Tommy Robinson Background story Hero or Instigator? Now Freed after Technical Flaws
Once stated by a reporter who interviewed Tommy Robinson,
You could argue that Tommy Robinson doesn’t exactly help himself the way he goes looking for trouble half the time. But then, I don’t think that many of us are in a position to pass judgment. Not unless we’ve personally shared his worm’s-eye view of Islamic encroachment on our inner cities, which very few of us ever will. We simply wouldn’t be brave enough.
Every Patriot alive can identify with Tommy Robinson's courage and spirit of perseverance no matter the cost!
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Say what you will about his methods and tactics. . .is he trying to save children? If the answer is, "yes!" That sums it up for me! For those who are not familiar with his background and all he has done, please read on. Robinson has taken a stand to aide the cause of all patriots far and wide!
The current story!
Lord Burnett, Chief Justice and two other judges voided the ruling of contempt leveled against him after he filmed people involved in a criminal trial and broadcast the footage on social media.
This footage watched 250,000 times within hours of being posted on Facebook. The length of the footage was about an hour.
What caused this type of injustice were the restrictions against blanket reporting.
Any filming and recording of courts and court precincts is illegal in the UK under section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 and the Contempt of Court Act.
Robinson was given 10 months for contempt of court, which he admitted, and a further three months for breaching a previous suspended sentence.
According to The Evening Standard this is what Robinson's May 2017 arrest entailed,
Robinsin has been arrested after he tried “to video Muslims” outside a court.
Tommy Robinson posted a video on his official Facebook account on Wednesday morning (today), in which he claimed the arrest was being made.
He said: “It’s 4:32 and the police are at my house, and I’m being arrested for going to a court case in Canterbury and trying to video the Muslim paedophiles.”
The clip then cuts footage of two police officers stood in what appears to be a kitchen, one of whom explains to Robinson that he can’t use his phone.
A tweet posted from Robinson’s verified Twitter account said that he was arrested “on charges relating to attempted journalism.”
Kent Police confirmed an arrest was made.
A spokesman said: “On the morning of Wednesday May 10, 2017 officers attended an address in Luton, Bedfordshire, and arrested a 34-year-old man for contempt of court.
Any filming and recording of courts and court precincts is illegal in the UK under section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 and the Contempt of Court Act.
Kent Live reported that Robinson and a cameraman were at Canterbury Crown Court on Monday claiming they wanted to speak to the defendants of an ongoing rape trial.
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon known asTommy Robinson which is a Pseudonym. Robinson co-founded the English Defense League in Luton in 2009 and helped lead them until 2013.
In an article titled, Britain's most hated man isn't all that hateful!
The first question that arises is, "hated by whom?" I believe it depends on what mainstream news you are reading!
Robinson wrote Enemy of the State, published 2015. Here is a summary.
The powerful story of Tommy Robinson, former leader of the EDL and a man persecuted by the British state, simply for standing up in support of British troops. Tommy describes growing up on the streets of Luton, a town plagued by Islamic extremism and criminal gangs and how his livelihood was taken from him when he led a street protest against it. Hounded through the courts and thrown to the Muslim underworld which runs England's prisons, when Tommy refused to be broken the police tried to blackmail him – into working for them.
In an article written by James Delingpole in the Spectator, he states,
"What if he turns out to be not nearly as bad as his reputation as ‘Britain’s most hated man’? What if, as some familiar with him have warned, I turn out to like him and want to plead his cause, and end up being tainted as a far-right thug by association?
We meet in a gastropub in a pretty Georgian market town. It’s only ten minutes from the ‘shithole’ of a dump where Robinson has always lived — Luton — and much more congenial for lunch because we’re less likely to be interrupted by any of the numerous Muslims who have put him on their death list.
Robinson is frank about his misspent youth: his first stint in jail for assaulting a plainclothes policeman; his second one for mortgage fraud; his brawls with rival teams as a member of Luton City’s Men In Gear football crew (he thinks Millwall’s bad-boy reputation is overrated; Tottenham has the best firm). He is frank about everything he’s done, good and bad. It’s part of the natural charm which, just over two years ago, won the hearts of an at first spittingly hostile audience at the Oxford Union.
And yes, I do like him. So would you if you spent a couple of hours in his company. He’s intelligent, quick, articulate, well-informed, good-mannered — and surprisingly meek in his politics for a man so often branded a fascist. Many of his home friends are black, some are Muslims; he’s not obviously racist or anti-Semitic. He only got into activism and street demos because he happened to be a white working-class English lad in exactly the wrong place at exactly the wrong time. It was Luton, unfortunately, that Islamist proselytiser Anjem Choudary chose as the base for his various proscribed organizations.
As a result the character of the town changed forever; and so did Robinson’s life. The trigger was a local Islamist recruitment drive for the Taleban and a subsequent protest against a parade by Royal Anglian Regiment troops returning from a tour in Afghanistan.
As he once told another interviewer: ‘I was like, they can’t do that! In working-class communities we all know somebody in the Armed Forces. I’ve got a mate who lost his legs. And these lot were sending people to kill our boys.’ So Robinson founded the protest organisation that would make him infamous — the English Defence League (he subsequently quit it in 2013).
You know how hateful the EDL is: every-one does. What’s curious, though, is how much worse it is by reputation than in deed. It’s almost as though the chattering classes needed some kind of bogeyman whose name they could brandish in outrage from time to time in order to demonstrate that, while of course they condemn fundamentalist Islam, they feel just as appalled, if not more so, by the ugly spectre of far-right nationalism.
It’s the same with Tommy Robinson. If you looked at social media in the immediate aftermath of the recent terrorist murders on Westminster Bridge, you might have been surprised by the extent to which the righteous rage of the bien-pensant Twitterati was directed not at the killer, Khalid Masood, and the culture that radicalised him, but rather at that culture’s most vocal critic, Tommy Robinson. According to Robinson, this is no accident.
It’s a reflection of the Establishment’s intense reluctance to admit the scale of the problem with fundamentalist Islam in Britain. Robinson’s recent experiences have made him deeply suspicious of the authorities. Forcing him to share a prison wing with Islamists suggests, to him, that his personal welfare is not exactly their top priority.
While he was in prison, he refused to eat any regular food (he believed it would be poisoned or otherwise contaminated, so he stuck to tinned tuna), and made sure to cause sufficient trouble so he wound up in solitary where no one could stab him. His front teeth are all fake, the real ones having been knocked out when he got trapped in a room with eight Islamists. The only reason he didn’t die, he says, is because they didn’t have any ‘shivs’ (bladed weapons).
He’s a strong advocate of separate prisons for Muslims and non-Muslims: the scale of bullying (no one dare be caught cooking bacon, for example) and the extent of radicalisation, he argues, makes it culturally suicidal to continue as we are.
After numerous beatings and attempts on his life, Robinson is under no illusions about his prospects of reaching a ripe old age. ‘I’m a dead man walking,’ he told me. It’s not for his own sake that he minds: only for that of his wife and three young children. Though his kids are as yet unaware of his notoriety (Tommy Robinson is a pseudonym), he’s finding it harder and harder to protect them. Last August, police in Cambridge ejected the entire family from a pub on what Robinson claims was a bogus pretext of possible public disorder between rival football fans.
You could argue that Tommy Robinson doesn’t exactly help himself the way he goes looking for trouble half the time. But then, I don’t think that many of us are in a position to pass judgment. Not unless we’ve personally shared his worm’s-eye view of Islamic encroachment on our inner cities, which very few of us ever will. We simply wouldn’t be brave enough.
Robinson was part of the British Freedom Party
In 2015 he helped develop Pegida UK which stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West.
Robinson's Queen Council, Jeremy Dein, had argued that there were deficiencies in the ruling against him which didn't allow Robinson proper defense.
Dein stated, "We maintain it is of particular importance that right from the outset the appellant, albeit in a very stressful and difficult situation, offered to have the live stream taken down and contact people who could do so."
He also stated the sentence was "manifestly excessive".
There had been no intention to disrupt the trial or to breach any order, Mr Dein said.
The original judge was found to have rushed Robinson’s trial; therefore, the court did not hear which parts of his offending footage was problematic.
Robinson's case will be reheard at The Old Bailey later this year, this may take place as early as September.
According to the Objective Standard,
The court defended Robinson’s arrest by claiming that he violated a “reporting restriction” on the Muslim rape gang case. Yet, Robinson had only repeated what another UK newspaper had already printed.1 Clearly, this was mere pretense for jailing an outspoken critic of Islam and unrestricted Muslim immigration.
How could a modern, Western nation throw a man in jail for speaking his mind? Unbeknownst to many Americans, the UK has long restricted speech in ways that make this incident unsurprising—especially speech critical of Islam. For critiques of “the religion of peace,” the UK has banned a slew of commentators, journalists, activists, and politicians—including Robert Spencer, Pamela Gellar, Geert Wilders, Lauren Southern, and Martin Sellner—from entering the country.
Now, the government has caged Tommy Robinson—apparently because his outspoken criticism of mass Islamic immigration into Europe has persuaded many in the UK to side with his calls for immigration restrictions. This is not the first time Robinson has been arrested for exercising his right to speak. He was previously jailed after publicly criticizing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
If Robinson is forced to serve his thirteen-month term, he likely will not make it out alive. Once, when jailed for an unrelated charge, he was trapped in a room with eight Muslims who brutalized him and knocked out all his front teeth. According to the Spectator, “The only reason he didn’t die, he says, is because they didn’t have any ‘shivs’ (bladed weapons).”4 If his present jail term leads to his death, those responsible for caging him with violent brutes will have blood on their hands. Perhaps, opponents of free speech would be indifferent to such a genuine crime. They may indeed welcome such a fate as a warning to those who dare to speak their minds.
By silencing and jailing Robinson, the UK government has perpetrated a horrific injustice. Whatever you think of Robinson, his ideas, or his tactics, all freedom-loving individuals must condemn this perversion of power and stand beside Robinson during his fight for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to live.
See more here https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2018/05/the-horrific-injustice-against-tommy-robinson-and-free-speech/
Many people have signed petitions, protested and given calls for this injustice requesting Tommy Robinson be released!
He is considered a hero by many for standing up for the rights of our youngest victims!
The petition to free him was signed over 500,000 times!
More sources found at the bottom.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you think after rehearing his case Tommy will be freed? Please let me know in the comments below. Keep #FightingTheGoodFight and Godspeed!
Sources;
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/04/britains-hated-man-isnt-hateful/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28169117-tommy-robinson-enemy-of-the-state
Tommy Robinson has boat loads of courage to take on the fight and the risks he has; I was thrown off when I saw how many places he's announced that he is Mossad.
I'm not even quite sure what to think of him in that light, whether he's a controlled opposition, or what.
Regardless, gotta respect his courage and the extent he has spoken out at his own cost.
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