Wednesday, 7 April 2021

Alison Chabloz Jailed

 
Alison Chabloz, a regular attendee of Nick Kollerstrom's London Keep Talking group, has been sentenced to eighteen weeks in prison. She had been convicted in 2018 of "malicious communications" and received a twenty week sentence that was suspended on condition that she did not use social media for a year. The supposed malicious communications were some YouTube videos of her singing satirical songs. She is a musician and used to perform on cruises. The case began as a private lawsuit by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, an organization that has also been persecuting David Icke, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/david-icke-portal.html. Alison has been accused of being a "Holocaust denier", believing that the history of the death camps in Nazi Germany have been either exaggerated or even fabricated. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-56616838. "Horrible!" you might think? "Disgusting!", "Evil!" You might be happy that Alison is now is jail. Then I would ask you to think twice. Why do your feelings of disgust and offence, no matter how severe, justify prosecuting them under the law in the most severe way possible? This case is similar to that of Mark Meechan, known online as "Count Dankula". Mr Meechan trained his girlfriend's dog to behave like a Nazi, imitating Roman salutes and watching Hitler's speeches on TV. The Scotsman was convicted under the Scottish Communications Act 2003. The video was described as "grossly offensive!" The controversy is analyzed best by Jonathan Pie with his classic acerbic wisdom, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti2bVS40cz0. The problem with things being "grossly offensive" is that the very phrase refers to something ultimately subjective. Things are not literally offensive; a person is offended by things. Different things offend different people in different ways. Generally Jewish people will, of course, feel more offended by both Alison Chabloz and Mark Meechan's activities than I would, being a gentile (One of Dankula's defenders was actually the Jewish comedian David Baddiel); but other people will find other things offensive. Being white British I feel very offended by so many people shrugging their shoulders at the South African farming situation, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/08/land-seizures-in-south-africa.html. People of a different ethnicity may well feel less hurt than me, even if they do express some sympathy. This is a legal minefield and the laws connected to offence should never have been passed. It has resulted in the absurd situation of the police wasting their time investigating "non-criminal hate incidents" whose definition is so vague they could cover just about anything. This is an excellent commentary: https://www.bitchute.com/video/RtGXuYHwHOAG/. These laws will inevitably be exploited to gag selectively those expressing dissent of all kinds as this world descends further and further into internationalism and authoritarianism. Free Alison Chabloz!

No comments: