Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson of ukcolumn.org. Geopolitics, Christianity, education, constitution.
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One of the younger Forum for Democracy MPs gives a speech on vax passes as the precursor to digital ID, making the Dutch parliament one of the first in the West to be told this in terms.

Forum for Democracy tends to subtitle its more impactful speeches after a short delay on a dedicated YouTube channel (“Forum International”); they might do so with this one.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NKlyJOLcPGM
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She was inspired by a book in the school library called Witchcraft and Satanism but says, “We are not devil worshippers.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bcbdmx
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The president of the South African Medical Association, Angelique Coetzee, admits to being coerced to following the script:

“In SouthAfrica, it [Omicron] is a mild disease, but it’s a serious, serious, serious illness in Europe, because politicians want me to say it”
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I am certain that both of my late grandfathers, lifetime Labour men, would agree with the below—because what now pass for leftists are not even bona fide socialists. My grandfathers would have called them subversives and would have kicked them out of the local Labour branch.

https://t.me/millennialwoes/4372
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LETTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY FROM LONDON'S JEWS FOR JUSTICE

Monday 10th January 2022

Dear Rev. Welby,

On behalf of the organisation Jews for Justice I am writing to express our concern at your recent comments that it is somehow immoral to take a personal decision not to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

I will not lecture you on the principles of bodily sovereignty and Christian inclusiveness, but I will alert you to the lessons of Nazi Germany.

The current ‘othering’ of the unvaccinated precisely reflects the ‘othering’ of Jews in 1930s Germany.

I speak not of the Holocaust but of the events that preceded the Holocaust.

The German parliament abolished the constitution on 23rd March 1933, allowing Adolf Hitler to take complete control. Two years later the Nuremberg Laws excluded Jews from citizenship and introduced a ‘citizenship certificate’ for the rest of the population in order to ensure their compliance to the regime.

On 23rd March 2020 the British Prime Minister overrode the (unwritten) constitution and placed the entire country under house arrest without precedent. A little less than two years later the introduction of mandatory vaccinations for health workers and vaccine passports for the public at large will exclude the unvaccinated from the full rights of citizenship and ensure the compliance of anyone who does possess such a passport with the diktats of the regime.

National Socialism in Germany subjugated the rights of individual citizens to the collective will of the state; exactly the same is now happening here in Britain.

It is impossible to deny the parallel between the first two years of the Nazi regime in Germany and the last two years in Britain.

Furthermore – although public hostility to Jews in Nazi Germany was evident from the beginning of the regime in 1933 – Jews were not sent to concentration camps in any large numbers until 1938, nor enclosed in ghettos until 1939, nor forced to wear yellow identifying badges until 1941; and it was not until that same year of 1941 that concentration camps became extermination camps.

So it was not evident in the mid-1930s where hostility to Jews in Germany would eventually lead. But we know what happened, and it is our duty to ensure that we learn the lessons of history.

The function of our organisation Jews for Justice is to use our unique position as British Jews to warn the public at large how history is in danger of repeating itself. This is our sacred duty to our ancestors who died in the Holocaust.

In Nazi Germany, the confinement of Jews within ghettos and their ‘evacuation’ to concentration camps was justified by the regime on grounds of public health, in particular the threat of typhus. The very same ‘public health’ justification is being used today to restrict the civil liberties of those who choose not to be vaccinated.

People in public life such as yourself who stir up hostility to the unvaccinated are no different from those Nazis who stirred up hostility to the Jews in 1930s Germany. If you cannot see the parallel it is because you are closing your eyes deliberately.

You will also be aware that the German churches were conspicuous in their failure to speak out against the crimes of National Socialism. You are repeating that mistake.

Finally, we are appalled that you should recently have compared the silence of politicians on the subject of ‘climate change’ – a hypothetical future threat, based entirely on modelling – to the silence of politicians on what was happening in Germany in the 1930s, yet have yourself been totally silent about an actual, global attack on human rights, which threatens the immediate destruction of liberal democracy in Britain and around the world.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Barr
(on behalf of Jews for Justice).

https://t.me/robinmg/14784
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For German A-level, we had the wretched Dürrenmatt play Der Besuch der alten Dame. One of the punchlines in it is when the press corps watch the victim being crushed to death by villagers as demanded by a billionaire, and complicitly banter among themselves that they're going to write it up as a heartwarming human-interest story of Tod aus Freude—that he was a bystander who was so overjoyed at the munificent billionaire that he just keeled over on the spot. I'm beginning to think this is how the Canadian press is going to write up the scene when the truckers get to Ottawa. God forbid.
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Police have arrested a women’s rights campaigner for an alleged hate crime and seized an academic book from her home after she put up posters “directed towards the trans community”.
Jennifer Swayne, 53, was detained for more than 12 hours after placing posters around Newport that made claims about trans women in prisons and said “humans never change sex” and that men in dresses should stay out of women’s spaces.
She accused Gwent police of operating “like the Stasi” after they raided her home and took a book of essays on “the theory and practice of transgendering children”. Edited by Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans, an academic previously no-platformed by university students, the book contends that politics rather than science accounts for the rise in the number of transgender children. Swayne said that police did not say why they took the book, which contained her handwritten notes.
Swayne, who is disabled, was riding around Newport on her mobility scooter putting up posters on Sunday afternoon when police stopped her. She was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and displaying threatening or abusive writing likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. The force said that it had received six complaints about offensive posters and told Swayne that evidence included CCTV video of a woman on a mobility scooter posting stickers in recent months. Swayne was released on conditional bail at 3.30am. Her phone was seized.
Last month Priti Patel, the home secretary, told police to do more to protect freedom of speech after judges ruled that recording “non-crime hate incidents” risked interfering with people’s right to express their opinions.
Fair Cop, which campaigns against the criminalisation of free speech, accused Gwent police of “unlawful interference”. Harry Miller, the group’s co-founder who won a landmark legal victory against another force when he was accused of alleged transphobic tweets, said that Gwent police were “out of control”.
Miller claimed that the posters that Swayne put up around the Welsh town were a “political statement” that did not come near the criminal threshold.
Sarah Phillimore, also of Fair Cop, said that the removal of the book was “concerning” and she awaited a knock on the door by police because she also owned it.
Superintendent Vicki Townsend of Gwent police said: “We’ve received several reports in relation to posters containing offensive material appearing in Newport between October and January. Officers on patrol in Newport saw a woman spraying stickers to two lamp posts.” The force refused to detail the nature of the stickers while the investigation was continuing.
Swayne said they were posters she had made at home. Phrases included “no child is born in the wrong body, humans never change sex”; “respect women’s spaces”; and “Woman = Adult Human Female”. Her other posters said that women were in danger in prisons from transgender sex offenders and called for “no men in women’s prisons”. One asked: “Are you happy for your 13-year-old daughter to shower next to an adult man, yes or no?”
Another said that men in dresses should stay out of women’s spaces. Swayne said that officers described one sticker, which said “cervix — it’s a woman thang”, as “very hurtful”.
She told The Times she was not transphobic and was educating the public about gender politics. “I have never made a sticker with the word trans in it. This is about women at risk,” she said.
Swayne said that police did not tell her why they had taken the transgender book — a collection of essays entitled Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body.
Brunskell-Evans, who edited the book, said that the police appeared to be operating within a “very narrow, partisan view of what it is legitimate to have on your bookshelf”.
“That is dangerous for liberal democracy. A book that has been published, is in the public domain and has been for years, and does not break the law in any way whatsoever, should be of no concern to the police.”
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Police have arrested a women’s rights campaigner for an alleged hate crime and seized an academic book from her home after she put up posters “directed towards the trans community”. Jennifer Swayne, 53, was detained for more than 12 hours after placing posters…
Owing to her disability, Swayne had to lie on her back in a police van on her way to the station to be questioned. Gwent police said it had received six complaints about offensive posters. The force said that it was required to respond when members of the public reported they were offended by posters.
Gwent police said that it had put out a public safety message a few days before the arrest because it had been reported that stickers had “sharp objects” attached behind them.
Swayne denied attaching sharp objects behind stickers and said that it would have been impossible for her to do so given that she had the use of only one arm. She added that claims of putting pins and glass behind stickers and posters was an “urban myth” that had often been associated with controversial campaigns.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk//article/police-seize-anti-trans-book-from-activist-jennifer-swayne-in-raid-on-home-t7n20qbv6
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I've just banned from this channel the author of the following response to another subscriber under one of my posts:

"The Brownshirts were heroes, go be a libtard somewhere else, boomer"

The first half is something I won't censor.

The second half is something I will censor.
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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Principle 23 of 286: The House elects its own Speaker.
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Glasgow, 19th century vs 21st century.

How could anyone ever say that these two buildings are equivalent...?
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