Counter-Currents
The Worst Week Yet: August 11-17, 2024
Big Sister Is Watching You
Jim Goad
Yvette Cooper, image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
1,807 words
I can think of at least one reason I’m glad I live in the USA—at least it’s not England. For the time being, we have the pretense of a First Amendment here. Whereas Americans might lose their bank accounts, jobs, or social-media platforms for committing wrongthink, at least they aren’t being jailed…yet.
Three weeks ago, a dizzying swirl of events kicked off when three young white girls were stabbed to death and several others were critically injured at a dance studio in Southport, England. Unlike those three white girls, this story—and the way it’s been purposely mangled by the British government and media—refuses to die.
I first covered the story here, and then here, and yet again here. I would suggest taking a Valium or three before reading those stories in order, because they get increasingly infuriating, and the swiftness with which the narrative has been entirely undermined to serve a totalitarian agenda to punish people for spreading “misinformation” will drive you insane if you weren’t already mad-dog crazy.
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Since I didn’t file this column last Monday (I came down with a touch of ye olde COVID—which is another topic about which we’ve been gaslit for years), I neglected to inform you about one of the most maddening aspects of the whole sad saga. On August 8, Metro UK published the following headline and story:
The woman accused of being first to spread the fake rumours about the Southport killer which sparked nationwide riots has been arrested.
A 55-year-old woman from near Chester has now been arrested on suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred, and false communication. She has since been released on bail.
While she has not been named in the police statement about the arrest, it is believed to be Bonnie Spofforth, also known as Bernie, a mother-of-three and the managing director of a clothing company.
Spofforth, 55, posted the false claim at 4:49pm on Monday, July 29, the day of the attack, saying: ‘Ali Al-Shakati was the suspect, he was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year and was on an MI6 watch list. If this is true, then all hell is about to break loose.’
Kindly take note that Ms. Spofforth qualified her post with the phrase, “If this is true.” But it didn’t spare her from the law grabbing her by the throat, hauling her to jail, and making an example of her for the entire world.
On August 10, a hideous naked mole rat of a man named Sir Mark Rowley, London’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner, didn’t rule out the possibility of extraditing American citizens to the UK for making unapproved social-media comments about England’s ongoing troubles:
We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.
When a female reporter from Sky News asked Rowley whether the purview of “further afield online” applies to “dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country,” the scrawny man with a badge and the full weight of the surveillance state behind him snapped back:
Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material…. All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.
I invite—no, I beseech and implore—the readers to cite me one example of the British press or government ever referring to a nonwhite person as a “yob.”
Last week it was reported that a 61-year-old yob named David Spring was jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty to “violent disorder” due his participation during the riots in Whitehall on July 31. As far as I can discern, Mr. Spring didn’t commit any literal acts of violence; instead, he chanted, “Who the fuck is Allah?,” called policemen “cunts,” and screamed “You’re not English anymore” at them.
Arguing for the prosecution, a barrister with the exceedingly British name of Alexander Onakomeme Agbamu, said:
Daniel Thomas, also known as Danny Tommo in some circles, organised a demonstration in Whitehall. Members of the far-right responded to that call with the seeming intention of replicating scenes seen earlier in the week, precipitated by false information relating to the religion and immigration status of the perpetrator of the Southall [sic] murders.
But when far-right yob David Spring was arrested, he allegedly told officers, “I didn’t go up to London to riot. I went to complain about people put up in hotels.”
But Judge Benedict Kelleher wasn’t buying it. In fact, he was more certain what was inside David Spring’s mind than Spring was. In sentencing Spring to a year-and-a-half behind bars—where he will undoubtedly have to deal face-to-face with multiple Muslim prisoners—he solemnly intoned, “What you did could and it seems did encourage others to engage in disorder.”
When I first reported on England’s rapid unspooling, I noted that the haggard Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, had taken a two-tiered approach toward describing rioters. When Gypsies raised holy hell in Leeds over police removing members of a Roma family, she’d referred to them as “individuals,” but when white people rioted in Southport, she called them “thugs on the streets who have no respect from a grieving community.”
Now comes word that Cooper, the wife of the Right Honourable Ed Balls, is seizing this opportunity to clamp down even more fiercely on hatespeak by boldly announcing that something she calls “extreme misogyny” will be treated as terrorism. Initial reports claim that extreme misogyny will be prosecuted under a program called “Prevent,” which is part of Britain’s “Counter Terrorism Policing.” The program “aims to stop individuals [from] becoming terrorists,” but as far as I can tell, it’s merely some sort of snitch line that encourages Britons to report other Britons for daring to criticize anyone besides working-class white-male yobs.
In yet another startling example of England’s Ministry of Truth altering information on the fly, I awoke this morning to find several links claiming that Ms. Balls equated “extreme misogyny” with “terrorism,” only to blink and then find that the word “terrorism” had been erased and replaced with “extremism.”
For example, a screen cap of an X link to the Guardian article on the story shows that its original title was “Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism under UK government plans,” and as I write this, the URL for the Guardian article still contains the word “terrorism,” but when you actually read the revamped piece, the word “terrorism” has been removed from the article, with the following correction appended at the end:
This article replaces an earlier version of 18 August 2024, which appeared under the headline “Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism under UK government plans”. In fact such misogyny would be treated as extremism, not terrorism, under a planned review of counter-extremism strategy. The version published above includes further revisions and updates.
The Telegraph also quickly changed their original headline, which was “Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism,” but they also modified its initial URL, which I will link to right here…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/17/extreme-misogyny-treated-as-terrorism-government/
…so that you can see it redirects to a different URL and a different headline, one that carefully excises every mention of the word “terrorism.”
Here is what I’d already cut and pasted from the Telegraph article before its sudden cleansing [emphasis added]:
Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of terrorism for the first time under government plans, it was reported.
Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the counter-terrorism strategy to address violence against women and girls and identify gaps in current legislation and examine emerging ideologies, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
Under the proposals, teachers would be legally required to refer pupils they suspect of extreme misogyny to Prevent, the UK government’s counter-terror programme….
Deputy chief constable Maggie Blyth, national lead for policing violence against women and girls (VAWG), said the influencing of young boys online is “quite terrifying.”
Blyth said senior officers who focus on violence against women and girls are in contact with counter-terrorism teams to look at the risk of young men being radicalised.
She said: “We know that some of this is also linked to radicalisation of young people online, we know the influencers, Andrew Tate, the element of influencing of particularly boys, is quite terrifying and that’s something that both the leads for counter-terrorism in the country and ourselves from a VAWG perspective are discussing.”
My, that sure seems like a lot of English newspapers suddenly switched out the word “terrorism” for “extremism.” If one were a paranoid-schizophrenic extremist terrorist, one might even suspect that government authorities had terrorized the papers into making the change.
In March, the UK government had issued a new definition of “extremism,” mentioning somethin’-somethin’ about “the pervasiveness of extremist ideologies in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023” but clarifying that most “extremist materials and activities are not illegal and do not meet a terrorism or national security threshold.”
But I quite doubt that all these papers had simultaneously made the same mistake. It seems likely that British authorities realized that they’d overplayed their hand and demanded that their mandarins in the press soften the tone so as not to terrify England’s white public any more than they’ve already been terrified by nonwhite stabbers, roving Muslims, and their traitorous government officials’ constant threats of incarceration.
Bringing things full circle in the most terrifying way imaginable, late Sunday night in Manchester, an unidentified person stabbed three people. As I write this, one of the victims has died:
A 43-year-old woman is dead and a 17-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a triple stabbing.
The incident unfolded in Barnard Road, in the Gorton area of Manchester, at 11.20pm yesterday.
Another victim, a 64-year-old man, is also in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
All three were found with serious stab wounds at the property. The woman died at the scene.
A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and has been taken into custody.
A male suspect and two female victims? I believe that English authorities will permit me to emphatically state that this was yet another case of extreme misogyny.
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32 comments
This is excellent, Jim. You’re doing Buddha’s work here.
Based on one of the victims and the fact this happened in a diverse area, methinks this stabbing will be swept under the rug, despite its obvious misogyny.
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We aren’t quite UK level yet, though apparently in the USA you can go to jail just for calling someone a naughty name these days. Just ask Sophia Rosing (fucking goddess).
Was going to write about that case this week. She wasn’t convicted of “just calling someone a naughty name,” though. She was convicted of four misdemeanor counts of assault, disorderly conduct, and public intoxication, all of which were captured on camera, along with the 200 or N-bombs. I have no doubt the N-bombs played a role in her prosecution.
Great! I was hoping to hear your take on that situation. Can’t say I feel bad for the “victim”, though. Especially after all this pseudo-martyrism that was staged afterwards.
https://youtu.be/zi-bsm6Ymeg?si=41lWEWoBdzygC88Q
I don’t know what the context was and only watched the first two minutes but it was clear that the White lady was off her trolley, ineffectually punching, kicking and swinging a shopping trolley at a pretty patient black security woman and her associate inbetween repeated slurs. No doubt, had the races been reversed, prosecution would have been unlikely but Miss Rosing was drunk and disorderly.
You can’t go to jail for it yet, but it’s looking like that may come soon. In the mean time, if you say a naughty word, you can be murdered and the killer may go free or get only a slap on the wrist. I think that’s what they call a “private-public partnership”.
Last I checked, “misogyny” means hatred of women. Are they now saying that they know what a woman is?
On that note, calling Yvette Cooper a woman is definitely assuming gender. Why, I’m shocked, shocked!
The funny thing, if you’re trying to find something funny in all this, is that in the end, the prune faced women and effeminate men running the show will have it pretty bad when the new Caliphate is established in the British Isles.
In the US we’ll have a generalisimo running the show and it’ll be just as bad for them here. So, at least we’ll have that to laugh about in hell.
I saw the news item about a British official threatening to extradite Americans to England to imprison us and browbeat us about diversity and, and inclusion and not being hateful toward kid stabbers and yadda yadda.
I thought, “How has messing with Americans gone for England in the past?”
Eric Clapton found himself in a tsunami of hot water some years ago for telling immigrants to “go home” from the stage at one of his shows.
He was hilariously and hysterically vilified and ‘buked and scorned.
How did being nicer than Eric Clapton work out for everyone?
So sickening, all of this. I, like most Americans, love the British Isles.
Extradite Americans for social media commentary? Does this parochial official understand that the whole world isn’t Blighty? I don’t think what he said was repeated by high-level officials in the UK. I think a more polished representative would understand that it would turn into a PR disaster for the British government, as if what they’ve all done so far isn’t enough of a PR disaster. Now because of government arrogance, the whole world is watching England come apart.
Well, I really expect that they could and would only go after UK or dual citizens living abroad…
The NY Post link in the above article specifically mentions extradition of American citizens. The beginning of that article states “London’s Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the UK, but on American citizens as well.” Six paragraphs down the same article says “One key aspect that makes this apparent crackdown on social media particularly shocking to critics is that the British government is threatening to extradite American citizens from the U.S. to be jailed in the U.K. for violating their rules about political speech online.”
Here is the link: https://nypost.com/2024/08/10/media/uk-police-commissioner-threatens-to-extradite-jail-us-citizens-over-online-posts-well-come-after-you/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
It seems to be a threat to Elon Musk and any other American who likes to practice free speech. That’s what makes it so obnoxious. Who the hell are British government officials to threaten American citizens?
They think they have extraterritoriality. And the US government is dumb enough that they’d probably get away with it.
Britain has gone full communist. Keir Starmer is a communist Jew. He married a Jew. They are raising their children as Jews. And he has converted to the Jewish religion. That makes him a Jew. And he’s been a communist since his youth.
1960’s British & Irish rock musicians (like Clapton) idolized Black bluesmen:
— https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-b-b-king-riding-with-the-king-reissue-rollin-and-tumblin-1003823/
It took a lot of provocation to piss them off.
Van Morrison got to the heart of the problem:
— https://forward.com/culture/469116/van-morrison-antisemitic-they-own-the-media/
That Van album looks interesting. I think a lot of writers just like to say the word “trope.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG3JyuAUE2E
God SAVE the KINKS!
This is interesting journalism. Thanks.
Remember the torching of the White House ! The British set it on fire during the War of 1812.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
I know. I didn’t want to bring that up.
Britain is worse than New York or California. It is a police state, run by the Jews and their tools. Keir Starmer is a communist Jew, disloyal to Britain.
In the last month, over 3,000 Negros on boats have been allowed to sail into Britain, “rescued” by the UK government. Then these migrants are given free room and board, at our expense. Any Whites who object get thrown into jail on bogus charges. (Migrants commit real crimes with impunity).
The UK government doesn’t care one bit when a Negro thug kills White children at a dance class. They approve. Enoch Powell had it right in his April 1968 speech, when he warned against non-White mass immigration.
Look for Bobbies to be knocking on our doors any day now.
They think they have extraterritoriality. And the US government is dumb enough that they’d probably get away with it. — Beau Albrecht
(The above thread came to an end where the reply option stops, so I’ll continue below)
The British authorities are much more likely to get away with it collaborating with US Democrat leadership. Under Republicans less likely. Under Trump, much less likely. Voting is now high-stakes. While I’m not an enthusiastic Republican voter, the consequences of government run by Democrats is a descent into totalitarian insanity, perversion, minority privilege, degeneracy, and crime. Just look at NYC and San Francisco.
Exactly. That’s why I’m against this whole accelerationism approach by voting for Camela or a third party.
Pakistan arrests man over Southport attack disinformation
Authorities in Pakistan have arrested a man on suspicion of cyber terrorism, in relation to disinformation thought to have fuelled UK unrest.
Police told the BBC that Farhan Asif was linked to a website which gave a false name for the suspected Southport attacker and suggested incorrectly that he was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on a small boat….
The police report states that Mr Asif told them that he runs the X account with the purpose of sharing national and international news, and that he picked up the alleged tweet from another twitter user – without checking the authenticity of the information before sharing.
The police say that he used his account “with the intent to glorify the incident about the arrest of a Muslim asylum seeker by police… and created a sense of fear, panic, insecurity in the Government and the public” and it is on this basis that they have filed a case against him.
That is amazing and horrifying. The charges are entirely bogus, of course.
The semi-official Media produce mostly propaganda and disinformation. The Internet serves as a useful check on their lies, however. Therefore, the Deep State wants to censor the Internet of any content critical of them. They are not against lies; they are against truth.
However, they would never censor porn. Porn is their kind of “free speech”. They like porn for its anti-social effects.
Serious question, can good ever triumph over evil? Good seems to only win 1 battle for every 10 wars it loses. The prison planet seems inevitable
No audio version!? I was excited to hear velvet Jim’ dulcet tones join me on a walk. If Jim’s was POV busy, they should just do an AI text to voice thing like the justice report podcast does
You spoke too soon, my friend.
I’d love everything to have an audio version.
Mate, you should do a skit where you say you’ve been asked to read a uk phone book with your golden voice, but it’s all Muslim names (“ahmed Jaffar, Ahmed Muhammad, etc…) then you stop because it’s depressing you
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