Far-right activists banned from entering Britain

Over here we think killing children is wrong.

A Brexit supporter who egged Jeremy Corbyn while yelling: "Respect the vote," has been jailed for 28 days.

John Murphy, 31, admitted attacking the Labour leader with an egg following the MP's visit to a mosque in his Islington North constituency on 3 March.

Mr Corbyn was "shocked and surprised" by the attack, which prompted his team to increase his security, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

Magistrates said Murphy had attacked "our democratic process".

Murphy, 31, from Barnet, north-west London, admitted the charge of assault by beating.

Chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot told Murphy, of Totteridge Common, Whetstone, a custodial sentence would send a clear message that "attacks on MPs must stop".

Sentencing him to 28 days in jail, she said: "An attack like this is an attack on our democratic process."

In mitigation, Malik Aldeiri, representing Murphy, blamed his client's actions on "frustration and anger borne out of the political situation we find ourselves in".

Mr Aldeiri said: "He felt he was making a statement.

"He believes his civil rights were violated and this was a demonstration by him against what he says is a failure by Parliament to adhere to his democratic vote."

A Brexit supporter who egged Jeremy Corbyn while yelling: "Respect the vote," has been jailed for 28 days.

Labour MP Stephen Doughty intervenes to raise a concern about the prime minister's statement last week in which she blamed MPs for the delay to Brexit.

He says at this is not the time for politicians to be "raising the heat".

David Lidington replies: "Looking up at the memorial shield to Jo Cox, I am very sharply reminded of the fact that many members of the House have been subject to the most appalling threats.

"Every one of us has a responsibility to ensure no encouragement is given to those wicked people."

This is a thread about the UK, not your pornographic obsession with firearms.

Nor is it about your desire to invade Europe.

Over here we think killing children is wrong. I know such a concept is hard for you to grasp, but it's how we feel.

It's not about WW2 either. Stop trying to wrap yourself in the sodding flag and stick to the topic.

https://bigthink.com/the-proverbial-skeptic/those-who-do-not-learn-history-doomed-to-repeat-it-really

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.'

The quote is most likely due to writer and philosopher George Santayana, and in its original form it read, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Santayana was known for aphorisms, and for being a professor in philosophy at Harvard which he abandoned. Prior to that, Santayana attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he studied under the philosophers William James and Josiah Royce.

According to Santayana's philosophy, history repeats. The phrasing itself certainly is catchy. It's a big one, not only because it is so common, but also because if it is true and if history, driven by human nature, is ugly (hint: it is), then this saying ought to guide our public and private policy.

George Santayana (Sketch artist: Samuel Johnson Woolf)
The sentiment that history repeats aspires to common sense and is hard to disagree with. In the history of the United States and Europe, wars have ended with confiscatory terms of government surrender inevitably breeding more wars. Revolutions, like those in France and Russia, that gave an individual absolute power—Napoleon and Stalin, respectively—inevitably end up as failed empires brutal dictatorships. Even individuals are subject to this advice. Couples who do not learn from their fights break up. People who don’t learn from their mistakes don’t mature.

In the 21st century, specific events in Syria have proven a repeated lessons about civil wars, like the Vietnam war, that when great powers intervene to fight proxy battles, conflict becomes protracted. Incidentally, when Abraham Lincoln governed during the American Civil War, he recognized it was essential to keep out foreign powers like Britain and France.

This is about the far right in Britain,

A video has emerged showing police as well as customs and immigration control officers at Victoria Coach Station in London. It appears to show people being directed through a makeshift checkpoint, with scanners and body searches. The woman who posted the video had travelled to London on a coach from Birmingham.

Nia Imara posted the video to Facebook on 5 March. Titled ‘Know your rights’, it shows a long queue of people and a significant police presence. Whilst filming, she says:

"This is.. Victoria [Coach] Station, 7.15 in the morning, immigration doing their thing. Never seen this before… This is England, everybody. This is what’s to come. No sorry, this is what’s going on. This is Brexit."

Other passengers filmed seem equally bewildered. Imara asks an officer from the Metropolitan Police:

"What legislation, act or statute is this under?"

When asked for further details, he says he “can’t remember the full title, it’s the Anti-social Behaviour and something act”. Imara films the queue of people waiting patiently and points out that “everyone looks like they’re behaving themselves”. The film shows a security scanner and police searching bags. The officer asked for details about the search appears to read from a phone, before informing Imara that searches are taking place under the:

"Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014… Which gives us the power to search at locations like this where people are transiting through from other countries."

Imara also asks the officer if this gives police “power to search anybody”. He says: “yup, for travel documents”. She questions him further when he claims that all the people in the queue were on international coaches, pointing out that she has travelled “from Birmingham”. She also explains that “a lot of people in the queue” haven’t travelled from other countries.

Eventually, after standing her ground and refusing to be searched, Imara passes through the control and is told:

"There was a misunderstanding with the coaches."

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police told The Canary:

Police were at Victoria Coach Station on Friday 1 March as part of a multi-agency pre-planned operation targeting organised crime. The operation involved screening international arrival vehicles / luggage, and speaking to people in and around Victoria Coach Station.

MPS officers used powers contained within Schedule 8 Sec.147 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, requesting passports from persons arriving into the location via international coaches for validity checks.

During the course of the operation, it became apparent that passengers from a UK coach had been mistakenly marshalled into the international queue for screening.

Once this error was realised those who were in the queue in error were allowed to leave the queue.

Dr Jordan Peterson: 'Anti-Islam shirt' behind fellowship U-turn

Cambridge University rescinded a visiting fellowship offer to Dr Jordan Peterson because he was pictured with a man wearing an anti-Islam shirt, its vice-chancellor said.

Scale of planned ISIS attacks in Europe 'revealed' in seized documents

Footnote been meaning to ask you if anyone had consider doing a short nationwide general strike to protect going through with Brexit?

I'm not anti American. You're off topic. Stick to the topic.

Overall a strong change for a second referendum, this time people will know what they're voting for.