TOMMY Robinson came out fighting from prison last week. We posted Urban Scoop‘s interview with him, conducted literally minutes after he walked free, here. After relaying hosts of ‘thank yous’ he spoke of how Elon Musk’s intervention had changed everything, for him personally, for free speech and the quest for the truth.
It came out in a volley (hardly surprising after so many months of solitary confinement), and too fast to digest all he had to say. So I had a transcript made of his thirty minute, 5000-plus word marathon which can read it all here.
I have picked out some extracts below:
‘Unfortunately, in a country that doesn’t believe in free speech, being a citizen journalist, this place is an occupational hazard. It’s ridiculous. 16 years ago, when I first started speaking out against Islamic rape gangs that were plaguing this country, from that point on, I faced relentless attacks from the British state, wielding lawfare as a weapon in order to silence me.
‘I have never been convicted by a jury. Every one of my convictions have been handed down to me by judges. The lucky thing with this, everyone got to see the film (Silenced).
‘I have to say a thank you to Elon Musk, because without X, if we didn’t have X, everyone would just think I lied. No one would have got any other narrative. Fortunately, I think, what was it? 167 million people saw the truth. So that gagging order, these attempts at censorship, to silence, to cancel people, it hasn’t worked.’
‘[…] that truth has been echoed around the entire globe. It couldn’t have been any more successful. I knew exactly what I was doing when I released that film. I knew I’d end up in [prison] and I also knew that it’d give them every opportunity to pull every trick they wanted to, from messing with visits, to messing with phone calls, to messing with food. I knew that.
‘I made the decision to release that film because the British public deserved to see the truth.
‘For too long, since the start of my activism in 2009, police raids, court cases, I actually thought when I walked out of here this time, it would be the first time since 2009 that I haven’t been awaiting trial or prison. And bang, I’m awaiting trial and prison on multiple cases again now.’
‘[…] I don’t think that people understand the importance of [Elon Musk’s action]. If he didn’t, you’d have been lied to about this entire case. If you go on my Wikipedia page and read all my previous convictions, this would have been another one where they’d have told you (that) I lied. […] If you’re one of the people that watched that film, you might not have believed me before. You may have hated me based on a narrative spoon-fed to you by a media who want to tell you who we are. They want to tell you how to think. And I knew in that documentary, [it] painted a far bigger story than me […] You’ve seen in my film how they silence people. NDAs, bullying, intimidation, scare tactics, and even attempts at prison . . . ‘
‘You saw how they weaponised the judiciary. You saw the corruption, the blatant evidence of the corruption, that no media and no journalists have spoken about. And then the Attorney General made it clear I was going to face continued prosecutions. I would have had indefinite prison sentences for a film, as a journalist. But the best moment for me when I was in there was when I heard that Elon Musk had shared the Rape of Britain documentary. The Rape of Britain documentary series is the most important work I’ve done. They have attempted, before my activism in 2009, they’d successfully, for decades, covered it [the rape gangs] up. Who had covered it up? Politicians, police forces, in every constituency where those gangs had raped, they’d successfully managed to cover up. Now, the truth is out there. There is no amount of lawfare that can keep it hidden. Everyone knows what’s happened.
‘[…] I was elated because I knew that this had been successful, that the public had seen the truth. That they could be lied to no more. That more people around the entire world were talking about the rape of a generation of our daughters, which has been facilitated and accommodated by our government.
‘[…] You saw how they politicised the courts and the judiciary against me, […] and it’s now been proven as lies – when the riots started, Keir Starmer came out and said it was the far right, it was the English Defence League. That’s what the police and the government had said. Now we know. It’s proven, there was no far right. There was no English Defence League. The English Defence ended a decade before it. But the bigger picture is that the mainstream media act as a weapon of our state.
‘When Keir Starmer said that, journalists from the Daily Mail travelled to my family holiday, where I was with three or four other innocent families enjoying a break. They photographed my family. They ran a headline saying, “Instigating riots from his sunbed”.
‘Now, everyone knows I didn’t instigate riots. There’s no truth in that. But as the government was spreading one lie, the media stepped in to push that lie to the whole world. Ten million views, that had. When that article went out, they’d photographed my children, they photographed my ex-wife. My family has had death threats and serious threats of harm against them. They gave [away] the location of where they were. This is not journalism – it’s harassment, it’s persecution, and they put a target on my family’s back.’
‘ […] They followed my family. They put a target on their back. They doxed their location. So then I challenged them. […] I said, “I’m going to come and find you, and I’m going to question you, yeah? I’m going to come,” I said, “I’m going to come knock on your door.” They wouldn’t answer the phone. “I’m going to come and knock on your door.”’
A day after Tommy won his release in court, he was hit with a trumped up charge on this incident – explained here.
‘And at that time, when they were blaming the far right – everyone saw how the courts were weaponised over a 48-hour period – […] angry British citizens, justifiably angry because £15bn has been spent housing men who have invaded this nation. Many of them have left those hotels to rape, commit terrorism, sexually assault women. So, the public are angry, the public are frustrated at what’s happening in their country. They weaponized the courts. They locked up grandmas, grandads, mothers.
‘These [prison] buildings are full of violent criminals. Lucy Connolly is not a violent criminal. Lucy Connolly made a statement. She was angry. She deleted it and apologised. She got three years. If you watch my film, you saw Antifa extremists come to my family’s home, threaten to murder them. They don’t get arrested. They politicised the courts. They politicised the judiciary. That was to scare you. To scare the public into it, and to intimidate them into silence. That was the purpose. That was their goal. That’s what their goal is.
‘Have they been successful in doing that? […] I’ve come out of here, there is a war being waged on Britain and it’s being waged by our leaders, and it is a war against free speech. Our weapon is free speech. They can’t allow it. Because if everyone can exercise their free speech, if we have platforms for free speech, we can highlight their abuses, we can highlight their corruption.
‘If you’ve followed my story in the last 18 months, just in the last 18 months, I went into London to attend an anti-Semitism rally, and I was targeted by the police – as a journalist. I was violently attacked. I was pepper sprayed at point blank range. Then I was arrested. I was charged. For six months, I was banned from my capital city. It cost [me] £40,000 – we won the case. The judge found that everything they’d done was unlawful. No one gets punished on their side. I had six months [of not being] allowed into my capital city. I didn’t get the £40k back. We didn’t get any of the money back […] Now, I’ve just had an 18-month prison sentence for making a documentary as a journalist. 18 months in prison.
‘Counterterrorism detained me the day after a 100,000-person celebration. I was detained under counterterrorism legislation, where they told me, “We don’t suspect you of any crime. We know you’re not a terrorist. But we want access to your mobile phone.” I refused to give them access to my mobile phone because as a journalist where I believe in free press and a free country and free speech, I don’t believe the state have the right to intrude on who my sources of information are.’ On June 5, Tommy will be appearing in Westminster Magistrates Court charged with this offence.
‘So, I was charged and prosecuted with counterterrorism. Now, the reason that I have such a target in my back all comes back to the rape gang scandal. Who’s the head of counterterrorism? I think his name’s Jukes. He was the same police officer who was in charge of the Rotherham scandal from 2006 to 2010. He was in charge of allowing Muslim men to rape their way through that town […]. So now he’s in charge of counterterrorism. So counter terrorist legislation is used to prosecute me.
Ed: Matt Jukes has very recently been appointed Deputy Commissioner of Met Police – his past appointments, from his time across South Yorkshire, South Wales and as head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, are detailed here.
More extracts follow tomorrow with details of the September 13th international rally he is planning in London
