Tag: freespeech

Julian Assange Indicted

Who will be next?

“If the freedom of speech is taken away
then dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the slaughter.” ~ General George Washington’s address to
the Army, March 15, 1783

Shortly before the 2016 US Presidential election, Australian Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, released thousands of emails in a deliberate attempt to undermine the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. One would think that the current Administration would be grateful to Assange for his efforts to help the election of  President Donald Trump.

But that is not the case

Recently, the secret indictment of Julian Assange has come to light. As Mr. Assange long suspected, the US government hopes to arrest him for espionage once he is finally expelled from the Ecuadorean Embassy where he has been living for the past several years.

Former Assistant Secretary to the US Treasury Paul Craig Roberts has spoken out in defense of Assange. Mr. Roberts explains why Assange is a journalist and not a spy here .

What does that mean for journalists and pro-lifers?

There used to be a saying that freedom is like oxygen – you don’t notice it until you don’t have any. The air seems to be getting pretty close around some aspects of free speech.

We in the pro-life movement depend on free speech to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, the unborn children who are ruthlessly murdered every day in the USA.

In fact, the inability of preterm infants to speak up for themselves has demonstrated the truth of General Washington’s remarks. Since they cannot speak up for themselves, children are slaughtered every day in our country.

Will we be next?

Only God knows what is in store for us, and we must pray the rosary every day for ourselves and our nation that God will grant us peace and save our country. Austria, Brazil, and the Phillipines were saved by the prayers of patriots in those nations who asked God to deliver their countries from Communism. Let us pray the rosary every day that God will save our country.

 

 

Tommy Robinson Re-Trial Postponed Until October 23, 2018

International crowd of supporters cheers him on in London

Yesterday Ezra Levant of Rebel Media posted video updates of the continuing trials of courageous citizen reporter  and free speech activist Tommy Robinson. On May 25, 2018, police arrested Robinson while he was live streaming a video report on Muslim rape gangs outside a Leeds courthouse.

The legal authorities tried Robinson immediately and packed him off to jail within a space of 5 hours, a procedure more common in tyrannies than in England, the home of the Magna Carta and free speech.

But that was then, and this is now

Having been released from solitary confinement for contempt of court, Tommy Robinson appeared in the Central Criminal Court of London, also known as ” the Old Bailey.” Levant said that murder and terrorism are the most common criminal cases heard at the Old Bailey, and that holding a contempt of court case there is like having a traffic ticket heard in the US Supreme Court.

Tommy appears at window – crowd goes wild!

After conferring with his attorneys, Robinson went to the window at Old Bailey to see his supporters gathered below in the street. Upon seeing the hero of free speech, the crowd of about 1500 went wild, chanting his name over and over again in support. Robinson was both grateful and deeply moved by their cheers. Levant noted about 16 opponents to Robinson protested while the rest chanted.

The group of supporters included people not only from England, but Canada, and as far away as Hong Kong. They recognized the importance of Tommy Robinson’s case to the concept of free speech.

Tommy’s fight is our fight

Unfortunately, the British legal authorities chose to delay the trial until October 23, 2018. Levant said in the US and Canada, such tactics would result in dismissal of the charges. Let us hope that Robinson’s case will be dismissed.

Distressed that so few conservative reporters attended the 20 minute trial there, yesterday, Levant went to London himself by plane. Levant said that the British media openly lied about Tommy Robinson. It’s up to citizen reporters to take up the cause of free speech while we still can.

 

Tommy Robinson Freed Today!

International prayers and efforts free political prisoner Tommy Robinson

by Christine Ross

LONDON, ENGLAND – Today Tommy Robinson won his freedom after his Court of Appeal victory, and has gone home to his family. He will have to attend another court case in Leeds shortly.

Ever since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215, the concept of free speech has been developed and cherished by those in England and later in the USA. As pro-lifers, we depend on free speech to help parents decide for life and to persuade abortionists to stop murdering patients.

Thus, when we see a journalist and social activist like Tommy Robinson jailed merely for exercising the right to freedom of speech, we must step forward and protest loudly. Even President Trump’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, lobbied for Tommy’s release in London.

Police arrested Tommy Robinson on May 25, 2018 for reporting on a Leeds court case  . His friend and colleague Ezra Levant raised money for his legal defense fund, and reported in London on the case. You can see his coverage here.

Robinson’s attorney Carson Kaye said in his statement that: “The rule of law and the right to a fair hearing are fundamental to every individual and this ruling an example of the procedural safeguards of our system, and its potential for protecting every citizen equally.

Since the decriminalization of abortion in the West, the rule of law has collapsed. Parents and abortionists can murder their children without even a fair hearing for the child. If an innocent child has no rights, then what about the rest of us? Is it any wonder that Tommy Robinson has languished in jail while the child rapists he discussed in his videos go free?

St. Ambrose taught that we must work as if everything counted on our work, and pray as if everything counted on our prayers.  That is why we must continue to pray and work for the end of abortion, and that the rule of law will be re-established throughout the West.

Pray the rosary every day for your country, that God will end abortion and deliver us from the tyrannies that threaten us.

 

 

 

 

Why you should pray for Tommy Robinson

Because someday, his story could be your story

Years ago, the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel spoke at a conference in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He said that he could remember when abortion was a crime. Now it’s a crime to complain about it, he added.

In England, rape and child rape used to be considered crimes. Recently English patriotic activist Tommy Robinson discovered it’s now a “crime” to complain about it.

While live streaming a broadcast outside an English court on May 25, 2018, the police arrested Tommy Robinson, brought him immediately before a judge, and whisked him off to jail. As Attorney Will Chamberlain says in this video, what happened to Tommy could not happen in the USA. At least, not yet.

Ezra Levant of Rebel Media reported on what’s happening in Tommy Robinson’s case yesterday. You can watch his coverage and his interviews with concerned English patriots here

Levant was cautiously optimistic that the judgements against Tommy will be quashed and that he will soon be free. Let us pray the rosary that will happen.

Traditionally the home of free speech, now England has become the home of people afraid to speak up in defense of Tommy Robinson for fear that they will join him in prison. Apparently, the English have taken to wearing “Make Britain Great Again” caps. And their leftist counterparts attack those who wear them.

During World War II, many people prayed the rosary for peace and that the war would come to an end. God heard their prayers, and the war ended in 1945.

After the War, the Communists invaded Austria and enslaved that nation. A patriotic monk encouraged Austrians to pray the rosary by themselves and in processions for the deliverance of their nation from Communism. The Communists left Austria on May 13, 1955.

Similar events took place in Brazil in the 1960s and the Phillipines in the 1980s.

Praying the rosary has proven to be a powerful method of bringing peace and sanctifying one’s soul. Let us pray the rosary for Tommy Robinson, and for the deliverance of the tyrannies that threaten us.