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@docrussjackson
May 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Not content with reforms that could see UK journalists jailed for 14 years for printing stories embarrassing the Govt, Priti Patel now wants to silence Police Chiefs from speaking out on issues deemed 'politically sensitive'.

This is dangerous antidemocratic #authoritarianism.🇬🇧
Parts of the plan have been labelled “profoundly dangerous” & “power grab threatening operational independence” by one chief constable. Police & crime commissioners described some of the Govt proposals as going beyond the home secretary’s legal authority.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
Don't forget that the UK Govt is removing the independence of the Electoral Commission, which is responsible for overseeing free & fair elections: any other country doing what OUR Govt is doing IN PLAIN SIGHT, would correctly be accused of corrupt antidemocratic #totalitarianism.
A lesson from history:

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
I'm perfectly aware of Godwin's Law, but here's a #THREAD from over a year ago, which makes *crystal clear* the uncanny, eerily familiar, & deeply concerning parallels between the policies & strategy of the current UK Government, & the 1930's Nazi party:

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#THREAD

Controversial 'anti-woke' Evolutionary Biologist, Colin Wright, is the Founding Editor of 'Reality’s Last Stand', which claims to 'hold the line on free speech, science, & reality', & a Fellow at the free-market Manhattan Institute, founded in 1978 by Antony Fisher. 🕷️ Image
This isn't a thread about sex & gender. It's about free speech & the toxic influence of individuals who identify as 'heroic victims of wokeism' while receiving support from right-wing media, 'influencers' like Zuby, & a global network of opaquely funded free-market think tanks. Image
We live in dangerously polarising times, where trust in mainstream (news) media, in democratic institutions, & in academic & other experts has been (imho deliberately) severely eroded, where manufactured outrage is a profitiable, & the culture war pits 'woke' against 'anti-woke'. Image
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#THREAD

#PETITION

Stop misusing Dietrich Bonhoeffer to support political violence and Christian nationalism.

Leading figures on the Christian right are misrepresenting Bonhoeffer in their campaign against secularism.
change.org/p/stop-misusin…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer waa an antifascist theologian and pastor who resisted the Nazi regime before he was executed in 1945.

From #Project 2025 to violent political rhetoric, the legacy of Bonhoeffer is being invoked on behalf of Christian Nationalism.

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…
The film is a dangerous and grievous misuse of his theology and life, and an international group of Bonhoeffer scholars have warned against it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was executed on orders from Hitler in April of 1945.
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#THREAD

The well documented connections between Nigel Farage, the US & UK Christian right (including his billionaire employer at GB "News", Paul Marshall) & #TuftonSt lobbyists are deeply concerning.

Despite his '@BBC boycott', Farage is on #bbcqt next week, FOR THE 37TH TIME. Image
In September 2024, opaquely funded Radical right-wing #TuftonStreet think tanks flocked to the Reform UK conference.

The Adam Smith Institute (ASI) hosted an event, alongside the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) & the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA).

desmog.com/2024/09/18/tuf…
The event “The Bully State: How Nanny is taking over Britain” featured Reform UK MP James McMurdock, who knows all about bullying: before he was elected, he failed to publicly disclose he was jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend.

Reform UK knew.
news.sky.com/story/reform-m…
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#THREAD

🚨 Prof Brooke Harrington has researched the ultrarich for 25 years & offers some terrifying observations about the aims of the new breed of super-wealthy tech barons, #Broligarchs like Thiel, Musk, Mercer etc - the real 'Sovereign Individuals'.

podbean.com/ep/pb-i5j8y-17…
Very few people are fully aware of the goals & beliefs of Broligarchs like Elon Musk & Peter Thiel.

The truth is that these ultrarich Broligarchs want to reorder society, giving rise to threats to women, to minorities, society & democracy, all while bypassing accountability.
They will push women out of public life; deny kids a rounded education; remove sensible regulations & laws designed to help keep people safe; & they will further normalise crypto, which will have seismic, destabilising & potentially catastrophic consequences for the entire world.
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🧵Call a General Election?

A 2016 petition calling on the Govt to have a threshold on the EU referendum got more than FOUR MILLION signatures. A 2019 petition calling on the Govt to revoke Article 50 & remain in the EU got more than SIX MILLION signatories.

Both were ignored. Image
The Express says the petition, pushed by some of the UK's worst people, “is now being branded Britain’s fastest-ever growing petition!”

WHO BY?

Started on 20/11, by 11am 4 DAYS later, it had 509,095. The 2019 Revoke Article 50 petition got FOUR MILLION signatures in 48 hours! Image
The relatively new, highly suspicious, divisive anonymous right-wing #disinformation @X account, @InevitableWest, amplified by Musk & which falsely claims Tommy Robinson was jailed "for journalism", is pushing the petition, & making false claims about it.

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There was outrage when in 2020, the Tory Govt conceded a new bill to amend the UK's Brexit deal would "break international law" in a "specific & limited way".

But what is international law? What is the ICC?

And what were Margaret Thatcher's views on international law? Image
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First, what is 'international law'?

Broadly (it's complicated!) it refers to the body of legal rules, norms, and standards that apply between sovereign states and other entities that are legally recognized as international actors.
The term was coined by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832). According to Bentham’s classic definition, international law is a collection of rules governing relations between states. This original definition omits individuals and international organizations.
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