Police in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Kingdom</a> have dropped an investigation into a Christian woman who was arrested after silently praying outside of an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> facility for allegedly violating a “buffer zone” law. 
West Midlands police told Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, who was arrested in December 2022 after praying outside an abortion facility in Birmingham, England in an area where protesting against abortion has been banned, that the charges against her have been dropped. 
“This isn’t 1984, but 2023 — I should never have been arrested or investigated simply for the thoughts I held in my own mind. Silent prayer is never criminal. I welcome West Midland Police’s decision to end their investigation and their apology for the time it took to do so, but it’s important to highlight the extremely harmful implications of this ordeal not just for myself, but for everyone concerned with fundamental freedoms in the UK. What happened to me signals to others that they too could face arrest, interrogation, investigation, and potential prosecution if caught exercising their basic freedom of thought,” Vaughan-Spruce said in a <a href="https://adf.uk/vindication-silent-prayer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
“Now that authorities have twice settled on the conclusion that silent prayer is not a crime – a conclusion also reached by the Home Secretary last week – I am thankful to resume my practice of praying silently for women in crisis pregnancies,” she added. 
In an email, police told Vaughan-Spruce that the “limitation of proceedings” were over and that they apologized “for the time this case has taken to come to this position,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12549117/Police-Catholic-woman-praying-offence-arrested-abortion-clinic-apologise.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Daily Mail. 
“There is now an urgent need for legal changes to stem the tide of policing by politics. We hope the decision from West Midlands Police that they will not prosecute free thought, alongside the Home Secretary’s public commitment to protecting silent prayer, will be reflected in legislation, guidance, and practice,” said Alliance Defending Freedom U.K. Attorney Jeremiah Igunnubole, who helped defend Vaughan-Spruce. 
The ordeal started <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/praying-woman-arrested-for-breaking-public-space-order-outside-u-k-abortion-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">after authorities approached</a> Vaughan-Spruce outside the BPAS Robert Clinic in Kings Norton, Birmingham on December 6, 2022 after they received a complaint from someone about her presence, according to footage published by ADF U.K.
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“Are you standing here as part of a protest?” asked an officer.
“No, I’m not protesting,” Vaughan-Spruce said.
“Are you praying?” the police officer asked her.
“I might be praying in my head,” she replied.
On December 15, she was charged with four counts of failing to comply with a Public Space Protection Order in so-called censorship zones, which authorities introduced to criminalize individuals appearing to be “engaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval.”
Legislation is currently being debated in the U.K. that would extend a buffer zone 150 meters around abortion facilities. An amendment to exempt silent prayer and mutual conversations was defeated 299-116.

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Police Drop Investigation Into Woman Who Was Arrested For Praying Silently Outside Abortion Facility

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Video streaming platform <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-woke-youtube-competitor-rumble-tells-france-au-revoir-over-censorship-demands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rumble</a> went public on Wednesday with a statement, revealing that they had received a letter from the U.K.&#8217;s Parliament demanding they demonetize <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russell-brand-leaves-youtube-for-rumble-after-censorship-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russell Brand</a> over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russell-brand-vehemently-denies-sexual-assault-allegations-in-viral-video-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent accusations</a> of sexual misconduct &#8212; and they had refused to comply.
Rumble published a copy of the letter from Parliament &#8212; calling the governing body&#8217;s attempt to interfere with free expression on the internet &#8220;deeply inappropriate and dangerous&#8221; — along with a copy of their response via X.
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The letter from Parliament — signed by Dame Caroline Dinenage, Chair of the Culture, Media, and Sport Committee — expressed concern that Brand might continue to make money using Rumble to reach his 1.4 million followers.
&#8220;We are also looking at his use of social media, including on Rumble where he issued his preemptive response to the accusations made against hime by The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;While we recognise that Rumble is not the creator of the content published by Mr. Brand, we are concerned that he may be able to profit from his content on the platform.&#8221;
&#8220;We would be grateful if you could confirm whether Mr. Brand is able to monetise his content, including his videos relating to the serious accusations against him. If so, we would like to know whether Rumble intends to join YouTube in suspending Mr. Brand’s ability to earn money on the platform,&#8221; Parliament&#8217;s missive continued.
Rumble&#8217;s response opened by calling Parliament&#8217;s request &#8220;disturbing,&#8221; and continued from there.
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&#8220;While Rumble obviously deplores sexual assault, rape, and all serious crimes, and believes that both alleged victims and the accused are entitled to a full and serious investigation, it is vital to note that recent allegations against Russell Brand have nothing to do with content on Rumble’s platform,&#8221; the letter read.
Noting that YouTube had made the decision to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-youtube-unpersoning-of-russell-brand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demonetize Brand</a> — based solely on the accusations leveled against him &#8212; the statement said that Rumble would not do the same.
&#8220;Rumble stands for very different values. We have devoted ourselves to the vital cause of defending a free internet &#8212; meaning an internet where no one arbitrarily dictates which ideas can or cannot be heard, or which citizens may or may not be entitled to a platform,&#8221; the statement continued.
&#8220;We regard it as deeply inappropriate and dangerous that the UK Parliament would attempt to control who is allowed to speak on our platform or to earn a living from doing so,&#8221; the statement said, adding that Parliament&#8217;s demands were &#8220;even more disturbing&#8221; because the accusations against Brand had no relation to the content on Rumble. &#8220;We don’t agree with the behavior of many Rumble creators, but we refuse to penalize them for actions that have nothing to do with our platform.&#8221;
<div>&#8220;Although it may be politically and socially easier for Rumble to join a cancel culture mob, doing so would be a violation of our company’s values and mission. We emphatically reject the UK parliament’s demands,&#8221; the statement concluded.</div>

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The razor manufacturing company Braun is being slammed for a “shockingly immoral” promo featuring a shirtless woman who identifies as transgender and has visible mastectomy scars. 
The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/18/braun-advertises-mens-trimmers-using-trans-model/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Monday that the U.K. branch of the grooming company has <a href="https://www.braunshop.co.uk/hybrid-trimmers.list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured</a> a woman identifying as a man to model the company’s Series X hybrid trimmers. The female model appears to have undergone a double mastectomy, a procedure frequently done when women who identify as men have their breasts removed to look less feminine. 
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“Promoting the removal of healthy breast tissue is not only shockingly immoral, but against advertising standards guidance to not glamourise or trivialize cosmetic surgery,” Maya Forstater, the executive director of Sex Matters, told the Telegraph. “The campaign perpetuates the terrible lie that women can become men if they have their breasts removed and take hormones.”
“Braun executives must have been living under a rock if they think that this campaign represents ‘inclusivity.’ The reality is that Braun has now written itself into history as promoting social contagion and what will become one of the most notorious medical scandals,” she added. 
The photo is one of several used to promote the company’s new line of hybrid trimmers in the U.K., and visible scar marks can be seen on the model’s chest. The U.S. website for Braun does not yet offer the <a href="https://us.braun.com/search.php?search_query=series%20x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">same products</a> that the woman was used to promote. 
The company <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRmzxq-Ls0g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appears</a> to have worked with the woman before, as an unlisted YouTube ad from December 2022 for the Braun Series X shows. The model seems to go by the name &#8220;Michael&#8221; but has not yet been further identified. 
The Daily Wire reached out to Braun U.K. for further comment on the model and the ad. 
Braun is just the latest grooming company to face backlash for its promotion of transgender ideology. Calls to boycott Harry’s Razors came <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backlash-builds-against-harrys-razors-over-woke-promotional-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earlier this year</a> after it partnered with a woman who identifies as a man and who had her breasts removed. 
Harry’s had previously publicly attacked and pulled advertising from The Daily Wire after host Michael Knowles made comments critical of transgender ideology, in part leading Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing to launch <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy’s Razors</a>. 
Braun’s parent company is Procter &amp; Gamble, which has promoted transgender ideology and pushed corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Last year, the company <a href="https://www.pg.co.uk/blogs/trans-day-of-visibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a testimony from a male employee talking about the medical procedures he underwent to look more feminine. He spoke of going through facial electrolysis (a process to remove facial hair) and using bandages and “compression tops” to “bind” his newly feminized chest to hide his &#8220;transition.&#8221; 
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That came after Procter &amp; Gamble <a href="https://glaad.org/visibility-project" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partnered</a> with leftist organization GLAAD on “The Visibility Project,” a campaign to “drive and to sustain LGBTQ inclusion in advertising and marketing” launched in November 2021. 
Another Procter &amp; Gamble company, Gillette, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gillette-ad-shows-father-teaching-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured</a> a young girl who identified as a boy learning to shave her face alongside her father.

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Another Razor Company Slammed After Showcasing Trans Model With Chest Scars

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A 19-year-old female has been effectively sentenced to her death after a judge decided that the experts know best, rejecting the young woman&#8217;s pleas to live.
The Christian teenager — whom the world is only allowed to know as &#8220;ST,&#8221; per the courts — <a href="https://christianconcern.com/news/judge-rules-conscious-19-year-old-cant-make-end-of-life-decisions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffers</a> from a rare genetic mitochondrial disease, which causes chronic muscle weakness, loss of hearing, and damage to the kidneys; she&#8217;s currently dependent on regular dialysis, a feeding tube, and other intensive care. Notably, though, ST&#8217;s mental capacity is not affected by the disease.
The teenager wants to fight until her last day, and has repeatedly told medical professionals that she wants to seek experimental treatment outside of the U.K. The U.K.&#8217;s National Health Service (NHS), though, wants to remove the teen from life-saving medical treatment, which would condemn her to death, potentially in a matter of days.
In fact, the NHS Trust, apparently perturbed that this youth wouldn&#8217;t take their advice and just die already, went to court in April to argue that the teen is not capable of making her own medical decisions. The Trust, comprised of NHS bureaucrats, successfully argued before a judge that the teen was delusional for not agreeing with her doctors that she has no hope and needs to just agree to die.
Here&#8217;s what the judge, Mrs. Justice Roberts, wrote in her judgment, which was issued in late August:
&#8220;In my judgment [&#8230;] ST is unable to make a decision for herself in relation to her future medical treatment, including the proposed move to palliative care, because she does not believe the information she has been given by her doctors.&#8221;
The judge went on to say that ST isn&#8217;t merely making an &#8220;unwise&#8221; decision, which she would supposedly permit. But the teen is instead making an unacceptable choice, in the judge&#8217;s view, since in ST&#8217;s thought process, she is not affirming that her doctors are correct.
In other words, ST has committed a thought crime by not trusting the experts. And, thus, she is &#8220;delusional&#8221; and barred from making her own medical decisions.
Keep in mind, two psychologists — two experts, if you will — have determined that ST is in control of her mental faculties and can make these vital decisions for herself.
&#8220;Despite all the difficulties which currently confront her, ST is able to communicate reasonably well with her doctors with assistance from her mother and, on occasion, speech therapists,&#8221; the judge acknowledged. &#8220;I heard evidence from two consultant psychiatrists whose conclusions in relation to her capacity in both domains are set out in full written reports. &#8230; the two most recent capacity reports from Dr C and Dr D (both consultant psychiatrists who assessed ST in the days leading up to the hearing) suggested that she had capacity to make these choices for herself. The Trust, relying on the evidence of her treating clinicians, takes a different view.&#8221;
Those two experts&#8217; opinions, apparently, don&#8217;t hold as much weight as the NHS Trust.
According to Catholic news outlet <a href="https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/17580/-perilous-ruling-on-dying-19-year-old-s-capacity-to-decide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tablet</a>, her parents also disagree with the judge, “We are very distressed by this injustice, and we hope that, by Jesus’s grace, this will be corrected on appeal.”
Now, the Court of Protection gets to decide what to do with ST&#8217;s care, and it&#8217;s not looking good.
Notably, ST&#8217;s diagnosis is the same diagnosis as a London infant named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlies-law-parents-baby-charlie-gard-getting-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charlie Gard</a>. In Gard&#8217;s tragic case, courts ordered the baby&#8217;s parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, to bypass possibly life-saving experimental treatment for their infant son; they were forced to watch baby Charlie die in a London hospital.
Charlie, just a baby, couldn&#8217;t speak for himself. But in ST&#8217;s case, she can — and she continues to do so.
&#8220;By the time you read this, I could be dead. That&#8217;s according to my doctors who, for the last year, have repeatedly told me that I have had only days to live. But I am a fighter and will continue to fight,&#8221; the defiant teen <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12496945/EXCLUSIVE-doctors-insist-time-died-fight-Extraordinary-battle-19-year-old-woman-suffering-Charlie-Gard-condition-battling-medics-attempts-condemn-death.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Mail this week.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/guardian-charlie-gard-children-do-not-belong-their-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ethics Professor On Charlie Gard: ‘Children Do Not Belong To Their Parents’</a>
ST noted that she is unable to publicly speak about her case, as per the court order supposedly meant to protect her. This means it&#8217;s been impossible for ST to fundraise for the potential or receive experimental treatment, which has been offered to her in both Canada and the U.S. And at the very least, it keeps her family financially strapped as they continue to try to appeal and fight for their daughter&#8217;s life.
&#8216;They&#8217;ve done everything they can to stop me telling this story,&#8221; ST said. &#8220;I have found myself trapped in a medical and legal system governed by a toxic paternalism which has condemned me for wanting to live.&#8221;
Still, the resilient teen, buoyed by her tight family and her Christian faith, is determined to fight until the end.
&#8220;I am in a race against time to escape from this system and the certain death it wishes to impose on me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I am a fighter and will continue to fight. I trust in God and will not give up hope.&#8221;
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Trust The Experts: England’s NHS Moves Forward To Kill Teen Who’s Desperately Asking To Live

England’s NHS Moves Forward To Kill Teen Who’s Desperately Asking To Live

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A staffer in the British Parliament was arrested earlier this year on suspicions he was spying for China, a <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-national-arrested-suspicion-china-spy-parliamentary-researcher-xrtbrw86m#:~:text=Counterterrorism%20police%20arrested%20the%20researcher,espionage%2Drelated%20offences%20in%20March.&amp;text=The%20researcher%20is%20a%20Briton,with%20Beijing%2C%20for%20several%20years." target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Sunday Times revealed. 
The suspect, a man in his late 20s who was a Parliamentary researcher, was reportedly “linked” with several Members of Parliament from the Conservative Party who had access to highly sensitive information, according to the report. The man was arrested in mid-March along with an additional suspect who is in his 30s.
“The mask has truly slipped,” Paddy McGuinness, the U.K.’s former deputy national security adviser told, the outlet.&#8221;This isn’t about China objecting to interference in their internal affairs as they so often claim. Rather they are messing in ours, with a casual disregard for our democracy and our sovereignty.”
Both suspects were charged with violating Section One of Britain’s Official Secrets Act 1911, which prohibits sharing information or communications that may be “prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state” and “calculated to be or …  intended to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy,” respectively, the Times notes. 
Some Conservative MPs that were reportedly linked to the researcher include the U.K.’s minister of state for security, Tom Tugendhat, and the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Alicia Kearns. However, it’s believed the alleged spy only worked with Tugendhat prior to his role as security minister, POLITICO Europe <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/rishi-sunak-raises-significant-concerns-on-china-spy-in-parliament/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>. 
“It is inevitable the Chinese Communist party (CCP) would target and seek to undermine parliament’s leading voices who have demonstrated the ability to constrain the CCP’s ambitions,” a source close to Kearns said, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/09/parliamentary-researcher-who-spied-for-china-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Guardian. 
The researcher had a parliamentary pass and reportedly worked on international relations policies with various MPs – including China-centered policies. According to the Times, prior to his work as a researcher at the Palace of Westminster, the suspect spent time working and living in China. During that period, officials say he may have been recruited by the Chinese government as a sleeper agent with the goal of working his way into political groups critical of Beijing. 
According to a government source, the suspect may have even changed the minds of some legislators. “I’m pretty sure he [the researcher] turned some backbenchers from China hawks into being apathetic about Beijing,&#8221; the source told the Times.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak brought up the revelation with the prime minister of China, Li Qang, at the G20 summit in India, telling reporters that he conveyed “very strong concerns about any interference in our parliamentary democracy, which is obviously unacceptable,” POLITICO Europe <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/rishi-sunak-raises-significant-concerns-on-china-spy-in-parliament/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
“We discussed a range of things and I raised areas where there are disagreements,” the British PM said. “And this is just part of our strategy to protect ourselves, protect our values and our interests, to align our approach to China with that of our allies like America, Australia, Canada, Japan and others, but also to engage where it makes sense,” he added.
A government source told the Times that the news represents a “major escalation by China,” and that the U.K. has “never seen anything like this before.” 
A <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/chinese-gate-crashers-at-u-s-bases-spark-espionage-concerns-cdef8187" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Wall Street Journal last week outlined over 100 instances of alleged Chinese tourists attempting to gain access to U.S. military bases and installations. According to officials cited by the outlet, the “tourists” were actually performing espionage and attempting to take photographs and get information about security practices at the locations. 
“The advantage the Chinese have is they are willing to throw people at collection in large numbers,” Emily Harding, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Journal. “If a few of them get caught, it will be very difficult for the U.S. government to prove anything beyond trespassing, and those who don’t get caught are likely to collect something useful.”

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British Parliament Worker Arrested Amid Allegations Of Spying For China

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A 27-year-old transgender inmate who was locked up for sexually assaulting a nurse has admitted to groping two prison guards, one male and one female.
Katana Paris, who is biologically male but identifies as a woman and uses female pronouns, was sentenced to 37 months behind bars for pulling a nurse towards his genitals while in a hospital, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12486943/Sex-offender-identifies-woman-groped-prison-officers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Paris is serving his sentence at HM Prison Forest Bank, a men&#8217;s private prison near Manchester, England.
Last year, Paris touched a female prison guard inappropriately while she was serving him breakfast.
&#8220;She approached the defendant&#8217;s cell and unlocked the door in order to serve (Paris) breakfast,&#8221; prosecutor Megan Edwards said.
Paris then stepped out of the cell, though prisoners typically stay inside their cells, Edwards explained, adding, &#8220;She asked the defendant to move back, but the request was ignored. (Paris) then placed a hand on her hand, before sliding her fingers between her knuckles.&#8221;
The female officer, who was being helped with breakfast by two other inmates, then moved away. Paris, in reaction, &#8220;jumped up and down&#8221; as if &#8220;excited,&#8221; moved toward the guard and touched her genitals.
The guard was &#8220;shocked and in disbelief&#8221; that Paris &#8220;deliberately touched her like that,&#8221; Edwards said.
A prisoner who was around the area asked the guard if Paris had touched her, and the guard replied, &#8220;Yes, she just touched me.&#8221; The guard, however, continued to serve breakfast, not to draw attention to the incident, and then later reported what happened to her.
The next day, Paris grabbed the genitals of a male guard trying to serve the inmate lunch. The male officer described Paris as &#8220;aggressive&#8221; and recalled the inmate reaching out with his right hand and groping him after he unlocked the hatch to Paris&#8217; door to pass along the food.
&#8220;He immediately felt violated and used his body strength to push her back into her cell,&#8221; the prosecutor said.
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Attorney Rochelle Collins claimed Paris had emotional and mental health problems at the time of the incidents. &#8220;She is extremely remorseful and tells me this happened at a time when her mental health was at its lowest,&#8221; Collins argued, referring to Paris as a female. &#8220;She doesn’t want to continue with these types of behaviors. There has been no further complaint whilst she has been in custody.&#8221;
Judge Nicholas Dean KC noted that prison officers are &#8220;in a situation where they are vulnerable to these sorts of assaults and they deserve and require the protections of the courts when assaults such as this happen.&#8221;
&#8220;I have read and considered a presentence report, and I am not convinced you have shown any significant remorse,&#8221; Dean said. &#8220;It seems to me you regard what you did as being rather trivial.&#8221;
Paris, who admitted to the two counts of sexual assault, was handed down an additional six-month sentence.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aclu-demands-gender-surgery-for-trans-identifying-male-who-murdered-baby" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Male Prisoner Who Murdered A Baby Wants A Vagina. The ACLU Wants Taxpayers To Pay For It.</a>

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Resistance scrappers dubbed <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/news/vandals-destroy-london-car-emissions-cameras-over-daily-tolls">&#8220;Blade Runners&#8221;</a> have been wrecking surveillance cameras meant to enforce <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=daily+wire+london&amp;oq=daily+wire+london&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRhAMgYIAhBFGEAyBggDEEUYQNIBCTIxMjI4ajBqNKgCALACAA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8">London</a>&#8216;s controversial program to tax high-polluting motor vehicles that is set to expand its boundaries in the coming weeks.
Various media reports and videos posted to social media detail how this band of rebels has been climbing up polls to dismantle and swipe parts from cameras that help track non-compliant drivers who get fined £12.50 (about $15.87 in the United States) a day to enter the <a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone#:~:text=If%20your%20vehicle%20doesn't,to%20and%20including%205%20tonnes)">Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ)</a> in the <a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ulez-where-and-when?intcmp=52227">heart</a> of the British capital.
One activist, clad in a balaclava to hide his identity, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011507/ULEZ-Blade-Runners-want-one-Sadiq-Khans-low-emission-cameras.html">told the Daily Mail</a> in the spring that he had personally stolen 34 Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras and surmised that Blade Runners had damaged hundreds of the devices by that time.
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UK citizens are furious Sadiq Khan is installing ULEZ (Ultra low emission zones) recognition cameras throughout London. Those who can’t afford electric vehicles will be fined £12 pounds ($15) every time they drive past them.
Citizens are fighting back by taking them down as soon… <a href="https://t.co/8AsvWYPbfA">pic.twitter.com/8AsvWYPbfA</a>
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&#8220;Everything we are doing is for our own freedoms,&#8221; this Blade Runner, identified only as a father in his mid-40s, told the news outlet. &#8220;It&#8217;s the tip of the iceberg. We do not live in a democracy,&#8221; this person said, adding, &#8220;We will fight with everything we have for our freedoms.&#8221;
Despite the pushback to ULEZ, London Mayor Sadiq Khan is spearheading an expansion of the program to cover all of the city&#8217;s boroughs. The expansion is set to take effect on August 29 after the High Court ruled it lawful in the face of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/28/london-ulez-court-dismisses-challenge-by-five-councils-over-expansion">legal challenge</a> by five Conservative-led councils.
The ruling allowed London to &#8220;press on with the difficult but vital task of cleaning up London&#8217;s air and tackling the climate crisis,&#8221; Khan <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorofLondon/status/1684855360354426881">said</a> in a statement. The government is also funding a <a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/media-centre/mayors-press-release/MAYOR-ANNOUNCES-SCRAPPAGE-EXPANSION">&#8220;scrappage scheme&#8221;</a> to provide financial assistance to local residents who get rid of non-compliant vehicles.
Still, as some raise concerns about a growing ULEZ zone in London <a href="https://www.builders.org.uk/ulez-expansion-will-hurt-trades-the-most/">harming businesses</a> and <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/12/third-london-businesses-ulez-expansion-negative-employees/">workers</a>, acts of defiance have continued. Authorities <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ulez-expansion-cameras-stolen-vandalised-london-met-police-b1098157.html">conceded</a> that dozens of cameras were being vandalized weekly in the weeks preceding the planned expansion. Cameras being set up in new areas have had their wires cut off and lenses painted over in black, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/climate/london-ulez-air-pollution.html">reported</a> in June.
In response, Scotland Yard began &#8220;Operation Eremon&#8221; to investigate the activity, <a href="https://www.itv.com/news/london/2023-07-31/shadowy-blade-runner-vandals-trash-cameras-in-anti-ulez-backlash">according to ITV News London</a>. “We are continuing to proactively target anyone we suspect of causing or seeking to cause damage to these cameras,&#8221; said Detective Superintendent Daniel Smith, per the report. “We are now reviewing this social media post and will follow up every line of investigation.”
There have been reports of <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/ulez-camera-damage-sidcup-court-charged-nicholls-sadiq-khan-expansion-b1098151.html">charges</a> against at least one individual over the alleged criminal damage of ULEZ cameras.
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As officials increasingly raise concerns about global warming and air pollution, low-emission zones have spread to cities across Europe, leading to measures geared toward getting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/20/old-cars-forced-off-road-as-europes-clean-air-zones-nearly-double">older cars off the roads</a>.
In London, most vehicles observed in and around the city on an average day are already compliant with ULEZ, according to the <a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/environment-and-climate-change/pollution-and-air-quality/ultra-low-emission-zone-ulez-london/ulez-frequently-asked-questions/how-many-londoners-will-be-affected-ulez-expansion">government&#8217;s website</a>. It also says that &#8220;all petrol cars and vans registered new from 2006, and diesel cars and vans from 2016, will meet the ULEZ standards.&#8221;
The local government <a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ulez-expansion">insists</a> harmful nitrogen dioxide pollution has been reduced by nearly half in central London thanks to ULEZ, which was first announced in 2017 and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-47815117">began in 2019</a>, and claims the expansion will bring &#8220;clean air&#8221; to 5 million more people.
Susan Hall, a Conservative candidate for mayor for the election set to take place next year, has vowed to undo the ULEZ expansion, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-19/tories-pick-hall-to-face-labour-s-khan-in-london-mayoral-vote">according to Bloomberg</a>.

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There&#8217;s not a lot of humor to be found in wokeism, or &#8220;safeteyism,&#8221; or whatever you want to call modern Left-wing ideology. But since it&#8217;s Friday, it&#8217;s worth acknowledging something everyone knows deep down, which is that there are a few things about it that are, if we’re being honest, pretty funny.
Here&#8217;s one of them. Most jurisdictions in this country used to consider it a serious offense to lie and call someone &#8220;gay.&#8221; If someone was straight, and you started spreading rumors that they&#8217;re secretly gay, then until very recently, New York courts would punish you for that without a second thought. They&#8217;d call it &#8220;defamation per se.&#8221;
But in 2021, all that changed. A New York appeals court <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/falsely-claiming-someone-gay-no-longer-defamation-se-n-y-n1254175">ruled</a> that, actually, you can call people gay all you want, and it&#8217;s not necessarily defamatory. Why? Because according to New York court judges, if you lie and call someone gay, if anything, you&#8217;re probably *improving* their reputation in the community, rather than harming it. That&#8217;s because being gay has become a status symbol, at least in places like Manhattan. So, suggesting someone is secretly &#8220;gay&#8221; is like calling someone a multimillionaire. It&#8217;s a compliment, whether it&#8217;s true or not.
It&#8217;s kind of amusing when you think about it. New York is now so woke that gay slurs, at least in some cases, are now acceptable. In that respect, strangely enough, New York is quite different from, say, the United Kingdom, another hotbed of leftism. Over there, they don&#8217;t take kindly to unfounded accusations of homosexuality. 
We know that because, this week, a team of police officers in Leeds raided the home of a 16-year-old autistic girl suffering from scoliosis. The girl&#8217;s crime? She said that one of the officers looked like her lesbian relative. That&#8217;s all this girl did. She didn&#8217;t even imply it was bad to be a lesbian, in any way. And for that, cops dragged her away. Here&#8217;s what that arrest looked like:
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This is what the British empire has become. They used to rule the world. Now they scramble half the police department in response to a teenager who says, &#8220;hey, you look like my lesbian nana.&#8221; It&#8217;s quite a fall from grace, especially given that the police officer in question, if we&#8217;re being honest, could definitely pass as a lesbian. Whether she&#8217;s trying to look that way or not, it&#8217;s a convincing display. And, at least in civilized progressive utopias like New York, they celebrate that kind of thing. The UK obviously hasn’t thought this all the way through. By arresting autistic kids who say that women who look like lesbians, look like lesbians, they’re sending the message that looking like a lesbian is a bad thing. A horrendous insult. But that’s the opposite of what the UK intends to do here. Really they’re trying to elevate LGBT people to a special, sacred status, and protect their feelings with the force of law — even if it means dragging a teenage girl to jail, kicking and screaming.
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But the truth is, the United States isn&#8217;t far from becoming the U.K, where children are sent to prison for offending the government. What happened to that girl in the U.K. is quickly becoming a hallmark of so-called western democracies. Recently in Canada, for example, a pastor was arrested for the crime of protesting drag queens who were trying to indoctrinate children. Watch this news report carefully, because it&#8217;s one of the most incredible clips you&#8217;ll ever see:
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&#8220;There should never be an issue with safety,&#8221; says the woman. &#8220;Police are questioning if the events are safe,&#8221; says the reporter. 

Meanwhile, they show footage of the mob throwing the pastor to the ground. The message is pretty clear. By &#8220;safety,&#8221; they mean: you don&#8217;t get to question their views. You don&#8217;t get to object when they sexualize children. If you do, you&#8217;ll get attacked and thrown in jail. That&#8217;s what they mean when they say “safety.&#8221; Safety no longer means safety in the traditional sense. For a long time now it has meant something closer to emotional comfort. To be “safe” is to feel good, it is to have nice feelings, and anyone who causes you to have not-nice feelings, and feel not-good, is compromising your safety.
This has been true in Canada for a while. A couple of years ago, a man who was down on his luck went on a rant at the office of his local member of parliament, a woman named Catherine McKenna. Here&#8217;s what he said:
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So, he yells a few harsh words, including a few that were bleeped out. Makes some valid points as well, we should admit. But he never made any violent threats. For that, Catherine McKenna <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/hate-crime-obscenities-catherine-mckenna-office-1.5680926" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for a hate crimes investigation, and authorities opened one. You see, in Canada, no one&#8217;s allowed to say mean things to politicians. You can call conservatives &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; all you want, but don&#8217;t you dare attack the people in power. In a free country — which Canada, of course, isn’t — cussing out politicians would be considered a virtuous act. A way to keep our leaders humble and on their toes. But in Canada, it’s a potential hate crime. 
We&#8217;d like to think these attacks on freedom of speech couldn&#8217;t happen here, but the truth is, they&#8217;re already happening. They&#8217;re just not getting much coverage. Recently in Watertown, Wisconsin, police arrested a young Christian man for simply reading the bible, on the sidewalk, in the vicinity of a &#8220;public drag event.&#8221; Watch:
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US &#8211; Where freedom of speech, religion, opinion and thought is now dead.
“Love your neighbour as yourself” as quoted from the bible, is considered hate speech and the young man is arrested.
Read that again. And weep for what you have become 😞
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He has every right to be out here engaging in speech, the guy holding the camera says. And he’s right. But we don’t live in a country that cares about that sort of thing anymore. Marcus Schroeder, the man who was arrested for reading the bible, later spoke to the city council about what had happened. Watch what he said:
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Anyone watching that man speak knows that he&#8217;s a far better person to have around children, than men pretending to be women who talk to kids about their sexual fantasies. But Marcus Schroeder was arrested, and the drag queens were able to continue indoctrinating children, as the mothers of these children looked on approvingly. It&#8217;s the same thing that happens in Canada. Preach the gospel, go to jail. Preach perversion, and the police protect you.
In many states in this country, this will soon become the norm. A bill that recently passed in the Michigan state house, called HB 4474, would make it a hate crime to cause someone to quote “feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.” The bill specifies that “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” are protected classes. If you make someone &#8220;feel threatened&#8221; because of their gender identity, you can go to prison for five years.
What does it mean to make someone &#8220;feel threatened&#8221; because of their gender identity? You know the answer to that question. Trans activists have been screaming for years, at maximum volume — unless you affirm their delusions, then you&#8217;re committing &#8220;literal violence.&#8221; You&#8217;re engaging in genocide. So, yes, this bill means that if you refuse to lie about basic facts of biology in the state of Michigan, then you&#8217;ll go to jail, just like that girl in Britain. They&#8217;ll haul you out of your home and arrest you for telling the truth — just like they did to that autistic girl in Britain. They will take the fight to you.
If you don&#8217;t believe that, consider what happened on Wednesday to an elderly man in Utah named Craig Robertson. Robertson was obese and used a cane to get around. He went to church on Sundays and took care of his blind son. But he also liked to post angry memes and comments on social media, mocking and threatening Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other random political figures. In response to those memes, before dawn on Wednesday, the FBI went to Robertson&#8217;s home. Neighbors report that as many as 50 agents were on the scene. Craig Robertson was shot dead in a hail of bullets.
Why did FBI agents kill Robertson, exactly? We don&#8217;t know. The FBI won&#8217;t tell us. We asked them yesterday, and they refused to explain. The New York Post reports today that Robertson allegedly pointed a gun at the agents. Maybe he did, we don’t know at this point. But we do know that the neighbors are all confused and disturbed, trying to figure out why the federal government would need to send dozens of armed agents to a disabled, elderly man’s home because of things he posted online. If you saw them swarming his house and didn’t have any context, you’d think they were taking down a drug kingpin. You’d never guess that the guy’s crime was a Facebook meme. So the question that many are asking — especially those in Robertson’s community — is whether this level of response was actually necessary? Did the FBI really consider Robertson a credible threat to the President of the United States? It’s hard to believe.
This isn&#8217;t to defend the things that Robertson posted online, obviously. The point is that the most powerful law enforcement organization in the country, which is funded by your tax dollars, is completely unwilling to explain why they killed an American citizen two days ago. They have no justification for why they decided to go after him at 6:00am in the morning. They don&#8217;t seem interested in providing a justification. If you&#8217;re living in the U.K., or Canada, then it&#8217;s quite possible that none of this is particularly shocking to you. You&#8217;re used to this kind of thing. But if you thought that the United States could never descend into totalitarianism, as those countries have, then what&#8217;s happening in many states across this country should disabuse you of that notion.
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Come for Morning Wire’s Afternoon Update’s straight news, but stay for the Rapid Reactions The following four stories, and more, can be heard on today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update podcast. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/biden-administration-appeal-twitter-threatens-legal-action-afternoon-update-7-6-23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here to listen</a>. 
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Colorado Gun Law Takes Effect, Raising Gun Ownership Age To 21
A <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colorado-gun-law-raising-age-purchase-gun-21-set-take-effect-monday">new Colorado state gun law </a>took effect Monday, raising the age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21 — with exceptions for first responders and members of the military. Critics say the law takes away the right of some U.S. adults to defend themselves. Gun shop owner Kevin McClung questioned the logic of it in an interview with a local ABC affiliate.
&#8220;If at 18 you can get called to go die for your country, why can&#8217;t you have a firearm?&#8221; McClung <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwsYOxU2DNE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Criminals don&#8217;t follow the law in the first place. So there&#8217;s no stopping them from having those guns.&#8221;
Rapid Reaction: In response to the law, the Colorado House Republicans tweeted. &#8220;Ranchers, hunters, farmers, domestic violence victims, and anyone else who lives in CO under 21 can no longer buy a firearm as of today — thanks to Democrats’ war on the 2nd Amendment. &#8221;
Indeed, it doesn&#8217;t seem as if this law should have legal standing. If citizens of Colorado can vote at 18 and are considered an adult, then their Second Amendment rights should be recognized at 18 as well. At <a href="https://www.thecentersquare.com/colorado/article_52a404b4-323d-11ee-8f1d-231f83d8c6f8.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">least one group</a> has already filed a lawsuit against this bill.
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George Floyd Responding Police Officer Sentenced
Tou Thao, a former Minneapolis police officer who <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/tou-thao-sentenced-george-floyd-killing">responded</a> to the 9-1-1 call that led to George Floyd’s death, was sentenced to nearly five years in prison Today. His sentencing came three months after he was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter. The judge cited Thao’s alleged “lack of remorse” as he handed down the sentence.
Rapid Reaction: For a full breakdown of George Floyd and what really happened, watch The Daily Wire&#8217;s documentary, &#8220;<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/the-greatest-lie/subscribe?utm_campaign=greatestlie&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=googlesearch&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;cid=greatestlie&amp;mid=g&amp;xid=0&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwrMKmBhCJARIsAHuEAPQcHlbXBY2XpryT54AbaXYqg96B44Q4FxGm4T9yN46kxUPm8iMw2kEaApsrEALw_wcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM</a>&#8220;
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U.K. Has A Unique Plan For Dealing With Illegal Aliens
The United Kingdom has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66424923">begun moving hundreds</a> of illegal aliens on board a gigantic housing barge docked in off the southeast coast of England. The vessel, officially christened the Bibby Stockholm, could eventually house around 500 men. The move comes as the U.K. seeks to cut down costs on housing migrants. Sarah Dines, Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding explained why the move was necessary.
&#8220;We need to make sure that it&#8217;s a basic but proper accommodation and not luxurious if you come to the country, from a safe country unlawfully you can&#8217;t expect to stay in a four-star hotel,&#8221; Dines said. &#8220;So this is just one of many measures we&#8217;re bringing in. 
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Rapid Reaction: The U.S. isn&#8217;t the only Western nation suffering from illegal immigration. The U.K. has to deal with it as well. While placing these individuals on barges isn&#8217;t a perfect solution, it might be better than what happens in many American cities.
In places like New York City, thousands of illegal immigrants have been <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-09/nyc-migrants-how-nyc-is-finding-housing-and-what-it-costs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">housed in hotels at enormous cost to taxpayers</a>. The crisis is so bad that the city is now looking at propping up encampments around the city. New York Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; has said the solution to the problem is more federal funding. He seems not so concerned with saving money, rather he simply wants somebody else to pay for all the freebies that New York liberals have been promising for decades.
Perhaps he should listen to our friends across the pond and place the illegal aliens in the Big Apple on a gigantic barge out in the harbor. That sounds a lot less attractive than a night at <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/authorities-move-migrants-sleeping-outside-a-nyc-hotel-to-a-church-190053445768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Roosevelt Hotel</a>.
Ultimately, illegal aliens should be deported, not housed on boats.
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Elon Musk To Pay For Legal Fees
Elon Musk, t<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-vows-to-go-to-war-against-companies-that-punish-employees-for-activity-on-x">he owner of X</a>,  said on Saturday night that his company would pay the legal bills for any user who was “unfairly treated” due to posting or liking something on the social media platform. Musk added there would be “no limit” to the amount of legal funding provided. He later added that his company would also wage a public relations war against companies that punish their employees for what they do on X.
Musk posted, “And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too.” Musk has long maintained that he is an ardent supporter of the first amendment.
Rapid Reaction: Elon Musk might be the most interesting public figure today — if not for his intelligence and technological know-how, then for his surprising business decisions. If you&#8217;ve been wondering what really drives Musk and what his vision for the world looks like, listen to Morning Wire&#8217;s podcast diving into that topic: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/elon-musk-s-view-of-the-future-5-29-22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk&#8217;s View of the Future.</a>
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Darren Sheridan was just 19 years old when he was kidnapped, tortured, and left to die by a man named <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/trans-activist-arrested-after-telling-rally-of-supporters-to-punch-feminists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alan Baker</a> — who now identifies as Sarah Jane Baker, a radical trans activist.
Baker drew numerous headlines after a recent speech calling for violence against biological women — and Sheridan, now 52 years old, recently <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12299927/Man-tortured-trans-activist-brands-dangerous-violent-individual.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke out</a> about the trauma he suffered at the hands of Baker and two other men, one of whom was Baker&#8217;s brother.
&#8220;I was gonna come here and be really fluffy and be really nice and say yeah be really lovely and queer and gay,&#8221; Baker said at a recent PRIDE event. &#8220;Nah, if you see a TERF, punch them in the f****** face.&#8221;
TERF — a derogatory acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist — is liberally applied by the trans community, and used to label any woman who does not automatically accept or celebrate the inclusion of biological males in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-nails-it-real-fascists-have-spotted-a-glorious-opportunity-in-trans-activism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">women&#8217;s spaces</a>.
Sheridan responded to the headlines, saying, &#8220;&#8216;I think it is extreme to have those kind of views. I know she has anger issues but there&#8217;s still no right to say &#8216;punch somebody in the face.'&#8221;
&#8220;I think if people disagree with other people about issues it&#8217;s much better to have a debate about it then threaten people. By telling the crowd to punch a TERF, she clearly still has anger issues and is a dangerous, violent person,'&#8221; Sheridan continued.
Sheridan told The Daily Mail about what he suffered at Baker&#8217;s hands, noting that even after the case went to court and Baker had admitted to committing the crime, the only regret Baker had was &#8220;not being able to break&#8221; Sheridan.
&#8220;I was forcibly taken at knifepoint to a van and bundled into the back. I couldn&#8217;t see what was going on as I was face down and there were no windows. I was beaten in the van. I think there were two of them doing it,&#8221; Sheridan said. &#8220;I had no idea where I was going. They took me to a flat and led me inside where I was beaten and tortured for 12 hours.&#8221;
&#8220;They were punching me and burning me with cigarettes. They were stubbing them out on my neck and I still have the scars from that to this day. I was forced to perform oral sex on them at knifepoint,&#8221; Sheridan continued, adding that his captors had talked openly about how they might kill him.
&#8220;I was made to eat cigarette butts and curry powder,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was such a sustained attack I became numb to the pain. The last thing I remember was being tied up with electricity wire and dumped in an airing cupboard. They carried me in and just left me there. It was dark and silent. I couldn&#8217;t hear anything.&#8221;
&#8220;The wire was tied around my feet, my hands and my neck in such a way that if I moved it tightened around my neck,&#8221; Sheridan said, explaining that he eventually stopped trying to get free out of fear that he would strangle himself. &#8220;I was helpless and I blacked out.&#8221;
After years of therapy, Sheridan says he&#8217;s put most of the experience behind him — but he did hear that Baker had gone through a gender transition while in prison.
&#8220;I&#8217;m surprised that he is doing so much for the trans community. I&#8217;m surprised that he would put other people before him,&#8221; Sheridan said of Baker&#8217;s newfound activism. &#8220;I don&#8217;t get much involved in politics and stuff like that. I try to keep away from it.&#8221;

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A Christian social worker in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom">U.K.</a> is taking legal action after his job offer was rescinded for his Christian views of sexuality and marriage.
Felix Ngole was offered his “dream job” as a mental health support worker at Touchstone Support Leeds, a charity <a href="https://www.nhs.uk/services/service-directory/touchstone/N10499434">partnered</a> with the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), but weeks later, the company <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12278659/Christian-job-offer-rescinded-company-learns-victory-free-speech-case.html">rescinded</a> the offer when it found out about his Christian beliefs and past victory in a religious liberty case.
Several weeks after receiving his acceptance letter, he received an email from Touchstone Deputy CEO Kathryn Hart, saying he was not fit for the position because the company had “identified some significant areas and concerns” that did not “align with Touchstone Leeds’ ethos and values.” 
“In particular, we can see that you have very strong views against homosexuality and same-sex marriage, which completely go against the views of Touchstone, an organisation committed to actively promoting and supporting LGBTQ+ rights,” Hart continued.
She said that she would reconsider if he would embrace Touchstone’s values, including “the promotion of homosexual rights.”
The father of three was then invited to a meeting with Hart and the company’s operations director, Dave Pickard, who questioned him intensely about his beliefs.
Ngole, who fled persecution in Cameroon, compared the questioning to interrogations he experienced in his home country. “They called it a discussion but it felt like I was being interrogated back in Cameroon,” he said. “Every question had an LGBT slant. … I think they were concerned that employing me could risk their Stonewall ranking.”
&#8220;What I cannot do, and you cannot reasonably expect me to do without yourselves being discriminatory, is make my participation in the &#8216;promotion of homosexual rights&#8217; a condition of my employment,&#8221; Ngole responded in the meeting, assuring them he would not discriminate against anyone. 
A week after the meeting, he received an email from the company officially rescinding his job offer, stating that his beliefs would be “upsetting and offensive” to their patients and would “exacerbate … [their] anxiety and depression.”
Touchstone Support <a href="https://touchstonesupport.org.uk/about-us/senior-leadership-team/">boasts</a> its “Top 100 LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer” ranking and “Gold” award from the controversial organization <a href="https://www.stonewall.org.uk/">Stonewall</a>, which <a href="https://www.stonewall.org.uk/join-diversity-champions-programme">promotes</a> left-wing LGBTQ agenda items in workplaces. The company’s logo even dons the Pride and transgender flags’ colors.
Ngole is now pursuing legal action against the organization under the U.K. Equality Act, which forbids discrimination on the basis of religion. 
Andrea Williams, of the Christian Legal Centre, which is representing Ngole, said, “Telling an employee they must &#8217;embrace and promote&#8217; homosexuality as a condition of employment sets a dark and troubling precedent. If left unchallenged it would see Christians who manifest their beliefs barred from working in the NHS.”
The Centre <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/christian-social-worker-takes-legal-action-job-withdrawn-told-embrace-promote-lgbt-rights">said</a> that he was “the best performing candidate in interview, gaining the highest marks of any candidate on an equality and diversity assessment.”
Religious discrimination is not new for Ngole, as he won a case against the University of Sheffield, which had expelled him for his Christian beliefs. In 2016, the university expelled him for quoting Bible verses about homosexuality in a Facebook discussion and told him not to express his views, even in church, according to <a href="https://www2.cbn.com/news/world/british-court-upholds-right-christians-freely-express-their-faith">CBN News</a>. 
The U.K. Court of Appeal rebuked the university in a landmark free speech victory, saying, “The mere expression of religious views about sin does not necessarily connote discrimination.&#8221; The Court of Appeal also found that Ngole would “never discriminate against anyone” because of his religious views. His victory in the case played a role in the offer being rescinded, according to The Daily Mail.
This type of discrimination is on the rise in the U.K., <a href="https://www2.cbn.com/news/world/christian-social-worker-uk-denied-job-refusing-pledge-allegiance-lgbt-flag">according</a> to Williams. &#8220;What we see here is the confident totalitarianism of an organization that has been captured by Stonewall and will do anything to keep their Stonewall ranking as high as possible,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Viewpoint discrimination is escalating in the UK at an alarming rate &#8230; Anyone who does not comply and celebrate LGBT ideology must become a &#8216;non-person.'&#8221;
Viewpoint discrimination is a rising concern for British politicians. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-k-bank-refuses-to-open-account-for-conservative-parent-group-report">reported</a>, U.K. banks backed by the Stonewall group have denied or shut individuals’ accounts for their political views or positions. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12258933/Rishi-Sunak-issues-warning-banks-blacklisting-customers-controversial-views.html">vowed</a> to investigate such discrimination.

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A top official from the United Kingdom had some advice for Ukraine this week, telling the country to show more gratitude for the billions of dollars in international aid it has received from around the world. 
Ben Wallace, Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom, made the <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/uk-not-an-amazon-delivery-service-for-weapons-to-ukraine-says-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-12919765" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> Wednesday at the NATO summit in Lithuania when he was asked to comment on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s frustration with the timeline of becoming a member-state.
&#8220;There is a slight word of caution here, which is that whether we like it or not people want to see gratitude,&#8221; Wallace <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/uk-not-an-amazon-delivery-service-for-weapons-to-ukraine-says-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-12919765" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> journalists during a briefing. &#8220;My counsel to the Ukrainians is sometimes you&#8217;re persuading countries to give up their own stocks [of weapons] and yes the war is a noble war and yes we see it as you doing a war for — not just yourself — but our freedoms.”
Wallace added that he sometimes hears “grumbles” from politicians in the United States – which has given the largest amount of aid to Ukraine by far – regarding a lack of gratitude from the country, to which American political leaders have said “We’re not Amazon” according to the defense chief. 
Wallace said he has expressed the same sentiment as many in Washington, &#8220;I said to the Ukrainians last year, when I drove 11 hours to [Kyiv to] be given a list — I said, I am not Amazon.&#8221;
Earlier in the NATO summit, Zelensky expressed his frustration over the timeline of Ukraine becoming a member state, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/zelensky-slams-weakness-of-absurd-biden-stance-on-nato/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling it</a> “unprecedented” and “absurd.” A summit <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-show-gratitude-west-support-ben-wallace-nato/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> issued Tuesday stated that NATO would be “in a position” to invite Ukraine to join the alliance only “when Allies agree and conditions are met.”
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan expressed a similar sentiment as the U.K. defense chief, saying the American people deserve gratitude for the extent to which the country has supported Ukrainian war efforts through taxpayer dollars. 
“I think the American people do deserve a degree of gratitude from the United States government for their willingness to step up and from the rest of the world as well,” Sullivan <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/us-deserves-gratitude-from-ukraine-for-war-backing-white-house/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the summit, avoiding directly addressing the Ukrainians. 
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Despite Wallace’s statement, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/uk-not-an-amazon-delivery-service-for-weapons-to-ukraine-says-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-12919765" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Zelensky had already &#8220;expressed his gratitude for what we&#8217;ve done on a number of occasions,” and offered to “continue to give him the support he needs.&#8221;
Since the war began, the United States Congress has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-accounting-error-gives-extra-6-2-billion-in-aid-to-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allocated</a> roughly $113 billion in aid to Ukraine; no other country has <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">come close</a> to what the U.S. has sent. And last week, the White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-express-reservations-about-biden-decision-to-send-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that cluster bombs would be included in an $800 million weapons package to Ukraine. 
President Biden has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-accounting-error-gives-extra-6-2-billion-in-aid-to-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pledged</a> to support Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” despite some Republicans in Congress expressing their reservations on continued support and roughly 44% of Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters believing the country is sending too much, according to a Gallup <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/15/more-than-four-in-ten-republicans-now-say-the-us-is-providing-too-much-aid-to-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a>.
In early May, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/ukraine-republican-skeptics.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to a New York Times reporter in an email, “I just got back from meeting with the Ukrainian Parliament in Poland, where they demanded F-35s and thought it was an obligation for every American to pay $10 a month to fund their war.”

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