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Why has Tommy Robinson been arrested under anti terrorism laws?

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happydappy2 · 28/07/2024 13:45

He's a Father and Husband, I believe his wife separated from him following awful threats to their children...so for their safety they seperated....If the state can arrest him, they can arrest any of us...Having watched the film about the so called waterboarding incident in a school, of a Syrian refugee child...it seems there is a massive cover up going on....the council allegedly paid 250K hush money to force teachers to sign NDAs.....on the back of the Rotherham grooming scandal this is very strange....anyone else think is state over reach and a massive cover up ?

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VeryOldMan · 28/07/2024 18:31

Shakeoffyourchains · 28/07/2024 18:10

He's also happy to associate himself with convicted child sex offenders, but they were white so it's perfectly acceptable.

Such as?

ArseholeCatIsABlackAndWhiteCat · 28/07/2024 18:32

Crap no idea why the screenshots are so blurry.

www.crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/timeline-extreme-right-wing-terrorism-in-the-uk/

This might work.

dapsnotplimsolls · 28/07/2024 18:33

Apparently he's being held in Kent. Which is apt, given that he's a massive one.

VeryOldMan · 28/07/2024 18:36

ArseholeCatIsABlackAndWhiteCat · 28/07/2024 18:30

Nothing to see here.

There isn't actually.
Even when opened in another tab and enlarged, the text on those is totally indecipherable.

YorkshireTeaBiscuits · 28/07/2024 18:37

HowardTJMoon · 28/07/2024 18:03

Because he's such a committed "British Patriot" that he went and got Irish citizenship so he can spend most of his time living in Spain.

Can the British government deport him back to Ireland since he's not a British national but an Irish one. So he can go back to where he came from so to speak......!

Dontcallmescarface · 28/07/2024 18:38

VeryOldMan · 28/07/2024 18:20

Can you?
Tell me then, where have the Right Wing terrorist attacks in the UK occurred?
Ironically, regarding non-Islamic attacks on the Mainland, several bombings ascribed to the IRA/INLA, Warrington being a prime example, are thought to have actually been carried out by a Left Wing extremist group on behalf of the Republicans.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63552462
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42910051

Border Force centre fire in Dover

Dover migrant centre attack: Firebomber died of asphyxiation, inquest told

Andrew Leak threw up to three incendiary devices at a migrant processing centre in Dover, Kent.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63552462

VeryOldMan · 28/07/2024 18:39

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marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 28/07/2024 18:41

No clue why he's arrested but not sorry about it.

ghostyslovesheets · 28/07/2024 18:45

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aka NO I don't like actual factual evidence I'll just cry 'woke, left wing, snowflake bias and carry on ranting' - really leaning into the stereotype there!

HowardTJMoon · 28/07/2024 18:45

It is indeed true that Tommeh used to have a cocaine problem. He still does, but he used to, too.

MrsTerryPratchett · 28/07/2024 18:46

13 posts by @VeryOldMan on here. Zero on the thread about the Dutch child rapist.

Gosh, for someone who is concerned about girls that seems odd. [sarcasm]

Shakeoffyourchains · 28/07/2024 18:47

VeryOldMan · 28/07/2024 18:27

Not really.
I do something called "research" which, unlike many others, includes looking at evidence that I do not like and judging it's value based on what I already know and my own experience.

For example, whilst I support the general drive of TR-SY-L's campaigns, that support is tempered by the allegations he may, certainly in the past, have been a drug abuser.
To me that possibility is a huge black mark against him.

That's not "doing research", that's entrenching your own bias.

I'm surprised that his known association with convicted child sex offenders, the fact he almost stopped trials against multiple child sex offenders from proceeding and his convictions for multiple assaults, fraud and stalking aren't something you consider a black mark.

But no doubt those were just a result if the 'establishment out to get him' in your eyes.

IncompleteSenten · 28/07/2024 18:52

".If the state can arrest him, they can arrest any of us"

Yes. If anyone breaks the law they can be arrested.

This is news to you?

Serencwtch · 28/07/2024 18:54

I'll explain it for you: It means there's reasonable suspicion that he's broken at least one of the laws.

Shakeoffyourchains · 28/07/2024 18:59

VeryOldMan · 28/07/2024 18:31

Such as?

Oh I don't know. How about

Brett Moses, an active EDl member during SYL's time as leader, who plead guilty to sexual grooming.

Or

Leigh Mcmillan, a senior EDL figure during SYL's time as leader, who sentenced to 17 years for abusing a 10 year-old schoolgirl 100 times in the mid-1990s

Or

Richard Price, SYL close friend and ally, who was convicted ofindecent images of children (and for possessing cocaine and crack).

In fact far from condemning Price’s crimes, SYL wholeheartedly supported Price, claiming he had been “stitched up” and until that position became untenable, he switched positions and finally condemned him.

But I'm sure you were aware of all these due to your research and chose to just ignore them.

ArseholeCatIsABlackAndWhiteCat · 28/07/2024 19:08

@VeryOldMan here you go.

Robinson's criminal record also includes convictions for violence, financial and immigration frauds, and public order offences.[142][143][144] He had previously served at least three separate custodial sentences: in 2005 for assault, in 2012 for using false travel documents, and in 2014 for mortgage fraud.

In April 2005 at Luton Crown Courtt, Robinson was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harmm and assault with intent to resist arrestt* against an off-duty police officer in July 2004. The officer had intervened in an argument in the street between Robinson and his then girlfriend, Jenna Vowles. In the struggle that followed, Robinson kicked the officer in the head as he laid on the ground. Robinson received sentences of 12 months and 3 months, which were served concurrently.

In September 2011, at Preston Magistrates' Court, Robinson was convicted of assault for headbutting a man in Blackburn on 2 April 2011.[205][32] In November 2011, he was given a 12-week jail term, suspended for 12 months.[206]

In July 2011, at Luton and South Bedfordshire Magistrates' Court, Robinson was convicted of using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour, for leading a group of Luton Town F.C..* supporters into a brawl involving 100 people in Luton on 24 August 2010. He was sentenced to a 12-month community rehabilitation order, 150 hours of unpaid work and given a three-year football banning order.

In October 2012, Robinson was arrested and held on the charge of having entered the United States illegallyy. Robinson pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Courttafter using a passport that does not belong to him to travel to the United States in September 2012. He was subsequently sentenced in January 2013 to 10 months' imprisonment.[13][208][209]
Robinson had used a passport in the name of Andrew McMaster to board a Virgin Atlanticc flight from London Heathroww to New York Cityy.[13] He had been banned from entering the U.S due to his criminal record. Upon arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airportt, U.S Customs and Border Protectionn** officials took his fingerprints, and discovered he was not McMaster. After being asked to attend a second interview, he left the airport, entering the U.S illegally in the process. He stayed one night and returned to the U.K the following day using his own legitimate passport.
Judge Alistair McCreath told him: "What you did went absolutely to the heart of the immigration controls that the United States are entitled to have. It's not in any sense trivial."[13] He was released on an electronic tagg on 22 February 2013.

In November 2012, Robinson was charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit fraud by misrepresentationn* in relation to a mortgage application, along with five other defendants.[211] He pleaded guilty to two charges and in January 2014 was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.[212][209]*
Robinson's fraud amounted to £160,000 over a period of six months. Judge Andrew Bright QC described him as the "instigator, if not the architect" of a series of frauds totalling £640,000. "This was an operation which was fraudulent from the outset and involved a significant amount of forward planning." He described Robinson as a "fixer" who had introduced others to fraudulent mortgage broker Deborah Rothschild. Rothschild had assisted some defendants by providing fake pay slips and income details.*

Sometime after 10 p.m. on 17 January 2021, Robinson went to the home of journalist Lizzie Deardenn* after she had asked for his comment for a story she was writing about allegations that he had misused financial donations from his supporters. He falsely accused her partner of being a paedophilee* and threatened to return every night. He was arrested over the incident, and further published photographs of the journalist's partner on his Telegramm* channel stating that "serious allegations" had been made about the partner. It was alleged he threatened the couple in an attempt to prevent the article from being published. Dearden's article was published on 18 March 2021.[219] On 19 March, Robinson was issued with an interim stalking ban order.[220][221]*
On 13 October 2021, Robinson was convicted at Westminster Magistrates' Courtt of stalking the couple, and was given a five-year ban from contacting them or referring to them.[222][223] On 19 October 2023, he lost his appeal against the stalking ban order, having admitted that the allegations he made about Dearden's partner were false

Such a role model! 🥰

pointythings · 28/07/2024 19:14

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The moment you use the 'Cultural Marxism' antisemitic trope, you reveal yourself for what you are.

RockyRogue1001 · 28/07/2024 19:18

NeverDropYourMooncup · 28/07/2024 13:48

So he managed to get somebody to marry him and has functioning testicles. Doesn't change the fact that he's a racist prick, though.

I'm amazed the thread carried on after this comment.

You nailed it 👏

Iloveyoubut · 28/07/2024 19:34

Tukmgru · 28/07/2024 13:52

@happydappy2 what do you mean ‘if they can arrest him they can arrest any of us’? Last time I checked most of us weren’t inciting racist attacks or fostering domestic terrorists, like your man Stephen Yaxley-Lennon does (just assuming here you don’t realise that he calls himself Tommy Robinson because his real name sounds too posh).

Far right and white supremacist terrorism is growing faster than Islamist terrorism in this country. People like him are significant enablers and radicalisers. Source: my job which includes counter terrorism.

Did you see that in the Guardian today about his real name? 😂 amount of Guardian readers mentioning it today on Twitter is hilarious! And no, I’m not a fan of his. It’s ok… I already know you knew before everyone else.

TooBigForMyBoots · 28/07/2024 19:42

Ironically... ...several bombings ascribed to the IRA/INLA, Warrington being a prime example, are thought to have actually been carried out by a Left Wing extremist group on behalf of the Republicans.

What are you talking about @VeryOldMan?

TheHuntSyndicate · 28/07/2024 19:51
dapsnotplimsolls · 28/07/2024 20:04

So he was trying to bugger off out of the country the day before his case? Interesting.

ArseholeCatIsABlackAndWhiteCat · 28/07/2024 20:47

dapsnotplimsolls · 28/07/2024 20:04

So he was trying to bugger off out of the country the day before his case? Interesting.

Very 😬

Amusedperson · 28/07/2024 20:55

1 , why call him racist for being patriotic
2, freedom of speech if lost will affect everyone not just people you don’t like
3, freedom of speech cannot be regained once gone
freedom of speech is a free fundamental right

there was a lot of races of different colour at the celebration of Britain marches

he had to make the documentary to prove he was not lying about the incident at the school. If you watch the film you will have a better understanding of the issues raised. The teachers admitted taking money to sign an NDA.

watch the film. There are a lot of people happy to throw the usual racist card around.

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