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Frances Newman retweeted
I just got a note from a Jewish mother in Leeds who took her kids to the Vue cinema at The Light for a birthday on Remembrance Sunday.
The staff member checking tickets was wearing a Palestinian badge, and she told him she didn't think staff should wear political badges that can make customers feel uncomfortable.
She says two managers were called, her family was refused entry, and one manager told her she wouldn't get a refund if she kept complaining.
@vuecinemas, can you confirm your version? Are your staff allowed to wear political badges on shift, and what happens to a customer who comes in with her children and says a badge makes her feel intimidated?
Frances Newman retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: APPEAL AGAINST ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY CODE
This Friday, FSU member Stephen Gray will appeal his conviction at the Crown Court for reposting a meme critical of Islam.
Stephen, a retired police officer with nearly 30 years’ service, reposted a meme that had already been shared thousands of times: “Fun facts about bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!”
The post referred to the Prophet Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha. According to the Hadiths, she was six when they married and nine when the marriage was consummated. Stephen says the post was satirical, but he also hoped it would prompt serious debate about whether that marriage has helped make child marriage acceptable in parts of the Muslim world.
The CPS initially decided not to charge him. After the complainant appealed, the decision was reviewed and Stephen was prosecuted under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 for sending a “grossly offensive” message. In April, District Judge Steven Hood convicted him. The judge found that the post could not be making a serious point because it was light-hearted. Stephen was ordered to pay more than £1,000.
Parliament abolished the blasphemy laws in England and Wales in 2008. They should not return through the back door, and they certainly should not protect one religion alone. Criticising Islam, or any faith, is not a crime. Nor is reposting a joke that some people find offensive.
The Free Speech Union has instructed John Beggs KC to represent Stephen. We have done this before: we funded Hamit Coskun’s defence and secured the overturning of his conviction on appeal. We then beat the CPS when it tried to challenge his acquittal.
Cases like this are expensive. Please donate to Stephen’s crowdfunder at the link below 👇
Frances Newman retweeted
Russell Brand will (deservedly) spend the next decade in prison.
But tell me why two grooming gang members who brutally abused a little girl in Telford only got 4 and half years.
A celebrity predator puts a spotlight on the justice system. The systematic abuse of working class girls doesn’t.
Frances Newman retweeted
Gaza has received tens of billions in aid. Hamas spent it on munitions to kill Israelis.
Why aren’t you forcing the Hamas leadership living in mega-mansions in Qatar to return the billions they’ve stolen so Gaza can be rebuilt?
The British taxpayer must fund no aid whatsoever.
Frances Newman retweeted
Rude people sitting on the cenotaph poppies in London.
Good man for moving them on.
Frances Newman retweeted
Russell Brand has just been given over ten years in prison. Can anyone tell me which court and on what date, the hundreds of Pakistani men who raped thousands of children over many years will be appearing?
Frances Newman retweeted
Amazing the number of people who feel able to sit in judgement based solely on newspaper or social media reports of this complex trial.
The jury were there to analyse the evidence. Others weren't.
I trust the jury
Frances Newman retweeted
For more than 100 years Jewish ex servicemen and women in Hackney have joined the communal Remembrance events.
The memorial was actually unveiled in 1921 by a Jewish Victoria Cross medal holder so holds a special place in the story of British Jewry.
This year was different because Hackney is now led by the Greens who echo the same Jew obsession as the Nazis.
As a small but respectful protest, the Jewish ex servicemen stayed away from the community wreath laying until the Mayor of Hackney and her keffiyeh sporting activist councillors left.
A small but heartbreaking rebellion, as Hackney AJEX chair Martin Sugarman, who is speaking here, told me:
‘We did not want to be associated in any way, or be complicit with the scurrilous Jew hatred of the Greens, or in any way be seen to give them credibility in Hackney, we attended the usual ceremony, with our Local branch Standard bearer, outside the church at St Johns's - as we have done for the past 100 years or so with fellow veterans and families - but refused to lay our Star of David poppy wreath. Instead we gathered in our small multi-faith group after the Greens had marched away, and held our own private wreath laying with a short service in Hebrew and English, for all those who defended freedom and democracy.’
Frances Newman retweeted
Ian Winter KC reports himself to the Bar Standards Board for confronting a journalist after Brand's rape conviction. What about his courtroom conduct? Inviting jurors to question why women didn't scream, resist or report sooner. These rape myths deserve regulatory scrutiny too.
BREAKING: Russell Brand's barrister reports himself to the Bar Standards Board after comments to a journalist following Brand's conviction
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Frances Newman retweeted
The behaviour of Ian Winter KC delivering foul mouthed abuse at @RosamundUrwin at the end of the Russell Brand trial was revolting & wholly reprehensible.
I have written to his chambers & to @thebarcouncil urging them to act.
Others should do so.
[email protected]
Frances Newman retweeted
I honestly didn't expect this. Lisa Nandy gets torn to shreds by Lewis Goodall for disrespectfully using Remembrance Sunday to announce a controversial deal with the EU.
Even leftists think Labour are disgraceful.
Frances Newman retweeted
At the end of his second performance at Menora Hall, Boy George brought survivors of the Nova festival and bereaved families onto the stage, and together with them, performed the pro-Israel song he released—"We Will Dance Again."
Frances Newman retweeted
A lot of us had tears in our eyes when we watched the finale to the brilliant historical sitcom, Blackadder. For me it has the same effect today, and so it should.
Lest we forget.
Frances Newman retweeted
I am shocked and disgusted by the story of Captain Ken Kunkel who was assaulted by two kids and this woman while supervising air cadets selling poppies. He’s now undergone emergency spinal surgery and may never walk again.
The 11 year old who did this can’t be charged, and the 12 year old will get some minor penalty. This is not justice. The youth criminal justice act needs serious reform.
Who are these kids? Who are their parents?
What punishments can we apply to violent youth crime?
If you’re old enough and strong enough to kick and stomp a full grown man on the ground such that he is paralyzed - you’re old enough to face justice.
We need to know their names, and their parents’ names. This shameful behaviour needs to be exposed. Every element of social and peer pressure should be used to shame families involved in this behaviour. All kids do stupid things, even kids of good parents. But if your 11 year old
is assaulting and paralyzing a grown man, that’s on you parents. Something went wrong years ago.
This is not justice, and we’re seeing an uptick in gangs deliberately using underage kids to commit shockingly violent crimes because they’re not tried as adults.
There’s plenty of kids that know this and laugh. For people who laugh off decency and restraint, the corresponding punishment should do the same. This 11 year old can change this Captain’s life, and that of his wife, kids and grandchildren forever, and yet his life will go on as usual. Absolutely shocking and disgusting. If you can deliberately and maliciously destroy someone’s life, there must be some degree of accountability from either you or your parents, even if you’re 11.
We have 11 year olds assaulting teachers in schools as well. Time to bring back corporal punishment.
Praying for a speedy recovery for Captain Kunkel.
