Darrell Castle talks about the deterioration of freedom and the imposition of top-down control of speech and thought in the mother country that once believed in the concept of freedom.

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FREE SPEECH OR INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 5th day of September in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the deterioration of freedom and the imposition of top-down control of speech and thought in the mother country that once believed in the concept of freedom.

From at least the year 1215 when the Great Charter the Magna Charta was imposed on King John by the British nobles English people have had the proud belief that they were free. King John did not resist but accepted the concept in writing that the law applies equally to all Englishmen, King and commoner alike. When the American colonies rebelled it was at least in part because they wanted the rights of ordinary Englishmen which they believed they were.

In a system that is euphemistically referred to as democracy, people are supposed to choose their own leaders so the government is the people. That is the belief that we accept as true even when we know it no longer is true if it ever was. I am talking about Great Britain right now rather than the United States because things are happening in Britain that would not be tolerated here or at least I hope it would not be.

By way of disclaimer, I haven’t been to England in many years to see firsthand for myself what is happening, but I read and follow the stories continually reported by others. Great Britain seems to be in the middle of a crises involving immigration and the rights of immigrants versus the rights of Englishmen. The English government and recently the courts have clearly taken the position that immigrant rights are preeminent and that has led to a crises that many believe is the precursor to civil war. Why would a government of the people choose to prosecute its own people for just talking about immigrants in a negative way. Unbelievable, yet we accept it as true because it is happening right now in Great Britain.

For example, consider the case of British comedian Graham Linehan. I admit that I was completely unfamiliar with the man until I, like the rest of the world, read his words and followed his story. His story is all the more disturbing because it is not at all unusual in England today. Mr. Linehan was in America doing some type of project in Arizona. When he attempted to board his flight to London he was singled out and subjected to extra screening, etc. He chalked it up to the joys of air travel today but when he arrived in London he found it was a lot more than just inconvenience.

“The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. Not one, not two—five. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets. In a country where pedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up).” OK, here is the tweet, or printed statement, or expressed thought, however you want to say it that got him arrested. “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”

There were three tweets in total as the officers told him but I won’t quote the others because there is profanity in them. This case is significant and we hear of it because the victim is a prominent man who apparently has a popular presence on British television. They confiscated his belt, carry- on bag, and electronic devices and put him in a holding cell. This case is common and is happening all the time but we know of this one for the reason I stated.

Why do so many Middle Eastern and African migrants make their way, illegally to England. There is freedom in England to a far greater extent than in the places they escape from. Freedom to speak and behave as they please for them but not for Englishmen. No, if an Englishman said online what the migrants are free to say he would be thrown in prison. There seems to be a two-tiered system of freedom in Great Britain right now. One tier for migrants and one for Englishmen. The one for Englishmen requires them to be very careful what they say or put online. If they insult migrants or trans people they could be hauled into court and dealt with very harshly by an unsympathetic judge.

I’ve been receiving emails from contacts in Great Britain giving their opinion of what is happening because they know of my interest. I’m told that if I were in England the Castle Report from last week and this one would get me arrested. When speech that used to be free is unapproved or unliked by the state it could be termed as an incitement to violence. The emails that I mentioned invited me to attend a rally in London on Saturday the 13th which I believe is a week from tomorrow. The rally is being organized by concerned people both male and female and they hope to have a million participants from around the world in attendance. If I were 20 years younger I like to think I would be there but that is easy to say now since I am safe here in America.

Free speech is very important because without it people are not really free but it is not the most important thing at risk in this struggle. The real issue and one that simply cannot be lost if freedom is to continue is who is in charge of Great Britain. Is it the people through self-governance, or a group of George Soros-funded elitists who have gained power and will not surrender without a fight. More than 10,000 arrests happen every year in Great Britain for online comments, more than Russia and many other countries we usually think of as not free.

There are many in Great Britain who are starting to say that if free speech is incitement to violence according to the state then so be it and let it come. I’ve been surprised by all of this madness so far and the numb, uncaring attitude of people sometimes amazes me, but I will be beyond shocked if the British people totally surrender their freedom without a fight. That belief leads me to conclude that the British government is flirting with civil war. There might still be a little fight left in the English despite decades of education and decades of poison poured into their bodies.

I’m not the only one to see danger in the way the British government is behaving. Piers Morgan responded to the arrest of Mr. Linehan with this statement posted on X; “What’s happened today is absolutely ridiculous. Five armed cops arresting him at Heathrow for tweets mocking the scandal of biological men invading women’s spaces? When it comes to free speech, Britain’s turning into North Korea.”

The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Keir Starmer, seems to sense the danger as well and is trying to occupy both sides of the argument at the same time. He issued an order back in July that the U.K. Home Office was to assemble an “elite team of police officers” to monitor social media for “anti-migrant sentiment” in a new investigations unit to “flag early signs of potential civil unrest.” Starmer has made several statements since then apparently trying to appease those who would prefer to see England remain English.

 Statements such as if you want to live in the UK you should speak English. “I want to see every asylum hotel closed.”  He does have precedent for telling the big lie because I think it was the propaganda minister of the nation Britain defeated in a big war that was the master teacher of the big lie. I suppose the idea is that if you can convince enough people to believe you they will just chill out and accept tyranny and bondage where they once had freedom.

Mr. Starmer also criticized the police for the Linehan arrest, not because it was terribly wrong and an unlawful arrest but because it detracted the police from more important duties. What he didn’t criticize was the 10,000 times each year it happens to ordinary Englishmen who don’t happen to be famous or prominent. Mr. Linehan was released from custody on condition that he stay off X. Ok Mr. Linehan you can have the illusion of freedom as long as you stay off X. See Mr. Linehan what you did by speaking your mind publicly is now a crime in the UK, but you are prominent so if you just shut up and leave the tyranny to us we will allow you that illusion.

The police were nice to him, Mr. Linehan said and seemed to be “just doing their jobs.” Yes they were just going about the duty they were assigned and doing their jobs. I don’t know who sworn officers in the UK swear to but I doubt if their oath requires them to enforce tyranny. That’s the issue though isn’t it and always has been. Who is the police force and more importantly the military loyal to. Here is America they take an oath to the Constitution rather than to a specific person, ala Nazi Germany, or to the government. In the UK right now, I don’t know who they agree to support. British police and British military have a history of support for tyranny which to some extent provoked the American Revolution. The British navy needed sailors and their press gangs would roam the countryside kidnapping men from their homes and pressing them into service. They would stop American merchant ships on the high seas and kidnap merchant sailors.

The Americans didn’t like that and they organized resistance which resulted in 250 years of freedom and independence. We argue and test in our courts the issue of free speech but it is still pretty important here in America. I hope we never see the day when people are grabbed off the street and imprisoned for something they said. It’s hard to imagine, but tyranny often comes gradually rather than suddenly so every violation has to be dealt with in order preserve the system that so many have died to build and protect for future generations.

Finally, folks, pretty much every week we read about some horrible crime committed by migrants in the UK. Quite often those crimes are against children and more often than not against working class girls.  Thousands of young girls have endured the crime of rape at their hands. The British government has so far chosen to imprison those who complain and free the criminals. Apparently, however, many of those working-class girls are getting tired of it and that, at least in part, is why the rally in London is scheduled on the 13th.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.