This speech is full of half-truths, distortions, misleading claims and outright lies.
Basically living up to every meme, trope and unfair stereotype, of Americans being ignorant morons.
I'll go through each of the claims he made in this segment and what the actual facts are. /1
Quote: "I look to Brussels, where EU Commisars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest, the moment they spot what they've judged to be hateful content."
That's a whopper of a distortion of EU law, that no serious person should make.
Link to the EU law is below, I'll discuss it in the next tweet.
Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act)
eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/2…
The EU can't shutdown social media when "they spot hateful content."
If they could there'd be no social media, which is a giant cesspit of hatred. 🤷♂️
Article 51.3(b) says they could restrict access if sites fail to delete criminal content threatening the murder of other humans.
Quote: "In this country (Germany) where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online, as part of 'combating misogyny on the internet, a day of action.'"
Unbelievable distortion of what happened in Germany on March 7th, 2024.
Police didn't raid people for posting "anti-feminist" comments.
They arrested 45 men for offences, including the following:
-Threatening rape.
-Threatening to post nude photos of an ex.
-Demanding nude photos from strangers.
-Distributing videos depicting torture of women.
Bundeskriminalamt (BKR) is the name for the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany.
BKR's raids were timed to mark International Women's Day last year.
They didn't arrest a single person for "anti-feminist comments", they arrested men for horrible criminal offences.
Quote: "In Sweden, two weeks ago, the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings."
The Swedish government (Riksdag) can't convict anybody. 🤦♂️
Swedish courts independent of the government under Chapter 11, Section 3 of their 1974 Constitution.
Chief Judge Göran Lundahl fined Salwan Najem 4,000kr (£297 / €356 / $374) with a conditional sentence.
Chapter 16, Section 8 of the 1962 Swedish Criminal Code (Brottsbalk) is below.
It's a crime to express contempt against a group of persons, due to their religious beliefs.
Quote: "Most concerningly I look to our dear friends the United Kingdom, where the British government charged a 51-year-old physio and army veteran, with the "heinous crime" of silently praying 50 meters from an abortion clinic."
Dear friends tend not to lie about each other.
Firstly, the "British Government" didn't charge him with a crime and silently praying is not a criminal offence.
He was given a £100 Fixed Penalty Notice by police, on the day of the incident.
Bournemouth City Council took him to court when he refused to pay the fine.
Charge was "failing to comply with Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014."
Breached by where he deliberately chose to stand and what time he chose to stand there.
A little later in the day, or elsewhere, no problem.
Quote: "The Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens, whose houses lay within safe access zones, warning them that private prayer, even within their own homes, may amount to breaking the law."
No they didn't. 😂😂😂
Straight-up lie.
The law is titled the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024.
The full act is below and doesn't take very long to read.
There's nothing whatsoever in that Scottish legislation that criminalises private prayer in your own home.
legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/10/co…
I know it's a feature of Trumpism, as a philosophy, to have very little understanding of any subject.
Still, if coming to Germany to insult half of Europe, you'd think it'd be a sensible idea to get their facts straight.
USA won't win many friends with this 'diplomacy'.
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