President Trump has dispatched a cadre of State Department officials to the UK to monitor and investigate the growing attacks on freedom of speech by the British government.
The Telegraph reports that “A five-person team from the US State Department spent days in the country,” and among a host of other issues they looked into a crack down on pro-life activists voicing, or in many cases silently expressing opposition to abortion clinics.
The report notes that Trump’s free speech squad, specifically from the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL), “met with five activists who had been arrested for silently protesting outside abortion clinics across Britain.”
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The visit demonstrates that Trump is acutely aware of the threat to freedom that is growing in the UK and is willing to intervene in British affairs as required.
The activists, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, Rose Docherty, Adam Smith-Connor, Livia Tossici-Bolt and Father Sean Gough, a Catholic priest, were all arrested for standing outside abortion clinics on public roads and silently praying.
The UK government introduced a new law creating so called ‘buffer zones’ outside hospitals and clinics providing abortions in Scotland in an effort to stop the activists being present.
Mrs Docherty told reporters “All I did was stand peacefully offering consensual conversation to anyone who wanted to take up my offer to talk. I didn’t break the law, I didn’t influence, I didn’t harass, I didn’t intimidate.”
“And yet, I was arrested just for standing there, peacefully, within 200 metres of a hospital,” she added.
“This can’t be just. It’s heartening that others around the world, including the US Government, have realised this injustice and voiced their support,” the 74 year-old grandmother further urged.
Trump’s State Department officials are also said to have met with officials from the Foreign Office and challenged telecom officiator Ofcom with regards to the much maligned Online Safety Act, which critics charge is being used to enforce censorship and punish those expressing opinions deemed to be ‘hateful’ by the authorities.
Trump’s officials are also reportedly “monitoring” the case of Lucy Connolly, the mother who have been imprisoned and denied early release over an X post wherein she called for action to be taken against illegal migrants following the horrific Southport attacks last year when three children were stabbed to death by the son of Rwanden migrants living in the UK.
“The United States supports freedom of expression at home and abroad, and remains concerned about infringements on freedom of expression,” a State Department spokesperson commented.
Back in February, during a State visit to the White House, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer encountered a fired up Vice President JD Vance who directly called out Starmer’s crackdown on free speech in the UK.
“There have been infringements on free speech that actually impact not just the British… but also impact American technology companies and by extension American citizens,” Vance told Starmer and the reporters in the room.
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“President Trump has dispatched a cadre of State Department officials to the UK to monitor and investigate the growing attacks on freedom of speech by the British government.”
WTF!?! President Trump is now telling Brits what we can say or not say?
I’m going to exercise MY freedom of speech:
BAN all that pointless obsession on reproduction, sex and other silly flummery that Americans get obsessed on. It’s unhealthy for everyone when they think that politics is all about sex and reproduction. Spain decided early on in their democracy not to report on the sex lives of politicians. That was a wise decision, and it prevents a lot of other pointless silliness.
BAN travel from Trump representatives trying to impose what they see as “politics”. We all know the USA is a banana republic. We shouldn’t be welcoming their tactics with open arms.
Much like America, most of us like Trump. For the record, I think he’s the best president in living memory. It’s only the screaming liberals who don’t like him and they are a minority, albeit a loud one.
To “Shambolic”. I’m happy to say his name: Tommy Robinson. Sadly, our corrupt government have already charged him with other frivolous ‘offences’. I’d love it if Trump offered him and his family political asylum in the US – now that really would send a message.
Trump is popular in the UK but I’m afraid he’s 30 years too late. The feminist cult is now law. They will be castrating at birth soon. Most of the west is following their ancestral origins.
Go woke. Go broke.
Looks like they allowed “he who must not be named” out of prison. Looks like he lost about 30 pounds though.