My latest over at the Geller Report:
The new top dog of Britain’s counter-terror police has asked Britons to become “counter-terrorism citizens” by reporting suspicious activity. Given the way Britain treats foes of jihad terror, however, it’s doubtful that he means it.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu did his best, however, to give the opposite impression. “People are nervous about police overreacting or about wasting our time,” he said, “but it’s never a waste of our time.”
The Independent reported that “people are being asked to look out for suspicious behaviour, including possessing weapons, chemicals, fertilisers or gas cylinders for no obvious reason, carrying out surveillance, having unusual items delivered, expressing extremist ideas or searching for terrorist material online.”
The Independent also articulated why Basu’s call rings hollow: “Critics argued that the call for public help was ‘paving the way to the worst kinds of profiling, vigilantism and paranoia’ amid ongoing controversy around the Government’s counter-extremism Prevent programme.”
Basu, however, stood his ground, insisting that police were “not going to overreact to a single piece of intelligence,” and reiterating: “The point is you don’t have to make that judgement, you just have to feel nervous, and if you feel nervous, you shouldn’t sit on it – you should report it. Some people say ‘isn’t that a bit obvious’ or ‘it’s normal behaviour’ and that’s absolutely true but you’ve got to take that with people’s judgement. I think people have good instincts about what feels odd in their workplace, in their community and even in their family.”
And just so that no one would think that Basu was asking people to be suspicious of Muslims in particular, he engaged in some fanciful moral equivalence, claiming that in the last year, the UK had seen “10 foiled Islamist plots and four planned attacks by the extreme right, involved similar methods.”
Basu added: “Lone actors on the extreme right are copycatting some of methodology that has been used by Islamist jihadists around the world.” The Independent claimed that “the threat from both Islamists and the extreme right has been increasing as analysts document both groups feeding off each other in a process known as ‘reciprocal radicalization.’”
Basu’s words, and the Independent’s coverage of them, demonstrate that the British government is going all in with its contention that “far-right extremists” are an equivalent threat to that of Islamic jihadis. However, this equivalence is exposed as more propaganda than fact when one recalls that the most prominent people that they smear as “far-right extremists,” including Tommy Robinson, the recently banned Martin Sellner, Brittany Pettibone and Lauren Southern, as well as Pamela Geller and me, have never called for or condoned any vigilantism or violence; our only crime is opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression.
Theresa May in late 2016 likened Pamela Geller and me to Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada, and in doing so showed the bankruptcy of this equivalence. Abu Hamza repeatedly preached violence against infidels and is currently in prison for aiding an attempt to set up an al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon. Abu Qatada likewise was involved in the planning of jihad terror plots. To liken us, when we have never been involved in or approved of any violence or illegal activity, was obscenely libelous.
When Basu claimed that there were “10 foiled Islamist plots and four planned attacks by the extreme right,” involving “similar methods,” he didn’t offer any details, and without them, it’s extremely hard to believe that there were really four attempted terror attacks by the “extreme right.” Besides having no terror leaders, the “extreme right” is not part of a global movement that has declared war on Britain and other countries. It has not boasted about how it will soon conquer and subjugate Britain. It has no ideology or political system that it is determined to put into place. Primarily, the British government has demonized as “extreme right” those who don’t want to see their country destroyed by further jihad massacres and ongoing Islamization.
And so now Neil Basu wants people to report suspicious activity. Great. But now the British government is imprisoning and prosecuting people for “Islamophobia.” So if someone sees a jihad massacre being plotted, the witness must be very careful in alerting British authorities, for the suspicion itself could be seen as “Islamophobic,” especially if the witness is a non-Muslim. In today’s Britain, foes of jihad terror who see something better say nothing, if they want to keep from getting arrested themselves.
RichardL says
These people are simply complete bastards
Andy says
Here are words of wisdom and honestly said by Pat Condell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USZ1Ht90QGY
Andy says
British citizens or UK residents
Sign petition
Create a Freedom of Speech Act and Bring an End to “Hate Speech” laws
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/203615
Sentinel says
That would be equivalent to a white person handing himself into the Secret Police for ‘re-education’ followed by a long prison sentence in a Sharia Prison run by Muslims.
Has he not been indoctrinated by Sadiq Khan yet ? I can be prosecuted simply for possessing evil thoughts and this would be a perfect way for a police appointed Imam to determine who is Islamophobic.
sally says
Yes, this smacks of the 1960’s “100 Flowers” pogrom of Chairman Mao (“Let 100 flowers bloom, let 1,000 thoughts prevail!”). Characteristically pretty fortune cookie slogan. It was intended to smoke out all of Mao’s dissidents (and it did many of them). As soon as they came forward, Mao knew who to assassinate, deprive of a living or throw into prison or a mental institution. It was a kind of “one-shot deal” but good when you think you are about to be overthrown. This is now the position, apparently, of the British government. They need to coax peaceful, law-abiding but concerned citizens to speak up so they can be fired from their jobs, excoriated in the press, flunked in school, thrown in prison or mental institutions. No joke. This is happening today in Britain. It is a mess. Only a latter-day Michael Collins can lead them out of the abyss.
LeftisruiningCanada says
““People are nervous about police overreacting or about wasting our time,” he said, “but it’s never a waste of our time.””
True enough, since either way they will have someone to lay charges against.
robert townsend says
Europe is Doomed!!!
Ashley says
Dear UK:
I saw something.
There. Now I said something and my conscience is clear.
Have a nice day.
Sincerely,
Ashley
Lydia Church says
They deem the following incidents as ‘equivalent’ on extremist ends of right and left:
1. islamic terrorists storm into a crowded public place and mow down hundreds of innocent civilians by any means (left)
2. jihadi rape gangs prey on innocent pre-pubescent females (left)
3. ‘honor’ killings where muslims hack family members to death for not saying enough nice things about mohammed (left)
4. reporting any of the above (right)
In the end, they are basically pretty much just coming after the right.
Under the ‘offense’ of ‘islamophobia.’
Lydia Church says
And in the end, none who are ‘right’ will be ‘left’…..
shoehorn says
Why is the extreme Left off the hook? Groups like Antifa organise violent counter-demonstrations but don’t rate a mention from the politicised police force.
mortimer says
BRITISH COPS should remember the words of CHARLIE CHAN: “Cat who tries to catch TWO MICE at one time, goes without supper.”
The BRITISH police are trying to ARREST PEOPLE who CRITICIZE ISLAM, but now Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu wants people to DENOUNCE MUSLIM CRIMINALS and risk being called either a ‘RACIST’ or a ‘BIGOT’ or perpetrator of HATE SPEECH !!!!!! The Islamo-CRITICS will be ARRESTED for denouncing Muslim criminals.
So WHICH IS IT, pray, Oh Ye Men and Women in Blue?
Do you want MUSLIM CRIMINALS or do you want to arrest people who DENOUNCE MUSLIM CRIMINALS. You CANNOT have it BOTH ways. Which MOUSE do you want to catch?
katherine says
This is outright deception. Banu is trying to facilitate the identification of anti-Muslim citizens to enable their incarceration.
Why else would the leaders of Britain First, Fransen and Golding be arrested ? Unless and until this Commisar Neil Banu is replaced, decapitated or blown up the non-Muslim population had better beware.
mummymovie says
Absolutely.
This feels a lot like a snare to round up Counter-Jihadists and make an example of them.
How can UK police expect to be trusted at this point?
Niemoller says
Neil Basu is a collaborationist fox in the UK hen house. We know him and his ilk by their fruits, and their doctrines. As we know, the UK quisling-collaborationist government permits the political wings of jihad terrorist organizations to legally take up residence in the UK, and has welcomed back hundreds of “citizen” ISIS terrorists. The UK quislings hide mass islamorape of non-Muslims, and only is interested in merely controlling the more ambitious islamoterrorists, not stopping islamization and inundation by jihadomigrants.
Bringing in mass-murdering islamoterrorists, including pervert imams who incite terror, is par for a islamoterrorist-friendly UK government, but barring peaceful bloggers worried about their ancestral homeland, that’s an urgent priority!!
Mass march against the quislings, hunt the imams, bring them all to an international criminal trial before they trigger a global catastrophe.
Jayell says
I would hazard a guess that this ‘assistant commissioner’ is probably amongst that group of police officers that curiously managed to pass their promotion exams the instant they wrote their names on the examination papers.
Linda says
Damned if you do report anything suspicious and damned if you don’t.
gravenimage says
Yeah–I’d like to know more about those four foiled right-wing terror attacks…doubt very much that we will, though…
MFritz says
Naturally, the “top dog” only means “counter terrorist” in regards to twitter postings. And only those critical of islam.
Apart from that, keep your mouth shut and your head down if you see any criminal and/or terrorist doing his “thing”. He may be a muslim and you’ll get in trouble for stating that. Or “obstructing” him in his “religious duties”..
Matthieu Baudin says
“… But now the British government is imprisoning and prosecuting people for “Islamophobia.” So if someone sees a jihad massacre being plotted, the witness must be very careful in alerting British authorities, for the suspicion itself could be seen as “Islamophobic,” especially if the witness is a non-Muslim…”
The police and other servants of the public have been so heavily indoctrinated by Radical Multicultural Attitudes that they are now weighed down by a very heavy baggage, a burdensome load that simply fouls up their prime responsibility to administer the law equally and without favour. Ideas concerning ‘cultural sensitivity’ crept into the training curriculum of police somewhere back in the early ’80’s but have since then ballooned into a type of ‘militant cause’ for social action that has unnecessarily and damagingly placed a strident and radical face on the police force – as if they had a primary purpose to be agents of social transformation. All this needs to be jettisoned. We have responsible armed forces who return to their barracks and leave the art of politics to civilians to sort out – and so it should be with the Police Forces themselves, they have no place as political actors and need to relearn that they too have a functional and essentially conservative role and to meddle in social power relations amounts to an abuse of their special powers.
Brother Charles says
If you see some thing suspicous walk away from it , tell your friends ,They will not call you a ISLAMOPHOBE ,if you tell the police you will be locked up for a hate crime , ITS A TRICK TO FIND THE ISLAMOPHOBIC PEOPLE , The word is INFIDELPHOBIC , ALL KUFFARS ARE INFIDELS ,
gravenimage says
So youy are suggesting that if you see signs of Jihad terrorism, you keep it to yourself? Sure–that will make everything better.
Brother Charles says
edit last post , word is ( INFIDELOPHOBIC )
rma says
Sad that the police have become so politicised & untrustworthy that they are seen as ‘the enemy’ by ordinary Brits of any colour, just as much as the Moslems are. However, perhaps that’s no surprise as they have worked very hard to attain that position.
FYI says
I’d like to report suspicious activity to the UK/Britanistani police..
Firstly,I’d like to report a case of hate speech.I discovered a highly offensive,disgraceful,insulting and derogatory anti-Semitic reference to Jews.
It said the Jews are “apes,to be despised and hated”.
Where is it mentioned?
In the koran k2 v 65.
Will the British police and Judiciary PLEASE investigate this? let’s stamp out Islamic anti-semitim and anti-Christianity..Yes,we can do this as Angela Merkel might say..and hopefully the koran will be banned for inciting religious bigotry and murderous hatred of “infidels”.I’m sure that given their desire to stamp out hate speech the police authorities will be happy to oblige.
Secondly,I wish to report a well-founded belief that many senior British police constables are in the Freemasons:is it possible that the public can trust such an organisation as the British police??
Thirdly,I’d like to report my suspicions regarding the apparent incompetency of the British Police to protect its own citizens,its disgraceful British Legal system and Government that condemn its own people to jail using the convenient and false accusation of using “hate speech”/”islamophobia”.
Fourthly,there is I believe an offense in the UK called “wasting police time”.Isn’t it time to introduce a “police wasting taxpayer’s money/police wasting the publics’ time whilst failing to deal with crime”
policy?
Caller: hello..I’d like to report suspicious activity
Pc Constables Muhammed, Muhammed and Abdullah here
Caller Ok..its about anti-Semitic statements which are certainly hate-speech
pc Ok,what was said..who said it and ..where can we find it for evidence
Caller It said the Jews are “apes to be despised and hated”.. it was said by your god allah,its in the koran..and oh..I,d also like to complain about suspicious freemasonic activity by the senior British Constables..
pc…{hangs up}
Caller huLLOH? Any body there?….allah?…the Keystone cops?…the Freemasons ahhaha?
Terra Nova says
Does anybody think that there is something reall,y big behind this all? I am just wondering if I am the only one. It gets worse by the day. Easy way, you get money from the government and the bridal som for your daughter. They think of everything.
Carolyne says
When “Clockboy” was arrested for what was obviously IMO an attempt at a hoax, the people who reported him, i.e. the teacher, principal, police, etc. were immediately ostracized for “Discrimination” and the Department of Justice was brought down on their heads. The President invited the idiot to the White House, he spoke at the UN, MIT offered him a scholarship, Zuckerberg gave him a fortune in hi-tech equipment, etc. etc. etc.
Those reporting him were sued by his Muslim family and although the case was recently thrown out by a judge with some common sense, it cost several years of stress and financial hardship for those being accused.
“If you see something, say something?” Oh, no. Not even in the US. We are not much different than England. They just haven’t got around to arresting us yet for criticizing Islam.
Karen says
“10 foiled Islamist plots and four planned attacks by the extreme right,”
10 attacks planned by 5% of the population.
While only 4 attacks perpetrated by the, let’s say, native. population. I won’t say that’s 95%, but it’s much greater than 5%. Even if a number around 25% is used, to indicate the “conservative” population in the UK, the rate calculation pales in comparison to the incidence of foiled Islamic attacks.
gravenimage says
Good points–and this is assuming that these “right wing” plots even existed.
Muslims are clearly dangerous out of all proportion to their numbers.
Roger Gough says
Only slightly off-topic. In regard to ‘hate’ crime – why has the artist “Mear One”, who painted the ‘anti-semitic’ mural which Corbyn apparently found inoffensive, not already been arrested and charged. Lord Levy said on BBC Radio 4 today that the mural would not have been out of place in Hitler’s Nazi Germany. All component parts of the ‘hate’ offence are present – why isn’t BASU ‘hunting this man down’?