What should happen to somebody who accuses another person of anti-Semitism and associating with terrorists?
Well, in a ‘Western’ country, the person who was accused of these nasty things has the recourse of suing the accuser for defamation: we have courts that resolve exactly this!
Ezra Levant is being sued for something exactly like this. And, Mr. Levant reports the process: first, he was served with libel notice, and later (6 months later, in this case) his lawyer was served with the lawsuit itself.
While I do not support lawfare – the use of the legal system to financially exhaust a person and shut them up this way – this is how we handle things when one person does not like what another person says about them and considers him/herself defamed by such statements.
…like being accused of being an anti-Semite and associating with terrorists.
That is what we do in ‘civilized countries’!
It seems that the United Kingdom of (Formerly) Great Britain and Northern Ireland can no longer be considered one of these!
What the [insert expletive of your choice here] is happening in the UK?
A 71-year old disabled immigrant widow, whose house was pelted with rocks by young punks, was charged with assault for telling them off while poking one of the punks in the chest with her finger. She was given a 6-month suspended sentence and a 50 pound fine…
A 9-year old got busted for playing in a park, a 2-year old got an ‘Anti-Social Behaviour Order’ for playing with a ball in his own back-yard….and parents are banned from council play-grounds.
Now, a blogger who criticized a clergyman gets a visit from the police!
In what kind of a country does slandering or defaming a person launch a police investigation?
In what kind of a country does slandering or defaming a person earn you a police visit to your school or place of employment, where your ‘misdeeds’ are brought to the attention of your educators/superiors?
In what kind of a country does slandering or defaming a person gets the police to ‘open a file’ on you?
As Seismic Shock has learned – the hard way – this will happen in a country like the UK…
At 10am on Sunday 29th November 2009, I received a visit from two policemen regarding my activities in running the Seismic Shock blog. (Does exposing a vicar’s associations with extremists make me a criminal?, I wondered initially). A sergeant from the Horsforth Police related to me that he had received complaints via Surrey Police from Rev Sizer and from Dr Anthony McRoy – a lecturer at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology – who both objected to being associated with terrorists and Holocaust deniers.
(Context: Sizer has associated with some very nasty terrorists and Holocaust deniers; McRoy has delivered a paper at a Khomeinist theological conference in Iran comparing Hezbollah’s struggle against Israel via suicide bombing with the Christian’s struggle against sin via the atoning death of Jesus, and describes the world’s most prominent Holocaust denier as an “intelligent, humble, charismatic, and charming” man who “gives quick, extensive and intelligent answers to any question, mixed with genial humour”).
The sergeant made clear that this was merely an informal chat, in which I agreed to delete my original blog (http://seismicshock.blogspot.com/) but maintain my current one (http://seismicshock.wordpress.com). The policeman related to me that his police force had been in contact with the ICT department my previous place of study, and had looked through my files, and that the head of ICT at my university would like to remind me that I should not be using university property in order to associate individuals with terrorists and Holocaust deniers (I am sure other people use university property to make political comments, but nevermind).
With my research on Reverend Sizer’s associations with terrorists and Holocaust deniers making its way into a publication of the Society of Biblical Literature, I was quite content to hold my peace. However, now that Reverend Sizer is now misrepresenting what has happened in my case in order to intimidate others, now is the time to speak up.
This is just wrong. And – indeed, the vicar attempted to intimidate an Australian blogger who carried the story, threatening him with police…
So, I say: WE ARE ALL SEISMIC SHOCK!
H/T: BCF
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 
January 27, 2010 at 15:35
Xanthippa:
What’s happening in the UK?
The same thing which is happening in Europe, Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand … everywhere that was once part of the British Empire.
The livestock is being herded into the corral.
Xanthippa says:
So, what do we do?
January 28, 2010 at 18:50
Xanthippa:
The most important thing is to combat the sense of helplessness.
In the past, people would tell me I was crazy when I talked about the evil of big government and big business. Now they see it too, but they fear that nothing can be done about it.
So, first, in the short run, use the momentum created by Climate-Gate to shake people out of their apathetic resignation. Tell them, “see the climate scammers run and hide! Something CAN be done!” When people question your analysis of the causes and cures of what ails Western society, reply, “yeah, and I was wrong about global warming, too…” Keep up the pressure relentlessly!
Second, for maximum impact, target the women. The majority of voters are women; not only are women in the slight numerical majority overall, but a greater proportion of them vote. The proof that climate conspiracy is real, combined with the widespread awakening to the fact of collusion between big business and big government, should be used to wake women up to the fool’s gold they’ve been handed by feminism.
The single most important force supporting the cancerous growth of globalist statism is that women think men are their enemies and the government is their friend. But that pack of lies is starting to wear thin. Women are beginning to ask, given the remarkable success of feminism, why are they so unhappy?
The answer is obvious. Feminism won’t make them happy for the same reason that greenism won’t save the planet: they are both fallacious solutions to fictitious problems. The evils of the patriarchy are as made up as the evils of carbon.
When women realize that feminism is a scam — motivated by money and power, just like global warming — they will be angry. And this will free men to express the anger they already feel. And this outpouring of anger at the way we have all been manipulated, cheated, defrauded and enslaved — this is exactly what we need.
It will create the political will to reign in the invasive, sadistically controlling nanny state and bring down the loathsome, bloated corporate vampires that feed off our subjugation.
Faced with the dismal reality of modern Western society, the public puts its tail between its legs like a frightened dog. But when you anger a frightened dog, the outcome is very different than when you frighten an angry dog.
It’s time to anger the frightened dog!
Xanthippa says:
Easier said than done.
I do not think that the majority of people out there – men or women – are frightened. Or angry. Or feel cornered…
They just want their entertainment, follow the celebrity gossip or fortunes of ‘their’ sports team and do slightly better than their neighbour does (and their evaluation criteria of what constitutes ‘better’ is, at best, highly subjective…).
The news about the IPCC fraud and manipulation barely registers on most people’s radar.
One intelligent, professional couple I recently talked to seemed really pleased with themselves for having heard OF the IPCC – though, they didn’t know what it was all about, or that there was a scandal…
Sure, some of us ‘get it’. But, we are a very small minority and most of our peers consider us ‘peculiar’ or ‘too cerebral’ at best… and, when we try to talk about this stuff with our extended family, friends or neighbours, their eyes glaze over and they patiently wait till we finish our sentence – then ask if we saw how scandalously the neighbour’s teenage daughter was dressed last week….or that the couple 2 blocks away is getting a divorce, and it’s all due to his midlife crisis – did you see that hussy that’s moved in with him? The dog down the street placed well in a dog-show – isn’t that lovely? They might even breed it… Would you like some sugar in your coffee?
I’m beginning to loose hope that most people will want to learn enough to get frightened….EVER!
January 28, 2010 at 23:42
Xanthippa:
Actually, I think a lot of people are whistling in the dark, precisely because they are frightened and do feel cornered. And as they get more frightened, and feel more cornered, they are whistling ever louder and more frantically to convince themselves that everything is fine — desperately distracting themselves from that menacing shadow on the wall that seems to be getting closer…
The sale of guns increased by 60% last year, and the sale of ammunition tripled. People are not unconcerned.
Don’t loose hope, Xanthippa. Help me figure out how to tap into that current and turn it to good use — just at the moment it finally breaks cover an becomes overt!
Somebody is going to harness it.
It might as well be the good guys…
Xanthippa says:
OK – let’s do it!
February 17, 2010 at 19:25
Good thread. Cheers!!
April 7, 2010 at 01:26
Great article, I especially like what you had to say in the last paragraph.
Xanthippa says: Thank you!
April 26, 2010 at 13:04
Nice. You have a couple of great points The problem with law is that it sometimes doesn’t work for you. It is a system failure and needs to be revised.