Last week, we reported extensively on the collapse of civil liberties in Britain, where a government intent on colonizing the country with millions of Muslim migrants cracks down on native citizens who register any objection to that practice. Perhaps that sounds overheated, as if I were exaggerating for rhetorical effect. Nope, there’s no need for hyperbole, with more than 30 Britons arrested every day for nonviolent posts on social media:
U.S. Calls Out UK’s WAR on Free Speech
The U.S. State Department just called out Britain for becoming a censorship state — but they didn’t even mention the 30+ people ARRESTED EVERY DAY for social media posts.
Memes send you to jail!
It’s worse than you think. pic.twitter.com/i61HkCNNye
— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) August 14, 2025
Patriotic Britons are pushing back in whatever ways they can — for instance, by running up or painting traditional English flags in public places.
BREAKING: Young English men in London are removing Palestine flags and replacing them with St George’s flags.
Patriotism is sweeping the nation at an unprecedented rate. pic.twitter.com/a2d41KICzR
— The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) August 18, 2025
And police are frantically removing those very same flags. They’re not illegal — the St. George Cross is the actual historic emblem of England — but they might “trigger” immigrants. So down they have to come.
BREAKING: Birmingham City Council has stated that English and British flags “could put lives at risk,” as council workers are removing recently erected flags.
Disgraceful. pic.twitter.com/1V6GKZhsBF
— God Save Great Britain (@GSGB01) August 14, 2025
Populist leader Tommy Robinson — who for a change is not in jail on some trumped-up charge — is organizing a massive free-speech rally in downtown London scheduled for September 13. The world waits to see whether that rally will be permitted or banned on the pretext that it might “provoke violence” from the hordes of sullen Muslim migrants who now make up so much of London’s population.
Be part of history! On Sept 13, Urban Scoop hosts the UK’s largest Free Speech Festival in London, powering the Uniting The Kingdom movement
Family-friendly, unmissable — bring a friend & stand for freedom.
We urgently need your support to make this happen.
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 31, 2025
It’s in this grim context that the Trump administration has done a favor for our mother country: forcing its increasingly tyrannical government to back down on part of its new, Orwellian censorship law. Revolver News reports that in Britain
left-wing bureaucrats were trying to force Apple to build a secret “back door” into every single iPhone on the planet. The excuse they came up with was to “fight criminals.” But anyone who’s been paying attention since the dreaded “Patriot Act” knows exactly how this game works. These kinds of tools always end up being turned on ordinary people, especially those who dare to speak out against the political ruling class….
Thankfully, President Trump wasn’t having it.
He, along with Tulsi Gabbard and Vice President J.D. Vance, leaned hard on the UK to back off of this crackpot idea. And it worked. The Brits caved, and their scheme to force Apple into betraying Americans’ privacy went up in smoke.
Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected.
As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for…
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) August 19, 2025
It’s a small win, but at this point, the poor downtrodden Brits are grateful for what they can get.
Canadian Library Purges All Books Published Before Obama Took Office
In case you weren’t sufficiently stoked to celebrate next year’s Super-Centennial — the 250th anniversary of our nation’s birth — maybe it’s time to look again at how things are going in Canada, where Loyalists fled after 1776. The CBC reports:
Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Those are all examples of books Reina Takata says she can no longer find in her public high school library in Mississauga, Ont., which she visits on her lunch hour most days.
In May, Takata says the shelves at Erindale Secondary School were full of books, but she noticed that they had gradually started to disappear. When she returned to school this fall, things were more stark.
“This year, I came into my school library and there are rows and rows of empty shelves with absolutely no books,” said Takata, who started Grade 10 last week.
She estimates more than 50 per cent of her school’s library books are gone.
In the spring, Takata says students were told by staff that “if the shelves look emptier right now it’s because we have to remove all books [published] prior to 2008.”
What now? How could librarians possibly justify such a crackpot policy? It’s imposed by the province’s government:
Takata is one of several Peel District School Board (PDSB) students … CBC Toronto spoke to who are concerned about a seemingly inconsistent approach to a new equity-based book weeding process implemented by the board last spring in response to a provincial directive from the Minister of Education.
They say the new process, intended to ensure library books are inclusive, appears to have led some schools to remove thousands of books solely because they were published in 2008 or earlier.
Such madness isn’t confined to Canada. When I taught English composition to freshmen at Louisiana State University in the early 1990s, my faculty mentor told me to stop assigning readings by G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and anyone else who used “sexist” language. When I objected that such a standard would ban virtually everything published before the late 1980s, she simply shrugged. Of course, I simply defied her.
And now you know why I don’t use my Ph.D. to teach at a university.
Gabbard Strips Deep State Hacks of Lucrative Security Clearances
Maybe you don’t know how our Censorship Industrial Complex works. Whistleblowers such as Mike Benz have broken it down pretty simply: Our intelligence agencies want to control the mainstream media. So when Obama loyalists leave the CIA or FBI, they’re allowed to keep their security clearances, which give them access to classified data. Networks like MSNBC and Fox then pay these “experts” handsomely to appear on TV, where they disseminate whatever talking points the spooks still working at intel agencies want the public to believe.
For instance, some 51 such “experts” agreed in late 2020, just before the election, that the Hunter Biden laptop was fake, mere “Russian disinformation.” So that’s what our media reported — and those who dissented, such as The New York Post, got censored on platforms like Facebook at the direct request of the CIA.
So the CIA is using TV networks to bribe its former employees to spread Deep State propaganda. And it’s all perfectly legal. The Trump administration — which hired Benz to advise it — is onto the scam and acting to shut it down. AOL reports, through gritted teeth:
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 current and former intelligence officials, sharing the list in a move that prompted swift criticism that the Trump administration was politicizing clearances.
Among those on the list are several Biden administration officials, including Maher Bitar, who joined the National Security Council (NSC) after previously working for then-House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) amid the first Trump impeachment. Bitar has since returned to Schiff’s office, but he has captured the attention of right-wing activist Laura Loomer, who has complained on the social platform X about his retention of a clearance.
Emily Horne, an NSC spokesperson under Biden, also had her clearance revoked, as did Brett Holmgren, who most recently served as assistant secretary of State for intelligence and research and is married to former Biden White House counsel Dana Remus.
Trump Keeps Purging Justice Department of Dead-End Obama Loyalists
Remember how on his first day in office Barack Obama demanded and got the resignations of every U.S. attorney in the country — whom he promptly replaced with politicized lawfare warriors? And the Senate duly confirmed them, with mostly unanimous GOP votes? Well, Donald Trump has been trying to replace some of those holdovers, as well as others Joe Biden appointed. But the Senate hasn’t acted to confirm very many of them (thank you, Swamp GOP). So Trump’s team has been using a perfectly legal workaround to staff its Justice Department, and the media aren’t happy. Politico fumes:
Around the country, President Donald Trump is circumventing the Senate to install top federal prosecutors, using loopholes to keep loyalists in place.
In U.S. attorney’s offices in Los Angeles, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico and upstate New York, the administration has effectively sidestepped or overridden both the Senate confirmation and judicial appointment processes for selecting U.S. attorneys….
When Trump’s nominees can’t get confirmed by the Senate, as required by federal law, the administration installs them on a temporary basis as “interim” U.S. attorneys, who are legally allowed to serve for 120 days.
And when district judges have then rejected Trump’s choices by exercising a 160-year-old power allowing them to appoint someone to the office after an interim U.S. attorney’s term ends, the administration has in a few cases taken an extraordinary step: voiding the judges’ decision and reinstalling Trump’s desired prosecutor as an “acting” U.S. attorney, who can serve for an additional 210 days beyond the initial 120-day interim period.
It’s good to know the president is playing hardball. The people he’s replacing led the persecution of pro-lifers, election integrity advocates, and the PTA moms Merrick Garland’s team labeled “domestic extremists.” The sooner such inquisitors are forced out of government, the safer all of us will be. In case you aren’t convinced of that, listen to Trump appointee Ed Martin, now tasked with fighting the weaponization of government:
“We’ve never seen it in our history”
Trump Weaponization Czar @EdMartinDOJ details the Biden administration’s unprecedented use of government against the American people and how he plans to get to the bottom of it. pic.twitter.com/505oSGLOs1
— One America News (@OANN) August 20, 2025
Jewish Student Granted Equal Treatment After Threat of Litigation
First Liberty Institute fights for religious freedom for all — not something Jewish students can take for granted at many campuses in America. The group represented Orly Gallo, an observant Jewish student at the University of Wisconsin. Gallo had
requested dorm housing close to the Hillel and Chabad buildings because her faith requires her to walk to Sabbath services after sundown. The University originally denied her request and placed her on the opposite end of campus, stating that the lottery system for housing applications makes no exceptions, despite her safety concerns. As First Liberty’s letter pointed out, the University makes exceptions for nonreligious reasons including on-campus jobs and medical issues, and that means they must accommodate religious students too.
Thankfully, a stern legal note from First Liberty led the university to treat Gallo’s Jewish faith with the same respect it does students’ part-time jobs.
Along The Stream…
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Later this morning, join author Jennifer Rothschild on Life Today to learn how we can bring the hope of Heaven into everyday life.
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
