Beautiful bastards, hope even a fantastic Thursday
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into the first thing I want to talk about today
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One of the most requested stories this week is the story around Tommy
Robinson now Robinson if you don't know because of his believes his former association with the English Defence League
He has long been a controversial figure in the UK
He's best known for his anti Islam and Islamic immigration views Robinson supporters in general
like him for speaking out against political correctness and the growing influence of Muslim communities throughout the UK all opponents
While opponents call him a racist bigot who Stokes fear and division by painting the Muslim community with a very wide brush
Although Tommy's argument there as he claims. He's not a racist since he only talks about an ideology and not the people's race
So that's a simplified version of the who we're talking about here
And now for the what why how and when which started last Friday that's because last Friday?
Robinson was filming outside a courthouse covering a huge child grooming sex trafficking trial involving Muslim men the trial which is just one of a
Series of shocking trials at his Rock the UK involves ten accused men and allegedly upwards of one hundred
Young girls as the victims as of right now
18 have publicly come forward and some of these girls are as young as 11 and so Robinson was there to wait the potential verdict
and he was live streaming the whole thing and the stream starts with him confronting some of the men that are on trial but for
The most part it's just him standing around talking to other bystanders talking about the case, but then things ramped up at 9:40 a.m
When Robinson who is still live streaming is surrounded by seven police officers who tell him he's being arrested
Are you gonna ask me Mike Lai's is going to explain what's gonna happen next?
And from that interaction there was a lot of confusion of why was he being arrested right before the police showed up
He's kind of just standing around
talking to
Bystanders reportedly Robinson was arrested for just talking about the ongoing child grooming case and made comments that the judge believed risk causing the child
Grooming trial to collapse. And the reason for that is this case has something called a postponement order
It's essentially a gag order and the justification for this restriction on speech in the UK is that it's seen as necessary
So the defendants can get a fair trial as the secret barrister a prominent legal blog explains to avoid jurors having their deliberations
contaminated by what they might read or hear about the earlier link trials reporting of all of them is often postponed until the end this
Is what we had here the judge had imposed a postponement order preventing the media from reporting on the ongoing trial until all linked trials
had concluded reaching a reporting restriction amounts to a contempt of court and what ended up being kind of crazy in my opinion is that
Till Tuesday it was hard for outlets to talk about this because there was then a postponement order uncovering
Robinson's case this because the judge believed it indirectly influenced the child grooming case
but that was lifted after English news groups challenged that in court and the official reason that order was then lifted was because it was
pointed out to the judge of the gag order to be quiet about Robinson's case was already being widely ignored online as far as what
Happened to Robinson within five hours of his arrest he pled guilty and was sentenced to 13 months
and of course following this you had people furious at Robinson's arrest this sentence saying he was just
Live-streaming the event all they also have people arguing against that because of the beginning of the livestream
He is confrontational with several of the accused
He had Robinson asking them what they feel about their verdict something that had not come out yet at one point
he points out the men's bag and calls it as prison bagged as implying the Tommy things if they're guilty and the reason people have
Been pointing out those moments is this is pretty much what he did back in
2017 where it got him in trouble and the judge then was very clear that if he did it again
He'd be back in prison and connected to that because it is a major point one of the reasons leading to his arrest and quick
Sentencing is that he was out on a suspended sentence for what he did in 2017
Now that said there of also been criticisms of the gag order itself and Tommy's arrest based on it
Well some think that it is needed for a fair trial many in the UK believe the whole concept of a postponement order is anti
free speech Keeble
Also pointing out that Tommy was allegedly just reading out things at a local newspaper and printed this leading to claims that he was targeted
Specifically that it was already publicly available information
There also people to believe that this is a death sentence because given Tommy his anti Islamic views
He'd be a target for Muslim inmates not according to Tommy's lawyer
the judge basically said he doesn't care and Tommy has claimed that president ministries have purposefully put him in situations out endanger his life in
The UK they can apparently hold you for eight days without a trial during one incident during his eight days
He was transferred to a prison for no reason thing
He asked for solitary for his protection but was denied Robinson also claimed that a white prisoner saved his life when he came to Tommy
And said that Muslim inmates in the prison were getting ready to put boiling water and sugar on it
So he started a fight to get thrown in solitary
We've also seen over 550 2,000 people signed a change.org petition demanding that Robinson be freed
We've seen hundreds of supporters protesting his arrest at Whitehall and 10 Downing Street
We've also seen UK Independence Party leader and European MP Gerard batten
Criticizing the gag order calling it an attack on free speech saying what kind of police state have we become I am trying to recall
A legal case where someone was convicted of a crime which cannot be reported on where he can be cast into prison without it being
possible to report his name offense or place of imprisonment for fear of contempt of court and I will say
Ultimately where I land on this as far as Tommy Robinson as a person, I'm not saying I like what he says
I'm not ever wanting to be paired with him
what I will say is a postponement order a gag order on what should be a free press is
Disgusting and outright ridiculous. It is without a doubt suppression of free speech
It creates an environment that is prime for abuse and it's essentially
Criminalizing news following facts and sometimes opinions is and not the answer. But of course that is my opinion
And so I passed the question off to you. What is your takeaway from this situation? Because there's kind of two situations one
There's the current legal situation of there is a law. However ridiculous. I personally find it. Should you have taken that into account?
Not live-streamed or no, you're happy that he did and on the other end. What do you think about postponement orders?
Are you for them or against them? Why why not? I'd love to know your thoughts in those comments down below
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We have BBC news telling us youtube stars might encourage kids to eat more calories where they specifically named the massive creators alfie deyes
And zoella making the kids fat and they've been doing it right under our noses this entire time reportedly
There was a new study that was presented by the european congress on obesity
They said the study found that when kids watch popular vloggers consume sugary and fatty snacks that those kids would then consume
26% more calories reportedly how they got these numbers. They came to this conclusion. They took
176 kids they split them into three groups one group was shown a personality promoting an unhealthy food another healthy food
and the last one and non-food products where the kids were offered a variety of unhealthy and healthy foods right in the range here was
carrot stick to chocolate reportedly the children who had seen unhealthy images consumed an average of 448 calories while the others ate just
357 and according to dr. Emma Boylan the children considered the vloggers to be everyday people just like their peers adding
They've earned a position of trust among young people and there has to be some responsibility along the line
But if I could interject really fast
This is not news all that appears to actually have been done with this study is to once again prove that
Advertising works if you see a thing online on TV on a billboard and it is presented in a way that is appealing to you
You are more likely to incorporate that into your life. Maybe make a purchase
you've also kind of explained the the parent child or
Brother-sister sort of relationship where if you see someone that you you feel connected to doing something you incorporate that once again?
That's not even new information even Anna Coates
The lead researcher of the study says we know that if you show children a traditional drink ever than their preference for that drink rise
And adding now that we've shown that children are influenced by online stars
Our next study will look at whether they understand that in many cases
Celebrities are being paid to promote products
What I would say about that last part is I think that is the most important thing in general
I do think there needs to be rules regulations enforcement to make it so that all of these online stars are
Transparent when they're doing ads on top of it being in general just kind of a scummy thing to try and sneak something like that
In it's just plain
Manipulative my main point when you see that relative go and see I told you YouTube was a bad influence on the kids
Maybe give them this extra information and maybe they're not allergic to new information or having a different opinion and though though though
widen their worldview and actually understand the reality of the situation or that's just wishful thinking and and it's too late for a lot of
People and then let's talk about the massive update around the park Linda's shooting that shooting of course at Stoneman Douglas High School were 17
Were killed 17 were injured and so right now the shooter is facing 17 counts of first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted
First-degree murder a Broward County prosecutors said they plan to seek the death penalty. This will require them to prove the crime was premeditated
But on the other end
The shooters attorneys have said that he will plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence instead of facing the possibility of the death penalty
His lawyers insisting he had a troubled life that he should be spared
execution also arguing that'll be wrong for the state to execute the shooter after so many red flags were missed that could have prevented the
shooting and finally
they argue that this deal would spare the victims families from having to relive the tragedy through what would certainly be a lengthy trial and
appeals process that said the prosecution feels very
confident because they have three videos from the shooters cell phone that proved that the crime was premeditated and those clips are part of an
Inventory of prosecution evidence recently shared with the defense team during pretrial discovery
And the reason that for the past 24 hours, you've seen that video posted on pretty much every news outlet
Which I will touch on again at the very end of this story
is that because under Florida law with few exceptions evidence becomes a public record when it's turned over to the defendants attorney as part of
The pre-trial discovery process these videos are disgusting. They are horrible
But also they are fantastic evidence for the prosecution the first video
He says his name. He says that he is only to be the next school shooter of 2018
He says his goal is to kill at least 20 people with an ar-15
gives the location of Stoneman Douglas and he says that it will be a big event that you will see him on the news you'll
Know who I am. He then laughs says you're all gonna die makes gun sound says he can't wait in the second video
He details his exact plan of how he's going to get there and what he's going to do in the third video
Here's to give motive saying I hate everyone and everything with the power of my AR
You will all know who I am
I had enough of being told what to do. And when to do later adding you will all see it
You will all know who my name is it over all we see from these disgusting and disturbing videos is a twisted monster who?
Premeditated his attack talking about it and then being excited about being made famous
Which is why I want to say to any of the mainstream media news outlets in the outlets
any any kind of news blogging organizations that promoted this video just plastered this assholes face and name all
Over the place and in a video where he is
so
Excited knowing that the media is going to eat this up and showcase his face and he's going to be made famous go fuck yourself
Right in your stupid fucking face at this point. I cannot believe that there is anyone out there in the news world
That is ignorant to the fact that when you plaster these faces and names all over the place you make these people famous you also
incentivize
Copycats you're incentivizing the next mass shooter and you have a track record of just feeding
These people the extra clicks and ad dollars from people's morbid curiosity shouldn't be the driving force behind your news organization
You should always try to think how things are going to affect people people should matter common decency
Common sense should matter hell. Look at this. Here's NBA Finals
If someone just you know storms the court, right like we've seen YouTube pranksters try and do in the past
Guess what?
they don't fucking air that on television if they can't help it because they don't want to promote that behavior yet apparently for
Organizations like the Washington Post and NBC. No, it's just another murderer
So we're giving him exactly what he talked about in several videos and laughed about but you know
whatever the people that message me and say we'll fill how are we supposed to talk about this story if we're not using
Faces and names. What do you think? I just fucking do it's not hard. All it takes is caring about decency more than dollars
I'm not saying suppress speech or suppress information. Let's find out everything we can but don't make them famous. Of course
There can be moments or you have a different policy if there's an active search for someone
Yes, get their name get their face out there so that they get apprehended. But once there they're taken in
No There's no benefit except to you for trying to get more clicks want to show the names on your TV show
Your website you were ever. How about one of the 17 people. He killed
Well, I appreciate places like CBS who have said they just will outright not show the video
That's a fantastic start. But if you still go to CB
His name and face are still plastered all over the place
It feels a little bit sad to me that I need to even praise thee the smallest of steps
But but hopefully this this slow kind of tippy toe can turn into a full-on sprint to not be in complete shit bag
But that's where this non
Advertiser friendly rant is going to end and of course
It's a story then my opinion and obviously this is a very strong opinion
I'd still love to hear from you whether you agree or you disagree in those comments below and that's where I'm going to end today's
show although if you are not done consuming news some of the other things happening around the world today that I'll link to in the
Description down below we had Denmark passing what is being called the burqa ban?
It's a lot of prohibits face covering in public unless there is a quote recognizable purpose with this move
Denmark is now in line with other European countries including Austria Belgium and France also in New Jersey
We had a couple admit. They stole 1.4 million dollars from victims of Hurricane
Sandy this through a construction fraud scheme, and they reportedly spent the money on gambling and jewelry
We also had Kim kardashian-west meeting with Donald Trump is to discuss the possibility of a pardon for Alice Marie Johnson
And actually despite many mocking this meeting including the New York Post who called her Kim phone hoon adding Trump meets rump at the other
Big-ass summit Alice Marie Johnson's story is actually interesting and it really hits on mandatory minimums
And so there's that and much more in the links down below
but unfortunately
I have to get out of here because
This is the last show in this office and I got a move now
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