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UK: Free speech activist Martin Sellner and political commentator Brittany Pettibone detained and denied entry

Mar 12, 2018 5:26 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Austrian activist and the leader of the “New Right” Identitarian Movement of Austria, Martin Sellner “was detained and refused entry to Britain on Friday at Heathrow airport ahead of a planned speech at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, London.”

Sellner’s girlfriend Brittany Pettibone, a YouTube political commentator, was also detained and barred from entering the country.

Sellner was told that he was detained for representing a “far right” group that incites racial hatred. Pettibone was told that she was detained for her plans to interview British activist Tommy Robinson, who the British government claims is “racist” and “far right.”

Sellner’s planned topic for Hyde Park was about threats to free speech, so one wonders where “racism” comes in. It is old news now (but worth repeating) that Islamic supremacists — with their easily offended sensibilities whenever Islam is criticized — work against the freedom of speech, because their sharia forbids criticism of Muhammad and Islam.

Who would have thought a mere decade ago that speakers visiting Britain would be detained and thrown in a jail cell for two days for trying to protect the right to free speech, as Sellner and Pettibone were? After their release, the pair headed to Austria; they were met in Vienna by supporters and Tommy Robinson.

This is, of course, not the first time this has happened; many others who fight for freedom have been denied entry into Britain. British Prime Minister Theresa May banned Jihad Watch’s own Robert Spencer from the UK for supporting Western values and free speech in the face of the global jihad. She compared him to jihadist Abu Hamza as she absurdly tried to justify why he was banned from Britain. Hamza attempted to set up a jihadi training camp in Oregon.

As jihad and Sharia spread in the West, they will destroy all freedoms if not resisted. Violence will continue to rise as will barbaric practices, misogyny and jihad attacks. Criminalizing the criticism of Islam is already underway. All the while, most Westerners are in a state of disbelief, denial or willful blindness.

“Austrian Identitarian Leader Martin Sellner Detained At Heathrow Airport Ahead of Planned Speech,” Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, March 11, 2018:

Austrian hipster-right Identitarian leader Martin Sellner was detained and refused entry to Britain on Friday at Heathrow airport ahead of a planned speech at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, London.

Sellner, along with his partner, YouTube political commentator and author Brittany Pettibone, was refused entry into the UK according to the British branch of the Generation Identity movement.

In a press release, the group said that Sellner and Pettibone arrived in Britain at Luton airport at 1 pm and were told they were being detained because of the planned speech, with authorities claiming Sellner represented, “a far-right group and intend[s] to incite racial hatred.”

The pair were then moved to Heathrow airport at 1 am where they were both placed in detention, along with other foreign nationals waiting to be deported.

Sellner observed that “the UK will open its border to immigration but block[ing] dissenting opinions will only help to grow the silent majority that disagrees with the government,’ calling the affair a disgrace.

Originally, the Identitarian leader was scheduled to speak at a conference organised by UKIP youth wing Young Independence, but this was shut down due to alleged far-left extremist threats.

Sellner’s speech, reorganised for Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, which was set aside for free speech by an Act of Parliament in 1872, was on the subject of “threats to Free Speech in the modern world.”

Breitbart London spoke to both Sellner and Pettibone, who said they were being held in separate detention centres. Pettibone alleged that border officials told her that one of the reasons for her detainment was not only because of Sellner’s speech but also her plans to interview former English Defence League leader turned citizen journalist Tommy Robinson.

Sellner, who described the detention centre as looking akin to a typical American prison, said he was told by authorities that his speaking at Hyde Park could cause violence and disrupt community cohesion….

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Filed Under: Featured, free speech, United Kingdom Tagged With: Brittany Pettibone, Heathrow Airport, Hyde Park, Identitarian Movement of Austria, Martin Sellner, Tommy Robinson


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  1. StellaSaidSo says

    Mar 12, 2018 at 7:48 am

    Black Pigeon on the detention of Martin & Brittany –

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Mar 12, 2018 at 7:53 am

      Apologies, trying again:

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 12, 2018 at 3:36 pm

        Thanks Stella, BP is good people.

  2. Wazza says

    Mar 12, 2018 at 8:06 am

    Makes sense, fdidn’t they allow a known MB member known terrorist time to give speeches in the UK, also not sure on this, but didn’t they give a Palestinian time to speak over there in Englandistan?
    Good to see Tommy bash that mongrel and then the cowardly ANTIFA tried to take him down, should be labelled a terrorist organisation, as they wear masks and face coverings, if you not up to no good, then why wear face coverings

  3. Terry Gain says

    Mar 12, 2018 at 9:38 am

    If he were alive today in Britain, Churchill, the man principally responsible for saving western civilization from the Nazis, would be in jail for telling the truth about barbaric Islam. The submission to barbaric Islam continues apace.

    • Anne Smith says

      Mar 13, 2018 at 8:05 am

      Paul Weston was taken away by the police for reading aloud to a meeting Churchill’s own words in his book “The River War”.

      Churchill’s perceptive observations about Islam and its followers obviously proved too true and too provocative for our Common Purpose trained Police Force to stomach. Weston had to be removed from public gaze and the meeting. He was later released without charge!!

  4. sog says

    Mar 12, 2018 at 1:03 pm

    If the only way to maintain “community cohesion” is to adopt Sharia (which it is), and “community cohesion” is of mandatory importance, then England must eventually adopt Sharia.

    The best I can figure, is that the English middle class is too big a threat to the elite, and must be compromised. The middle class is made up of the bourgeois and the proletariat in cahoots, to the dismay of the old line communists, and are an absolute threat to the Elite’s totalitarian goals.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 12, 2018 at 1:50 pm

      They always hated the kulaks most of all.

      • Anne Smith says

        Mar 13, 2018 at 8:07 am

        Yes, they presented an independent unit and thought for themselves. They were cruelly eliminated.

        How Theresa May must be wishing she had a large area like Siberia in which to dump all those who oppose her Islamisation of Britain.

  5. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Mar 12, 2018 at 1:32 pm

    I wish the happy couple well, and hope they will have many good looking children to help repopulate Europe after the conflagration.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Mar 13, 2018 at 2:56 am

      My sentiments exactly, LIRC.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 13, 2018 at 1:10 pm

        They won’t make ugly babies that’s for sure 😉

  6. Berengaria says

    Mar 12, 2018 at 2:01 pm

    In our local newspapers in America, I still see the Photos of Americans, who flock to the British Isles, looking a bit Lost & Forlorn. Vacation Time in an Islamic City, especially Londonistan, is still considered to be Newsworthy, by The Fake News in the USA.
    So Sad to see that Americans are following the Brit Elite into the Bowels of Islam. Approx. One-Half of Americans desire the same vile treatment as their British, Liberal Pals.

  7. CRUSADER says

    Mar 12, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    “DENIAL” is a film about Free Speech.

    (Notion of No Holes so No Holocaust.)

    But it showcased a legal battle in UK which makes the burden of defense on the accuser not the victim… thus the victim has to be defined, in order for the court to proceed with trial.

    Quote from the movie advocates free speech but not wrong facts and not lies and not false opinions.

    Thinking about how all this applies to Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller.

    If they were making claims but then they became the victims, the onus is upon the accusers NOT them, so the UK Government should be on trial.

    ======================

    Denial (2016 film) – Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_(2016_film)

    Denial is a 2016 British-American historical drama film based on Deborah Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: “My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier”. It dramatises the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar, was sued by Holocaust denier …

    >

    Denial (2016) – IMDb
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4645330/

    Biography · Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel. ….

    >

    ‘Denial’s’ real-life scholar who fought Holocaust revisionists says …
    http://www.latimes.com/…/movies/la-et-mn-deborah-lipstadt-holocaust-denial-rachel-weisz-i...

    Deborah Lipstadt, the Holocaust scholar who took on denier David Irving, offers pointed comments about modern racism ….

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