This point can’t be made enough. It was made again and again when Robinson was arrested, and was totally ignored by his hero-cultists, who despite what they proclaim, have no interest in justice or in the victims, but only in using these vile crimes to whip up hatred
This shameless unscrupulous bastard nearly derailed the trial. He didn’t care. His followers didn’t care. His Fox News/Info Wars supporters didn’t care. Gert Wilders didn’t care. Katie Hatekins didn’t care. None of them gave a flying fuck.
Instead they had the gall to present this self-aggrandising, publicity-seeking grifter as a martyr and a political prisoner. They compared him to Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi. In doing this they waded into the same sewer that he already inhabits.
It’s a sewer where facts no longer exist, where truth is what they say it is, where justice does not depend on evidence but only on (their) opinion, where entire communities are tainted with the crimes of a few, where depraved criminality is presented as ‘jihad’.
It’s a sewer in which even survivors of sexual abuse like Sammy Woodhouse are attacked by those who supposedly care about them if they don’t blame these crimes on Muslims; where violations of the rule of law are presented as a state-directed conspiracy to silence the ‘truth’.
Some of these supporters even had the gall to claim that Robinson was being ‘tortured’ in prison because he cared so much about the ‘truth’, despite zero evidence. Utterly shameful and skin-crawlingly embarrassing.
Now the scumbags who nearly got off because of Robinson’s self-interested attempts to ‘expose’ them at their own trial have got more than 220 years between them. Good riddance. And NOTHING to do with the Robinson hate machine
It’s clear that many of Robinson’s followers won’t recognise or regret the malice, amorality and stupidity behind the hero that they supported, because the whole point of Robinson’s modus operandi is to bypass thought & reflection and act purely out of visceral mob-level emotion
That’s how he progresses, and how the ‘new’ far-right agenda advances. But it’s not how we go forward as a society. We cannot lose ourselves in a political fantasy world where black is white and white is black just because enough people say so.
We need facts. Evidence. The rule of law. Justice.
Otherwise we will all be pulled down into the cesspool of hate that Robinson wants us all to inhabit.
That will suit Robinson and it will also suit the Anjem Choudarys of this world.
Wake up already.
Otherwise we will all be pulled down into the cesspool of hate that Robinson wants us all to inhabit.
That will suit Robinson and it will also suit the Anjem Choudarys of this world.
Wake up already.
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