I'm proud of the British Empire, black lady proclaims
The Attorney General has slammed left-wing people for being 'ashamed' of Britain's colonial past and said she was 'proud' of the British Empire.
Suella Braverman, whose parents are from Mauritius and Kenya and emigrated to the UK in the 1960s, said people should honour 'the ingenuity and the genius of the British people'.
Many people have railed against celebrating the British Empire, with a number of institutions set on decolonisation, which critics say is an attempt to censor history.
Last month the University of Salford even scrapped sonnet-writing from a creative writing course in a bid to remove itself from 'white Western culture' amid its push to 'decolonise the curriculum'.
At the height of its power in 1921 the British Empire was known as the 'empire on which the sun never set' and was home to some 413 million people.
However, Mrs Braverman said she was 'proud of the British Empire' in an interview with The Telegraph.
She said: 'I am informed by the experience of my parents.' '[They] were born under the British Empire in the 1940s, and they have nothing but good things to tell me about the mother country'. 'It was Britain that gave them opportunity and safety when they were young adults.'
She said Mauritius's legal and educational system took inspiration from the British Empire, while in Kenya it was a 'force for good' as it put in place infrastructure and roads.
She admitted 'awful things' happened in the Empire because of the culture at that time but accused the Left of being apologetic for patriotism.
She said: 'It's born out of a left-wing apology for patriotism and for Britain. 'Ashamed of our history, fearful of our past, not the ingenuity and the genius of the British people.'
The Attorney General previously told the Conservative Home blog there was no need to apologise for the British Empire.
She said: 'My background is one that is ferociously proud of Britain, Britain's history, Britain's welcome. My parents were born under the British Empire. They came to this country with a huge fondness for the empire.
'What Britain brought to their countries... was remarkable. And I get very saddened by this apology and shame, promulgated by the Left and commenced by the collective guilt that started under Tony Blair that is pervading our society.'
Mrs Braverman, MP for Fareham, added she got 'very frustrated with leftie activists who want to decolonise our curriculum and cancel our culture and pull down statues'.
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Missouri and Louisiana strike back against DHS disinformation board in federal court: ‘Federal social media censorship already in full swing on a massive scale.’
By Robert Romano
“DHS’s so-called ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ [DGB] … was not a novel initiative by the federal government to launch a new censorship program to silence disfavored voices on social media. On the contrary… federal social-media censorship program is already in full swing at DHS and other federal agencies, on a massive scale. A scale so massive, in fact, that the DGB was created to centralize, normalize, and impose a bureaucratic structure on the enormous campaign of online censorship that Defendants have already launched.”
That was Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt in a joint petition to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana with Louisiana Republican Attorney General Jeffrey Landry, arguing that efforts by the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to coordinate with social media “suppressing core political speech about election security and COVID-19 restrictions” that was otherwise protected by the First Amendment have been going on for years, and even predates the Biden administration. He’s right.
In 2018, Congress unanimously passed legislation, H.R. 3359, which authorized the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to disseminate information to the private sector including Big Tech social media companies in a bid to combat disinformation by potential foreign and domestic terrorists.
The law authorizes CISA to share information with the private sector in order to “deter… terrorist attacks”: “to disseminate, as appropriate, information analyzed by the Department within the Department, to other agencies of the Federal Government with responsibilities relating to homeland security, and to agencies of State and local governments and private sector entities with such responsibilities in order to assist in the deterrence, prevention, preemption of, or response to, terrorist attacks against the United States.”
In 2021, DHS under the Biden administration renamed the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force (CFITF), which was run under CISA, to the Mis-, Dis-, and Malinformation (MDM) team was altered by the Biden administration in 2021.
According to the agency’s website, CISA says it the MDM team “rout[es] disinformation concerns” to “appropriate social media platforms”: “The [Mis, Dis, Malinformation] MDM team serves as a switchboard for routing disinformation concerns to appropriate social media platforms and law enforcement.”
The website adds, “This activity began in 2018, supporting state and local election officials to mitigate disinformation about the time, place, and manner of voting. For the 2020 election, CISA expanded the breadth of reporting to include other state and local officials and more social media platforms. This activity leverages the rapport the MDM team has with the social media platforms to enable shared situational awareness.”
The censorship also includes what DHS says is Covid disinformation: “COVID-19 has demonstrated that a rapidly evolving event creates opportunities for adversaries to act maliciously… The MDM team supports the interagency and private sector partners’ COVID-19 response efforts via regular reporting and analysis of key pandemic-related MDM trends.”
And this has led to hundreds of thousands of social media accounts to be censored, Schmitt argued: “This censorship encompasses social-media accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, including many thousands of followers in Missouri and Louisiana.”
That is was confirmed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on May 4 in questioning from U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), stating, “Allow me to share when we become involved in the Department of Homeland Security. We become involved when disinformation poses a threat to the security of our country. It is when there is a connectivity to a threat to our country.”
Why is the Biden administration using social media to identify Americans it perceives to be “a threat to our country”?
The implication is that DHS views American citizens dissenting against either the outcome of elections, or to teaching Critical Race Theory at public schools, or to Covid policies including masking and vaccines on social media to their friends and family to not be First Amendment-protected political speech normal in a functioning democracy, but actually terrorist threats.
And the Biden administration appears to be proud of its record of censorship. As Schmitt notes, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on July 15, 2021 stated: “[W]e are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff… We’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation… We engage with them regularly and they certainly understand what our asks are…” And on April 25, 2022, Psaki stated “we engage regularly with all social media platforms about steps that can be taken.”
This is censorship out in the open, and it must be ripped out by the roots in Washington, D.C. by Congress, by defunding DHS and CISA’s capacity in the 2018 law to share information with private sector social media companies. In the meantime, Missouri and Louisiana are standing up for the First Amendment in federal court. This fight has only begun.
Big Brother is watching. And now so are the American people, too.
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Major Sports Publication Just Ripped A Coach For Praying On The Field!
A smear story on high school football coach Joe Kennedy was published in Sports Illustrated on Monday.
According to SI, Kennedy is destroying America by praying after football games. Kennedy is a threat to American Democracy, SI says.
Greg Bishop, an American football player also claims that Joe Kennedy praying on the field after a football game would be an “erosion of a bedrock of American democracy.”
Bishop is seriously arguing that a coach praying on a field, not over the PA system, but quietly by himself, would bring an end to the American way of life.
On Monday, Sports Illustrated tweeted, “SCOTUS will soon rule on the case of a public school football coach who wants to pray on-field after games.”
It added, “[Greg Bishop] on Joe Kennedy, the machine backing him and the expected result: a win for Kennedy and an erosion of a bedrock of American democracy.”
Now, the Supreme Court is weighing the case of Joe Kennedy. Kennedy is a former high school football coach who lost his job after praying on the 50-yard-line. He accused the Bremerton School District of violating his constitutional rights to free exercise and free speech when he was fired.
The case is explained in full by ‘Just the News’:
Kennedy, a retired Marine, coached the football team from 2008 to 2015 and would kneel and quietly pray at midfield after every game.
While he initially prayed alone, after several games students and players joined him, even inviting players from opposing teams.
Eventually, Kennedy started giving short motivational speeches to the players who gathered after games, which sometimes included religious content and a short prayer.
After seven years of Kennedy praying on the field after games, a school administrator from a visiting team complimented Bremerton High School’s principal on the coach’s practice. The school district subsequently investigated the situation, directed Kennedy to cease the ritual, denied him a religious accommodation request, implemented a new policy to stop him from praying publicly on the football field, then suspended and fired him for continuing to do so.
According to the school district, Kennedy could not pray publicly following the end of a game while still being on duty as a coach. The district offered to let him pray in “private locations within the school building or athletic facility, or … press box.”
Kennedy filed a lawsuit with First Liberty Institute against the Bremerton School District in a federal district court in 2016, asking that he be allowed to continue coaching as the case made its way through the courts. The district court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court all denied Kennedy’s request.
However, the Supreme Court sent the case back down to the district court for further litigation. The district court and the Ninth Circuit both decided for the school district. The lawsuit was refiled with the Supreme Court in September 2021, which in January decided to hear the case.
“[T]his case presents an opportunity for the Supreme Court to review — and possibly rectify— legal precedent that has been harmful to religious freedom for decades,” First Liberty said last month.
“Public employers, especially school districts, often misinterpret their civic obligations under the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment,” argued the religious liberty legal defense group. “But now, we’ll be asking that the Court clarify the interaction of these clauses.”
The nonprofit law firm added that “a ruling in Coach Kennedy’s favor could impact public school employees nationwide, helping safeguard their constitutional rights and ensure they won’t face a difficult choice between their careers and their faith.”
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McEnany Rips Biden Administration Over Lack of Action on Pro-Life Threats
There is nothing better than Kayleigh McEnany all fired up against Joe Biden. After the lack of action taken against the group Jane’s Revenge, she has every right to be.
As McEnany states, this administration could care less because this is not a liberal interest. If you are unfamiliar with what is happening on this front, here is a quick rundown.
A radical leftist pro-abortion group called Jane’s Revenge basically gave pro-choice groups 30 days to stand down. The threat was made after the Roe v. Wade SCOTUS leak.
When those groups did not stand down, attacks started to happen, many of which this group took responsibility for.
The threat was made in an open letter, yet our Department of Justice has done nothing about it. This is a legitimate domestic terror threat, and Garland and Biden are sitting on their hands.
https://quicknewsupdates.com/mcenany-rips-biden-adm/
*************************************************British explorer Captain Cook cancelled in Australia: when will we call this out as racism?
Peaceful explorer, cartographer, and navigator Captain James Cook has been removed from the Australia versus England Test match crystal Cook Cup.
After a quarter of a century, one of the greatest men in history will be replaced by the ‘Ella-Mobbs Trophy’ due to be unveiled in Perth this July.
The hyphenated name is for two people, an English winger and casualty of the first world war on the Western Front Edgar Mobbs, and the Indigenous Australian Mark Ella who served as the first Indigenous captain.
Ultra-Woke Rugby Australia is believed to have led the move to rename the cup.
Bowing to the ridiculous cancel culture of the foreign Marxist-driven social movement set on committing acts of cultural vandalism in the West, Rugby Australia and the Rugby Football Union said that this change would ‘better represent’ the history of both nations.
‘The majority of Indigenous people wouldn’t want that [Cook’s name] on the cup,’ said Glen Ella, Mark’s twin, in a comment that would be deemed highly offensive and inappropriate if it were said about an Indigenous person.
‘I don’t have a problem, personally, it doesn’t really worry me. But to do the right thing by Aboriginal people, yeah, I understand why they’ve made that call. There is still a lot of angst about that among the elders, so they’re doing the right thing and making an effort to change the name to something more to do with rugby, and not carry those connotations.’
Considering Cook discovered Australia, no one would be playing rugby and certainly not an Australia-England Test match if it weren’t for Captain Cook.
‘The Wallabies’ England Test series will see a new trophy introduced for all future series between the nations. Australia and England first played against each other in a Test match in 1909 in London. With such a vast history between them, Rugby Australia and the Rugby Football Union made the decision that the trophy should better represent the proud rugby history of both nations,’ said an RFU spokesperson.
The claim is that Cook is a divisive figure in Australia – except that he isn’t – or at least he wasn’t until the Black Lives Matter mob latched onto the navigator and tried to tear down his achievements to elevate their race-driven revenge activism.
It has become Woke and ‘cool’ to hate the people who contributed the most to the founding of Australia, even when they were decent human beings.
Captain Cook quite literally put Australia on the map. By all accounts, his morality, ethics, courage, and leadership stand in better stead than most activists screeching at the nearest microphone. He was revered and honoured across Australian culture because he deserved it. He is also the link between England and Australia, hence his significance for the Test match trophy.
Despite being a good and peaceful man, he was killed and cooked in 1779 by Hawaiian natives.
The only criticism activists can level at Cook is that he ‘enabled Colonialism’ but if activists were being honest with history and themselves, every culture on Earth went out and explored lands. The Indigenous people of Australia are themselves explorers from Asia who came down in successive waves with today’s people having warred with, intermarried, and in many cases killed existing tribes.
As far as anyone can tell, Cook never killed anyone. At one point, he fired three non-lethal loads toward antagonistic Aboriginal warriors with the intention of scaring them away. One shot slightly injured a warrior in the leg after the warrior had thrown stones and other projectiles at Cook’s men. The object was to keep his crew safe after cultural misunderstandings arose during otherwise peaceful trade negotiations which the Aboriginal people had previously been engaged in. What is often left out of the story is that at the time of the shots being fired, the Aboriginal warriors were throwing poisoned darts with the intent of killing. Cook was merely trying to hold them back without causing harm while his men retreated.
This trade exchange between two peoples who were unable to communicate except through the most crude of hand signals and offerings is exaggerated by activists into an act of imperialism or aggression. It is a complete nonsense and fabrication of history designed to re-paint the world as a ‘struggle’ between victims and oppressors instead of human beings trying to navigate the world and its challenges.
Cook was an adventurer that greatly expanded our scientific knowledge of nature and geography – something that the Left proclaim to value and yet refuse to praise or acknowledge the individuals who actually did it because they don’t like the colour of their skin.
Cancelling people because of their heritage, culture, or skin colour is a racist trend imported from jealous, hateful Marxists looking to tear down their ideological betters and replace Australia’s truly equal political system with a race-based society of victimhood and division which can be easily extorted for money and power.
The Left love to go on about ‘offense’ well, it is offensive to attack, malign, and paint an historical figure like Captain James Cook with fabricated hatred. It shows a complete lack of respect to Australia, its history, and the story of how we all came to be here together in peace.
Shame on Rugby Australia and RFU for cancelling one of the greatest men in Australian history – especially considering they chase balls around for a living. Perspective…
https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/cook-cancelled-when-will-we-call-this-out-as-racism/
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