‘Orwell would be proud’: UK investigating journalists under NEW ‘non-crime’ law



Free speech might be going strong in the United States, but the U.K. is only becoming more Orwellian by the day.

U.K. police have not only investigated a writer for a deleted post and a journalist for a tweet she posted in the wake of the pro-Palestinian protests, but also jailed a woman for nine months for livestreaming allegedly racist comments.

“Allison Pearson is the journalist; she’s actually just been let off by the Essex police. That story specifically was that a year ago in November, just after the October 7 massacre, she was in London and at a pro-Israel event and mistook a flag, which she though was a Hamas flag, which was actually a Pakistani, Imran Khan, his political party flag, and she said, ‘Oh, they’re Jew-haters,’” Winston Marshall tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.”


Pearson deleted the tweet once her mistake was pointed out to her, but that didn’t stop the police from spending a year investigating her.

“She’s investigated, and we have this thing called a ‘non-crime hate incident,’” Marshall continues, while Rubin interjects, “Orwell would be proud.”

“Orwell was moderate compared to what’s going on,” Marshall argues. “A ‘non-crime hate incident,’ this isn’t a real crime. It’s if someone perceives you to be spreading hatred, and how they define hatred is different in every bloody country.”

“If someone perceives you to be offensive to someone, even if you’re not the person being offended, you can log a non-crime hate incident,” he continues, adding, “This week, a 9-year-old was booked by the police for calling another classmate a ‘r*tard’.”

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England goes FULL ORWELL: UK government JAILS citizens for social media posts!



The United Kingdom has resurrected a COVID-era measure to censor law-abiding citizens — which includes threatening them with jail time if they disobey.

One 55-year-old woman was arrested over a post because it contained inaccurate information about the identity of the suspect accused of the killings of three young girls in Southport.

Peter Gietl, the managing editor for Blaze Media’s Return, is horrified.

“This story has me riled up. I used to live in London; I really love England,” he tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of "Blaze News Tonight." “Basically, what we’re seeing is it didn’t take long for the new Labour government to find an excuse to bring out draconian measures on dissent and free speech.”

“Where this is going is really concerning,” he continues, adding, “and it’s all happening very quickly.”

And the Crown Prosecution Service of England couldn’t have made it more obvious how concerning this really is.

A video posted to its social media contained the statement: “You can be PROSECUTED for posting material online which incites VIOLENCE or HATRED. You can also be PROSECUTED for sharing this material. Your online actions can have consequences.”

“These images you’re seeing on the screen, which you know the government is putting out, it’s Orwellian,” Peterson comments, noting that another post from gov.uk said, “Think before you post.”

“Well, we shouldn’t forget, Matt, that Winston Smith, '1984,' did take place in England. So there always has been this somewhat fascist streak,” Gietl says.


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Jake Tapper whips out George Orwell quote to warn Americans about the Democratic Party's tactics: 'Make no mistake'



CNN anchor Jake Tapper accused the Democratic Party on Monday of engaging in Orwellian tactics to mislead Americans about President Joe Biden's mental acuity.

At the opening of his show, Tapper called out the Democratic Party for engaging in a "discernible pattern" of lying to the public. He argued that party officials want Americans "to not believe what you saw and what you heard with your eyes and with your ears on Thursday night."

'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.'

Then, after playing a clip of Biden struggling to answer a question at the presidential debate, Tapper quoted author George Orwell to warn his audience about the Democratic Party's tactics.

"Democratic officials have tried to spin this in many ways," Tapper said. "But behind the scenes, make no mistake. Most Democratic officials witnessed the same shocking spectacle that you did: the difficulty that the presumptive Democratic nominee, the current president of the United States, had just articulating his basic thoughts during the 90 minutes of the debate.

"The spinning is all very reminiscent of the George Orwell quote from the book 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,'" he added.

That quote, which Tapper said is "relevant" today, is this:

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

The power of the quote cannot be understated.

In the dystopian world of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," the so-called "Party" enforces its version of truth on people. In that world, two plus two equal five, war is peace, and freedom is slavery. These logical statements are obviously false — and yet, in that world, they're "true."

What Tapper is saying, then, is this: Democrats and the Biden campaign are directly lying to the American people, whose own eyes and ears do not deceive them.

Post-debate polls indicate that Americans, contrary to the Democratic Party's wishes, trust their intuition.

A CBS News poll, for example, showed that about three-fourths of American adults believe that Biden shouldn't run for re-election and doesn't have the cognitive health to serve a second term as president. A new CNN poll, meanwhile, shows that Donald Trump maintains a sizeable lead over Biden and that voters believe other Democrats would be more competitive against Trump than Biden.

And on Tuesday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) became the first congressional Democrat to call on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. The Biden campaign, however, is adamant that Biden will do no such thing.

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Everything you NEED to know about the 'smart city' politicians across the nation are pushing



Take a moment to think back to your high school years. Chances are you probably read George Orwell’s chilling dystopian novel “1984,” which centered around a society dominated by mass media and stringent government surveillance. Fear was the iron fist that inspired obedience in the people.

For those who’ve forgotten how the novel ends or never read “1984,” the book’s ending can only be described as nauseating.

Justin Haskins, co-author of “Dark Future,” is concerned that the new smart cities politicians across the nation are touting are disturbingly similar to Orwell’s fictitious society that has long been considered evil and invasive.

Haskins tells Stu Burguiere that the advocates of smart cities will attempt “to sell you on lots of conveniences,” including better-maintained cities, improved affordability, reduced crime, etc.

And while all of those things certainly sound beneficial, there’s a dark side – a very dark side.

“The idea behind smart cities,” Haskins says, “is: ‘Let’s embed technology everywhere; let’s know what’s happening everywhere in the city, not just with cameras … but also with a variety of different sensors.”’

To lure people in, they’ll promise to “build in all kinds of privacy protections,” Haskins explains, adding, “but those privacy protections are subject to change whenever they want” and at their core are “not really privacy protection[s]” at all.

Of course smart city developers will assure people that as long as they’re not criminals, they have nothing to worry about, but is this something we're willing to blindly trust?

“The amount of data that’s being collected” in these smart cities, Haskins explains, “is so extreme” that in places like New York where they’ve already started experimenting with smart city technology, they can “literally [monitor] your use of the toilet” and tell you to “stop flushing” if the powers that be deem it necessary.

China has already fully embraced the smart city, and while its crime rate is certainly lower, the Chinese society is communist and ruled by fear, and “we don’t want that world,” Haskins says.

But it seems that whether we like it or not, that world is coming for us. To find out what the World Economic Forum has planned for cities across the globe, watch the full clip below.


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