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Killing Freedom To Save “Democracy”

We’ve heard the bat rabid left screech so much about “saving democracy”! The seem unaware we’re actually a Constitutional Republic, but I guess whatevs.

How it started,

Yes indeedy, those European leaders, were shocked, outraged, offended! They had NO idea whatsoever the United States Vice-President could ever be talking about! Why, they are the very bastion of freedom, free speech, free illegal invaders multicultural new-comers who are just looking for a new home and to fit into their societies.

How it’s going. Now, not all are in Europistan, this seems to be a world wide craze.

Romania’s Globalist Coup: Judges Who Banned Georgescu’s Presidential Bid Linked to Soros and Biden

The Romanian Constitutional Court’s unprecedented decision to annul last year’s first-round presidential election—and, months later, to bar frontrunner Călin Georgescu, who had been polling at 45% of the vote—has sparked a political firestorm both at home and abroad, with many denouncing it as a coup d’état.

Jair Bolsonaro Speaks out on Brazil Court Persecution: ‘Where Is My Crime?’

Bolsonaro made the assertion in front of thousands of his followers at a peaceful rally near Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach. The Brazilian former president was formally charged in February with allegedly plotting to poison current radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and stage a “coup” following his narrow defeat in the 2022 presidential election. The STF will rule on March 25 to determine if Bolsonaro will go to trial.

Trump: Marine Le Pen Ruling a ‘Very Big Deal’

French National Rally Party leader Marine Le Pen being barred from seeking office for five years after her conviction for embezzlement is a “very big deal,” and it sounds like something that could happen in the United States, according to President Donald Trump.

“A lot of people thought she wasn’t going to be convicted of anything,” Trump told reporters Monday, reports The Hill. “I don’t know if it means conviction, but she was banned for running for five years, and she was the leading candidate. That sounds like this country, it sounds very much like this country.”

Zelenskyy won’t hold Ukrainian elections without ‘financial support’ from US, EU

KYIV, Ukraine. (TND) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is demanding more aid from his country’s allies, saying it will be unable to properly hold an election otherwise.

The statement came in an interview published by Zelenskyy’s office Sunday, in which the president named the ongoing war with Russia and martial law as significant factors preventing an election.

Germany: Anti-Democratic Globalist Extremist Green Party Pushes for AfD Ban, ‘Conservative’ CDU May Be On Board

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Now, as the AfD nears record-high levels of public support, authoritarian globalists—lacking a compelling message of their own capable of resonating with the large sections of the German electorate—are once again attempting to suppress their opposition.

Hundreds Of Anti-Erdogan Protesters Arrested Overnight As Crisis Slides: ‘Fight About Democracy’

Turkish police have detained 343 people during overnight protests in several cities against the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.

Demonstrations took place across the country, including in Istanbul and the capital Ankara, the ministry said in a statement. It said the detentions were made to prevent “disrupting of public order” and warned that authorities would not tolerate “chaos and provocation.”

Did JD nail it or what? And some of these have happened even after Vice President Vance spoke!

President Trump also has spoken out about the the race to tyranny,

Trump’s new plan: No free trade without free speech… UK freaks out…

Western nations love to pretend they’re the gold standard of freedom and that all-important precious democracy—but lately, countries like the UK are looking a lot more like the regimes we used to fight against. When anti-abortion activists get arrested for talking or praying near a clinic and comedians get investigated for hurting people’s feels, it might be time to stop pretending you’re the “gold standard” of anything except totalitarianism. This isn’t inclusiveness by any stretch, and it’s not democracy either. This is Marxism in lipstick, dressed up as “tolerance,” all while silencing dissent and criminalizing free speech and free thought.

What on earth could have prodded President Trump to make such a statement about jolly old England—istan?

Oh.

WhatsApp row messages revealed that led to police raid on school parents home

Their messages were critical of the hunt for the new headteacher led by chairman of governors, Jackie Spriggs.

In May 2024, after the headteacher announced their retirement, Allen questioned why the deputy head Louise Thomas was appointed ‘acting head’ and no recruitment process had begun.

Spriggs then told parents that “inflammatory and defamatory” comments had been seen on social media and the school would take action against anyone causing “disharmony”.

Allen and Levine were also banned from the school premises for “casting aspersions” on Spriggs.

‘Massive overreach’ – Parents arrested for complaining about daughter’s school in WhatsApp group

The parents of a nine-year-old girl were arrested and locked inside a cell for eleven hours, after complaining about the recruitment process at their daughter’s school on a WhatsApp group.

Maxie Allen and his partner Rosalind Levine say six Hertfordshire police officers detained them inside their house in front of their daughter on 29 January.

They were then arrested on suspicion of harassment, malicious communications, and causing a nuisance on school property.

The couple said they were held in a jail cell at the police station for 11 hours after their arrest.

They told the Times that police took their fingerprints and searched them, then left them in the cell. Five weeks after their arrest, police decided they would take no further action.

The couple said they had previously been banned from entering Cowley Hill Primary School, in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, after questioning the recruitment process for a head teacher and criticising the leadership in a parents’ WhatsApp group.

According to Konstantin Kisin who has a podcast, Triggernometry, while 400 people were arrested in Russia for social media posts, 3,300 were arrested in Britain.

https://simonmercieca.com/2024/03/05/more-people-were-arrested-in-britain-because-of-what-they-said-on-social-media-abuse-than-in-russia/

It’s a short video. I think these figures might be a bit dated, it’s probably worse now.

The state of British free speech

They of course tried to do the same thing to President Trump in America. All this leftist blather about protecting “democracy” is self serving nonsense, they care nothing about freedom or the rights of the citizens. And Europistan has absolutely no fear of their citizens or what they might want. In America, they seemed to tread a bit more gently trying lawfare more.

I wonder what the difference could be?

Give me a 2nd….I’ll ponder on it.

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[UPDATED] Rotters – Their THIRD iteration

See update below. Data changed again.


I mean Reuters. Making stuff up as they go. They published a chart: Violence in Europe: Average annual number of deaths from lethal gun victimisation per 100,000 in select European countries, 2010-2016.

If you click that link, I have no idea what data you’ll get. On Tuesday, it purported to show Cyprus, just as an example since it was the top of the chart… then, with an overall firearms death rate of 63.9 per 100,000, and 82.4/100K among males 15-29. I’m not familiar with Cyprus numbers, so maybe that is was correct.

I am a little more familiar with UK numbers. Reuters showed them at overall 2.6/100K, and 6.9/100K among 15-29 year-old males.

That bastion of accuracy, Wikipedia shows Cyprus at 1.87/100K overall, and the UK at 0.23/100K. But at least Wikipedia links to their sources. Reuters simply says “Source: World Health Organization.” Maybe, but I can’t find it.

For the record, Wikipedia shows the US at 11.96/100K, which happens to be exactly what CDC says for 2016. So there’s a cross-check on Wikipedia data, something lacking in the Reuters data. According to Reuters (Tuesday), there were at least twelve European countries with firearms death rates exceeding that of the US: Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Moldavia, Estonia, Norway, Macedonia, Serbia, Sweden, and Cyprus.

That’s not exactly what you usually hear: that the US has a higher rate than any other developed nation (or whatever term they toss out du jour).

Since I couldn’t find the WHO data, I wrote to Reuters.

Regarding the chart:

Violence in Europe
Average annual number of deaths from lethal gun victimisation per 100,000 in select European countries, 2010-2016.
http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/editorcharts/VIOLENCE/0H0012Y7C163/index.html
Source: World Health Organisation
Gustavo Cabrera

I have been unable to locate the data on the WHO web site. Would it be possible to give me a link to the source data used by Gustavo Cabrera?

Thank you.

As expected, no response other than an automated ” being reviewed by our support staff” email.

But on Wednesday, the chart had changed.

Now, no country has an overall rate exceeding 0.5/100K; safely below that of the US. Maybe. But look closely, because on Tuesday, overall population was indicated by the black outline, and males 15-29 were pale blue. On Wednesday, the labelling is reversed. Either Wednesday labels are a mistake, or — unlike the US — males 15-29 are some of the safest people in Europe.

Take a look at the scale(s)…

On Tuesday:

0 to 100, to accommodate the sky-high Cyprus.

On Wednesday:

0.0 to that 0.5.

So suddenly everyone in Europe has a lower firearms death rate than the US… including nations that were experiencing civil wars in the indicated time frame. And the data of neither day bears any resemblance to that found elsewhere on the Internet. If Reuters is to be believed, the UK doesn’t have any firearms deaths. Which seems a little hard to believe.

UPDATE, Thursday, 8/16/2018: They’re on the third interation of that chart now.
But at least they now have a correction notice.

Correction: a previous version of this graphic contained a number of mathematical errors resulting in incorrect data and wide inaccuracies . This data has been changed to reflect the corrected numbers. For example, from 2010-2016 in Sweden there was an average of 1.2 gun-related deaths per 100,000 men aged 15-29, not 80.4 as was previously charted.

At least some of the numbers now bear a passing resemblance to data I found from other sources. Reuters provided me with a spreadsheet of their data, which was used to create this third version of the chart.

Note that numbers have changed, as have rankings, and even country labels.

The scale has changed again, too.

Reuters also gave me a link to the WHO database they used. Checking that will take a lot longer.

I think it’s pitiful — but typical — that Reuters only corrected this — and admitted to the correction — after being called out on it three times (yes, I sent them three messages regarding the inaccuracies). Once upon a time, Reuters was my go-to news service, but I ended that probably 20 years ago over just such errors and practices (not to mention an anti-RKBA slant you could ski down).


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