As many will know, Tommy Robinson the human rights and anti-Islam activist is currently languishing in on of Her Majesty’s prisons serving a sentence for contempt of court that seems to me far longer and more harsh than would have been given to anyone else who may have breached this law. Mr Robinson’s sentence is without a doubt ‘within the law’ but that does not mean that it looks like anything that the man on the street would recognise as ‘justice’.
Like many other British patriots, I want to see Mr Robinson out of prison and back with his family. What is galling is that Mr Robinson’s sentence is longer than many burglars or car thieves or street thugs are given by the courts. It is difficult not to come to the conclusion that, at least in part, our legal and political Establishment hoped that by gaoling Mr Robinson then the growing anti-Islam movement and the movements to restore Briton’s free speech rights, would be completely squashed.
Unfortunately for the Government, things have not worked out as they may have expected them to work out. There have been a series of demonstrations up and down the country calling for Mr Robinson to be released and far from helping to reduce the anger about the negative effects of Islam on our society, the gaoling of Mr Robinson has helped to highlight the nature and the extent of these problems.
On Saturday I shall be marching in London with thousands of other Britons of various backgrounds to call for Mr Robinson to be released and I will also be marching in order to stand up to a quasi religious ideology that wants me and my family dead. By marching for Mr Robinson’s freedom, I will also be marching for the freedom of others and, most importantly for me, the hope that my child will grow up in a free society. It’s bad enough at present living in a country where people cower or look over their shoulders before speaking negatively about Islam, but if this mindset and the unjust ‘hate speech’ laws that underpin it is not challenged then things will get much worse.
So on Saturday I will, on this occasion, put aside my normal personal rule that I have one day a week away from politics, because I see Mr Robinson’s fight as my fight and also the fight of all decent people in the United Kingdom. The groundswell of protest and anger that has grown out of the unjust gaoling of Mr Robinson is now not only about Mr Robinson although this is in itself important. This protest is also about the hundreds of communities and thousands upon thousands of Britons who wish to speak peacefully about the ills that have befallen our nation and the lack of respect with which we the ordinary British subjects are treated by an arrogant political class that fails to listen to our cries of despair.
I would urge all decent people who respect freedom, respect liberty and respect our rights to live in peace untrammelled by the ills brought here by the followers of a seventh century ideology that none of us voted to be given entry here or given such overt privileges in our society. We should make this demonstration large, loud but peaceful in order to tell our rulers that enough is well and truly enough now. Peaceful protest is what I want to see. I say this because I know it is via the route of peaceful and dignified protest that other less politically aware British subjects will be convinced of the rightness of the causes of freedom of speech and standing up to the increasing and unwanted Islamic encroachment in our lives.
So join me and thousands of others in Whitehall on Saturday at 15:00 on the 14th July to say #FreeTommy We should no longer be silent in the face of evil, we should no longer be silent in the face of oppression whether it by the political Left, the Government or the Islamic ideology that the Government all too often panders to.
