The NANNY STATE Strikes Again! | Trending Ep312

 Kayne West is banned from entering the UK and performing at 'Wireless' festival after protests over his 'words'. Freedom of Speech in the UK is under threat. Iran and the US 'agree' two week ceasefire after Trump's genocidal threats. Is JD Vance being distanced from this war to protect his career?

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Good morning everybody and welcome to Wednesday's episode of Trending. I hope you're well wherever you are in the world. It's good to be back with you. Right, this morning we're going to talk about lots of different topics. We're going to talk about the obvious. In a minute, we're going to come to what's going on in the Middle East, what happened overnight in Iran or didn't happen, but we're going to start here in the UK because yesterday, Wireless Festival, a music festival here in the UK, announced that it was cancelling its festival because its headliner, Kanye West, or Yay, or wherever he goes by now, has been blocked from entering the UK. He's added, has had his visa revoked and told that he will not be allowed entry to the United Kingdom to perform at this festival. So as a result, the festival's cancelled, it's refunded everybody that was due to attend. Now the reason I found this very interesting is the wording that was used to justify his dismissal or his blocking of entry to the UK was that it may concern, may cause concern and tension within certain communities. His presence in the country. Right, okay, well, that's exactly the same excuse that the Dutch government used to ban David from entering Holland to perform at a protest in Amsterdam, what, four years ago or something now? And he's still banned from entering the EU or Schengen region, which is pretty much every country in mainland Europe. So it felt very close to home in that respect. And also, don't we live in a country where freedom of speech dominates? Don't we live in a country where freedom of speech is one of the bedrocks of society and therefore should be protected at all costs, especially for those that you may not agree with? It seems that we can pick and choose that. It seems that a man that tweets that the end of a civilization will end tonight and tweets about genocidal tendencies and warmongering tactics, he's getting a state visit. But somebody that wrote a song or somebody that says a few things that may harm some feelings, he's not allowed because he's a danger to the public. Hmm. That doesn't really add up to me. That adds up to massive double standards, and that adds up to just complete BS. Now, whether you agree with what Kanye West has said or not, it's irrelevant. Has he incited violence? Has he broken any laws in terms of inciting violence? Has he physically harmed anybody himself in this respect? Well doesn't sound like it to me, unless somebody wants to put a comment in this and prove me wrong. I don't think he's done any of those things. I'm not saying he said nice things, I'm not saying he's a lovely bloke. But he hasn't done any of the things that would involve you getting banned from a country, as far as I'm aware. He said a few things that people might not like. He said a few things that might upset a certain demographic of people.

unknown 3:15

Okay?

SPEAKER_00 3:16

So of a lot of people. So of a lot of people in a lot of different contexts. But they don't get banned from countries. And and this is where the real, real point of this is Do we want to live in a nanny state where the state decides for you, or a bunch of loud gobby mob people, whatever background they may come from, they decide for you what you can watch, what you can read, and what you can go and see. Because if you find what Kanye West said so offensive that you don't want to you don't want to see him, you don't want to speak to him, you don't want to watch his concert, don't go and watch his concert then. Just like if there's a comedian out there that you find offensive, don't buy a ticket to their show then. But why should you have the right, or the state have the right, to stop somebody else that might want to go and watch that? What kind of narcissistic personality do you have to have to think that you can have the right to go through your life never being offended, never seeing or hearing something that you don't want to see or hear? What kind of snowflake have you got to be? And what kind of arrogance have you got to have? Most people just get on with it. Go, yeah, not my cup of tea, but you know, crack on. But some people just can't do that. They have to try and control what you and I can see, and it has to be the same as what they want to see. It can't be anything outside of their ridiculously tiny mind. It's it's bizarre. And people might say, okay, why is this so important? It's important because it's a precedent. Now, I don't care about Kanye West or Wireless Festival, it's not my thing. But if thousands of people want to go and watch it, what impact does that have on my life? It doesn't have any. Does it have any impact on my life at all? However, by banning it, by banning him, that sets the precedent to then ban other things and other people that maybe will affect my life, maybe will affect your life. It's a precedent that we know that when they push on the door, if the door gets no resistance, they'll keep pushing and eventually it's wide open. So if they push this, where people are banned from entering the UK for their opinions, and there may not be opinions that are liked by certain people, then if that gets no resistance, where does that end? Does that end with banning you? Does that end with banning British citizens from doing certain things? We've had to experience that ourselves. We have had to now, for about the last six years, every time we do an event, we've had to hide the location until the last 24 hours. Because if we didn't, the event would probably be cancelled. Because mobs that have attacked Canyon West like this and attacked Wireless Festival would be phoning up the venues, they'd be threatening them, they'd be giving them lots of reasons to believe that there's going to be mass protests, they can't control whether there's violence, they can't guarantee the safety of these audiences, all of those ridiculous they're threats, but they're done in a very clever way without saying it outright. And as a result, venues have pulled. The amount of times I've had phone calls from venues within the last 24 hours, within the last couple of days of the event due to happen, and having to find another one. And it's so, so it's so sad because I can honestly say, and I'm sure you can listening to this as well, you've never sat and seen that somebody is performing somebody some somewhere or somebody has an event somewhere or a conference or a gig and thought I'm gonna phone out the venue because I don't want them in my town. I'm sure you haven't I know I haven't now like I said at the top, there's a line. If somebody is a committed, sorry, a a convicted sex offender, for example, or somebody is a a convicted fraudster giving people financial advice, yeah, there's there's there's laws there already to protect against the incitement of violence, there's laws there to protect against the incitement of hatred. Although we can sit here and disagree, I'm sure, what incitement of violence and incitement of hatred is, because that Labour counsellor who said we should slip the throats of any of the far right. Well, that's that sounds like inciting violence to me, especially when you're saying that in a crowd of people outside when there's a protest of um so-called far right people in the next street. So somebody could have literally gone and acted upon his words within 30 seconds. That's the incitement of violence, and he got a slap on the wrist. Whereas you take someone like Lucy Connolly, who, you know, I don't agree with what she said, but burn it down for all I care, she said. That's a grey line. That's a that's a grey area, that's not a sensible thing to say at all. But did she say go to this place, people please, gather, go here and do this? Well, she didn't say it in quite as black and white terms as that. It was very, very stupid what she said. But she went to prison while the Labour and Labour minister got a slap on the wrist. There's no consistency. And I'm sure somebody will be allowed into the country. Well, Donald Trump, as I said, is coming over for a state visit while talking about committing genocide. And Kanye US can't enter the country. The reason this is so important is just as I say, it's the precedent, it's what this leads to, it's where this goes next and how much this impacts freedom of speech across the UK. Because we've already seen it falling apart. Thousands are arrested every year for things they post on social media. We've seen schools get more and more aggressive with students that have opinions that they don't like, same with universities, same with workplaces and other institutions. So where this leads is very, very important to continue to talk about and highlight. Because as I say, when they push against the door, if it gets no resistance, they'll keep going. So if this just happens and everyone then goes about their day and forgets it happened, you know they're coming back again and it's going to be more extreme and it's going to be more severe. So there seems to be a lot of hills to die on, whether it be digital IT, whether it be AI, whether it be freedom of speech, they all intertwine. They do all intertwine. Because without being able to talk freely, speak freely, you can't challenge those two other things that I just mentioned. You can't challenge the status quo. You can't challenge new policies and new announcements and new agendas that are detrimental to humanity. And that's what they want. They want people sat at home in silence, not standing up, not speaking up, not speaking out. Because how much easier are you to control when you're too scared to say anything? So that's why self-censorship is the most dangerous of all. We've got to continue to speak our minds, we've got to continue to speak truth and continue to challenge narratives that are clearly BS, continue to challenge policies that are clearly not in our interests. If that gets us stick, if that gets us shouted at, then so be it. Doesn't just because you're on the side that are being shouted at does not mean you're on the side that's wrong. And as I said a few times in recent shows, the law is now no measuring stick for morality. It's not, it should be, but it's not, unfortunately. And in this world, if you're in the side of the majority, invariably you're on the uh on the wrong side. But we shall see what happens. Well, thank you very much for tuning with me if you're watching with us on YouTube or Twitter. We're gonna head over to Iconic and we're gonna talk about what's going on in the Middle East. We're gonna dive into that quite specifically and uh also talk about an area of this war or one particular person in the US administration that seems to have disappeared as soon as this war began. And I don't think that is by accident. So I'll see you over there.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Don't mention the reptiles, Dave. Even less is said about the Grey Pope, who some believe to be the true ruling power in the Vatican. Humans are missing a lack of dress. All of them had little sickness. I've never seen it before. This is the ultimate suicide.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

What if the symbols around us every day are just ornamental?

SPEAKER_01 12:02

We must have these at least.

SPEAKER_02 12:04

What if they're instructions?

SPEAKER_00 12:08

is not manipulatable.