British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in a video statement posted on social media Friday that he has tested positive for coronavirus.
The 55-year-old Conservative Party leader announced in the video that after developing mild symptoms over the last 24 hours, including &#8220;a temperature and a persistent cough,&#8221; he tested positive for COVID-19. His plan now is to work from home and self-isolate, as he encouraged others to do to continue to &#8220;protect&#8221; the National Health Service (NHS) from being overwhelmed.
&#8220;Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus,&#8221; Johnson wrote in a tweet that includes the video statement. &#8220;I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government’s response via video-conference as we fight this virus. Together we will beat this.&#8221;
&#8220;Hi, folks, I want to bring you up to to speed on something that is happening today, which is that I developed mild symptoms of coronavirus — that is to say, a temperature and a persistent cough,&#8221; Johnson announced in the video (below). &#8220;And on the advice of the chief medical officer, I have taken the test and it has come out positive.&#8221;
&#8220;So, I am working from home and self-isolating, and that&#8217;s entirely the right thing to do,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But, be in no doubt that I can continue, thanks to the wizardry of modern technology, to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight-back against coronavirus.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to thank everybody involved and, of course, our amazing NHS staff,&#8221; Johnson stressed. &#8220;It was very moving to join last night in that national clap for the NHS,&#8221; he said in reference to a celebration of national healthcare workers Thursday.
&#8220;But it&#8217;s not just the NHS, it&#8217;s our police, our social care workers, our teachers, everybody who works in schools, and DWP staff,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Amazing national effort by the public services, but also by every member of the British public volunteering. Incredible response. 600,000 people volunteered to take part in a great national effort to protect people from the consequences of coronavirus.&#8221;
Johnson concluded the statement by encouraging the nation that if they &#8220;stay at home and protect the NHS,&#8221; they will &#8220;beat&#8221; the epidemic and &#8220;bounce back.&#8221;
&#8220;We will get through it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the way we will get through it is, of course, by applying the measures that you&#8217;ve heard so much about. And the more effectively we all comply with those measures, the faster our country will come through this epidemic and the faster we&#8217;ll bounce back. Thank you to everybody who is doing what I&#8217;m doing and working from home to stop the spread of the virus from household to household. That&#8217;s the way we&#8217;re going to win, we&#8217;re going to beat it, and we&#8217;re going to beat it together. Stay at home and protect the NHS and save lives.&#8221;
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Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus.
I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government’s response via video-conference as we fight this virus.
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Johnson&#8217;s optimistic message follows updated forecasts by British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, one of the co-authors of the highly influential Imperial College London coronavirus model, which initially predicted that if no action were taken to curb the spread of the virus, some 500,000 people would die in the U.K. and 2.2 million would die in the U.S. With social distancing measures, like those taken by the British and American governments, Ferguson&#8217;s updated potential death toll in the U.K. has now been downgraded to <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-intensive-care-units-for-coronavirus-expert-predicts/">20,000 or fewer</a>.

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WATCH: British Prime Minister Announces He Tested Positive For Coronavirus

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered his fellow citizens to stay home and only travel outside when necessary, making the United Kingdom the latest country to embrace lockdown efforts to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
According to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52014472">BBC</a>, Johnson limited all public gatherings in Britain to just two people while advising residents to leave their homes once a day for exercise and to travel only when &#8220;absolutely necessary,&#8221; to get groceries or needed medication. All non-essential businesses (bars, in-dining restaurants, etc.) have been closed until further notice.
Should people ignore these orders, police have been given the power to disperse gatherings and issue fines. In three weeks time, the government will consider a relaxation on rules in effect. Johnson made the announcement after a weekend where people were seen crowding the beaches, parks, markets, and other areas of Britain.
&#8220;To put it simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to handle it &#8211; meaning more people are likely to die, not just from coronavirus but from other illnesses as well,&#8221; Boris Johnson said.
Though Health Secretary Matt Hancock said employers should see to it that employees can work from home, he ultimately stated,  &#8220;I want to be absolutely clear, when people absolutely can not work from home they can still go to work &#8211; indeed it&#8217;s important that they do to keep the country running.&#8221;
Here are the new guidelines, as outlined by the BBC:
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<li class="story-body__list-item">Shopping for basic necessities such as food and medicine. Shopping trips should be as infrequent as possible</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">One form of exercise a day such as a run, walk or cycle. This should be done alone or only with people you live with</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Any medical need, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person. This includes moving children under the age of 18 between their parents&#8217; homes, where applicable. Key workers or those with children identified as vulnerable can continue to take their children to school</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Travelling to and from work, but only where work absolutely cannot be done from home</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Even when following the above guidance, people should minimise the amount of time spent out of their homes and should keep two metres (6ft) away from people they do not live with.</li>
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Boris Johnson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/mar/12/trumps-travel-ban-wont-have-much-impact-on-spread-of-coronavirus-says-rishi-sunak-live-news">has previously said the pandemic</a> could be the “worst public health crisis for a generation,” warning that citizens could lose loved ones as a result.
“This is the worst public crisis for a generation, some people compare it to seasonal flu, alas that is not right,” Johnson told reporters at an emergency COBRA meeting of top Cabinet officials. “Owing to the lack of immunity, this disease is more dangerous, and it’s going to spread further.”
“I must level with the British public, many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time,” he added.
Last week, the royal family <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/queen-elizabeth-moves-up-easter-holiday-cancels-royal-events-amid-coronavirus-concerns">also announced</a> that Queen Elizabeth would be moving up her planned Easter holiday a full week so that she could leave Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle. Though the queen canceled large events, she will still be granting audience to specific people. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is expected to take over many of the Queen&#8217;s public duties in her absence as Prince Charles is also in the most vulnerable age bracket for the disease.
“As a sensible precaution and for practical reasons in the current circumstances, a number of changes are being made to The Queen’s diary,” the royal family announced on its <a href="https://www.royal.uk/announcement-regarding-changes-queens-diary" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a> last Tuesday. “Audiences due to take place this week at Buckingham Palace will go ahead as planned. These include receiving the Prime Minister, the Commanding Officer of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH and the Bishop of Hereford. Future Audiences will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, in line with the appropriate advice.”

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Boris Johnson Locks Down U.K.: Britons ‘Must Stay Home’

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The United Kingdom&#8217;s National Health Service (NHS) announced Tuesday that, under new rules for the agency coming in April, medical care providers can refuse to give non-critical care to patients who are &#8220;racist,&#8221; sexist,&#8221; &#8220;homophobic,&#8221; or are otherwise insulting and aggressive towards hospital staff.
Right now, the NHS can refuse to treat anyone who are &#8220;aggressive&#8221; or &#8220;violent&#8221; out of concern for the well-being of health care workers, but the new rules, set to take effect in April of 2020, expand who the NHS can turn away &#8212; though it&#8217;s not entirely clear how the NHS would know a possible patient was &#8220;racist,&#8221; sexist,&#8221; or &#8220;homophobic,&#8221; or whether there are procedures in place to separate the truly mentally ill from the merely problematic.
Sky News reports that much of the decision may be made by front-line hospital workers: &#8220;these protections will extend to any harassment, bullying or discrimination, including homophobic, sexist or racist remarks.&#8221;
The UK&#8217;s Health Secretary Matt Hancock, a conservative serving under Prime Minister Boris Johnson, told NHS employees that &#8220;no act of violence or abuse is minor,&#8221; in a statement made earlier this week and that &#8220;[b]eing assaulted or abused is not part of the job.&#8221;
The NHS already allows medical workers to refuse to treat patients who are aggressive or violent and, theoretically, this rule would simply extend that allowance to cover those patients who are overtly insulting to staff, perhaps indicating that they do not want treatment from a woman or someone with specific religious garb, if what ails that patient is non life-threatening.
Hancock&#8217;s statement, though, seems to indicate that staff will make value judgements about patients even in emergency situations.
&#8220;Far too often I hear stories that the people you are trying to help lash out. I&#8217;ve seen it for myself in A&amp;Es, on night shifts, and on ambulances,&#8221; Hancock said, referring to UK hospitals&#8217; &#8220;accidents and emergency&#8221; departments, the equivalent of American ERs and EDs. Hancock added that he is &#8220;horrified that any member of the public would abuse or physically assault a member of our NHS staff but it happens too often.&#8221;
While the rule poses a host of problems, including who might be placed in charge of determining what behavior is considered racist, sexist, and homophobic, and what might constitute verbal harassment or abuse, the biggest concern appears to be for the mentally ill, who may seek treatment, even for non life-threatening ailments, but be unable to control their behavior. If they are labeled &#8220;abusive,&#8221; &#8220;aggressive,&#8221; or &#8220;harmful,&#8221; they will be turned away from medical care.
According to a study taken by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman last year, Sky News says, the issue is already a problem for the NHS: &#8220;one in five mental health patients do not feel safe in NHS care,&#8221; the study reported, and &#8220;[m]ore than half of people with mental health problems in England also said their treatment was delayed, while 42% said they were diagnosed too late.&#8221;
Johnson&#8217;s government is trying to get a handle, overall, on problem &#8212; specifically financial problems &#8212; that are threatening the longevity of the UK&#8217;s national health service, and the new rules are part of a plan to help stabilize the system, but they make come too little too late. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/health-42572110">According to the BBC</a>, the NHS&#8217;s budget has exploded and 30% of Britain&#8217;s domestic spending now goes to public health.

Report: UK’s National Health Service Can Refuse To Treat ‘Racist,’ ‘Sexist,’ And ‘Homophobic’ Patients Under New Rules

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A rash of knife attacks by recently released terrorists has put Britain on edge and serves as a reminder that the United States needs to do more itself to prepare for the imminent release from prison of convicted terrorists. In order to avoid the current problems of the British government, which is rushing to pass emergency legislation, American lawmakers should take advantage of our federalist system to bring state and local resources to play in tracking released terrorists.
The British government is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/02/streatham-attacker-was-released-terror-offender-sudesh-amman">struggling to address</a> the threat from dozens of convicted jihadi terrorists who are due to be released within months. Britain has seen several high-profile attacks from freed terrorists who received early release before serving even half their sentences.
Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/03/wave-jihadi-terrorists-due-freed-early-release-within-months/">20-year old Sudesh Amman</a> strapped on a fake explosive vest before launching a knife attack on Streatham High Road in London. Despite being under direct police surveillance during the attack, the jihadist critically wounded one person. Amman had previously been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for multiple terrorism offenses in November 2018 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-46592539">related to distributing Islamic State propaganda</a>.
The attack methodology of a fake suicide bomb vest and knives directly mirrored that of Usman Khan, another convicted terrorist, who in November 2019 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50653191">killed two people</a> on London Bridge. Prior to the attack, authorities had considered Khan <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50653191">a model</a> rehabilitated prisoner. Khan was attending a deradicalization conference minutes before he launched his attack.
Official data show that the British government has reconvicted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/six-terrorists-freed-from-jail-committed-further-terror-act-figures-reveal">an additional six British jihadi terrorists</a> released from prison between 2013 and 2019.
This newest wave of attacks is a reminder that the U.S. also faces a risk from previously convicted terrorists who are released; various “rehabilitation” schemes are highly suspect.
Aimen Dean, a former al-Qaeda member who later spied for Britain’s MI6, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/al-qaeda-spied-mi6-know-deradicalisation-doesnt-work/">told The Telegraph</a>, “there is no such thing as a rehabilitated jihadist.” Morton Storm, a Danish former al-Qaeda member who later helped to betray terrorist leader Anwar al-Awlaki to the CIA, agrees. Rehabilitation efforts, he says, ignore that jihadis are not confused or mentally ill, <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/joseph-perticone/denmark-aims-rehabilitate-not-punish-returning-jihadists">but are adherents of an ideology</a> to which they are committed. “[D]eradicalizing the jihadists doesn’t work, because they’re religiously motivated,” Storm told the Associated Press in 2017, in response to a Danish rehabilitation program.
Nearly two decades after 9/11, even high-level terrorist leaders facing long sentences are becoming eligible for parole and may even complete their full sentences. While there is very little information available on recidivism rates among convicted terrorists, the recidivism rate of jihadist fighters released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility was nearly 17% in 2018, with another 13% also suspected of returning to active terrorism.
In 2017, a National Counterterrorism Center <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/the-troubling-us-post-prison-experiment-to-rehabilitate-an-isis-supporter">report noted,</a> “more than 90 homegrown violent extremists incarcerated in the U.S. who are due to be released in the next five years will probably re-engage in terrorist activity.”
In order to address this challenge, U.S. federal, state, and local law enforcement need tools in order to prepare for released terrorists. One such tool would be a terrorism registry, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-needs-a-national-terrorist-registry-to-keep-us-safe">which would provide law enforcement</a> the ability to track the location of former terrorists in the same way police and the public can keep tabs on sex offenders — with legal sanction for failure to register. Louisiana successfully passed the first terrorism offender registry law in 2019, and several states have expressed interest in following suit.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-needs-a-national-terrorist-registry-to-keep-us-safe">A nation-wide network</a> has also been proposed by Patrick Dunleavy, a specialist on terrorist activity in the prison system. Realistically, such a proposal requires both federal assistance with information-sharing, as well as state laws to establish the registries and allow state authorities to enforce them.
A nationwide system of state terrorism registries would also take advantage of American federalism, utilizing state and local law enforcement to help prevent federal counterterrorism agents from being overwhelmed with keeping tabs on prior offenders.
Public registries protect and empower the individual citizen without need for government controls. The Department of Justice maintains a <a href="https://www.nsopw.gov/">public sex offender registry</a>, which private companies often use as a database for <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsp.android.h&amp;hl=en">websites and apps that alert citizens</a> about rapists, stalkers, and molesters living in their neighborhoods.
Pseudoscience models of rehabilitation treat convicted terrorists as emotionally stunted unfortunates rather than committed ideologues willing to use violence for a political purpose. This has proven to be a disaster. Instead, the U.S. should implement a registry system for terrorists, bringing state and local law enforcement resources, as well as private enterprise, to bear and improving communication and cooperation for law enforcement in order to ensure that terrorist re-offenders do not slip through the net.
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Kyle Shideler is the Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy.

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SHIDELER: Stop Releasing Jihadists From Prison

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The United Kingdom now says it will end an &#8220;early release&#8221; program in place for individuals convicted of &#8220;terror offenses&#8221; after two people were wounded in a second attack committed by someone granted leniency under the early release rules.
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/bee3f1d416f1de836ba26fa04f025f4f">the Associated Press</a>, the UK has been employing a rule which allows those convicted of planning terror attacks to serve a fraction of their prison sentence before being automatically paroled without a hearing. The rule, introduced ten years ago by the Labour Party, is meant to show mercy to those who may have been targeted for radicalization and to keep terror cells from recruiting in prisons. In the last decade, around 70 people have walked free because of the rule.
Sunday, Sudesh Amman, one of the parolees, &#8220;strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a busy street before being shot dead by police,&#8221; per the AP. It was the second such attack by a former prisoner in less than six months.
Amman was sentenced to just three years for &#8220;publishing graphic terrorist videos online and had stockpiled instructions on bomb making and knife attacks,&#8221; but got out of jail after only around 18 months &#8212; half his sentence. In November, Usman Khan killed two people near the London Bridge while out on conditional release.
Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the British Parliament on Monday that he will propose a slate of new rules, curbing the state&#8217;s ability to allow terror offenders to walk free.
&#8220;We cannot have the situation, as we saw tragically in yesterday&#8217;s case, where an offender &#8211; a known risk to innocent members of the public &#8211; is released early by automatic process of law without any oversight by the Parole Board,&#8221; Buckland said in a speech Monday morning.
The new rules would ensure that terror prisoners serve at least two thirds of their sentence before being considered for early parole. And instead of an automatic release, each prisoner will have to demonstrate rehabilitation.  Because, Buckland added, this is &#8220;an unprecedented situation of severe gravity,&#8221; the rule will apply to the approximately 200 prisoners currently serving time on terror-related charges.
&#8216;This is a liberal country, it is a tolerant country,″ Prime Minister Boris Johnson added in his own interview. “But I think the idea of automatic early release for people who obviously continue to pose a threat to the public has come to the end of its useful life.”
&#8220;Now that I am prime minister I&#8217;m going to take steps to make sure that people are not released early when they commit&#8230; serious sexual, violent or terrorist offences,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50618744">he told the BBC</a>. &#8220;I absolutely deplore the that fact that this man was out on the streets&#8230;and we are going to take action against it.&#8221;
The new slate of rules will likely include measures requiring that law enforcement officials closely monitor those convicted on terrorism charges and then released for a certain period of time.
“We are going to have to accept that we have to be much more skeptical and robust about dealing with the risk of harm,″ one expert told the AP. “We may need to accept that there are certain people who are so dangerous they must be kept in prison indefinitely.”
Leftists in the UK were unhappy at the news. Labour Party leaders blamed law enforcement &#8220;budget cuts&#8221; for the rise in terrorist activities, not the early release program, and a &#8220;human rights activist&#8221; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51364047">told the BBC that the new rules</a> present &#8220;civil rights concerns.&#8221;
&#8220;From last month&#8217;s knee-jerk lie detector proposal, to today&#8217;s threat to break the law by changing people&#8217;s sentences retrospectively, continuing to introduce measures without review or evidence is dangerous and will create more problems than it solves,&#8221; he said.

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Finally: UK Will End ‘Early Release’ Program For Convicted Terrorists After Latest Attack

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The royal exit of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is predictably causing heartache within Prince Harry&#8217;s immediate family.
Earlier this month, Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle announced their intentions to relinquish their royal duties and work to become financially independent. The decision has left brother Prince William and wife Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, &#8220;reeling.&#8221;
&#8220;According to royal expert Katie Nicholl, William and Kate are only just coming to terms with the new makeup of the royal family,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/meghan-markle-prince-harry-megxit-william-kate-middleton-reeling">Fox News</a> reported Friday.
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Prince William and Kate &#8220;are still reeling from the news, coming to terms with the reality of this situation,&#8221; the royal expert said.
“The past week must have been incredibly hard. With William busy performing royal duties, he&#8217;s not got his brother by his side right now and his father, Prince Charles, has returned to Scotland,&#8221; Nicholl added.
As a consequence of Harry and Meghan&#8217;s decision to split off from the royal institution, Prince William and Kate have been left with intensified media scrutiny and more responsibility.
The warm public reception of the the couple has helped with the change, Nicholl previously told OK! “The warm reception William and Kate received has given them a huge boost,” the expert said. “They&#8217;ve stuck to the tried-and-tested approach, promoting a united royal family and it&#8217;s a success.”
Two weeks ago, according to a report from <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-william-on-harry-and-meghan-crisis-i-ve-put-my-arm-around-my-brother-all-our-lives-i-can-t-do-it-any-more-75822g7sq">The Sunday Times</a> (U.K.), Prince William was left devastated by the news of his brother&#8217;s departure.
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“As the Queen called emergency peace talks tomorrow at Sandringham to end the Windsors’ civil war, The Sunday Times can reveal that Prince William has said he feels sorrow that he and Prince Harry are now ‘separate entities’ and expressed hope that they might pull together again in future,” the outlet reported.
“I’ve put my arm around my brother all our lives and I can’t do that any more; we’re separate entities,” Prince William <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prince-william-responds-to-harry-and-meghans-royal-split-ive-put-my-arm-around-my-brother-i-cant-do-that-anymore">told</a> a friend.
“I’m sad about that. All we can do, and all I can do, is try and support them and hope that the time comes when we’re all singing from the same page. I want everyone to play on the team,” Prince William reportedly said.
“After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution,” Harry and Meghan said in the bombshell joint statement announcing their plans to abandon their royal duties.
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“We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the royal family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support her majesty the queen,” the couple added.
On Sunday, Harry, for the first time publicly, addressed his split, telling a room full of supporters of the Sentebale charity in London that he and his wife Meghan Markle had “no other option” than to break away. According to the 35-year-old, he tried to “support” Queen Elizabeth II, his grandmother, without receiving public funds, but that situation was undoable.

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Kate Middleton ‘Reeling’ In Wake Of Harry And Meghan’s Royal Split

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After polls showed that Canadians were overwhelmingly opposed to paying for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s security should they relocate to the country, over 80,000 citizens have signed a petition demanding that the royals foot the bill themselves.
According to <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/01/22/80k-canadians-sign-petition-for-prince-harry-meghan-markle-to-pay-for-their-security/">Page Six</a>, the fiscally conservative Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CTF) launched the <a href="https://www.taxpayer.com/media/No-Taxpayers-Money-For-Meghan-and-Harry.html">petition</a> last week by arguing that Harry and Meghan are welcome to seek financial independence apart from the royal family so long as Canadian taxpayers don&#8217;t supplement their security costs.
“Everyone wishes Meghan and Harry all the best in becoming financially independent, but we need to be clear about one thing: Canadian taxpayers shouldn’t have to cover their bills,” said CTF Federal Director Aaron Wudrick. “The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is launching this petition to make sure Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows that Canadians are happy to welcome the couple as long as they pay their own way.”
“True financial independence cannot be achieved if Canadian taxpayers are still paying the bills,” continued Wudrick. “Canadians are already on the hook for the unlimited, unaccountable expenses of retired governors general and they should not be responsible for funding the private lifestyle decisions of members of the royal family.”
The 80,000 signatures were delivered to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s office on Tuesday.
According to <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-security-in-canada-for-meghan-harry-could-cost-over-10-million/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Globe and Mail,</a> experts say Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s security detail could cost upwards of $10 million annually. Chris Mathers, formerly of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), said security measures have changed drastically over the years and that the royal couple would have little say in how much or how little is required. Their residence alone would require &#8220;fences, explosive-detection dogs, closed-circuit television surveillance, alarms and a security team on the ground&#8221; as well as &#8220;a team to accompany them when they leave their residence.&#8221;
“They want to live their own life as best they can and they decided this is a place that will allow them to do that. You really can’t take that away from them,” Mathers told the outlet. “They need personal body guards all the time. You have to pay those peoples’ salaries. You’ve got to pay for the vehicles they travel in and the aircraft they travel in. You have to pay for the communications equipment they require because it has to be sophisticated so that you can’t listen to it.&#8221;
However, Bruce Hallsor of the Monarchist League of Canada <a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/welcome-canadian-taxpayers-federation-has-welcome-basket-for-meghan-and-harry" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told the Vancouver Sun</a> that no expectation exists that the royals “are going to receive any money from the Canadian taxpayer.”
“Regardless of whether they’re a public figure or not, I honestly think the best thing to do is leave that to the RCMP to determine what’s appropriate,” said Hallsor. “I think if they’re not going to be performing public duties they shouldn’t draw any kind of public resources. But if there’s a security threat to any Canadian resident, then police need to assess that and deal with that appropriately.”
According to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megxit-canadians-overwhelmingly-against-paying-for-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-to-live-there">new poll last week</a> from the Angus Reid Institute, only 5% of Canadian taxpayers are okay with footing the bill for Harry and Meghan’s stay in the country, despite having a generally positive attitude about the migration.

REPORT: Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Are A ‘Public Relations Disaster’

PETITION: 80,000 Canadians Demand Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Pay Their Own Security

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Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle, duke and duchess of Sussex, have already stumbled upon a snag in Canadian living.
The exiting royals issued a cease and desist letter to British media outlets threatening legal action following Meghan and baby Archie being photographed in a public park in Canada, <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/21/meghan-markle-cease-desist-letter-photos-archie-canada-paparazzi-legal-action/">TMZ</a> reported Tuesday.
In England, Harry and Meghan were protected from being photographed in public outside of official appearances, TMZ noted.
“There are serious safety concerns about how the paparazzi are driving and the risk to life they pose,” the cease and desist letter reads, according to the outlet.
The couple’s legal team claimed in the letter that the photographs of Meghan and her infant son were taken while photographers hid in the bushes. “The letter took special issue with the commentary around the pictures that suggested they had been taken with Meghan’s consent,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/canada/meghan-and-archie-photos.html">The New York Times</a> reported.
According to the Times, The Daily Mail and The Sun posted the photos in question.
“Harry and Meghan have taken their privacy very seriously from the start of their relationshp, and even sued a UK tabloid last year for alleged misuse of private information,” TMZ reported. “In England, strict privacy laws protect even the Royals from being photographed in public when they’re not making official appearances.”
According to privacy law specialist David Elder, the couple could potentially bring a lawsuit forward under the under British Columbia’s Privacy Act, the Times reported. However, Elder noted, “the legislation contains many exemptions intended for news media, as does Canada’s constitution, and that Canadian courts have generally ruled that people in public places and public figures have little expectation of privacy.”
The privacy law specialist added that it “is unlikely to be a slam-dunk and, in fact, may be a difficult claim to make out successfully.”
Earlier this month, Harry and Meghan announced their intentions to step away from their royal duties and become financially independent.
“We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen,” the couple announced in a joint statement.
On Saturday, Queen Elizabeth II, Harry’s grandmother, pulled the trigger on the exiting royals, outing the new conditions of the split. For example, “His Royal Highness and Her Royal Highness” titles from Harry and Meghan were stripped and the couple will be financially cut off from royal funds, effective this spring.
“Harry, Meghan, and Archie will always be much loved members of my family,” the Queen said in a statement, noting her support for their “independent” life.
According to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/duke-duchess-sussex-longer-working-members-royal-family/story?id=68372425&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn">ABC News</a>, “Prince Harry is losing his military titles and patronages including Captain General Royal Marines, Honorary Air Commandant Royal Air Force Honington and Small Ships and Diving, Royal Naval Command: Commodore in Chief. He will also no longer be a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador. Harry and Meghan will keep their roles at the Queen’s Commonwealth Truth – Harry serves as president and Meghan is vice-president.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meghans-sister-rips-her-for-destroying-royals-treatment-of-father-chasing-fame-and-fortune">Meghan’s Sister RIPS Her For Destroying Royals, Treatment Of Father: CHASING ‘FAME AND FORTUNE’</a>

Prince Harry And Meghan Markle

Harry And Meghan Already Find Snag In Canadian Living, Take Legal Action

Another member of Meghan Markle&#8217;s family has come forward to express harsh criticism of the existing royal.
On the heels of father <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walmart-with-a-crown-meghans-father-rips-daughter-for-cheapening-royals-choosing-money-over-family">Thomas Markle</a> ridiculing Meghan for &#8220;cheapening&#8221; the royal family to &#8220;Walmart with a crown,&#8221; sister Samantha Markle recently penned an op-ed taking Meghan to task for treating their sickly father poorly and destroying the royals in pursuit of &#8220;fame and fortune.&#8221;
&#8220;Meghan knew the social requirements of joining the royal family,&#8221; Samantha outlined in an op-ed published at <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10775155/samantha-markle-meghan-harry-never-find-happiness/">The Sun</a> on Monday. &#8220;She should have asked herself if she was willing and able to behave in accordance with the expectations.&#8221;
Samantha said Meghan had her friends leak negative stories about the royal family, highlighting a report that claimed the duchess found the royal lifestyle &#8220;toxic.&#8221; The estranged sister also accused Meghan of allowing &#8220;damage to be done against our family via friends and P.R. advisers.&#8221;
&#8220;She watched the media taunt and torture my dad, never springing to his defence like a true humanitarian would,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Thomas was an incredible dad. He paid every penny of her education and cared greatly for her. He is now frail, with a heart condition. He doesn’t have a P.R. team to spin him a good story.&#8221;
&#8220;She knows how Harry leaving has affected&#8221; the royal family, she added, &#8220;but she hasn’t spoken up in their defense.&#8221;
&#8220;She could have expressed her thanks for the kindness of the Queen and Prince Charles,&#8221; wrote Samantha. &#8220;She could have expressed gratitude to her own father or her first husband, Trevor, who gave her career opportunities.
&#8220;My sister has become a totally different person, choosing wealth and fortune over family,&#8221; charged Samantha.
The sister suggested Meghan and Prince Harry&#8217;s claim to want a quiet, private life is suspect.
&#8220;My fear is Meghan’s decision isn’t about moving to Canada for a quiet life as a young mother,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Nothing about their actions so far suggest they truly desire a private life out the limelight. They have paraded themselves on the red carpet, tried to make deals with Disney, and become pals with the Clooneys and other A-list stars. Smooching up to Vogue magazine, to fashion and to the film industry is not consistent with taking a step back.&#8221;
&#8220;Their objective is fame and fortune — to be Hollywood,&#8221; Samantha added.
The narrative that Meghan was pushed out for racial reasons was also dissected.
&#8220;Her decision to leave is nothing to do with the behaviour of the royals, or race,&#8221; Samantha said. &#8220;Her marriage to Prince Harry was so symbolic of ethnic unity. &#8230; The royals &#8230; welcomed Meghan into their lives, into the culture, and allowed her to promote people of all races. I have never heard anything racist coming out of the Windsors about my sister.&#8221;
The sister signed off: &#8220;I am worried that Meghan and Harry will never find true ­happiness. They could not find contentment with the Royal Family, will they be able to find it away from them?&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/meghan-markle-fame-fortune-sister-says">The Daily Wire</a> over the weekend, Mr. Markle told Channel 5 news he was disappointed in his daughter.
“This is, like, one of the greatest long-living institutions ever,” he said. “They are destroying it; they are cheapening it; they’re making it shabby.”
Harry and Meghan “are turning it into a Walmart with a crown of it now,” continued Mr. Markle, who has been estranged from Meghan since her wedding in 2018. “It is something that is ridiculous. They shouldn’t be doing this.”
Earlier this month, Duke and Duchess of Sussex Harry and Meghan dropped the bombshell announcement that they were planning to step away from royal duties and work to become financially independent.
“We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen,” the couple announced in a joint statement. 
Queen Elizabeth II announced Saturday that the exiting royals will have their “His Royal Highness and Her Royal Highness” titles stripped, as well as be financially cut off from royal funds, effective this spring.
“Harry, Meghan, and Archie will always be much loved members of my family,” the queen said in a statement, noting her support for their “independent” life.
“Prince Harry is losing his military titles and patronages including Captain General Royal Marines, Honorary Air Commandant Royal Air Force Honington and Small Ships and Diving, Royal Naval Command: Commodore in Chief. He will also no longer be a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador. Harry and Meghan will keep their roles at the Queen’s Commonwealth Truth – Harry serves as president and Meghan is vice-president,&#8221; <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/duke-duchess-sussex-longer-working-members-royal-family/story?id=68372425&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn">ABC News</a> reported.

Meghan’s Sister RIPS Her For Destroying Royals, Treatment Of Father: CHASING ‘FAME AND FORTUNE’

Men and women are both capable of holding the title “Crazy Ex,” and for one young woman in the South East England county of Ken, her crazy ex ended up getting her and her family arrested.
Charlotte Clark-Hughes, 26, ended her years-long relationship with Tristan Smith, whom she’d met in January 2014 while they both attended the University of Kent. Clark-Hughes <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/controlling-cop-framed-ex-fake-21308260?_ga=2.86682136.1661900252.1579619141-amp--Bpwee6TTVPZ40uLAp14SA">told The Mirror</a> that Smith at first appeared to be the “perfect gentleman.”
“We were both in a Facebook freshers group and got chatting. He was lovely, friendly and we started dating months later,” she told the outlet.
About six months later, however, Smith became verbally abusive.
“We were arguing and he shouted that he wished my family dead. I was upset but hoped it was just a row,” Clark-Hughes said. She told the Mirror that Smith then “guessed my passwords and started to check my Snapchat and texts regularly, knowing I didn’t like it.”
About the time Smith started mistreating Clark-Hughes, he also started working with the Kent Police department as a volunteer special constable.
“He did 20 hours a week as he saw it as a potential career,” Clark-Hughes told the Mirror. “He talked a lot about what actions constituted crimes. Looking back, it’s sick.”
Nearly two years into their relationship, in December 2015, falsely accused Clark-Hughes stepfather of beating her disable mother. Two months later he claimed Clark-Hughes was cheating on him and told her to stop seeing her friends, the Mirror reported.
“My self-esteem was so low I did,” she says. “He always put me down. He’d scream, ‘I wish you’d die in a fire’ – then apologise with chocolates.”
In September 2017, Clark-Hughes tried to break up with Smith while visiting her family.
“He pinned me down, screamed in my face, then bit me on the shoulder and tried to set fire to the dog bed,” she told the Mirror. “I was terrified. The next day, he bought me flowers.”
Three weeks later, Clark-Hughes broke up with Smith by text and then fled to Spain.
“I had to get away,” she told the outlet. “He sent 50 voicemails begging me to come back. I ignored them.”
“A few weeks later he sent an email declaring his love for me. I replied saying if he contacted me again I would call the police,” she added.
Smith would tell his brother in October 2017 that he wanted to “tear apart” his ex’s family for revenge – and he attempted to do just that.
He claimed Clark-Hughes’ mom and stepdad (who were no longer together at that point) sent him a threatening text message, which Smith actually sent himself. Before it was discovered that Smith lied, Clark-Hughes’ stepdad was arrested and kept in jail for 20 hours, while her mom was taken the next day. Her mother spent 10 days in the hospital after the ordeal because the stress caused her neuromuscular disease to flare up, the Mirror reported.
The two were cleared after it was discovered they couldn’t have sent the text – since one of their phones was broken and the other was lost in Spain at the time.
Smith then accused Clark-Hughes of sending threatening messages to his former flatmate. Clark-Hughes was arrested but later released pending further investigation when she explained she couldn’t have sent the messages because she was not near her phone when they were sent. Police later determined Smith sent the messages himself after hacking into Clark-Hughes’ accounts.
After she was released from prison, Clark-Hughes found emails from Facebook warning her that someone was trying to access her account from a different location.
Smith then started to claim Clark-Hughes was stalking and harassing him. To really sell the lie, he installed a panic alarm and CCTV and told police he had to fight armed intruders in his home. Police watched the videos from Smiths home and determined he lied about the attacks. He was arrested on “six charges of perverting the course of justice, one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one of gaining unauthorised access to a computer with intent to commit an offence,” the Mirror reported.
He was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to more than four years in prison.

Traffic officer

British Volunteer Police Officer Frames Ex-Girlfriend But Surveillance Cameras Proved He Lied

Crime

false accusations

Though Queen Elizabeth gave her public blessing to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in their decision to seek more independence from the royal family by splitting their time in North America, inside reports indicate something more tumultuous.
According to <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/prince-charles-is-livid-about-harry-meghans-step-down-decision/">Us Weekly</a>, royal insiders report that Prince Charles, Harry&#8217;s father, is &#8220;livid&#8221; over the announcement and blames Duchess Meghan Markle for the split. Given that the couple get 95% of their income from the Prince of Wales — $6.5 million — Prince Charles will now have to &#8220;decide to keep paying them or not,” said the insider source.
Despite the turmoil, neither Harry nor Meghan have shown any sign of backing down from their decision.
“They’re not having any second thoughts,” the insider said. 
The reported plan now for Harry and Meghan will be to settle in Canada while keeping a vacation home in Los Angeles. They also hope to soon give baby Archie a sibling. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duchess-meghan-wants-to-move-to-progressive-california-but-she-doesnt-want-her-company-to-pay-california-taxes">reported</a> by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestigiacomo, Duchess Meghan wants to settle down in &#8220;progressive&#8221; California after Trump leaves office.
News of Prince Charles&#8217; anger with the situation comes just days after Queen Elizabeth announced that she supports Harry and Meghan&#8217;s decision while still working to hammer out the details of their split — they plan to gain more financial independence while still keeping their royal titles, as they carve out a &#8220;progressive&#8221; role in the family.
“Today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family,” the British monarch <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/queen-elizabeth-gives-new-statement-on-megxit-supportive-but-still-issues-to-be-resolved">said on Monday</a>. “My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life as a young family. Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family.”
The queen went on to say that there are “still issues to be resolved” before a final exit can be established.
“Harry and Meghan have made clear that they do not want to be reliant on public funds in their new lives,” continued the queen. “It has therefore been agreed that there will be a period of transition in which the Sussexes will spend time in Canada and the UK. These are complex matters for my family to resolve, and there is some more work to be done, but I have asked for final decisions to be reached in the coming days.”
Though the queen expressed support in her statement, reports leading up to it told a different story, with royal insiders telling various media outlets that she was both disappointed and blindsided by the sudden decision. Steve Hilton, former senior adviser to former British Prime Minister David Cameron, said on <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/deep-dive-nation/clips/?cmpid=org=NAT::ag=owned::mc=referral::src=FNC_web::cmp=article::add=DeepDive_Article_FNC_Platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox Nation’s</a> <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/deep-dive-nation/clips/?cmpid=org=NAT::ag=owned::mc=referral::src=FNC_web::cmp=article::add=DeepDive_Article_FNC_Platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Deep Dive”</a> that the queen’s statement is one of her most emotional.
“It feels like the most emotional words I’ve ever heard from the queen,” said Hilton. “It’s very interesting. It feels very personal in a way that I’ve never seen before.”

The Prince Of Wales Visits Flood-Hit Communities In South Yorkshire

REPORT: Prince Charles ‘Livid’ Over ‘Megxit’ As He Decides To ‘Keep Paying Them Or Not’

England

A recently released report commissioned by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham found that the city’s police force allowed nearly 100 pedophiles to go free, resulting in 57 young girls being groomed. The report revealed the criminals were allowed to go free because the police department was afraid to go after the men because they were Asian.
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7885313/Child-victims-grooming-gangs-failed-Manchester-police-report-finds.html">reported</a> that former Greater Manchester Police (GMP) detective Maggie Oliver now has called for GMP chiefs to be charged for their role in the disaster.
“GMP detectives launched Operation Augusta in 2004 after the death of a 15-year-old girl called Victoria Agoglia who previously told carers she had been raped and injected with heroin by an Asian man,” the outlet reported. “But the probe was shelved a year later despite the force uncovering almost 100 paedophiles in south Manchester who later went on to rape and abuse dozens of young girls in the areas.”
Oliver said after the report was released that for “Fifteen years &#8211; the perpetrators that we knew on Operation Augusta were abusing generations of children were allowed to walk free.”
“The kids themselves that I spoke to &#8211; I was on Operation Augusta, I wrote the report &#8211; those children were just cast to the wind, left to their own devices. Nobody cared about them,” she continued. “And I am talking about the people at the top of the police and at social services. The chief constable, assistant chief constables, head of social services, the people who knew the facts, who knew the truth and they chose to bury the truth. That, in my opinion, is unforgivable.”
The report found that officers worried arresting the pedophiles would result in “the incitement of racial hatred,” the Mail reported.
The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/14/police-officers-knowingly-neglected-girls-exploited-grooming/">added</a> that the report quoted an unnamed GMP detective constable who had arrested a child sex offender who was not Asian.
“What had a massive input was the offending target group were predominantly Asian males and we were told to try and get other ethnicities,&#8221; the detective said.
Part of what the discontinued Operation Augusta found was “the systematic exploitation of looked after children mainly in the care system in the city of Manchester and around the Rochdale area,” the Telegraph reported.
The report released Tuesday was written by child protection specialist Malcolm Newsam and former senior police officer Gary Ridgway, launched thanks in part to Oliver’s whistleblowing.
“I want the law changing so there can be retrospective accountability for people whose duty it is to protect the vulnerable. It’s knowing and deliberate neglection of duty…[those who were involved] should be charged with gross misconduct &#8211; it’s criminal &#8211; where is the accountability?” Oliver told the Telegraph.
The GMP has now sent a referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, a British police watchdog, to investigate whether any officer’s conduct needed to be investigated.
Assistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain, head of Specialist Crime for Greater Manchester Police, told the Telegraph that “Children should be able to expect those responsible for their care will do all they can to keep them safe and I want to apologise to all those vulnerable children who were let down.”
He said police are still looking into Agoglia’s death.

Two British Policemen

Report: British Police Refused To Arrest 97 Abusers For Fear They Would ‘Stoke Racial Tensions’

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Nearly a week after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle issued their request to step down as senior members of the royal family, Queen Elizabeth II has issued a statement of support as Buckingham Palace hammers out the details of what people have dubbed &#8220;Megxit.&#8221;
“Today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family,” the British monarch said in a statement, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/queen-issues-statement-after-royal-family-talks-on-harry-meghan">Fox News</a>. “My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life as a young family. Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family.&#8221;
The queen went on to say that there are &#8220;still issues to be resolved&#8221; before a final exit can be established.
“Harry and Meghan have made clear that they do not want to be reliant on public funds in their new lives,” continued the queen. “It has therefore been agreed that there will be a period of transition in which the Sussexes will spend time in Canada and the UK. These are complex matters for my family to resolve, and there is some more work to be done, but I have asked for final decisions to be reached in the coming days.”
Though the queen expressed support in her statement, reports leading up to it told a different story, with royal insiders telling various media outlets that she was both disappointed and blindsided by the sudden decision. Steve Hilton, former senior adviser to former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, said on <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/deep-dive-nation/clips/?cmpid=org=NAT::ag=owned::mc=referral::src=FNC_web::cmp=article::add=DeepDive_Article_FNC_Platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox Nation&#8217;s</a> <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/deep-dive-nation/clips/?cmpid=org=NAT::ag=owned::mc=referral::src=FNC_web::cmp=article::add=DeepDive_Article_FNC_Platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">&#8220;Deep Dive&#8221;</a> that the queen&#8217;s statement is one of her most emotional.
&#8220;It feels like the most emotional words I&#8217;ve ever heard from the Queen,&#8221; said Hilton. &#8220;It&#8217;s very interesting. It feels very personal in a way that I&#8217;ve never seen before.&#8221;
Steve Hilton added that perhaps Prince Harry&#8217;s move here is to address some of the questions from his father, Prince Charles, regarding the monarchy&#8217;s role in the modern era.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a point that Prince Charles himself has been making,&#8221; said Hilton, &#8220;which is in the modern era, people don&#8217;t want — in the phrase that&#8217;s used a lot in the U.K. — these hangers-on. &#8230; They&#8217;re never going to be king or queen, so why should the taxpayers fund their lavish lifestyle? Let&#8217;s just slim it all down and focus on the core Royals who are really much closer to the line of succession to carry out their constitutional duties. That&#8217;s the sort of underlying point. And that could have been worked out.&#8221;
Last week, Duke and Duchess of Sussex made their shocking announcement to balance their time between the United Kingdom and North America as they seek financial independence.
&#8220;We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honor our duty to The Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages,&#8221; the couple said. &#8220;This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.&#8221;

Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth Gives New Statement On Megxit: ‘Supportive’ But ‘Still Issues To Be Resolved’

As I have documented many times in the past, women who make false accusations of rape against men are rarely, if ever, punished. Even when they are punished, the sentence is far less than what the falsely accused man would have received had the woman’s deception not been discovered.
And so it goes in Cyprus, where a 19-year-old British woman was found guilty in late December of lying about being raped by 12 Israeli men. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-claimed-12-israeli-men-raped-her-at-a-cyprus-resort-she-was-just-found-guilty-of-lying-about-the-incident?itm_source=parsely-api">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The woman waited several hours after the alleged incident on July 17 to report it to police. The men were arrested shortly after. The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/30/british-woman-19-found-guilty-lying-gang-rape-cyprus/">reported</a> that two weeks later, the woman was questioned by Cyprus police for eight hours. The outlet reported the woman did not have a lawyer or family member present during this time. During her questioning, the woman admitted to making up the claims and even signed a document retracting her initial accusations and apologizing.</blockquote>
The woman – who has not been named by media outlets even though she was convicted of a crime (accuser privilege) – was arrested and the men were released. The woman told authorities she agreed to have sex with one of the men but was embarrassed when others filmed the encounter. That’s why she made up the false accusations.
Women’s rights group claimed the woman was wrongly convicted and restated that we must believe every accusation made by a woman. Activists “have used every cliché in the book to excuse the woman’s inconsistent stories and her admission that she made up the allegations,” The Daily Wire previously reported.
But because we live in a “believe all women” world, the convicted woman won’t face punishment despite the court’s finding. A Cyprus judge gave the woman a four-month suspended jail sentence, meaning she won’t be going to jail and is free to return to the U.K. In a move that never happens when men are convicted, Judge Michalis Papathanasiou told the convicted woman that she “deserves a second chance,” <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/president-of-cyprus-nicos-anastasiades-to-pardon-british-rape-case-teenager-w5spxdb0x">according</a> to The Times Of London.
The men she falsely accused certainly wouldn’t have received such accommodation.
“I admit that I have been troubled over this — all the evidence shows she had lied and prevented the police from doing other serious jobs. Twelve people were arrested and at least seven were not free for ten days,” Papathanasiou said. “This is also a serious offence but the fact that she has missed her academic studies and her youthfulness, in prison for a month, away from her home and family have led to be deciding for the sentence to be suspended.”
Missing from those remarks are the fact that the woman’s lies are what led to her missing school and being in prison for a month. The men lost a week of their life – and will forever be viewed as potential rapists – because of her lies. She shouldn’t get pardoned because her own actions led to her turmoil.
Media outlets have predictably reported this story from the side that the investigation was botched and the woman was innocent. Selectively choosing what to report is a conscious choice to control the narrative. We have not seen what evidence the court saw, so we cannot know what truly led to their decision to find her guilty – something that rarely occurs in such cases.

False accuser

She Was Convicted Of Falsely Accusing Men Of Rape. She Was Just Allowed To Go Home.

Saiful Islam emigrated to the United Kingdom in 2003 with a valid work permit and began working as a chef at a restaurant.
Things were going well for about two years, but in 2005, he told the U.K.’s Home Office (the department that handles immigration, security, and legal issues) that  his employer was exploiting him by withholding the bulk of his wages, forcing him to work 18-hour days, and beating him,” The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/02/bangladesh-chef-saiful-islam-faces-removal-from-uk-despite-home-office-errors">reported</a>.
The Home Office let him change employers, but the move triggered a host of errors that plagued Islam for more than a decade and now threatens his ability to stay in the country. The Home Office even apologized to Islam and offered him $6,550 in compensation for the issues. Despite all that, a judge denied Islam’s right to remain in the country.
A U.K. court found that “the Home Office wrongly served him with a notice curtailing his visa in 2005, wrongly linked other people’s criminal convictions to him, failed to disclose a full copy of his passport to a court in 2010 and destroyed part of his file,” the Guardian reported.
None of these errors mattered, the judge determined, because issues with a work permit application made in 2008 by Islam’s employer made him ineligible to remain in the U.K.
“The Home Office has treated me worse than a dog. I am a victim of a scandal and of race discrimination. I have lost so many years, I’ve lost my health, I’ve lost so much money. I’ll never get this time back but I’m determined to fight on,” Islam told the outlet.
Islam wasn’t even able to receive his file from the Home Office until 2018, after a lengthy court battle and a ruling demanding the government hand it over.
“As well as initially withholding his file in a previous court case, the Home Office did not provide relevant pages of his passport that proved he had entered the country legally. Instead, officials argued he had entered the country illegally,” the Guardian reported.
Islam finally received an apology from the Home Office in 2019 via email. The message apologized for wrongly labeling Islam as a sex offender due to mixing him up with the criminal records of three other people. Islam has no criminal convictions.
“After investigating the issue it appears documents relating to three individuals were incorrectly placed on your paper file. A number of processes had not been followed which allowed these errors to occur,” the email stated. “Although such errors are not common … we recognise that such issues can have significant impacts.”
Islam is receiving help from the Migrants’ Rights Network. The organization’s chief executive, Fizza Qureshi, told the Guardian: “If Saiful had not persevered with his case for nearly 16 years, he would not have known that the Home Office had mixed up his file and wrongly labelled him a criminal. Alongside the Home Office’s errors, they have also failed to praise Saiful’s actions of reporting an exploitative employer. Instead they have chosen to penalise him by pursuing his removal, despite his innocence and courage. We would urge the Home Office to reconsider his case, and offer him leave so he can utilise his skills as a chef, and allow him to rebuild his life.”

Chef

The UK Government Wrongly Branded Him A Sex Offender. Now They’re Trying To Remove Him From The Country.

Immigration

On Wednesday, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, announced that they would split from the Royal family to become &#8220;financially independent.&#8221;
&#8220;Harry and Meghan say they plan to step back as senior members of the British Royal family, and &#8216;carve out a progressive new role within this institution&#8217; while working &#8216;to become financially independent,&#8221; NBC News reported Wednesday afternoon.
&#8220;Harry and Meghan say plan to balance time between U.K. and North America,&#8221; the outlet added.
&#8220;This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter,&#8221; the couple said.
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Harry and Meghan say plan to balance time between UK and North America: &quot;This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter.&quot;
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The shocking declaration was called &#8220;stunning&#8221; by <a href="https://apnews.com/d6710051fc250a094f23febc304eddb6?utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter">The Associated Press</a>.
The couple have continually promoted progressive causes. This summer, for example, the Duchess and Duke <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prince-harry-says-he-and-meghan-markle-will-only-amanda-prestigiacomo">announced</a> that they will have two children at most to help save the planet and slow down climate change. 
In an interview published in an issue of British Vogue that was guest-edited by Meghan, Harry said fatherhood has made him more aware of the environment. 
The New York Daily News <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-prince-harry-meghan-markle-two-children-max-protect-earth-20190730-mpk2neaqubfede4adfodpsrzwu-story.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>“‘It does make it different,’ he said, adding that he has ‘always had a connection and a love for nature’ and has ‘always wanted to try and ensure that, even before having a child and hoping to have children.’”
“‘Not too many!’ [Jane] Goodall said with a chuckle.”
“‘Two, maximum!’ Harry said. ‘But I’ve always thought: this place is borrowed. And, surely, being as intelligent as we all are, or as evolved as we all are supposed to be, we should be able to leave something better behind for the next generation.&#8217;”</blockquote>
Meghan and Harry have had a hard time with the press, as well, reportedly creating “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-are-public-paul-bois">a public relations disaster for Buckingham Palace</a>,” per royal insiders.
“Royal experts griped about everything from the Sussexes’ private jet use to Duchess Meghan allegedly courting the press to ‘<a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9880041/meghan-markle-royal-hollywood-princess/">break the Internet</a>‘ with her guest-edited edition of Vogue U.K.’s September issue,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/meghan-markle-prince-harry-public-relations-disaster-royal-family">Fox News</a> reported in September. 
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-are-public-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a>, “The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50073/meghan-markle-praises-trans-actor-laverne-cox-paul-bois">Vogue U.K. September issue</a> that Meghan Markle guest-edited packs a whole lot of woke punch between the magazine’s thin pages, from its feminist messaging to the inclusion of transgender actor Laverne Cox as a cited ‘woman of impact.’”
Additionally, author Lady Colin Campbell spoke to <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/09/07/royal-insiders-dish-on-prince-harry-and-meghans-summer-of-hell">Page Six</a> about Meghan’s “media stunts.&#8221;
“[The couple’s recent behavior is] a public relations disaster for Buckingham Palace, who are having a hard time reining them in,” Campbell said. “Meghan is clearly calling the shots, but she’s a minor operator who is playing in the big leagues and mucking it up in the most catastrophic fashion.”
The climate-alarmist couple’s questionable travel habits have also welcomed accusations of hypocrisy. “Despite being avid environmentalists to the point of vowing to have only two children, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle traveled on a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/19/uk/harry-meghan-private-jets-gbr-intl/index.html">private jet two times</a> in just one week while preaching about the purported terrors of climate change,” The Daily Wire reported. 
“I spend 99% of my life traveling the world by commercial [flights]. Occasionally there needs to be an opportunity based on a unique circumstance to ensure that my family [is] safe,” Harry responded to critics. “We can all do better and while no one is perfect, we all have a responsibility for our own individual impact. The question is what we do to balance it out.”

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Harry And Meghan Announce Split From Royal Family

A British teenager has been found guilty of falsely accusing 12 Israeli men of gang raping her at a Cyprus resort in July.
The woman waited several hours after the alleged incident on July 17 to report it to police. The men were arrested shortly after. The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/30/british-woman-19-found-guilty-lying-gang-rape-cyprus/">reported</a> that two weeks later, the woman was questioned by Cyprus police for eight hours. The outlet reported the woman did not have a lawyer or family member present during this time. During her questioning, the woman admitted to making up the claims and even signed a document retracting her initial accusations and apologizing.
The woman was arrested and the men were soon released. The woman made a statement to authorities that she had agreed to have sex with one of the men and that others filmed it. She told them she made up the gang-rape accusations because she was embarrassed.
The woman’s passport was confiscated and she lost her place at a U.K. university due to the trial proceedings. Her lawyers claimed she was innocent and suffered from trauma due to the alleged incident. The woman claimed in court that she had agreed to have sex with one of the men, referred to only as Sam, but his friends entered the room during the encounter. She said she shouted “no” when they entered.
“I said I am not doing that and told them all to go,” she said, according to The Telegraph. “They left for a few seconds and Sam told me to lie on the bed and he got on his knees and put them on my shoulders.”
She claimed the men held her down and raped her.
“I tried to cross my legs. I was trying to throw my arms about,” she said in court. “I don’t know how many of them raped me. I couldn’t see.”
A forensic pathologist testified in court that he found DNA traces from four of the Israeli men on the woman, but it is unclear where those traces were found. The pathologist said the rape kit examination presented in court did not test the woman’s clothing. DNA, however, can be left on a person’s body in any number of ways that do not include rape. They could have been deposited through contact via the man she agreed to have sex with, for example. She could have been near the men earlier and obtained the DNA traces.
Women’s rights groups naturally claimed the woman was a rape victim who was being silenced. A court determined beyond a reasonable doubt that the woman lied, yet “believe all women” activists insisted she was a victim. The activists have used every cliché in the book to excuse the woman’s inconsistent stories and her admission that she made up the allegations.
An attorney for the falsely accused men has told media outlets that they plan to sue the woman for damages, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/30/british-teen-who-accused-12-men-of-gang-rape-in-cyprus-found-guilty-of-lying/">reported</a>. Attorney Nir Yaslovitzh, who represented the Israelis, called for the woman to receive a “harsh sentence” to deter “all those accusers who find it OK to make up false” allegations.
The woman faces a $1,900 fine and up to a year in prison.
Despite her conviction, media outlets are not revealing the woman&#8217;s name.

False Accuser

She Claimed 12 Israeli Men Raped Her At A Cyprus Resort. She Was Just Found Guilty Of Lying About The Incident.

Rape

For a year it has looked like Alison Saunders, the former U.K. top prosecutor who withheld evidence from the defense in numerous rape cases, would not receive the nation’s top honor of damehood.
In December 2018, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uk-prosecutor-who-withheld-evidence-rape-cases-ashe-schow">reported</a> that Saunders would be the first in her position as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to not receive the honor during their tenure or shortly after their departure. Saunders resigned last year after it was discovered that the Crown Prosecution Service withheld exculpatory evidence in multiple rape cases.
Despite this miscarriage of justice, it looks like Saunders has now been granted the honor. The Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/new-years-honours-alison-saunders-rape-damehood-chief-prosecutor-a9262161.html">reported</a> that Saunders’ honor “was believed to have been withheld after then prime minister Theresa May demanded an end to automatic honours for civil servants accused of failing in their roles.”
The outlet reported that Queen’s Counsel Daniel Janner, who is the son of late Labour Party member Lord Janner who had been accused of child abuse, told news outlets that Saunders was “the worst DPP in living memory,” and said it was “appalling” that she would receive damehood.
“She completely made a hash of my innocent late father’s ridiculous allegations,” he told outlets. “These have now proved to be false like the allegation that ‘Nick’ made, and she presumed guilt and introduced, followed or continued a policy of all victims are to be automatically believed.”
“As a result of this policy, it led to huge injustices against many well-known people and not so well-known people – people like my late father, Paul Gambaccini, Harvey Proctor and Lord Brittan, and many, many others,” he added.
“This is an appalling honour which brings the honours system into disrepute,” Janner concluded.
Saunders reportedly told The Times of London that she received the honour for “30 years of public service.” Apparently, in the United Kingdom, merely occupying a position is enough for someone to be rewarded.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Saunders oversaw the rape allegations against Liam Allan, who was accused of rape until the charges were dropped once exculpatory text messages were turned over to the defense:
<blockquote>One of those cases involved 22-year-old Liam Allan, a London resident who three years ago <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/11/liam-allan-falsely-accused-rape-accuser-almost-got-away/">was accused of rape</a>. A year went by before Allan finally obtained information about where his case stood, and was told the detective in charge recommended no charges be filed. But two hours later, he was told he was being charged for allegedly raping the woman 12 times.
Two years went by before Allan and his attorneys were able to obtain more than 40,000 text messages from the Croydon Crown court from his accuser. The messages made clear the woman consented to sex with Allan and continued to seek more sexual encounters with him.</blockquote>
In another case, a man was accused but cleared after CCTV footage showed him walking arm-in-arm with a woman who claimed he raped her. The woman also sent a text message asking for her mental illnesses to be concealed so she could get “more leeway to hide certain aspects and mould what comes out.”
In another case, photos and a diary were withheld from police that showed an Oxford University student didn’t violently rape a woman who claimed otherwise.

Wrongful Conviction

British Prosecutor Who Oversaw Numerous False Rape Allegations Receives Damehood

I always watch with amazement how the conservative Twittersphere reacts to a far-right terror attack. After the New Zealand shooting, when it was revealed that the attacker wasn’t just an anti-Semite but an eco-fascist and supporter of communist China, I saw activists and commentators immediately assert that the shooter “wasn’t really right-wing.” This seems to happen every time a similar terrorist incident has taken place in the United States.
I’m sure this is difficult to read, but I believe conservatives must consider the possibility that this kind of response may be both untrue and unhelpful. As a conservative who has seen the far right up close, I believe we are failing (not for want of trying) to tackle political extremism, and that there is much we must do to reclaim this issue from the Left. I understand that this is a difficult topic to navigate, but I ask that you read this piece with an open mind and consider what I have to say.
Surely the rise of a young, white nationalist movement that disguises itself as “America First” should have proven to us by now that anti-Semites exist within some segments of the broader self-proclaimed Right. Sure, in many instances these people are also socialists, but to be &#8220;right-wing&#8221; is not necessarily to only believe in a free market and small government. We cannot simply ignore the social values of these people, and far-right terrorists cannot be conveniently dismissed as left-wing as if they would not look out of place at a Bernie Sanders rally waving an LGBT flag. In most cases of far-right terrorism, the perpetrator holds extreme conservative (or &#8220;right-wing&#8221;) social values, has a desire to protect European identity in the most extreme way, and hates left-wing progressives as much as he hates Jews. These are the same ideas promoted by some of the young so-called “America First” activists, and their economic beliefs are largely inconsequential. A far-right terrorist isn’t thinking about the economy when he’s shooting innocent people in a synagogue.
While conservatives assume a defensive position on these tragedies, far-left ideologues are successfully holding onto the mantle of the political extremism narrative. They decide what is far right and what’s not, and they get to choose what constitutes extremism. Dangerous radicals dictate what can and cannot be said, and we conservatives do our best to assure them that we’re not the same as those far-right terrorists.
Not only do we know we are not the same, but so do the far-left radicals who claim that we are. This is the power that comes with winning a culture war, and with ineffectual measures taken by conservatives to address these issues. When we deny the existence of far-right terrorists, we appear delusional at best, or as if we have something to hide at worst.
We simply cannot continue to allow far-left “progressive” extremists to control the narrative on extremism. If we manage to change this, we will strip the power from those who dictate the parameters of political discussion and reverse the leftward shift of the Overton Window.
Accepting the existence of far-right extremists is just the first part of reclaiming this narrative, and in my new book <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Monster-of-Their-Own-Making/Jack-Buckby/9781642934243">Monster of Their Own Making</a>, I describe how we can successfully expose the role that far-left progressives have to play in the radicalization of young white men.
My experience in the far Right as a teenager has led me to the conclusion that young white men are radicalized, for the most part, by a three-pronged attack from the politicians, the media, and far-left progressive activists. In 2009, almost one million British people voted for a white nationalist political party, the British National Party. It was the result of mainstream politicians neglecting working class communities across the U.K., ignoring their concerns about mass immigration, and pushing forward with an unpopular policy of state-sponsored multiculturalism. It alienated normal British people, particularly those on the lowest wages and living in the most deprived towns and cities, and pushed people into the arms of white nationalists.
In my hometown, a boy around my age named Jack Renshaw was welcomed into the arms of the most extreme fringe of our political party. His radicalization was gradual, but surprisingly quick. I watched him get angrier and more disenfranchised until eventually, he was arrested after purchasing a machete and plotting to murder our local member of Parliament. I knew him fairly well, and it still gives me chills to this day knowing the monster he turned into.
Issues like this came to a head in the U.K. ten years ago, and it’s happening in the U.S. now. When politicians refuse to accept that Trump voters might have had a point when they said illegal immigration is a problem, call his supporters deplorables, and encourage far-left goons to ambush them (as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) once did), then you can bet you’re going to see the likes of so-called &#8220;groypers&#8221; capitalizing on that frustration.
It is surprisingly easy for extremists to latch onto legitimate concerns. Just look at how dangerous ideologues have latched onto the “America First” mantra and injected their own blend of smug hatred and anti-Semitism. This does real harm to the America First movement by conflating Holocaust denial and white supremacy with a desire to reduce immigration and protect American workers. It blurs the line between what is important, and what is flat-out extreme. The Left depends on this as it validates its argument that advocates of a stricter immigration policy are extremists and bigots.
Conservatives must realize that we have more power than we think. We can reclaim the narrative on extremism by not just being champions of positive and productive discussion on difficult issues, but by acknowledging that far-right extremism exists and pointing the finger at the far-left radicals who have facilitated its growth.
It is madness — utter madness — to allow far-left extremists to dominate the narrative on extremism. We must now expose the hand they have played in creating a new breed of far-right extremists, and we must start righting those wrongs.
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Jack Buckby is an English conservative author and researcher. His new book, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Monster-of-Their-Own-Making/Jack-Buckby/9781642934243">Monster of Their Own Making</a>, analyzes how far-left progressives, politicians, and the media have facilitated the radicalization of young white men to the far Right. Follow him <a href="https://twitter.com/JackBuckby">@JackBuckby</a>.

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BUCKBY: Now More Than Ever, Conservatives Must Reclaim The Extremism Narrative

Conservatism

Leftism increasingly functions as less of a political ideology and more of a superstitious cult. Many examples could be presented to prove this point, but today&#8217;s &#8220;controversy&#8221; should suffice.
For a little bit of background, Maya Forstater is a researcher in the United Kingdom who recently lost her job for stating the scientific and indisputable fact that men cannot turn into women. Forstater went to court to win back her job but an employment judge <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets">ruled against her</a> this week, declaring that Forstater&#8217;s belief in biological science is &#8220;not worthy of respect in a democratic society.&#8221; He also ruled that her views on biology do not &#8220;have the protected characteristic of philosophical belief.&#8221; On that point, he&#8217;s correct. It is not at all a &#8220;philosophical belief&#8221; that men can&#8217;t transition into women. It is a scientific fact. But a fact that, in these times, cannot be stated publicly.
J.K. Rowling was next in line for cancellation. The author came to Forstater&#8217;s defense, but did so in the mildest and most leftist-friendly way possible (or so she thought). Writing on Twitter, Rowling said: &#8220;Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?&#8221;
Rowling here affirms the relativistic, libertine position on every point, except she is not willing to profess biological sex as a figment of our imagination. So, simply for suggesting that sex exists, Rowling has found herself in the <a href="https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/j-k-rowlings-support-of-researcher-fired-for-being-anti-trans-sparks-backlash-1203448705/">middle of a leftist firestorm</a>. Thousands of science-hating lunatics are calling her bigoted, transphobic, and so forth, all because she relayed a fact as indisputable and uncontroversial as &#8220;two plus two equals four.&#8221;
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You could argue that Rowling deserves to be eaten by the alligator she&#8217;s been feeding all these years. Perhaps she does. But it is worth highlighting her plight because it underscores the point I made at the top. Leftist gender theory is a superstition and leftism itself is a cult. That is certainly how anthropologists of the future will categorize it when they sift through the wreckage of our once-great civilization.
On a related note, and inspired by this latest bit of madness, I am repeating the challenge I have made to the Left several times before. Only now I am upping the ante a little bit. As I <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1207727719192117253?s=20">announced on Twitter</a> this afternoon, I will give $100 to the first leftist who can provide me with a coherent definition of the word &#8220;woman&#8221; that permits biological males to be included yet still maintains womanhood as a distinguishable and objective category.
It is my contention that this simple question — what is a woman? — completely dismantles left-wing gender theory in its entirety. I claim that everything the Left says about gender can be discredited just by posing this question. After all, a statement like &#8220;I identify as a woman&#8221; has no meaning if the word &#8220;woman&#8221; has no meaning. Indeed, all statements about women are rendered incoherent if we do not have a working definition of the term itself.
The problem for the Left is that they need the word &#8220;woman&#8221; to mean something in order for feminist and LGBT rhetoric to have relevance. But any attempt to define the word must result in the exclusion of biological males. There simply is no available definition of &#8220;woman&#8221; that legitimizes transgenderism. If it means anything for a woman to be a woman, then it cannot mean anything when a man says he is one. I submit that transgenderism is both scientifically and logically invalid. This is a very important point. It&#8217;s not just that the Left is promoting a crazy new scientific theory. It&#8217;s that they are making a claim that is logically incoherent and thus dismissible and out of hand.
To review: The phrase &#8220;I identify as a woman&#8221; requires that the word &#8220;woman&#8221; mean something. But if the word &#8220;woman&#8221; means anything at all, then men who identify as woman must be mistaken. All you have to do to prove me wrong is offer a definition of the word that successfully navigates all of these obstacles. If you can, I&#8217;ll pay you for your trouble. But you can&#8217;t.

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