It’s like the State can only radicalise – the Billy TK & Vinny case study
This is so dumb…
Billy TK Jr says court case over lockdown protest has cost him over $10k
Conspiracy theorist Billy Te Kahika Jr says his court case over a Covid lockdown protest he organised has cost him more than $10,000.
The saga has been a “nightmare” and “disgusting”, he says.
Te Kahika and Vincent (Vinny) Eastwood were both jailed in Marchfor breaching Covid-19 legislation by organising and attending a protest in 2021.
However, their lawyers immediately asked for the men to be granted bail, pending an appeal against their sentences being heard in the High Court.
Bail conditions were set by Judge Peter Winter, preventing the defendants from publicising the reasons they think their appeal may succeed on any social media platform.
The pair appeared in front of Justice Timothy Brewer at the High Court at Auckland on Tuesday morning appealing that bail condition.
The hearing lasted no longer than 10 minutes.
Justice Brewer quashed the bail restriction, saying being unable to talk about their case on social media was contrary to their rights of freedom of expression.
…it’s like the State can’t help but radicalise people it abuses!
I ask you all to consider Ahamed Samsudeen and the manner in which over zealous State interference in that young mans life directly contributed to his radicalisation.
If you doubt me, read Graeme Edgeler’s damning critique of his case and recoil in shock at how badly that State behaved and how its interference impacted on his act of terrorism.
Imprisoning Vinnie and Billy TK while trying to censor them is mixing the rocket fuel of radicalisation!
Here’s what the State should have done.
Reached out to Vinnie and Billy via their lawyers with an offer of a guilty plea, no sentence, but a role in paid work with Police for a period of 18months where they consult and advise Police on anti-radicalisation programs while also fronting and hosting group talk sessions that help reunite families and friends who have been lost down conspiracy rabbit holes.
That is what should have been offered, instead the State makes them into martyrs!
It’s the same fuck up with the Counterspin Duo who will argue to a Court that as journalists they have journalist protection and that’s why they didn’t hand over their passwords.
The State’s lack of nuance and hamfisted aggression only fuels the extremism and proves to b believers that their heroes are being treated like this because they are a threat to the State!
As the economic recession gets tighter, this extremism will be fed unless well defined de-escalation programmes aimed at de-radicalising via talk therapy promoted on Social Media is adopted.
We actively need to engage with people for peaceful disagreement or we are only going to radicalise even further!
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Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Covid gave us a peak at the authortarian left and they’re well in truly ensconsed in postions of power… To that end dissent must be punished…
Labour did what most Western governments did, as such the key problems here is rising authoritarianism and the force/money that managed to influence global governments to largely act the same.
Billy TK Jr is relatively new to me but Vinny Eastwood has been around for eons. Chap knows more about all manner of issues than pretty much all of us here combined. They are only radical because they protested against radical government actions, as such, the big takeaway from their ‘infamy’ is – just how radical is our government going to get!
Just replace judges with AI, probably get more impartiality, consistency and fairness and it would cost pence.
It’s as if the government has something to hide!
With the transfaccist, government funded, apparatchik SL, along with their troupe of drug addled, criminally violent freaks currently being elevated to the status of moral interpreters of our time – nobody needs Billy TK Jr. or Vinny Eastwood to become radicalized.