In Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, set in 2054, crime has been eliminated thanks to psychics who predict wrongdoing before it happens. “Pre-criminals” are arrested for “Pre-crimes” they haven’t committed. But the visions are flawed and open to manipulation. The dark side of “pre-crime” is totalitarianism disguised as public safety. The film is a timeless warning about the tension between liberty and security.
The media elites’ classist indifference to the fraying of social bonds is gross.
A new high-status opinion just dropped: London is fine. From their converted Edwardian houses in the leafy suburbs where you won’t get a burger for less than 15 quid, London’s preening opinion-shapers have taken to X to say all is well in the capital. Ignore the ‘Trumpist’ talking points about London going down the swanny, they cry between glugs of pinot noir – life’s never been better! One envisions the grimaces of people on the other side of town when they see such hot takes pop up on their mobile phones that they cling to for dear life lest some wanker on a stolen Lime bike should snatch them.
Freedom Convoy protester Evan Blackman is back in court to defend his presence at the 2022 protest and challenge the freezing of his bank accounts.
According to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), the Ontario Court of Justice will hold a retrial for Blackman, who was charged with mischief and obstruction for his participation in the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests and subsequently had his bank accounts frozen.
I read it right, the first time. An ‘elite police division’ has been assembled by the Home Office to monitor remarks made by social media users on immigration, at a time when the provision of over two hundred hotels for illegal migrants is causing rising tension in communities.
Of course, the Daily Mail article meant specially-skilled officers, but it is also true that the ‘elite’ is being protected. For Britain is not being run for the good of the ordinary people, but for a predatory class that is solidifying its power in an emerging global technocracy.
Is it too late for citizens to resist? Much depends on a minority of dissidents, while the majority of the populace appears docile and blissfully ignorant of the prison being built around them.
h/t NP
This is the moment an embarrassed police officer reluctantly knocked on a suspected ‘anti-migrant’ protester’s door amid an increasing backlash over the scourge of ‘thought police’.
Doorbell footage shows two West Midland Police officers approaching the property in Coventry to give the homeowner a leaflet ahead of a planned anti-immigration demonstration on Saturday.
But one of the officers is hesitant to carry out the task and admits his visit is ‘woeful’ and a ‘load of ‘b******’.
A growing number of Germans believe that freedom of expression is being curtailed in their country—in a recent survey 84% of respondents stated they think people hold back their opinions out of fear of negative consequences.
The findings point to widespread concerns about the health of democratic discourse in Germany.
The survey, conducted by the INSA polling institute, reveals that only 9% of participants believe people can express themselves freely without fear.
Court Documents reveal Ottawa Police wiretapped Detective Grus and her family
Ottawa Police illegally used terrorism-level emergency powers to wiretap Detective Helen Grus and her family.
The goal was simple: stop Grus from investigating a cluster of infant deaths that tripled the norm.
Court records confirm the illegal wiretap.
On December 29, 2022,… pic.twitter.com/38CzzFbEHQ
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) August 4, 2025
h/t Mauser
What better way for a state to show its rejection of free speech than by destroying the lives of those who express even the mildest support for it? In Britain today, this isn’t a theoretical concern but a reality—as shown by the latest developments in the Lucy Connolly case, which some wrongly believe to be over.
Record numbers of over-60s are being referred to the Government’s troubled anti-terrorism scheme, the Daily Mail can reveal today.
Home Office figures show 127 adults in their 60s or beyond were put on Prevent’s radar in 2023/24 – the most since records began in 2016.
Of them, 43 had sparked alarm for expressing ‘extreme right wing’ views.
h/t XC
Social media users are this week cheering on reports that a mother imprisoned for a post on X will soon be “freed.” Their celebrations seem premature.
Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months after authorities treated her post on the day of the horrific Southport knife attack—calling for “mass deportation now” and saying: “Set fire to all the f*****g [migrant] hotels full of the b******s for all I care”—as incitement. That’s despite the fact Connolly deleted the message less than four hours after pressing ‘send’ and stressed the next day that “violence is not the answer.”
Ontario dad demands answers after his bank accounts are frozen in case that could strengthen the Charter rights of all Canadians
Every day, Canadians rely on access to their bank accounts to pay bills, manage expenses, and support their families.
But imagine discovering that… pic.twitter.com/wkQ9bssz5i
— Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (@JCCFCanada) July 30, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Extremist influencers ‘weaponizing femininity,’ warns Canadian intelligence report
Women’s workout routines that devolve into anti-government rhetoric. Makeup tutorials with anti-feminist commentary. Personal finance videos that blame immigrants for stealing jobs.
According to a Canadian government intelligence report obtained by Global News, extremist movements are “weaponizing femininity” on social media to attract more women into their ranks.
Prepared by Canada’s Integrated Threat Assessment Centre (ITAC), the report warns that female “extremist influencers” are using popular online platforms to radicalize and recruit women.
Criminalizing dissent is aimed solely at dissenting views the Liberal-Left disagree with. h/t Patti Jo
Crown attorneys issue rare public response to Pierre Poilievre attack on ‘freedom convoy’ prosecution
A provincial prosecutors’ association has taken the rare step of issuing a public response to what it describes as attacks “on the independence of the prosecutorial system” and the “rule of law.”
The Ontario Crown Attorneys’ Association, in an open letter released Tuesday, primarily targets recent remarks by Conservative politicians who criticized prosecutors for pursuing what they characterized as excessively harsh sentences in the “Freedom Convoy” case, suggesting that violent offenders often face lighter consequences.
If there is one thing Canada’s Conservatives believe in, it is getting tough on crime.
Wherever there is a debate on what penalties should be imposed for criminal offences, Conservatives stand squarely and proudly for more. Whether as a matter of deterrence, or simple retribution, Conservatives almost always favour longer sentences rather than shorter.
Except, it seems, when the criminals involved are their friends. Take, for example, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, organizers of the notorious “Freedom Convoy” that took much of downtown Ottawa hostage for three weeks in 2022, and folk heroes to the populist right.
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