This time last year I was in a police station. I was not there voluntarily. I had been forcibly taken there by officers from the Metropolitan Police’s ‘hate crime hub’, which was set up by the current Greater London Mayor Sadiq Khan. The reason for the police kicking down my front door, dragging me off and seizing all the computer equipment belonging to myself and my wife, was that I mocked a high profile Islamic activist.

It is a matter that I still intend to fight as a free speech case and I told the police that my defence would be based on Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights that guarantees freedom of expression. Of course I answered ‘no comment’ to all the police’s questions and would do so again. This is because the police are not interested in the detained person’s side of a story but merely want the detained person to potentially incriminate themselves. This case has made me even more determined to both expose the censorious and sometimes dishonest actions of various identity politics based groups and to campaign for the creation of a British equivalent of the American First Amendment to the Constitution. Such a law change in Britain would guarantee that all speech, apart from direct, immediate and credible incitement to violence, could not be censored by use of ‘hate speech’ laws that we can all see now privilege some members of some groups but disempower and penalise others should they speak words that members of ‘protected groups’ consider ‘offensive’.

I’m not just fighting for myself, but for the thousands of other Britons whose natural rights to speak freely have been abused by various ‘hate speech’ laws that protect some but not all. In 2016 alone there were 3600 Britons who were either arrested or prosecuted for ‘offending’ people. In many of these cases there was not even a credible claim of harm, but merely that the ‘offended’ person subjectively ‘perceived’ that they were being ‘targeted’ on the grounds of ‘race, religion, gender, gender identity or sexuality’. These laws have been used to persecute a wide variety of Britons, from a teenager who used an offensive word in a tribute to a dead friend, right through to those who have asked awkward but valid questions about the transgender ideology.

I believe in free speech for all, whether the person speaking is saying stuff that is broadly inoffensive or whether the speaker is saying stuff that the vast majority of people would consider wrong, offensive or disgusting. I base my view that all speech should be equal on the Biblical notion that the scales of justice should not be weighted one way or another and that no one group should have more rights under the law than others. It’s why, even though I am Jewish, I support the right of lunatic Holocaust Deniers to spout their bullshit just as much as I support people who want to do is get up on a soapbox and declare that their favourite colour is orange. All speech not directly, immediately and credibly inciting violence must be free and protected. As the commentator Ben Shapiro once said: ‘The only proper way to defeat bad speech, is more free speech’. Or to put it another way, you don’t get rid of bad ideas, bad groups or bad individuals by hiding them, but by dragging them out in the open and challenging them. Lunatic Holocaust Deniers for example do not go away by censoring them, they are still there but their influence can be greatly reduced, by openly debating them and presenting them with evidence to nullify their view. This is why I am a free speech absolutist and why I, along with my many supporters, am going to fight this case of mine. My fight is every Briton’s fight, even those with whom I may vehemently disagree.

So far there has been very little movement on my case. I received an undated letter in the early part of 2020 saying that the police have a lot of tech stuff to look at and they’ve been busy with other more serious cases. I received another undated letter a few months back stating that the police are still not able to advance the case as they’ve been busy with Covid 19 and the BLM protests. That’s odd, I didn’t realise that bullying little old ladies for not socially distancing or kneeling before BLM/Marxist thugs was taken up so much police time? As is all too usual with these ‘hate speech’ cases, the process of prosecution and investigation is part of the intimidation and the punishment, something we have seen recently in the Darren Grimes / Dr David Starkey case.

I’m expecting this case to drag on for a while yet, these cases nearly always do but if you want a full background to this case then I will refer you to the update on the case that I gave the readers of this blog back in February of this year.

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