.
Like the creatures in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, I am struggling to spot the difference between the extremists of the Right, and those who are trying to fight them.
Why Did Trump Win?
One reason Trump won is the Left-wing media made a martyr out of him.
Biden clearly has dementia and the Media hid that too, until suddenly they couldn’t anymore.
Still, had the economy been much better or Democrats fielded a better candidate they might have won. But they sorely misjudged how much their own lawfare aided Trump.
Unlike the UK, Canada, and the EU, we still have freedom of speech here.
One may dislike Musk or Trump but everyone should be happy that people have freedom of speech here. And like it or not X provides a platform.
Speech Suppression in the UK
I had been struggling to find a good way to describe what’s happening in the UK with gang rapes that occurred for a decade, but this tie on repression fits in.
Some of what follows is very graphic and disturbing. Musk brought it to everyone’s attention and the UK is desperately trying to hide it, even threatening US citizens with its asinine laws.
I lost sleep over this for two days. That’s my warning for what follows.
From Dominic Frisby on X
Today I am playing the judge in a court case from 2013 passing sentence on a Pakistani rape gang, using only dialogue from the actual hearing. Reading the transcripts you cannot believe one human being would do this to another. Some of the stuff that went on is indescribably horrible. Arranging the gang rape of 11 year old girls (not one girl – many) for groups of men (often more than 10) every orifice penetrated while putting out cigarettes on her … I hope the perpetrators, and those that turned a blind eye to it in the name of multi-culturalism, get everything that’s coming to them.
Here is one example. Branded with his initials near her butt hole at the age of 12
BrusselsSignal reports
Keir Starmer, the current prime minister who was chief crown prosecutor when gangs of Muslim men across England were unmolestedly grooming and raping tens of thousands of white underage girls. As The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday, in Oxford, a Mohammed Karrar had prepared his victim “for gang anal rape by using a pump… At one point she had four men inside her. A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet.” Anna from Bradford at the age of 14 had made repeated reports of rape, abuse, and coercion. When she “married” her abuser in a traditional Islamic wedding, her social worker attended the ceremony. …In Telford, Lucy Lowe died at 16 alongside her mother and sister when her abuser set fire to her home in 2000. She had given birth to Azhar Ali Mahmood’s child when she was just 14, and was again pregnant when she was killed.”
When Starmer, as Director of Public Prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, vigorously followed up complaints about the white serial rapist and television personality Jimmy Savile. However, the same cannot be said of his reaction to the rape of thousands of girls, no doubt because to pursue the rapists might have been perceived as racist. When Elon Musk recently added his voice to calls for a national enquiry into the grooming gangs, Starmer said he was “jumping on the bandwagon of the far right.” And very possibly, Starmer really does believe that protecting little white girls from rapists is the diseased pre-occupation of racist bigots.
Social Media Posts and Rape
Under Investigation
Please note that the UK has Elon Musk under investigation for commenting on this.
Why does UK have the resources to investigate an American calling attention to the kingdom’s Pakistani rape gang crisis but not the resources to stop the raping?
The Truth About ‘Grooming Gangs’
The Telegraph, via Yahoo!News says The truth about ‘grooming gangs’ is finally coming out
Hillsborough, Windrush, Grenfell: all appalling national scandals that are listed whenever gross institutional failures are discussed. But there is another that is usually conspicuously absent: the deep moral stain of “grooming gangs”. It is perhaps the greatest racially motivated crime in modern Britain, perpetrated predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage against vulnerable white girls.
Even those who mention it tend to tiptoe around the subject. The “grooming gang” label is deployed euphemistically to sanitise depraved crimes and make them acceptable for public consumption. So we should start by calling it what it truly is. If you read the testimony of the victims – and believe me, it’s tough – it’s clear they were rape torture gangs, perpetrating the most heinous sexual crimes imaginable on an industrial scale.
For two decades, the plight of thousands of young girls, barely teenagers, was swept under the carpet. Police forces, councils, charities, and politicians elevated community relations over protecting vulnerable women from monstrous sexual violence. They allowed little girls to be raped rather than risk being accused of racism by highlighting their abuse. Their cowardice should haunt them.
But the scandal is now back with a vengeance. Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips’ decision to reject Oldham Council’s calls for a government-led inquiry has sparked outrage. On Wednesday, Elon Musk alighted on the scandal, shaming the establishment by taking more interest in bringing these rape gangs to justice in one evening than most of the British establishment has for decades.
The impunity has ended because the unvarnished truth is coming out.
To protect “community relations”, the British state has gone to immense lengths to cover it up. Reports have been blocked and deliberately kept out of the public eye. Any connection with ethnicity, immigration, or Islam was downplayed. The reports that have been published have been whitewashed – the evidence that British Pakistani men were over-represented among the perpetrators was spiked to avoid uncomfortable truths. But a recent study showed that, in Telford, one in 126 Muslim men were prosecuted between 1997 and 2017, and in Rotherham the figure was one in 73.
I am certain that, after all these years, these rape gangs are still destroying lives. Somewhere, as you read this, a girl may be being abused just as despicably as the ones whose fate we now know of. Why? Because the institutions that failed these vulnerable girls are still contaminated with cowardice. Many perpetrators evaded arrest and remain on the streets. Those who were jailed received shockingly lax sentences and are now being released, free to walk the same streets as their victims.
And the individuals complicit in cover-up have felt no consequences. In fact, they’ve risen even higher in public life. In 2016, Shaun Davies was leader of Telford Council where he signed a letter opposing a further inquiry into the child rape gangs – now he is a Labour MP sitting on the Home Affairs Select Committee, tasked with scrutinising the Home Office. In Rotherham, where there were 265 allegations of misconduct involving 47 police officers, not one has been fired.
Kemi Badenoch is rightly demanding a full national inquiry. Those complicit in gross misconduct should be publicly disgraced, and prosecutions brought. Jail time and a ban on ever holding public office – of any kind – should be a bare minimum. But a national inquiry is just the start: we need justice for the victims.
We also need the automatic deportation of foreign nationals found to have carried out these shocking crimes – no ifs, no buts. One of the victims of Rochdale came face-to-face with her abuser in Asda, despite him losing an appeal against deportation to Pakistan two years previously. They should not be here.
For decades, some of the most vulnerable people in society have been betrayed by people in positions of power. Never again can political correctness be allowed to get in the way of justice.
No Deportations
“Muslim Child Rape Gangs Not Deported: Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 52, Rochdale child gang rape members still lives alongside victims despite deportation order, it’s been nine years. Up to 47 girls as young as 12 were plied with alcohol and drugs and gang-raped in Rochdale during a two-year reign of terror. Rauf and Adil Khan, who also got a 13 year old girl pregnant, fought their deportation orders and despite a recent Judge ordering their deportation, they still live alongside the victims they brutally raped.”
Men Habib @benhabib6 explains in an Excellent Video “The Pakistani government would be absolutely delighted to take them back and face full force of punishment in Pakistan. Give me a call Keir Starmer”
What the Hell Is Going On?
What the actual hell is going on in Britain? A 12-year old girl was raped by multiple groups of Pakistani men, one after the other, while she was escaping from the previous men. How many times has this happened, and to how many young British girls?
I bookmarked dozens of cases like this, in multiple UK cities. The above link is another graphic one.
New Inquiry Blocked
January 8: The Labour Party voted against opening up an inquiry into child rape gangs in the UK.
The vote was 364-111.
The BBC Tries to Defend Starmer
If you want the other side of the story, the BBC Defends Starmer
Mr Musk has published a series of posts on X suggesting Starmer failed to deal with the grooming gang scandal while head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) between 2008 and 2013.
In response, Sir Keir has accused critics of “spreading lies and misinformation” and claims he tackled prosecutions “head on”.
A 2013 report from the Home Affairs Committee said that “unlike many other official agencies implicated in this issue”, the CPS had “readily admitted that victims had been let down by them and have attempted both to discover the cause of this systematic failure and to improve the way things are done so as to avoid a repetition of such events”.
It added: “Mr Starmer has striven to improve the treatment of victims of sexual assault within the criminal justice system throughout his term as Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).”
Maggie Oliver, a former Manchester detective who now campaigns for victims of child sex abuse, told BBC Verify that the CPS “bear a great deal of responsibility for the failures around this issue”, including bringing inadequate charges and blaming victims.
The prime minister has robustly defended his record as the former head of the CPS, telling journalists he:
- Changed the prosecution approach to “challenge myths and stereotypes” that had stopped victims from being heard
- Left office when the CPS had the highest number of child sex abuse prosecutions on record
- Reopened cases that had been closed
- Brought the first prosecution of an Asian grooming gang
How many child grooming cases were prosecuted under Starmer?
Information on child grooming-related prosecutions appear in Prof Jay’s 2022 report into child sexual exploitation by organised networks – a government-commissioned report into institutional child abuse failings published in 2022.
The report mentions several “significant prosecutions” between 2010 and 2014, including 35 convictions which took place while Sir Keir was DPP.
35 convictions out of thousands of cases. And we are supposed to be impressed?
How many complicit police officers have been prosecuted?
How many criminals have been deported?
An Act of Cowardness
The EuropeanConservative comments on “Act of Cowardice”: Labour MPs Vote Down Rape Gangs Inquiry
The Times reports that in 2019, the party adopted a definition of Islamophobia that discourages discussions linking ethnicity to rape gangs. Critics argue that this has hindered the ability to tackle the issue head-on. Ann Cryer, a former Labour MP who raised early concerns about these abuses, was vilified as a racist for her efforts. On Monday, Keir Starmer also accused advocates of an inquiry of jumping on a “far-Right bandwagon.”
The debate has exposed deep divisions within Labour. Foreign secretary David Lammy asserted that a national inquiry has been “ruled out” after Wednesday’s vote while safeguarding minister Jess Phillips maintains that “nothing is off the table” if victims demand it. Such contradictions have only fuelled accusations of Labour’s opportunistic handling of the crisis.
Until political leaders confront these uncomfortable truths, the victims of these heinous acts will remain voiceless, and the fragile underpinnings of Britain’s multiculturalism will continue to erode. The vote against the inquiry represents, for many, a betrayal of justice in favour of ideological convenience.
Gang Rape Map
Here’s a Gang Rape Map of Over 30 Cities where these atrocities occurred.
Margaret Oliver – Former Constable & Whistleblower directly accusing Kier Starmer of instructing not to act against Pakistani Grooming Gangs when he was Director of Public Prosecutions.
If you can stomach another video here’s one of Chief Constable David Crompton retired on a £2,000,000 pension in 2016. His police force arrested an 11 year girl in a house for being “drunk & disorderly” for being gang raped.
In other instances “Fathers had tracked down their daughters and tried to remove them from houses where they were being abused, only to find THEMSELVES arrested, when police were called to the scene.”
Here’s an Amusing Tweet
‘There is absolute horror at the highest levels of government at the incendiary language we have seen from Elon Musk.’
This thin-skinned, morally bankrupt Labour gov’t are more concerned about Elon Musk’s social media posts than they are about actual Pakistani r*pe gangs.
Hate Crimes
Instead of going after rapists and police protecting rapists, this is who the UK goes after.
- On 13 October 2001, Harry Hammond, an evangelist, was arrested and charged under section 5 of the Public Order Act (1986) because he had displayed to people in Bournemouth a large sign bearing the words “Jesus Gives Peace, Jesus is Alive, Stop Immorality, Stop Homosexuality, Stop Lesbianism, Jesus is Lord”. In April 2002, a magistrate convicted Hammond, fined him £300, and ordered him to pay costs of £395
- On 23 April 2018, Scottish YouTuber Mark Meechan of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire was fined £800 after being found “grossly offensive” for posting a YouTube video that was viewed over 3 million times depicting him training his girlfriend’s pug to respond to the phrase “Sieg Heil” by lifting his paw in a Nazi salute.
- In 2017, 19-year old Croxteth resident Chelsea Russell quoted a line from Snap Dogg’s song “I’m Trippin’” on her Instagram page. The line, which read “Kill a snitch nigga, rob a rich nigga”, was copied from a friend’s page as part of a tribute to Frankie Murphy who was killed in a car accident at age 13. Hate crime investigators were alerted to the presence of the slur and charged Russell with “sending a grossly offensive message by means of a public electronic communications network”. Defence lawyer Carole Clarke stated that she received a request from one of the arresting officers that the word “nigga”, the subject of the trial, not be used in court. In April 2018, District Judge Jack McGarva found Russell guilty and delivered a sentence which included a £585 fine, a curfew and an ankle monitoring bracelet. However, Russell’s conviction was overturned by Liverpool Crown Court on 21 February 2019.
The above examples from Wikipedia UK Hate Crimes.
And please note that using the term “Grooming Gang” is now considered a “Hate Crime”.
UK’s ruling Labour Party adopted document that ‘broadened’ the definition of Islamophobia, claimed terms like ‘grooming gang’ are anti-Muslim racism.
PM Starmer not only rejected the demands of a national inquiry into the historical child sexual exploitation but also deemed demands for a national inquiry into Pakistani rape gangs a “far-right” position. Amidst backlash over dismissing a burning demand for a national inquiry into grooming gangs, the Labour Party’s adoption of a definition of Islamophobia which essentially implied that criticising Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs/rape gangs is ‘racist’ against Muslims, has sparked criticism.
The outrage stems from the Labour Party’s adoption of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims (APPG) definition of Islamophobia in 2019. The APPG’s definition of Islamophobia suggesting that talking about grooming gangs is racist and exposes Muslims to the possibility of ‘hate crimes’ hints at why the Labour government is reluctant to address the issue of grooming gangs. No wonder the Labour Party’s political correctness has suppressed discussions, criticism and actions against such Islamist crimes.
Hate Crimes Against Jews Is OK
The UK police refuse to look into a swastika sent to a Jewish Group.
The UK’s “crackdown” on hate speech has nothing to do with addressing actual hate and everything to do with censorship of anti-migration voices. What could possibly be a better example of a hate crime than sending a swastika sent to Jews.
However, sharing a video of a protest or riot is a hate crime.
Teams of UK officials are scouring the internet to stamp out hate crimes.
And Scotland has introduced hate crime laws where the ‘victim’ decides whether or not what someone said is a hate crime.
Gang Rapes in Austria
A 12-year-old girl was raped by 19 (!) migrants in a parking garage near Vienna Central Station, Austria. The first migrant on trial, a 17-year-old Syrian national, was acquitted, even though he had already confessed. The court ruled there was no evidence to prove the schoolgirl did not consent. He left the girl €100 as a ‘gesture of goodwill’ before leaving the courtroom.
What the Flying F?
This is why AfD is on the rise in Germany, Marine le Pen in France, Călin Georgescu in Romania, Nigel Farage in the UK, and the Freedom Party in Austria.
You can be arrested in Austria, Germany, the UK, and even Canada for “hate speech” while rapists go free. They covered up for gang rapes to protect DEI.
If Starmer was serious, he would be demanding prosecution of police officers involved and demanding deportation of rapists.
Heck, I think anyone convicted of gang rape should be sentenced to death. Is that a hate crime? How about calling Starmer an assh*le?
Dear UK and EU assh*les come get me. I will say what I want on my blog and say what I want on X.
And f*you Keir Starmer for sweeping this all under the rug for the sake of DEI while pretending not to. If that is insufficient F*DEI too.
Now come get me.
By the way, don’t give any free speech credit to the Meta CEO. For discussion, please see Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Is a Coward Opportunist Who Deserves No Credit
This is one of Mish’s fiercest blog posts, and one of his best….
A-freaking-men. Thank you Mish.
+ infinity for this article Mish
For the first time in something like 15-20 years (how long I have been reading mishtalk), I actually bookmarked a Mish article for future reference
Thanks Mish. I am so grateful to Elon Musk for what is doing. We have been trying to raise awareness about this tape gang scandal for over a decade to the point which we had given up. Thank goodness for Elon
As an escapee from Airstrip 1, and a former public sector worker, I can testify that this situation has been going on or building up for a decade at least.
The US constitution was created by British people escaping tyranny, and based on our 1689 Bill of Rights, now lost. It is a tragedy what is being done to the UK, but it is inevitable. There are too many tribal morons who vote Labour in the urban poverty sinkholes lapping up the anti-Tory rhetoric when the blame for their persistent poverty lies with entrenched Labour MPs. I knew that the UK has to go through this trauma of a despised Labour government, the legacy of Blair and Brown, and have its nose rubbed in the shit in order for people the learn, the hard way, to never vote Labour again.
The electoral system is a big obstacle to change, and the lack of a senate to replace the corrupt House of Lords. The removal of the American-style “Supreme Court” and other leftist-inflitrated organisations like the NHS, the BBC, and OfCom (the media regulator) is urgently needed. The Fourth Plinth should have Orwell on it, to remind people of the constant threat to liberty.
What is happening in the polls is a scattering of support to other parties from the main two. It’s not simply Conservative support flowing into Reform, but also Labour support, especially along the eastern coast, and most notably in Sunderland, where Jarrow is – the origin of an iconic Labour march to London against povery about 100 years ago, when Labour first rose up, with a previous “Keir (Hardie)” to sweep away the Whigs (Liberals). Labour’s more less extreme elements are peeling off to the LibDems, and a lot of the young or older but mentally challenged, heading for the Greens. Reform is obviously under constant seige like the AfD in Germany, NR in France, and various similar parties across Europe. Media is coralled by OfCom to filter out anything that isn’t aligned with “the (global) message”.
…but it’s not working… because the numbers don’t add up, people are skint, and they are seeing money being taken from those who should have it, and given to those who shouldn’t have it, and it is enraging people. The British public is at boiling point now.
The net result is not just a 3 way split between Labour, Reform, and Tory, but the beginnings of the replacement of Labour with the LibDems, and Conservative with Reform. Both Labour and the Tories, slid left, embracing identity politics, in terror of the viscious British media.. for Labour, moving left meant extremist Marxism – and Starmer has a dark histroy of far leftism. Labour are ideologues, and eonomically illiterate, and that cleaving to ideology above all things is a major factor in the destruction of the UK economy.
All it would take is slashing the size of the public sector, and creating breathing space to lower taxes and reduce debt; and of course, like America, a robust border policy of mass deportation, and exit from the ECHR and replacement of that with a British Court of Human Rights (as if we are somehow less capable of that than the Eurocrats!). A firm two fingers to the French is always needed.
There are many other things that need to go… the BBC, the NHS, all of these sacred cows. Foreign government ownership of UK rail and power generation and other utilities wouldn’t hurt. Deployment of the Royal Navy and RAF in the Channel to interdict the invasion of illegal aliens and criminal (Albanian) traffickers.
It is a massive relief that Trump, who is half-British, takes an interest, because he has the power to save Britiain from socialism, and help it recover, with a trade deal.
A weak Britain, much like a weak USA, is bad for the world, bad for liberty and prosperity, and peace. We are lions led by donkeys, but the pressure is building for a spectacular summer of peasant revolt… and Labour will have nowhere to hide.
Wow. Powerful post and, Mish, I agree with you wholeheartedly. The UK is unbelievable- shocking really. So thankful to be a US citizen and live in the USA.
You can absolutely so what you want on X, so long as it’s ok with Musk.
This 100%, Mish. The pendulum is about to swing full throttle in directional right, and it’ll be a complete overhaul of the governing body. It will be ugly and unavoidable per the idiots in charge.
I hope Europe goes medieval
If you live in an area with a high percentage of the woke left and the inevitable human debris they attract, you will undoubtably be richly enlightened with the benefits from that decision.
I have watched the once beautiful city of Denver, clean and orderly, become a cesspool of drugs, crime and humans (barely) sh!tting on the sidewalks and in the city parks.
And the commercial property owners fined if they refuse to clean the sh!t from the sidewalks in front of their businesses.
How did it become such a mess? Woke, leftist/Marxist mayors and city councils.
The Soros backed DA.
And woke leftist/Marxist state and congressional representation.
But until it affects them or their family personally, it won’t change.
2 parts to this:
1.The rape attrocities
Yep a pretty pathetic indictment of UK justice system. The sooner that the recommendations of the 7 year report that was undertaken are put in place the better. Key one for me is to make it illegal not to report abuse.
In addition, there should be a review of police behaviour and institutional blind spots (which were as much to do with not respecting white girls as much as being PC about Pakistaniis). Senior police officers should be held to account.
One item that really is unfair however is Jess Phillips (a key target of Musk). She has done more than anybody in the UK to champion the case of abused women and girls so Musk’s attack on her are pretty pathetic.
2. The radicalisation of society
Mish’s article is an example of how we are all becoming fired up largely as a result of social media. Our societies are now becoming bifuracted. On the left, going too far with woke stuff, on the right, removing respect for minorities and the poorer in society.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Musk would do more to help reduce our anger as a society rather than stoking things up.
When you look at the moral compass of people like Phillips and Starmer you can’t really fault them (competence another matter). Looking at people like Musk, Trump and his cabinet picks it would be difficult to say that they are really looking to help society rather than themselves.
Yes a load of the woke and climate stuff has gone too far but I’d still vote for somebody with morals.
Before commenting so sagely, you should dig a little deeper into the history of this “grooming” horror coverup. This “division”, as you call it, appears to be a direct result of attitudes such as yours. You seem to be demanding respect for those show no respect. Did you read the article? Do you have no empathy?
Bizarre – the main set of grooming issues were over 10 years ago and the hate crime cases mentioned above are pretty old (the most recent 2018). A right wing government has been in the UK for the last 14 years. However all of a sudden everything is the fault of the new Labour government. Genuinely intrigued how people in the US have fallen for the idea this is a Labour issue.
a little over half of them will believe anything I tell them, so there’s that…
I know you are not Elon Musk.
They have been reported on and ignored by the British authorities for the same period of time. The fact that you just heard of this does state a lot about yourself and the media you read. If you had never heard of the rape gangs, or “grooming gangs” as the Brits want to call them, it’s because you never read articles that were there. The only new thing going on is that Elon brought it to your attention. You should be ashamed of that alone.
Nonsense, I am british and have followed this story for years. It is only new to Americans.
Morals are for little people.
You talk as if the anger is baseless… that is very far from the truth… there are real harms being done and done in provocative ways, not just rape and killing of children, but the rape and killing of the economy, and the rape and killing of a Briitsh culture.
The anger is absolutely not baseless. It has been around in Britain for years. The nonsense is musk resurrecting it in order to target Labour when the right wing government was in power for most of the time the story was active and did nothing. Target your anger at them.
AfD may be “far right” in Germany, but they’re centrist in fact. Maybe center-left like LePen.
Thousands of rapes admitted to have been reported, which is hundreds of thousands in fact given those gangs of a certain ideology operated for decades and still do. It’s legit genocide, as those girls will not develop into good, married moms if they can conceive at all.
It’s all part of the enrichment invasion. For whatever reason, the UK and most of Europe – most of the Western and Asian world actually – is perfectly OK with it.
Very sorry to hear about thousands of children being raped over many years.
But to me, it seems the news is inaccurate or manipulated.
Firstly, it is happening in so called first world country, UK.
And politicians, doctors, nurses, social workers, police officers and above all
parents of the raped kids and community are all silent ? ? ? ?
Is it possible? Are they watching silently?
Are the criminal gangs very very powerful and threatening their lives?
Hard to believe the news mentioned in the article.
They aren’t targeting middle class families with 2 parents.
They target foster kids, run aways, single parents (poor ones who likely can’t afford day care so mostly let their kids run free) etc. In other words the dregs of society.
Many kids did report issues but in many cases without parents (ie foster kid types) there is no adult to back them up so they just got ignored.
Similar things are happening here in America. Not rape gangs per say, but massive amounts of fentanyl and other drugs being made available to young kids (esp poor or foster) because again, no one cares about those people.
2nd ammendment territory.
“One may dislike Musk or Trump but everyone should be happy that people have freedom of speech here. And like it or not X provides a platform.”
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X, like the other US social media outlets, provides controlled freedom of speech … unlike the current unfettered TikTok, which in all reality is being banned because it is actually allowing free speech in the US.
“The US, led by Musk, X, and Trump will crush those who get in the way.”
They’ll do the same to anyone in US who opposes US foreign policies and wars as well?
You bet your booty!
Unelected bureaucrats doing their jobs – Bad!
Unelected Oligharchy Billionaires with blatant conflicts of interest – Good!
Yes, we have entered the twilight zone.
Neofeudalism in action.
You are permanently in the twilight zone, the rest of us live in reality.
Bear with me on this:
In economics, J.K. Galbraith introduced the concept of “The Bezzle” – a contraction from “embezzlement”. The Bezzle is the accumulated as-yet unknown value of financial fraud and other invisible losses. It is the price tag of the system’s not-yet-reveealed failings. When the Bezzle is large, people think they have a lot more wealth than they really do, and end up doing things which prove spectacularly stupid when the money turns out not to be there.
I argue that a similar concept applies to justice. Like money, justice is a human concept whose allocation and distribution is vulnerable to human failings. There has been an accumulation of real, but unrecognized and unresolved injustice around the world. As more facts emerge it becomes clearer and clearer that great travesties have taken place, for which the perps were not properly punished, the victims not compensated, nor even official acknowledgement that wrong has been done.
When people feel that injustice is being done to themselves or those they care about, and they can see that no one in authority is properly addressing the underlying issue, they get angry. We don’t have simple word like “Bezzle” for this pent-up rage against accumulated unresolved injustice, but we should.
We, the West support free speech collectively.
Yes, we support it for our adversary.
Not for us.
We support ICC
Yes, we support ICC for our adversary.
Not for us.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-46945043
Life sentences, not 6 years.
Only one case among thousands. Justice needs to be served in every case.
What would their punishment be if sent back to Pakistan? Possible much worse, like castration and death. Maybe be better to send them back and save money.
Herr Starmtrooper covered up for Jimmy Savile and the Royal Degenerates for years.
Brussels is a joke. A.H. took the whole place over in 18 days.
Great coverage Mish. Between this and allowing men to compete in women’s sports one has to wonder why the left hates girls and women so much. The perps and the pigs that let them get away with this need to be locked up ASAP.
Great coverage Mish. Between this and allowing men to compete in women’s sports one has to wonder why the left hates girls and women so much. The perps and the pigs that let them get away with this need to be locked up ASAP.
This has little to do with left or right. Cops and justice system are worse in Europe than people think.
The grooming gangs coverage is teeing up Starmer for trip on the rocket ship taking him far, far away from government. As an aside, I’m shocked that the Dems have not pushed for Admiral Rachel Levine as Sec Def. He’s, errrr, sorry, she’s an Admiral for goodness sake! While Pete Hegseth is doing pushups to stay all agro, the good Admiral is pumping estrogen to take a walk on the wild side and get all equitable and inclusive!
– A battle for freedom of speech is underway.
> A very general statement, that has been made since the “Declaration of Independence” was signed. Good!
– The US, led by Musk, X, and Trump will crush those who get in the way.
> The U.S. is led by a massive group of individuals. Carrying out their responsibilities for the Citizens, is their goal. Let’s give them a chance, before we chastise them or create untruths, shall we?
– Europe Fears Free Speech
> Only “Control Freaks” and “Manipulators” would state or suggest that. “Europe Fears Oppression”
– In other words,” if you can’t beat the far-Right, ban them”.
> what a stupid ass thing to Say!
– MEPs found it hard enough to stomach Nigel Farage
> Are they Weak?
– The German media had a collective breakdown when Musk tweeted
> How Weak are they?
– Why Did Trump Win?
> Democrat Policies Suck!
– Unlike the UK, Canada, and the EU, we still have freedom of speech here. One may dislike Musk or Trump but everyone should be happy that people have freedom of speech here. And like it or not X provides a platform.
> Let’s keep it that way!!!
Frankly it’s time that people like us got a respite from the filth and depravity of the left. Their woke mind virus poisons ever conversation… and it made my son grow boobs. We can only allow ideas that aren’t harmful, and promote the natural order of CEO over Serf.
I’ve used AI to make X into a right wing safe space, where we can all be free from the degenerate ravings of People We Don’t Agree With. I keep a few meanies around (Liam Neeson, for one), to keep our outrage burning, but nobody that scores a direct hit is going to be around for long.
The sooner everyone realizes that I am their King, and loves me, the sooner all this awkward business can end.
How’s the weather in SoCal?
I realize you are not Elon Musk.
prove it
You just did.
– Frankly it’s time that people like us got a respite from the filth and depravity of the left.
> I don’t know what you stand for, so don’t include me necessarily. I am 100% for “Free Speech” and that’s for everybody! Zero Exclusions!!!
– Their woke mind virus poisons every conversation…
> Only if you let it happen, listen to, and follow it, and disregard your ability to just say “No”
– and it made my son grow boobs.
> No it didn’t, your son chose to grow boobs. Last I checked, to make somebody do so is illegal. Perhaps he allowed the mind virus, that you speak about, to infiltrate his ideology. Sad Story…
– We can only allow ideas that aren’t harmful, and promote the natural order of CEO over Serf.
> Only? OK Dictator! Are Not Harmful? Who determines that? You? What’s “Natural Order”? Who determines that? You again?
>> The problem with dictating to others, is that you’re “DICTATING!!! Get It?
– I’ve used AI to make X into a right wing safe space, where we can all be free from the degenerate ravings of People We Don’t Agree With.
> So You will learn nothing, and become a one sided, irrational, fingers in your ear sort of person, and will you stomp your feet to?
I presume you are being as sarcastic as President Musk.
Some yes, as I felt it was deserved, but “Free Speech” is Paramount to a Free Society, IMO.
You can’t march in my parade and pretend that you’re not part of it
Fair enough…
You’ll notice that all of this anti-free speech crap is happening on so called western democracies that supposedly have a history of “free speech” with the USA actually have it in embedded in the Constitution.
Here in Australia we do not have a right to free speech and this was demonstrated during the pandemic lockdowns. We are also not allowed to talk about certain groups of people or display certain signs or figures.
We don’t even have a right to movement or travel in Victoria as the courts have stated.
Australia was the worst overall country in the world when it came to lockdowns and people finding out that they had no rights.
Now contrast that with Japan. I used to think that Japan was quite rigid in many aspects when I lived there, but comparing it to other countries one will be quite surprised at how free it is.
There were no restrictions on speech during the lockdowns and there was vigorous discussion on many sites about all aspects of the pandemic and vaccines.I don’t ever recall seeing or hearing about any censorship.
Japan never had any official lockdowns or restrictions on movements. It did fail in not allowing foreigners to return to Japan if they had left prior to the pandemic.
Australia wouldn’t even let in many of its own citizens or allow travel between states. Here in Melbourne we were not allowed to travel more than 5 kilometres from our house and had curfews.
So much for the concept of rights and free speech in many western countries.
Do all citizens have the right to leave the country?
The answer to that question requires a very long and convoluted answer.
But the short answer is that individuals can have their passports revoked or prevented from obtaining one.
So is this what the left means when they say “our democracy”? Ours, not yours peon. Shut up and get back to work. Your opinions mean nothing to us.
Given Australia was created as a penal colony it should be no surprise that you have no rights. The jailers continue to maintain control.
“thousands”, “tens of thousands”…
why not “hundreds of thousands” to fan the flames a bit more vigorously?
So glad our major problem of immigrants “eating our cats and dog” was nipped in the bud by our right wingers.
It’s as if it never even happened.
You are a horrible human being.
You’re one step from total dehumanization, and then we can put him in the camp.
The natives of Port Washington WI bite the heads off smelt fish. No joke!
Sadly, it’s only because Biden let them eat all the cats and dogs. Look around you. No cats and dogs!
Good info, which would be even more comprehensive if it detailed the complicity of the mainstream media, in case of UK primarily BBC.
The BBC is just NPR with bad teeth.
You are getting a discount with NPRavda. The BBC Pravda is subsidized by taxpayer to the tune of several billion pounds.
That’s Funny, and true…
I keep hearing about Musk banning people from X if they comment negatively about him. I don’t have an account, so I don’t know for sure. He should let people speak freely and negatively about him. I think the intelligence agencies have a backdoor to ALL the socials except TikTok (hence the attempt to ban them) and Telegraph – hence the directive to France to arrest Pavel Durov. So, yeah, Musk is relatively pro-free speech, but I’m sure he cooperates fully with the Deep State – and not just when they get a warrant.
Obviously Britain and all of Western Europe is the most tyrannical part of the US-led “international community” – like our 3 letter agencies would like the US to be.
Up until a few weeks ago I would have said great job. His inability to take criticism about H1B was eye opening. It reflected poorly on him imo.
Like most folks, Musk is only for free speech that he happens to like. This is common on both sides of the political spectrum, to be fair.
Mish tolerates all manner of dangerous and degenerate views. I may have to buy his platform to put an end to it.
I didn’t spend 60 billion so people could be mean to me, or talk about things that make me uncomfortable. It’s my platform, and I’ll run it as I see fit. You don’t get free speech from a corporate entity.
I think I will make my H1Bs wear matching jumpsuits, like on squid game. It will make them easy to spot if they try to run away.
Thanks Mish for writing this post! Musk buying Twitter/X was a game-changer and if it can bring a restoration of justice and highlight atrocities like these, to end them, it’s moving the world. Bloggers and influencers can write posts like yours to rally against these heinous crimes by the perps and the politicians that are enabling them.
History is going to view Musk’s buying of Twitter to be a seminal moment in the fight to keep free speech. It’s possible it may be more important than any or all of his other companies (Tesla / SpaceX / Starlink).
You won’t hear anything about how rapey Indian dudes are though. I need them in the US to boost my profits, and I don’t want you America First chanters to get your undies in a bunch.
Keep an eye on your women though. It’s your fault if an H1B rapes one.
The rapey Indians are in India. The ones who come to the US are less rapey than Mexicans – although Mexicans are pretty rapey.
They’re timid alone, but you get more than 4 together, they get really rapey. It’s hard on them, bringing them to the states where they have no right to rape. Maybe I’ll only take the eunuchs. Seems kinder. That does bring up a pronoun issue, however. Business is hard!
Excellent post. Prayers for the victims.
F**k prayers, they do nothing. The names of these perpetrators are well publicized. The fact they are still breathing tells you all you need to know about what has happened to men of the UK.
Not mutually exclusive. Justice of course must also be served.
The avenging angels may be listening.
Prayers for other people are the very, very, very least one can do. Every time a school gets shot up, I pray for them, and feel much better. It costs literally nothing, which is irritating, because that means poor people have access to it.
There’s no England anymore. And the only thing that makes sense with the attacks on people pointing these crimes out is that the authorities are involved somehow. How easy would it be to earn political capital by rounding the Pakistanis up and getting justice for the victims? So what’s stopping them? Are they afraid that any investigation will uncover their own misdeeds? And you gotta wonder how neutered the dads are to not go berserk and genocide some rapists.
Black hole of an imploded empire. They have the same plan for US.
These girls mostly have no fathers because they are in foster care etc. That’s why they are targeted.
Ah. Thanks for pointing out what I overlooked.
They are all LGBTQs.