October
26, 2012
The arrest of over 53 people in the United Kingdom is the beginning of the end for once-great Britain. The leaders of the English Defence League (EDL), Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll, were among those arrested, as well as Paul Weston of the British Freedom Party (BFP). I spoke with Kevin Carroll about his recent arrest and that of Robinson and Weston, and he told me the appalling details.
Carroll told me that British authorities tried everything in the book to stop him from running for police and crime commissioner (PCC) for the Bedfordshire Police Authority. Nonetheless, he officially won the right to run for PCC last Friday. But then, the very next day, British authorities carried out these mass arrests of EDL and BFP members, stripping them and forcing them to wear white paper overalls like those given to incarcerated terrorists. They were allowed no phone calls.
Meanwhile, British
police raided the homes of Carroll, Robinson,
and three others who had been arrested. "They
absolutely ransacked mine," Carroll told me.
"They smashed the door off and wrecked my home.
They took my only vehicle, with all the tools
of my trade inside, and impounded it, as well as
Tommy's car." The police, the bomb squad,
forensics teams, and sniffer dogs spent seven
and a half hours stripping Carroll's van to the
bone. "When they finished," he said, "they
found nothing! They loaded it up with bugs and
GPS monitors and threw everything in the back;
it looks like it's been in a blender."
After smashing the door
to Carroll's home off its hinges, police
officials repaired it, got a locksmith to
put on a new lock, and left with the new keys,
leaving Carroll locked out of his own home.
When Carroll was released, still wearing his
white paper prison suit, it was dark and
raining; true to form, police officials offered
him no transportation, even though it was late
at night on a Sunday.
Robinson is being held
in Wandsworth prison, an old and antiquated
structure with a large population of Muslim
prisoners. Weston was arrested and later
released without charge for refusing to leave a
reception area without information about
Robinson. And it is clear why officials would
not want that information to get out: not only
has Robinson been placed with the general prison
population instead of segregated for his own
protection, but prison officials have even put
him in a cell with hostile Muslims. He was
allowed to call his wife Jenna, and he told her
that he knew it was going to be "lively" in the
cell. That was an understatement: prison
officials have deliberately put Robinson in
physical danger and even imperiled his life.
Carroll contacted a high-ranking police
official to request that Robinson be segregated,
and she received a promise that he would be, but
it hasn't happened yet -- and Robinson has even
been denied bail.
"They are really coming
at us with everything," Carroll told me. "I'm
even on police bail at the moment for
'conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.'" This
is a politically motivated and trumped up
charge, but in Britain it can carry a life
sentence.
According to Carroll,
Robinson was incarcerated for leaving the United
Kingdom and entering the United States
fraudulently for our September 11, 2012 Stop
Islamization of Nations free speech conference
in New York City. Robinson could get twelve to
eighteen months in prison just for that. "They
are really turning up the heat here, Pamela,"
said Carroll. "They are going after all of us,
especially Tommy and me." The EDL said in a
statement: "Tommy has been dragged from one
court to another -- almost always without any
serious chance of conviction -- simply in order
to help disrupt our activities and to prevent us
from voicing our legitimate concerns about the spread of
Islamic extremism."
Carroll's bail hearing
is set for November 30, which gives him just two
weeks after the November 15 elections to prepare
his defense. Anyone who can vote for
Bedfordshire police authority commissioner and
who loves freedom should vote for Kevin Carroll;
it could be your last hope to preserve the
freedom of speech and the principle of the
equality of rights for all people in Britain.
Clearly the
establishment elites in Britain are extremely
worried that Carroll might win and upset the
entrenched culture of accommodation to
Islam and sharia; in fact, one of the briefs in
Carroll's case actually stated that this was why
he was arrested -- because he is running for
PCC. The dhimmi elites understand that this
could be the beginning of their end. "The
police," said Carroll, "are out to finish us on
behalf of the establishment."
This is a defining
moment in British history, as significant as any
major turning point. It is in many respects
like the Night of the Long Knives, which marked
the point of no return from Nazism for Germany.
With these outrageous and politically motivated
arrests, Britain has entered a dark and
dangerous new era. Said Weston: "The full power
of the State appears to be concentrating on
shutting down any political dissent. This does
not really feel like a democratic country
anymore."
Carroll is organizing a
demonstration outside Wandsworth prison this
coming Saturday morning. All free citizens in
Britain should be there. And is there no one is
the political establishment in the U.K. who has
any decency, integrity, or spine? No one who
will stand up against these outrages?
Pamela Geller is
the publisher of AtlasShrugs.com and
the author of the WND Books title Stop the Islamization of
America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.
