Good MEN Defend FREEDOM of Speech!

Freedom of speech is under siege, but are we ready to defend it before it's too late? Join us as we explore the crucial role that good men play in safeguarding this fundamental right against the backdrop of recent UK riots. We'll dissect how efforts to suppress free speech are edging us towards a dark abyss of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. This episode dives deep into the heart of societal unrest, clarifying that the turmoil isn't born from racism but stems from the strains of unchecked illegal immigration. Our stance is clear: smart, controlled immigration policies are the way forward.

We also expose the alarming escalation of governmental control and the public's eroding voice, as evidenced by arrests over social media posts. The UK’s decades-long neglect of its people's sentiments on immigration has led to a boiling point of frustration and protests. We draw unsettling parallels with the situation in Australia, underscoring the universal need for vigilance against government overreach. This episode is a rallying cry for good people to reclaim their power, stand up for freedom of speech, and ensure accountability in our democracies. Listen in to understand why peaceful protests and vocal dissent are essential to maintaining our liberties and preventing future conflicts.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey guys, just out getting a coffee and I've been having some thoughts about some stuff that's going on in the world at the moment, and I wanted to bring you for a drive with me and talk about it.

Speaker 1: 0:12

I especially want to talk about this idea that good men are the defenders of freedom of speech. I'll explain to you in a moment why that's the subject of the moment. If you've been watching the news or watching the feed on YouTube, you'll no doubt have seen what I've seen with the UK riots and all the stuff that's going on up there, and I wanted to use that as a backdrop to talk about this idea of good men are the defenders of freedom of speech, which obviously then means the opposite of that is, the people who won't defend freedom of speech are all those who are actively opposing it. Those are the evil men, and you don't actually have to go back in history too far to figure out that that is the case. It doesn't matter what race you're talking about. It doesn't matter what part of the world you're talking about. Whenever you observe people or organizations trying to kill freedom of speech, you know that what you've got at play is a journey towards totalitarianism and authoritarianism, and we are seeing that in our world today. So I want to talk for a few moments while I'm going for a drive, just share my thoughts with you guys about this whole subject and particularly why it's important for men to obviously think about it, understand what they believe on this subject, why they believe it, because I don't even really want to admit this to myself, but I think we're headed into another time in history where, if good men don't stand up and recognize what's going on, we might not be too far away in different parts of the world from sending our sons off to war again. And I for one, as a father, do not want to be sending my son off to war. I know that sounds a bit extreme, but truth of the matter is there are some signs going on in the world today that if we don't start to actually stand up and try to be the good men that we're meant to be, there's going to be evil men all over the place who've got all kinds of other agendas that want to destroy the way life is, destroy the way we live in our communities, destroy how we want our families to exist. So I wanna talk to you about that for a moment.

Speaker 1: 2:34

I've been watching the UK riots deal, probably as many of you have. I don't know where you're getting your information from, whether you watch the news or you get stories online, or you're watching some of the YouTube live bloggers. To me, this is such a classic case study around this subject of the fact that good men need to be the defenders of freedom of speech, because really I think that's at the heart of the issue, because really I think that's at the heart of the issue. So if you're not totally aware of what's going on there with the UK riots, the basic backstory is that we're seeing not just hundreds of thousands but millions of British nationals flooding out onto the streets of their communities and protesting certain things that are going on in the country, particularly around immigration and I'm going to speak to that in a moment but all over the country, in towns and cities, people coming out and protesting what they feel is going on with their country, and then you know that is turning into some clashes with the police and it's turning into riot situations, and the basic backdrop is that for several years now there have been illegal refugees flooding across the English Channel, particularly from France, arriving on these massive well. They call them dinghies, but they're huge, quite huge craft 40, 50, 60 at a time illegal immigrants coming in, landing at Dover, on the beach there, and then flooding into the UK and, as you can probably imagine, it's causing all kinds of social unrest and friction and people are getting really irritated with it.

Speaker 1: 4:15

And I think if you pay too much attention to mainstream media, you'll get the wrong message because, as we've learned in the last several years, mainstream media have their own agendas, whether that's on the left or on the right. We are long past the day where mainstream media simply reported the facts and left it up to you and I to decide what we think. No, they are highly charged with their own opinion and their own agenda. And the narrative that's coming out of mainstream media about the riots in the UK is that it's racism based and it's race hatred. But I don't actually think that's true. I think that's missing the point of what's actually going on with the UK rights, and I want to try and get to the heart of what I think is going on, because if I'm right, then it applies to us in all other parts of the world in Australia, in New Zealand, in North America, even across into places that we wouldn't imagine parts of Asia, right across Europe. The whole world is affected by what is actually taking place in the backdrop of this scene in the UK at the moment. So, as I said, you've got hundreds and thousands of illegal immigrants flooding into the UK, arriving on boats at Dover and then all kinds of unrest going on.

Speaker 1: 5:34

Now I want to make a comment about immigration and refugees. As a man, I am someone who is not remotely against immigration. I am not against refugees, because you know, there might be people who get in the comments or they watch this video and they say, oh, he's another white, middle-aged racist. Well, generally I find when people have to describe you by your own skin color first, usually the racism allegation probably should sit on their own head and not everybody else's. I'm not a racist person. I have friends, close friends that I love dearly, from so many different cultures around the world. I have friends in Africa, north America, europe, all across Asia, polynesian friends. I'm not a racist and I'm not against the needs of refugees.

Speaker 1: 6:19

However, I do believe in controlled and smart immigration, whereby those who want to migrate or because of trouble in their life need to migrate. I think they should get in line and do it properly, and I don't think it's a crazy notion to expect that those who want to leave their country and go and join another country, and especially receive the benefits of that country, they should get in the line and do it the proper way. That's what I believe. However, that's not what's going on in the UK, and that's part of the reason why so many British nationals are getting really, really cranky because their cities and their towns are becoming overcrowded. It's already a fairly small nation by comparison to where I live, uh, with triple the population size, and it's creating all kinds of friction On top of that.

Speaker 1: 7:09

Something else that is not often talked about in the mainstream media on this subject is the fact that in Britain, uh, both sides of government the left and the right for the best part of 20 years they've been campaigning in part. They've been campaigning on the policy of reducing and controlling immigration into the UK. That's one of their promises and their pledges, and so people are voting these parties into power, and then what is happening with subsequent governments is they make the promise to deal with immigration. They then get into power and they do nothing about the immigration issue, and so then they get voted out of power and the next party does the same and the same and the same, and so that's been going on for the best part of 20 years. And whether you agree with the situation around immigration or not, whether you think people should be allowed to just come and go as they please, or you share the same view I have on immigration, we should at least be able to agree on the simple fact that if you vote for a government based on the promises and policies that they commit to pre-election, you should have the right to expect that they actually follow through on it, and if they don't, they deserve to get kicked out.

Speaker 1: 8:25

And, as I said, that's been going on for the best part of 20 years. And so the population that are citizens, whether they're born there or they migrated there the British citizenship has been getting progressively angrier and upset about being ignored by their government officials, and that is a common theme across much of the Western world right now. People are getting absolutely fed up. I'm one of them. I'm frustrated, I'm getting fed up with governments who seem to only be interested in fatting their own pockets and really couldn't give a toss about. The rest of us is, how it seems, their own pockets and really couldn't give a toss about. The rest of us is how it seems, and this is what one of the main things is that's fueling the riots and the clashes in the UK.

Speaker 1: 9:16

On top of that, mainstream media will probably not tell you that the large majority of the protests that are going on in the UK are actually peaceful. People are coming into London or going to major cities like Liverpool and other places and they're trying to protest and get a message across peacefully. They're not going there to start fights. But, interestingly, there are other groups of people that are going into these protests the people who are trying to allege that all of these British protesters are racists. There are crowds who are coming in calling them racists and then provoking them into violence, and then the police are cracking down on the peaceful protesters, and that's where it's really starting to flare up, and so, if you can understand my storyline here a little bit, you can see more of the understanding why so many people in the UK are frustrated right now, because they feel like they haven't been heard.

Speaker 1: 10:06

That's the real issue and this is where I'm going to come to, as it applies to us as men is the fact that so many people feel like they're not being heard, so they're going to the street to protest, and then, as they protest, their own police force is being commissioned to shut them down and start violence against them. Now, as you can imagine, that would be unbelievably frustrating and irritating, and so that's why we're starting to see some of this activity take place. Now, I'll be the first to admit, amongst those crowds, that there are a few people there who probably are racist, and there are some people there who want to start violence and want to commit crimes, but the truth of the matter is the large majority of them are not in that boat. They're actually trying to get a message across, and so I want us to understand, really, that what a lot of those people are trying to do is they're trying to be defenders of the freedom of speech. They want the right as citizens of the country, which used to mean that you were a stakeholder If you're a citizen of any country in the world and you had a passport, you had a birth certificate that belonged to that country. It used to mean that you were a stakeholder and you had the right to have an opinion, that you were a stakeholder and you had the right to have an opinion.

Speaker 1: 11:24

Well, we are seeing that dramatically shift as we see more and more governments make an attempt to become authoritarian. Because we're in power, you must do what we say, because we control the police force and the army. You must get in line, and people are getting really, really angry about it, and, from my perspective, so they should. If we don't have the freedom of speech and the freedom of choice and the freedom of opinion in our societies, we don't have a society, and so we've got to understand the long-term buildup of what's actually going on in the UK. This is not just a very simple issue of immigration or, as some people are trying to say, that it's racism that kicked off in the last few months. That's not true at all. This has been building for decades, and so now we're starting to see the flashpoints of this stuff, because people have reached a boiling over point where they're sick and tired of being ignored.

Speaker 1: 12:20

And I really want to bring out this thought and this idea today that what we're seeing in a lot of places around the world right now and Britain is a classic case study of it when you see authoritarian or totalitarian-style governments or regimes or agencies and bureaucracies trying to disempower the population and to bring more control and to take away their freedoms and their rights. There's a three-stage process that goes on. Now in england they have reached stage two of stage three. Where I live in australia, we're probably still at stage one, thankfully, but we're deep into stage one and we're about to cross over into stage two, and I don't think we've seen the last of protests and riots in all kinds of places around the world because of this sequence of what's going on. So what I mean is authoritarian governments have an agenda to control assets, to control means of production, to control freedom of speech, to corral the resources and the power amongst a self-selected few. They call themselves the elites. We should stop calling them the elites, because they're actually the polar opposite of that. The way they behave makes them more like the true peasants of society, but they self-appoint themselves as elites and they try to put policy and strategy in place to gain power and control over the population.

Speaker 1: 13:57

And it starts in one way and it progresses into three stages. Here's the first stage. The first thing that we see happens is they ignore the voice of the people. This is what we've seen in the UK for the last 20 years. For the last 20 years, the large majority of the population there, on the left and on the right, have been saying we need to get smarter about our immigration policies. The opposition parties have been promising to make some change. Then they get elected, they do nothing about the change and so subsequently, and rightfully, they get voted out of power again. But the point is, for year after year after year, government after government, those governments have been ignoring the voice of the people, which is the wish of the people. That's how elections are supposed to work.

Speaker 1: 14:49

Stage one is ignoring the voice of the people. That's where we're at in Australia right now. In Australia, we've got a shocking cost of living crisis going on. We've got the worst housing affordability crisis in our whole history going on, and it seems like all of the appeals and peaceful protests from the population is being ignored at the highest level because not enough is being done to change it. That went on in the UK for years, but they, as I said, they've moved to stage two. Stage two, after ignoring the voice of the people, is to silence the voice of the people. The UK has moved into stage two. How do we know this? Just turn on your TV, just get your phone out and do a search.

Speaker 1: 15:37

Right now, all across England, there are people being arrested, dragged out of their own homes and charged for things that they've written on social media. The government has made up their own mind what you are allowed to say, what you are not allowed to say, and if it doesn't meet with their strict criteria of how they want to control the population. People are now being arrested and charged, and in some cases even jailed because of things that they said, for thought crimes. We've got to wake up. Men who want to be good men all over the world. We have to wake up and realise this is not conspiracy theory. We're not living in some kind of meta universe here where people like me are making eccentric style commentary on stuff that's detached from reality. No, everything I'm talking to you about today is the actual reality of what's actually going on now. We're not talking about George Orwell's 1984 somewhere down the road.

Speaker 1: 16:42

It's happening now, and so, all across the UK, people's voices have been ignored, which, in any relationship situation in life, is going to irritate you and frustrate you and make you want to do something about it. Well, they have now moved past that stage of ignoring and they've moved into stage two, which is silencing voices that are contradictory or opposing the decided narrative. This is really, really scary territory for the British people. Now, when I was a younger man, I lived in England for six months. I love England. Half of my family, we get our heritage from England. I love the place, I love the people. But England is definitely on the precipice of falling as a civilization and as a people. And this is how it happens Ignore the voice of the people. Number two silence the voice of the people. And the ultimate stage that it moves to, which is stage three, which England is pointed headlong towards, that is, remove the voice of the people, don't let them have a say at all. This is where England is headed and it's very, very frightening for us and for our children and our grandchildren.

Speaker 1: 17:56

The only way this thing changes is if good men and women, good people. That doesn't mean they're perfect. It means they believe in values that are oriented around freedom, free choice, letting people have an opinion, letting people live the kind of life they'd like to live. Getting government out of the way, smaller government and more power to individuals is always going to result in a better society and this is why we've got protests all over the streets in the UK, and it's not going to stop in a better society, and this is why we've got protests all over the streets in the UK and it's not going to stop. Because you can see it on their faces, you can hear it in their language. They've had enough, they've had a gutful, they've reached the point of no return. They've reached the point of not turning back, where they've realised if we don't act now, we are not going to have any opportunity in the future to do anything, until the whole thing breaks down into some kind of serious and continued version of violence, probably some form of civil war, because that's the direction they're headed.

Speaker 1: 19:05

Silence the voice of the people. Stage three the ultimate goal of agencies like the World Economic Forum and some of the crazy evil men that are trying to take control of resources and power around the world. The ultimate stage is remove the voice of the people. Fellas, if you're listening to this, you're probably going. This is on the other side of the world. I've got my own issues to deal with, I've got my own stress and I understand that I'm in the same boat as you. I've got more than enough things on my own plate to deal with without having to contemplate. Do I now have to add to that list trying to save the world? I understand that that can be a point of stress. Truth of the matter is, if we don't do something about it, it's just going to keep going in this direction. We're going to go past stage one into stage two, into stage three and where I live in Australia, like I said, we're already in stage one, ignoring the voice of the people.

Speaker 1: 19:53

Recently in Australia we've had the ratifying from the highest levels of government the e-safety commissioner. The idea of an e-safety commissioner is somebody who watches everything that gets said online and they get the exclusive autonomy to censor and to vet what is appropriate, what's allowed, what's not allowed. Well, in theory, it sounds like a good idea until you contemplate yeah, but what is the agenda of the actual person that's occupying the position Now, this idea of an e-safety commissioner. In Australia, it started about 12 to 15 years ago and the original intent of an e-safety commissioner was to protect young children from predators online. That was the original motive. But where we've travelled from since then in our country is we haven't hardly done anything more to protect children online, but now we do have an e-safety commissioner who's been deployed by the federal government to make calls on what you should be able to say. Shouldn't be able to say what videos you can post, what videos you can like.

Speaker 1: 21:00

If you're in Australia and New Zealand and you think that we don't have the chance of heading where the UK is, you're living with your head in the sand and I would urge you to get your head out of the sand. Join the reality of what's actually going on, because we are straddling stage one and stage two. In our country, we have had the ignoring of our voice and ignoring of our wishes for a significant period of time. We are moving towards the second stage, the silencing of our voice. We haven't gone as far as the UK yet, but we are squarely pointed in that direction. And then, as I said, ultimately, if we don't do something about it, we end up in the place that precedes war and the breakdown of civilisation In the early 1900s and in the late 1930s. This is where we got to, where evil men were allowed to say whatever they wanted and control the narrative of the rest of the population, and then the entire world had to join in defeating murderous, heinous dictators. Are we there yet? No, we're not, but we are pointing at it again.

Speaker 1: 22:02

The answer good men have got to find their courage and speak up. You've got to get involved in this conversation, guys. You've got to talk to your mates about it. You've got to talk to your family about it. You and your partner have to be the dominant voice talking to your children about it. You've got to have these conversations and then you've got to speak up about it and I'm urging you to be, if you want to call it, a freedom fighter it's a little bit cliche, but I'm calling on men everywhere to be good men and speak up and say listen, freedom of speech must be defended. If we don't defend it, evil men are going to take our spot, they're going to control the conversation, control the narrative, and before we know it, we'll be prisoners in our own society.

Speaker 1: 22:48

I'm not talking here pro the right side of government or pro the left. I'm talking about if we don't do something about it, there won't be any sides. There'll be one central narrative. It'll be a top-down approach. Your voice will be ignored, it'll be silenced and then it'll be taken away from you. I don't think we want to live in that kind of civilization. So I'm urging men everywhere to get involved. If you don't get involved, guys, and start speaking up, those who have the power will go on believing that they are not part of the people, but that they are the power brokers the rightful power brokers and they will just do whatever they want and they will run roughshod over us. If you don't like what's going on in politics, get involved. Do something about it. Get involved in the conversation.

Speaker 1: 23:35

The UK riots is a classic case study of what goes on in a society if you allow the ignoring of your voice to extend for too long, because then it turns into the silencing of your voice, and that's why we're seeing men and women all across England flooding out into the streets and protesting, because they've reached the point where they're just sick of it. They know their voice has been ignored for so long and they have hoped and they've waited for somebody to listen to them, but no one's listening. And now the government has overreached, as they often do, because they've moved from ignoring voices to silencing voices. Thankfully, because it could be immigration, it could be any other issue. The issue is not the point. The point is when you have your voice ignored and then silenced and then taken, you don't have a life anymore.

Speaker 1: 24:25

So I hope the protests that are going on there can happen peacefully. I hope they can actually call their government officials to account, because in a democracy like they live in, like I live in, like much of the free world lives in, that is how it's supposed to operate. The government is meant to be accountable to the wishes of the people. So who knows where it goes in the UK? But I wanted to give you these thoughts, give you this message here in Australia and other parts of the world, we're kidding ourselves if we don't think that we could end up in the same place in a very short period of time. We can. We need to do something about it. Good men are defenders of freedom of speech because they stand in the way of evil men who want to control the world, control the power, control the resources. You've got to stand up, guys. We've got to say something.