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Mar 3 5 tweets 2 min read
Can I ask you to read this report?
I know it’s hard to care about prisoners in the main, but I think we should all care about a prison system used to effectively torture individual prisoners, and disproportionately Black, Asian or working-class prisoners. What’s that about?
We know IPP sentences have been phased out and condemned as inhumane and unjust, but the prison service continues to justify those that remain active, using spurious claims - including some entirely invented charges. What’s that about?
We also know how the trauma of an IPP sentence can induce and exacerbate MH conditions; how uncertainty and isolation can cause prisoners to externalise thought patterns that can then be diagnosed as schizophrenia; and how that can lead to a medication-or-else ultimatum, trapping
the prisoner into a situation of non-compliance, which is taken as further justification for IPP extension.

I mean, would you trust the people who made you ill to make you better?? What’s that about?
So please read, if you will.

The best solution to a secret injustice is for all fair-minded people to find out what’s going on.
And then tell someone.
That’s what this is about.

#JusticeForIPPs
#PunishmentNotTorture

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Mar 3
If you untether society from material reality, you set it spinning off in directions you can’t control.
What’ll be the result of a law that says anyone can be a man or a woman if they say so?
You either discount your own senses or you discount the law, yes?
Can’t both be right.
If you discount your senses, trust suffers. Relationships suffer. Cohesion suffers. People become embittered against others or themselves.

Truth matters. Personally.

If you discount the law, civics suffers. Cohesion suffers. Society suffers. And there’s a personal cost
to individuals in crime and fear and further hardships.

Truth is *essential to the law. There can be no fairness in society without acknowledging the objective truth, a starting point, without which there’s no possible route to fairness, compromise, progress.

Only conflict.
Read 5 tweets
Nov 3, 2021
My sister sent me this and I just have to share. 1/7

At the end, he asks one question: what happened to you to make you not want to be who you are?
2/7
3/7
Read 7 tweets
Oct 25, 2021
The entire structure of the Left had been co-opted into gender ideology, so much so that UK Left-wing feminists in opposition were silenced at every level.
Political parties, publications, academia. Even sewing circles.
Left-wing feminists had to organise and crowdfund their own
research and platforms, but still were faced with a well-funded, many-tiered gender machine
bringing together such varied voices as Google, Amazon, the British Army, MI6, Twitter, UK Labour, the SNP, Malta, Lt. Sulu, the DNC, MIT, American Scientific, Gilead Sciences, Experian,
Go Daddy and the Law Society of England and Wales.
Not to mention the many injunctions to no-debate.

Do you know how hard we worked to get our voices heard?

You froze us out of our natural circles, and now you’re accusing us of aligning with your enemies?

They aligned with us.
Read 8 tweets
Oct 9, 2021
Interesting. But no.
Systematic patriarchal abuse =/= violence.
Violence is a tool used against transgressive men, but get this,
women were never going to keep to the rules anyway, because BIOLOGY.
It’s why sex-selective abortions are out of control in certain societies.
If you’re going to be born female, you’re going to be born WRONG.
Please understand.
The system of patriarchy doesn’t need you to be born male, it needs you to become compliant. That is why it punishes gay men. Not because it doesn’t like gay sex, but because it doesn’t like the
idea of a man who might let the side down and not enforce control over a woman.
That’s why it prefers it’s gay men to trans themselves out of manhood and into compliant, stereotype-embracing transwomanhood. Iran shows you the way.
When you condemn women fighting the patriarchy as
Read 5 tweets
Oct 9, 2021
“The Ministry of Justice … are committed to advancing equality, eliminating discrimination, harassment and victimisation …”

Women prisoners are victimised by a system that validates the feelings of male sex offenders over their safety.
Legislated discrimination.
State torture
of women who may already have suffered at the hands of abusive males.
How is this fair?
Whose equality is advanced?
Not society at large, who now have to reconcile the extended suffering of incarcerated women with a just punishment for, say, shoplifting.
Not female prisoners, who
have been deemed worthy sacrificial lambs by the courts already.
Not the trans-identifying prisoners, whose every gender demand is now elevated far above any bog-standard prisoner protest. They may seem like the winners, but their reoffending rates likely get a boost by making
Read 7 tweets
Oct 7, 2021
Today is #NationalPoetryDay, but misogyny doesn’t take a day off so neither do we.

This poem is dedicated to .@SussexUni. May you be called to account for your failure to take a stand against misogyny.

#ShameOnSussexUniversity
#MenWhoWearWomen Image
Beware of men who wear women
wear women as skins
invented personas to hide themselves in
men who affirm the law of possession
who colonise language of form and oppression
men dressed in womanskin

Beware of men who wear women
who wear women’s faces
dilettantes, smitten by
all that abases
flushed by the thrill of the heat of their shame
believing all women must relish the same as
the men who wear women’s faces

Beware of men who wear women as monstrous creations
werewomen, shaped by ignoble sensations
men who are willing to consume whole lives
Read 6 tweets

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