“I think you know my views on this issue regarding deportation. To be fair, the Prime Minister is doing everything he can from what I’ve been witnessing and all the conversations I’ve had, to try and stop the boats.
“It’s not gone anywhere near as quickly as I’d like it to have done. I think there are other ideas and solutions like leaving the ECHR which has absolutely got to be something that we do.
“But ultimately, I think once we undo the pesky House of Lords with all their ridiculous amendments, and the virtue signalling from people like Justin Welby, are ignored and resigned to the dustbin of history, then we can actually make sure we get that flight off and ultimately protect this country.
“Because at the moment we’ve got all these young single males who are undocumented, coming into this country. We have no idea who they are, what their intentions are, and actually, far too many of them are entering the black market.
“This means that ultimately they’re putting lives at risk as well as being vulnerable themselves to extremists.
“I’ve seen that in Stoke on Trent with Hizb ut-Tahrir, targeting hotels where people have been kept and seeing that as a recruiting ground.
In a move escalating tensions, Church authorities in Corfu imposed a religious ban on two local lawmakers who voted in favor of the country’s landmark law legalising same-sex civil marriage.
The move comes after the law was passed in February with support from across the political spectrum, making Greece the first Orthodox Christian nation to legalise same-sex marriage.
Church authorities on the island of Corfu accused the two opposition lawmakers, who voted for the reform, of committing “the deepest spiritual and moral error.” This action further highlights the ongoing friction between the socially conservative Church and the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose centre-right government proposed the law.
The Church had previously expressed strong opposition to the reform, actively campaigning against it and pressuring lawmakers to vote against its passage. This latest development suggests a potential escalation of this internal conflict within Greece.
A majority of Austrians would support the government adopting a zero asylum limit and rejecting all asylum applications for the foreseeable future, according to recent polling.
In a survey conducted by the Unique Research Institute for the Heute newspaper, 56 percent of all respondents agreed in principle with a proposal that would see Austria no longer take in any refugees compared with 37 percent who disagreed with the suggestion.
The most common response from those polled was “strongly agree” with 36 percent, followed by “somewhat agree” with 20 percent. Comparatively, 19 percent “tended to disagree” with the proposal, and just 18 percent “strongly disagreed.”
Austria’s ability to cope with rising asylum applications has been the subject of political debate across the country over the past few weeks, fueled further by the recent remarks of Tyrolean Social Democrats (SPÖ) leader Georg Dornauer, who publicly questioned “whether the upper asylum limit should not be zero for the coming years” in a national newspaper.
Dornauer was scolded by his left-wing party leader Andreas Babler on the weekend, who called the comment “politically stupid” and “unthinkable,” leading his party colleague to retract the statement.
However, the Unique Research Institute polling creates a conundrum for the Social Democrats (SPÖ), showing that 45 percent of its own voters agree with the move and presumably do not consider such a proposal to be “stupid.”
The plans are, unsurprisingly, supported overwhelmingly by voters of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) who currently top national polls ahead of legislative elections later this year — a total of 87 percent of those who back the party support the proposal.
Similarly, a majority of the co-governing Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) wants to see zero asylum at 58 percent while most voters of the Greens and the liberal NEOS are against the suggestion.
“The attitude towards the zero asylum limit runs along the classic party camps. While the voters of the FPÖ and ÖVP support this proposal, NEOS and Green voters reject this approach,” said pollster Peter Hajek.
“The SPÖ, on the other hand, is divided, which doesn’t make it easy for Babler and Co. to position themselves in the election campaign,” he added.
The criminal behavior of some asylum seekers granted refugee status in Austria has made headline news across the country in recent days.
Last week, Vienna was hit with a bloodbath after an Afghan migrant butchered three prostitutes inside a Thai massage parlor that also served as an illegal brothel. The suspect, who beheaded two of his victims, reportedly told the authorities that he had “read in the Quran that I should engage in jihad,” telling officers that “prostitutes are under the guise of Satan.”
Authorities seized the suspected male rape gang after the victim filed a complaint claiming to have been forced by her boyfriend to have sex with his friends before being passed around “like a trophy” for over a year.
The gang, including boys from Syria, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Serbia, had reportedly filmed the abuse and threatened to make it go viral on social media if the schoolgirl ever reported them to the authorities.
They were subsequently released after just one day in custody as police continued their investigation, leading the victim’s family to express their concern for the safety of the girl to a national German newspaper.
She was ahead of her time in adopting pronouns and in promoting gender theory. And all the way back in 2006, the feminist gender theorist and UC Berkeley academic declared that Hamas was progressive.
“Yes, understanding Hamas, Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left, is extremely important.”
Like most fanatics, Oct 7 only made Judith Butler double down on her belief in the progressive qualities of Hamas.
Judith Butler describing the October 7 massacre as armed resistance: “We can have different views about Hamas as a political party, we can have different views about armed resistance. But […] the uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance.[…] This was an uprising” pic.twitter.com/YWqak847lx
“We can have different views about Hamas as a political party, we can have different views about armed resistance. But […] the uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance,” Butler recently declared.
Butler’s brand of gender theory had begun the deconstruction of the idea that women exist. A few years ago, Butler was claiming the “trans” brand and arguing that “the category of woman can and does change, and we need it to be that way.”
Feminist gender theorists begin by declaring that women don’t exist and then conclude by justifying their rape and murder.
Leaked internal communications show doctors who offer so-called “gender-affirming care” know that transgender hormones cause serious diseases, including cancer.
Author and journalist Michael Shellenberger released the internal documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which “is considered the leading global authority” on so-called “gender medicine,” despite being an LGBT activist group.
THE WPATH FILES
Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based.
But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024
The “WPATH FILES” include emails and messages from an internal discussion forum by doctors, as well as statements from a video call of WPATH members. The files reveal that the doctors working for WPATH know that so-called “gender-affirming care” can cause severe mental and physical disease and that it is impossible for minors to give “informed consent” to it.
One member of WPATH described the fate of a gender-confused person who died of hepatocarcinomas, a form of liver cancer, after taking testosterone as part of a “gender transition” for years.
“[A]fter 8-10 years of [testosterone, the individual] developed hepatocarcinomas. To the best of my knowledge, it was linked to [the person’s] hormonal treatment [sic],” the anonymous person wrote in February 2022.
Another case study discussed by a doctor concerned a 16-year-old who developed a liver tumor (hepatic adenoma) after taking testosterone. These tumors are also associated with hormonal contraceptives containing estrogen. The doctor wrote that “both the oncologist and the surgeon have indicated that the likely offending agent(s) are the hormones and have recommended the treatment [sic] ceases at this time to allow for regression of the masses.”
Another serious side effect of hormones and mutilating surgeries is the (often permanent) loss of fertility. A doctor from WPATH gave a callous response when discussing the case of an individual who regretted being unable to conceive children after having gone through transgender “treatment” during a video conference:
“Oh, the dog isn’t doing it for you?”
Many gender medicine victims are filled with regret that they were sterilized. Nobody knows this more than the doctors who mistreated them. At times, their response to such regret appears callous.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 5, 2024
“I follow a lot of kids into their mid twenties, I’m always like, ‘Oh, the dog isn’t doing it for you, right?’ They’re like, ‘No, I just found this wonderful partner and now we want kids.’ So you know, it doesn’t surprise me.”
Doctors admit minors are unable to consent
“WPATH members indicate repeatedly that they know that many children and their parents don’t understand the effects that puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries will have on their bodies,” Shellenberger wrote in his summary of the files. “And yet, they continue to perform and advocate for gender medicine.”
“I think the thing you have to remember about kids is that we’re often explaining these sorts of things to people who haven’t even had biology in high school yet,” endocrinologist Dan Metzger said during a video call.
“The 14-year-olds, you just… It’s like talking [about] diabetic complications with a 14-year-old. They don’t care. They’re not going to die. They’re going to live forever, right? So I think when we’re doing informed consent, that’s still a big lacuna,” he added.
Another WPATH member said, “It’s out of their developmental range sometimes to understand the extent to which some of these medical interventions are impacting them.”
“We try to talk about it, but most of the kids are nowhere in any kind of a brain space to really, really, really talk about it seriously,” she added.
A therapist expressed his concern over the fact that many parents do not fully understand what they are putting their children through either.
“I try to kind of do whatever I can to help them understand best they, best I can,” the therapist said. “But what really disturbs me is when the parents can’t tell me what they need to know about a medical intervention that apparently they signed off for.”
Despite these admissions that clients are unable to give “informed consent,” WPATH members repeatedly engaged in victim blaming, asserting that people who regret the irreversible procedures should have known what they signed up for.
“Patients need to own and take active responsibility for medical decisions, especially those that have potentially permanent effects,” “Marcie” Bowers, a transgender-identifying surgeon and the president of WPATH, wrote.
Children start to ‘transition’ at age four
The internal messages revealed that many individuals undergoing “gender transitions” are minors; some even started their “transition” as young as four. The justification for beginning “gender-affirming” drugs as early as possible was often based on the unfounded claim that not doing so would increase the risk of suicide.
“It is very difficult to ask that they wait until age 16 because by then they will be dealing with menstrual periods and complete breast development,” one doctor wrote. “Waiting appears to increase the rate of suicide attempts.”
To debunk the baseless claim, Shellenberger cited a recent study from Finland that “found no scientific evidence to support the claim that drugs and surgeries prevent suicide among people with gender dysphoria.”
One physician named Christine McGinn lamented that hospitals are increasingly banning transgender surgeries for adolescents under the age of 18 and that surgeons are unwilling to perform the procedures on minors due to “aggressive attacks from the [political] right.”
Mental illness brushed aside as an explanation for gender dysphoria
“Repeatedly throughout the WPATH Files, we see gender medicine practitioners waive away evidence that mental illnesses and psychiatric disorders have been misdiagnosed as gender dysphoria,” Shellenberger wrote.
“The WPATH Files are a picture of people single-mindedly committed to the hammer of gender medicine and thus seeing every patient who comes to them as a nail,” he continued.
“Something is off… I am wondering if they might have schizoaffective disorder or schizophrenia,” one physician wrote about a patient.
“Trauma is common among trans [sic] clients. Nonetheless, I was surprised to find that several of my clients met criteria for dissociative disorders, primarily OSDD [other specified dissociative disorder],” another doctor stated.
Instead of reevaluating their methods and asking if these psychological disorders may be part of the underlying issue causing gender dysphoria, it appears that most WPATH doctors proceeded with the mutilating gender surgeries anyway.
“Someone can have schizophrenia and be ready for surgery,” one WPATH member wrote.
Dr. McGinn recalled that she has “operated on three DID [Dissociative Identity Disorder] patients.”
‘One of the worst medical scandals in history’
Robert Clarke, director of advocacy at the Christian legal firm ADF International, said that the WPATH documents reveal “widespread medical malpractice on children and vulnerable adults.”
“No child is ever born in the wrong body. Children depend on adults to guide and empower them to feel comfortable and confident in their own skin – not to push them down a dangerous and irreversible path of transition,” he stated.
“Around the globe, patients and doctors have been assured they are following ‘best practice’ through the ‘Standards of Care’ published by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). The documents released today expose an organisation lacking consideration for long-term patient outcomes despite being aware of the debilitating and life-changing effects of cross-sex hormones and other ‘treatments’.”
Michael Shellenberger stressed that the experimental and “pseudoscientific” practices of “gender medicine” will not be remembered kindly.
“The WPATH Files prove that gender medicine is comprised of unregulated and pseudoscientific experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults. It will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in history,” he concluded.
The Church of England has called for a billion-pound reparations package to atone for its historic links to slavery, a move critics are calling “anti-Christian” and a “death wish.”
A new C of E report has dubbed its previous £100 million reparations fund insufficient to “fully redress” the centuries-long impact of the great evil of slavery, calling instead for a reparations purse of £1 billion.
“The sum of £100 million is very small compared to the scale of racial disadvantage originating in African chattel enslavement,” said the independent oversight group responsible for the report.
One hundred million pounds is inadequate to counter the “historic and enduring greed, cynicism and hate with penitence, hope and love,” the report declares.
“The Church Commissioners have therefore embraced a target of £1 billion for a broader healing, repair and justice initiative with the fund at its centre,” it adds.
The engorged fund is meant to address “enduring harms from enslavement,” it states.
The funds would be invested in “members of disadvantaged Black communities,” in an effort to “back their most brilliant social entrepreneurs, educators, healthcare givers, asset managers and historians.”
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby praised the move, asserting that it is “the beginning of a multi-generational response to the appalling evil of transatlantic chattel enslavement.”
Some, however, such as Reverend Ian Paul of the Anglican Archbishops’ Council, have argued that such a scheme is “anti-Christian” and smacks of “a death wish for the Church of England.”
This report “appears to be based on an essentially racist reading of history – that white people are all bad and the oppressors, and black people are nothing more than victims,” Rev. Paul said. “This is insulting to both black and white.”
“It is anti-Christian,” he continued. “Unbelievably, it calls on the Church to repent for having preached the gospel.”
Paul said that African Christians, including the vast numbers of Anglicans in Africa, “will be very angry to read that,” adding that the authors of the report “appear to be completely ignorant of the Church’s own beliefs.”
“It will imperil local ministry and mission,” he said. “Why would ordinary churchgoers continue to give to their local church when it appears we have these vast sums to throw around?”
General Synod member Prudence Dailey echoed Rev. Paul’s opposition to the reparations, lamenting that “the Church of England is effectively apologising for converting people to Christianity.”
“Britain is no longer a free country.” Such is the rash conclusion being drawn from the case of Sam Melia—an anti-immigration activist who late last week was sentenced to two years in prison for “inciting racial hatred.” His offence? Making and distributing stickers with slogans like “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066” and “Stop mass immigration.” Other tags included “Reject white guilt,” “Stop anti-white rape gangs,” and “Love your nation.”
Really, the verdict that Britain has ceased to be free is much too hasty. It would be truer to say that Britain has ceased to be free for a certain kind of person: namely, those of us whose ancestors built the country and who, owing to this heritage, have no other place in the world to call home.
Everyone else, of course, stands a much better chance of reading Milton’s Areopagitica (should they care to do so) and concluding that its principles still reign in the birthplace of the poet who wrote it. It may even occur to foreigners residing in Britain, given some of the things they are able to get away with as guests in this country, that England’s love for the known rules of ancient liberty has mutated, rather conveniently for them, into an indulgent cult of pathological altruism.
The malicious vigour with which the British state pursued Melia is even more disgraceful when considered alongside other cases.
Judge Tom Bayliss sentenced Sam Melia to TWO years today for distributing “racist” stickers reading ‘Reject White Guilt’.
In 2017, Judge Bayliss spared a pedophile caught with rape images of children as young as 3 from jail time.
Bahar Mustafa, born in London but of Turkish Cypriot ancestry, was treated with kid-gloves by the Metropolitan Police in 2015 after posting “kill all white men” on her social media. Far from throwing Mustafa behind bars, all charges against this violent-minded, anti-white agitator were summarily dropped.
There is also the more recent example of Abdul Ezedi, the Afghan illegal immigrant who just a few weeks ago hurled acid in the face of a woman, inflicting life–changing injuries, on the streets of Clapham. It then came to light that Ezedi had been found guilty of sexual assault and indecent exposure back in 2018, but within a matter of years—roughly the same amount of time Melia will spend in prison, to be precise—he was granted asylum for pretending to be a Christian.
Andrew Tettenborn, a legal scholar, exposes the absurd reasoning of the prosecution in Melia’s case:
One of the counts against him [Melia] was for his use of stickers to express himself. This is what the charge of ‘criminal damage’ refers to in his case. Essentially, the court found that he had supplied the stickers knowing that the recipients might attach them to other people’s property without permission. This flimsy argument could be used against almost any activist in future. If you hand out stickers at a rally in support of, say, gender-critical feminism, you could end up in court on the basis that some of them are likely to be fly-posted.
Still, venturing into the legal weeds is just one of the more honourable ways of missing the point. Melia’s case is best understood as the latest proof of our descent into ‘anarcho-tyranny.’ As I wrote recently, this refers to a sinister state of affairs whereby, far from living in a law-governed country, the most basic rules are gleefully broken by anti-social delinquents. At the same time, their civilised betters are forcibly entangled in an ever-expanding web of dictates, constraints, and speech codes.
When the regime’s agents will behave like anarchists and when they will behave like tyrants is so easily predictable in advance as to be child’s play. If one of their accredited victim groups commits a crime, the approach will be plodding, permissive, and as pathetic as the law can be diluted to allow; if one of these same victim group’s claim to sanctity is felt to be threatened by a certified oppressor, the approach will be swift, despotic, and as severe as the law can be stretched to authorise.
The formula is no more complicated than this. Sam Melia, along with his heavily pregnant wife who flanked him outside the courthouse prior to sentencing, is simply its latest victim. Whether we like Melia, his apparent views, or his taste in historical memorabilia is an irrelevant distraction.
‘Undera supposedly Conservative government of fourteen years’standing!’ may be the cliché of our age (particularly among right-wing doom-scrollers), but the persecution of Melia should be remembered by everyone who professes to care about free speech when the Tories seek re-election later this year. Difficult cases, not easy ones, are the real tests of principle.
Last Friday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made the coward’s move of putting the grave, glaring, and increasingly emboldened threat of Islamism on a par with the amorphous, notoriously shape-shifting spectre of ‘far-right extremism.’ Both Islamist extremists and the far-right, according to the unelected Sunak,
are equally desperate to pretend that their violence is somehow justified, when actually these groups are two sides of the same extremist coin. Neither group accept [forgive the grammar; it is not mine] that change in our country can only come through the peaceful democratic process.
What democratic process? A state that continues to import new immigrant voters not only without the consent of British voters, but in clear defiance of their wishes as expressed consistently at the ballot box, may be many things, but it is not a democracy. Sunak did not vow to rectify this original betrayal with a drastic turnaround. Instead, he announced “a new robust framework” for dealing with ‘extremism’—measures that will no doubt include further speech codes designed to hold the ragged tapestry of ‘multicultural Britain’ together, at least until the next crisis hits.
Rather than clean up their own mess, it has become the habit of our political class to externalise the costs onto us. The result in this case? A less free, more heavily surveilled society in which our vindictive colonisers and those of us who resent their presence here are jointly classed as dangerous ‘extremists,’ both equally liable to inflame the ‘community relations’ which are at other times hailed as our greatest strength. Diversity, it turns out, requires not only a formidable battery of legal reinforcements, but a culture of schizophrenia, for its hidden treasures to be made manifest.
Frankly, almost none of what gets tarred with the ‘far-right’ brush would even exist without the treachery of our political elites. From Tony Blair to Boris Johnson, we have been governed by cretins who are quite happy to subject the founding population of this country to staggering levels of replacement migration, an effective process of unarmed demographic conquest, without so much as a vote being cast in its favour or a shot fired in defence. Melia was not wrong in warning us that, should this continue, the Anglo-Celtic people whose ancestors built Britain will by the middle of the present century be a minority in their own homeland.
Does that sound like a desirable fate? The fact that an honest response now carries the risk of being hurled into prison should be answer enough.
— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) March 4, 2024
Pourquoi avoir effacé la croix au sommet du dôme des Invalides sur l'affiche officielle des #JO2024 ? Pourquoi aucun drapeau français ? Quel intérêt d'organiser les Jeux Olympiques en France si c’est pour cacher ce que nous sommes ? pic.twitter.com/KrFtfMwyIy
Translation: Why was the cross at the top of the dome of the Invalides erased from the official poster for the 2024 #Olympics? Why no French flag? What’s the point of holding the Olympics in France if it’s to hide who we are?
A 12-year-old girl from Vienna whose recent police complaint led to the arrests of 17 migrant minors for alleged long-term sexual abuse has expressed fear for her safety after all but one of the suspects were released by police after just one day pending further investigation.
The gang of males, aged 13 to 18, were detained by Austrian police on Thursday after the schoolgirl was urged by her mother to tell the authorities about the torment she had endured for over a year at the hands of her then-boyfriend and his friends.
The complainant said she had been forced by her boyfriend to have sex with his friends before being passed around “like a trophy” for over a year.
The sexual abuse was allegedly filmed by several of the boys, and the victim claimed the footage was used to blackmail her into staying silent amid threats to send it to her family and friends.
The attacks took place over a sustained period in various locations, including a parking garage, an apartment, and a communal stairwell.
Authorities from the Vienna State Criminal Police Office conducted a mass operation on Thursday morning following the complaint and arrested multiple suspects, seizing several cell phones in connection with the allegations in the process.
A majority of the suspects had a migration background from countries including Syria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Serbia, and Italy.
However, all but one of the suspects were released just a day after being detained, with the perpetrators claiming the sex was “consensual” and that the victim had lied about her age, telling the boys she was 14 — the age of consent in Austria.
Given the large number of suspects, lawyers for each are denying knowledge of any cell phone footage and claiming their respective clients had minimal involvement in the incidents, which they insist were of a consensual nature.
“They were in the apartment three times, and two friends were also there in the bedroom. Everything happened without any pressure, she approached the boys on Snapchat and other channels,” a lawyer for one of the boys told the German newspaper Bild.
Family members of the alleged victim have now spoken out anonymously about their fear of reprisal from the gang and have urged police officers to ensure their safety.
“The release of the suspects is a mockery of her suffering!” one relative told the German tabloid.
“We are really afraid that one of the perpetrators might come up with the idea of wanting to take revenge,” they added.
The newspaper reported that the victim is now under the supervision of the Vienna Victim Protection Center, which is shielding her and providing support to the family.
