Freedom Update: Starmer Begins Online ‘Anti-Immigrant Sentiment’ Witch Hunt

There was an article I saw Friday that seemed pretty on point for Putin and living in Russia. I mean, this shocks no one, right?

What I found slightly shocking about it was the supposed fact that it was ‘a bill’ that the Russian parliament had just ‘approved,’ not standard operating procedure already. Who do they think they’re kidding, right?

Russian parliament approves a bill punishing online searches for information deemed ‘extremist’

The Russian parliament’s upper house on Friday quickly approved a bill that punishes online searches for information officially branded “extremist,” the latest in a series of moves by authorities to tighten control of the internet.

The legislation makes what it describes as “deliberately searching for and accessing extremist materials” online punishable by a fine of up to the equivalent of $64.

Get busted for ‘extremist materials’ in Russia now, and it could conceivably set you back a whopping sixty-four bucks.

Again, who do they think they’re kidding?

In Russia, even the windows know who the state considers extremists. It’s amazing how many people can’t help falling to their untimely deaths.

I’m sure they’d have much rather have paid the sixty-four bucks and called it a draw.

It’s Russia. One expects this sort of theater.

Also taking action on extremist surveillance this weekend, this was NOT Russia, but you could be forgiven for believing it was.

Britain 🇬🇧 has given up on finding a solution to illegal immigration. Now it’s focusing on preventing you from talking about the problem.
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— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) July 26, 2025

Kind of the same-same, eh?

In fact, the United Kingdom is a good step ahead of Russia. Keir Starmer’s Labour government is fixin’ to set their Starmzi innerwebs spies to work so they can sic their Starmtroopers on British citizens who gripe about the out-of-control immigration crisis.

Oh, that pesky, prickly Labour Home Office. Always looking for ways to monitor thought and ‘free’ speech, and clap an unsuspecting Englishman (it’s never a ‘migrant’) in jail for mean thoughts and immoderate scribblings.

Judged to be such, of course, by them and there to ‘flag POTENTIAL‘ origins of civil unrest. The key word is now ‘potential’ vs ‘acts of.’

See how that works? It’s so neat!

…Detectives will be drawn from forces across the country to take part in a new investigations unit that will flag up early signs of potential civil unrest.

The division, assembled by the Home Office, will aim to “maximise social media intelligence” gathering after police forces were criticised over their response to last year’s riots.

It comes amid growing concern that Britain is facing another summer of disorder, as protests outside asylum hotels spread.

Naturally, there’s some push-back about thought and speech policing. Good heavens, have these colonial thinkers nothing better to do?

We’ve got mean Xtweeters to arrest!.

…Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: “Two-tier Keir can’t police the streets, so he’s trying to police opinions instead. They’re setting up a central team to monitor what you post, what you share, what you think, because deep down they know the public don’t buy what they’re selling.

“Labour have stopped pretending to fix Britain and started trying to mute it. This is a Prime Minister who’s happy to turn Britain into a surveillance state, but won’t deport foreign criminals, won’t patrol high streets, won’t fund frontline policing.

“Labour are scared of the public, Labour don’t trust the public, Labour don’t even know the public.”

Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, said: “This is the beginning of the state controlling free speech. It is sinister, dangerous and must be fought. Reform UK will do just that.”

In a further sign of dissent over the Government’s approach to social media, campaigners claimed on Saturday that posts about anti-migrant protests in the past week had been censored because of new online safety laws.

I have written to the Home Secretary about her reported plans to monitor ‘anti-migrant sentiment’ on the internet through a dedicated ‘elite’ police team.

We must hold this dreadful Government to account. pic.twitter.com/54eC4D2hym

— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) July 26, 2025

This is just so much background noise to Starmer and his brownshirts at Whitehall.

What do ‘lawful content,’ ‘legal safeguards,’ and ‘criteria to DEFINE anti-migrant sentiment’ mean to a government that is daily dispensing with any nod to traditional British rights as it marches inexorably towards total and complete control of its inhabitants’ lives down to their very thoughts needing government approval.

The policing minister laid it all out. It’s a dystopian horror novel reading her words, only it’s very real.

These sick bastards are for real, they’ve got the power, and they’ve had practice at this during COVID. Terrifyingly enough, this is not their first rodeo.

…The new unit, called the National Internet Intelligence Investigations team, will work out of the National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) in Westminster.

…The NPoCC provides the central planning for forces across the country when dealing with “nationally significant protests” and civil disorder.

It also led Operation Talla, the nationwide police response to the Covid pandemic, which included the enforcement of lockdown rules.

Plans for the new investigation unit emerged in a letter to MPs by Dame Diana Johnson, the policing minister, which was published just before recess.

Unit to ‘exploit internet intelligence’

She wrote: “We are carefully considering recommendations made by the [Commons home affairs] committee and HMICFRS [His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services] in this area, including building a National Internet Intelligence Investigations team as part of the National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC).

“This team will provide a national capability to monitor social media intelligence and advise on its use to inform local operational decision-making.

“This will be a dedicated function at a national level for exploiting internet intelligence to help local forces manage public safety threats and risks.

And don’t think for two seconds you savvy innerwebs types will be able to VPN underneath Big Brother Keir’s radar. Oh, yeah. They’ve noticed VPN numbers are skyrocketing – they didn’t fall off the ox cart yesterday.

They already have a plan for you, too, you filthy wretches.

…Labour has previously supported moves to restrict VPN usage when the Online Safety Act was first going through parliament. Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against them:

“My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112. If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”

Champion was supported by the Labour frontbench – the party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended. Shadow digital minister Alex Davies-Jones said at the time that the clause “touches on the issue of future-proofing, which Labour has raised repeatedly in debates on the Bill.” VPNs currently destroy the operation of the badly-designed legislation…

The Starmer regime is busy scooping up the little people who have worked at their ‘migrant hotels’ and had the nerve to speak in public about what they witnessed.

🚨BREAKING: Luke Sharman, a former migrant hotel worker, spoke out about his experiences at the Park Hotel in Diss (Norfolk).

He exposed troubling conditions inside the migrant accommodation.

Today Luke was arrested.

Britain is officially a soviet state. pic.twitter.com/HKbP8opSVd

— The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) July 26, 2025

A twenty-something-year-old protester named James Harvey was also arrested on Saturday (and released after 14 hours) for the crime of standing across the street from counter-protesters at one of these facilities. He was shouting ‘Stop the boats,’ ‘Send them back,’ and something about ‘foreign filth’ which Mr Harvey explains was taken out of context. Still, the Starmtroopers reviewing footage took it seriously and appeared on his doorstep to haul the lad away.

Again, he wasn’t charged for any violence or incitement thereof.

James Harvey was arrested for ‘racial aggravation.’

New footage has shown the moment a man was arrested following his attendance at a protest at a hotel housing asylum seekers.

The doorbell footage taken from this morning shows four police officers arresting a man in his 20s was posted to social media earlier today.

…”This arrest was made under the grounds of ‘Racial Aggravation,’ with James allegedly calling migrants ‘Foreign Filth.’ This alleged incident occurred on Monday, 21st July.”

Norfolk Constabulary said in their statement earlier today: “Police have made two arrests following protests outside hotels in both Diss and Bowthorpe last week.”

This is the footage of Activist and Journalist @JamesHarvey2503 being ARRESTED this morning. pic.twitter.com/vPW3F0eQwW

— Sydney Jones 🇬🇧 (POB) 🟣 (@JournoJones05) July 26, 2025

The other arrest was the previously mentioned Mr Sharman, who also got busted for pot.

No counterprotestors were arrested for whatever came out of their mouths.

Nor are Labour MPs treated with the same disrepect as British citizens simply exercising what used to be their free speech rights, as Mr Harvey points out.

🚨 In August last year, I attempted to get Labour MP Clive Lewis charged for leading a chant of “FIGHT THE FASCISTS.” I knew that if we said the same about the left, we would get locked up, and so I wanted to test if they would treat a Labour MP the same, they would a… pic.twitter.com/CZoDzp9L7u

— James Harvey (@JamesHarvey2503) July 27, 2025

…and so I wanted to test if they would treat a Labour MP the same, they would a right-winger.

I was told by Norfolk Police that at protests people are given more leeway with public order offences, and so they refused to charge him.

Fast forward to yesterday, where I was CHARGED with a Public Order Offence for CHANTING “DEPORT,” “STOP THE BOATS,” and saying “foreign fifth” in a way that was taken out of context, at a locally-led demonstration, and then I was further bailed pending investigation on AFFRAY.

The email reads; “There is longstanding caselaw that allows protests to be offensive, even disturbing at times.” So why was I charged?

The HYPOCRISY is incredible.

Why was he charged?

I can only believe because it suits Labour to round up these meddlesome, noisome working-class pests in their midst.

People who dare to complain about the British government hiring for jobs such as this ‘Shariah Law Administrator’ position. Very British, right?

Our country and its values are being destroyed. pic.twitter.com/Mxge7y4WSO

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) July 27, 2025

Now, it has since been deleted in the ensuing uproar; however, an exceedingly clever girlfriend saved an archived version.

Sir Keir’s very proud of doing so. Here he is bragging about arresting over four hundred online problem children to date, and he hadn’t even set up his little fascist spy-squad yet.

Keir Starmer BOASTS about having 400 people arrested for social media comments..

Yikes. pic.twitter.com/tIDTrqvR3p

— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) July 27, 2025

Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!

Can you imagine who they’ll be able to snag up next?

Rapists, pedophiles, and terror offenders have received shorter sentences than a mother who wrote a bad tweet that she took down pic.twitter.com/yY2uEuJtoc

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) July 26, 2025

Only, like…anyone.

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