This post is long overdue, late you may say – but then I’ve never much cared for being on-time.

The case of Tommy Robinson, the name I shall use, is more significant than most realise. Perhaps it is because I have learnt from my naivety, when I would’ve described myself as his ‘supporter’, that I understand the true significance of this case.

And yet, as I’m sure many will have inferred, (despite no implication), the purpose of this post is not to slander, unperson nor dehumanise Tommy Robinson. Such is the significance of this case that a disclaimer is needed. I truly believe that if you do not understand fully the case of Tommy Robinson, you will never understand the state of our society; (and hence, be anywhere-near understanding how to change it).

As above, when I was younger and much more naive, I used to support Tommy Robinson. That is in the sense of most modern, unthinking, ‘support’, chanting his name from the sidelines and proclaiming the half of the story that I understood.

As I understood it, when I did not truly understand, I knew that Tommy Robinson was wrongly portrayed as a hate-figure. I knew that the media refused to talk about certain topics in relation to Islam and the growth of the muslim population, and that any attempt of dialogue would result in you being slandered as some sort of -ist or -phobe. I knew that something was deeply wrong with our society. However, I did not understand it fully. I did not understand how to change it, and so like most I supported a man whom I saw was being mistreated – oblivious to the fact that such ‘support’ would change nothing.

What I also saw was what the media fed us, and continues to, the stories of ‘terrorism’ and isis. The most powerful tool the media has is not what they say, but what they do not say. And so, seeing the muck that was thrown at anybody who dared to mention that most ‘terrorists’ also happened to be muslims – and too the same attitude towards any conversation regarding Islam – I made the, naieve & wrongful, conclusion that there was a deliberate coverup of muslim wrongdoing in this country, not-least muslim terrorists.

At the same time I saw Tommy Robinson, a man pelted with more slime than any. Invited onto primteime television just so that he could be mocked by the upper classes. I knew then that he himself did not fully understand the situation, but I saw that he had the courage to speak his mind and I saw his words were twisted. This I knew to be wrong, as I know it now to be wrong. But the difference now from then is I now know the mistakes I made.

I now understand that there is no specific coverup of muslim wrongdoing as there is no specific coverup of non-muslim wrongdoing. I now understand that the reason the media does it’s utmost to silence many conversations is not to coverup any wrongdoing, but to create an impression of such – hence, it is to divide us.

What I did not see was the other side of the story. I did not see the muslims who were fed up of the myth of Aladdin* and his bandits, (sorry, *Osama and ISIS). Just as I did not understand my own naievity, I did not understand theirs. I didn’t understand why those who saw the lies of ‘terrorism’, yet didn’t fully understand their purpose, hated Tommy Robinson. I thought they were all ‘lefties’, ‘SJWs’, ‘NPCs’ – meaningless slanders no different from ‘racist’, ‘islamophobe’, ‘bigot’ they would call us.

I did not understand, that just as I had never spoken to a muslim nor bothered to explore these instances of ‘terrorism’, (just how do they differ to any other crime, exactly?), that those who hated Tommy Robinson had never heard the words he spoke. Instead, both groups, whether we supported Tommy Robinson as a martyr, or hated him as a bigot, formed our opinions from what the mainstream media fed us. As above, both groups formed their opinions primarily from what was NOT said, rather than what was said. Just as I wrongly concluded the lack of discussion on Islam was a muslim-takeover-plot, the other side concluded that the lack of discussion regarding ‘terrorism’ was a conspiracy to demonise all muslims.

The truth, I now realise, we were both so right, yet oh so naieve.

What we believe to be true is often far from it. Our belief is formed from the information we posess. Hence, given most rely on the media outlets for nearly all their information, the media is massively powerful in manipulating people’s beliefs. Regardless of belief, knowledge is much more powerful. As when we know the truth, we cannot change this knowledge, we cannot un-know it. We can attempt to deceive ourselves, but we can never un-learn the truth. And so, from simple observation we know that something is wrong. Segregated into two sides, one knows Tommy Robinson is being misrepresented, the other knows that terrorism is a fib. We know it, but we don’t fully understand it. And so, this is where the media manipulates is.

Despite most of us distrusting the media, we still hold an inherent trust for it. And so taking advantage of our scepticism, yet inherent trust, they manipulate us more through what they do not say – rather than what they do say. If both groups were to have had a civil discussion, I would have realised that ‘terrorism’ has been invented to divide and subjugate us, muslims the convenient scapegoats, and many others would have realised that Tommy RObinson was merely a man who saw an issue, not fully understanding it, and spoke his mind – albeit not that eloquently.

But the ruling classes know this, they are not that stupid. The best form of warfare is to divide your enemy and play them against one-another – Dive and Conquer. Tommy Robinson is not your enemy nor are muslims.

And so, after a long-period of realisation I can now reflect on the significance of Tommy Robinson.

Reflecting upon the man himself I judge that he is perhaps similar in thought as to how I used to be. (Perhaps he is more wise now, I don’t know, I no longer follow him). I judge that he sees that Islam has been made a verboten topic on the mainstream outlets, and I deem that he, as I used to, does not fully understand why – but has made some wongful conlusions. This explains just why the media presenters of the aristrocracy were so confident in mocking him. He wasn’t in on the joke – the perfect fool, the perfect hate figure.

But, given that Tommy Robinson is actually rather incosenquential, why then did the state end-up treating him so badly?

For those who are not aware, the man was not only subject to the usual harassment that enemies of the state are, he was eventually subject to a treatment savoured only for figures the class of Julian Assange. To be explicit, the man was kidnapped by the home office militia and tortured* via ‘solitary confinement’ for months.

Before I go on, you might be thinking: Why the comparison with Julian Assange?

It is not because I believe either of two to be angels, it is simply to make the comparison that he has been treated in the same way as Julian Assange, and that this is most significant.

Julian Assange has been made public enemy #1, not because he has murdered, raped or robbed, but because he threatened to unite the people. You may not believe that, and you may not believe this (yet it is true): Tommy Robinson threatened to do the same.

For all that you may to twist his words, or mock him for his inability to speak as smoothly as the upper-classes, Tommy Robinson continued to speak his mind. Despite falling for so-many media traps and setups, whenever he did, he still spoke his mind. I truly believe that this man, however naive, believed in what he was saying. Despite not fully understaning the nature of the issue, as so many did- (and still do-) not, he continued to speak his mind, he continued to speak out against what was blatantly wrong.

So, why is this so significant? As above, being mocked on the BBC is one thing – but being denied fair trial and tortured in a state compound is another. Before the state really started to ramp up against Tommy Robinson & the movement that came out in his support, there were well in excess of 100,000 people marching on the streets of London, with little notice & despite all the sly tactics the state used to deter and misdirect people from congregating. This is far from insignificant.

I do not believe Tommy Robinson was a man of hate, and in this manner he posed a threat to the state. Despite all the slime, despite the hate from masses conned by the media, and actual death threats, Tommy Robinson was a unifying figure, muslim or non-muslim. In-fact, the more people, (who’d never listened to whao he said), started to hate him, the more people, (muslim & non-muslim), started to listen to what he had to say. This is the significant part.

Regardless of how well Tommy Robinson could convey himself, it was the unity on both sides he started to create, (believe it or not), that threatened the state. For although Tommy Robinson may not have understood the issue, and was easy to mock: it is far more difficult to stop people talking to one-another once they have started.

As already said, I do not support Tommy Robinson, and believe I was naive for doing so. I only wish many more would see him as a man who did a brave thing, (whatever else you think of him), as I do – rather than a martyr. For as long as people rally behind individuals we will never be out of this mess. If it takes another Tommy Robinson to start the conversation, then it will be stopped-all-over-again when they are sent to the gulag, just as Robinson & Assange have been.

Tommy Robinson is not significant because he saw something we did not. He is not significant because he understood the isssue, because he didn’t – and most don’t. He is significant because he had the courage to keep on speaking-out; and that his courage brought-out others who didn’t feel they could speak so freely.

There is only so much slime you can throw before people will start to question what you’re saying. Tommy Robinson & the movement around him was dismantled overnight with extreme force because it threatened the state. Imagine this:

Imagine that all those who have been taught to hate one-another sat down and started to question their beleifs. Imagine that most non-muslims discovered that most ‘muslims’ probably know as much about Islam as they do, just as modern ‘Christians’ know so little of Christianity. Imagine that people discovered that all these ‘terrorists’ the media shouts about were drugged of their heads, loners, mentally ill – not the product of Aladdin in his far-away cave. Imagine that people questioned the very meaning of the term ‘terrorist’, doesn’t all crime cause terror to its victims? Why was this crime classified as ‘terrorist’, yet this one wasn’t?

If we spoke to one-another like human beings, instead of ‘racists’, ‘islamophobes’, ‘SJWs’, ‘left-wing’, ‘right-wing’, ‘NPC’, ‘bigot’, then we might just realise the real enemy is the tyrant; it is greed and the fear & cowardice which sustains the greedy.

But then again, in such a world the state would be out of business, and they’re not going to allow that so easily – off to the gulag with you!

*I don’t care what you say on this matter, ‘solitary confinement’ the type JUlian Assange and Tommy Robinson have been treated to is a form of torture.

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