PLEASE HELP: They’re trying to kill Tommy Robinson in prison!
A judge ordered Tommy not to publish a documentary. Tommy did it anyways, on @X, where it has been seen 61 million times.
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) November 24, 2024
So another judge sent Tommy to prison for contempt of court. He's in solitary confinement "for his own safety". Learn more at https://t.co/4Wm5rvhU0S.
Why did no mainstream media cover Tommy Robinson’s court hearing today?
November 13, 2024 | By: Sheila Gunn Reid
I flew all the way from Edmonton, Canada to London just to cover Tommy Robinson’s court hearing today. There were a handful of citizen journalists there like me, but I didn’t see any mainstream media there.
Why?
Tommy is a journalist, a film-maker and a best-selling author. Just because the establishment doesn’t agree with his politics doesn’t mean he isn’t those things. In fact, his documentary films are viewed tens of millions of times — a much larger audience than even the BBC state broadcaster gets.
So you’d think that the BBC, the Guardian and all the rest of them would have been in court today. Because the subject of today’s hearing was the police trying to use the Terrorism Act to search through Tommy’s cell phone without a search warrant.
WATCH: @SheilaGunnReid heads to the UK for CRUCIAL Tommy Robinson
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) November 13, 2024
(@TRobinsonNewEra) hearing
Activist and citizen journalist Tommy Robinson is back in court, even though he's already in prison, for a procedural hearing about trumped-up Terrorism Act charges.
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It’s an outrageous violation of Tommy’s privacy. But more to the point, it’s a violation of his freedom of the press.
Tommy’s cell phone has confidential legal discussions with his lawyers — seizing his phone is tantamount to spying on him when he meets with his lawyers.
Maybe journalists don’t care about that, but you’d think they’d care about a journalist’s notes and confidential sources being seized by police.
Could you imagine if the police seized the cell phone of Piers Morgan or Andrew Neil without a search warrant? And claimed that the Terrorism Act let them do it?
The Terrorism Act does indeed let police seize phones without a search warrant — if they’re going after terrorists! But not even Tommy’s worst critics would claim he’s a terrorist. Even the police who arrested him under the Terrorism Act told him, as they arrested him, that they knew he wasn’t a terrorist. They were just weaponizing that law against him, so they could read his private conversations.
Some of those private conversations, by the way, include victims of Islamic rape gangs. These are young British women and girls who have been victimized twice: first by rapists, and second by authorities who refuse to stop the rapists, and indeed have often tried to cover up the crimes. On many occasions, the police themselves have compromised the safety of these girls.
These girls spoke to Tommy on the understanding that their conversations would be private. Now the police are reading them, like some creepy voyeurs. And if history is anything to go by, they’ll likely reveal the private identities of these girls, putting them in danger again.
That’s what this court hearing today was about: the police wilfully and gleefully abusing the Terrorism Act to go after a peaceful political journalist that happens to be a critic of the regime. If only they’d go after real terrorists this way.
Like I say: where were the rest of Britain’s journalists? Where were the free speech groups, where was the National Union of Journalists?
They claim to be for freedom of the press. But only for their friends. If someone dares to disagree with them, they’re happy for him to be jailed and have his private records seized.
That’s why I flew all the way from Canada to report from the hearing today.
And that’s why Rebel News is crowdfunding the cost of Tommy’s lawyers.
Even though today’s hearing was brief, the legal bill will cost thousands of pounds. If you can help defray that cost, please do so, right here.
Thank you.
Yours truly,
Sheila Gunn Reid
Chief Reporter
Rebel News
P.S. Freedom of speech is difficult: it’s the gift you have to give to your opponents if you want it for yourself. Today Britain’s journalistic establishment failed that test, by turning a blind eye when Tommy was thrown to the wolves.
P.P.S. Rebel News has been accurately reporting on Tommy’s case for years, and that’s why I flew all the way from Canada to be in court today. That’s also why we’re paying Tommy’s legal bills while he’s in prison. If you can help with a few pounds please do so, right here (thank you.)
For the crowdfunding campaign to support Tommy Robinson’s children, please visit www.TommyRobinsonChildren.com.
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Robin Naismith commented 2024-11-04 15:30:53 -0500Hopefully Tommy is surviving in Woodhill -
Eitan Gilboord commented 2024-11-04 13:06:28 -0500Hello Mick, it looks OK on our end. I sent you an email to confirm; please look out for it!
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Mick Allen commented 2024-11-02 03:20:55 -0400You need to sharpen up your donation pages. I paid then had to go and hunt for the ”Donate now” button. It’s says I’ve paid but the money hasn’t gone from my account so I assume it hasn’t gone. If you’re looking to do good deeds you need to sort that out.
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Robin Naismith commented 2024-10-31 11:34:14 -0400If Tommy Robinson has any left over trump cards to play that he can use against the jail boss or even Keir Starmer,then he should play these trump cards,which could change the whole situation
