#FreeTommy
Tommy Robinson is in jail for civil disobedience. He acted in defiance of a media blackout against reporting the gangs that were grooming and prostituting young girls, and the taboo against mentioning that the people doing this were not ethnically indigenous Britons; they were "Asians," or people from places like Pakistan who tended to be of the Muslim faith. He knew they were going to arrest him. The courts reacted predictably and jailed Robinson, but he knew that was coming; he realized that his only way to keep the English courts from making this issue slide out of public view was to legally martyr himself: English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 13 months after being arrested outside Leeds Crown Court last week, court officials have confirmed. He was arrested on Friday for contempt of court after using social media to broadcast details of an ongoing trial which is subject to blanket reporting restrictions. Reporting restrictions were ...